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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 2h

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

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Jay 🇨🇦 @fatalzio.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So dumb. Much of the allure of gaming is shared experiences.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Jay 🇨🇦 @fatalzio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It will still have ads at that price point.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s sick that now we gotta do the same debloat shit on Macs too.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

bobcat in a box

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

5 minutes into the preseason and Nikola Jokic is throwing behind the back cross-court passes... I needed the replays too

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

it’s been almost a year so i feel ok sharing this: last year i tried buying some relaxed fit jeans. i wore them to a gathering on Halloween and my cousin’s wife asked if i was dressed up as a zoomer

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You can make a small fortune in AI. But you have to start with a really large fortune.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Jay 🇨🇦 @fatalzio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is true. I have proudly never heard of the artist or song 🎉

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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why would I deceive you?"

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Jay 🇨🇦 @fatalzio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I caught a 3 day ban for making a character named "Sixniner"

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you’re bitching to the UN about a Twitch streamer it’s safe to say your PR battle has taken the biggest of L’s

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As shocking as this case is I know @czedwards.bsky.social is shaking their head at the same thing I am - this is some PISS POOR MONEY LAUNDERING. Check 1001 of a brand new account? Jesus we used to be a proper country.

A check made out for
$150,000 to Susan Collins’s
PAC, check number 1001

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...

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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go

The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't

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Jay 🇨🇦 @fatalzio.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Guess what happens when one demographic is sacrificed to Fascism. Another demographic is chosen and the cycle repeats.

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Jay 🇨🇦 @fatalzio.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

He was blind drunk I assume...

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In America, if gas gets too high, the government starts measuring the troops’ boners

That North Korean lady meme, you know the one

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

sad to see the dog bite on that pump fake

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the dual purpose of "our AI is getting too powerful!" is firstly to generate hype & secondly to provide a reason to scale it down that isn't uh oh, this nonsense is very expensive and we can't figure out a way to make a profit with it

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here

the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.

I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the

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Jay 🇨🇦 @fatalzio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Outright lies in a headline in the Washington Post. That's just Tuesday I guess.

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran's tour bus.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Macklemore: Palestinian children are people. Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list. Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir.

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Sasha Talebi @sashat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this is gonna ruin the tour

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You gain & *retain* power running against your opposition and governing for the people - not by adopting your opposition's arguments against you.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm a professional book reviewer who gets a ton of PR emails from publicists. Do you know where I first hear about 80% of the books I end up reviewing? From authors and readers on bsky.

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Jay 🇨🇦 @fatalzio.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Additionally I always find it odd that Conservatives assume no one can believe in anything unless they are paid to believe in it.

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