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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 4h
This describes the AI companys’ “fears.” They are creating the framework that will allow them to *avoid* current and future accountability for their choices in the design of AI. They decide which actionable tools, vacuums or weapons or anything really, to attach to their models.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Art through nature: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here’s an oldie but a goodie: “.. During Warsh’s term (if he lasts as long as prior Fed chairs), he will preside over the dreaded crossover point: in 2031 entitlements, interest and other mandatory outlays are projected to permanently exceed Federal tax revenues for the first time.” - JPMorgan
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Consumer complaints against financial companies have skyrocketed over the past three years. How is Trump responding? By gutting budget and staffing for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — and stopping the agency from publishing consumer complaints.
commondreams.org
In Gift to Abusive Wall Street Firms, Trump CFPB Moves to Suppress Consumer Complaints | Common Dreams
Consumer complaints against financial companies have surged, but Trump's CFPB is hiding them from public view. Are they
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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Supreme Court narrowly stepped up for the Fed's independence. That keeps the data, not the President, the thing to watch for monetary policy. New post on the decision, where inflation is headed, and what the Fed owes us. stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/where-is-t...
stayathomemacro.substack.com
Where Is the Fed Headed?
Independence, inflation, and communication
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Chris Mehl @chrismehl7.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Labor share of income--the "fraction of economic output paid to workers as wages and salaries"--is at its lowest-ever level since WWII. @federalreserve.gov
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I have been working on societal impacts of language technology since late 2016, and my nightmare example since pretty early on has been using automatic transcription in emergency services systems. And today I learn it's happening *in my own city* www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... Short 🧵>>
seattletimes.com
Seattle uses AI to help triage, divert 911 medical calls
The Seattle Fire Department started using AI technology during live 911 calls in 2023. There hasn't been any public review process.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Well-written hed. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/06/06/p...
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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This is 💔. I am not familiar with tick preventatives but will research soon. Sharing for awareness and regretting this administration who is so incapable at sharing information or working to keep any of us, human or 🐈‍⬛, healthy.
youtube.com
What Is 'Bobcat Fever' And How Can You Protect Your Cat From It?
YouTube video by Inside Edition
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Nick Timiraos @nicktimiraos.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Kevin Warsh has tapped two outside associates as advisers—in as temporary contractors for now. Both are budget policy specialists, and one wrote the Fed chapter of Project 2025, which endorsed a radical restructuring of the central bank.
wsj.com
Exclusive | Warsh Names Two Conservative Policy Veterans as Interim Fed Advisers
One of the new advisers to the new Fed chairman previously helped write a chapter for Project 2025, the conservative policy blueprint, that recommended a radical restructuring of the central bank.
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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I wrote an essay about the idea of “time” in AI. AI fakes it at this point in time and probably for a long time.
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A Braided Essay: Changing Time in Spring, 2026
The first in an about-monthly series to ponder the proper placement of AI in daily life.
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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
There has been little on BlueSky about Kevin Warsh moving in as Federal Reserve Board Chair but it will affect all of us. Roger Ferguson is a past Vice-Chair and a great source of info about what may come.
cfr.org
What to Expect From Kevin Warsh’s Fed in the First 100 Days | Council on Foreign Relations
The new head of the U.S. Federal Reserve takes over at a time of heightened inflationary pressures and concern over the Fed’s independence. His first one hundred days should give signs on how he will ...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Tried to distinguish our AI #WITHPod series by taking to boosters AND critics and lots of people in between. I got a ton out of this conversation with @timnitgebru.blacksky.app podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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The AI End Game: The Ethics of AI with Timnit Gebru
Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · May 26 · 54m
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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Pope Leo wrote on AI. Catholic, atheist, no matter. Pondering how we bring AI into our lives is good for anyone using any technology.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The powerful forces trying to dominate our country want us to fall into cynicism. That way, they win everything — and they'll be able to take it all without the rest of us putting up a fight. If you are worried about the future, you are not alone. I am too. But please do not fall into cynicism.
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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The Fed is a creature of Congress and Congress is the source of its independence. With Warsh, it will be more important for more of us to understand the Fed and hold Congress accountable if Warsh does Trump’s bidding and dismantles the final damper on inflation. An easy-to-digest primer -
newyorkfed.org
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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Powell’s term ended but he will stay on, Warsh will be sworn in as Chair of the Fed. The latter is a significant change but has been buried in the news by the China Summit. The Fed affects all of us every day. We can’t afford the inflation that will pile on if Warsh does trump’s bidding.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 11/05/2026
Sean Duffy’s reality series is getting slammed for all of the obvious reasons, but don’t look past the fact that his show is being sponsored by companies his department oversees and regulates. In other words, it’s not just a political mess, it’s also an ethical one. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
ms.now
The problem(s) with the transportation secretary’s tone-deaf reality series
Sean Duffy’s return to reality programming isn’t just a political mess; it also raises unavoidable ethical questions.
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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I thought this was The Onion. Building a 🏠 with Pulte is disappointing as is without also assuming the servile role of caretaking an AI’s power source. Bill Pulte gave up his seat on the builder’s board to join Trump’s admin over the FHFA-doesn’t mean he doesn’t retain financial interest.😖
realtor.com
Major Homebuilder To Test Placing Mini Data Centers in Suburban Backyards
The California-based startup Span has developed small, distributed data centers, or “nodes,” called XFRA units.
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This is a feel good image for me. These two adorable young Australian superb fairywren staying close to each other.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Announcing: Platypus Economics — a Substack, YouTube channel, and podcast built around one idea: Economics is one of the most useful, surprising, and weirdly beautiful subjects in the world. It belongs to everyone — not just the people who happened to take it in college. 🧵
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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
As I read this, I imagine a time in the future 🙏 when our right-left division has resolved to shared common goals of, say, not burning the Earth up, but we then divide along the lines of whether AI is a friend, to be trusted, etc. Some AI is amazing, no AI can be a true “friend.”
