Reposted by Jamie McCarthyAdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 13hI'm sorry no, voters aren't getting a pass on this one. 1014643
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Picture of him with me would probably be worse for him tbh 291567119
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyCatherine Prendergast @badtoss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I understand them. They're antisemites. 33610
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026oh man, I just tried it and america.gov really does get REAL weird when you tell it to “play Minecraft”america.govAmerica.govFind answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov. 69659146
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyKane (Minkmoding) @kanexan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Lmao oh my god I think it’s trying to ape the writing in the post-Ender Dragon cutscene because that’s the only written material in Minecraft. Like look at this!! 47110
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyBen Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Which - all together - suggests that in September the oil coming out of the region was around 85% of pre-war flows, up from less than 50% in March...6/8 1131
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Wakeups are often unnecessary” — Politico, Sept. 2016, explaining it’s not as important as Hillary Clinton says that we have an experienced President 001
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyLady Alecto @ladyalecto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026serious question, at what point do we start reporting her for dogpiling? 1354
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyEd @ed3d.net · 28/09/2026my developers don't even talk to the model in English, let alone "middle America English" 4711
Reposted by Jamie McCarthymtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Water for bovine agriculture in Utah has become a grim obsession of mine since it is such a small, insiginificant part of their economy, irrelevant to their food supply and presents an imminent, deadly threat to its population via the Great Salt Lake drying up and creating poisonous dust clouds 947278
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyH.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 16/11/2024Lucky to be one of the only people who ever had the catharsis of speaking to SBF the way he should’ve always been spoken to. (wait until the end for the smuggest head nod in history) 12876106
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026all of the real problems with AI are who is making it and what it is used for but instead everybody is obsessed with how it is made, the least relevant public concern 5633
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It is perfectly credible, in fact it is expected, that Jake Tapper would lie in order to both-sides Obama and Trump 010
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This site is exhibiting an extraordinary degree of outright denial - often almost conspiracy-theorist in its rejection of observable facts - and a lot of people who think they’re too smart to get stuck promoting politically satisfying falsehoods are taking part. It’s a giant, giant red flag 10763
Reposted by Jamie McCarthymr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 27/09/2026one of the dangers in RSI is you don’t have to make models that people like when you sell models, they have to be aligned enough for people to actually buy them with RSI, the goal is entirely different 2233
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If someone is releasing dozens of rabid cougars into the wild, you should obviously hold them accountable, but saying “Cougars don’t kill people, people kill people” isn’t really smart, either. You have, separately, a liability problem and a cougar problem. 1717419
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"so this is fun, and exactly what i wanted, but now lets try one that actually is educational" This is actually pretty impressive. It kept the constraint of multiple genres but did a nice job explaining recursion, in its programming meaning, in an interesting and accessible way. 610311
Reposted by Jamie McCarthydame @dame.is · 26/09/2026If you watched the viral baseball game clip with the mom and dad and jumped to conclusions, you are legally required to read and share this entire post written by the mom, and then go home and rethink your life.themomoftheyear.substack.comI’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night. 16012
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The thing about competitive authoritarianism is, either you dismantle the competitive advantage of being in power, or both sides have to do it. Otherwise you just get authoritarianism. If Dems win and then don’t also spend government money on their own ads, they are inviting fascists to run America 110
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 25/09/2026“Why don’t you allow photos of your kids on Facebook, Waldo? What possible risk is there?” —friends and family, 2012 1488
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyDana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My reaction to this was “huh, doesn’t sound like Duckworth.” So I watched it. She’s talking about tariffs & funding USAID & farm bankruptcies & it’s obvious that the “save face” bit was acknowledging these things will change only if Trump agrees & you get him to do that by letting him think he won/1 40502167
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyRobert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"I don't like Trump, but also I have no interest in major reforms to undo the damage of the Trump age" feels like it is going to be a veeeeery popular position in the next few years 65011
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyMatt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"They're made out of weights!” maxleiter.com/blog/weightsmaxleiter.comThey're Made Out of Weights | Max Leiterwith apologies to Terry Bisson 04112
