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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 4h

If you don't live in DC, may be hard to appreciate scale of nihilist, grifter-based desecration of what has always distinguished the nation's capital, and what so many people have worked so hard for so long to sustain and improve. Backhoe-based counterpart to wartime damage we see in news footage.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 6h

this is literally why you have uniforms and badges every member of the media pretending that any of this is due to anything else should be frogmarched out of public life

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 7h

In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 17h

One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 9h

If A.I. programs “cannot be trusted to work within the law, the companies should not release them,” the editorial board writes. “If the programs break the law, the companies should face the consequences.”

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Opinion | Hold A.I. Companies Liable

A.I. companies must operate under our laws.

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22h

Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is clearly not acceptable

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"The US will endorse war criminals and attempt to ruin the lives of people working to bring them to justice" was something every elite understood to be the actual stakes of the 2024 election but the news outlets the elites controlled told voters Tim Walz's trip to China in 1989 was a bigger deal

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.

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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

courtesy pictures for sad children

panel 1: announcer at a podium says "welcome everyone to our thirtieth annual air show"
panel 2: a crowd of people clap
panel 3: announcer says "oh, here's the first j-"
panel 4: jet goes WOOSH
panel 5: announcer says "if you were a kurdish villager, this is what it might sound like to die"
panel 6: two jets go RAAAAR
panel 7: announcer says "or survive, waking every night to the sternum-shaking screams of these nightmare engines"
panel 8: announcer says "and here come our vintage planes"
panel 9: vintage planes go WHIRRRRR
panel 10: announcer says "this is what it sounded like to die in the forties"
panel 11: a crowd of people clap

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 09/10/2026

If more of them talked like that, more of them would.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

begging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the only correct answer is "so what if I am? you're the one being a jerk about it"

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 08/10/2026

"If they get away with this it will be worse next time. I promise you." – @adamserwer.bsky.social, Jan. 6, 2021

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 08/10/2026

It’d be grand to live in a 21st-century United States that wasn’t doing triangular-trade stuff in reverse.

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 08/10/2026

I know everyone’s jaded and exhausted by the continual parade of madness, but this is the president of US openly inciting racist violence against an entire community of immigrants. (w/ alt text)

The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back. You have been robbed, and abandoned by your State Government. Your Governor is an incompetent thief who doesn't want to get involved. He just wants to get out of town with as much as he can steal, and then, lead a quiet life. The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing.
They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back! If you need, the Federal Government will come to your rescue.
Governor Tim Walz, and Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, must immediately ask for Federal help — and leave the rest to us! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Lisa Nohealani Morton @lnmorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Only military juntas do this shit. No nation on Earth that anyone recognizes does this shit.

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John Breen @breen.tech · 08/10/2026

Man, this answer from Ta-Nehisi Coates about how he felt about Kamala Harris saying that she wants to have “the most lethal fighting force in the world” is really good. He talks about why she might feel like she has to say that, but gives most of his response to the victims of that lethality

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026

fwiw if you want to make a strategic case for congressional democrats trying to impeach trump if they take majorities, i think the first step is impeaching hegseth, the bar is lower and the likelihood of success is probably much higher

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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 09/06/2024

Every time I see "AI" being crammed into another consumer product I think of how in the 50s we put radium in suppositories because "the atom" was the snakeoil hype of the moment

A worn box with a green printed label: "15 day course / VITA RADIUM SUPPOSITORIES / Guaranteed to contain Real Refined Radium and to be perfectly harmless. / The Home Products Co. Denver, Colorado."

A brown glass vial with a cork and a label that reads, "RADITHOR / CERTIFIED RADIOACTIVE WATER / Contains Radium and Mesothorium in a Triple Distilled Water"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

lol the number of gays is the same it’s just that kids aren’t idiot marks so they’re not going to volunteer that information to the nazis

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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1) If you're considering submitting a story -- or are approached to create art for any publications that Must Read Magazines owns, including Asimov's -- walk away. Their current contracts are too predatory and do not suitably value you, your work or your rights. There will be other opportunities. 2/

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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🧵 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/

John Picacio’s response to Must Read Magazine’s request for his waiver of all Moral Rights and Copyright of his commissioned art for an ASIMOV’S assignment. Short version — Picacio says a resounding NOPE.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And the most important finding... nearly a quarter of voters would cross party lines to support a candidate who takes a strong stand against AI.

Graph showing the following percentage of voters definitely or probably would cross party lines to vote for candidates who strongly support regulating AI:

IA - 23%
MI - 20%
OH - 23%

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Everyone must read this post shared by @scottedelman.bsky.social. I am done with the continual contract drama associated with Must Read Magazines. At the rate things are going, their lawyers are going to absolutely destroy Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog, and F&SF. SMDH

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 08/10/2026

Yes the kids won't remember but "overturning roe will be good for abortion rights" was a big centrist thing for awhile

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 07/10/2026

A huge number of people do not have the emotional self regulation skills necessary to safely operate a motor vehicle.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026

This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bonkers how in five years you can go from "creators of highly invasive malware jailed" to "creators of highly invasive malware say 'oopsies' and receive billions in government contracts."

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/10/2026

"We don't want to turn into a banana republic, so we won't try to rein in corporations" is the kind of thing you say if you don't know what makes a banana republic a banana republic, and instead want to be a banana republic where the bananas are data centers.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 07/10/2026

oh look paid protesters

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Seems a lot worse than anything that happened in the "Twitter Files" — which was essentially nothing.

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” ~President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936. Image: Universal History Archive/Getty Images.

This black and white photo shows a clean-shaven man, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, sitting at a desk and wearing a suit. He holds a paper in his right hand and appears to be speaking into a microphone that sits on the desk.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tired: No one ever wrote a song called Fuck The Fire Department Wired: Cops paid someone millions of dollars to write a song called Fuck The Fire Department

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think if you’re not local to DC it’s difficult to comprehend how fucking sad it is to watch all this happening to this beautiful city. I’m barely local, as a transplant to northern Virginia, and I’m very sad

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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