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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Adding a blunt-force prohibition of goblins to a public-facing, internet-trained AI isn’t a solution. This is why we can’t take the results of public-facing AI too seriously.
wired.com
OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI’s coding agent instructions.
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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The best deterrent ever to cash for an impulse purchase!
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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
What frightens me most are the hints that he will reform the Federal Reserve according to Trump’s vision, another organizational loss that will take decades if it can be fixed. Bottom line - the Fed is a creature of Congress - getting Republicans out of Congress in Nov is critical for this, too.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs. Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026. This is what corporate greed looks like.
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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
In case you are considering ChatGPT or other large language models for taxes…
bloomberg.com
People Are Using Claude to Do Their Taxes (But Maybe They Shouldn’t)
Accountants warn of the potential for costly mistakes using ChatGPT and other AI tools.
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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Powell exemplifies public service, standing up to trump now and in his first term to fulfill the mission of the Fed as defined by Congress. “The announcement…commended the Fed chair for withstanding “years of personal attacks and threats from the highest levels of government.”
thehill.com
John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award goes to ‘the people of the Twin Cities’ and Jerome Powell
This year’s John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award is a tie between “the people of the Twin Cities, Minnesota” and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. The prestigious annual honor has been award…
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🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥 @deborahobrien.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Dr. Gill I was wondering what your thoughts are about the news of USA 🇺🇸 being insolvent? 6 trillion in assets and 47 trillion in debt and no one is talking about it. Why? fortune.com/2026/03/23/u...
fortune.com
The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it | Fortune
The Government Accountability Office can't even verify the books. Here's what Congress must do.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/03/2026
Powell: "The thing a good number of people on the committee are concerned about is very very low level of job creation. If you adjust the trend job creation over the past 6 months for what we think is overstatement due to overcounting, effectively there is 0 net job creation in the private sector"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.
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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Never in my memory has the ⏰ change caught me by surprise, until just now. Yes, I am older and no one else mentioned it, but I believe my lapse is more a sign of the challenges and heartbreaks of this time in my life, my 🇺🇸, and the 🌍. Today, I remind myself there is still the moment of now to tend.
From the U.S. Navy’s website, Daylight Savings Time begins on 2026 March 8.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 27/02/2026
The Pentagon is pressuring Anthropic to strip out AI safeguards and give the military unfettered access to its models. Cato’s Benjamin Giltner warns that this push undermines layers of accountability and cuts off human judgment from critical decisions about war and peace.
cato.org
Pentagon's Demands on Anthropic Would Remove Layers of Accountability
Using AI to make judgments about war and peace detaches responsibility from military officials, the Pentagon, and ultimately the president himself. This makes the Pentagon’s motive to remove Anthropic’s...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The grift that keeps on grifting.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 23/02/2026
Minnesota’s flags will fly at half-staff in honor and remembrance of the Reverend Jesse Jackson. He spent his life pushing America to live up to its highest ideals and his fight for civil rights, dignity, and fairness will inspire generations to come.
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
"if human beings are nothing more than machines — stochastic parrots — then it's easy to justify replacing us with other machines that can do certain things better and faster." I'm not religious, but do appreciate thoughtful insights. Nice article in this vein: www.ncronline.org/opinion/lent...
ncronline.org
This Lent, give up calling yourself a machine
"As people of faith, we have an opportunity to push back and offer a compelling vision of the complex and beautiful creatures that we are," writes Scott Hurd. "And it can start with how we refer to ou...
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Please watch. This is important because the independent (from trump) Fed is all that is stopping a crashed economy right now. trump is already spending like a mad man, Congress isn’t stopping him, and the Fed is the only remaining defense against nightmare inflation.
youtu.be
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Tillis is spot on. The Senate can't confirm a Trump toady to succeed Powell at the Fed. The rest of the game is now out in the open, and it doesn't end well.
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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Of course the Admin favors developers’ profits over our wetlands. I am learning about the state-level protections in IL, hoping it is enough. The comment period has ended but this is a good read.
greatlakes.org
Tell the U.S. EPA to Protect Our Streams and Wetlands - Alliance for the Great Lakes
The U.S. EPA is proposing to weaken the Clean Water Act by eliminating protections for many streams and wetlands that feed into the Great Lakes. This would put our drinking […]
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
The DOJ is trying to get all your individualized voter data (including SS number, DOB, current and previous addresses, voting records, etc.) in order to intimidate and undermine elections. Please listen to this and re-post on all your social media. Email this video to you friends & family members.
youtube.com
“Five alarm fire!” Justice Department wages WAR with shock move
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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Frostbitten Flamingo @flemtheparrot.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Morning.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Oh how I laughed! And yelled into a pillow! And then cried for 10 minutes! And then looked up therapists online!
youtu.be
Uber Eats Wrapped - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
From the article - “The only mitigation is to treat an AI agent as an employee working for you, one who could go rogue. Not as an extension of yourself.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined. 56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people. Read that back.
theguardian.com
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 09/12/2025
Trump is letting NVIDIA export cutting-edge AI chips that his own DOJ revealed are being illegally smuggled into China. His own DOJ called these chips "building blocks of AI superiority." Trump and Lutnick need to answer to Congress on why they are selling out US security.
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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
It appears Peter Thiel found a mouthpiece to carry his bizarre ideas to the cult. Nonsensical, yet chilling. What would you want to know about AI in order to respond to a trumper who might repeat this in your presence?
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