Reposted by khmattsonAngela Watercutter @waterslicer.bsky.social · 1hHuge story here from @dmehro.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social, and @awinston.bsky.social. A must-read. 110041
Reposted by khmattsonDemocrats @democrats.org · 1hNew powerful message from @barackobama.bsky.social ahead of the midterms: “Get involved and help Democrats win one of the most consequential elections in our country’s history. Because the most powerful office in this country has always been ‘citizen.’” 413158
Reposted by khmattsonlowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 1hwhat you are actually doing by going “well these 5 psychos say psycho shit to claude and we must Have Policies and Do Discourse About This” is feeding this stupid marketing campaign of valley psychos trying to convince everyone they made God 1433
Reposted by khmattsonQondi Ntini @qondintini.bsky.social · 12hSenator My Boo didn’t let that man breathe for a single solitary second Laid hands on him the entire debate 🔥 Basically called ole boy a n*zi nepob*tch who wouldn’t be a damn thing without his daddy’s money and connections 1319457
Reposted by khmattsonAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15hThis thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings. 372177737
Reposted by khmattsonCharles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 12hHere’s 12 statewide candidates I’m pushing folks to focus on: secure.actblue.com/donate/state...secure.actblue.comChip in!Show your support with a contribution. 32414
Reposted by khmattsonSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The First Amendment wasn’t actually “first.” The original First Amendment was meant to ensure that the House of Representatives grew in loose proportion to the country. Instead, the House’s size hasn’t changed since 1911. Today’s “One First” on that history—and the problems a capped House creates:stevevladeck.comBonus 256: The Original “First” AmendmentThe only provision from the original Bill of Rights that was never adopted would've grown the House in proportion to the country. We should revisit it. 35856224
Reposted by khmattsonJohn Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 23h🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/ 421068490
Reposted by khmattsonJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/10/2026Vote early and in person, folks. If you're in a "vote by mail" state and can deliver your mail-in vote directly rather than relying on USPS this year, do it. Otherwise get it into the mail at the earliest possible date. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comThe Postal Service is slowing delivery. Will your mail ballot be affected?Democracy Docket mapped the affected zip codes. 38730301
Reposted by khmattsonJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/10/2026One day I shall succeed. Hopefully long in the future, and then, quickly and somewhat by surprise. 153153
Reposted by khmattsonKasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...gadgetreview.comOne of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data CenterA rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land. 8236382187
Reposted by khmattsonCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h“This is what crowd out looks like.” - Jason Furman 571038410
Reposted by khmattsonGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 22hMan who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 761190484284
Reposted by khmattsonJonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 08/10/2026ICE arrested more than twice as many *children* in the first 7 months of 2026 as they did in the same period last year. Important work from my colleagues @shannonheffernan.bsky.social @annaflagg.bsky.social www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/08/i...themarshallproject.orgICE Has Arrested Twice As Many Children This YearIn total, more than 8,500 kids have been arrested by ICE in Trump’s second term. 14133
Reposted by khmattsonDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22hIn a political system where companies can be gouged for unlimited cash, inconsistent application of the law is a powerful financial opportunity. At some point some of these companies might realize they are better off under a predictable and impartial legal system rather than a personalist one. 17358100
Reposted by khmattsonDetroit Metro Times @metrotimes.com · 08/10/2026Mike Rogers says he helped plan the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. He's also said he was “there” & saw the terrorist leader's body. But what really happened? Metro Times found that Rogers has repeatedly exaggerated his role in the historic operation. www.metrotimes.com/news/mike-ro...metrotimes.comMike Rogers has spent years exaggerating his counterterrorism experience and role in the bin Laden raid - Detroit Metro TimesA Metro Times review found that Mike Rogers repeatedly exaggerated his involvement in the operation that killed Osama bin Laden, claiming he helped plan the raid and suggesting he witnessed events fir... 79149
