Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialRuha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free. 726531119
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialbryan 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... 102143094710
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialRich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks. 60776672287
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 17092983069
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialShannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026And here’s the opposite of democracy-framed reporting. Trump didn’t “bow” to pressure from a federal judge. He followed a court order to reinstate media access. 2237
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialMadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 25/09/202650 years ago today, four teenagers came together in Dublin and began a journey none of them could have imagined. It started in 1977, at Mount Temple Comprehensive School where U2 formed their band. Today, the lads came back to where it all started. I have seen U2 in concert so many times. 782353473
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Research units from across government have been gutted. More than 10,000 PhDs have left government. For example the research arm of the Department of Education lost 90% of their staff and the research office for the Secretary of Health and Human Services lost an estimated 60% of their staff. 8389190
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialamerica.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026¡ THIS ¡ is The Kennedy Center! 💥💯 ❤️🔥👑🥲😍🤩😘 #KennedyCenter 41958581942
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism" 193197737
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026👇👇👇👇 16622723912115
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialPam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If you are attacking Doctors Without Borders or World Central Kitchen, you are wrong and can get fucked. 14478511301
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Shutting down a memorial to an assassinated president because you can't slap your name on it ranks with the most empty, floppy dictator shit of all time. Ferdinand Marcos would tell you to get a grip. 111400243
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com 8634001216
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialEllie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The anthropic whistleblower is like "no other activity has the potential to create human extinction." Well, speaking as someone who works for a climate think tank, I can think of one 431800309
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Random note; since my dad passed away last December, I’ve been handling all of my mom’s mail and accounts. It is incredible. How many scams are aimed at the elderly in this country, including my companies that superficially seem legitimate. Every week her mail is full of this crap. 851807269
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026She adds, "But Republicans have made it a big attack on you," which is a telling statement. Stated simply: We don't find it newsworthy either, but it's our job to use talking points from one side and parrot them back to the other side. If not, we'll be accused of bias. (Also, my boss is Bari Weiss) 844253862
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026I absolutely LOVE this. Christian Bale spent roughly 17 years fighting to make this happen. This week, his foster-care village opened in Palmdale, California: 12 homes built specifically to help keep siblings together when they enter foster care. 722267226335
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a... 231182429
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is stochastic terrorism. Ted Cruz is an extremist encouraging violence. 27140531187
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialAmerican Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"You don't live here! You don't live here! You don't live here!" #KSSen debate crowd calls out Roger Marshall for his out of state ties. 1116632
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialMollz (ballz) @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 12/09/2026NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOO 6254397608
krallendoerfer.bsky.social @krallendoerfer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Cory Doctorow with another horrifying (and darkly funny) post about AI: "Every time you repeat a story about how awfully, terribly dangerous their products are, you help them raise more investment capital" pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...pluralistic.netPluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 000
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Remember: every time you repeat a story about how awfully, terribly dangerous their products are, you help them raise more investment capital, which is a key input for their business (hooking up statistical engines to money-furnaces): peoples-things.ghost.io/youre-doing-...peoples-things.ghost.io 4331114
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Given that AI insiders have mostly cooked their brains in this fashion, it behooves us all to treat these people as unreliable narrators of their own products' capabilities. 337860
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialneptune45.bsky.social @neptune45.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I can say without hesitation that in every past administration we would never see the AG of America be speaking at a political rally, until this admin who are above the law 421048268
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I don't understand why more people don't connect Trump calling Somalis "garbage" with the Hutus calling the Tutsis "cockroaches" and the Nazis calling the Jews "vermin." We know where it starts, and we know where it ends. 291401370
