Reposted by RHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15hThere are a lot of details in here about Zuck releasing a half-baked product, but one thing that really stands out is just how weird these folks are. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t... 941361320
Reposted by RWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You NEED to understand that this is happening in America. It’s the intentional plan of a vile white supremacist in the White House, who sees this as an opportunity to finally torture and expel all the nonwhite people he hates. 117828
Reposted by R DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is clearly not acceptable 85497563300
Reposted by RWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller 501441446
Reposted by RDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026He is explicitly calling for pogroms. (I ask again: at what point will our major news organizations finally acknowledge that he is either mentally ill or a vile racist or both?) 24379122
Reposted by RAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026WHOA. This is big news. Mr. Soliman is a 31-year-old gay man from Egypt who came here at 3 with a green card. He lost his green card after a conviction, but an immigration judge found that he would be persecuted in Egypt and barred sending him there. He's locked in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea now. 182143752
Reposted by RKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake. 1423224852
Reposted by RProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/20264/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck. 6625681254
Reposted by Rmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'm on the edge of my seat over here. a journalist in South Africa is digging into the subject of my absolute favorite series of episodes of weird little guys -- the South African pro-apartheid terrorist who married an American klansman.dailymaverick.co.zaThe pipeline between US white supremacists and the SA rightDecades before Ernst Roets lobbied the US, a little-known Kempton Park woman linked the AWB to global neo-Nazis – a story that sheds light on international support for the farm murder cause.… 852891
Reposted by RTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 41120543123
Reposted by RPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026WASHINGTON (AP) — DC judge permanently dismisses case charging ex-Olympian with vandalizing Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. 1174799
Reposted by RChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should. 525101882232
Reposted by RAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down... 724360643
Reposted by RFlying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This stuff just seems crazy. Like everyone has lost their marbles. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...nytimes.comIs Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. ModelsIn a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious. 3173
Reposted by RAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030971089
Reposted by RBenjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026FIFTH REPORT: CHILDREN HARMED AT ALPHA SCHOOL'S BOOT CAMP Just over a week ago, 73 Alpha School high school students were left almost entirely unsupervised for three days in the Texas wilderness. It was a Fyre Festival-like disaster. buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/fifth-repo...buildcognitiveresonance.substack.comFIFTH REPORT: CHILDREN HARMED AT ALPHA SCHOOL’S BOOT CAMPStudent hospitalized during Survival Challenge on wilderness ranch; police investigation is ongoing; other concerning incidents re student safety and privacy; one guide fired; also Little B. Diddies 68949
Reposted by Rve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 28/09/2026It's a deeply authoritarian model of information access that doesn't trust, and flatly disallows, individuals from searching, discovering, encountering, and accessing information resources based on their own intentions and actions. 25511
Reposted by RDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life. 14095442208
Reposted by RParis Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026ChatGPT provided the shooter instructions on how to avoid OpenAI’s moderation and advice on mass killing, right up until the morning of the shooting itself when the shooter asked what time of day school shootings tend to occur. OpenAI must answer for what it enabled. disconnect.blog/the-media-ha... 114313
Reposted by RFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026Eliezer Yudkowsky did quite literally come out and say that he wrote Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality as a "good way to recruit International Mathematical Olympiadists" (who are teenagers, a group that, in 2010, one could safely assume had read Harry Potter). hpmor.com/notes/119/ 1329348
Reposted by RFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026The immensely politically influential Eliezer Yudkowsky believes that nuclear war is better than letting AI get too smart - and hey, it’ll all work out for humanity if we make sure a small “reproductive population” survives the cleansing fire. Cool! Normal! 6145270
Reposted by Rjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's 164113082110
R @paderofsky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is a fairly insane thing to say, and only somebody up to their eyes in the tech field could think that "developing your own software" is analogous to taking pictures on your phone. 100
