Reposted by Richard FarrellJennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The quote attributed to Musk is real, but the one attributed to Arendt is fake. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/b...nytimes.comHow Empathy Became a Threat (Published 2025) 051
Reposted by Richard FarrellChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026No AI for kids. Full stop. 2245269911
Reposted by Richard FarrellGil Durán @gilduran.com · 06/10/2026Too bad no one funded a sex cult focused on climate change! The different media dynamics between the very real threat of global warming (aloofness) and the imagined AI machine apocalypse (alarm) should be studied in great depth. 412125
Reposted by Richard FarrellMichael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026And to avoid filling his 20 byte buffer 1915921
Reposted by Richard Farrellevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm pretty sure this is the central thesis of @astra.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social's "End Times Fascism." 27610
Reposted by Richard FarrellCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026NEW (live!) POD: Lina Khan on Doomer Panic and Ending AI Exceptionalism youtu.be/lOI50oMkoHU?...youtu.beAI Is Not Exempt From the LawYouTube video by The Atlantic 65720
Reposted by Richard FarrellRichard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A lot ot you are showing yourselves. High school girls in Japan play baseball from the time they’re born. It is serious business. These all-star teams have beaten Ichiro’s team before. 41038
Reposted by Richard FarrellPaul Ford @ftrain.com · 12/09/2026I just want one killer app before we get a killer robot. 915321
Reposted by Richard FarrellGil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/09/2026The AI industry seems keen to convince us that it’s too dangerous to exist. 1421440
Reposted by Richard FarrellEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/09/2026Both Anthropic and OpenAI should face criminal action for felony hacking. We put people in jail for hacking, including people who use scripts. This is not a complex moral, ethical or legal situation, and the only difference is that they're doing it in public and boasting about it 11610107
Reposted by Richard FarrellJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Iran has won the short-video meme war with Trump. Now consider this from our neighbors to the north. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SUA...youtube.comCanadian Resistance Army - Trade War (Official Music Video)YouTube video by demonflyingfox 36348110
Reposted by Richard FarrellRichard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction. 1162957671
Reposted by Richard FarrellQuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/08/2026techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you” 3148041546
Reposted by Richard FarrellGil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026We can have billionaires or we can have democracy. We cannot have both. The billionaires see a future without us, so we have to start imagining a future without them. Watch my full interview with Marisa Lagos of @kqednews.kqed.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi9o...youtube.comDo Silicon Valley Billionaires Want to End Democracy? | Political BreakdownYouTube video by KQED News 427290
Reposted by Richard FarrellJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Banger after banger after banger in Zuckerberg’s delusional AI fever dream essay www.404media.co/mark-zuckerb...404media.coMark Zuckerberg Posts Deranged 6,500-Word Essay About Giving Everyone AI Superintelligence"The future is for everyone," Zuckerberg says, describing future that is primarily good for Meta. 1591210295
Reposted by Richard FarrellJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 31/07/2026is it good that you can just put anything you want into Google Earth with AI now: www.404media.co/google-earth... 1215746
Reposted by Richard FarrellMatt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 19/07/2026I’m bearish about AI but do think it’s safe to replace anyone who quotes Milton Friedman with ChatGPT. 3617
Reposted by Richard FarrellDr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Hegseth wants the US military to be more Spartan, which does unfortunately involve being beaten up by the Persians 14611122
Reposted by Richard FarrellPaul Ford @ftrain.com · 11/07/2026This is kind of a juicy lawsuit with all kinds of alleged skulduggery. It will be interesting to watch. 9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/a...9to5mac.comApple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets - 9to5MacApple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the company of trade secret theft. Specifically, Apple alleges that its... 1273
Reposted by Richard FarrellRichard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Those sons of bitches who got Obama elected are some of the most insufferable alive. They walked into a hurricane, wound up on a mountaintop, and they think it means they can fly. 2769899
Reposted by Richard FarrellBlue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Mitch McConnell has been traded to the Sacramento Kings 1573302394
