Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialgeoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 7h[slaps the roof of the united states] this baby can fit so much Gender 38020
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 13hTo everyone minimizing and even endorsing the violation of the laws of war because it's not a "major" violation, because it's not as bad as the other side, because no one respects the laws of war anymore, because it's useful propaganda: You're missing the whole point of the laws of war.worldpoliticsreview.comThe Laws of War Matter—Now More Than EverIt still makes sense to talk about the laws of war, even as armed actors, including Israel and Hamas, seem only too willing to ignore them. 1407
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15hI've always said "the pro-Israel American right-wing only supports Israel so they have a place to deport Jews," but I never thought they would make it quite so literal. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...nytimes.comA Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported. (Gift Article)Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody. 415865
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15hThe "all anti-Zionism is always and forever antisemitism" people and the "all antisemitism becomes fine if we just say it's anti-Zionism, even if we're ranting about the Talmud" people reinforce one another, even if both sides utterly fail to see it. 6505122
jeffrgq.bsky.social @jeffrgq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Same goes for autonomous vehicles. If you are in the driving business, you must also be subject to the harshest possible punishments for negligence, just like humans are if we fuck up badly enough. 000
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialNick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Seriously just enforce normal liability for AI on the owners and so much of this shit goes away AI companies want to be treated like the hired expert when it comes to pocketing any financial flows, but like a cursory Google Search whenever it comes to liability 634996
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialKate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." 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. 592916948
jeffrgq.bsky.social @jeffrgq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s the bullying self-righteousness that really gets me. 010
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED 61668551542
jeffrgq.bsky.social @jeffrgq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s been a cliché for 30 years that the onion has more courage and integrity than almost all other news... but it’s still worth pointing out every example 000
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialParis Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.disconnect.blogThe media has the AI threat all wrongGenerative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios. 271738586
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialrev. 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 @jeffrgq.bsky.socialK. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026net worth of over $190 billion and can't remember his own phone number while i'm filling out yougov surveys to make extra money for my son's insulin. capitalism fucking rocks. 852687
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialMike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026There just isn't a legitimate solution to this which doesn't result in thousands of people currently working in the Federal government going to prison for many years 7442152
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY 256143796799
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialsky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I refuse to make this any less complicated 941156
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots. 15786362553
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialNathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this 202822974
jeffrgq.bsky.social @jeffrgq.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Good thread on why we shouldn’t anthropomorphize AI by using any pronoun other than “it” 000
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialKathleen Lenihan @kathleenlenihan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The entire article is fantastic, but the writer's definition of a trad wife is *chef's kiss* perfection. "Those are conservative women who dress like the women in The Sound of Music, but without the opposition to the Anschluss." 241408349
jeffrgq.bsky.social @jeffrgq.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The elite journalists of our nation, keep proving themselves the most worthless cowards imaginable. They deserve nothing but scorn. 000
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026also. the thing people hate is not ‘the technology’ it is the tech industry. they hate move fast and break things. they hate having everything they say tracked and processed while companies do whatever they want. they hate every single ideological value that animates silicon valley 153646732
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026on some level, you have to accept that yes, people are reacting emotionally without doing detailed research but really you can’t blame them or stop them. this was some bullshit not a single one of us had to think about three years ago and now it’s making shit worse in like most daily interactions 103377542
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent 7359081662
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price 291927809
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The NY Times is in “but her emails” mode regarding Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker. Relentless and unfair. Where’s the big story about a Republican megadonor who is a white supremacist? Maybe NYT has heard of him. His name‘s Elon Musk. 571263304
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...reason.comTexas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphletsThe case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights. 4152372446
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!! 354169343019
jeffrgq.bsky.social @jeffrgq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My father was born in 1943 and he remembers the end of this era. One of the unequivocally great achievements of human civilization, and we let a fanatical idiot throw it away. 000
jeffrgq.bsky.social @jeffrgq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I knew about Israel’s segregated roadways and colored license plate system, but this is good detail, from 2 palestinian women with different kinds of IDs. 030
jeffrgq.bsky.social @jeffrgq.bsky.social · 17/09/2026💯 The US has spent the last 10 years flatfooted while China has soared ahead with these technologies. Their leadership on transport, energ, environmental Issues is now undeniable. And by developing smaller, cheaper, more resource-efficient AI instead of “bigger is best”, they’ll lead in AI too. 🤷🏻 000
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026Over at the newsletter I wrote about the media's total failure to responsibly cover batshit claims that software has gained human-level awareness and will soon kill us allkarlbode.comAI Doomsday Panic Is Completely Out Of ControlThe press obsession with software-powered doomsday is a misdirection overshadowing a much deadlier reality: our public interest regulators no longer function. 20554117
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026if you doubt a ruling class could possibly be this world historically wrong I'll note that "We have nothing to fear on the part of the Negroes; they are tranquil and obedient” and “We sleep with doors and windows wide open. Freedom for Negroes is a chimera” are quotes of a slaveowner in 1790, Haiti 251500265
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialIt's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I'm worried that Mitch McConnell may be too frail to keep destroying democracy 1573982624
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialIf you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Full public Nuremberg style trials for every monster involved in these crimes against humanity, from the prison guards to the ICE officers, to corporate executives to Stephen Miller and this entire rancid regime. That should be the minimum political demand at this point. 0188
Reposted by @jeffrgq.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 16/09/2026the one positive legacy of donald trump: our greatest climate president, despite himself 28997131
jeffrgq.bsky.social @jeffrgq.bsky.social · 16/09/2026static.klipy.comThe Big Lebowski: That's Just Like Your Opinion, ManALT: The Big Lebowski: That's Just Like Your Opinion, Man 000
jeffrgq.bsky.social @jeffrgq.bsky.social · 16/09/2026www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...the-independent.comFour supporting acts quit Ed Sheeran’s tour after Macklemore was droppedThe artists announced they were pulling out of the tour hours after Ed Sheeran broke his silence on the controversy 000