HockeyBroad @hockeybroad.bsky.social · 13hAnd holy crap, when Myst came out (1993), talk about the excitement of the future of computing. But we also had Wargames and The Terminator warning us about letting AI get out of control! 000
HockeyBroad @hockeybroad.bsky.social · 13hAlso the excitement of owning a Prodigy account and being able to chat instantly with people across the country. Then AOL went public in 1992 and wooo-whee, the world really changed. But nobody ever made us feel like the world would *end* if we didn't adapt to computers! 010
HockeyBroad @hockeybroad.bsky.social · 14hWe had a computer in our house in the mid-80s because my father bought them for his business. That was when computers were still green text-on-blackscreen only. Working on early Macs as a freshman in college was 🔥👀🔥👀🔥👀🔥👀🔥👀🔥. I'm GenX. I took a BASIC class in middle school. Was exciting to create 🪡 110
Reposted by HockeyBroadBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint. 307121632226
Reposted by HockeyBroadElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I still remember getting my first email address as a freshman in college. It was the coolest thing ever and no one was screaming YOU BETTER ADOPT THIS OR WE’RE ALL DEAD. 14904100
Reposted by HockeyBroadRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026How is it not news when the president nods off in public meetings and press conferences dozens of times? If you follow independent media, you see it and know about it. But why hasn’t CBS, NBC or ABC showed a montage of it on their evening news? They simply refuse to ever show it. 801118403221
Reposted by HockeyBroadKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard 1353523570
Reposted by HockeyBroadStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Imagine if the 2030s is still just careening back and forth between a normal Democratic party and MAGA every 4 years. With every attempt to rebuild or repair scuttled every 4 years. 2537335
Reposted by HockeyBroadAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026First Monday in October. The Supreme Court returns. 171304213
HockeyBroad @hockeybroad.bsky.social · 14hF*ck these guys. "Yeah, YOU POORS have to accept the consequences of our actions. We're so rich, we're immune." 020
Reposted by HockeyBroadThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Translation: Sociopath elitist tech fascists who think they’re creating God and believe democracy is the enemy want us to finance our own demise to let them take over the world. www.politico.com/news/2026/10... 31927881155
Reposted by HockeyBroadJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is a community note for the ages. 6658681162
Reposted by HockeyBroadProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.propublica.orgHow ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 HoursThe reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required. 7953812348
Reposted by HockeyBroadKat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is beyond embarrassing. 62676452204
Reposted by HockeyBroadLA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Rolling Stone: Trump lost it on a Time reporter this week: "You haven't asked me one fucking positive question. What about this? What about that? What about that? What about this? All negative." If Trump wants better coverage, he should try being a better person. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed 18305167
Reposted by HockeyBroadNewshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 05/10/2026He doesn’t care if he loses the election because he plans to steal it if he can. He can’t! We won’t let him. 21143251410
Reposted by HockeyBroadMother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026The goal in detaining these children, a former official says, is “to make sure no one ever sends their kids to the US again.” Read @samanthamichaels.bsky.social + @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social report on the administration's new family separation policy that targets children in the nation's interior.motherjones.com“You kidnapped my son”ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.” 86731489
Reposted by HockeyBroadLaura Kowalski Linden @samoart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Pope Léo reminded us how vital art is to us as humans. Real art. Making, sharing, enjoying. Absolutely agree. Get real art from a real person. (And give it to others,too) 061
Reposted by HockeyBroadJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I do not mean to single out LeBron James, but it feels completely bizarre to me that an active player is allowed to promote "prediction markets" but would get banned for life for using that service to bet ten dollars on their own team to win a game. 1963657677
HockeyBroad @hockeybroad.bsky.social · 14hChicago says: please, for your own sanity, DO NOT ELECT THIS GUY TO ANYTHING. 020
HockeyBroad @hockeybroad.bsky.social · 14hIllinois: early voting is already open! www.elections.il.gov/votingandreg...elections.il.gov Early Voting and Grace Period Registration Locations 010
