Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialEric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating. 18167641970 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843501194 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 01/08/2026One of the most important issues of our time is that the future of humanity is presently being authored by people who have nothing but total contempt for humanity and seek the erasure of everything that gives being a human meaning. It’s not just annoying. It doesn’t just suck. It’s existential. 843145812 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialshanley @shanley.com · 10/06/2026What happened to critical thinking? What happened to journalists covering material reality? What happened to the fucking FACTS of the matter? What happened to NOT trusting every suspicious op-shaped thing fascists say? What happened to NOT letting fascists tell you what to do and say and write? 1193 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 07/06/2026It was wrong what the wealth class in America did to people around the world. It was wrong what they did to our vulnerable populations before this widespread, accelerating fascism. It was a rot and a cancer that prepared this country for the direction it's now in. We have to see that. 17518 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Continuing to trot out politicians who just keep telling everyone that nothing is actually wrong and that we need more trust of institutions is the quickest way to ensure the Right and the wealth class who bankrolls them will continue to grow more powerful and gain more control. 113323 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 31/05/2026After studying conspiracy theories and capitalism for years, what sticks out is that the Right always takes distrust of capitalism and redirects the rightful anger from the people who deserve it to vulnerable populations in order to create faux-populism to further their own agendas. 418541 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 31/05/2026It’s important to recognize that paranoia and distrust are natural and rightful feelings to have in an era of manipulation, surveillance, oppression, and exploitation. What matters though is that we don’t allow the Far Right to harvest and redirect it on behalf of the wealth class. 10545145 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026You wouldn’t tell someone with cancer that they could cure themselves with “mind body therapies” You wouldn’t suggest that someone with HIV made themselves sick with “negative thoughts” The psychologizing of patients with complex chronic illness is one of the most damaging parts of being disabled 824354 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialBoxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 19/05/2026> Confronting Silicon Valley > Anthropic Onstage Pick one. Tired of this thing where progressives think Anthropic are good guys just because Hegseth beefed with them. Anthropic didn't have any problem at all with how Palantir was actually using Claude for the Pentagon. 37125 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 15/05/2026AI companies currently subsidize their users $3 to $25 for every dollar of subscription. As a result, users are very sensitive to *any* price or rate limit changes, and have no idea what their actual token burn is. Token-based billing will be lethal at scale. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what... 12987196 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11/05/2026This right here. I abhor capitalism but it always tickles me when there’s a capitalist trend, everyone in the market does the same bullshit, homogenous thing, and then somebody steps out and innovates in the other direction and everything swings. It’s the most predictable thing imaginable. 013623 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Preventing fear seems to be the #1 priority for a lot of public health people. Preventing disease is a distant #2. 0285 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 24/04/2026i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous. 101166903373 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 18/04/2026The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds. Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative. 302813996 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship. 56149535264 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥 164183742859 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialDaniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now 9585022060 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 05/03/2026There’s a genuine gaslighting element to forcing faculty to debate whether to teach with AI. If someone broke into my house & stole from me, my employer wouldn’t ask me to work with them. But that’s what AI did. So, no. 626245 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialKathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026I am starting to wonder if people who spend a lot of time talking to LLMs lose their stamina for actual critical analysis because they're so used to having their own priors reflected back at them in the guise of another's voice. 45929119 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialEleanor from outside @theboatfromjaws.bsky.social · 28/02/2026I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames 15113809 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/02/2026sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this 11477551641 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialDom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 27/02/2026The thing about these broligarchs saying things like "AI will get companies to layoff 40% of their workers" is that their ultimate plan is to kill us all off and live forever in robot bodies they can transfer their consciousness into They don't care if you starve 2359 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialTaylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Overstating the efficacy of our current vaccines and lying to people about the limitations, as Michael and many in the COVID denialist movement do, is actually the number 1 driver of anti vaxx sentiment. People are told they can’t get covid if they get a shot, they get it and immediately lose trustthegauntlet.newsLiberals joined conservatives to mainstream anti-vax beliefs about viruses and public healthViruses are bad for kids' health. Public health is a collective effort. Liberals no longer believe either. 1989 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialTaylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I don’t know why Michael fell into Covid denialism years ago and hasn’t found his way out but this is false. Our current vaccines do not meaningfully reduce transmission, and they certainly do not meaningfully prevent long covid. This is what any long covid treatment center will tell u day 1 312010 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialTaylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Calling a very well known vaccine advocate “anti vaxx” because she VERY correctly calls for people to take supportive measures like masking since our current vaccines do not stop transmission is wild. As someone who actually does vax outreach in LA the lines Michael is pushing feed anti vax ideology 633847 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026This idea of powerful people not being able to get away with enjoying the privileges of their status was offensive to our “populist” overlords who successfully convinced millions people that they had something similar to lose 853587 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026all this stuff makes much more sense if you understand “anti wokeness” as a general backlash to elite accountability more generally, even if you have criticisms of left wing egalitarianism bsky.app/profile/kevi... 141906406 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026“More than 60 days … going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems the water is what makes people sick here.” - 12 year-old imprisoned for 60+ days in Texas concentration camp 71193365 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialChantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I am a simple woman begging liberals to understand that death isn't the only bad outcome when ~48 million people in the U.S. have experienced long Covid, which has no cure 412520 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialBlack Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 13/02/2026So uh, is it just me or has the general ability for people to communicate in writing fallen dramatically over the last few years? 2519820 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection. 239134194753 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation: 149148238309 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialDr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 04/02/2026This Sunday on Straight White American Jesus @ardenthistorian.bsky.social interviews @sethcotlar.bsky.social: 39234 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialEsther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 07/02/2026This awful virus can impact us anywhere we have blood vessels. bsky.app/profile/davi... 16111 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Yes. The folks who study election rumors and conspiracy theories are worried that a forced (and false) confession by Maduro (of 2020 election fraud) is a real possibility, and we’ve already seen some (wink, wink) foreshadowing of such a move. 22971332 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 04/02/2026"If careerists had not been so easy to bribe and blackmail, ordinary people would not have to suffer under this group of sadistic oligarchs and politicians. Our era is the culmination of complicity." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/jackhammer...sarahkendzior.substack.comJackhammering Into the SewerA look through the Epstein files. 9378145 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 31/01/2026Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen share an enduring fascination with eugenics, race science, and transhumanism and there is an entire generation of public intellectuals who benefited and continue to benefit from their patronage. Pinker, Huberman, Attia, Weinstein, etc. 343131858 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 31/01/2026AI coding tools are showing me more and more the clear differences between good programmers and poor ones. There are more shitty programmers than I realized. 813713 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 31/01/2026An entire political movement founded on uncovering hidden messages in documents to discover the powerful secret pedophiles and meanwhile the powerful pedophiles out here sending gmails saying "Hi fellow pedophile when are we meeting to do pedophilia again" 4758691758 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialNome @nome.bsky.social · 31/01/2026It turns out, /Pol/ wasn't just the random offshoot of 4chan, a board set up to kind of contain the right-wing chuds and keep them off the other boards... ... but was, instead, created THE DAY that 4chan's founder met with Epstein. 725672 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 31/01/2026You know how much you have doomscrolled today and whether that is too much. You deserve time to rest and recover. Try not to stay up too late tonight. 311111 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialNome @nome.bsky.social · 31/01/2026I genuinely feel like this knowledge might be an infohazard. I genuinely feel like this might be the revelation that breaks me. "Epstein is responsible for /pol/." 914427 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialmaple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 31/01/2026It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles 192124323966 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Courage is largely a product of empathy, which they deride as a weakness. 2448984 0
Reposted by @padub.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on. 4844101507 0
