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Just a geek with an interest in the world. Need more empathy and kindness in the world.

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orangecatstargrep.bsky.social @orangecatstargrep.bsky.social · 6h
Aaron provides a valuable service and let’s all of us see the video coverage of the day. In addition he runs a great daily coverage report. Support small journalists that give us useful info like this on a daily basis.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...
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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan
How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Oh my God Taskmaster has hit Hulu. I repeat all seasons of Taskmaster are on Hulu. If you've never watched Taskmaster go start watching it literally right now
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Karen H @karenmhj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember how, if asked, new Yorkers would say not to ever vote for trump? I'm a Chicagolander: Do NOT vote for Rahm. He was dumb enough to actually hire Musk's Boring co to drill tunnels through the existing tunnels under Chicago, for a drive to ohare, when there's ALREADY a train.
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 28/09/2026
Well well well, I wonder how we got here, Mr. Karl Rove: www.sacurrent.com/news/politic...
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Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by 'Nazis'
The Bush-era GOP political operative also said Republicans would be winning the battle for Texas' U.S. Senate seat if John Cornyn was the nominee.
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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I continue to hate that the “computer-illiterate elderly people falling prey to computer-oriented scams” demographic seems to include every American politician.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Planning dinner is, for many many many people, about what they have on hand, what they can afford, how work schedules change day-to-day, kids’ complicated schedules, individual preferences. The idea that this just a series of tasks is a huge cultural blindspot — which was my original point.
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Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes. This. 💯 When most folks who work service and retail jobs have no set shift schedule that is only scheduled out a week in advance with fluctuating hours, this is insane utopian fiction of the rich and stable. Dinner is more like Jazz for most of us.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 27/09/2026
It's important for Democrats to go on shows like Rogan's. He has a lot of dumb ideas, but ultimately Rogan is a conservative and not a reactionary. Getting conservatives to feel safe with change is what progressives must do. Separate the uninformed normies from the deplorables.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 28/09/2026
The idea that Democrats' views of reproductive rights are harmful to them is just flagrantly wrong. Solid majorities in every state support keeping birth control and abortion legal. Anyone claiming Dems are "too far left on abortion" is either uninformed or lying.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
whenever I fuck up and do some stupid shit at work I'm going to start saying I "went rogue"
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
On the record, I DO think AI has the potential to be extremely dangerous in terrifying ways that we need to research and anticipate: I also want a truly diverse set of people who aren’t all part of the same millenarian Silicon Valley doom cult doing that research and safety work.
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Brunhilde2525 @brunhilde2525.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sadly, par for the course with Bernie. He talks a good game, but good lord he puts his trust in the worst people (for example, his senior campaign staff during that last run for prez).
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I Don't Want to Wear Pants @xehtfodrol.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nothing is more inherently untrustworthy than every time people talk about regulations, we immediately go to the people who have a financial stake in what's about to be regulated and ask them how they want it to work.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
I regret to inform you all that Bernie Sanders is in fact taking meetings with noted rationalist wacko Eliezer Yudkowsky over what AI regulations should look like. x.com/SenSanders/s...
Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders
Will Al become smarter than humans?
If so, is humanity in danger?
I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading Al experts that question.
Here's what they had to say:
ERNIE ANDERS
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The Als are much, much, much more powerful.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
@ESYudkowsky • Mar 4
My thanks to Senator Sanders; as to other legislators on all sides of any political aisle, and to any human being on Earth who now stands
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Martin Gardner @mglovesfun.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
‘Criticism of me is a threat to national security.’
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@FurrBooksFan.bsky.social @furrbooksfangirl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@FurrBooksFan.bsky.social 🎵Don't let it be forgot that once there was a spot For one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot ...🎵. scroll to about 1.50. It doesn't have to be this way: youtu.be/-RYiL-7V7IY?...
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JFK's Iconic Speech on Arts and Politics (1962) | The Kennedy Center
YouTube video by The Kennedy Center
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“In a well-organized essay, critically evaluate this statement of the president. Be sure to draw on the material you learned in Introduction to International Relations, especially the lectures & readings on trade, the balance of payments, & the political economy of monetary policy.”
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Suboptimal that the president is a fucking moron.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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Steel Rat Gamer @steelrat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
All this cruelty and torture was designed to make immigrants, who had committed no crimes, to self deport. If there is justice they will all get U-visas
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14/09/2026
1/3 Here's a riddle: Why did a Goshen Police Department officer search 6,474 automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks, representing data from 82,413 cameras, on May 7, 2025? www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As
With no warrant requirements, limited guardrails, and deficient audit processes, ALPR databases have fostered a culture of unrestricted access to everyone’s location information. This culture of
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026
oh we should regulate the supplement industry out of existence. we’d knock out half of right wing podcasts in the process. bsky.app/profile/hamm...
