Sign in

ordinarylight.bsky.social

@ordinarylight.bsky.social
148 followers 127 following 65 posts

I'm a software engineer at bel.company and a PhD student in the Dassonville Perception and Action lab (ion.uoregon.edu/research/faculty-pa…) at the University of Oregon.

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 28/09/2026
“Same goes for the claims that these companies are already profitable… [essentially] the companies are claiming that they are so cool that their profitability can only be measured using a novel, secret form of mathematics.” www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
thenerve.news
Cory Doctorow: AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition
The US giants would love to stop battling each other and be protected from China – and they might have hit on just the narrative to make that possible, writes our tech columnist
517269
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026
Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Amazon achieves enshittification inception; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/c... #Pluralistic 1/
Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

Image:
Steve Jurvestson (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Bezos%27_iconic_laugh_crop.jpg

CC BY 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
58029
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Banger report from @shaanthx.bsky.social on self-dealing from Oregon's Republican gov. hopeful. Sen. Christine Drazan registered a new consulting business in 2023, then a new nonprofit 3 weeks later, then paid her consulting biz $100k from the nonprofit. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/08/04/h...
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
How Drazan’s consulting firm pocketed nearly $100k from her nonprofit with little oversight  • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The situation offers insight into how one of Oregon’s most successful recent Republican politicians handled her finances ahead of a campaign.
315274
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026
Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
bloomberg.com
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
8637141861
ordinarylight.bsky.social @ordinarylight.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
One of our cats is so obsessed with these videos that he has learned to recognize the sound the youtube app makes on our TV and will come running from whatever room he is in to watch. It confuses him, though, when he looks behind the TV and finds nothing there.
110
ordinarylight.bsky.social @ordinarylight.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
We are caught in a class war declared by the wealthy. Refusal to engage is not virtue, it is surrender.
020
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"It's like watching a train crash. Deliberately targeting the poorest and most amateur investors and locking them in until the top of the ponzi scheme can get out. And unlike 2008, everyone can see this happening." $SPCX www.patreon.com/BindingChaos...
It's like watching a train crash. Deliberately targeting the poorest and most amateur investors and locking them in until the top of the ponzi scheme can get out. And unlike 2008, everyone can see this happening.

"For most of history, getting into a marquee IPO at the offer price was a privilege reserved for big accounts. Fidelity just changed that for SpaceX, opening the offering to any customer with at least $2,000 in a retail brokerage account, a fraction of the threshold that has historically gated access to hot new issues.

That's an easy in. The costly out is in the fine print: a 15-calendar-day leash, and penalties that escalate with each early sale until a third strike triggers a lifetime ban on Fidelity IPOs tied to your SSN.

Fidelity tied the lower bar to this SpaceX offering specifically, and has not adopted it as a permanent policy.

Insiders aren't on the same leash. SpaceX reserved up to 5% of the offering for a directed-share program, shares for "certain employees and persons" its executives pick, with no lockup at all. They bought at $135 and can sell on day one, roughly $3.75 billion in stock that can hit the market immediately while retail waits 15 days. One early investor’s 7% stake is set to be worth close to $90 billion.

Fidelity's 15-day window is the shortest of the brokers offering SpaceX, well under FINRA's 30-day benchmark"

