Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaEd @notdred.bsky.social · 1hI think Ossoff captures something that Newsom never did: the Dem base wants you to fight but they want real shit not goofy memes and too-online riffs 391338220
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the Seathe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1hI don't know that it makes him presidential material but Ossoff's ability to just be honest about how much of a pile of shit these people really are should be a model to the party. 32999164
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaLEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.news · 2hI think things are going great for them 6396
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaWildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 6hNot only do they not do network security but they don't do physical security either? 1134
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 6hNever in recorded history have corporations made more than they do today. Never in recorded history have workers taken home less of those profits than they do today. That's Trump's economy in a nutshell. www.axios.com/2026/10/13/e...axios.comA golden age of corporate profitsThe bonanza is bolstering the stock market, but it may also be playing a role in the sour mood of the electorate. 722266
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the Sea🎃🍁Samhain Såli🎃🍁 🇬🇺 @statesidesali.bsky.social · 6hNo surprise, you have anti-theist extraordinaire Richard "cultural Christian" Dawkins who talks about his fear of mosques being built. 034
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 6hstatic.klipy.comMichel Foucault PonderingAlt: Michel Foucault Pondering 0419
In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the Sea @paranoidporygon.bsky.social · 6hPeople also still do this with ML/Maoist regimes. Contrarianism rots your brain. 000
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaDr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 13hThe "unrecognized" Bedouin villages in Israel are communities, mainly in the Negev Desert, that are within the 1948 borders but which the state refuses to grant political representation or provide normal services. Many or them have been forced into planned "townships." This is textbook apartheid. 12213
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaDavid Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 11hThis is like something I read from a Japanese civilian in WWII talking about how he realized they were losing when the IJN's "glorious naval victories" kept getting closer and closer to the Home Islands. 732566
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaErik Anderson NUFC @erikandersonnj.bsky.social · 7hBan “Greek Life” at universities and turn all sports into university club sports. Higher education in the US isn’t even about learning anymore. 002
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaMike Masnick @masnick.com · 8hRemembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening. 313172964
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 8hone of the funnier little discursive artifacts is that some people are so pot committed to AI never being clearly useful or helpful that they've twisted themselves into pretending that writing SQL or dealing with health insurance are these wonderful experiences no one should ever rob themselves of 1831929
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaSam @samd.bsky.social · 21hit’s actually crazy that DSA has embraced YIMBY candidates in NYC, LA, and DC …but @dsasf.org is somehow still scaremongering about YIMBYs and refusing to support car free streets because it could somehow theoretically benefit a real estate developer somewhere 1129416
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaJason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 7hVoters will, and I cannot stress this enough, ALWAYS say taxes are too high. This is one of the reasons you have to tell people over and over what their taxes are doing. A lot won’t listen, but when we don’t tell people what stuff costs it’s easier for ‘tAxEs ArE THeFt!’ to take hold. 37732
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaCraig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 12hThis semester I taught kids about the Aztecs and how they would ritually kill people to perpetuate their society. I called it "ritual killing," not "human sacrifice," because most societies do it and the other term implies the Aztecs were somehow unusual in this. This is how *we* do ritual killing. 23617
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10hAt some point we also have to deal with the fact that one of the two parties is openly hostile to democracy. If you have to win big every election or else the country falls into despotism we're all just playing Russian roulette every few years 513316606
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaRob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 8hI have a new piece up at The UnPopulist about searching for an "Article I candidate" in the midterms--someone who will make reasserting the power of Congress into a top issue. The closest I've found is Jon Ossoff, and I would like to point out that this part of this message gets a good response.theunpopulist.netJon Ossoff Is the Article I CandidateMore candidates should embrace his blend of affordability, anti-racism, and restoring congressional checks on abusive executives 1288
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaHellscape Navigator @hellscapenavigator.bsky.social · 8hwe've moved from education polarization to emotional maturity polarization emopol rules all 0416
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaDaniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 8hYou know, it’s been a while since I’ve heard anyone on the left say, “The generation-defining horror that most affects you is just a distraction from the generation-defining horror that most affects me. Don’t take the bait!” Good for you guys. Proud of you. 011
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 8hAi came up with a hell of a dare 2326543
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8hVance certainly has gay acquaintances. Most obviously his mentor and most important political booster, Peter Thiel, is gay. But his mental model of Texas voters is that they are a bunch of redneck rubes, so a insinuating a straight candidate is gay will work. 961781314
