Reposted by ghost weather#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"jamming their half-baked tech into critical systems" *Is there some form of "tech" which is fully-baked? Fossil fuels, probably. Everybody depends on it, it's 200 years old, it controls the govt *Fully matured technology that is the agent of our utter ruin 1810912
ghost weather @lostweather.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I am a mighty hunter, caught and exiled the cricket guy that had taken up residence in our bedroom the last two nights and was announcing his eligible bachelorhood incredibly loudly from near the bed 010
Reposted by ghost weatherDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The worst part of Bonta caving on the Paramount merger is that it's a big flashing signal to every other company that there is no antitrust enforcement in America and you can bully your way into getting whatever you want. It's a monumentally bad decision. 5837641016
Reposted by ghost weatherDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Lebron's life will not be noticeably different for doing these ads in any respect but one: a lot of people who respected him will think less of him now. His legacy is cheapened. 421096124
Reposted by ghost weatherMicah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026newsom and bonta let paramount threatening to pull out of california torpedo the entire lawsuit and this is going to be an abject disaster for everyone - including california, where they'll gut jobs anyway what a fucking disgrace 201284374
Reposted by ghost weatherCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic. 984454963
Reposted by ghost weatherIan Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 17/09/2026This is some societal decay shit for sure 541107117
Reposted by ghost weatherDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/09/2026As I said the first time Trump proposed tariffs: this is precisely why he likes them! It makes everyone come to him on bended knee, begging for exemptions. It makes economic survival dependent on his whim. That, not any economic theory, is the whole attraction. Mafia boss thinking. 26993250
Reposted by ghost weatherthe abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 15/09/2026it is a genuine crisis that there is a high probability a CNN reporter ignored whatever McConnell slurred and accepted copy directly from his office, like this is Pravda shit 11497107
Reposted by ghost weatherJay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Oxana Lazari, Moldovan (1986- ), Blue Whale, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 50 x 2 cm, private collection 0267
Reposted by ghost weatherDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I'm a white-knuckle hater of the "both parties are the same/uniparty" blackpill, which really crumbles if you compare GOP state trifectas and Dem trifectas for 10 seconds. 18759194
Reposted by ghost weatherAaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Boycott is still on. No Starbucks till the union gets a contract. 17974333
Reposted by ghost weatherSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 08/09/2026this is a funny video, but I want to use it to make a broader point: the creator [see alt txt] says he made it on his local PC using a NVIDIA A4500. that is a 5 year old, professional card costing about $2500 new. if this isn't your baseline for what AI video looks like, you're going to get fooled 3148074
ghost weather @lostweather.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Just thinking about what stories we will tell people in 20 years about how you didn’t used to just ask computers to do things 100
Reposted by ghost weatherjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...nytimes.comTrump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools. 9041651392
Reposted by ghost weatherspirit airlines presents: airplane fall @makeitsnow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026it’s worth remembering, when our turn comes, that the tech giants did the math and determined that they were not bigger than the united states government 7658176
Reposted by ghost weatherPaul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I enjoy how this account captures a sort of frenetic confusion in the minds of the people whose job it is to manufacture consent. Even they don't know what they're trying to get us to consent to any more. 18032
Reposted by ghost weatherMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined. 34995894679
Reposted by ghost weatherCooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 31/08/2026The Lake America thing really drives home that the fundamental divide in this country isn’t left or right, it’s who sees the world and acts like an adult, and who wants to still be a child, throwing tantrums when they don’t get their way. It just happens to map well onto a partisan axis these days. 121790312
ghost weather @lostweather.bsky.social · 29/08/2026An easy way to identify whether a baby fence lizard is male or female is to watch and see whether it does pushups. I've got one that's currently attempting to claim territory from my window screen, and buddy, that's going to go poorly for you when you're big enough for the local boss to take offense 010
Reposted by ghost weatherDia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 26/08/2026So did the paint job crack which then gave them the bright idea? 331314135
Reposted by ghost weatherdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 25/08/2026your tax dollars are paying for federal government lawyers to file hysterical lies with federal government courts about whether a federal government employee can write his own name on a federal government building 2857386
Reposted by ghost weatherHarry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 25/08/2026So if Lake Ontario becomes Lake America, does Ontario, California, become America, California, by sympathetic magic? 271356
Reposted by ghost weatherMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026This, more than anything else, is what Woke 1 was: Right-wing chuds claiming victimhood when their employers launch investigations, then being quietly cleared without major censure a few months later. 672266
