Reposted by JamesJairme @jairme.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Não aguento toda vez que surge um aumento de impostos questionável a defesa ser "ninguém precisa disso pra viver" e derivados. Galera acha que consumo é só arroz, feijão e um bifinho. Depois a aprovação cai e a culpa é do Tiktok e do Elon Musk. 1336759
Reposted by JamesTaylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Joseph Gordon-Levitt went to the Senate claiming to "hold big tech accountable" while promoting The Heritage Foundation's tech policy agenda and boosting groups like Morality in Media (aka NCOSE), which has sought to criminalize LGBTQ sex, w board members that support conversion therapy 35896295
Reposted by JamesJeffery Simpson @jefferysimpson.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Cops shooting a woman = no problem Cops asking you to wear a mask during a pandemic = George Washington and Jesus didn’t fight tyranny for me to wear a mask or stay home. 3720117
Reposted by JamesGluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Everything I do for my research requires custom software. Every day I need new programs or modifications to old programs. I haven’t hand written a line of code in a computer language (Python, Rust, etc.) in over a year. Instead I describe what I want in English and the AI writes the code. 1174
Reposted by JamesDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Jaana was a distinguished engineer at GitHub and is now a principal engineer at Google. I expect more testimonials from accomplished engineers about productivity gains of AI in 2026. Engineers claiming AI tools don’t work well will increasingly look like a skill issue than a problem with AI tools 2029537
Reposted by JamesPride Ott 🦦 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Imagine being told your entire life that doing anything other than computer science is a calculated risk for permanent unemployment so you go for it despite being disinterested and now you get the unemployment risk in a degree you hate and no idea what you even want out of your life anymore 41198
Reposted by JamesSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 30/12/2025we verifiably do not do a good job of mitigating the societal impacts of technology on labor. this leaves us with things like the entire state of west virginia yearning for the return of the coal economy, whatever's going on with detroit, etc 2066186
Reposted by JamesSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 31/12/2025I have a thread on this at the other site but something that really pisses me off is the stupid command economy thing that we do every couple of years on education. We’ve got to train kids to get into STEM, no we have to do liberal arts, no they have to learn the code, no you need to be a plumber!!! 1531136
Reposted by JamesDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Big Tech’s AI push has tanked demand for juniors, even computer science Stanford grads, who lack the experience to vet AI code. It’s a stark shift for a sector historically obsessed with youth and pedigree. I don’t think this is sustainable, but it’s unclear if or when the pendulum will swing backadn.comThey graduated from Stanford. Due to AI, they can’t find a jobWhen they were freshmen, ChatGPT hadn’t yet been released upon the world. Today, AI can code better than most humans. 6368
Reposted by JamesMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 18/09/2025I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions". 17214532512347
Reposted by JamesAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 12/09/2025If you have a screenshot of a US politician or leader blaming the left, or declaring some war, or anything before we knew who the shooter was, please post in the comments. We will need to keep these 1546228616004
Reposted by JamesThe Kavernacle @thekavernacle.bsky.social · 07/08/2025My girlfriend's brother isn't that political. Buts he's really anti-Israel. And all that took was for him to actually go there. He taught Palestinian children skateboarding in the occupied West Bank and didn't really understand much of the context around Palestine or Israel but just told 5402
James @jamesbrnd.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Elon is worse than a genocidal apartheid warlord (though he’s very knowledgeable about apartheid) 010
Reposted by JamesParis Marx @parismarx.com · 05/08/2025Finally the world has caught up to how I’ve felt about Elon Musk for many years. 61519
Reposted by JamesCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Trump's DOJ requested that Maine turn over its entire state voting roll, voting records, and verification procedures. Here's how Secretary of State Shenna Bellows responded: "Go jump in the Gulf of Maine."kmph.com'Go jump in the Gulf of Maine': Maine denies DOJ's request for list of state votersMaine’s Secretary of State is fighting back against the federal government. 271440308
Reposted by Jamesderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Someone took issue with me saying that American male Protestants are unique in how they've removed themselves from aesthetics. I thought it was obvs that I'm talking about fashion and interior decor, which today are coded as "gay interests," not paintings or architecture. But let me elaborate. 🧵 1274992646
Reposted by JamesCamarote da República @camarotedacpi.bsky.social · 18/07/2025🚨 URGENTE | XANDÃO: "BOLSONARO CONFESSOU SUA ATUAÇÃO CRIMINOSA NA EXTORSÃO CONTRA A JUSTIÇA" 141110265
Reposted by James💪🏽🤟🏼💪🏿🫶🏽 L Ramalho 🍉 @ramalho.org · 16/07/2025PIX foi criado para evitar que o WhatsApp se tornasse um meio de pagamentos popular. É MUITO MELHOR do que ser forçado a usar um app da Meta para comprar pipoca na rua. O Marco Civil foi um passo para nos proteger das bigtech, precisa avançar mais. Tudo que EUA querem barrar é bom para nós. 283365939
Reposted by JamesAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/07/2025Part of how we got fascism in the United States is that a bunch of Silicon Valley oligarchs lost their collective mind in 2020 and radicalized into techno-fascists on group chats. Marc Andreesen is the epicenter of this shift. www.thedissident.news/the-techno-f...thedissident.newsThe Techno-Fascist Soul of Marc AndreessenThe uprising of 2020 didn't just challenge the systemic racism of American policing; they terrified the oligarchs of Silicon Valley. For Marc Andreessen, the billionaire venture capitalist, the sight ... 641826496
