Reposted by SamPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 12hThe “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo 271955268
Reposted by Sammtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15hI feel like if AI wants to be in the business of offering medical opinions, then AI companies need to be in the "getting sued for medical malpractice" business too 16952193
Reposted by SamTravis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 15hIn another world Israel's offensive in Gaza petered out in November/December 2023 as they expended their entire strategic stockpile of aerial bombs, as the US followed its own laws and moral obligations and did not provide new supply. 423143
Reposted by SamIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17hFun fact, if you have a dog, it's probably smarter than the president of the United States 712518
Reposted by SamDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21hOK now I like the Trump ads because every dollar spent on ads during a 3:30 showing of the Kelly Clarkson Show is a dollar not spent by Customs and Border Protection abducting people www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comExclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television AdsWhite House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law. 3606
Reposted by SamPatrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Dem leadership convinced itself that the party had to moderate on every issue after 2024, & that was very stupid & wrongheaded. 094
Reposted by Samcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women 92510530
Sam @postmalort.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s so refreshing to watch the bears benefit from another team repeatedly shooting themselves in the dick with stupid shit instead of us being the ones doing it 000
Reposted by Sam#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026Once you learn that not a single major US news outlet used the phrase "Hamas-ran health ministry" until after 10.17.23 you really start to see how pernicious this stuff is. Nobody really disputed that the GHM was accurate, even Israel admitted so, but that didn't matter. Anyway now it is spreading 41288386
Sam @postmalort.bsky.social · 29/09/2026He’s senile so his brain has honed in even more on “big = good” next question 000
Reposted by SamKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Shocked not shocked. Also, if you downloaded this app, I mean… 21506104
Sam @postmalort.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Love when your Ventra card is unexpectedly out and the bus driver is like you can have a little fare evasion as a treat 000
Reposted by SamBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Oh no Gen Z is going to learn how fucked up tv was. They’re going to learn that we had psychics on the news like they were legitimate sources of information 1304897564
Reposted by SamNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The two main tendencies in national Israeli politics right now are "expulsion and annexation of the Palestinian territories" vs "civil separation under the authority of an Israeli police state", and virtually all mainstream US commentary simply refuses to engage with this. 6724162
Reposted by SamMr. Buddy @alexfirer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Incredible time in America where our core capitalists don't know how to make money from video games and movies. 213414
Reposted by SamPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The fact that we've gotten to the point where this man feels comfortable speaking his mind in public is such an indictment of the 21st century as a whole 54942239
Reposted by SamSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:theguardian.comHoman Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 peopleExclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’ 9147361719
Reposted by Samlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought 794363852
Reposted by Samjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot” 641105981963
Reposted by Sam#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 25/09/2026This is the only sensible *liberal* view 341478
Sam @postmalort.bsky.social · 25/09/2026As long as we’re on this topic I’ve been convinced for the last 7 years I didn’t get a job a Morgan Stanley because I had to get up to pee during the interview 000
Sam @postmalort.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The continued existence of Space Force throughout Biden is such a great example of institutional capture. Farsical arm of the govt that only exists bc Trump suggested it off the cuff and then got mad when ppl made fun of him but it’s a new way to give money to defense contractors so it had to stay 130
Reposted by SamDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case. 412099712
Reposted by SamBarry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Support this, but I wish damages could be more than just monetary. They should beat people who work for prediction markets with baseball bats. 440898
Reposted by SamPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison. 7978731390
Reposted by SamG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026The entire US politics and news industries spend a large chunk of their waking hours on a platform designed to inflate the importance of that 18%. It's a big problem, and why you get stuff like Tammy Duckworth saying she's against impeachment because she wants to "find a compromise" on USAID $ 181210212
Reposted by Sam🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121525133
Reposted by SamAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit... 1493895546
Reposted by SamAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026that 18 percent seems really well represented in the news and on social media bsky.app/profile/atru... 623651543
Reposted by SamBobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Maybe you’re feeling depressed about the state of the world but hey. Jose Canseco is antifa now so, yanno, there’s like hope 181235164
Reposted by SamAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation 523709640
Reposted by SamLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground” 20689310
Reposted by Sammaple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place 7164841214
Reposted by SamGaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This puts mainstream Democrats in a real pickle. Should they support their incredibly popular mayor or a foreign leader who is best friends with Trump and works overtime to get Republicans elected. No easy answer here 362216374
Reposted by SamAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Grand scheme of things, stuff like this is small ball esp compared to all this gang’s other abuses and atrocities but: I’ll say it again, the broken windows theory of crime is wrong EXCEPT for political and business elites like these. Every failure to crack down hard on the little, hatch act… 131070246
Reposted by SamRep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 23/09/2026Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by ICE agents after working in the U.S. for 35 years. His sons, Ronaldo and Lorenzo Jr., testified before Congress and reminded us that this rogue agency MUST be held accountable for its horrific actions. 25892933417
Sam @postmalort.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Even if it’s not true I’m just going to start saying the dem consultant class are trying to spike the midterms because they don’t want to have to wield power 010
Reposted by SamChris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In every high-stakes campaign you see the same pattern: talented candidates know exactly how to talk to people until the Democratic campaign management class comes in to screw it up with their weird pet bullshit. 1695122