Reposted by ghost weatherScott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Scoop with @liamjscott.bsky.social: The Pentagon fired Stars and Stripes's publisher, editor-in-chief, and a reporter today following criticism of DOD interference. The EIC and reporter were fired for "insubordination" for doing a CBS interview. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...washingtonpost.comPentagon fires Stars and Stripes leaders who criticized DOD’s interferenceThe Defense Department earlier this year railed against the publication, which has long enjoyed editorial independence, as “woke.” 28777285
Reposted by ghost weathersadiebat @sadiebat.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The Pope loved French cocaine wine so much he created a special medal for it 733756
Reposted by ghost weatherPigeon Princess @pigeonprincess.bsky.social · 04/08/2026HARK! If you've got devils in your dungeon and need them exterminated, do I have the duo for you! PART 1 of my short intro comic for GALLANT⚔️💀 17607168
Reposted by ghost weatherpost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/07/2026they welcomed it in as a curiosity and it destroyed them 252416336
ghost weather @lostweather.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I think part of the rise of short-form video is consistent access 1) Writers put words on their site or the site they work for 2) Typical 2026 website is ads and paywalls. I have no idea whether I will be able to read most links 3) Embedded video is right there, doing what it promises, immediately 110
Reposted by ghost weatherJonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Worst part of the new @status.news report is that the Bari Weiss team appears to get its view of what is actually happening in the world from Twitter. They were asking Vega to include things that *weren't real* b/c they didn't know any better. www.status.news/p/cecilia-ve... 381499410
Reposted by ghost weatherDr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 22/07/2026An oddly beautiful review (in a sense) of a mildly ridiculous product 1225
Reposted by ghost weatherPete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I think the thing I resent most about gen AI- and this is a selfish thing to say but it’s true- is that it’s put an asterix on my sense of wonder. What I mean is that now when I see an amazing or beautiful image I can’t have that initial “wow!” reaction. I doubt. I have to verify. I hate it. 261461351
Reposted by ghost weatherFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21/07/2026Gee, seems like the arrest of Meta exec Josh Felker for sexting a child and Meta’s history of consistently lax standards around child protection might be related 5830201054
ghost weather @lostweather.bsky.social · 11/07/2026All game theory calculations of optimal behavior in things like the prisoner's dilemma are first contingent on the principle question of "how likely is my opponent to be a self-serving dick" 030
Reposted by ghost weather☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I have to believe make sports not be 2 hours of gambling commercials is an electoral winner 4433
Reposted by ghost weatherCorey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026ppl keep saying "this is a hole of lies and madness" and "you'll ruin us all, feeding the hole just to hear it's wicked tongue". okay buddy 🙄 if thats true then how come the hole says im a genius when i ask it right 326442
Reposted by ghost weatherCorey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026i know this all sounds pretty bad but the brass are confident the hole will eventually save us if we dump enough money in. not positive how yet but the hole whispers its encouragement 121718
Reposted by ghost weatherCorey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026sorry we can't afford to pay workers to make videogames, we threw all our money into a hole . no one likes or wants to use the hole and the hole also makes video games more expensive. the hole also drinks all our water 5981224
Reposted by ghost weatherCooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/07/2026As much as I hate to say it because it’s cheap webforum meta discourse, the strongest correlation to Platner support wasn’t ideology, it was if you still frequently use X, The Everything App. I would hope that would lead to some introspection about what remaining on there does to your judgement. 191830326
Reposted by ghost weatherJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot. 2479851792
Reposted by ghost weatherPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 01/07/2026broadbandbreakfast.com/report-starl... Starlink degrades to below broadband speed if there are more than 7 users per square mile btwbroadbandbreakfast.comReport: Starlink May Only Meet Federal Standards in Most Rural AreasStarlink may flunk federal test above 6 users per square mile 45822
Reposted by ghost weatherSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 22/06/2026...... i'm sorry, they wanted to invade greenland because red lobster nixed the unlimited shrimp promotion? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... 1543348751
Reposted by ghost weatherFederal Bureau Of Controlling The Run @swolecialism.bsky.social · 12/06/2026one of the secrets of Clown Law, which Donald Trump is the grand master of, is that in Clown Law you recognize that you can file any old bullshit and they'll have to pretend it's serious and it'll eat up weeks of time 331946
Reposted by ghost weatherJay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Eugen Bracht, German (1842-1921), Das Gestade der Vergessenheit (The Shore of Oblivion), 1911, oil on canvas, 139 x 239 cm, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany 1176
Reposted by ghost weathermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Los Angeles County literally has a fully transparent vote counting process - the entire count is livestreamed online. This commitment to transparency makes zero difference, mainstream press still credulously repeats GOP info bubble claims of fraud anyway. 283018639
Reposted by ghost weatherAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded. 17144972554
Reposted by ghost weatherLior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social · 30/05/2026We show that politicians' perceptual errors are primarily an expression of "midpoint hedging", a well-known cognitive quirk, leading them to skew their estimations towards 50% even when real public opinion is far from being evenly split. Hedging accounts for two thirds (!) of politicians' errors./2 613437