Reposted by KeegsCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 22hthe Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning 773707919
Reposted by KeegsDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/10/2026one thing i have long thought, in this business of Takes, is that there is an enormous necessity to discipline your own thinking. it is *so easy* to get lazy. to just talk shit. to just outsource your brain to your own comments section. 11098
Keegs @littlekeegs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'm generally supportive of rehabilitative justice, but I fear that Californians may be beyond saving 040
Reposted by KeegsStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Average Republican congressman dies 312014
Reposted by KeegsMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026www.cgdev.org/blog/your-im... 87110
Reposted by KeegsTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear. 251457342
Keegs @littlekeegs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Interesting to note: per this measure, AI usage increased 5 pp from March to September of this year. Projecting out, that means it'll be about another 30 months before most companies use AI (March of 2029) www.census.gov/hfp/btos/dat... 010
Reposted by KeegsGuy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 15/09/20261.63% of Americans were employed as software developers in August, a hair below the all-time record of 1.65% (from just 3 months earlier) 2527
Reposted by KeegsXan López @xanlopez.net · 09/09/2026(I guess my hot take here is: many AI doomsday scenarios can be nuanced with a little-known trick: “think about it seriously for five minutes") 3556
Reposted by KeegsPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026John C. Calhoun wasn't a conservative; he was a radical. Stephen Miller isn't a conservative; he's a radical. "Tradition" isn't a real thing that once existed and we can go back to, or something worth conserving, but an imaginary place that they'll destroy the current world to create. 212413359
Reposted by KeegsRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives. 14584482882
Keegs @littlekeegs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The US media is bad at covering politics, and seemingly hasn't gotten better over the last few years 020
Keegs @littlekeegs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Economically speaking, it's actually pretty bad that anyone implies this. People need to be able to rely on Social Security for optimal retirement planning. There should be very little uncertainty about benefit cuts, let alone about it existing at all. 0396
Reposted by KeegsKevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*. 4935101021
Reposted by Keegsconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026but the problem with AI is not that it doesn’t work, it’s that it does. the problem is the political one of deciding what to do with the resources we have. pretending we don’t have the resources is what the right does in order to avoid taking care of people 210214
Keegs @littlekeegs.bsky.social · 22/08/2026"it’s not only the fact of cost, it’s the cost stability. It’s the economy stability." "even if I’m a climate guy, the driver for the transition is no longer climate. It’s the economy." 111427
Keegs @littlekeegs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Had a weird experience with Claude recently where it apparently added me to A/B testing that switched use of the Write and Edit tools with calls to bash scripts in auto mode? This sucked cuz it meant I can't review the changes while they're made. Took me forever to figure out why it was happening 040
Reposted by KeegsNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026You will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever under any circumstances whatsoever be condemned or censured or chastised by the American media for killing people. 131217159
Keegs @littlekeegs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Government statistical agencies have both extensive documentation *and* are very responsive like this! 041
Reposted by KeegsWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Mangione is an RFK and Elon Musk fan. It makes perfect sense! His crime was motivated by the same inchoate resentment and conspiracism that leads people towards the reactionary right. The same desire for some unspecified class of villains who can be rightfully subjected to purgative violence. 1979
Reposted by KeegsWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Who commits political crimes of violence? -the most desperately precarious groups, whose very existences are constantly put at risk by the systems around us, or -mostly young men, across lines of income, ideology, race, and geography 1342227
Reposted by KeegsWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Indiscriminately putting ankle monitors on an entire nationality, thousands upon thousands of people living in a small community, all of whom were living here entirely legally until a few days ago when you revoked their legal status. It’s an authoritarian nightmare. 311553409
Reposted by KeegsJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I'll go another step further: the research shows that BLM protests causally shifted Americans' racial attitudes leftward and helped Democrats in the 2020 election link.springer.com/article/10.1... 342434547
Reposted by KeegsAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/08/2026Prediction markets are not predictive and should not be covered as news 512133922154
