Reposted by Reagan KellyChris Palmer @noncombatant.org · 21/09/2026In 2004 I saw Yudkowsky give a talk in which he said that when we upload our brains into the cloud and enter machine heaven, we will be able to taste the tastiest possible potato chip. That was his positive vision of the Singularity. I know it sounds made up, but he did say it. 24727105
Reposted by Reagan KellyScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Ken Paxton has spent his entire career as a public servant, and he currently makes $153,000 a year. On this salary he has acquired 15 homes, and all the trappings of luxury, including a $41,000 watch. 31597243
Reposted by Reagan KellyTrung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 30/08/2026Aside from having its meaning bastardized, the discourse on the colloquial Woke is so frustrating because it’s not like this is the very first time right-wingers have been like Oh No, People Care About Oppression. We do this over and over and over. 3625103
Reposted by Reagan KellyScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Not a fan of Hasan Piker but he's a guy who streams monologues to a small audience. Elon spends hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get Republicans elected and was for weeks the second most powerful member of the federal government, but oddly Republicans are rarely grilled about his views 632323480
Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 13/07/2026“Verify your age” My first college email was on a VAX system 010
Reposted by Reagan KellyReagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 25/06/2026The idea of “visibility” isn’t something neutral that society gets an opinion on. It’s a person living as they actually are, something no one else gets to define for them. Calling it a mistake isn’t contrarian, it’s depraved 259434
Reposted by Reagan KellyReagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 25/06/2026Those who are under their mid-40s may not remember that Slate was originally conceived as a contrarian endeavor. Setting aside whether that was ever useful, this is a really disgusting example of that genre. 574116
Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 25/06/2026Rashida Tlaib said something about these yesterday, but I haven’t heard any other politicians talking about this. It’s such a straightforward miscarriage of justice - the charges are bogus and the sentences intended to stifle opposition to the govt - that if they don’t call this out, what will they? 020
Reposted by Reagan KellyMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/06/2026I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.newrepublic.comThe Prairieland Sentences Are a National EmergencyA federal court has punished Texas ICE demonstrators with decades in prison. This is dark news not just for them but for anyone who may want to register political dissent. 030801375
Reposted by Reagan KellyTim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026it took decades of cultivated belligerence and stupidity to get to this point—a fox new hosts and a millionaire contractor who now runs the domestic security state, agreeing that loyalist mobs terrorizing belfast just want to be irish 19317
Reposted by Reagan KellyStrahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 11/06/2026The rioters hate the notion of a free and independent Ireland. They are happy to kill, and many are even willing to die, to prevent a free and united Ireland from existing. The rioters consider themselves as British first, not Irish. 49724
Reposted by Reagan KellyDavid Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 11/06/2026"Unionist paramilitaries want to be Irish and want Ireland back" might be perhaps the stupidest take on this situation possible. 21603148
Reposted by Reagan KellyWario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 04/06/2026LEGO Architecture - Sagrada Família up for preorder at LEGO Store ($799.99 - 12060 pieces) buff.ly/tKGp395 #ad 1952964
Reposted by Reagan KellyDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/06/2026Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon) 266147593496
Reposted by Reagan KellyElizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 18/05/2026all claims barred by statute of limitations, the jury finds 758477
Reposted by Reagan KellyReagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 30/04/2026They came up to him with tears in their eyes and said “Sir, you’ve just passed our dementia screening test, the only person ever to do so. You are the only person in the world who doesn’t have dementia” 051
Reposted by Reagan KellyGrant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Imagine a doctor acting like this in real life toward you. Just locking eyes and saying "You are the healthiest and smartest person I've ever seen. I truly can't believe it. I've never seen it both in the same person like this before," in the most serious doctor voice imaginable without blinking. 614612
Reposted by Reagan KellyDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026How bleak is it that the *best case scenario* is that he is just engaging in his most ambitious bit of market manipulation yet and will call it off ("we have reached a great deal, a tremendous deal, to save Iran") at 4:30 pm after shorting everything and watching the market tank 7684159
Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 16/03/2026Has he made the batshit claim that he wrote about Osama Bin Laden attacking the WTC a year prior to it happening previously? I don’t think I’ve ever heard that one before 010
Reposted by Reagan KellyOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 03/03/2026for the youths who werent around for the iraq installment - dont believe anything the govt says about progress - no the democrats dont have to say getting rid of the baddie was good and therefore they have to support the war - the war needs to be ended - the media is not your ally and they love war 241562433