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialQuinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 31/08/2026My very, very best advice if you're voting by mail aligns with what many election administrators recommend. If you put your ballot in the mail, do it ASAP and check to make sure it was received. Even better is to return it to a dropbox or deliver it in person at the election office.nytimes.comMore Mail Ballots Are Arriving Late This Year, and They’re Getting Tossed (Gift Article)State officials say they worry about the Postal Service’s ability to deliver votes this fall. They are urging voters to mail their ballots early or use drop boxes so their votes count. 914578
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialMinnesotaNice76 @minnesotanice76.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Men in women’s sports is the same as voter fraud. It’s fake outrage over a problem that virtually doesn’t exist, so you will be distracted. Release the fucking Epstein files. 21823203
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialBrian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Here’s your daily reminder that when you go to cast your ballot in November please vote all the way down the ballot. The further down you go, those races really do get closer to your front door and ultimately your wallet. Let’s turn these laboratories of autocracy back into democracy. 8932081643
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The one and only reason anyone claims “backlash to woke” is costing Dems elections is that they desperately want people to believe that’s true despite a lack of any evidence at all 17539103
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.social💙Christine Slemmer💙 @slem63.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Just a reminder that every ocean ship entering the Great Lakes goes through the Welland Canal. Eight locks, twenty-seven miles, all of it in Ontario. That is the route. $26.3 billion of American trade depends on it. Trump didn’t think this through. 91372156
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Returning to this post from last spring, and it feels more obvious than ever. Just a series of 30-second ads of rapid-fire headlines about scandals in one Cabinet department with the tag line at the end: Had Enough? Vote Democratic 371292315
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/05/2025In the 1946 midterm elections, the GOP used public anger over meat shortages to win back both houses of Congress for the first time in over a decade. Their message for those midterms was a simple one that Democrats should borrow: “Had enough?” 36832239
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The thing that strikes me with AI and the data centers is that I think the public response would be a lot more positive if it didn't feel to many people like the technology was being forced on them - injected without asking into their apps and via new data centers, into their communities. 3854452
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialFloodlight @floodlightnews.org · 27/08/2026NEW: Thermal drone footage shows the Microsoft-backed DataOne AI data center in Vineland, NJ is running dozens of gas generators. None of them have permits. A Floodlight visual investigation with @us.theguardian.com:floodlightnews.orgOne of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law’Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators 6823971200
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialjimmycraig42.bsky.social @jimmycraig42.bsky.social · 28/08/2026US Presidents dont write laws So this is all just more bullshit 27839176
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialLee Zimmerman @zim2918.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Canadian Strait of Hormuz Every ocean going ship from the great lakes must pass through the Welland Canal 2103022836
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialRob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 27/08/2026I made a new t-shirt about the only unskilled labor that should be replaced with a chatbot. In my shop now in a variety of styles at robsheridan.threadless.com/collections/... 14450128
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialDavid the Trifecta: Fatty, Beardo, Weirdo @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The most damaging political idea I've seen in my lifetime is the idea that government should be run like a business 2163870805
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/08/2026someone is repeatedly yelling “shame!” and “lies!” in the background as Lutnick tries to hold a press conference 879109801999
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The United States has never looked weaker or more ridiculous and incompetent to allies and enemies around the world than we do right now. 1810164383921
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialLibrary of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️ 194335067162
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026anytime people raise concerns about land use for solar projects or anything like that i just want to point out that half the corn we grow in this country gets used to make gasoline slightly worse 261644321
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/08/2026After 343 FDNY members made the ultimate sacrifice on 9/11, thousands more began the search for survivors. They spent months at Ground Zero searching, caring for their fellow New Yorkers and helping our city recover from this unspeakable tragedy. 985657893
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialAndrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 22/08/2026I’m still trying to process how the president of the United States somehow talks tougher about Canada than North Korea. 740145953403
Reposted by @krallendoerfer.bsky.socialRev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I wish the media wouldn't cover SpaceX as if it were an exciting frontier-pushing scientific endeavour when it's really the vanity project of a megalomaniac Bond villain type www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...bbc.co.uk'Incredible': SpaceX rocket spotted off Christmas Island coastA SpaceX rocket that blasted off from Texas in July and crashed into the Indian Ocean hadn't been seen since - but now Christmas Island residents say they have spotted it being towed just off their co... 52483601908
