Reposted by Curious Jonmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3hif Elon is spending millions of dollars of his own money to push this message with paid media, what do you think he does to the black box algorithm on his platform that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are shown to others? 201324342
Reposted by Curious JonAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17hThe right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1... 302092517
Reposted by Curious JonJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 8h"But Achilles wanted glory!" No, he didn't. He very explicitly says, "fuck this, I hate Agamemnon, and I'm going home," until Patroclus dies. The entire point of the poem is his rage and grief. Can anyone read a fucking book, holy shit. 311111102
Reposted by Curious JonJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 8hWhen I teach Oakeshott's "Rationalism in Politics" to students, one of the several things they always react against is the claim that politics is a practical knowledge acquired over generations, i.e. within a family, not a techne acquired at university by smart law or econ students. 17217
Reposted by Curious JonClaire Connelly @claireconnelly.bsky.social · 8hNew Delhi is a tinder box. The Modi government is essentially shutting down roads, rail, metro, and cellphone networks, and deploying police and military personnel in response to protests calling for the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...amnesty.orgIndia: Delhi police must facilitate right to peaceful protest amid lockdown-like restrictions in capitalResponding to the sweeping and disproportionate restrictions imposed by the Delhi Police and the Government of India ahead of planned protests in the capital on Saturday 10 October, Aakar Patel, Chair... 116186
Curious Jon @jmbroad.bsky.social · 8hIndia is on fire. My thoughts are with the Cockroaches trying to reclaim their power from Modi's illiberal regime. Democracy is a power that can be reclaimed by every generation, and sometimes it must. 010
Reposted by Curious JonRuha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The concern is that people take photos of slides and circulate content that puts orgs in the crosshairs of this repressive administration. 283080
Reposted by Curious JonDante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 17hIt's not hard. Both Yglesias moderates and Khanna leftists give MAGA politicians legitimacy because they want MAGA's base. Ossoff simply does not give a shit about the MAGA base, which allows him to speak with fierce clarity about MAGA politicians. He is willing to bet on an anti-MAGA majority. 26972202
Reposted by Curious JonTim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 15hPerhaps worth noting, in this context, that Bezos went on Fox News to tell its audience (and AI pushback is bipartisan, by the way): "you're not going to need to have a two-earner income household" if we let AI accelerate, in his vision. www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-a...businessinsider.comJeff Bezos says AI could power a return to single-earner households as it turbocharges productivityBezos, the world's third wealthiest person, said more families will need only one parent to work and people will work for three days per week. 710622
Reposted by Curious JonBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons for more walkable streets.fastcompany.com50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable StreetsFrom making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here. 19821242
Reposted by Curious JonMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/10/2026NEW: The Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump has turned its Civil Rights Division’s mission on its head, a federal judge said in a decision blocking the administration from demanding states’ unredacted voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comJudge rebukes Trump administration for perverting mission of DOJ’s ‘crown jewel’Read more here. 221697668
Reposted by Curious JonThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 15hBREAKING: A missile struck a passenger terminal at an airport in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh and wounded many, an official says.bit.lyThe airport in the Saudi capital has been attacked again, officials sayThe airport in Saudi Arabia's capital has been attacked again, according to two regional officials. They say the Riyadh airport has been evacuated and air traffic has stopped. 14186107
Reposted by Curious JonGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Yes... YES 71516
Curious Jon @jmbroad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The truth is there IS something wrong with you, AND there’s something wrong with everyone else (not always the same things). When art doesn’t work for me, I remind myself it’s a miracle art works at all for anyone. 010
Curious Jon @jmbroad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton is excellent on this. Once in power, he describes a radicalizing “one-way ratchet” as a fascist regime has to keep motivating its base by engaging in ever more extreme policies, like addicts needing higher doses to get the same high. It’s a death cult. 071
Reposted by Curious Jonmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026ya i mean i do genuinely think that one of hegseth's goals is to drive people appalled by barbarity out of the military, because the long term plan is to make the military shoot at us, and the same guys who object to this won't do that either. 341712424
Reposted by Curious JonJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.techpolicy.pressTech Hype is Cannibalizing the FutureEvery day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong. 10841310
Reposted by Curious JonWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller 501441446
Reposted by Curious JonRusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 09/10/2026You think a depressed person could make this? 722015
Curious Jon @jmbroad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Honestly, reading this summoned the “Jesus wept” scene from Hellraiser to mind. I’ll think about why later maybe or in therapy probably. 040
Curious Jon @jmbroad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026All his friends are crying in their own personalized versions of “Grand Theft Auto: Random Exurb Edition” 1140
Reposted by Curious JonAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle." 420178414687
Reposted by Curious JonMac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality. 4151651332
Reposted by Curious Jonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent 457172832663
Curious Jon @jmbroad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This sounds a lot like “Let us do *one* more capitalism bro, just one more and then we’ll be good socialists bro, I swear.” 120
Reposted by Curious JonJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/10/2026I had a colonoscopy yesterday and of course I wrote about the experience. Come read why my colonoscopy was not bad at all, why I encourage those of you putting it off to actually schedule it if you can, and what a teddy bear has to do with the whole experience: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/10/08/c...whatever.scalzi.comColonoscopy Post-MortemFirst, so as not to bury the lede: It went great, there’s nothing in my colon they are the least bit concerned about, and I don’t have to come back for another colonoscopy for a decade,… 9274558
Curious Jon @jmbroad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Cryptocurrencies have even fewer prosocial uses than AI, so this counts as a win in my book. 010
Curious Jon @jmbroad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026AI and cryptocurrencies are going to fight, and I suspect crypto is going to lose. The main question is whether the collapse is fast (invalidation of underlying mathematics & blockchain corruption) or slow (unsustainable theft and sabotage via agentic swarm attacks on software stacks and networks) 331
Curious Jon @jmbroad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026AI seems destined to become the “leaded gasoline” of our era 010
Curious Jon @jmbroad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I hope you saved enough for a second box to send to the insurers 110
Reposted by Curious JonBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves. 10381792848
Reposted by Curious JonDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The editorial board of the Philadelphia @inquirer.com becomes the first at a major newspaper to endorse (sorta) Trump's impeachment. share.inquirer.com/BnINC5 "A clear and present danger to the republic... the case against Trump is strong... the time has come to again contemplate his impeachment."share.inquirer.comThe Case for Impeachment: What would the founders do? | EditorialThe list of the president’s high crimes and misdemeanors is breathtaking. 16454146
Reposted by Curious Jonmicchiato 🎋 @micchiato.bsky.social · 01/07/2026“the administration didn’t just resurrect the statue of a slave owner and place it in a prime location in the nation’s capital; they spent a striking amount of money to do it …. the National Park Service … paid $527,226 … to build a base on which to place the sculpture, which had been … in storage”motherjones.comTrump resurrected the statue of a slave owner. Its pedestal cost taxpayers $527K.Contracting documents obtained by Mother Jones indicate the price was nearly double the government's estimate. 112
Reposted by Curious JonAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If care about free markets, you not only get more from center-left Dems than the party of Trump, you get more *from professed democratic socialists* like Mamdani than you do from the party of Trump. Those who deny this only think of it as an anti-left cultural totem and not a real policy agenda. 536368
Reposted by Curious JonCathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This appears to be political violence. 0111
Reposted by Curious Joncrumb @crumb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4998... 823452
Curious Jon @jmbroad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My first colonoscopy at age 50 discovered a cancer that had already metastasized. I assure you that colonoscopy prep is much, much easier than emergency surgery, colostomy, liver resection, colostomy reversal, microwave ablation, radiation treatment, chemotherapy, etc. Do not delay. 131