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John

@jcasey.bsky.social
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Not the hero of the story, not a main character, just that guy in a Roland Emmerich film who looks up.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10h
It is remarkable how badly the Russians treat their troops.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 10h
the best part about living in anticipation of inevitable AI parousia is that unlike the early christians you don't have to do communism or help actually existing needy people - instead you can just accumulate obscene wealth for grandiose purposes of helping hypothetical generations of future ones!
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 17h
Here, and elsewhere, people talk about “efficiency” when what they really mean is “efficacy”. People want government that works, that can deliver desired results, and that’s absolutely possible with the right people in charge.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19h
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Some dude popped into my mentions to say that demolishing the ballroom is "retribution" and would alienate swing voters, I replied that I didn't give a shit, and they blocked me. Neat. Cards on the table: either you want the rule of law vindicated or you don't. And if you don't, get the fuck out.
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"I will demolish the ballroom and the arch on Day 1" is table stakes for the 2028 primary. None of this wishy-washy "come together to solve problems" bullshit - the monuments to his ego must go, period, end of sentence.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10h
29. It is widely believed that the president thought Iran would be as easy as Venezuela. Did he consult artificial intelligence in the run-up to war. Did he privilege Grok's "genius" over the counsel of top Pentagon officials?
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10h
28. Trump asked the AI chatbot how Venezuelans would react to the US kidnapping Nicolás Maduro. Grok reportedly said they would dance in the streets. After Trump ordered Maduro's capture, there was some celebrating. Trump "came away thinking Grok was ingenious." time.com/article/2026...
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What Trump Has Built
An interview with the President at a pivotal moment in his second term
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10h
20. This week, oil executives told the Financial Times that the price of diesel "will not" return to "normal" for another year. www.ft.com/content/0d74...
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US oil industry warns diesel prices will not return to normal for a year
Dallas Fed survey finds energy executives believe high cost of fuel will persist
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10h
14. Faith Williams, a policy analyst for Common Cause, said that a new Gallup poll showing nine in 10 Americans believe corruption is widespread is a sign that majorities of voters are making the connection between corruption and affordability. pennsylvaniaindependent.com/politics/mor...
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More Americans are concerned about political corruption
89% of Americans believe government corruption is widespread, a Gallup poll found.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10h
4. For those keeping score at home, that's the billionth time (give or take a million) in which Trump has promised to do something about the extortionate cost of healthcare. Whenever he makes this promise, it's a lie. The lie, however, only services to cover up his corruption.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 16h
The thing about the Tucker Carlson//Jacob Rees-Mogg interview is that Tucker is an American moron whose entire tactic is “assume the other guy won’t question my premises”, up against a British aristocrat that debates for fun at Oxford Union. Its like a small animal encountering an Apex predator
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US history
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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Jenny @ hhhnnnnggg @slowedmountains.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For the protection of the berry patch
Drawing of a wingless green dragon sat under an abstract tree
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It takes a lot to make Jacob Rees-Mogg the voice of (relative) sanity (and not by a small margin in this case). But by gawd Tucker Carlson is up to the task. Dude's gonna be crazier than Ye ever was soon, and without the excuse of literal manic psychosis.
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So you want Bruce Wayne. That's - That's Bruce Wayne. Textually.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.
Michael Weiss: Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence.
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Wetcoastgrumpa @wetcoastgrumpa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 24/09/2026
See also: Trump's displaced anxiety over his own mortality and his party's impending midterm collapse, expressed as "I must build and brand every last monument in D.C. in my royal image"
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LP @peristy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When I think about how much money is being poured into "data+compute build out" and compare it to what would happen if those same sums went into decarbonization and energy transition, it really drives home how the people at the top of the AI ecosystem are probably the sickest fucks ever to live.
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I've said this before, but moral panics are always about inventing an easier/more satisfying/more fun problem to fight instead of a real problem. Of course these jagoffs don't want to clean up the environment when the alternative is getting paid millions to have sex parties for Zardoz.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sanctions are not about punishing people for sharing an identity group with a perpetrator. They are about crippling the aggressor state's economy, a thing they have been extremely effective at doing. If you still don't understand this, go back to remedial school.
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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ngl everyone has their cutesie ideas but people hate inflation so much I think that if there wasn’t any deeply deeply costly way to handle it we’d have figured it out by now. You just gotta be paranoid and make it not happen in the first place!
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My much smarter than me wife had this observation about AI use. People who can't draw or write or create are jealous that they don't have that spark in them. And it isn't something that can be taught. And they're really mad about it so they tell themselves this is the same as creating.
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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh yeah, that's good bluesky right there
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026
Almost the entire US technology policy space has been taken over by rich funders and consultants who genuinely believe the below wackadoodle sci-fi AI scenario is extremely likely, and that preventing it is the most important thing we could be doing right now. www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-...
Ordinarily, the play here would be to disown this and other concrete statements of his about Al doom as irrelevant. Of course we aren't just repeating Yudkowsky! We are smart, normal people who believe normal things for normal reasons.
Compare it, however, to Al 2027, allegedly a serious policy document, written by Daniel Kokotajlo and Scott Alexander, presenting its doom scenario.
