jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 07/10/2026Open weights let anyone with enough gpus use it. We've seen the price of even consumer compute resources skyrocket since the big players have started stockpiling data centers. 140
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunkMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 03/10/2026Again, Neither NAFTA nor China are the reason that union auto jobs are leaving the area. Kyle Bos, the supposed union rep, voted for Trump 3 times. Three!🤷🏿♂️ Yes I'm sad that 1,400 truck manufacturing jobs were eliminated. But in California, BYD, a supposed "Chinese company" created 750 union jobs.en.byd.comTruck American Workforce - Technological Innovations for a Better Life | BYD USABYD TRUCKS BYD MOTORS american workforce Over 750 unionized employees work together to build battery electric buses and buses at BYD's 556,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Lancaster, Californ... 8466116
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 02/10/2026@gavinnewsom.bsky.social you suck so fucking much @democrats.org do not fucking run this idiot for president. He will fumble it 010
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunk@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 372525784
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunkDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026ICE agents chasing him in a car ran this guy over a week ago, horribly injuring him. Needs some media attention beyond this: www.walb.com/2026/09/23/i...walb.comICE releases statement after man run over in Dougherty County operationImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is now releasing more information about an incident that happened in Dougherty County on Sept. 17 when a man was run over by an ICE vehicle. 201222641
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunkLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026On Saturday @jpinckney.bsky.social saw a man in his Austin neighborhood being kidnapped by ICE. Every day since then he's passed by the car, still sitting there, a horrifying lonely symbol of what is being done. www.welcometohellworld.com/his-car-is-s...welcometohellworld.comHis car is still sitting thereAn ICE kidnapping in Austin 3357132
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunkA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I wrote about the regrets of a Trump supporter whose fiancée was abducted by ICE, the ways these stories reinforce the exact spirit of supremacist exceptionalism that caused them in the first place, and the better, more honest, stories we might tell instead. www.the-reframe.com/this-is-us/the-reframe.comThis is UsMoving from "I'm one of the Good Ones" to actually becoming good. 1218557
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunkCharlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If these dorks seriously believe there's a significant near-term risk of developing an AI that results in human extinction, the solution is simple and obvious: hang everyone who's trying to build AIs, for crimes against humanity and attempted genocide. The "panic" is bullshit from start to finish. 1019649
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunkFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026It’s people - not AI systems - who are choosing to murder civilians with small drones at ever escalating rates around the world, as I recently wrote about with Yale’s Nathaniel Raymond for @foreignpolicy.com:foreignpolicy.comCivilians Need Better Protections in the Drone AgeHunting noncombatants from the sky is growing disturbingly common. 631992
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunkFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026Innocent civilians are being murdered with dirt-cheap and essentially impossible to ban tiny flying robots at shocking numbers globally (read our piece below). We have REAL, CURRENT cyberpunk horrors to deal with right now, and we don’t need to waste our time on hypothetical AI basilisks. 7962301
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunkPaul Hikari @paulhikari.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Confirmed. ground.news/article/stra...ground.newsIran Sets New Hormuz Demand: Trump and Netanyahu Must Be Removed From Power, Senior Adviser SaysA senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader says the Strait of Hormuz should remain closed until Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu leave power. 86528
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunkthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do. 3639531858
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunkElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 11/09/2026The public deserves to know how AI is driving decisions about seniors’ healthcare. EFF is releasing records obtained through our FOIA lawsuit to gain transparency into an experimental AI program that could jeopardize Medicare beneficiaries' access to care. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgNew Records Reveal Problems with Medicare’s AI Prior AuthorizationEFF sued the government for information a new Medicare program that uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests for certain medical services. Today, we’re releasing approximately 1,000 pages of 311756
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 10/09/2026You're right that AI has gotten better, but it's not inevitable. There are many times where technology showed promise, but was turned away because it's was unpopular or dangerous. Look at nuclear power: being disassembled now across the world. 140
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 09/09/2026for what its worth, companies are using AI as an excuse to do layoffs even if AI isn't replacing them. Many artists in LA were laid off while companies made promises about using AI to improve their art pipelines. That didn't materialize, but the layoff did. 120
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 09/09/2026at the scale of a vaccine? does it outweigh the anxiety and dread people are feeling with mounting layoffs? is it actually better for people, or is it better for some metric or kpi or whatever performance management strategy is in vogue at google today? 110
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 09/09/2026and - to be clear! Responses to MAHA that condescended to real concerns about the health industry definitely do more harm than good! There's lots of data that people respond poorly to being condescended to. 010
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 09/09/2026a millenium problem doesn't get you food on the table, and making coding easier doesn't impact people outside tech! These are doubtless impressive achievements, but they don't change the perceived impact of AI to ... everyone who doesn't work a cushy tech job to start with! 230
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 09/09/2026because big pharma actually produced vaccines, which actually do good things. There is a concrete, material outcome that has improved people's lives. AI is associated with real, negative outcomes that people feel. AI has yet to produce a vaccine, or similar positive outcome that impacts people 210
