rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just remember, Thiel thinks anyone opposed to his ideas (including, explicitly, Greta Thunberg) is the antichrist... 100
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Tired: complaining that Shakespeare's dialect is centuries removed from Old English, à la Beowulf. Wired: if the goal is versimilitude, and the scene is laid in "fair Verona", why aren't these feuding maniacs speaking their local dialect of Italian? 000
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Breaking: Ed Sheeran has released a statement on allegations that he's complicit in silencing of discourse on the Palestinian cause, which clarifies that he doesn't know the meaning of the word "complicit". 010
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The, uhhh... final solution to the AI alignment problem: 000
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026X seems to be offering payment cards with a users' twitter handle on the card in the place of the name. There are multiple ways in which this can go wrong. 000
Reposted by @rst.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026pls find my edits attached thx 442286392
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 12/09/2026People are calling this silly. Unfortunately, there's a non-silly variant -- abliterated GLM-5.3-flash on hardware costing less than a typical new pickup truck (maybe a bit more after smuggling premium) -- which is probably available to them. Wecome to the future. 020
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Because if an artificial superintelligence arises, it's important that it be strongly motivated to hide its existence from governmental authorities while doing whatever it can think of to undermine them. 000
Reposted by @rst.bsky.socialAugust J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A reminder that evangelical doctrine, up to and including the wildly popular Left Behind book series where the Democratic president essentially does exactly this, has for decades insisted this is how the antichrist will reveal himself. 17925287
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Not just failure to cover the mental state of Presidents in general, this President. Not only were there huge amounts of noise after Biden's fuzzy-headed debate performance, Jake Tapper published a $^#^#$^ book saying they should have attacked Biden earlier and harder. On Trump: silence. 000
Reposted by @rst.bsky.socialEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is ADL's solitary statement after Nazis won state elections in Germany for the first time since the Holocaust: 9445281058
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I wonder what Cuban-American former Rubio voters in Florida think of this... 000
Reposted by @rst.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The Democrats are an opposition party afraid to oppose. They think opposition is seedy. They worry opposing stuff makes them look obstructionist. They fear that admitting that they’re in the minority looks weak, so even when they are, they only talk about their policy agenda, as if they weren’t. 1828027
Reposted by @rst.bsky.socialThe Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Apparently it’s totally fine to keep the concentration camps open, murder people at sea, and suppress free speech. But maybe gas will cost less. 177017
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 28/08/2026A Chinese firm just released an open weight LLM which seems do as well in cyber security benchmarks as any Anthropic model not named "Mythos" (and some benchmarks don't need the qualifier). The US technical lead in this field may be very nearly gone. 000
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dougie's the type to announce that acting on the exact same authority, he's renamed Trump's own residence "the shithouse". 000
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Full subhead of this story: "President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together." If you want the next Congress to shut down an administration run amok, Jeffries is not your guy.nytimes.comJeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks FlyPresident Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together. 000
Reposted by @rst.bsky.socialDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 20/08/2026He may well have 1000 Einsteins and Mozarts working in his warehouses right now, but they can't do anything with their abilities what with having to work 18 hours a day under constant threat of being fired for taking a piss 913181751
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 16/08/2026If the endless Democratic fundraising spams have sounded to you like they're in the same register as a shady TV preacher shearing his flock, it might be because they're going after an audience with the same vulnerabilities. 020
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I take it that film night on the USS Abraham Lincoln won't be featuring Battleship Potemkin anytime soon...theguardian.comUSS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reportsAircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land 000
Reposted by @rst.bsky.socialHenry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 09/08/2026This way of framing the problem is blunt, shocking and visibly correct. 517725
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Part of the issue is that there are very few images of ICUs at the peak of the pandemic because privacy policies forbid depictions of patients (who were obviously in no condition to consent). I was worried at the time that this was fueling denial. Seems to have only gotten worse. 001
Reposted by @rst.bsky.socialReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 17/04/2026FDR literally had the president of Montgomery Ward arrested and the company seized for not negotiating with his workers 857857
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 04/08/2026After SpaceX IPO documents claimed unspecified products based on experimental tech would capture revenue well in excess of US GDP, investors worry that firm may have oversold its future prospects. 000
Reposted by @rst.bsky.socialMike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Kids: 1 KIDS Act: 0 67103902057
Reposted by @rst.bsky.socialAmi Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 28/07/2026An incredibly important and timely reflection on the state of the Jewish people from the scholar Shaul Magid. I hope you will read. open.substack.com/pub/shaulmag... 316039
Reposted by @rst.bsky.socialJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Still angry that the Israeli government rushed to blame Mamdani for an antisemitic stabbing in New York this past week... when they also rushed to absolve Trump of any blame for the much deadlier 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, for which Trump was actually much more culpable. 10704149
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 25/07/2026They do realize they need Muslim votes to win damn near anything statewide, yes? 010
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 22/07/2026So the centrists are pretending not to have noticed that Republicans will call Democrats "socialists" or "communists" no matter who they are or what they're proposing... 100
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Why would Trump help with a penalty for a golfer "inadvertently improving his lie"? Trump personally is reported to do it only in full view of fellow players, to make it obviously deliberate... sports.yahoo.com/articles/sai... 000
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Personally, I think this one works better without the Oxford comma. Just so long as someone has already written the book it describes... 010
Reposted by @rst.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/07/2026see they like Trump and want to help him. By contrast they didn't like Obama and did not want to help him. It explains why they will (I'm pretty sure) air Trump's Thursday speech and did not air Obama's 2014 speech. 742982
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 13/07/2026And here were the rules of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain, thinking that that's what all the gifts and crypto "investments" were for. I'm sure they'll be thrilled to hear that was just a down payment. 020
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Fine. If he's voted out and just won't go, put another ring of troops around his, and rename it the Executive Penitentiary. 000
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Compare and contrast to how the (hard right!) Italian government reacted when Trump tried to get their country's team to replace Iran in the World Cup: the official ministerial response was that the request was "shameful", and they wanted nothing to do with it. 000
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Hey, if you can't geoengineer the weather, why have a space laser at all? 010
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Among other issues, this demonstrates as clearly as anything could, how unaware the leadership is that they are widely perceived by their own base as money grubbing grifters with no real commitment to anything other than raising cash. 000
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 02/07/2026If you've ever wondered what cops sound like talking about Spiderman in the Marvel Universe, it sounds like a bored guy in a police chopper having a slow day watching two geniuses climb to the top of the spire on the Empire State Building... 000
Reposted by @rst.bsky.socialDreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 01/07/2026The most obvi- Oh for heaven's sake. Just stay away from lighthouses, okay? 3074198
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 29/06/2026It takes hearing World Cup announcers talking about "the Boston stadium" to make me feel even lukewarm about corporate naming rights. It's not in Boston. And it's named for Gillette. 000
rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Cory Booker, once again showing that, like Pelosi, he's so dedicated to the proposition that the country needs a "responsible Republican party" that if the real Republicans won't do the job, he'll do it himself. 111
Reposted by @rst.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026This is, by the way, why I am so much less sanguine about birthright citizenship than a lot of court-watchers and legal analysts; the best way to predict what SCOTUS will do is to simply observe the consensus of conservative legal activists and assume that it will eventually follow their lead. 3819