Reposted by Jamesnitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social · 12/07/2025New from me. Hope you’ll give it a read www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...washingtonpost.comTech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreesen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEITech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.” 4427072
James @jamesbrnd.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Judging by his virtual signature, he must revel in cryptocurrencies and AI, which as everyone knows, are very traditional technologies. 010
Reposted by JamesKeith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised. 204109314360
Reposted by JamesCasey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 24/06/2025I'm going to be honest here, I think AI is going to do so much damage to the usable internet that even after it's inevitably crashes out, it's going to take years to disentangle from every space it's polluted, like digital asbestos it's gonna be time consuming effort and likely expensive venture. 9860332050
Reposted by Jamesjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 24/06/2025I think AI is going to eventually tank in the longterm, but... the only real way to combat this is single-interest communities. Forums, user comms, etc, with a barrier to entry. They become trustable knowledgebases. It's really the only way forward is to return to what worked best the first time 2050491439
Reposted by JamesGuillotine Hunger Force @handle.invalid · 18/06/2025oh yeah goes way farther back evenyoutu.be90's Black Sitcoms Warned Us | Renegade CutYouTube video by Renegade Cut 031
James @jamesbrnd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025My only problem with AI enthusiasts using China as an argument to work on it despite the various doomsday scenarios for the workforce is that AI under capitalism is a disaster 🤡 000
James @jamesbrnd.bsky.social · 12/06/2025And there will be hordes of stupid people flying to that hell hole thinking that ICE wouldn’t do anything to them even if they’re tourists… 000
Reposted by JamesAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law. 136810263821937
James @jamesbrnd.bsky.social · 09/06/2025I thought he was going to do a podcast session with Donald 010
Reposted by JamesLetícia Cesarino @letcesar.bsky.social · 25/05/2025passando aqui pra avisar que *não* é pra vcs baixarem o livro novo do Slobodian q acabou de entrar no libgen, um dos livros mais importantes para entender as mutações bizarras atuais do neoliberalismo. não façam isso. 1425148
Reposted by JamesGergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 25/05/2025This blog is SO good at pointing out what should have been obvious about AI for coding (Copilot and others) These tools are good for re-creating whatever they’ve been trained on. They are not what will create the next, better generation of frameworks, libraries, technologies. 1533264
Reposted by JamesJames Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 10/05/2025ICE agents are law enforcement officers. Their identities should be a matter of public record. Simply identifying them should not be a bannable (or prosecutable) offense. Especially when they are acting in a blatantly illegal fashion and kidnapping people to disappear them to other countries 07023
Reposted by JamesSean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Tired of being gaslit about your Covid precautions in healthcare facilities or #LongCovid? This 1-page letter has key studies on brain, heart & immune damage—perfect for printing & handing to your doctor. Download: uofi.app.box.com/s/9llu70jkrf... #PatientAdvocacy #ChronicIllness #MedicalGaslightinguofi.box.com 52409157
Reposted by JamesGergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 08/05/2025Stripe did something novel with transformers: they drastically reduced fraud rate with them. Turns out, they are no the only one thinking LLM architecture is useful in payments. Adyen, in January (4 months ago) - pretty much the same thinking and approach: 3504
Reposted by Jamesrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/04/2025It is Day Five after travel and the tiny PCR machine that sits on my kitchen table tells me I managed a cross country flight, two 11-hour drives, another flight, getting stuck in Vegas overnight, and another flight without catching COVID 2269621
Reposted by Jamesrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 03/05/2025VICTORY, THEY FUCKING PROVED THE COVID/MAST CELL LINK IS THE SPIKE PROTEIN I HAVE A CONCLUSIVE PAPER TO SHOW PEOPLE WHO WHINE AT ME ABOUT MY FUCKING DIPHENHYDRAMINE PRE-VACCINE ADVICE NOW 982358722
James @jamesbrnd.bsky.social · 04/05/2025@lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social @padilhando.bsky.social @minsaude.bsky.social Bora seguir a ciência e fazer reforço anual pra covid pra toda a população? Se a Argentina de Milei e EUA dos Trump conseguem, a gente também consegue num governo de esquerda, certo? 053
Reposted by JamesGergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 29/04/2025I switched to Kagi as my default search engine ~a year ago exactly b/c Google search results are SO bad these days. Never thought a startup would beat Google at search: Kagi does so because Google is an ads engine, not a search engine these days. Today on Daring Fireball: 1221439
Reposted by JamesJairme @jairme.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Leila Germano um nome e um sobrenome quando me deu um creme de mãos da Caudalíe, o único que deixa a mão sequinha e com cheirinho gostoso pra mim 51832
James @jamesbrnd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Now we have to massively boycott the rest that kissed the ring. 000
![🚨 URGENTE | XANDÃO: "BOLSONARO CONFESSOU SUA ATUAÇÃO CRIMINOSA NA EXTORSÃO CONTRA A JUSTIÇA"
"A conduta do réu JAIR MESSIAS BOLSONARO [...] é tão grave e despudorada que na data de hoje (17/7/2025), em entrevista coletiva, sem qualquer respeito à Soberania Nacional do Povo brasileiro, à Constituição Federal e à independência do Poder Judiciário, expressamente, confessou sua consciente e voluntária atuação criminosa na extorsão que se pretende contra a Justiça brasileira, CONDICIONANDO O FIM DA “TAXAÇÃO/SANÇÃO” À SUA PRÓPRIA ANISTIA."
"A permanente intenção criminosa é tão patente e escancarada que, após a apresentação das alegações finais pela Procuradoria Geral da República na AP 2668, as ameaças ao Chefe do Ministério Público foram significativamente ampliadas, inclusive com pedidos para atuação do governo norte-americano."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2sp7f2rkr6kvnfdasbu25fmr/bafkreicth7rwrzjg7it4hcrrlo5f4fggmqkk3cizjdkc6cobxcreyoxhjy)