Reposted by RKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The family of a 37-year-old woman who died while pregnant filed a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and others, alleging state law prevented her from getting a potentially life-saving abortion.ms.nowFamily of Texas woman who died after being denied an abortion sues Paxton, medical providers“The basic principle here is you cannot take away someone’s life, as a state, and not be held liable for doing so,” a lawyer for the family said. 6937661090
Reposted by RIan Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses 227131663348
Reposted by RJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse www.404media.co/theres-a-100...404media.coThere’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online. 34863254
Reposted by RFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/09/2026The argument seems to be more that “these tools will help normal people build stuff that they can make money off of,” but where’s the evidence that this is happening? People ARE using LLMs to code Stuff, often quite cool stuff - but is this making them money? Idk? 2129111
Reposted by RAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026NEW: 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.🧵 69085974167
Reposted by RMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026i saw some commentary on here about how one never sees Charlie Kirk anymore in a serious context, and it made me feel the need to take y’all on a short walk through the halls of congress one year after his death i only made it past about half of their offices bc I only had like 40 mins at lunch but 4748194
Reposted by RChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.” 12561091621
Reposted by RBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026A lot of people asking me how this isn't the New InfoWars and guess what maybe it is? 2833726440
Reposted by RGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 09/09/2026I don’t want to grow my own crops, I don’t want to rear my own sheep, I don’t want to knit my own clothes from wool, I don’t want to pay a subscription fee to build my own loom, I don’t want to build my own search engine, I shouldn’t *have* to do any of these things in order for them to work well. 111019
Reposted by RStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"Doctors, lawyers and engineers" is an international online Nazi trope. The "joke" is that non-White people are too stupid to be anything other than a criminal or someone who leeches social services. Read a Spanish newspaper about Ceuta, e.g., and you'll see "médicos y ingenieros" in the comments. 292178627
Reposted by Rjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026anyway i think DC statehood is a non negotiable. only way to give DC residents the tools to protect themselves. 373421408
Reposted by RBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.bloodinthemachine.comWhy office workers are turning against AIWhether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power. 201547454
Reposted by RLaura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Sometimes the purpose of your life is to serve as an example to others. krcrtv.com/news/local/t...krcrtv.comThree Mount Shasta climbers rescued after relying on AI to plan climbThree novice climbers were rescued from Mount Shasta on Sunday after becoming lost, running low on supplies and spending an unplanned night in Mud Creek Canyon, 619939
Reposted by RWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026ICE has to be completely scoured away 1158087
Reposted by RLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It's a pretty big fucking problem that no one can say for sure whether the President of the United States knows this is AI 1254077769
Reposted by RThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 30/08/2026how to read the map or drive the car. Giving them shortcuts will simply get them lost in the woods and eaten by wolves. They need foundational, core skills and knowledge, so that when their company have them use something from the generative AI suite of programs, they know what the input and output 325916
Reposted by RGodzilla de Harina @owlframe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Or even things like the Nepal disaster- people generally aren’t aware that an enormous amount of USAID-coordinated resources would’ve in the past been immediately deployed to help with these things and now just simply aren’t 423059
Reposted by RRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives. 14584482882
Reposted by RBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation. 440107073484
Reposted by RAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Something else - and no, I’m not making an original point here — that endlessly infuriates me about the trump administration’s siege of Springfield Ohio is that the Haitians are there primarily because they were invited there, largely by local conservative political and business leaders… 252678582
Reposted by RPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026this makes sense, because Ross Douthat is a dumbass moron 1381643
Reposted by RWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/08/2026If you said "The president looks exactly like a man dying of cardiovascular disease, I'm not sure he's got two years left in him" what is anyone going to do about it? They'll go on TV and clutch their pearls and also, it'll FORCE EVERYONE TO TALK ABOUT HOW TERRIBLE TRUMP LOOKS ALL THE TIME 428116
Reposted by RSam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 23/08/2026The death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors 2464190768
Reposted by Rjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/08/2026john roberts, basically: "trump can lawlessly destroy the white house and build a new installation with unauthorized taxpayer dollars, as a treat" 1353313746
