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Greg Ichneumon Brown

@gibrown.bsky.social
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spinal cord rehab; politics; wrangling analytics, data, and search at Automattic.com. Jetpack/WordPress.com/Tumblr/Parsely.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve been saying for the past few months that the big problem with AI agents is less hallucinations but more instruction following. You can fact check your way around hallucinations but an AI agent that doesn’t do what you asked or forgets your guardrails is a liability not a tool.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
TILLIS: is there anything you would have done differently? JACK: yes. One thing I was taught is you only do your talking in the courtroom. But if you stick to that, people can unfairly malign you and you can’t respond. But there are things being said that are untrue… 1/
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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Counterpoint: my rolfing guy told me about using Muse to plan/book his travel and help reorganize his business schedule today.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
At the start of the year, people used to debate with me that AI productivity gains don’t exist. I decided to stop arguing with people and just prove it to myself. I now write fully functional apps from my phone while at the park with my dogs. It’s an uncomfortable truth but they definitely exist.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A modest proposal. The current people building the future are fucking it up. We want some better people to build the future. Perhaps even a future not built by pedophiles and oligarchs and fans of autocracy.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If the proposed slow down in AI development by frontier labs ends up restricting access to open weight models instead of focusing on the guardrails and penalties for not keeping track of your swarm of AI agents then we’ll know this was all about their IPOs.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think the political left should be the loudest voice calling for an AI model development pause, frontier pacing, and mandatory third party audits right now. Put aside the doomer stuff (though I think it’s plausible), we just found out that OpenAI’s agents committed a pretty major felony!
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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This headline is negative but I think this is one of the biggest benefits I've seen. Designers cleaning up and shipping entirely new designs without an engineer; product building a completely new experience to prototype; engineering just building a ui on new data systems. Empowering everyone.
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Eleanor Martinez @northstar1939.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Perfectly states what I've been saying for some time, now.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Better idea: instead of bandaids, put your whole ass & balls behind Medicare For All & decouple health insurance from unions. Huge reason production has left US is that every other country provides health care for its workers, making movies & shows wildly cheaper.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fuck you Google. We will all remember your capitulation to a mad king
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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Now would be a great time for Google and Apple employees to undo their past cowardice and bribery.
Screenshot of "Gulf of America"
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The “head of strategic futures” at OpenAI just went on an unhinged rant against social security sometimes I feel like these tech companies are actively trying to alienate as many normal people as possible
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The main thing I have to say to the young generation of Americans is that your
grandparents and great-grandparents committed a kind of accounting fraud when they ran our country a century ago with social security, and at the time it was a reasonable affordance to grant our leaders, who were dealing with an economic depression and a world war, but nonetheless they did commit the fraud, and they ended up buying all sorts of extravagant things using the fraudulent gains, including what became the thing we now understand to be the high-modern technocratic nation-state, and that is glorious and also bad and all that, but the thing is there's still the issue about the accounting fraud, whose debt is coming due and is coming due fast.
It is best to consider this with as minimal residue of sentiment as possible, to really sit with it, to stare it coldly in the face.
Unwinding the great fraud of the high modernists is your job, whether you wish it to be or not.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Sharing in case any of you get called up to serve on a federal grand jury.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
this is gonna to test some assumptions. money is a big big factor when you're in the 50-50, 60-40, maybe even in 70-30 issue range. As a political issue, AI is at like 95% to 5%. how that plays out isn't totally clear. It also depends on a lot on the spenders' expectations.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Dorie Miller was only allowed to work in a Navy mess due to segregation, but he leapt to work a gun when the attack happened. In sharp contrast, Donnie Trump got five medical deferments to keep from having to fight in Vietnam. The USS Bone Spurs doesn‘t really sing
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This tweet highlights the weakness in the AI bubble. The assumption is that AI demand grows at current prices. But there’s a world where businesses use 20x more AI than today but do so using 20x cheaper models than the frontier AI models. Datacenter buildouts assume usage and spend grow together.
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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Maybe Google and Apple will again bribe him by renaming it on the map.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
More like this coming. "An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge on Wednesday for throwing an activist to the ground near Chicago." This one brought by Cook County prosecutors. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/u...
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ICE Agent Who Pushed Activist to the Ground Near Chicago Pleads Guilty
The agent, Adam Saracco, was charged with misdemeanor after the altercation at a gas station near Chicago last year during the Trump administration’s crackdown there.
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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The stunning part is that Crowley won after having dropped out of the race in July and then reentered a few weeks ago. That's wild.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Not that this goes to the deeper issues people are discussing. But the Thanksgiving Holiday has basically nothing to do with the Pilgrims or anything to do with settlers or later white Americans interactions with American Indians. The holiday didn't start with the Pilgrims. The modern day ...
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
gets incredible air here
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/08/2026
if the moderate wing of the Dem party would spend even half of the energy they are spending fighting the DSA on fighting Trump they wouldn't be losing so many primaries to the DSA
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/08/2026
Let’s level set. MICHIGAN is a must-win if we want to flip the Senate. A word caution: This race was tighter than many predicted. El-Sayed needs Stevens supporters in the general, so it’s not smart strategy to keep them angry. Welcome them. Focus on issues. Time is short, so healing must be quick
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
www.npr.org/2026/08/04/n...
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A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing
Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I’ve spent months exploring smart defaults for fact checking to minimize hallucinations in ChatGPT & Claude and now have something I think is ready to share. Add the following prompt to the Settings->Personalization-> Custom instructions in ChatGPT and Settings-> Profile->Instructions in Claude.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 26/07/2026
36 years after the Americans with Disability Act was signed into law, our fight isn’t over. However long it takes, we’ll keep pushing until all 70 million Americans with disabilities have the dignity, independence and freedom they deserve.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity." Carl Sagan
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
captures the essence. based on the means he's willing to use, Trump lost this conflict in early March. He's just been putting off accepting that. the things he would have to do to change that equation he has shown zero willingness to do.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
There's an alternative universe where you're not only penalized for fraud (states don't need incentives to find it; they're picking up a lot of the bill) but penalized for denying benefits to eligible recipients.
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Brandon Kraft @kraft.im · 19/07/2026
I love this new future where my phone won’t let me otder coffee.
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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This game is wild
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Essentially, this would be (1) paying Donald Trump to (a) make market-moving statements, and (b) provide inside information about those statements—and hence (2) setting up a market manipulation scheme and giving Trump his cut of it.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Benedict Evans asks if frontier AI models are destined to be the next high-margin tech monopolies, or the next low-margin commodity infrastructure like mobile networks? He argues that current dynamics point toward the latter, as models are trending towards interchangeability.
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Ways to think about token pricing — Benedict Evans
AI is in a supply crunch today, but what happens when we come out of it? How and where will supply, demand, price, capacity and capex get back into equilibrium? Today, model labs can name their price,...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/07/2026
Big story here. What an admission by the FBI re: Epstein! More details live on today’s episode 👇
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Toni Schneider @toni.bsky.team · 10/07/2026
Staying in the game I'm four months into my interim CEO role at Bluesky, and it's time for an update. Most importantly, as of today, the interim part of the title is gone. I'm... toni.org/2026/07/10/staying-in-the-…
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Staying in the game
I'm four months into my interim CEO role at Bluesky, and it's time for an update. Most importantly, as of today, the interim part of the title is gone. I'm loving the mission and the job, and I'm all in as Bluesky’s official CEO. This job has been energizing from day one, and the Bluesky...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/07/2026
I think @govandybeshear.bsky.social should just appoint a Dem to fill McConnell’s seat. It would force proof of life, and the state law that stripped him of that power should be challenged in court. I’m sure Thune would refuse to seat the appointee, but I think it’s a fight worth having. BE BOLD!
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Scam Ghouldin @gotitatguineys.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 04/07/2026
“Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin” 🎁🔗 @ericlipton.nytimes.com, David Yaffe-Bellany for @nytimes.com
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Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 04/07/2026
I tuned into Argentina Cape Verde game after regulation time and holy shit lol
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Eric Budd @ericmbudd.com · 03/07/2026
I bet you didn't realize that Colorado's Julie Gonzales got within six points of unseating a very well known and three-time elected-statewide incumbent Senator
COLORADO ELECTION RESULTS

