Reposted by Isaac MeisterBen Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Every time someone I respect and admire asks "have you seen what AI can do? Have you played with it?" I feel like Wesley Crusher being chased around the Enterprise with a headset in STNG S5 E6, "The Game." 3171
Reposted by Isaac MeisterAtlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 25/05/2026found a good one. 1030044
Reposted by Isaac MeisterPatrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Raspberries deserve the career strawberries have 119926
Reposted by Isaac MeisterTim Williams Art @timwilliamsart.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I fully and wholeheartedly support every single country who used to be an ally of the United States now telling us to go f*** ourselves. 27185691178
Reposted by Isaac MeisterHazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 31/03/2026I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important 181035280
Reposted by Isaac MeisterAugust J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 26/04/2026The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation. 208217174860
Isaac Meister @imeister.org · 21/04/2026I got unbelievably close to this magnificent fellow on my way to work. The perks of the PNW! 030
Reposted by Isaac MeisterBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Never Again must mean Never Again. To Jews, or to anyone else. (3/3) 518822
Reposted by Isaac Meisterrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/04/2026the Democrats need to announce that anyone who drops a bomb on Iranian civilian infrastructure will die in prison 10886163
Reposted by Isaac MeisterDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Reminder to next dem government: take all of SpaceX’s federal contracts and give the money back to NASA. 7881501856
Reposted by Isaac Meisterjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/03/2026really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be. 5994692320
Reposted by Isaac MeisterSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 26/03/2026If you make under $184k, you pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate. Everything after that cap is exempt from the tax. So if you make $1 million per year, you pay about 2.2%. And it's 0.002% for billionaires. If we lifted the cap, Social Security could be funded for decades. 32477159
Reposted by Isaac MeisterCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Trump is the best example of what the American Empire is at its core. 5553786
Reposted by Isaac MeisterPatrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Francis Fukuyama : wrong on history, wrong on Halloween decorations, but right on gaming PC builds and the only actually existing rule of the rules based international order (get nukes asap) 1273
Reposted by Isaac MeisterNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21% 318135982931
Reposted by Isaac MeisterChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 05/03/2026The fascism is killing us, some faster than others, but nearly all of us either way. 91522315
Reposted by Isaac MeisterJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist. He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign. 504199655640
Reposted by Isaac MeisterJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 05/03/2026“But what about the need to teach students to be literate in AI?” In 33 yrs of journalism & 15 of teaching, I’ve learned that there are any number of lawyers, doctors, politicians, generals, & CEOs—& yes “elite” students—who are only semiliterate in their native tongue. Let’s worry about that. 620429
Reposted by Isaac MeisterAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/03/2026Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life. 25480422368
Isaac Meister @imeister.org · 02/03/2026Patrick Blanchfield always gets right to the heart of the matter with painful eloquence. Read him! 141
Reposted by Isaac Meistergeoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 02/03/2026i don't think it's good for news organizations to partner with organizations they should be investigating as avenues of public corruption 6432123
Reposted by Isaac Meisterrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/03/2026this is basically a classified information eruv 220324
Reposted by Isaac MeisterAndrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 28/02/2026*me dying in a nuclear war* this isn’t going to work on me, I’m too focused 0184
Reposted by Isaac MeisterAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy 300261448798
Reposted by Isaac MeisterPatrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 28/02/2026I will simply reiterate what I have said for years, namely that whatever their utility when it comes to individual psychopathology, the ideas of repetition compulsions and the death drive are super clarifying when it comes to the libidinal economies of settler colonial imperial violence 431359
Reposted by Isaac MeisterPatrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 28/02/2026its cool and reassuring how the only actual rule in the rules based international order is “get nukes as fast as possible” 110215
Reposted by Isaac MeisterPatrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 28/02/2026probably too much to ask but I would simply like to live in a world not run by psychopaths perverts and idiots intent on justifying their opportunism and evil by appeals to reenacting primordial cosmological Battle Myths of which the ultimate and most archetypal is the end of the world itself 335189
Reposted by Isaac Meistergeoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 28/02/2026the way "preemptive" strike is more meaningless than it's ever been, an obvious fig leaf daring anyone to say the emperor has no clothes, feels so dangerous 232950
Isaac Meister @imeister.org · 28/02/2026Every so often there’s a thread full of tangible joy and whimsy on here. This is one of them. 000
Reposted by Isaac MeisterGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 28/02/2026I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage. 586214425697
Isaac Meister @imeister.org · 24/02/2026Almost 20 percent of trans people in America have had to move because of an organized program of government persecution. “Let that sink in” is a vintage quip, but apposite here. 010
Reposted by Isaac MeisterBen @liztruss.bsky.social · 19/02/2026The family resemblance is so cute 44411
Reposted by Isaac MeisterJoe Robertson @joro.bsky.social · 12/02/2026More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...apple.newsIdaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC NewsAbout 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit. 23475523923
Reposted by Isaac MeisterElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 06/02/2026We need effective judicial remedies to guaranty our digital liberties. This requires federal and state legislation to guaranty our right to sue federal agents for damages when they violate the U.S. Constitution. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgProtecting Our Right to Sue Federal Agents Who Violate theFederal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have descended into utter lawlessness, most recently in Minnesota. The violence is shocking. So 111128
Reposted by Isaac MeisterWrong Station @thewrongstation.bsky.social · 02/02/2026DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look 186691781
Reposted by Isaac MeisterScoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 27/01/2026I did not have ICE attempting to violate the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and nearly causing a diplomatic incident on my risk register and you know what, that’s on me. 915736
Reposted by Isaac MeisterLauren Ibañez @ team tragedy 💧 @libanezink.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Three faces that have been in my mind all month, and will likely never leave—and sadly, there will likely be more. People need to start thinking really hard about what’s going on, and as an artist there’s a lot we can do. Abolish ICE!!! 0483210
Reposted by Isaac MeisterKai @kaisten.bsky.social · 27/01/2026The really cool and good people list 2385
Reposted by Isaac MeisterFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/01/2026this is completely insane and more people need to say that doing this is completely insane 832337855
Reposted by Isaac Meistermolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence. 241274029835
Reposted by Isaac MeisterRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Minnesota is the best of us. 651421709583
Reposted by Isaac MeisterBree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 22/01/2026I'm sorry, abolishing ICE is now off the table as the centrist compromise. The floor is now The Hague. 383564937