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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20h
This is very true. A huge theme in a lot of recent coverage that AI is a bit like Saving Private Ryan. Everybody's gotta step up and adopt AI to get it across the goal line.
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halfassedzen.bsky.social @halfassedzen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A hoax doncha know. And Bob Hope invented golf.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Jeff McDonald @jmcdonaldsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In a stance that puts him at odds with other notable NBA stars, Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to FanDuel, Polymarket or any other sports betting site. “Honestly, I think it’s very sad to see some players promote it,” he said. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...
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Would Victor Wembanyama ever endorse FanDuel or Polymarket? Don't bet on it
In a stance that puts him at odds with other NBA stars, the Spurs' Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to a sports betting site
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The techno-dystopia I actually fear is a future where most people think truth is whatever Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok say, and the very small number of people who control those systems use that to manipulate for their own ends, making our current epistemic crisis seem small in comparison.
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Dee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My absolute favorite part. Jack Smith smirking after they rapidly lowered their poster that made absolutely no sense. This is one of the best "look at this dumbass" expressions I've seen in a minute. So satisfying.
Jack Smith smirking at a Senate hearing after a line of questioning that made absolutely no sense.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Maciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.
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Thomas Seal @twseal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre just shared this on his Instagram
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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"why would I deceive you?"
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Missed this last night but my favorite part of Ryan Hartman sending Justin Hryckowian's stick airborne is that he tried to do it again after Hryckowian retrieved his stick
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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 26/09/2026
We won’t resolve our current political moment by making gas cheaper or healthcare affordable or raising wages. Those are all components of it. But we need to visibly hold accountable and punish those who subverted democracy towards authoritarianism and show there are consequences.
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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Buddy, you claim to be God, you should be aware of 99.99% of human history before right now.
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 18/09/2026
Find yourself someone who looks at you the way Carrie Fisher looked at future ROBOCOP star Peter Weller during a 1980 Giorgio Armani afterparty
Carrie Fisher looking sexily at Peter Weller
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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 18/09/2026
This is pretty terrifying. An architect generated structural engineering calculations using AI. The calculations looked convincing to a non expert but were fundamentally wrong, and unsafe.
cross-safety.org
Inappropriate use of artificial intelligence (AI) in structural design
Concerns are raised about the unverified use of AI-generated structural design outputs to justify the installation of heavy plant on an existing building roof.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You know what's missing from the AI fears discussion? Stuxnet and NotPetya If you're familiar with those cyberweapons, then software that autonomously spreads, messes up computer systems, and ends up acting in ways beyond its creators' intentions or control isn't a brand new shock.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Existential emergency! Better threaten to knock down the Kennedy Center and whine about getting on Mount Rushmore.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yes! My canonical example was wondering why some podcast fans were mad at the hosts and a friend dropped me a link to a YouTube video about it that was as long as a feature film, and I was just like “ok guess I am comfortable never knowing.”
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Gabrielle @gabbklein.myatproto.social · 14/09/2026
How many horrible people does Bernie have to support before people stop giving him credit as a leftist?
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Area econblogger has decided that superintelligent AI will kill us all with a doomsday virus. A lot of biologists say "no, econblogger, you don't actually know anything about viruses." Area econblogger responds "I urge you not to listen to these biologists."
Noah Smith, being a huge dork.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@thebulwark.com did a supercut of all the prior times Trump said he was going to give Americans a $5000 check or whatever. It is glorious
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since 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...
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halfassedzen.bsky.social @halfassedzen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“I know you have cold cuts, John, I’m a dog. I can smell it”
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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"well Dems are actually betraying us-" you think that because there is a constant tide of coverage of dipshit nobody "strategists" always trying to make the great left-punching Fetch happen, not because there is an actual surge of treachery from the majority of Dems in office.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
big news from your hometown, that guy from high school who said the pyramids were alien batteries is homeschooling his kids now
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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Jon Ossoff on the internal Dem center v. left conflict: “No Georgia voter has yet asked me about elections that were 800 miles away,” he tells me. “I don’t know why we do this to ourselves.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Can Senator Jon Ossoff Hold On to His Seat?
