Reposted by J CortazarShannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 15hIn our 2026 end-time capitalism we've got lotsa muckrakers exposing corrupt business practices, but paltry few politicians willing to *actually pass legislation* to regulate these practices. Read this excellent 🧵 on surveillance pricing. 15013
Reposted by J CortazarButlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf 9158212275
Reposted by J CortazarLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026Yes. In general I think consensus view of AI should be not as objective digital substitutes for knowledge, work, experience & thought but rather as output devices engineered to filter data through the worldview of their owners. And I think this should be obvious. That’s why every rich guy owns one. 38022
Reposted by J CortazarOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...fortune.comGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | FortuneThe state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax. 10141571263
Reposted by J CortazarBob Morris @bobmorris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Comprehensive data center tracker by state, with links to make personalized comments for the public record and to contact Congress. "1,266 data centers proposed or under construction, on top of 908 already running across 49 states and D.C."morethanjustparks.comAmerica's Data Centers, Mapped and Sourced2,182 facilities across 49 states and D.C., each citing a public source. The largest infrastructure buildout in American history, on one map. 197
Reposted by J CortazarKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026I keep seeing this Semafor graph that seems to show the Trump administration’s effect on international visits is comparable to the pandemic. My first thought was “that can’t be true” and indeed it is not. This is monthly data. We only have to Jun/Aug 2026. The lines are over-fitted to the months. 12460133
Reposted by J CortazarAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Your brain is two organs stitched together in the womb. Stanford researchers found that the forebrain and midbrain (which handle language and reasoning) and the hindbrain (which runs breathing and heartbeat) grow from two entirely different progenitor cells. buff.ly/dSAPmhS #ShareGoodNewsToobuff.lyHuman brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research findsStanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more. 69825
Reposted by J CortazarAdam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 02/10/2026Voters want AI guardrails. Trump gave them a new name for AI and a glitzy lunch for its executives. Democrats have an opening—and a month to make the most of it. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-ai-b...thebulwark.comTrump + AI = Blue TsunamiIt doesn’t take super intelligence to realize the GOP is screwed. 03012
Reposted by J CortazarParis Marx @parismarx.com · 01/10/2026Check out the full list: lithub.com/is-nonfictio...lithub.comIs Nonfiction in Crisis? These 14 Books Suggest OtherwiseThe first official day of fall is this coming Tuesday, September 22, but if you’re reading this then by now you’ve probably seen a few “most anticipated for fall 2026” lists. There is so much great… 0131
Reposted by J CortazarKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026automakers are some of the worst on privacy and security of any industry in America, which makes their push to ban Chinese EVs "for privacy and security" extra fucking annoyingtheverge.comYour car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think“There’s a lot to be worried about,” the project lead said. 724565
Reposted by J CortazarVoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.” 6855471027
Reposted by J CortazarJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A Thiel-Altman-&-Andreessen backed “network state” called Praxis is planning a tech colony in Uruguay & has a nonbinding deal w/ a development led by a former advisor to Javier Milei. Located a short ferry ride from Argentina, the move aligns w/ the “Tech Bros”’ increasing interest in the region. 1/ 70554347
Reposted by J CortazarDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026When people show you who they are, believe them. Fuck you Gavin Newsom. 10574184
Reposted by J CortazarKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Rumors about “rigged elections" are now a fixture of U.S. elections, leading to diminished trust in election results & democracy (broadly). These rumors can sometimes be hard to debunk, esp. in their early stages. Our UW team has identified the 6 common ways that election integrity rumors mislead: 15504224
Reposted by J CortazarKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:deadline.comDone! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. DiscoveryParamount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD. 16835731391
Reposted by J CortazarLyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I just pre-ordered @amywestervelt.bsky.social book - very excited to read it (via @libro.fm audio book) If you want to pre-order (it helps a lot) you have about 1.5 days left to do it! 1259
Reposted by J CortazarNathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 18/09/2026May I interest you in an explainer written just for this circumstance? www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...techpolicy.pressWhat Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AINathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs? 213050
Reposted by J CortazarThis Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 18/09/202649 years ago, on the 18th of September 1977, space probe Voyager I took the first long distance photograph of earth and the moon together from 7.25 million miles (11.66 million kilometres) away. #otd #history #space 🗃️ 217442
