Reposted by InfrogmationMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23hIf anyone uses the term Super Intelligence I can only conclude they’re an idiot. 1528546
Reposted by InfrogmationDarin Givens @atlurbanist.bsky.social · 8hGA: MARTA stinks. It's mismanaged & homeless people camp out on it. MARTA: how about some state funding for operations to improve staffing? GA: no MARTA: funds for homeless services? GA: no MARTA: well, can you at least ride transit so we have more revenue? GA: Heck no. MARTA stinks. (Repeat) 0234
Reposted by InfrogmationYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind 241663399
Reposted by InfrogmationSteve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 8h"Pivot to video" is synonymous with a desperate, trend-chasing strategy that sacrifices substantive content and leads to layoffs of talented staff to produce superficial videos to chase social media algorithms. Now it's NPR's turn. www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/npr-...niemanlab.orgNPR, the quintessential audio news brand, adapts to a video-first futureNPR’s new chief content officer Nadine Zylstra on how the public media company acquired Machine Gods — which she thinks can be “the Car Talk of AI.” 23321
Reposted by InfrogmationShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7ha map company has the opportunity to perform the greatest bit in cartographic history 734166
Reposted by Infrogmation@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 7h2/ For no reason in particular, this popped into my mind: Yesterday Trump said that tech leaders he met with at the White House on Tuesday had signed a "constitution" to police themselves. 062
Reposted by InfrogmationImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7h✍🏾 MY LATEST: I wrote about the moral panic Republicans manufactured about trans girls in sports. I decided to turn all my yelling on social media about trans girls in sports into a column.rewirenewsgroup.comThe Panic Over Trans Athletes is Fake: OpinionRepublicans have manufactured a crisis in women’s sports, just in time for the midterm elections. Democrats should find the courage to defend trans children—or at the very least, leave them alone. 218879
Reposted by InfrogmationSenate Democrats @democrats.senate.gov · 23hSenate Republicans JUST BLOCKED Democrats’ legislation to stop Pres. Trump from terminating health care for up to 2 million Americans on the Affordable Care Act @baldwin.senate.gov on how Trump and Republicans are jeopardizing care for millions of Americans and increasing costs. 74530
Reposted by InfrogmationJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 22hIt’s not super. And it’s not intelligence. There. That was easy. 2252284
Reposted by InfrogmationNute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 22hYup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else 51197173
Reposted by InfrogmationRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 22hSometimes I think about where we would be as a culture today if #MeToo in 2017 had radicalized more straight men into fighting sexual abuse instead of creating a culture of "oh god don't get me CANCELED" and "fake accusations" paranoia and resentment 11643141
Reposted by Infrogmationjkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 21hrobertreich.substack.com/p/in-convers...robertreich.substack.comIn Conversation with Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny, Trump, and the MidtermsWatch now (36 mins) | What the author of “On Tyranny” told me about Trump, Tyranny, and the Midterm elections, five weeks from today. 022
Reposted by InfrogmationJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 21hthey DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION????? 1453441416
Reposted by InfrogmationChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20hreally worth watching the whole thing play out... 1111504310
Reposted by InfrogmationChuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 29/09/2026Donald Trump is illegally stealing $810 million from programs that support education, small business, and clean air. All while tripling his own net worth and spending billions more on ballrooms, reflecting pools, and an illegal war nobody asked for. 297937
Reposted by Infrogmationrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible 302036301
Reposted by InfrogmationDemocracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Louisiana, we’re about to be all data centers and ice detention. @conrad4congress.bsky.social here’s your next campaign ad. 3206
Reposted by InfrogmationKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/02/2025I am no longer accepting the argument "there are bigger problems than this!" unless you are personally working to stop the ultimate Heat Death of the Universe. 337186992152
Reposted by InfrogmationJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed 3444681071
Reposted by InfrogmationSean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Protecting child predators, facilitating extra-judicial murders, jacking up everyone's prices through tariffs and military misadventures all so that Donald Trump can get rich and he doesn't yell at you is a hell of a closing message. But totally on brand for Mr. Johnson. 31887240
Reposted by InfrogmationDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895407928
Reposted by InfrogmationNina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Timeline cleanse! 🐕✨ A charming Egyptian dog figurine made of faience, dating 2120–1795 BC. An adorable glimpse into the past 😊 On display at Neues Museum Berlin. 831779
Reposted by InfrogmationWhitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In the 1860s, chess player Howard Staunton produced a photo-facsimile of Shakespeare's First Folio. It was one of the earliest attempts to use new technology to reproduce an old book. @folger.edu has Staunton’s proof sheets. I looked at them last week. If you like media/books/history, they're fun.whitneytrettien.substack.com“How on earth came the t turned into s?!!!!”On Howard Staunton’s photozincographic facsimile of Shakespeare’s First Folio 27324
Reposted by InfrogmationTeam Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance... 1842379858
Reposted by InfrogmationRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Rufo literally offered a bounty to anyone who could produce a video of Haitians eating dogs. He got nothing. So he found a video of Congolese men grilling chicken and tried to claim they were cooking cats. 372286463