He’s the most vulnerable incumbent in the Senate race, and his state is ground zero for the new Jim Crow attacks on voting rights.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
HISTORY: diesel has crossed $6/gal nationally for the first time ever, according to live GasBuddy data. every truck, every delivery, every package, every grocery run just got more expensive. the cost of moving everything in america just hit a record. Statement⬇️ (9/10/26, 3p CT)
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10/09/2026
who gives a shit, it isn’t going to happen
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/09/2026
Yeah when it comes to stuff like vibe-coding or whatever, no one is calling that slop. If it sucks and works poorly, that gets called out, but slop is about generated "art" and text, not useful applications.
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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Building the future”. Eat shit.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 09/09/2026
while hacking software automation will certainly be a real problem the anthropic engineer is a kid who is pushing the idea that AI is on the cusp of self-aware superintelligence at which point it will immediately decide to kill us all
Screenshot of a thread of two posts by Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) on X:

First post:
"Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing."

Second post:
"The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger."
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halfassedzen.bsky.social @halfassedzen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It was going to be Kubrick’s follow up to Eyes Wide Shut. When he passed away, Spielberg took up the mantle to get it made.
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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now
photo of a white truck with the logo for Bob’s BBQ Emporium, which is written in comic sans and has a charming rudimentary illustration of a pig
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Would you believe me if I told you that Jennifer Sey first tried to get attention/profiteer off her antivaccine(and COVID denialism, etc) beliefs and now is one of the biggest transphobia grifters instead? Because that’s what antivaxxers are: selfish, hateful bigots
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halfassedzen.bsky.social @halfassedzen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I think most people’s disgust with AI is based on their interactions with “customer service” chat bots and superfluous AI features shoved into every search or app. That and the dogshit output of GenAI On social media. Which is the extent of consumers experience with the technology.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'm sure "affordability" has popped as the poll tested safe ground for Democrats to campaign on. But I wonder how often the consultants poll, "How sick are you of the bad guys getting away with it?"
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Tesla has told first responders that they might need to “push” the new Cybercab out of the way in an emergency
Opening paragraph of an NBC News story: Tesla's new Cybercab may need a "push" from first responders if it stalls on the road because the vehicle has no steering wheel or pedals that would let an officer drive it out of the way, according to a safety plan filed with Texas officials.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/09/2026
lmao, every single thing about this car is the opposite of what you want in a taxi
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Tesla's stock drops 6% as Cybercab update 'underwhelms' Wall Street
Tesla's long-awaited Cybercab update failed to dazzle investors.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Perfect. No notes. www.yahoo.com/tech/transpo...
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Tesla Cybercabs are under federal investigation a day after Austin launch
The vehicles have no steering wheels or pedals, which appears to be central to the NHTSA probe.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol
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Trevor Risk @sunshinesucks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It really sucks that after Walter died a few years ago, the Steely Dan webmaster took down all the stuff he made for it back in the early 90s, like this chart on how to stop listening to the Grateful Dead.
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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“Think I give a damn about what this Piker guy is saying when the richest Nazi the world has ever seen is bankrolling the destruction of America via the Republican Party?” — how every Dem should answer questions about Hasan Piker
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
FEDWATCH: “.. the correlation between oil and yields, currently at 0.72, is the highest since the GFC when oil prices spiked. This correlation again serves as a broad market indicator: if the correlation rises, risk assets are under pressure, and vice versa.”
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 31/08/2026
Why would anyone give a fuck about
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What the Bartender Really Thinks About Your Spritz
You might expect the fizzy summer drinks to be a downer for the people who make them by the hundreds. But think again.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The pressure, the shouts, the chorus of WTFs, all of it is working. And no surprise that Clyburn is taking the lead.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/08/2026
USAID was a free space for tankie and tankie adjacent dingbats to score edgy contrarian points by wildly exaggerating how imperialist it was, confident in the belief that it wouldn’t just disappear, except now it has and everyone is uncomfortably looking elsewhere
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halfassedzen.bsky.social @halfassedzen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Oh ya know…it’s a line item error. No biggie.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm as big a piker hater as they come but it is astounding to me and an extreme indictment of political media that he is being talked about at all in the context of the michigan senate race when trump has just started a trade war with canada
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halfassedzen.bsky.social @halfassedzen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Being anti-Milo is still okay though.
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