https://www.patreon.com/posts/spacex-flying-on-159613360
17414199
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Trump is stealing your entry fees to national parks.
1311884908
ordinarylight.bsky.social @ordinarylight.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... The original Cybertruck
000
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
HEALTH @health.band · 23/04/2026
R-TYPE V :: OUT NOW :: i.hlth.band/r-typev
i.hlth.band
HEALTH R-TYPE V
Out Now!
16422
ordinarylight.bsky.social @ordinarylight.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It's time to consider that capitalism is incompatible with the existence of AI.
000
ordinarylight.bsky.social @ordinarylight.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
😭
010
ordinarylight.bsky.social @ordinarylight.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
*figuratively
110
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
548166657526
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
HEALTH @health.band · 03/04/2026
A.L.O.N.E. :: NEW SONG :: OUT NOW :: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNVA...
youtube.com
HEALTH :: A.L.O.N.E.
YouTube video by HEALTH
09540
ordinarylight.bsky.social @ordinarylight.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I love this so much. pluralistic.net/2026/03/17/t...
pluralistic.net
Pluralistic: William Gibson vs Margaret Thatcher (17 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
000
ordinarylight.bsky.social @ordinarylight.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Meta would be the worst if the competition were not so strong.
010
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
HEALTH @health.band · 26/03/2026
R-TYPE III :: OUT NOW :: i.hlth.band/r-typeiii
17419
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The United States committed this crime on Cuba
Journalist in Cuba confirms deaths caused by US
14822471327
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 20/03/2026
I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up. youtu.be/h3AtWdeu_G0?...
youtu.be
I spoke to AI agent Claude
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
4791186418
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Vegan4TheAnimals @alayazbvegan17.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
There’s NOTHING “humane” about THIS 👇‼️
132
ordinarylight.bsky.social @ordinarylight.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The one upside of the current malaise in America? Maybe we will discover a small bit of humility, like hope in Pandora's box, when it is all over.
000
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
HEALTH @health.band · 12/03/2026
OUT NOW :: i.hlth.band/r-typeii
38523
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Judy Pancoast @judypancoast.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
#xfileslive
1436
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone] Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.
103992064493
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 03/03/2026
Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why? If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment. Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.
Bernie Sander’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose
18769712047
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
HEALTH @health.band · 26/02/2026
R-TYPE I :: OUT NOW :: lomavista.disco.ac/share-new/56...
211128
ordinarylight.bsky.social @ordinarylight.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
www.goodreads.com/book/show/18... It's not a novel observation that Trump is a symptom and not the cause, but we must be clear-eyed about this. If we manage to rid ourselves of him but leave the systems that pre-determined this moment in place we accomplish nothing. youtu.be/zPGXnhvEp9k?...
goodreads.com
Capital in the Twenty First Century
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation…
010
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Yoko Taro is working on a new Evangelion series. www.evangelion.jp/news/260223-1/
5919
ordinarylight.bsky.social @ordinarylight.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
hi!
000
ordinarylight.bsky.social @ordinarylight.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Hi, back!
010
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 10/02/2026
If you still have a Ring camera, you may want to think about replacing it with something a little less Continental Panopticon. www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
404media.co
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
39659147
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
HEALTH @health.band · 09/02/2026
EXPERIENCE HEALTH :: @turningpointusa.bsky.social
77311
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
van @cobaltmustdie.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
041
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Pete 👎 ABOLISH ICE 👎 @barrelbucket.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #ICEOUT #fascism #terrorists
arstechnica.com
ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face
Global Entry and Precheck revoked three days after incident, court filing says.
26453512507
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
"Four hours after his arrest, he was taken to a hospital emergency room in Edina with swelling and bruising around his right eye and bleeding. A CT scan revealed at least eight skull fractures and life-threatening hemorrhages in at least five areas of his brain..." apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com
ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital
Nurses in Minneapolis doubted federal immigration officers' claims about a Mexican immigrant's severe injuries.
692133436956
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
van @cobaltmustdie.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Spying on me trying to spy on them
032
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
ProgGrrl @proggrrl.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Tom Morello live in Minneapolis
112244305292
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Don Lemon @donlemonofficial.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
My first remarks since being arrested last night.
961248866586
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Sitting President attempts to steal $10 BILLION from taxpayers. The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second. And the Hunter hunters are silent. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
1080123345436
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
The American Prospect @prospect.org · 28/01/2026
Google is creating AI-powered “agentic” tools including shopping assistants. Many fear they are not only monopolizing online commerce with AI, but also leveraging user data to enhance targeted shopping results. More on this story from @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/CgtvaOI
trib.al
Organized Money: The New Frontier in Price Discrimination - The American Prospect
We talk to Lindsay Owens about Google’s plan to turn its Gemini AI into your personal shopping assistant.
32316
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
youtube.com
BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
20258272379
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
“An administration official gave away the game to Punchbowl News, admitting that these “de-escalatory measures” are about placating Senate Democrats so they don’t seize this moment to demand restrictions on ICE as part of any government funding package.” newrepublic.com/article/2057...
newrepublic.com
Donald Trump Is Frightened
Trump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place.
35360832639
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Trump regime ICE thugs have been spotted driving around Arizona attacking unarmed civilians at random with drive by pepper spray attacks. They are escalating their attacks on the public nationwide. #3E #GoodvsEvil
14620741205
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
van @cobaltmustdie.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I hope Green Day starts a fuck ICE chant
141
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/01/2026
I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:
16367112261
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 27/01/2026
I'm going to share this photo again and again because it wounds me again and again. I have photos of my own child who looks exactly like this, except they're not being used as bait by the Gestapo to entrap the father before they send them both hundreds of miles away.
26023
ordinarylight.bsky.social @ordinarylight.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
www.ms.now/opinion/alex...
ms.now
Opinion | Alex Pretti demonstrated the right kind of masculinity
MAGA is obsessed with "masculinity" — Pretti showed them what it really looks like.
020
Reposted by @ordinarylight.bsky.social
Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
496171856826