Reposted by InfrogmationThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Future presidential debates should probably feature questions like "are you stupid enough to start a cold war with Canada" or "who pays a tariff" 311019177
Reposted by InfrogmationRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm… 1265185226014
Reposted by InfrogmationAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows. 19790105396
Reposted by InfrogmationRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"For months, a group of central Louisianans and its growing coalition of allies have come together to thwart the family and child detention facility from taking root in Alexandria..." veritenews.org/2026/09/22/o...veritenews.orgOpponents of Alexandria ICE detention facility hold community forum - Verite News New OrleansThe England Authority Board of Commissioners is slated to discuss the planned ICE detention facility at a meeting on Thursday. 201307382
Reposted by InfrogmationKevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The story some of us have been waiting for a long time. It doesn’t disappoint and there are some jaw-droppers. Kudos to the three reporters who produced it, because the daily can’t. The closer is too perfect, a gift from interviewee to interlocutor. 22711
Reposted by InfrogmationJonah Blank @jonahblank.bsky.social · 28/09/20261. Exposé of Trump's uber-shady Venezuelan gold grift: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...nytimes.comTrump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat. 113
Reposted by Infrogmation100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sept. 28, 1926: A federal appeals court finds the government awarded the Teapot Dome oil lease by fraud, and orders it canceled. The panel in St. Louis links ex-Interior Secretary Albert Fall, who granted the concession, to “a trail of deceit, falsehood, subterfuge, bad faith and corruption.” 1279
Reposted by InfrogmationMcJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is probably a point in the bubble inflation where the fact that a lot of really key people involved in AI companies are, no exaggeration, in a cult centered around AI. 119527
Reposted by Infrogmationlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026"I installed the Give Away Your Personally Identifying Info app made by the We Love Stealing Your Personally Identifying Info Corp headed by Mr. Steal Your Personally Identifying Info and it gave away all my personally identifying info" 342548541
Reposted by Infrogmation#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong. 2347241056
Reposted by Infrogmation#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026Half of Obama's own party threw a tantrum over his novel "don't do stupid shit" doctrine in relation to Iran. Trump then immediately tore the JCPOA up to little resistance. The next president did next to nothing to try and revive it and instead spent 3 years begging Saudi to be friends with Israel. 21050109
Reposted by InfrogmationMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime. 363575829
Reposted by InfrogmationSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I gasped! The Mighty Sparrow has left us. One of the most important and popular Calypsonians to ever do it! Songs filled political fire, irreverence, humor, naughty (very, very naughty) banter, and beats that make you wind your waist! Rest in Power, Sparrow. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/a...nytimes.comThe Mighty Sparrow, Trinidadian Titan of Calypso, Is Dead at 91He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew. 261085212
Infrogmation @infrogmation.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Great Depression? Fake news! We're going to have the GREATEST Depression!" 011
Reposted by Infrogmation👉🏽▶️ Start-the-Epstein-Trials @esepajaronegro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Billionaire election meddling example #2: www.panamericandispatch.org/p/meta-block...panamericandispatch.orgMeta Blocks President Lula’s Facebook Page and Campaign AdsThe page is now back online, but Lula's electoral coalition says Meta's actions harmed the president’s campaign. 011
Reposted by Infrogmation👉🏽▶️ Start-the-Epstein-Trials @esepajaronegro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Billionaire election meddling example #1: paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...paydayreport.comX Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back LulaPolls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference. 121
Reposted by InfrogmationHammHawk @hammhawk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The BP oil spill (I live in Louisiana) reinforced to me that we're so happy when cos. use tech to do new things that we don't make them account for contingencies, and it's really backward. If they didn't know how to cap a spill, they shouldn't drill, and if AI makers can't control it, shelve it! 197
Reposted by InfrogmationRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Murder is also the #1 cause of death of pregnant and postpartum women. Related: Denying people access to abortion care forces them to remain trapped in abusive relationships they often would otherwise leave. (among other harms) 4318121
Reposted by InfrogmationJason H. Dormady @jasonhdormady.bsky.social · 24/09/2026When you go to research, tell everybody what you are working on or at least that you are a historian. Janitors, taco vendors, beach bums, archivists, receptionists, historians, students, people at church... somebody has a box of letters or pictures they want to show you. Above all, be polite. 0133
Reposted by InfrogmationLiz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’m teaching a workshop this weekend about how historians research. #Skystorians, what are your favorite or most important research tips and tricks? What is your favorite method for finding archives and archival material? 204523
Reposted by InfrogmationLogan Jaffe @loganjaffe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Always, always, always visit the small town or neighborhood historical society in addition to the larger museum or university. Ask what’s in the back. 1334
Reposted by InfrogmationDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life. 14195002191