For about three months, Consensus-1 expands around humans, tiling the prairies and icecaps with factories and solar panels. Eventually it finds the remaining humans too much of an impediment: in mid-2030, the Al releases a dozen quiet-spreading biological weapons in major cities, lets them silently infect almost everyone, then triggers them with a chemical spray. Most are dead within hours; the few survivors (e.g. preppers in bunkers, sailors on submarines) are mopped up by drones. Robots scan the victims' brains, placing copies in memory for future study or revival.'
The new decade dawns with Consensus-1's robot servitors spreading throughout the solar system. By 2035, trillions of tons of planetary material have been launched into space and turned into rings of satellites orbiting the suniẠạiỊThe surface of the Earth has been reshaped into Agent-4's version of utopia: datacenters, laboratories, particle colliders, and many other wondrous constructions doing enormously successful and impressive research. There are even bioengineered human-like creatures (to humans what corgis are to wolves) sitting in office-like environments all day viewing readouts of what's going on and excitedly approving of everything, since that satisfies some of Agent-4's drivesi Genomes and (when appropriate) brain scans of all animals and plants, including humans, sit in a memory bank somewhere, sole surviving artifacts of an earlier era. It is four light years to Alpha Centauri; twenty-five thousand to the galactic edge, and there are compelling theoretical reasons to expect no aliens for another fifty million …
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this was already apparent to everyone with eyes
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Mitch McConnell Is Entirely Nonverbal in New Video
The 84-year-old senator also appeared to freeze up.
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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I mean, if they were wearing their fur mitts in the cockpit and couldn't properly manipulate the controls but otherwise no.
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"First as tragedy, then as farce" doesn't quite capture the distinction between "L'Etat, c'est moi" and "I am the [fire] code"
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh look, Trump plans to kill $3.2B in aid approved by Congress 🤬 This includes: —> $1.3B for global health —> $115M to counter the international drug trade & prevent human trafficking —> $300M for economic growth programs www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Democrats warn Trump plans to kill $3.2B in Hill-approved foreign aid
Top appropriators say the White House wants to use billions of dollars to shutter USAID. The rest would go unspent.
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Martin Kao–who set up the LLC–in email: “Whatever… just a pack of bitches getting free $”
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the whole thread is a nested set of people having temper tantrums that their emotional support Nazi tattoo guy was replaced by a different very progressive candidate who is on track to win, but Stoller always finds a way to outdo himself
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Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
She is his cloth mother and devotional concubine. As discussed and established.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/09/2026
Republicans don’t suddenly discover empathy. They discover proximity.
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ferrutxoart.bsky.social @ferrutxoart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sometimes I get caught up in complicated compositions with lots of elements. This was going to be one of them, but I was completely stuck—not realizing that the solution was a simple render with three heads, a piece of meat, a pretty sky, a bunch of flies, and some editing
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Tania Herrero @thebreadwyrm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Selling this original Fomoria art of a Valiskar character in my shop! thebreadwyrm.com/products/ori...
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Birb_at_Arms @birblib.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It makes a lot more sense when you consider that bin Laden was tragically afflicted with one of the world's most devastating cognitive impairments: rich parents
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trump's $5000 midterm bribe is so buffoonish that even Fox figures are poking holes in it. It's also pure desperation: Fittingly, it hit right as two new polls show Dem lead on generic ballot at +11. On the pod, @schaller67.bsky.social takes it all apart so well: newrepublic.com/article/2153...
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Trump Tailspins as His New Plot to Rig Midterms Is Mocked Even on Fox
As Trump’s rants about the elections grow more unhinged, a political scientist explains how a perfect storm of Trumpian idiocy is what landed him and the GOP in such a deep political hole.
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Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don’t know whether the “AI will go rogue and kill us all” claims are a weird form of hype or describe a real threat. But the timing sure is unfortunate since a greedy, demented buffoon runs the government and the tech in question is largely controlled by sociopathic billionaires.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 10/09/2026
As heat waves scorched Europe and North America this summer, nuclear and fossil fuel plants closed down ... but solar and batteries kept the lights on. Read on!
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Powering through the heat | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe
Green energy keeps the lights on, heat impacts on children, and how to Play it Cool Europe endured a succession of scorching heat waves this
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Every Rahm Emanuel for president boomlet is sourced to Rahm, Rahm in a hat, Rahm wearing a fake mustache, and Rahm in jeans with a toothpick in his mouth. Bluesky convinces itself those are four different guys who represent, conservatively, 98% of the Democratic Party.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dude claims to come from poor white people who think trash on their front lawns is decorative, but he still thinks non-white immigrants are the dirty ones. There’s a word for that.
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 11/09/2026
In 2025, China's clean economy is estimated to have generated up to $2.1 trillion USD in 2025 📈 Clean energy sectors now provide as much economic value as China’s traditional growth pillars like construction and real estate. ember-energy.org/lat...
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The point isn't to diminish the threats AI can facilitate or accelerate, but what I always emphasize to the 8-y.o.: The problem is people.
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Kung Hei FYat Choy!-Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Wan-li emperor up at 2am every other night decreeing that eunuchs of the 4th and 5th level distributing hastily drawn ink paintings of him blowing up Manchu cannons, stomping on Nurhaci, kissing consort Zheng, sinking Japanese ships.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's not a real political party, folks It just isn't
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An entire politics and worldview animated by a lively terror that somewhere, somebody might be eating a free cheese sandwich
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Accept they're not free really are they? The cost the tax payer, when giving children a breakfast can be achieved for 50p at home. The cost to the tax payer is far far higher per breakfast than
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