JUNE 30, 2026

Federal Contests

United States

Senator -Democratic Party

(Vote For 1)

Post-Election Reporting In Progress 4/64

Votes

1

Julie Gonzales

418,066

2

John Hickenlooper

47.10%

469,564

52.90%

Vote Cast

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Can everyone just step back and realize how insane it is that the US Supreme Court had to rule on the constitutionality of the US CONSTITUTION and the vote to uphold the Constitution wasn't unanimous!!!
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Senadora Julie Gonzales @senadorajulie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Colorado, this is it. Today is Election Day. If you haven't voted yet, head to a drop box near you to drop off your ballot, or go to a polling place to vote in-person! Polls are open until 7pm, and today, we have the opportunity to make history.
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Eric Budd @ericmbudd.com · 29/06/2026
election day is tomorrow in Colorado! I didn't write my own election guide for the primary but am really proud to be part of Boulder Progressives and the candidates we've endorsed:
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Alito's argument – that counting ballots after Election Day means "the electorate’s choice does not occur on election day, and the federal election-day statutes are violated" – is some of the dumbest reasoning I have ever seen. The "choice" doesn't occur at the time of counting!
"If ballots received after election day are added to the set of ballots that dictate the election’s outcome, the electorate’s choice does not occur on
election day, and the federal election-day statutes are violated."
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Eric Budd @ericmbudd.com · 27/06/2026
hey Colorado, who's voting this weekend? absolutely the most important primary election since 2018 and potentially much longer. we're going to elect our state officials to serve for the next eight years and a US Senator. make sure you vote - this is your time to be heard, not the general election!
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Congrats, @colorado.gov. Great work here.
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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Oh no.
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