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/10/2026Distilled dense models are getting smaller. I can run qwen 3.8 27B on my desktop with a 4090 and it has the ability to run at a level similar to Opus 4.6, a model that needed an entire server rack with GPUs to run. They're only getting smaller and more efficient. www.anthropic.com/research/sel...anthropic.comAI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenterSmall AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes, with no datacenter needed. 1712316
In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the Sea @paranoidporygon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Atlanta more expensive than Seattle? wtf? 000
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the Seaghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 12/10/2026tbf Omar’s follow up was a lot chiller than Clarkson’s 421515
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...apnews.comFederal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources sayFederal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter. 14973761760
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/10/2026"'There should be a message across the government....we are a country of laws and not of men. And if you committed an actual federal crime...you should probably get a lawyer.'"lnk.thebulwark.comTop Senate Dem to Trump Underlings: Lawyer UpSen. Brian Schatz talks fundraising, oversight, and whether JD Vance has the juice to win the presidency. 313743
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This is a significant worsening of our current state of constitutional collapse. I know it feels like there are so many, and there are, but in terms of crossing the Rubicon moments this one's up there. 232353379
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Doing a pre-dawn house raid is obviously being done as thuggish intimidation and as a literally violent assault on her and her family. Overaggressive raids happen in other contexts but in this case it's going out of their way to do politically targeted state terrorism. 42217318
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the Seathe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 12/10/2026confirmation They Are Really This Stupid bsky.app/profile/purr... 37512
In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the Sea @paranoidporygon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I tried to talk to the stock checker robot at Kroger and it didn't respond. just gave me the Zoomer stare. 000
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Donald Trump pardoned Jake Lang last year. That’s the reason why he is able to be here doing this. bsky.app/profile/acyn... 531460450
In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the Sea @paranoidporygon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I am curious which college class they think is telling students to "fetishize Islam". 000
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaBlue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Jon Ossoff: There was an infant who had to go into intensive care because that child's mother was deported while that child was still breastfeeding. These are human rights abuses that Mike Collins and Donald Trump bear responsibility for. 03112
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaBlue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Jon Ossoff: Mike Collins voted to cut your health care so he could give a tax break to data center developers and some of the wealthiest people in the country. 13311
In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the Sea @paranoidporygon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It helps that Ossoff simply being Jewish prevents any of the more obvious retorts that someone accused of antisemitism could invoke. 000
In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the Sea @paranoidporygon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It does not help Collins that he is a pasty pink-nippled doughboy with ghostly white hair and a plantation owner accent. 000
In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the Sea @paranoidporygon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026if history rhymes and Trump is Herbert Hoover, are we about to see the second coming of FDR? 031
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026well, if he'd quit because of "rogue" agents, his story would have received massive media attention 15312
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026 735030
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaAustin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 07/10/2026No child should need a lawsuit to get out of government custody. Right now habeas petitions have helped some kids get home, and I talked with Acacia and the National Center for Youth Law about how they work. austinkocher.substack.com/p/no-chil… 18142
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaWill Thorne @wbthorne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Modern rent controls aren't as damaging, and blending evidence of old strict rent controls with the modern versions just confuses the issue and leads to presenting a misleading "consensus" that doesn't really exist. 57614
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the SeaWill Thorne @wbthorne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This graph is a good reason to introduce my new paper: By Generation and by Design: A Review of the Empirical Rent Control Literature. This paints a (somewhat) misleading picture of rent control evidence because it groups all rent control together regardless of design feature. 518657
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the Seavibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i love X The Everything App - where aspiring school shooters and philosophy majors can intellectually co-mingle. i guess might as well pack it in on civilization then! 2201
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the Seavibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026if anyone in the future wonders what the 2020's were like, you can show them this screengrab and it'll give you a pretty good idea 0576
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the Seagup66.bsky.social @gup66.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Textbook groupthink, which is undoubtedly made worse by these tech CEOs surrounded by people exactly like them. Diversity is, actually, a good thing. 1143
Reposted by In the Frutiger Aeroplane Over the Seae.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026the crazy part is that if you build strong safety cultures rooted in anticipating and avoiding real-time, real-world harms, you don't often find yourself blindsided by unanticipated X risks... this isn't a zero sum choice, and safety culture hasn't emerged randomly or by accident 841442