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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 9h

"even if the document weren’t so inadequate and official renaming so pathetic, nobody is left in Oval Office* w/ self-respect or competence to spell 'United States' correctly... nobody gives a rat’s ass to make propaganda at least look serious" @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/09/30/i...

another banger from Marcy: In addition, the single thing that such documents must do is assign accountability for implementing it — naming the person who will go to jail for hacks that do not function as intended. This does not. Bullet 2 “empowers” an internal team to ensure that “any issues identified are remediated,” but it doesn’t say that that internal team (or anyone else) has to do the remediation. Bullet 4 requires a committee on the board that will “receive reports” and “ensure any issues identified are remediated.” But it doesn’t hold them accountable for remediating those issues themselves. The passive voice lurks where it is most dangerous, where someone is accountable for remediating the things that go wrong.

But even if the document weren’t so inadequate and the official renaming so pathetic, there is no one left inside the Oval Office with the self-respect or competence to spell “United States” correctly. There is no one inside the Oval Office who gave a rat’s ass to make this propaganda at least look serious.

This was not a commitment to make AI safe for humanity. Rather, it was a commitment to collectively tell the public that the Masters of the Universe can take care of this themselves, without regulation.

And even the propaganda was too slovenly to get basic details right.

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Mike Bennett @mikehypercube.bsky.social · 7h

He already outran the tiger. That's all he needed to do.

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Mike Bennett @mikehypercube.bsky.social · 9h

Also why can't we call it a palinilap? Or an emordrome. Since apparently we're renaming stuff these days.

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Mike Bennett @mikehypercube.bsky.social · 20h

They don't have to outrun the tiger of reality, just the slow runners that make up their base.

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Mike Bennett @mikehypercube.bsky.social · 20h

Everything he says is basically "What will you say to demonstrate that you are prepared to live in my reality?" The odder the reality, the more apparent the performance.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."

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cmgiovann.bsky.social @cmgiovann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they had to choose between a sane woman and a crazy man. Unconscious sexism has real-world results.

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Mike Bennett @mikehypercube.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cyberpunk was cool when it was us in the 90s riffing off how a future dystopia of say the 2020s might look.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

seeing their names next to trump’s like they run sovereign states is a real cyberpunk moment

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Believe it or not, a lot of people do not have to-do lists. And the the lists many of them have are not structured for an ai agent to be helpful. This isn’t groundbreaking. If you have ever watched the evening news or read even a single story about people who aren’t like you, it is pretty basic

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Mike Bennett @mikehypercube.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meanwhile on a planet somewhere...

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Mike Bennett @mikehypercube.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

God is drawing on America with a sharpie

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Mike Bennett @mikehypercube.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You should be able to clap your hands and run at them. Like cats.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Siri, show me the deliberate destruction of eight decades of American-led international diplomacy and cooperation in one photograph:

Screenshot of a September 28, 2026, post on ex-Twitter by right-wing foreign policy analyst, professor, author and former Trump Department of Defense senior policy adviser Matthew Koenig, showing the lobby of the US State Department adorned with 200 American flags:

“The US State Department lobby used to display the flags of the roughly 200 countries with which the US maintains diplomatic relations. Now, it displays 200 American flags, to remind State Department employees who they work for.”

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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg @factforce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#Russia Whitaker’s statement illustrates EXACTLY why the #US has failed completely in #Ukraine: They do not understand the objectives of the parties involved in the war. Consequently, success through diplomacy is impossible. ⤵️

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Mike Bennett @mikehypercube.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Eventually one of these will learn to fly a kite. That will be interesting.

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Subscatter @subscatter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today my wife and I are going to take a one time trip (for about 11 blocks) in a Waymo. I hate the tech and prefer paying a real human if taking a ride (Taxi, Uber, etc.). Also feel it is something I want to experience one time. 🤪

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I long for a back-to-basics web: Markdown for text, JPEG images, no video, no Javascript or other client-side scripting, writable by a human being with a text editor. Make it as advertising/corporate hostile as possible. And above all keep it *small*. In other words, web like it's 1996 again.

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Mike Bennett @mikehypercube.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Kill them all. God will know His own!" (Said by a leader of the Inquisition some time way back)

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Maciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.

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John Rowan @jrowanbxl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Developing on this from yesterday, since I see we're arguing about whether the UK would need to adopt the euro and join Schengen. Basically, during accession negotiations, joining countries get to ask for some special favours.

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Mike Bennett @mikehypercube.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Systeme Internationale might want a word. Though obviously he won't have heard of that.

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gpnel.bsky.social @gpnel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Let's not forget the entire Republican party that has stood behind him And that has allowed him, to do what he's doing? And get to where he's at today and also allowed him and his administration to wreck havoc across this nation to its people and indirectly to the entire global economy

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Mike Bennett @mikehypercube.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We were going to be millionaires by Christmas. Ads on the Tube started having http:// on them and we went wild.

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Mike Bennett @mikehypercube.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One thing I will say for Trump. He found a cure for Imposter Syndrome.

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Mike Bennett @mikehypercube.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Truly insightful and concise thread.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it also looks like he stole his mustache off the guy behind him

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter.

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Mike Bennett @mikehypercube.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

None of them are as stupid as they seem. They just say things that are as stupid as they believe their supporters are (and usually they are right).

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Bad Wolf @bad-wolfz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I thought I read that 20% was the always going to be the base of a population to accept authoritarianism. And we can do better. But with all the riechwing propoganda it's enough to throw them out and focus on the rest of the population to now try to do something about this mess.

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The Cat Knows -- Fvck Trump & MAGA 💙🌊🇺🇦 @hissyseesall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Decades of right-wing propaganda, unchecked, since Reagan shitcaned the Fairness Doctrine and ownership Rules went by the wayside. Also schemes to funnel wealth to the top in full bloom. Making life harder for the rest. Lot of damaged Minds and lives out there. Also, some people are just assholes.🙄

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Mike Bennett @mikehypercube.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yup, that's about right. I guess in reading this stuff in abstract history, I never realised that accepting authoritarianism came via accepting the behaviour of a complete buffoon and not being embarrassed by it.

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Mike Bennett @mikehypercube.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's worrying that 20% of the population of a major Western nation appear to have no basic discernment.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026

Idea: no corporate welfare, subsidies, or government contracts for corporations whose employees need to rely on government assistance because of low wages.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Any other administration, if for some reason it was trying to make a version of this statement, would say in the second half that they were FIGHTING BACK against the "fake news" (which they might also rephrase). It's revealing that this administration has to say it's "instituting an assault".

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Mike Bennett @mikehypercube.bsky.social · 23/09/2026