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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This weekend at the annual block party/flea market fundraiser for the community garden, Evelyn Normielib talked to me about her belief that Republican politicians are all pedophile traitors who should be castrated to protect society and also how Jon Ossoff seems like such a nice young man
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Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Really is healthier to go outside and go to a Democratic Party crab boil or something and meet an Evelyn Normielib and all the nice old church ladies that hold far stronger (and weirder) beliefs than what you find on here.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When Joe diGenova resigns because the stuff he’s being asked to do by Trump and Blanche is too unethical for him, that’s when you know it was REALLY fucking shady shit.
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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I see that Very Smart People are arguing that Trump's bribe isn't a bribe. That doesn't matter. Every Democrat should say that Trump is engaged in bribery, and that bribery is unconstitutional.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 10/09/2026
A new Medicare program uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests. New records obtained by EFF show that this program has resulted in widespread delays and denials of care, operational chaos, and reports of patients waiting in pain. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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New Records Reveal Problems with Medicare’s AI Prior Authorization
EFF sued the government for information a new Medicare program that uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests for certain medical services. Today, we’re releasing approximately 1,000 pages of
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Taryn @thayden.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Greg Abbott 🧵 He has had 11.5 YEARS to make Texas better for Texans. He’s had the office. He’s had the power. He’s had the money. He’s had ELEVEN AND A HALF DAMN YEARS. And yet some folks are still standing around going, “Maybe THIS time he’ll do something.”
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 09/09/2026
People who are not religious still need a philosophy of life. It helps a lot when times are tough, and when we're thinking about private and social ethics. We need a lot more discussions on these topics, and also communities built around them and public service. A starting point 👇
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
been talking to my therapist about the lindsey clancy case a lot (we both live like a county away from the trial) and she brought up a point I see other people saying: that women choosing to share their own ppd/ppp experiences is dangerous, because bad actors will use it to ramp up misogyny
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
No, not irreversible. But it will almost certainly take more than one Democratic term to fix. Which is why I’ve been so insistent that folks stop the goddamn purity tests and vote responsibly in November. We aren’t looking for perfect candidates. We’re looking for better than Republicans.
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helchose.bsky.social @helchose.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I thought these chucklefucks hate NYC?
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If I had my way, the next President would write an Executive Order summarily repealing every other EO since the beginning of time, without exception, to take effect in 90 days Use the 90-day period to identify which EOs should be recreated
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you anthropomorphize everything an AI does, a reader will be able to better understand you, but they will understand AI less! And helping them actually understand AI is supposedly what you're aiming for!
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's almost like explaining complex ideas is a communication skill and good writing is not just a matter of monkey typing words into a CMS. Maybe not everyone can do it? Even with AI assistance?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This has become an annual start-of-the-school-year flashback for me. Academics: Please, for the love of God, don't do this shit.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In 2029, we are going to have to pass court reform to kick out Alito and Thomas, some of the Groups will probably be mad about it, and we need the next president to tell them to suck it up anyway
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
the HRW statement is insane: “yeah Orban was bad but you’re moving too quickly to clean up his mess and kick the fascists out of government!” it’s legitimately a bad parody of liberalism. these people have lost the fucking plot. we do not have time to navel gaze while restoring democracy
"Hungary's new government has a mandate to set right the damage done to the rule of law during 16 years of Fidesz rule, including reversing its arbitrary stacking of key state institutions with Fidesz loyalists," said Benjamin Ward, deputy Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "But restoring the rule of law requires respecting due process and taking time to ensure genuine consultation before enacting sweeping constitutional changes."
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Mike Short @nyshort54.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The same damn thing happened with Y2K. Millions of technologists spent millions of hours, and dollars, to make sure nothing catastrophic happened. And then when nothing happened, so many people accused us of crying wolf. Since I was one of those unsung heroes, I really resented it.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A series of headlines and news anchors talking about all the health disasters occurring on this administration's watch, with a clip of RFK talking like a fucking loon. Had Enough? Vote Democratic
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/08/2026
Death at the claw machine:

Dolly Parton?! Is [NAME REDACTED] even in this thing?
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orangecatstargrep.bsky.social @orangecatstargrep.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
One hopes the judge who reviews this “dismissal with prejudice in the interest of justice” will actually demand a full accounting of all the BS that the AG allowed in the MN case. The article a a great read, and the actual deposition show just staggering corruption and brazen lying by HSI/CBP.
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