Reposted by khmattsonSam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Important piece on anti-vax activism: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...rollingstone.comOn the Front Line of the Vaccine WarsWest Virginia has had a “halo” of protection, thanks to a compulsory-vaccine law. But lawyer Aaron Siri has brought a lawsuit that could change things 0157
Reposted by khmattsonMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 08/10/2026Why on earth can inference machines that can be tricked by social engineering attacks at a scale that would be unimaginable for a human receptionist to answer phone calls, be shoved into handling your healthcare records without your say so? Badly- and un-engineered systems are a threat to the public 1212
Reposted by khmattsonMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 08/10/2026Human beings have no choice but to live with technology and it's time that we enforced an ethic that those who build it must make technology transparent, safe and rationalisable to the point where it isn't so fucking mystifying and dangerous to use for ordinary people. 1222
Reposted by khmattsonMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 08/10/2026This!! Also and I say this because I come from a broadly "security" rather than "safety" space - systems that do not function within specifications are not rationalisable to the democratic public. 1508
Reposted by khmattsonPaul Bort @paulbort.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Engineering (to me) is "design within constraints". Human safety, budget, time, hardware limitations are all constraints. Dudebros don't like being constrained, it's too much like consideration for others. They write code instead of engineering software. 1285
Reposted by khmattsonSenator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 07/10/2026Fossil fuel industry dominant products are lies, hydrocarbons and pollution.insideclimatenews.orgNew Documents Add to Evidence in Climate Deception Case Against ExxonMobil - Inside Climate NewsCourt filings by the Massachusetts attorney general’s office include previously undisclosed documents, revealing new details about internal deliberations at the oil giant. 1124390
Reposted by khmattsonMincepies @mincepies8888.bsky.social · 08/10/2026USA Vote: URGENT Registration ends: TODAY - MO 9th - OK 13th - DC, MD, NJ, OR, WV 14th - WI 16th - NE 19th - AL, DE, SD, WY, PA, CA 23rd - ID, UT, VA,TX Help Desk: www.votefromabroad.org Citizens abroad request ballot by e mail. Please copy/paste everywhere to remind other Americans. Vote Vote Votevotefromabroad.orgRequest Absentee Ballots for US Citizens | VoteFromAbroad.orgHelping US Citizens Request Their Absentee Ballot to Vote from Outside the US | VoteFromAbroad.org 145
Reposted by khmattsonNatsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026an entire goddamn chicken is $5 at Costco, and i genuinely don't think i could eat two dollars of rice unless we're talking about some *absurdly* expensive rice $2 of plain old white rice would have to be... i don't know how many batches in my rice cooker 5445
Reposted by khmattsonVictor Narro @victornarro1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Must-read by @gustavoarellano.bsky.social “‘We don’t call those people expats or returnees — ‘immigrant’ is the only intelligible label we understand,” the profe concluded. “Until we come up with a better label, Becerra’s dad is an immigrant.” www.latimes.com/california/s...latimes.comCommentary: What Steve Hilton doesn't get about Xavier Becerra's parentsWhat more proof do California voters need that Hilton is laughably out of touch with how we live? Many Mexican Americans consider family members raised in Mexico to be immigrants, even if they were bo... 143
Reposted by khmattsonAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop. 25689672066
Reposted by khmattsonRobert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026An Austin American Statesman reporter was eventually let in, but under some truly bizarre parameters in which she was told she was not to behave like a “reporter.” 717335
Reposted by khmattsonbryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 101142264686
Reposted by khmattsonIn Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 07/10/2026BREAKING NEWS: Look at this otter. He's sleeping! 151139121
Reposted by khmattsonCait Conley @caitfornewyork.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Mike Lawler opposes a data center moratorium, has voted for $80 billion in tax breaks for data centers AND voted to make it easier to build them, and has allowed five data centers to open in Rockland County on his watch (with three more on the way). 923388
Reposted by khmattsonCoraline !!!!!! @tech5l.bsky.social · 07/10/2026On the scepticism side this take down of AI and lean is really important arxiv.org/abs/2610.08144arxiv.orgNavier-Stokes lost in translation: Why Lean verification of AI autoformalisation does not guarantee correct natural language proofsAutoformalisation is increasingly used to verify mathematical texts, including those generated by AI, as in OpenAI's announced proof of blow-up of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations. In this pro... 12710