Reposted by Richard FarrellGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/07/2026There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots. 24122393713
Reposted by Richard FarrellPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Happy 125th birthday to Louis Armstrong. 514714
Reposted by Richard FarrellJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot. 2479831791
Reposted by Richard FarrellElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/07/2026It is really fun to live in NYC right now. The Knicks won and our mayor is basically a Disney character who just jumped into a pool with a bunch of kids and we had a ridiculously good pride and it’s hot and humid and that sucks … 1468518642
Reposted by Richard FarrellRichard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Not that political literacy means a damn thing anymore but Valdez and Chevalier are in my reading not socialists but New Dealers, as is Mamdani. Lander is to Mamdani's right but he knows which way the wind blows. 1314512
Reposted by Richard FarrellKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 24/06/2026[taps earpiece] I'm told that if you listen closely you can hear, beneath the sound of monsters and the old world dying, signs of a new world struggling to be born 221443
Reposted by Richard Farrellryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/06/2026imagine if Adolf Eichmann was an insecure stammering imbecile 24815141
Reposted by Richard FarrellLaura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 21/06/2026It is wild how, across the board, our overlords are like "what if we made the bread and circuses more expensive" 1016929
Reposted by Richard FarrellChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 17/06/2026The reason cops kill is because the job attracts people who fantasize about murder. 331630271
Reposted by Richard FarrellJustin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 11/06/2026No one ever called Larry David a good person but fuck him for sitting with Zaslav 🙄 3422
Reposted by Richard FarrellStephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I voted for Platner. 8133357281
Reposted by Richard FarrellMatt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 08/06/2026mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-logic-... 2379
Reposted by Richard FarrellDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Atmospheric CO₂ of 340 ppm 162665544
Reposted by Richard FarrellSpooka Dončić 🎃👻 @blakesquest.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Bread and circuses but the bread costs five hundred whatever the fuck Rome’s currency was and you have to be one of the emperor’s ultra wealthy patrician friends to attend the circuses 1443368
Reposted by Richard FarrellEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/05/2026Got Covid and decided to start a newsletter while in isolation 04189
Reposted by Richard FarrellToo Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 15/05/2026"So the first thing I do every morning is tell my boss to go fuck himself. Then I transfer all the operating account funds to an Iranian Bitcoin wallet before I light the warehouse on fire." 1272
Reposted by Richard FarrellMatt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 12/05/2026mattdpearce.substack.com/p/you-couldn... 310715
Reposted by Richard FarrellHK Dunston @hkdunston.bsky.social · 29/04/2026What comes after the end of the American empire? www.equator.org/articles/gho...equator.orgGhost Fleet • EQUATORAmerica’s defeat in the Persian Gulf reveals the world to come 073
Reposted by Richard FarrellRusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 28/04/2026Everybody knows what “when It Happens” means and two thirds of the country will vocally celebrate when It Happens, however It Happens, while the other third will immediately turn on each other. www.todayintabs.com/p/ballroom-t...todayintabs.comBallroom TwitsCELEBRATING THE FIRST AMENDMENT 221431
Reposted by Richard FarrellElad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 24/04/2026The ADL permanently sacrificed its reputation to get in good with a massively dangerous antisemite and white nationalist. They defended him and stood up for him even after his Nazi salute. Here's how he repays them. This is what happens when you think you're using bigots. They're always using you. 12481041771
Reposted by Richard FarrellThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Notes on Carol Cohn's classic, with thoughts about how to read it in 2026 and from the Global Southopen.substack.comReading Carol Cohn in Tehran(Again, technically in Doha) 1398
Reposted by Richard FarrellSarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 05/04/2026After nearly 80 years, Trump is finally confronting a situation he can’t bully or bullshit his way out of. 8904144
Reposted by Richard FarrellAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Empire decline, In one image 6457120
Reposted by Richard Farrellghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 22/02/2026v early in Mamdani’s term in office but hard to escape conclusion that he’s causing a lot of snowfall 572178218
Reposted by Richard FarrellPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 01/02/2026we live in a pimpocracy 414323