Reposted by J CortazarJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1 4253902351
Reposted by J CortazarBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026according to politico, since Jan. 2025, Trump admin has deported 170+ people “in violation of court orders,” “in defiance of legally mandated due process protections,” or “to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture and persecution” ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...ballsandstrikes.orgThe Trump Justice Department Is Way Too Comfortable Violating Court OrdersJudges have tools for responding to noncompliance. They just have to use them. 34931437
Reposted by J CortazarJoshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026EXCLUSIVE: When elected officials and advocates in Danbury, Connecticut, said ICE arrested a parent at a school bus stop Aug. 26, federal officials denied their accounts. I got video that appears to show such an arrest. My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article...ctinsider.comVideo appears to show ICE arrest near CT school bus stop, despite federal denialsICE has denied it made an arrest at a school bus stop, but confirmed it made 118 arrests in Connecticut that week. 241395551
Reposted by J CortazarJesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...propublica.orgDonald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian OligarchThe oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large... 23436121501
Reposted by J CortazarAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/09/2026BREAKING: In August, *every single one* of the 2,646 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 12,901 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.rpc.state.gov 20606334
Reposted by J CortazarQuanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 10/09/2026After nearly a decade of work, a team of researchers has re-proved the four-color theorem, a problem with a long history of false starts and dashed hopes. Their method opens up the potential for progress on many other stubborn problems in graph theory. www.quantamagazine.org/the-four-col...quantamagazine.orgThe Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof | Quanta MagazineBy revisiting the famous problem — which was controversially solved in the 1970s with the help of computers — mathematicians have gained important new insights into the nature of graphs. 1295
Reposted by J CortazarAlex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...theverge.comLG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standbyGamers Nexus comes for LG again. 14540381755
Reposted by J CortazarYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Thirty-four days before she reported to prison, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes gave Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim access to document her every move. That turned into a three-year project, and A24 will release the resulting documentary this October. 1451223153
Reposted by J CortazarBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.nytimes.comOpinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity. 5032471228
Reposted by J CortazarDr. Courtney Gibbons (she/her/xlookup) @courtneygibbons.phd · 07/09/2026Golly, who could have guessed this would happen? www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...scientificamerican.comOpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts sayOpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach 0196
Reposted by J Cortazarloreleikelly @loreleikelly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Here is the election risk heat map. These are the places where you need to help Friends & relatives get credible information. Starting now attn: @protectdemocracy.org votingrightslab.org/election-ris...votingrightslab.org2026 Election Risk Heat MapA tool designed to identify where the conditions for election crises are most likely to emerge this year. 11612
Reposted by J CortazarTommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756... 203668884
Reposted by J CortazarCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026EKWUEME: “.. The deficit is growing more than 3x as fast as tax receipts. .. The only way the US can ‘solve’ its debt problem is by suppressing rates and letting the resulting inflation destroy the dollar, thereby reducing the real burden of its debt.” 72546216
Reposted by J CortazarJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"The best way to commemorate the Rohingya genocide is not only to recognize ongoing challenges, but also to seek out ways to rebuild." Great piece by Tun Khin and Daniel P. Sullivan examining the challenges facing Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh nearly a decade after they fled Myanmar. Gift link.worldpoliticsreview.comIn Their 10th Year of Exile, Some Glimmers of Hope for the RohingyaHumanitarian aid cuts are deepening a sense of hopelessness among Rohingya refugees, but there are some signs of progress. 078
Reposted by J CortazarDavid Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026NEW ICE wants to build a nationwide database of voters, their voting history and, potentially, their party affiliations too. ....and it's willing to pay someone up to $5M to do it www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...wired.comICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting DatabaseAs part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database. 135939602
