Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 19hif your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult 461950374
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 10/10/2026ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/06/o...ohiocapitaljournal.comOhio Democratic candidates Amy Acton and Marcy Kaptur make 'anti-transgender remarks,' face backlash • Ohio Capital JournalOhio Democratic candidate for governor Dr. Amy Acton and Ohio Democratic U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur have faced backlash from comments they have made about transgender people during the lead up to Election... 010
Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I don't think the Republican Party can "go back to normal" but if it did, that just means being a vehicle for undermining government and concentrating wealth, enveloped in a bunch of dishonest obfuscatory slop. Why yearn for something to return to the exact thing that fostered it 342018256
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 01/10/2026People are exceptionally good at convincing themselves of what is in their interest to believe. And being particularly good at this probably helps politicians succeed. 000
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 01/10/2026www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...theguardian.comFake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propagandaIn effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, Guardian analysis shows 074
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026He wants genteel country club style racism to dominate the Republican Party. 060
Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/12/2025look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts 3568441674
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I think most people even those that don’t follow politics or economics closely knew on some level that crypto is a scam, and seeing it everywhere for a few years touted as the future of the economy made them skeptical of the overall health of the economy. Something similar with AI now. 1140
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The number of people this kind of bullshit works on is now zero for all practical purposes. 030
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You should read about Leverage Research. One of the most floridly bizarre outcropping of the “rationalism” movement besides the Zizians, and has barely received any coverage. 000
Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.socialJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se... 3234071270
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 24/09/2026One of my favorite facts about Gavin’s father. 251
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Definitely curious why NYMag ended up not running that piece. 010
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Wild that the only people that have written about it at all are people who are very adjacent to the whole “rationalist” thing. No mainstream coverage at all. 110
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Reading your book now. Have you ever looked into Leverage Research? A very bizarre story with many connections to the people and groups discussed in your book. 110
Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.socialDavid Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 20/09/2026When people see a politician calibrating their position to what they think is most popular, it doesn’t win them over, it makes them think you’re a snake. 226550
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This kind of thing also reads to low-info voters as “admitting Republicans were right all along”, which certainly doesn’t encourage them to vote for Democrats. 0323
Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.socialAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 19/09/2026Dems should run on 80-20 issues except the ones the rich people who pay me are on the 20 side 112111
Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.socialJesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Matthew Petti on military A.I.: "Artificial intelligence is a tool that makes its users more powerful—for better or for worse—and it's up to other people to rein them in."reason.comAI is already killing people—and governments are to blameMilitary AI working as intended can also create a terrifying world, if its users are tasking AI to carry out malicious purposes. 001
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The correct stance for Democratic politicians to take on Silicon Valley is “I welcome their hatred.” 000
Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.socialThe Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I really do think that Democrats would be doing much, much better electorally if the democratic establishment hadn’t spent every single election cycle since Reagan dismissing and outright opposing every issue young people at the time have cared about. This is the main cause of voter apathy IMO. 514834
Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.social☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It's interesting to see a former top Biden aide explain "No amount of public support in polling or public protest will influence how or when those in power drastically change Israel policy" — ie, he's just straight up saying the US is not a democracy. x.com/MichaelLaRos... 30636140
Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Mamdani is a charismatic guy but I promise you anyone can replicate this. 1) Unapologetically use the government to help ordinary people; and 2) Tell them about it 332871436
Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/09/2026New York City officials are making public more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks. The records suggest that New Yorkers were told to return to the ground zero area before it was safe. nyti.ms/3UDZehm 2518669
Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.socialGraham J. @grahamj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026What are we even doing here man www.wsj.com/politics/pol... 038584
Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.socialPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 05/09/2026[“Guards, seize him” voice] Grok, do a vulgar roast 864247
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Is she paying you to post about her? 020
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 05/09/2026They are intentionally trying to muddy the waters to bury stories like this: www.ms.now/news/haley-s...ms.nowSecret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate raceRep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her. 1100
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Are you getting paid to lie about Mamdani? Or are doing it for free? 010
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 05/09/2026They are trying to muddy the waters after this came out: www.ms.now/news/haley-s...ms.nowSecret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate raceRep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her. 0213
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 04/09/2026They are trying to create confusion between other Democratic groups secretly paying influencers, and Mamdani sending out press releases. www.ms.now/news/haley-s...ms.nowSecret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate raceRep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her. 010
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I think they are trying to conflate it with this (obviously the big difference is the “paid” part): www.ms.now/news/haley-s...ms.nowSecret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate raceRep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her. 010
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I dunno. He loved having blackmail on people. 190
Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.socialJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026You can tell that progressive ideas are popular because corporate Democrats always pretend to be progressive come election season! www.levernews.com/the-corporat...levernews.comThe Corporate Dem Asking Super PACs To Call Him A ProgressiveSeth Moulton once called progressive populism a recipe for losing. Now he’s asking Wall Street financiers to help him claim the progressive mantle. 517934
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Nick Mullen book-fluenced me into reading Robert Caro’s multivolume biography of LBJ. 020
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I think they genuinely think blaming billionaires and corporations is like blaming immigrants and trans people. 000
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I bet they created the list with AI, and just moved the few they cared about. 000
Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.socialKath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 27/08/2026when people said we needed a "joe rogan of the left" i said anyone who approaches that has been and will continue to be condemned by the very people searching for that. they want a joe rogan of the center left and that is a contradiction in terms 562580218
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 27/08/2026If you squint just right correctly assigning the blame to the actually culpable elites is kind of like incorrectly assigning the blame to easily scapegoatable minorities who aren’t actually responsible. 000
Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.socialAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 27/08/2026i do not think "populism" is a very useful word when people use it to mean both "right wing white nationalists" and "left wingers who want higher taxes on rich people and medicare for all" 1641878
Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.socialRevolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Centrists' fake moral panic about Hasan Piker is really about one thing: cementing corporate donors' control over the Democratic Party. prospect.org/2026/05/12/t...prospect.orgThird Way or the Highway - The American ProspectThe centrist outfit’s latest foray into the culture wars isn’t about a streamer—it’s about entrenching oligarch control of influence and electoral infrastructure. 29421
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Is that including the various stages of training? 100
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 23/08/2026He also pays for creepy billboards extolling himself around the Austin area. 110
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I haven’t really looked into it but I guess I get the vague sense there are some claims going around that exaggerates the water usage of AI data centers, but that some of the pushback is very selective, too. Is there a best summary of the actual water usage of AI? 250
Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.socialEoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026“From the beginning, Russiagate was used by a shellshocked liberal establishment to explain away Trump’s victory in a way that didn’t implicate the Democrats.”theintercept.comRIP to the Russiagate LiberalsWith Alex Vindman and George Conway’s losses, Democratic voters are forcefully rejecting the notion that Russia is to blame for America’s ills. 9587
Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Oh no! Well, I’m sure everyone tried their best, and that’s what counts 516745
manisnotabird.bsky.social @manisnotabird.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I’m glad as a teenager I read/watched a bunch of books/movies I maybe one quarter understood at the time! 000
Reposted by @manisnotabird.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026After Ben-Gvir called to kill 40 Palestinians daily, pro-Israel groups & officials insist he doesn’t represent Israel. But he’s the head of Israeli national security. And he’s had the job since 2022 (minus two months). And, in fact, between October 2023 - 2025, Israel killed 92 Palestinians daily.zeteo.comPro-Israel Groups Want You to Believe That Israel’s National Security Minister… Doesn’t Represent IsraelParts of the pro-Israel lobby are calling for the far-right Itamar Ben-Gvir to be ousted from government, after he called for the mass murder of Palestinians. So what will they do when he isn’t? 12664320