Reposted by KeegsStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 11/08/2026A world with sectoral bargaining and strong public benefits including health insurance and paid leave* is a world where employee misclassification becomes a much smaller issue. (and without experience rating CC: @besttrousers.bsky.social ) 213713
Reposted by Keegsghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I have a number of hobby horses but one of them is “name matching sucks” and if you disagree it’s because you’ve never tried to use names as an identifier 651051138
Reposted by KeegsJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Trump II has profound consequences that will last a century: -destruction of administrative state & civil service -extreme wealth concentration, tech oligarchy -climate rollbacks -end of rule of law w/o pushback incentivizes future backsliding -Iran Pundits hate this because it sounds shrill 431638375
Reposted by KeegsWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10/08/2026there's basically no non-live setting where music hits as well as in a car driving alone, you do gotta hand that one to car culture unfortunately 202338
Reposted by Keegsalex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 08/08/2026me personally, i think the US should invest more in clean energy and let the middle east sort out their problems on their own 2534
Reposted by KeegsWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/08/2026bzzzt nope www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 2275168
Keegs @littlekeegs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Don't care enough to follow primaries these days but I *do* care about beating Republicans, so this is great to see! 050
Keegs @littlekeegs.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Honestly a big red flag when someone is mean to AI. Not good if someone is looking for an excuse to be cruel! 100
Reposted by KeegsMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/07/2026We are a city of immigrants, and our long tradition of offering safe haven to all, as well as our laws, reflect that. To every immigrant New Yorker living in fear today: you belong here. And anyone who wants to come for you will have to come through your neighbors and fellow New Yorkers first. 562188
Reposted by KeegsEric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 26/07/2026This anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, remember that many people with disabilities are paid below minimum wage and many can’t get married because they risk losing their SSI benefits. SSI recipients cannot have more than $2,000 in their bank account. 5456223
Reposted by KeegsMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026"The Odyssey" was a fine movie but its politics were a bit iffy. wouldve been way better if at the end the Odysseus turned to the camera & said "The FOMC shoudn't have raised rates in 2015" & then specified that they should have waited until Q2 2017. 161002116
Keegs @littlekeegs.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Annoying Claude habit that seems to have gotten worse: I ask it what a class/method does, and it tries finding the actual class file, decompiling it, and running tests on it instead of just... Summarizing the documentation 000
Keegs @littlekeegs.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I love telling people I'm off my meds without specifying that it's IBS medication 010
Keegs @littlekeegs.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This might be the funniest post someone has blocked me for 2141
Keegs @littlekeegs.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Fun interaction recently was when I pointed out most Americans don't have to worry about affording food, someone got very mad at me, and they got even more mad when I mentioned I make around median earnings and never have to worry about it at all. A lot to unpack there! 160
Reposted by KeegsNathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Good time as any to give my opinion about this meme: I have long hated it because various forms of accounting are a) quite important & b) undertaught. We have far too little literacy about managerial accounting, in particular outside a few specialized areas. TLDR things are way worse than this 4454
Keegs @littlekeegs.bsky.social · 20/07/2026AI doomers really don't grapple with how AI has actually developed. It's not like AI can now perfectly do simple tasks and is increasingly mastering more complex tasks. Instead, it fails simple tasks while improving in other areas. 140
Reposted by Keegsalex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 19/07/2026its really really funny to me that the right wingers have abandoned the western canon -- its free real estate! 0173
Reposted by KeegsDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/07/2026I'm not seeing "investigate & prosecute the gang that has been systematically violating the law & dismantling democratic institutions for the last four years" on there. Is that No. 4? 3471495
Reposted by KeegsI Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I genuinely hate the push to make smoking a thing again. I have watched so many drawn out, ugly, painful deaths from smoking. It makes everything disgusting. It enslaves us to the worst kinds of corporations. There’s ZERO positive here. 2043797556
Reposted by KeegsJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy 4849541528