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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 2h

And this is with Musk and other oligarchs shovelling cash to the GOP as fast as they can.

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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 2h

From the things that aren't going to happen department...

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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 3h

It's Rubio who's stale mate.

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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 4h

And somehow he thinks this is going to help him in the midterms?

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 18h

This is the vice president's guy, no? This should be every headline, it should lead every newscast and EVERY REPUBLICAN SHOULD BE ASKED ABOUT IT.

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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 16h

"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson Jason Chudy" His name is CHUDy ?! If this were a novel it would be a very bad one.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 20h

“Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 90.” [nytimes.com]

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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.

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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 19h

Shows of competence would be a lot more impressive. They seem unlikely to be able to pull that off.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Outside the pandemic, U.S. information-sector employment is now at its lowest level in more than a decade. BLS data shows 2.739M jobs in September, down ~12% from the 2022 peak. The entire post-pandemic hiring boom has now been erased. I expected AI to cause Big Tech to shrink but not all tech. 😞

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Our best hope is that his incompetence will make his attempt to steal this election fail. It's obvious he's going to try.

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Gemma @raesunshine.cool · 29/09/2026

I wanted to share some more of my thoughts on this article, and what is going on in Washington County. First off, I'm a big fan of this article. And it's not because I'm in one of the pictures in it. Seeing several of my friends and people I organize with be featured is pure joy.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026

there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The AI bubble looks a lot like the dotcom bubble including the naysayers. My advice to friends: 1. Valuations will eventually crash. Manage your finances accordingly. 2. AI usage will keep growing and permeate every facet of life. Figure out how it’ll affect your career and plan accordingly.

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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Apparently they've shelved Colbert's LotR prequel.

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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Apocalyptically beautiful.

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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If anything all the money in the world is making him even more unlikable.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Right now, you have an economy where people are getting choked out because they don’t have the basic means for a dignified life because we are more focused on allowing a billionaire to make another billion” - Abdul El-Sayed ~~ No lies detected.

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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Apparently people don't want to see a movie where Tom Cruise is old.

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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The name of the storm is Invest?

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*

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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He replaced Biden's portrait with a picture of an auto pen. Replace his with a picture of? Money burning? A swamp? The Reflection pool filled with algae? A gas station price sign?

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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These freaks running around with $Billions advocating for dictatorship (not just this guy, but Thiel, Musk,...) are exhibit A for why we need campaign finance reform.

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's pretty funny to say this right now, when the world's dictators and aspiring dictators are demonstrating their extreme non-benevolence and commensurate inefficiency. Was invading Ukraine efficient? Were the gulf princelings cheerleading the disastrous Iran war efficient?

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DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Successful investors are treated like wise oracles when really they are closer to cunning rats, in that long-term success in the stock market requires scurrying around for food and shelter, and some rats are better at navigating the maze than others.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The clearest and most succinct expression I've read of how, beyond the clear fascist rhetoric, the Prairieland prosecutions have terrifyingly expanded federal legal power, beyond the point many feds even wanted to go.

For other activists on the left — and on the right — the Prairieland case has set a dangerous precedent. Cadeddu, the federal defense attorney, told me that the most worrying of all the “terrorist acts” was vandalism. There is no dollar amount set on what sort of damage might qualify as an act of terror. Even throwing a snowball at an ICE vehicle during a protest and scratching the paint or damaging a taillight might qualify. “In theory, if you happen to be on a Signal chat with some people planning a protest, and one of the people at that protest — you don’t even have to know them — throws that snowball, you could be implicated in material support for terrorism, simply for helping to organize,” she says. “That’s the meaning of the case.”

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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Given all the recent examples - a Marcos in the Philippines, a Fujimori in Peru, and now (probably) a Bolsonaro in Brazil, I don't think we can rule out the possibility of a Trump kid winning in 2032 or 2036. What a miserable world.

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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And Peru has another Fujimori. Given those examples I'm not so sure we won't end up with a Trump kid in 2032 or 2036.

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Neil Pajamas @agrippanothing.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

NOAA IOOS/NDBC is one of those things.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 04/10/2026

The irony is almost too perfect. "In MAGA-land, people are dying faster than they are being born. Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration.' www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

economist.com

In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born

Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s interesting how the standard bearer for the party whose message used to be “Democrats suck because they just buy votes by giving people free stuff” has decided the closing message for the midterms will just be “how many more checks do we have to send you in order to earn your vote?”

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Department of Homeland Security is celebrating that for the first time in ~50 years, more people left America than moved here. These people are so stupid and so racist they don’t realize they are scoring own goals

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Now that it is October, this year’s Nobel Prize schedule: • Physiology or Medicine: Oct. 5 • Physics: Oct. 6 • Chemistry: Oct. 7 • Literature: Oct. 8 • Peace: Oct. 9 • Economic Sciences: Oct. 12

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ignoring advice to secure and monitor your sandboxes during testing then blaming it on your AI being so smart that it’s a threat to humanity is nasty work

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

from 2001. no one’s doing product testimonials like this anymore. t.co/PEswCtbEZz

Toyota's unease at being associated with the Taliban and Al Qaeda is evident. In its September statement, the company said,
'Toyota does not have a sales or distribution channel in Afghanistan, and we do not export vehicles to that country."
Somewhat less laconic was Wade Hoyt, Toyota's spokesman in New York, who put the best corporate spin on the situation this week.
"It is not our proudest product placement," he said. "But it shows that the Taliban are looking for the same qualities as any truck buyer: durability and reliability."

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

kind of interesting how well equipped religious teaching—obviously catholic, but really just religious teaching in general—is to meet the AI moment. obviously you don’t have to be religious to hate AI, but a lot of religion does come pre-programmed with anti-AI sentiment.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app cuts to the AI chase.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Pope comes out against AI art. As a Catholic, it makes me proud to see Pope Leo give more thought and have a more nuanced view of the impact of AI than most world or corporate leaders.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Whether or not you think AI is unable to do your job doesn’t matter if your boss thinks it can.

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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I mean, I thought that in 2016 and here we are. To us it looks like they're in trouble, but MAGA sees it very differently.

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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Even if he was hypothetically in cahoots with Willis, I've yet to hear an explanation of why that would have been wrong. They were both looking into the same election interference allegation. Why would it have been untoward to compare notes?

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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

She's on a Zoom that includes Donald Trump?

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anthropic estimates robots can already perform 75% of physical job tasks. However they are only cheaper or close to the cost of humans in just 0.3% of job tasks. The Jetsons completely misled us. Computers are more likely to replace doctors and lawyers before we get robot maids.

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Can we predict the jobs robots will do?

What work can robots do? Anthropic's robot exposure index finds robots can do 3/4 of US physical job tasks, but are cost-competitive for only 0.3%.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He’s going to use nukes before it’s all over. People need to wake up

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