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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 9h

Its not that Warning about the potential future dangers of AI isn’t important, just that there are way more pressing current dangers like crashing the economy, destroying the environment, cognitive decline, grand larceny of IP, the Enron of it all…

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 9h

The Steven Strogatz “Everybody interview me because i’m scared AI may personally affect me now” media tour sure overlooks that what he’s worried about a supercharged calculator. That’s all it is. Software that can do math and also sometimes steals math.

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

we all need to understand that sometimes you have to fire beloved mascots and business ops staff because the owner is barely solvent, what with the mediocre product he continues to enable www.nytimes.com/athletic/766...

Wikipedia Screenshot of the Carlyle Group Entry, which reads:

The Carlyle Group Inc. is an American multinational company with operations in private equity, alternative asset management and financial services. As of 2023, the company had $426 billion of assets under management.

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KS1 👯‍♀️ (she/her) @kimschuss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This has legs now

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s not that I’m unbothered by small typos in my posts, but it’s a easier to accept when the President of the Unites States makes them all the time

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Guys it’s been this way for a while but sports communities are better on a Bluesky.

A post of orioles fans on Bluesky making nearly the same comment - in response to play-by-play announcer Tom McCarthy saying he’s “never seen this kind of call challenged” - that what he claims to have never seen happen before happened last week in an Orioles game

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bit on the nose for to design an AI mascot that looks eerily similar to a Doctor Who alien that wholesale murders people who turn to it for help

Little cute murderous alien blob monsters named Adipose from Doctor Who

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That otter who steals surf boards is back at Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz stealing surf boards again. Please appreciate this artist’s rendering I created during 841’s first reign of terror back in 2023

A very amateur marker drawing of a maniacal sea otter with evil eyes biting a surfboard

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 28/09/2026

"acting like it does" is the whole gimmick

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Everybody celebrating this miracle win over the Cowboys: please stop, take a second to think about how it affected billionaire Jerry Jones. His family reunion with the Confederados is ruined

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Oondasta Laughter

Alt: Kevin from the office laughing

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh damn: “As he campaigns for mayor on a ticket of transparency and fiscal discipline, other concerns about his professional history have come to light.” www.montereycountynow.com/news/local_n...

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HUD audit found money problems with Monterey mayoral candidate’s assisted living facility.

A HUD audit uncovered financial violations and debt at a senior facility once owned by Monterey mayoral candidate Vince Malfitano.

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Your plan to win the party nomination for president is to lose nearly 500 delegates during the primary?

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And indie reporter Chris Cerny talked to a local resident Malfitano served a subpoena to for… commenting on the Weekly’s facebook post. www.instagram.com/reel/DdmS6t_...

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@montereycountynow.com reported he was denied licenses to operate 2 casinos he bought in Nevada because he: “he failed to demonstrate “adequate business competence.” “ & as a dentist he faced multiple misconduct accusations, including one for SA www.montereycountynow.com/news/local_n...

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In Monterey’s election for mayor, challenger Vince Malfitano seeks to unseat the incumbent.

In Monterey’s mayoral race, challenger Vince Malfitano faces incumbent Tyller Williamson amid scrutiny over past business and professional records.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

beautiful moment on the couch last night: Ashley gazed at me with all the love in her heart, she hit play on a Peter Gabriel album, and though she thought she selected “in your eyes” we received was the opening flute of “Sledgehammer.” She realized the error by the time the horns dropped 😂

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The judge asked the govt if the Kennedy Center is going bankrupt. You should've seen them backpedal Why so fast? If it's broke, a court puts someone else in charge & they lose control of it @cnn.com👇 -TN

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's probably better framing to think off these guys as 19th century robber barons than some scions of New Tech. They're running the same boring playbook and we don't even get railroads out of it.

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Striking how often the end result of conservatives’ “concern for kids safety” is “we need to examine your junk”.

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

what a f*cking farce it is that these people who have no clue about sports use it as a proxy so they can remain bigoted little snowflakes that never have to learn how to treat folks who are different than them as human beings.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026

Over 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 all

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AI Doomsday Panic Is Completely Out Of Control

The press obsession with software-powered doomsday is a misdirection overshadowing a much deadlier reality: our public interest regulators no longer function.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:

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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem

A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Posted this and then went away to touch grass for a minute, and then the Mets played like the Metsiest Mets whoever Metsed.

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Remarkable how efficient this team is at finding new ways to disappoint you

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Saw the headline and I was hoping “Area around Camden yards” was simply a euphemism for front office.

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is a thought I’ve had too.

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That seems like the simplest (and most likely) answer. Under my tinfoil hat I’m also thinking it’s a Hail Mary midterm gambit to allow data-center friendly incumbents a short-term out “see I’m stopping data centers” or maybe its a bailout messaging strategy. Either way, it’s not what they say it is

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Okay what’s the new grift behind the ai companies asking to be regulated? They could just stop. They do not need the government to step in. There must be a scam somewhere to be had

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s the inverse of the strategy conservatives used for 30+ years - bad faith complaints that the media is biased and unfair for asking legit questions - and the only way to break the media’s tendency of letting the GOP be its assignment editor

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. Big Tech buys off Congress. No action on AI safety. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Now THIS is incredible. 26 decommissioned wind turbines from Scotland's first commercial wind farm were - wait for it - 99.9% recycled? Less than 0.1% of their materials into landfill: www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/uk-fi... Blimey.

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‘UK first’ sees decommissioning of ScottishPower wind farm demonstrate turbine circularity | New Civil Engineer

Hagshaw Hill Wind Farm in South Lanarkshire opened in the mid-‘90s and was decommissioned in 2023 before being repowered and brought back onstream in late

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This morning, I woke up. I journaled. I did 45 min of yin yoga, I meditated and then I sent my mother-in-law who is a colts fan a text with only this gif. Harbaugh-free Super Bowl run engage

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Midnight Staley's Prediction: Pain

ALT: Midnight Staley's Prediction: Pain

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Whilst we go about our never forgetting, lets also open our eyes to see what kind of world we created in the afternath of a tragedy podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

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“Never again” / What is the legacy of 9/11?

Podcast Episode · Long Shadow · S1 E9 · 1h 10m

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/09/2026

Just trying a new marketing trick

a picture of a wind farm that says

WIND POWER

Crossed out: It generates clean energy, lowers your power bills and gives back to your community

instead (in larger not crossed out) There’s a 10% chance it will kill off the entire human species in just a few years!!

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