Reposted by HockeyBroadG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 05/10/2026insane that he keeps doubling down on this -- and on the conditional in particular, which polls terribly www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-27... 39475103
Reposted by HockeyBroadLinda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“Players can’t be in bed with gambling outfits” should be perfectly and completely obvious to anyone with a shred of sense and integrity, but so should “leagues can’t be in bed with gambling outfits.” 21635161
Reposted by HockeyBroadMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Anyone who dances like this doesn't need a ballroom—he needs a padded cell. 135882791649
Reposted by HockeyBroadAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/10/2026I wonder if they miss the days when they had diesel so cheap they could run massive trucker caravans against democrats. 25851761382
Reposted by HockeyBroadChristopher L. Bennett @clbennettauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"It can't be achieved without committing crimes" is hardly an argument in favor of achieving it. 237616
Reposted by HockeyBroadJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026"But if it was limited only to public domain it couldn't function like it does!" I mean: a) That's why I noted "licensed and compensated works" b) It doesn't excuse IP theft or materially argue for the value of a tech apparently only possible through IP theft c) It's not too late to compensate! 301326111
Reposted by HockeyBroadJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10589872811
Reposted by HockeyBroadRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Three U.S. citizens arrested and detained by immigration agents are the first Californians to sue federal officers under the No Kings Act, hours after it was signed by Gov. Newsom last week. 15964292414
Reposted by HockeyBroadElizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 55118003495
Reposted by HockeyBroadDr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If you're a teacher, thank you. You make the world a better place. 441645289
Reposted by HockeyBroadAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026shes saying this on the same network that just interviewed a guy who said he spent 18 days in heaven chilling with jesus christ 12977191
Reposted by HockeyBroadStar:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 05/10/2026CTA probably won't do this anywhere west of Racine because the number they'd have to show should cause too much embarrassment 8705
HockeyBroad @hockeybroad.bsky.social · 14hWomen are TIRED of this 💩 and now we're fighting back.static.klipy.comGood Job Michelle ButeauALT: Good Job Michelle Buteau 020
Reposted by HockeyBroadRFK Brain Worm Jr. @planetofdinosaurs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I feel like a lot of men don't understand women have been practicing. Often when I get on an elevator alone I'll practice how I will kick should a dude enter & try touching me. How would anyone know it wasn't some chemical he was pouring on her? We're ready for that shit because we've had to be. 32898
Reposted by HockeyBroadRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.commondreams.org'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common DreamsRepublicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv 24755752697
Reposted by HockeyBroadCannonball Adderall @echoloop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Every time they fucked shit up they made us pay for it 131
Reposted by HockeyBroadCannonball Adderall @echoloop.bsky.social · 05/10/20261. Bush fucks everything up 2. Public revolts, elects Obama 3. Conservative elites fight back 4. Austerity 5. Citizens United; VRA Sec.5 gutted 6. GDP split widens 7. Trump 8. Trump fucks everything up 9. Public revolts, elects Biden 10. Conservative elites fight back 11. GDP split widens 12. Trump 031
Reposted by HockeyBroadCharM @artemis46.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My father told me in *1972* that "when Republicans are in power, working people suffer." 162
Reposted by HockeyBroadAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026every republican president destroys the economy and starts a war in the middle east 141049234
Reposted by HockeyBroadRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.com“You kidnapped my son”ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.” 43758383704
Reposted by HockeyBroadThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption? 642215727753
Reposted by HockeyBroad4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026You really didn't need a study 👇 72494662282
Reposted by HockeyBroadTheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Considering he had just wrote online that he had much Epstein information to distribute does not make this fishy at all. Did he fall out a window? 61177
Reposted by HockeyBroadiBRAR 🍉 @ibrar-dev.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Do you remember the conspiracy about the suspicious body count around the Clinton's? There are no coincidences. 19540761426