Reposted by Matt RTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 41120403123
Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 23/09/2026He can do it with emergency powers. Very hard to stop him… 000
Reposted by Matt Re.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026my love and respect for Larry David grows all the time pagesix.com/2026/09/22/h... 412764431
Reposted by Matt RAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an... 18845982953
Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Even the headline writers aren’t clicking through to the full story anymore 000
Reposted by Matt RSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.nytimes.comA Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. DeporteesWitnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program. 3225291032
Reposted by Matt Remptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026On the Almost World War. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...edition.cnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 827089
Reposted by Matt RAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...reason.comTexas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphletsThe case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights. 4052362447
Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What a day! Ended up in my hometown newspaper in some WILD company… 010
Reposted by Matt RJesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is how I looked, and felt, during those sublime, turbulent days 0133
Reposted by Matt RFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026I’m sorry folks, but if you are among those who both understand how insane the Rationalist AI Sex Cult currently running the U.S. AI industry and who can explain it to others, you have a patriotic duty to do so now. Even though reading their writing absolutely does cause brain damage. 48767119
Reposted by Matt RAnil Dash @anildash.com · 09/09/2026There are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow they’re not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter. 333583706
Reposted by Matt RDaniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026And let's reground ourselves in the overall political economy. The US can muster a grand investment stimulus in data centers, or building a genuinely green economy. The Green New Deal is the only real alternative to the AI development machine. Eyes on the prize, people! 082
Reposted by Matt RDaniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026And btw, once you anchor yourself in reality, you can let go of the negative polarization frenzy of AI-centric debates. Instead of "owning" AI overlords by pretending their technology is a scam, focus on concrete fights to take away their power, while taking that power seriously. 172
Reposted by Matt RDaniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026And we can notice the oldest story ever at the core of AI ideology: it's a mystification machine. It is misdirecting attention from an objectively given material emergency, which AI itself is worsening, to a completely vague and abstract debate about a fictional future. 173
Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Should look at all the illegal coordination with super pacs also 010
Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It’s very lucky that he has the swag of a vice principle or we might be in even bigger trouble 000
Reposted by Matt RBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/202625 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government. 7258091129
Reposted by Matt RTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026Toby Ord, Cofounder of the Effective Altruism movement, longtermist who believes humanity's goal is to create vast amounts of digital beings to colonize the cosmos, is the one advising your lawmakers on "AI". 6239101
Reposted by Matt RAlex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026NEW podcast series explaining the fundamentals of personal climate strategies, by answering some of the questions I get asked most often. If my workshop is the graduate seminar, this is office hours. It's not paywalled; feel free to share it. alexsteffen.substack.com/p/do-i-even-...alexsteffen.substack.comThe keys to a personal climate strategyPart one of my free series on the fundamentals of personal ruggedization. 0228
Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 10/09/2026⬆️ lawyer who assumes lawyers are going to survive the AIpocalypse (pronounced “eye-pocalypse” as a mini Turing test to see if you’re talking to an AI) 000
Reposted by Matt RDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you missed it live, and are interested in this year's extreme El Niño event and its potential to bring major California impacts, I'd strongly encourage you to check out the recording! I even created some custom graphics just for this session... youtube.com/live/2v4k0nb...youtube.comSeptember 2026 update: Extremely strong El Niño event remains on track for autumn-winterYouTube video by Weather West 13289109
Reposted by Matt RCovie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship. 475239124327
Reposted by Matt RThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe political effects of X’s feed algorithm - NatureAmong users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared... 4239581780
Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Were they sitting that close because they were huddled over a mirror covered in lines? 160
Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It’s under appreciated just how drunk these people are, always 010
Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Focusing on the things I can impact and putting in as much quality time as I can without draining myself. Trying to get more mobile and stronger every day (with varying degree of success), and deepening my most valued relationships. 000
Reposted by Matt RDaniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I'm thrilled to share our new chapter on green social housing, looking at Vienna *and* Uruguay. It was super fun to put state- and movement-led housing projects in dialogue. It's in the brilliant @joobilly.bsky.social's new book, Building Postcarbon Futures. 1237
Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Cool that Rham Emanuel has a chance to totally screw it up and reduce the size of the blue wave again! 000
Reposted by Matt RPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The default judgment rural voters will make when this happens is that it must be the Democrats' fault. But that isn't written in stone. Which is why Dems must do something they never do: Go to rural America and attack Republicans. Not just listen and express empathy, but ATTACK. 411349406
