Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026New @pbs.org documentary "Ghost in the Machine" critically examines the origins + "cultural, political & philosophical drivers" of #AI. Not even handed in the least + Adam Curtis stylistic manipulation reveals what has been glossed from celebratory histories. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQz...youtube.comGhost in the Machine | Full DocumentaryYouTube video by PBS Documentaries 020
Reposted by Gregory FosterMicah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials. Here's my analysis of today's @ddosecrets.org Flock leak micahflee.com/flock-camera...micahflee.comFlock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentialsThis morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera. 404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it. I downloa... 6274114
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Problematic internal tools have a way of becoming profitable external products... 000
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Anti-politics is a vehicle of discontentment, a real but disorganized spirit of our time, and its destination is an open question." 021
Reposted by Gregory FosterPBS News @pbsnews.org · 12/09/2026Houthi rebels in Yemen consolidated lightning gains across the country's western coast. The group, which recently resumed fighting with the Saudi-backed government, also extended its hold on the Bab al-Mandab Strait. to.pbs.org/4rhsh6r to.pbs.orgIran-backed Houthis seize island at entrance to Red Sea, threatening Saudi oil exportsHouthi rebels in Yemen consolidated lightning gains across the country's western coast. The group, which recently resumed fighting with the Saudi-backed government, also extended its hold on the Bab a... 68033
Reposted by Gregory FosterCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi... 46079463376
Reposted by Gregory FosterMeechy Dorko @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 14/08/2026this is the funniest political ad i've ever seen 01857397
Reposted by Gregory FosterSenator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:bloomberg.comDeutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report SaysDemocrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ... 8637111860
Reposted by Gregory FosterMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. 20378813124813
Reposted by Gregory FosterProPublica @propublica.org · 10/07/2026Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in elections in the past two years, which experts say may violate state election law. ProPublica and @texastribune.org linked him to a home in suburban Dallas since February.propublica.orgKen Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo... 581118346
Reposted by Gregory FosterLiz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 14/06/2026“I feel like I’m going blind,” Farid said, and he worried that A.I. was obscuring the truth, distorting reality, fracturing democracies and slowly breaking him, too. A gift link to an extraordinary story because if he has to see we should too www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...nytimes.comThe World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes 47840
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Well, that's one way to back fill the exodus of DOJ lawyers - and violate posse commitatus while you're at it. 010
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 02/05/2026"Will AI replace us? It’s the wrong question. AI will not simply replace human workers. It will change what human workers are. It is already reshaping how we learn, who we learn from, how we assess our competence... The humans who emerge from this process will not be the same humans who entered it." 010
Reposted by Gregory FosterProject Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 28/04/2026ICE's detention capability in four slides. 1. All existing immigration detention centers in operation today 2. Plus all purchased warehouses (minus paused/halted ones) 3. Plus all facilities proposed to be reopened or acquired 4. Plus all hold rooms and check-in sites used for detainee 'staging' 18283170
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Seems unusual, filed today, DOJ was apparently convinced Colorado is trying to force Grok to be "woke." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...justice.govJustice Department Intervenes in xAI lawsuit Challenging Colorado’s ‘Algorithmic Discrimination’ LawThe Justice Department moved to intervene in a lawsuit filed by artificial intelligence company xAI, challenging a new Colorado law that prohibits so-called “algorithmic discrimination.” The Justice D... 000
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Most useful for identifying underutilized pejorative compounds like "scum-wit", "dirt-hat", and "trump-nozzle" which regrettably can only be deployed to describe RFK Jr... 000
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 13/04/2026If the people united in #Hungary can oust the 16y autocracy of #Orban 🇭🇺 ...we can do it in the United States 🇺🇸 The tide turns this November 🌊 020
Reposted by Gregory FosterThe Costs of War Project @costsofwar.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Trump’s proposed $1.5 trillion military budget is the largest ever — higher than spending during World War II. Graph adapted from @stephensemler.bsky.social. www.stephensemler.com/p/trump-prop... 065
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 04/04/2026And then they came for the satellite imagery companies 🚫🛰️ 000
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Doubles down on #McLuhan's derivation that every technology is both an augmentation + amputation, while pragmatically pointing to "positive friction" behavioral design to retain your brain 🧠 000