Reposted by J Cortazar🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Oh nothing just one of the cornerstone papers about “grind set” of the last five years found false by someone connected to Epstein and Is also one of the base papers of hustle and what a lot of platform design/ “future of work” is based on dukechronicle.com/article/duke...dukechronicle.com‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraudNew evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ... 9373143
Reposted by J CortazarAbbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like. 61372974264
Reposted by J CortazarGail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Wish that orgs like @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social and @comixaction.com and folks like @gregpak.net and @wendyxu.bsky.social got a more direct shoutout in this piece, because this move is truly the result of people speaking out and pushing back! So grateful for positive “AI in education” news! 15815
Reposted by J CortazarCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The international commentary reaction got me 😂 12751146
Reposted by J CortazarMonica Morrill @mmorrillart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Hi! This is a small painting I made several years ago, inspired by mornings on the coast. Coastal Sunrise 12x12 acrylic on canvas 301343141
Reposted by J CortazarWKRN News 2 @wkrnnews2.bsky.social · 31/08/2026More than 100 detained during Memphis raid: Immigrant advocacy groupwkrn.comMore than 100 detained during Memphis raid: Immigrant advocacy groupAn immigrant advocacy organization says more than 100 people were detained during an overnight federal law enforcement operation at a bar in Memphis’ Berclair neighborhood. 12413
Reposted by J CortazarFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 28/08/2026Pre-tax earnings in the US have hit the highest level since the aftermath of the second world war, while workers’ slice of the pie has sunk to historic lows, fuelling discontent and a widening political backlash. ft.trib.al/ThPVQhN 27461198
Reposted by J CortazarPrism @prismreports.org · 27/08/2026What does “governance” do for people who use it as a synonym for concessions? Pragmatic governance will not defeat fascism, writes @williamcson.bsky.social in “Another way out.” Some people act as if they have to work with fascism, letting it grow into the unstoppable beast that will devour them.prismreports.orgPragmatic governance will not defeat fascismSome people act as if they have to work with fascism, letting it grow into the unstoppable beast that will devour them 25419
Reposted by J CortazarQuanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 27/08/2026Two leading neuroscientists have built a new framework for categorization, arguing that the brain categorizing concepts like “clown” or “fear” is an ongoing predictive tool that the nervous system uses to keep an organism alive. www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-framew... 0193
Reposted by J CortazarW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Probably unintentionally, the Trump administration played the perfect strategy for our broken media and "opposition" party. They did all the most boisterous, spectacle-driven stuff early and now that they're just casually running an immigrant exterminationist regime the press is bored by it. 5636159
Reposted by J CortazarZach Everson @zacheverson.com · 27/08/2026New: Donald Trump's crypto ventures have left investors at least $4.7 billion underwater. me, for @publiccitizen.bsky.socialcitizen.org‘Thin Air,’ Real Money: Donald Trump’s Crypto Products Have Left Investors at Least $4.7 Billion Underwater - Public CitizenIntroduction “I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly… 67985443
Reposted by J CortazarGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 26/08/2026The Trump administration arrested and deported a record number of immigrants in July, according to newly released government data – apprehending an average of 1,500 people and removing 1,100 people daily. 🧵 1614699
Reposted by J CortazarScientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The world’s oceans hit 21.10 degrees Celsius last Saturday, breaking a record set in 2024. And it's only going to get worse.scientificamerican.comEarth’s oceans just hit their hottest temperature ever recordedThe world’s oceans hit 21.10 degrees Celsius last Saturday, breaking a record set in 2024 291012643
Reposted by J CortazarJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026“”Local media has been dying all over America, which means that there’s essentially no real way to hold local governments accountable—& they can do whatever they want,’ Kevin DeAnna told an invitation-only gathering of [about] 50 white nationalists in Rome,” before adding, “This is a good thing.” 1/confrontthehate.comAs Local News Dies, White Nationalists See an OpeningAt an invitation-only gathering in Italy, far-right leaders mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes. 16312187
Reposted by J CortazarChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026NEW: What Monday’s Supreme Court election order ruling is and is not. The Republican majority gave Trump a temporary win. It could be short-lived — or it could “foment chaos,” as Justice Jackson wrote, calling out the majority in unusually direct terms. Tonight, at Law Dork:lawdork.comWhat Monday’s Supreme Court election order ruling is and is notThe Republican majority gave Trump a temporary win. It could be short-lived — or it could “foment chaos,” as Justice Jackson wrote, calling out the majority in unusually direct terms. 19649244
Reposted by J CortazarGet To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 24/08/2026THIS IS A MUPPET OK, actually it’s a juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron. But it’s so muppety! #birds 🌿 831845