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyAxe Ghost. On Steam! @axeghostgame.bsky.social · 22/09/2026paraphrasing Sol: The United States began phasing out CFC aerosol propellants in 1978. The damaging planetary phenomenon had not yet been empirically observed. Policy was taken partly because a small number of scientists reasoned that known mechanisms implied a serious future danger. 1132
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Incredible exchange. 416811
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Any broadcaster who allows any Republican to speak live on air is purposely spreading false propaganda Pointing cameras at known liars makes your audience stupider This is the intention 110
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026All the product of the Moscow Oil Refinery was going to burn anyway. "The event alone" released zero CO₂. That fire is carbon-neutral. Shutting down its oil processing for months is carbon sequestration 🥰 120
Reposted by Jamie McCarthySeth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026People have been creating computer viruses for years, turnabout is fair play 1125
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Which is more dogmatic and closeminded? Saying “we are confronted with events that should cause us to question our role in the world, as uncomfortable as that is,” or saying “Nothing new has been achieved or revealed; nothing has changed, there is nothing to see here.” 3855
Reposted by Jamie McCarthynora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 17/09/2026every tool is a disability aid for the disability of not being god 14914
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The troops actually in the field have no way to verify if the intelligence in the report is real or pulled out of a cybernetic ass. Now *every officer* needs to be a Stanislav Petrov, except they must refuse *without even knowing* whether the signal they ignore is actually automated or not. 1293
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Yes, Parker Molloy coined the perfect word: "sanewashing" 000
Reposted by Jamie McCarthypost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026ok look if Gemini hacks you that was a slow antelope situation 1340128
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I’m specifically worried about “what if, in 2 years, 4channers with open models and a few bitcoin arrange the manufacture a pathogen optimized to wipe out humanity” and yes that is extremely a problem 320
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Turning a big dial that says "racism" on it and looking back at the audience for approval but shaking my head so they know I disagree 021
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Imagemagick, really? *Really?* Discourse has "added image-processing sandboxing as defense in depth." OMG. What are we doing. ImageTragick was in 2016. This package has had 400 CVEs in the last two years. You're sandboxing it *now*? app.opencve.io/cve/?vendor=...app.opencve.ioImagemagick CVEs and Security Vulnerabilities - OpenCVEExplore the latest vulnerabilities and security issues of Imagemagick in the CVE database 000
Reposted by Jamie McCarthydavid celis @davidcel.is · 17/09/2026interesting; it looks like Anthropic quietly pulled their donation of $150,000 in AI token credits to Omarchy. they no longer appear as a patron and this announcement post has scrubbed any mention of them. backlash… kind of works sometimes?omarchy.orgOmacom Foundation secures $1.8M in tokens from leading labs - Omarchy NewsOmarchy isn’t just a beautiful, fun & agentic Linux distribution for those who end up using it. It’s also built that way! With beauty, fun, and a whole lot of tokens. In fact, Omarchy Quattro has almost exclusively been… 933142
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyCitizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 17/09/2026it's been bothering me for a few days now that Bluesky, at least one third of the time, serves to be a gallery of "look at this incredibly stupid fucking take/worldview" and this is a serious tax on the things it does well, which are show me new and interesting developments as they happen 2606
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 17/09/2026Democrats need to declare that any contractor who damages or destroys property illegally, on Trump’s orders, will be permanent debarred. And governors need to declare they’ll inherit those debarments. Take that job, you may never work again. 87315
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026Trump looks at a placard that reads "Kennedy Center DEMOLITION" as he lands at Joint Base Andrews tonight (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty) 2943034922
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If the media weren't an arm of the GOP, they might decide to tell you that the President doesn't know what a trade deficit is, and is advising macroeconomic policies that would lead to instant, horrifying, catastrophic economic and budgetary collapse 010
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026No. This Cory Doctorow post is awful and borders on actual misinformation. The fact that a widely respected voice like him is spreading this kind of false narrative is, again, a giant blaring alarm about the effect the Bluesky info environment is having on people’s brains. 2329323
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028 26490921476
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyIn Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Folks, the weird Monolith says “all these worlds are yours except Europa”. No one can put a limit on American greatness—especially not a piece of Geometry! That is why I, your favorite President, have ordered a full-scale space invasion of Europa! Thank you for your attention to this matter! 411716
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I was being very conservative when I said the cost of software development has gone down by 99% and people just don't know it yet 81257
