Reposted by Paint My Boat8 Matts in a Duffel Bag @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 9hBlack Hole Sundowning 1661
Reposted by Paint My Boatgeoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026there is a deep moral and social rot in rural and red state america and people pointing it out are not the cause of it 151614220
Reposted by Paint My Boatceej @ceej.online · 05/10/2026we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule 842585519
Reposted by Paint My Boatmcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of 6163142427
Reposted by Paint My Boatlaura - yscmab out now on steam!! @freezydorito.lol · 03/10/2026movie about a time traveler going back to 1999 to convince everybody working in y2k prevention to just let the computers die 338589
Reposted by Paint My BoatDavid @dchandler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When I worked in a small town computer store circa 2003, we called this stuff "malware," and most of our customers paid us to get it off their machines. They just remade BonzaiBuddy while telling us it's good now. 1456165
Reposted by Paint My BoatDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026every racist bigot ever 327551
Reposted by Paint My Boatlowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026everyone doing the “are the robots alive?” discourse should have their computers taken away and be locked in a buffalo wild wings until they can learn to be normal 1018524
Reposted by Paint My BoatMax 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. 471453344
Reposted by Paint My BoatPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"It's mind-boggling" is actually fully delusional. 2061390
Reposted by Paint My BoatJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.) 9853422187
Reposted by Paint My BoatKumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026AI will never be able to make art. Thanks. 1075636804
Reposted by Paint My Boatjslaker.net @jslaker.net · 01/10/2026it kind of feels worth pointing out that Yud and Yarvin are the exact same archetype of insufferable nerd in this regard. the game is stacking esotericism until the only people that can understand it have the sunk cost of trying to understand it. most sane people will peace out before then. 45812
Reposted by Paint My BoatXero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick. 2119963384
Reposted by Paint My Boatryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026"Dual-class shares should be banned outright, or even better, heavily taxed in proportion to their control over the company." prospect.org/2026/09/30/h...prospect.orgHere’s a Way to Stop Silicon Valley Megalomania - The American Prospect‘Dual class’ shares are a fraud on the public market. 29330
Reposted by Paint My BoatBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this 414560701
Reposted by Paint My BoatAdam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute 121770294
Reposted by Paint My BoatGef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 27/09/2026What I picture when people say escrow 191255206
Reposted by Paint My BoatSage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026What if every mayor and member of every city council was a Mamdani type? Every governor and member of every state legislature? Every member of Congress? Every president? Like just think about that for a minute. Every elected official just doing stuff people want instead of being crappy. 518937
Reposted by Paint My BoatFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026I think this is entirely correct. 5624
Reposted by Paint My BoatScoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 27/09/2026Apropos of nothing, but I see via LinkedIn that the same people who were my counterparts / antagonists at Meta who were there to pay lip service to ethics while trying to prevent the company being held accountable for genocide are now at the Frontier Labs. 010021
Reposted by Paint My Boatceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026the tech titan backlash to “woke dei hr ladies” makes a lot more sense now huh 291834341
Reposted by Paint My BoatBritt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Stop trying to make Rahm happen. 3472657
Reposted by Paint My BoatJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se... 3234071270
Reposted by Paint My BoatPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026These guys are *so fucking cooked* by their wealth that they literally forget that important life skills exist. Not a goddamn one of them could safely make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. 219424
Reposted by Paint My BoatHagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Honestly, the small but steady stream of "some company committed a crime against you, again, here's your $7.42" is one of the most weird and unexpected aspects of living in America for me. 1331176
Reposted by Paint My BoatColin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 24/09/2026Using AI to do a crime does not absolve you of criminality. AI is just a computer program. It's already illegal to use computers to do crimes. Even other people's computers. Furthermore, AI is unnecessarily unsafe; using it to "accidentally" commit a crime should add charges of criminal negligence. 16623
Reposted by Paint My Boatdrewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 09/09/2026going insane because you traveled interdimensionally or met aliens or met god is understandable. but going insane because you used a computer chat program is just embarrassing 11601342
Reposted by Paint My Boat"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026But I cannot stress enough: we have spent decades de-prioritizing and defunding the humanities broadly in secondary and post-secondary education and then we're all surprised-Pikachu-face when we are suffering from systematic leadership failures in exactly those skills and knowledge domains. 1055876
Reposted by Paint My Boatspooky cannoli @boner.ink · 23/09/2026is every ad gambling now, like do other companies even advertise anymore or has the economy completed its transformation into casino 471158130
Reposted by Paint My Boatarr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership. 6246761035
Reposted by Paint My Boatdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow 344707971
Reposted by Paint My Boatno brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026They used to throw the long review process back at us all the time. "It has taken 472 days for this project to get approval since we first submitted it." Yeah, and how many of those days were us sending it back to you because you fucked up the application? 371
Reposted by Paint My BoatDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026yeah fine second brain why the hell not 920231
Reposted by Paint My BoatMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A work of art, including the finer points of (a) 60 Minutes, which was mutilated by conservative Republicans and (b) the cowboy hat, which for 50+ years has symbolized faux-self-reliance subsidized by an intricate web of government policies. 291291190
Reposted by Paint My Boatlukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is 130133072146
Reposted by Paint My BoatMicah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable 94115012836
Reposted by Paint My BoatR.S.Knight @rsgreen30.bsky.social · 20/09/2026So much of the normie American left and media has no idea how in love Evangelicals are with the end of the world. How much they want it to happen 919632
Reposted by Paint My BoatKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually 11896951920
Reposted by Paint My Boatg0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone 137149593449
Reposted by Paint My BoatPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026When you hear a fantastical story about AI, you should ask yourself, "How does this serve the political project of AI?" Because, as others have pointed out, that's what AI really amounts to: a political project. 41281309
Reposted by Paint My BoatFr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It's strange how Democratic Socialists - who are being denounced by both parties - turned major deficits into balanced budgets in both New York and Seattle. 214107553041
Reposted by Paint My BoatScott 𐚁 🦇 Cave 🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026it is an empowering political thought technology to acknowledge that federal land is *our* land, but really the whole federal apparatus is ours 164356
Reposted by Paint My BoatCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone. 31076225
Reposted by Paint My BoatSean Lew-Sarra @slewsarra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I think it also drives me slightly insane that American capitalism has given the small circle of sex cultists, Nazis, and MBAs who run the tech industry functionally unlimited access to capital 16613
Reposted by Paint My Boatpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Back in 1999 everyone was excited about the new millennium but it’s safe to say it’s already a write-off. Time to give up and wait for the next one! 2591253