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Largely unreported Ukrainian drone offensive coinciding with lifting sanctions on purchase of Russian oil seems to have been a successful response. 000
Reposted by Gregory FosterFrank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 29/03/2026There is a critical difference between holistic, authentic judgment enabled by embodied cognition, and AI's reductive simulation of the language patterns associated with such thought. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comThe Non-Delegable Duty to Think: Judicial Legitimacy and the Limits of Generative AI<p><span>From a normative perspective, the use of generative AI to automate the justification of judgments is problematic on several levels. A legal opinion is 58038
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Uneasy co-existence under siege of #drone warfare 000
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Very informative perspective on contemporary drone warfare. 021
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Reads a little bit like a diary... ...of a young person of conscience amidst an encircling fascist autocracy. And of course they would defend their community again 👷 010
Reposted by Gregory FosterPaige Bailey (webpaige.dev) @dynamicwebpaige.bsky.social · 17/03/2026if your specific niche is also "bizarre intertwingled anecdotes about 1950s-1990s computer scientists" i have built your holy grail: just took a thousand oral histories from the @computerhistory.bsky.social museum and made them fully searchable and deeply interconnected 🎉welcome to f0lkl0r3.dev 413136
Reposted by Gregory FosterMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Yemen’s Houthis have announced they’ll be joining the war in support of Iran shortly. Analysts expect them to shut down another strait, Bab El-Mandeb, which will close the Suez Canal. The global economy hangs by a thread. 19434591705
Reposted by Gregory FosterUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 14/03/2026You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough. 05324
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 13/03/2026There is...a lot...to process in this exhaustive recounting of the network of influence around the (first?) Trump insurrection attempt in 2020, Project 2025, and steady hints that the Insurrection Act has a starring role planned for the 2026 elections cochiseregionalnews.substack.com/p/insurrecti...cochiseregionalnews.substack.comInsurrectionist Brunch2020 election plot conspirators, Project 2025, and the plan to deploy military within the United States-- in the name of “border security” 000
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 11/03/2026"We are moving from an era where our worth was defined by our capacity to build and discover, to an era where our survival depends on our capacity to steer, understand, and stand behind the meaning of what is created." "Some Simple Economics of #AGI" (Feb 2026) arxiv.org/abs/2602.20946arxiv.orgSome Simple Economics of AGIFor millennia, human cognition was the primary engine of progress on Earth. As AI decouples cognition from biology, the marginal cost of measurable execution falls to zero, absorbing any labor captura... 010
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Seems to track with the irrationality of this whole debacle. 000
Reposted by Gregory FosterSeamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 27/02/2026The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie. 151799574
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 09/03/2026“Since a very common delusion is the feeling of being watched or monitored by malignant forces or entities, this pathological state unfortunately merges with the growing reality that we are all being tracked and monitored...it's a rational perception of reality, and not delusional at all...” 000
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Amidst a pattern of lying which reveals the projections beneath, this is the most frightening thing he could have uttered about himself. Congress must impeach and remove the Mad King 👑 before it's too late 🕚 000
Reposted by Gregory FosterUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 05/03/2026He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in. 0430208
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Who brags about "punching them while they are down"? 010
Reposted by Gregory FosterPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 04/03/2026Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets. 763597494
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 01/03/2026The current U.S. Director of National Intelligence 🇺🇸 000
Reposted by Gregory FosterMatthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 01/03/2026In case you were wondering, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28. Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were created 24 hours earlier. The Pentagon Pizza Index has been replaced. 442601947
Reposted by Gregory FosterMax Read @maxread.info · 28/02/2026one way of seeing anthropic vs. the pentagon is as a fissure between the two silicon valley tribes most enthusiastic about ai: "rationalists" and "accelerationists" maxread.substack.com/p/what-anthr... 1539175
Reposted by Gregory FosterMythic 🦊 @mythicalredfox.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again. 47204878708
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 28/02/2026"As far as Iran is concerned, with the US and Israel firing the first shot in this latest go-round, everything is now probably fair game." -- Oman Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi, now former peace liaison between Iran and US✌️ 000
