Reposted by Richard BarnesFred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 7hThe strategy next time should be to indict everyone for everything, everywhere. The ex-president, if alive, should get a hundred indictments, spread across as many districts as possible, with as many state charges separately brought as possible. Cabinet members and aides should get dozens. 631782
Reposted by Richard BarnesAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14hNot just impeachable. Impeachment, both pres. and agency heads, is the only option. It's impeachment or nothing. Courts won't stop it. Other tools are impotent. Put them on trial the only way you can. Even if you can't get 2/3, use process as punishment. Make it miserable and costly. It can be done. 13441115
Reposted by Richard BarnesAmrk @amrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Peter Magyar is currently enacting a Liberal Currents fantasy where he amends the constitution to ban anyone associated with the old regime from ever holding office again and is somehow polling at 68% (he won with 53%) and I’m not saying that’s possible anywhere else but Dems should like, ask him 10694133
Reposted by Richard BarnesGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 203186815281
Reposted by Richard BarnesAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 20hThis is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 4629131027
Reposted by Richard BarnesDrew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 22hIt's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes" 461855379
Reposted by Richard BarnesKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17hA truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system 11866601263
Reposted by Richard BarnesArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 23hCircus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 168121062577
Reposted by Richard Barnesnick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays. 3948941927
Reposted by Richard BarnesFilippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/09/2026I'm excited to announce that the PLC Organization now has a statute! And a bank account! And a @standard.site publication! All the important stuff. The PLC Org is an independent Swiss Association meant to operate the PLC directory, which collects and distributes signed updates to atproto accounts.blog.plcred.orgFirst steps of the PLC organization - Public Ledger of Credentials OrganizationOne year ago, Bluesky Social PBC announced their intention to facilitate the creation of an independent organization to operate the Public Ledger of Credenti… 425157
Reposted by Richard Barnesbryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 28/09/2026Hello World from the PLC organization (plcred.org)! The org was soft-announced back in March at AtmosphereConf. We've been working through logistics step by step and now have a public web presence we can point to.blog.plcred.orgFirst steps of the PLC organization 1425165
Reposted by Richard BarnesI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026If you were in camp “focus on the important things” when they were restoring Confederate monuments and base names here but can recognize the danger there you may want to interrogate some things. 5742175
Reposted by Richard BarnesJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being 202705407
Reposted by Richard BarnesAsher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.* 21414402
Reposted by Richard BarnesJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 16892853055
Reposted by Richard BarnesKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776132097
Reposted by Richard Barneslukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Here are some nice mushrooms 492532274
Reposted by Richard Barnes𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐠 @ruleo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026hell yeah found my old GitSe edit 281724496
Reposted by Richard BarnesBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?" 8189102555
Reposted by Richard Barnesrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026it is genuinely obscene that prior to this point it was considered good for american democracy that nixon and reagan were never prosecuted 191428227
Reposted by Richard BarnesRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary. 8141871734
Reposted by Richard Barnes🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121625149
Reposted by Richard BarnesCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down. 222256518
Reposted by Richard Barnes"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's hilarious that Huang things not knowing his address, zip-code and phone number are a mark of how he is cognitively off-loading to technology and Klein doesn't seem to press him that what he's actually obviously doing is using the fact that he's rich to off-load onto other humans. 451425232
Reposted by Richard BarnesAndrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Reading about Craig Newmark of Craigslist and trying to figure out how come he's not a billionaire. Well, the answer is philanthropy. "His exact net worth is not verifiable because he has given away such a massive portion of his fortune." The "good billionaires" are only millionaires, I guess. 1464
Reposted by Richard Barnessouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is after China porch-pirated the military’s f-35 parts delivery 692518494
Reposted by Richard BarnesProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026Louisiana’s AG has pushed back against almost all compensation claims brought by the wrongfully convicted, even in cases where men were exonerated by DNA evidence. “She knows people are innocent but she doesn’t care,” one man said. with @veritenews.org propublica.orgHe’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No.Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore... 35856442
Richard Barnes @ipv.sx · 23/09/2026Heh, I was just checking my Clearsky profile, and apparently I am on all of the following lists: - AI Hype Ridiculousness - AI Freaks - AI Haters As the old adage about compromise goes... 020
Reposted by Richard BarnesDr. Gabagool and the Salami of Secrets @jimpjorps.bsky.social · 21/09/2026some consumer tech things that come to mind - balcony solar kits - reliable home 3D printers, laser engravers, vinyl cutters, etc - USB-C standardization - ultra-low-power-consumption ARM processors - better, cheaper accessibility and assistive technology - projects like Meshtastic and NYC Mesh 5314
Reposted by Richard BarnesFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:finance.yahoo.comOpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million giftThe super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle. 491576674
Reposted by Richard Barnes#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 21/09/2026Chris Van Hollen issues the first ever call by a Democratic member of Congress for US officials to be sanctioned by other countries 201907417
Reposted by Richard BarnesMiro Haller @mirohaller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We finally finished the universal signature forgery for 1024-bit RSA! 2^32 oracle queries, 1200 core years precomputation, 180 core years for an individual forgery, and 3 years of human labor (no AI involved) by Laura, Adam, Nadia, Emmanuel and me to pull of this computation against real HSMs. 14019
Reposted by Richard Barneshikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I'm coining a piece of AI safety terminology that I'd like to refer to as the Bond Villain problem. As a field, AI safety heavily leverages sci-fi pretty heavily, so I figure this should be fine. 726045
Reposted by Richard BarnesStella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026Too many have forgotten that the civil rights movement was fought over, among other things, bathrooms and locker rooms 112413300
Reposted by Richard BarnesAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor. 13638341785
Reposted by Richard BarnesGerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026love that we're doing "god of the gaps" with ai 2101
Reposted by Richard BarnesOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/10/2025again saying the political response of local police depts probably worth following given Trump's efforts to federalize policing 271915297
Reposted by Richard BarnesCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI. 2241441196
Reposted by Richard BarnesMalevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back" 11567901516
Reposted by Richard BarnesChris Adamson @invalidname.me · 19/09/2026The Ford app just added AI. This is the greatest thing ever. 382315427
Reposted by Richard BarnesDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Based upon their documented behavior over the past few years, the tech industry is less afraid of the potential ramifications of Artificial Superintelligence than they are of Lina Khan. 111074254
Reposted by Richard BarnesJason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...bloomberg.comInside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian SchoolPentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab. 11026681406
Reposted by Richard BarnesKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026OK news agencies and broadcasters with a presence in the White House Briefing Room, and indeed the WHCA: your test has arrived. It is not hard to pass. You just need to not attend WH Briefings for as long as this rule is in force. That’s it. Does your commitment to a free press mean anything or not? 20368113
Reposted by Richard BarnesCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread) 7049491258