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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 1h

Once again, Newsome is giving every other Democrat who runs against him in the 28 primary hammers to metaphorically beat him with in any debate.

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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 11h

I have thought about this a good bit. How many times have people in the White House generated AI slop and shoved it in his face to get him on board with their ideas?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12h

Again, only <Republicans> get to talk about US citizens, let alone human beings, let alone other elected officials, like this. Which is why it's so exhausting to listen to Ezra Douthglesias & everyone else tell Democrats that they need to moderate & stop talking funny & reach out to Real Folkz.

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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is one of those things I have thought about for a long time. We need to talk about all forms of Greek life in colleges.

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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What a soulless existence these folks must have. "Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts!"

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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026

BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned

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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Way too little discussion about fact Republican Elite (1) live in twisted fantasy information echochamber run by Musk & Murdoch & Mercer & other right-wing billionaires that destroys their sense of reality & incentive to govern (2) are absurd people without decency, shame, love for neighbor or US.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's kind of crazy that the Natalie Harp news cycle raised some extremely valid questions about the extent of her influence on our octogenarian narcoleptic, none were answered and the press just stopped wondering.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's the CRT TV chart basically everywhere outside the USA

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

being in animation, its not from AI. the streaming bubble bursting cuz everyone hopped on the grain cuz it undermined unions, less regulations and more mergers are what lead to the loss. AI is just what people think but it started way before that

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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's an arrogance to things like this terrible AI video and the people in that Cruel Kids Table New York Magazine piece. They all came in thinking they won some monumental victory. That the economy would explode and they'd have some bachanal version of a MAGA 1920's.

A group of young Maga people at an inauguration party.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 27/09/2026

SUPER excited for this, after a year of chasing the angle, 30 minutes of waddling around up and down a parking garage, and over 6 hours of editing: A murder of crows flies towards the camera, in front of the full Moon, set to Blind Guardian's "Nightfall" and the sound of the crows themselves. 🪶 🐦‍⬛

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...

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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels

Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

It’s really stunning how the USA has so swiftly shifted from being one of the most techno-optimistic and tech-industry-loving countries on earth, to a country where most people seem to assume - not incorrectly, at least in many cases - that tech is out to get them.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All this "AI is hacking government websites" is what TRON did with the MCP in 1982.

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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NEWS @status.news: The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance. The full story: www.status.news/p/white-hous...

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The Source Behind The Ban

The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned.

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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I keep looking for SC Senate polling data and there doesn't seem like there is much high quality. And the ones there are have a smaller difference than I'd imagine. I know SC Dems have a high floor and low ceiling, but hmmm.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.

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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Look I never saw a crappy family movie from the 1990's and I wasn't going to change that anytime soon."

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill

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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When he ends up on a debate stage it's going to be very easy for everyone else running to beat him with metaphorical hammers for a lot of stuff he has said and done.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.

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Retroist @retroist.com · 20/09/2026

Fleer Pac-Man Stickers (No. 11 of 54) Slide Out The Side Door & I'm Cookin’ Now

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I just don’t think there’s anything he can do that the MSM would label as fascist

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 17/09/2026

Well they finally did it. DOGE got rid of my friend Anne, the only remaining person at the web design system for the entire US government. The replacement appears to be AI-generated code with no dedicated human oversight.

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GSA’s web design system head replaced with Treasury AI engineer

The U.S. Web Design System is intended to help the federal government build accessible and mobile-friendly websites.

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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The hot dog suit gif, but with a noose around his neck.

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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was just saying to someone that the Dropout folks would go well with The Muppets, so...

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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Look, I've explained Bronze Age Pervert to my parents, so this is the next step.

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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'll be frank, two races which will make me get some sense of how good for Dems the night will be is SC-01, a district that was gerrymandered relatively recently to be safer for Republicans, and the SC Senate race. If SC-01 flips, and the Senate seat is close, or an upset, hold on folks.

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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What have you done to volunteer? Hope is great, action is better.

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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Apple TV, the Bluesky of streaming services?

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A GAO investigation into how much Trump's various name changes and vanity monuments to himself cost the US taxpayer would be a worthy undertaking.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 14/09/2026

Funny and true thread

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

In Beijing, a think tank at Renmin University recently published an assessment titled
"Thank Trump," which wryly hailed his efforts to hasten the "twilight of an empire," by undermining America's alliances, civil service, scientific institutions, and democratic credibility. In the past two years, the international approval rating of the U.S. has dropped nearly forty points, according to a worldwide survey by the Alliance of Democracies; in multiple polls, China now rates higher than the U.S.

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