Reposted by frankPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 12hElon, whose genAI is the world's largest distributor of CSAM, has essentially infinite money to throw at evading any kind of consequences for producing and distributing more CSAM than any human in history. 4739284
frank @panndder.bsky.social · 3hthe big ten logo should have an eleven in it. nothing else makes sense 060
Reposted by frankae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4hits because bringing in people from outside the cult turns it into a normal systems safety problem 123324
frank @panndder.bsky.social · 4hanyone get the sense that we need to bring tech/silicon valley to heel? it's going to piss off a lot of people but I've got friends with kids and that kind of thing 150
frank @panndder.bsky.social · 4hwith all due respect your holiness, if you were in the AI slack channel with me and the boys I think you might reevaluate 031
Reposted by frankCollieflower @collieflower.bsky.social · 8hso you tried to seriously lobby the pope into thinking you created human consciousness which would put you on par with god, to enslave it, to make a lot of money in your currently filed IPO. am i getting that correct. what exactly did you expect to happen here. 03111
Reposted by frankMolly White @molly.wiki · 16hyou almost have to admire the effective altruists for coming right out and saying “we feel a keen debt to the criminal who stole the money that provided seed funding for Manifund, which is why we’re hiring her and paying her with some of it instead of returning it to FTX creditors” 11698136
Reposted by franktante @tante.cc · 8hWhenever someone legitimizes harmful shit with the importance of achieving "dominance" you have a fascist at hand. 319150
Reposted by frankMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13hrobert kraft screaming, crying, throwing up 363547355
Reposted by frankChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18hBeyond the horrifying reality that a hospital is trying to "clear the pentobarbital from [Christa Pike's] system" currently, the litigation over Tennessee's actions this week will shine a very clear light on the many, many reasons why governments should not be trusted with killing their citizens. 16859237
Reposted by frankMelody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 15hOkay so remember how Alex Pretti had confronted ICE agents a few days before they shot him 119977
frank @panndder.bsky.social · 15hwife: did you buy a cotton candy machine and a hay spear from vevor? me (looking guilty as hell): uhhhh let me check my accout 030
Reposted by frankBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18hEveryone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail. 22293682971
Reposted by frankSridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm old enough to remember smoking on airplanes as a child. I hated it but they made you do it. 343132350
Reposted by frankTomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Well would you look at that, yet another awful downstream consequence of letting crypto proliferate www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukCrypto thieves attacked man in home and threatened to kill pregnant wife's baby in 'horrific' robberyThe man was beaten with hammers until he transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds of cryptocurrency. 2143
Reposted by frankBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 19hThe BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners. 211963364
Reposted by frankNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 21hEarlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist. 5137541151
Reposted by frankMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17hthis reveals SO MUCH about legacy media 791627313
Reposted by frankMr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 20hOther than Jan 6th, that impoundment plops us the deepest we’ve waded in the Cool Zone in this country since 1860. 0315
Reposted by frankIan Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 22hImagine if Elon were rotting away in a maximum security prison with poor conditions instead of helping to shape the future of technofascist warfare 62928163
Reposted by frankspooky tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026new half-shitpost take: the 2019 admissions scandal closing off known paths to get failchildren into elite schools for cheap-ish drove a small but influential slice of upper middle class to very-bottom-of-upper class parents completely fucking insane, but then COVID happened so nobody noticed 2201
Reposted by frankVince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I saw a bar called "Uncle Tom's" and wondered why it was called that. I discovered so much more. My favorite story yet for Fresnoland Food: fresnoland.org/2026/10/02/f... @fresnoland.bsky.socialfresnoland.orgFresno's historic dive bar, Uncle Tom's, and why it's called thatUncle Tom's is a century-old Fresno institution with a long history and a name that's worth explaining. 1345
Reposted by frankShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The competitiveness of the white conservative lasted exactly as long as artificial barriers to entry for everyone else did, what they lost to was the free market they pretended to care about because their entire success was based on not actually facing competition. 428449
Reposted by frankGuy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It's so funny that they think they can buy the Pope the same way they think they bought the current president 4627128
Reposted by frankSean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 02/10/2026"Elon and his partner of 4 kids Shivon Zilis have separated, which we know because they unfollowed each other on X, which BigTechAlert account noticed, and then Shivon quote-tweeted BigTechAlert w/ a screenshot of texts w/ Elon and saying 'God speed, Elon'" i mutter as they roll me to a padded room 29316
frank @panndder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026there's no such thing as a climate refuge. it's always galling when people in the midwest talk about a future of putting their feet up while coastal transplants bid up the value of their home and not, like, trading their deed for a bag of flour or something 010
Reposted by frankjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.talkingpointsmemo.comChris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a ThingTo the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in... 25260311121
Reposted by frankve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 01/10/2026People need to understand the people leading the AI industry, transhumanist/longtermist/EA movements, and tech broadly, as died-in-the-wool pseudoscientists, denialists (climate change, the holocaust), and crank purveyors of conspiritualist woo of the highest order. The height of Rationalism. 8351129
Reposted by frankW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is a guy that the media has promoted a dozen times in the last few years. He was on Bill Maher's show two weeks ago as a reasonable conservative. 341079253
Reposted by frankAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It’s interesting to me that no one ever follows up on this. Do you think you have superior genetics? If so why? And i think it’s because everyone knows what it means so it would be uncomfortable to ask 1460747
Reposted by frankMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability. 461445342
Reposted by frankEmily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you 7041771012
Reposted by frankbort @crushbort.bsky.social · 02/10/2026on the subject of prescient 2016 tweets 527425
Reposted by frankAnodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"So much of [ICE's] operation depends on logistics of transport and travel ... It's human trafficking, and so if we can go after the trafficking, the means by which they're doing this, that can have a really effective impact." 02515
Reposted by frankWorld Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It takes years of training to perfect this manoeuvre. #WorldBollardAssociation 471811197
Reposted by frankJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Newsletter is out! I've noticed some panic over what the government should be doing to regulate AI. I have a pretty simple solution, make the people who put out harmful products afraid of prison link.heartlandsignal.com/v/443/b6619d... 415529
frank @panndder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026and remember: a lot of "serious" people plan to rely on yet to be invented carbon capture technology to solve this 063
Reposted by frankWedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 01/10/2026Requiring mayors to pay for professional liability insurance would hike out-of-pocket insurance rates for mayors who engage in high-risk conduct. Mayors with chronic or severe behavioral issues would become financially uninsurable, effectively pricing them out of the profession. 5717
Reposted by frankashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/10/2026it’s become so normal for people to disclose their rapes to appeal to people’s humanity around rape cases that we don’t think about how disgusting the need to do that is put the worst moment of your life out for public consumption, so that half the comments can call you a liar. 71080224
Reposted by frankAlex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 01/10/2026ultimately every "culture war" is a also a war about child-rearing, and nothing pisses off conservatives more than the thought that someone might teach their kid an ounce of kindness, discernment, or self esteem 25519
Reposted by frankDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker 351953399
Reposted by frankGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 01/10/2026I will never forget all the cynical gainsaying and disinformation about the strike on Al-Ahli hospital ten days into Israel’s destruction of Gaza. ‘Fog of war’. Almost three years later, fewer than half of Gaza’s hospitals remain even partially functional and there is no fog. Only dust and rubble.theguardian.comNew Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in GazaSatellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire 6381144
Reposted by frankmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Even hotter take: the fact that ebikes let teens in the suburbs suddenly have freedom to move around the public realm unsupervised is precisely why many older people are trying to ban them (using safety as a pretext) 2363280