Reposted by Reagan Kellyceej @ceej.online · 04/02/2026An account you control, @PagliacciDaClown, has been suspended for the following post: "Who up doing clown shit, lmao? I'm thinking about ending my own life." Our moderation policies aim to encourage healthy discourse. For an example of a user we think exemplifies this spirit, see @PagliacciDaClown 224217989
Reposted by Reagan KellyThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Doesn't matter how they enter the right wing ecosystem - whether it's through red pills or worrying about "gender ideology" - eventually they're raving about race and IQ and how they have to kill inferior cultures to save the west 318137
Reposted by Reagan KellyJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/01/2026As it happens, Alex Pretti apparently had a carry permit. THAT DOESN'T MATTER, because he *didn't draw a gun.* Even had he possessed an illegal gun, this would still be murder. His alleged gun is a DHS red herring; it doesn't matter. We do not need to debate it one way or other. 252176529
Reposted by Reagan KellyElisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources." 2262702192
Reposted by Reagan KellyPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Trump & Vance’s agents saw tens of thousands of people — of all ages & races — come out *in below zero temperatures* to protest their tax-funded violence, their murder of their neighbor. And the very next day, they executed another one. What can Americans conclude from this? 341366445
Reposted by Reagan KellyMore like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 22/01/2026so what you're saying is they're murdering people in these concentration camps and covering it up 071
Reposted by Reagan KellyThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 22/01/2026That's a photo of someone being tortured 14445102
Reposted by Reagan KellyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now. 561119953303
Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 02/01/2026I’ve hated the word hallucination for these kinds of errors since I first heard it. It isn’t hallucinating because it doesn’t have a brain, and the errors themselves are less like hallucinations and more like confabulations - plausible-sounding answers made up on the spot to fill in gaps. 062
Reposted by Reagan KellyNat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 02/01/2026An AI chatbot does not have PERSONHOOD. It has no agency. It cannot meaningfully apologise. It cannot speak on behalf of another. It cannot speak for itself; it has no self. Stop asking it for quotes for articles. Stop printing its quotes. 835281
Reposted by Reagan KellyChris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 02/01/2026I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful. 475162377
Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 02/01/2026As I was saying earlier - Grok is not a person, and it can never make any kind statement about anything 030
Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 02/01/2026Grok doesn’t *say* anything, it produces a string of statistically likely words in response to a prompt. In this case, the prompt came from a user, not the company. This isn’t an official statement, it’s just an LLM writing a post in response to a request. Why are you treating it like it’s real? 000
Reposted by Reagan KellyElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 17/12/2025The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health. 503508962
Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 13/12/2025Look, I get it. You want to speed, everyone speeds. The problem is saying “This dangerous thing isn’t really that dangerous” because you don’t want to *feel bad* about it. You’re not a bad person! You’re just in a hurry, and you’re a better than average driver (just like ~80% of people on the road)! 270
Reposted by Reagan Kelly🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 08/12/2025The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters. 13736491344
Reposted by Reagan KellyGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 31/01/2025classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity 53186586120
Reposted by Reagan KellyMonica Carol Miller @monicacmiller.bsky.social · 18/11/2025We need libraries for so many reasons. www.11alive.com/article/news...11alive.comGeorgia Public Libraries generate $3.75 return for every dollar invested, new study findsGeorgia's public libraries generated $1.06 billion in services in fiscal year 2024, supporting 5,488 jobs and producing $3.75 of value per public dollar. 61012346
Reposted by Reagan KellyAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Sanders: The wealthiest people on earth are pouring hundreds of billions into research and development for AI and robotics. You think they’re doing that because they’re thinking, “Oh man, this is going to be something that will improve life for working people, for low-income people.”? 8235841041
Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 12/11/2025What in the absolute fuck is wrong with the bsky team? They aren’t serious if they count this as “wishing harm on someone” but changed the rules to let Jesse Singal off the hook. Add in the Rude label debacle and I question if they’re competent to do the job. Burning every bit of goodwill users have 020
Reposted by Reagan KellyAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them. 20206190814993
Reposted by Reagan KellyJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/11/2025"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power. 4468342199
Reposted by Reagan KellyMary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 04/11/2025“Learning the native language of this country, the near-extinction of which was part of the brutal suppression of English colonialism, is basically like joining the Taliban” is quite the take. 182
Reposted by Reagan Kellydamniel spookradski @self.agency · 25/10/2025america is a country with mandatory holocaust education in 26 states and whose media is saturated in wwii dramas and documentaries. the internet likewise is overflowing with nazi memes ongoing the last 20+ years. imo anyone claiming they don't know the totenkopf is a nazi symbol is full of shit. 4326