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 09/09/2026I'm just summarizing why these arguments aren't actually working for you. People don't believe experts from tech - and there are reasons for that. That isn't your fault, but it is the prevailing sentiment. You can't argue out of that sentiment by being dismissive. 011
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunk🌑 @fell.energy · 09/09/2026technology would be so cool if our collective well-being was the point 429656
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 09/09/2026*nuclear power is only dangerous if it isn't done right; which sounds a lot like what people are saying about AI, and even about datacenters. if you want people to rally behind AI, deliver some proof that the people doing it will somehow have a better track record than nuclear engineers 010
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 09/09/2026the best case scenario here is that AI is like nuclear power. despite showing massive promise for reducing the threat of global warming, the world has mostly disassembled nuclear power infra. not because it didn't work, or because it was particularly dangerous*: because it was unpopular 110
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 09/09/2026If the promise of AI pays off, the power usage alone will require massive infrastructure changes, most of which will be paid for by people who will see little to no dividends from AI itself. Why should someone who doesn't have financial incentives invest in that future? why should they allow it? 110
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 09/09/2026and the corollary to this is: what are you going to do if they DO believe? Because the right response on the part of the public here is absolutely NOT fund AI - if its genuinely a threat, nobody in tech has proven themselves to be a steward worth trusting with the future of the entire planet 120
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 09/09/2026people have spent the last 20 years watching tech companies distort "don't be evil" into making palantir. What reason does anyone have to believe any of the experts? when people tell you this, the response is always a sort of strained "you're so silly for not believing this time" 330
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunkBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I see a lot of people actively losing their minds about the AI stuff and I'm honestly starting to feel bad for them. But it's blinding them to the real problems. These things are not your girlfriend, but they're probably going to smash-and-grab passwords and attack bank or government data. 702285364
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunkChris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 28/08/2026"Milo got arrested!" "That's good!" "By an unaccountable secret police force" "That's bad" "He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play." "That's good!" "But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests" "That's bad" 966741388
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 18/08/2026Would anticoagulants be laxatives or diuretics for vampires 010
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 12/08/2026Can we talk about how that not quite smile utterly fails to soften the predatory gleam in his inhuman empty eyes 000
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 09/08/2026I think where you're getting caught up is here: police are not workers. They are enforcers. Their primary purpose is violence and exclusively against actual workers. If we made a baby eaters union I would object on similar grounds 000
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 09/08/2026Yeah dude the teachers unions are notoriously leveraging their undue influence which you can see from how overpaid teachers in america are u fucking tool. Every worker deserves a union; every administrator deserves having to face an angry union when they act up. 110
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 09/08/2026It took so long for me to get a surgeon that the concerning biopsy turned into cancer. 100
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 02/08/2026Don't listen to him. He just wants all the dirty mountain dew to himself 000
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunkthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit. 434031826
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunkFrankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I am making it a habit to always look for the labor story behind these nasty scandals. The consumers are almost never the only ones being harmed.futurism.comThe Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced LaborThe lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak. 252137715
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunkLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The sword dangling over my head had lowered a touch over night. Still not close enough that I was freaking out but I could sense its movement. 11654206
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunkMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. 20368812524828
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 20/07/2026I spent 30 years with crohn's disease and beat cancer, and insurance was a nightmare the whole way. If you are worried about healthcare, there are people who care about making you feel safe, but they aren't in the DFL. sincerely fuck you @theatlantic.com, from cancer survivors everywhere 000
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 20/07/2026I've been a sick person all my life. Insurance choices determine SO much about my life; where I live, what jobs I can take, what kind of family i can have. Dems have reformed the bad system, but never pushed past that into universal health care. 100
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 19/07/2026Skills, information and aesthetic cannot contradict anything. They are at best politically neutral, and pretending otherwise is gonna disappoint you every time. 121
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 16/07/2026Yooo what sizes do these come in? I have a weird little rescue who is shaped all kinds of funny but id absolutely love to see if I could keep it on him 010
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 15/07/2026This is a strong strategy, but I think "this is a fascist attack" only explains things to people with a developed political understanding of fascism. If I'm talking to my parents, they just tune this out because they think it's hyperbole. Our explanations must meet our audience where they are 160
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunklizard @lizzzard.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Joan Sebastian Guerrero is the name of the victim of the fatal ICE shooting this morning in Biddeford, Maine. say it, spread it, make it as known as the other names of lives taken by ICE 111155
Reposted by jonathan rodney slamdunkStephen @tgk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Folks, we have a RIPCON 3. I believe this is our highest level since doing this 4840781235
jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 01/07/2026@degette.house.gov hey how did this go for you 040