Reposted by khmattsonAntonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 07/10/2026The Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents just dropped! www.ahmath.org/statements 13419197
Reposted by khmattsonMicah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026since apparently the original article failed to upload:news.mit.eduMargaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90. 31121249
Reposted by khmattsonJames E. Clyburn @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Three years ago today, Hamas carried out the deadliest attack in Israel’s history, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 more hostage. This heinous attack inflicted profound pain on Jewish communities in Israel and around the world. 1613841
Reposted by khmattsonVictoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/10/2026Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying 252624689
Reposted by khmattsonHillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Minnesota, you have an opportunity to select an extraordinary person and public servant as your next U.S. senator. Please take it! 512453637
Reposted by khmattsonRewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 07/10/2026Ohio. North Carolina. Michigan. All three states have open supreme court seats on the ballot this November—and whoever wins will rule on abortion access and trans rights for years. These races matter. Rewire News Group partnered with @us.theconversation.com on this explainer. Here's what's at stake.rewirenewsgroup.comThese State Supreme Court Races Could Decide Abortion Access and Trans RightsOhio, North Carolina, and Michigan have open seats on their state supreme courts. These hotly contested races will influence how those courts rule in several high-stakes cases. 01012
khmattson @khmattson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Amazing movie! Will add a rewatch to my spooktober watch list! 000
Reposted by khmattsonQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Ok so basically what half these proofs show is that every beautiful and perfect result in mathematics is just another fucking Borwein integral under the hood and we never bothered calculating hard enough for the scales to fall from our eyes. 1239441
Reposted by khmattsonren faire @lathrys.at · 07/10/2026final theories of everything being so absolutely disgusting aesthetically that they would never have been found but for AIs with no taste would be such a vibe 419629
Reposted by khmattsonR. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026They are marching to the Murdering, Kidnapping, burning, and raping of Oct 7. That tells you everything you need to know about Free Palestine movement 1611227
Reposted by khmattsonEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I have said in the past that there are uses I think are acceptable - and that's still true. Advanced validated academic research seems fine. I'm not sure there's a single other use that I currently believe is safe or morally okay. 1460935
Reposted by khmattsonMichael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 07/10/2026Mills would have clobbered Collins and Platner would have been a rolling dumpster fire. 612319
Reposted by khmattsonEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026AI has talked kids into suicide, fueled paranoid delusional that led to murder, degraded education quality in both k-12 and higher ed, run roughshod over copyright law, increased spam, fueled spam, fueled fraud, degraded the environment, put people out of work, the list goes on and on. 91337266
Reposted by khmattsonThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form. 185110111837
Reposted by khmattsonTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY. 6223031691
Reposted by khmattson50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Breaking: Man Posing As ICE Agent Arrested Outside Polling Site. Deploying ICE to a polling place is illegal. However, trusting convicted felon Donald Trump to obey the law is a fool’s errand. 20749331
Reposted by khmattson50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If you see anyone dressed or claiming to be a federal agent, ICE or otherwise, call the nationwide nonpartisan Election Protection voter hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE, and notify a local election official. We Keep Us Safe! 2172118
Reposted by khmattsonMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/10/2026Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers has an idea for deciding who qualifies for Social Security: Let AI decide. meidasnews.com/news/mike-ro...meidasnews.comMike Rogers Said A.I. Should Be Used to Determine Social Security EligibilityThe GOP Senate candidate from Michigan has a long history of trying "decimate" benefits for millions of Americans 105679307