Reposted by Regina RiniJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 18/04/2026The three stages of life: 1. Too young 2. Too busy 3. Too old 1754399
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 03/04/2026genuine indictment of US Senate. It was obvious from start that this guy is a made-for-TV empty suit with no ideas beyond smirking culture war symbolism. Completely unqualified for the position, and the Senate had a duty to say so 140
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 02/04/2026It is a problem when the president of the United States sounds like a used car salesman trying to hook the country on a pre-owned war. 040
Reposted by Regina Rinilastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 31/03/2026In a talk right now which takes it as obvious it's wrong not to pay for public transport as a user. I agree! But this would absolutely be incredibly spicy on Vaguely Antisocial Leftist Internet. Gonna ask the speaker what they think of BasedLenin6942067's counter argument that they deserve a swirlie 2536
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Ugh. I'm not a fan of MJS, but this is absurd. If you try to destroy people for using words imprecisely, you'll end up with no one speaking but those who have nothing interesting to say and those who actively enjoy verbal bloodsport. 0172
Reposted by Regina RiniDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/03/2026My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign 190105862073
Reposted by Regina RiniJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Philosophical thought experiment meets gothic horror, in rhyme. 1275
Reposted by Regina RiniRichard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Eastern APA tenure track job interview, circa 1997 57212
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 17/03/2026time travel movie where these people go back to ask Mayors John Purroy Mitchel, John Francis Hylan, and John P. O'Brien why they haven't said anything about British Mandate Palestine 010
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 17/02/2026We're beyond posting misinformation now. People are unleashing autonomous systems that create new misinformation, targeted against innocent people. There seem to be many people who never learned that you must take responsibility for your toys, even when shiny and new theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...theshamblog.comAn AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on MeSummary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin… 040
Reposted by Regina Rininitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social · 04/02/2026My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power 15666122109
Reposted by Regina RiniNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Venn diagram of had friendly email correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein and argued that wokeness is a dire threat to civilization that must be stopped before it finishes destroying freedom. 404952904
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 22/01/2026this week in the TLS I ask whether Trump can really has his own morality - and whether laws are good for Kantian autonomy www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...the-tls.comKant and external lawWhat, if anything, can stop Donald Trump? Not international law, as the President made clear in a recent New York Times interview, the week he declared 020
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Board of Peace as contentious middle school sleepover 100
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 19/01/2026it's like an 80s movie where some snotty 12 year old wished on a magic xylophone to be president and now all the real world leaders are having to promise him more screen time or else 120
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 13/01/2026'Perfidy Hegseth' sounds like a Dickens character who tricks children into trading their last chestnut for bitumen 040
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 12/01/2026it is a generational catastrophe for rule of law that everyone in the US now takes it for granted that federal investigations are simply politics by other means 040
Reposted by Regina RiniElizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 06/01/2026 If someone in 2013 read the sentence, “Today NATO warned President Donald Trump that the US should not invade Greenland,” they’d think it was a mad-libs. 0267
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 03/01/2026prediction: google searches for 'Grenada' and 'Noriega' will be at all-time highs today 030
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 01/01/2026compelling assessment of Weiss. 'no truth... only content' That fits how I've seen her behave over time. There's little sense that any truth exists to converge upon. Only provocative narratives and counter-narratives. Great for an opinion section. Terrible for the news side. 040
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 03/06/2025never ending epistemic backstop crises time.com/7290050/veo-... 272
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 03/06/2025incredible... A man charged with assault and robbery tries to get his alleged victim deported (to prevent him testifying) by forging letters threatening the president.... but fails to consider that the victim doesn't speak English... ... and still gets his victim rounded up for deportation 142
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 02/06/2025seeking podcast recommendations: - case studies of advertising campaigns - the history of obsolete technology (especially industrial revolution vintage) 000
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 26/05/2025apartment building wifi naming drama comes for Korean Starbucks www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0... 010
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 24/05/2025but we tell people 'click through to the original source, don't just read the AI summary' 020
Reposted by Regina RiniJamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 22/05/2025The playbook. (This was 2018.) www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/12...insidehighered.comCentral European University is forced out of Hungary, moving to ViennaCentral European University says the Hungarian government has forced it to move its main campus from Budapest to Vienna. 1223596
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Throughout the Cold War, America benefited enormously from its reputation as a place you could come to do science without ideological interference. Its edge in leading technology comes from that. Today the Trump administration ratified a new policy: if you want to do science, go somewhere else. 140
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 20/05/2025adobe acrobat AI saying this about a 20 page journal article is a form of violence 1111
Reposted by Regina RiniJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 17/05/2025After years of bad takes from some corners of the left that blamed corporate greed for the effects of a worldwide flood of money supply & contraction of goods supply due to COVID, now we're getting bad takes from the insane right-wing president blaming corporate greed for the effects of his tariffs. 1619742
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Why I find the 'free speech' debate so exhausting: Almost no one who says that are a free speech absolutist is actually a free speech absolutist. But you can only prove this about people once they are in power, denying free speech. quillette.com/2025/05/16/i...quillette.comIs the University Of Austin Betraying Its Founding Principles?Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests. 220
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 12/05/2025If you are desperate for applause, one strategy is to threaten to make things much worse, let the tension build, and then suddenly make things only moderately worse. 030
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 08/05/2025I did laugh, but actually the thought that the Pope is now someone with whom I might have shared cultural reference points is really messing with my head 041
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Nearly 200 years ago, Samuel Morse - yes, the Morse Code guy - published a book claiming that the Pope had directed a vicious Catholic conspiracy to seize control of the United States. I wish Morse could be resurrected, just for today, to see how things have turned out. 020
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 08/05/2025a remarkable demonstration of how, for some people, 'free speech' was only about their personal freedom to speak certain words the tell is when she says she uses the n-word 'when appropriate' and when pressed which situations are appropriate says 'anytime I feel like it' pure egoism 140
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 05/05/2025if you follow Trump on PravdaSocial, you can document America's move toward Soviet policy day by day. 030
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Over and over, the Trump admin sounds like 1970s Soviet leaders. Not buying things you want is a savings. The children will get by with two dolls. Coming soon: The ration lines aren't as long as the lamestream media wants you to believe. 050
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 29/04/2025news about subs exploring the Yorktown wreck led me to a wikipedia page that answers a question I'd never known I had: what happens if you try to land your fighter plane on the other side's aircraft carrier? 000
Reposted by Regina Rinithe hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 27/04/2025“If I let you ride my back across the river, you must promise not to get any weird slime on me,” said the tiger. “We promise,” said the frogs. But as they were halfway across, the tiger felt some weird slime, 192627471
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 27/04/2025ah April. when the sun strengthens, the birds flutter, and an old man's fancy turns to thoughts of... Columbus Day 170
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 25/04/2025At least 1% of American voters think that Trump's presidency is *both* scary and exciting. the jump-scare constituency is what decides close elections. It's also, indirectly, what decides who gets to be Fed chair 030
Reposted by Regina RiniMark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025At long last someone has identified RFK Jr.'s support base: the 9% of people who have a favorable opinion of the Black Plague 1824705899
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social · 22/04/2025If you have any identifiable connection to Pete Hegseth - same college, same dentist, same bartender- then you should now assume that several nations' intelligence services are spending huge resources to plant spyware on your phone, personally. You should assume they will succeed. 251