Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Let me make a sort of orthogonal point: I don’t get the attacks on immigrants - that even I’ve experienced - that sound like “you came here from a bad place.” Yeah man I know. That was the whole idea of coming here. To come to a good place where you can make something of your life in freedom. 371095144
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026once again, you're *supposed* to signal virtue, while also attempting to *possess* it. 161107166
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Remember that Republicans believe that the first spike there, caused entirely by Putin's invasion of Ukraine, is actually Joe Biden's fault while the second spike there, caused entirely by Trump's war on Iran, is also Joe Biden's fault. 18995264
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameBlake Bortles @blakebortles.bsky.social · 12/10/2026 241272137
King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Like I said during the postseason, I've been a Knicks hater for *years* but this team is just too damn likeable. 000
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12/10/2026OOPS GOP ad buyer mixes up Portlands, spends money meant to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins in Oregon The PAC boosting Collins is "absolutely furious" at the "ridiculous error" made by the buyer, which takes blame and has refunded the money. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...nbcnews.comGOP ad buyer mixes up Portlands, spends money meant to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins in OregonAn outside group mistakenly spent nearly $25,000 to boost Collins in Portland, Oregon, rather than Portland, Maine. The buyer admitted to the error and refunded the PAC. 1881880336
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 12/10/2026In 1950, ~20% of US households did not own a refrigerator. mycentral.coop/through-deca...mycentral.coopThrough the Decades of Electricity | Central Rural Electric Cooperative 1742964
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameGlonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026all the people who are like "the middle class was better off in the 1950s" have not reckoned with the census data that says 33% of American households used chamber pots in 1950. 3967096
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Lol 1531072
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameJohn Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The basic problem with this is that, from the outside - imagining you don’t know otherwise from the inside - it is not likely that AI is conscious, or pocket calculators … or humans. Because consciousness, back of the envelope, is pretty unlikely stuff around here [gestures at physical universe]. 3133
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His Namefarner @farnerb0cken.bsky.social · 05/10/2026men who sacrifice liberty for bibberty deserve neither 221739377
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Zitron accidentally making his first good point about the downsides of AI. 638036
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026 31678882230
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameSarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 09/10/2026Ditka called him the worst president we’ve ever had & said not running against him for Senate was “the biggest mistake of his life” & yet Obama does this. Such a kind human. So full of grace. Every day continuing to show us how to live & reminding us what we’re missing at the highest levels now. 😞 624532
King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It’s a really complicated topic! Maybe read a book before Dunning-Krugering yourself? 0201
King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The number one thing that irritates me about AI consciousness discourse is that I’ve actually read a fair amount for a layperson about philosophy of mind and it’s quite clear to me most of the people making very confident statements about consciousness have not. 2375
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His Name🚲🕸️𝖘𝖈𝖔𝖔𝖕𝖘🕸️🚲 @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I just can't keep up with all these new politically correct terms. Guys like me are constantly getting cancelled just for using terms that used to be acceptable 215943
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameWarren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Also, the flawed Athenian democracy literally fell because a bunch of xenophobic dipshits insisted on unrestrained power for their homeland and had contempt for and felt free to abuse allied states. All while facing the challenge of another, even more authoritarian power. 6866117
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameClinton Reese @freeruckus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026They *DO* know what happened at the Alamo, right? 271
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini. 83673021381
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026John Urschel has his CV on his MIT professor page and if you scroll past 7 pages of his mathematics achievements and awards and theorems and theses it says, briefly, "former NFL (American) football player" math.mit.edu/~urschel/job...math.mit.edu 2646572
King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The environmental movement in this country is completely off the rails self-destructive. And I say this as someone who absolutely thinks climate change should be taken seriously. That's just not what they're doing. 000
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His Namemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former 423366711
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameMetro North Capital @metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What? 158939101
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NamePatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Awesome. 3416
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NamePatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Brazil to US: "Anything you can do I can do better". 35611
King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I mean, school’s the exception specifically because of all the government backstopping and rules around bankruptcy discharging. Without that, banks would in fact not make these loans, which is why these guarantees were made in the first place. 020
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His Nameae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026its another demonstration of something we've known from the start of his first term: Trump's weakness is actually more threatening to us than his strength 119232
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026looks like a still shot from a movie about world war II ending ... differently. 341062141
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t. 17158781199
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameBooort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'd be super comfortable if I'd done a bunch of horrendous and/or illegal on behalf of my boss who now sounds like Horse_ebooks 2088298
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogging. 461061168
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NamePatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A hypothesis likely to make a lot of BlueSky mad: A large part of Mamdani’s popularity is that his bark is WAY bigger than his bite, and he actually hasn’t done (or been able to do) much that is really THAT radical, leaving his largely likeable persona. 3117820
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His Name Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 03/10/2026Same energy. 839238
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 03/10/2026Tariffs Gulf War 3 mass deportation of productive neighborsstatic.klipy.comI Think You Should Leave Hot Dog SuspectALT: I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect 1489
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameStephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/20261) Alito revealing this now is an attempt to rally Republicans in Trump states where Dems lead for Senate. 2) He’s the most partisan R on the court—highly likely he steps down in the lame duck if Dems take the Senate. 3) Doing number 2) makes court expansion even more likely if Dems win in 2028 44824235
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameWhite Plains Rich @whiteplainsrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026She can't tolerate living with this lying philanderer, but wants you to spend the next six years with him.  If that isn't the essential essence of the GOP, I don't know what is. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...nytimes.comAs She Divorces Ken Paxton, His Wife Urges Texans to Vote for HimIn a new ad, Angela Paxton tells voters to focus on the “whole team,” not “individual players.” 72727194
King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My father worked first in a meat packing plant then a truck factory. He’s thrilled I make considerably more money designing software and IT infrastructure. Romanticizing of physical labor is almost always done by people who don’t have to do physical labor. 030
King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Reminder to sports broadcasters regarding Deshaun Watson: 000
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameSpooky Blaylock 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This creature was not built to withstand the scrutiny of being shown 5 times a day to viewers during a sport's playoff season 0479
King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Glad to see the right has it’s priorities clearly in order 010
King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Time to ship him off to the ruins of Old Valyria. 010
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameColin @colin-fraser.net · 01/10/2026If you carry out the torture chamber LLM experiments by doing all the matrix multiplications and whatnot with a pen and paper, and you produce, like, “ow ow that hurts”, what exactly is the entity that is being tortured? 3626517
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026And what real man wants to be on a platform filled with GIRLS?!?! EW GROSS 2073414355
King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Dude’s coming down with necrotizing fasciitis. 120
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NamePatrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026 191104279
King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Anthropic just out here doing marketing for Z.ai is pretty funny. “Hey infosec people, this will do for you what we won’t!” www.anthropic.com/research/glm...anthropic.comGLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilitiesGLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse. 010
Reposted by King Bandit, The First of His NameJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026there is a certain type of person who believes firmly that the United States is the worst country in the history of time and, like people who believe that the United States is the best country in the history of time, all of their other beliefs flow from that point. 61439