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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

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SusanaDarkAngel @susanaangel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The plague released by Putin on the world.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Folks have insulted: My Southern drawl. My loc’d hair. My clothes. My shoes. My intelligence. I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida

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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

- The Vulturine Guineafowl (Acryllium vulturinum) is the largest of the Guineafowl species. It is found in Africa in dry open habitat with scattered bushes and trees. - Photo made in Meru (Kenya) by Elsen Karstad.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/10/2026

This is a photo of some rocks and sand. It was taken earlier today, with a camera 247,000,000 km away. It was taken on Mars. And now you're looking at it on your screen.

Dusty, red rocks, and red soil. Darker soil in the middle of the image marks where one of the rocks has been displaced.

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

UCLA illegally fired me as DEI Director. Why? B/c I posted truth about this bigoted piece of garbage after he died. Please consider helping me keep my head above water, until my lawyers reach a fair resolution with UCLA. My pack and I could use your support: gofundme.com/f/waiting-for-justice-auvzc

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"A group of pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere... to preach and sell white supremacy, antisemitism and patriarchy to angry young men..." religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...

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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros

(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Release ALL the Epstein files NOW!

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The Brute Choir @slightwraith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

His son doesn't care because it doesn't affect him directly.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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The Brute Choir @slightwraith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sorry, but I will not contribute to the DNC while Vichy Democrats (Schumer, Jeffries) are in charge. Please stop asking.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fun fact: the U.S. House can sue a sitting president with a simple majority vote. If the Democrats retake the chamber, they should do more than just "investigate" Trump's corruption. They should sue him in federal court for the illegal ballroom, Qatari jet, and more.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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The Brute Choir @slightwraith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

These things are less than 10 years old, and already what they're capable of is AMAZING. LLMs may not have a pineal gland, but the argument that they will never be able to think seems silly. Allowing LLMs thought does nothing to diminish the uniqueness and value of their evolved creators.

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The Brute Choir @slightwraith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So at the "Application" layer, the thinking of LLMs may indeed be very similar to that of humans -- simply running on different hardware. As I understand it, one of the huge surprises with Agentic AI is the incredible capability that training on human language and reasoning unlocked for the LLMs.

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The Brute Choir @slightwraith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

LLMs are now the same. We may understand how transistors and transformers work, but the models can exhibit emergent behaviors that are hard to predict or understand. Also, these models were trained on _human thinking_ as expressed through language.

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The Brute Choir @slightwraith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

However, put a trillion neurons together, and even if they are highly organized (as in humans), lots of individual, unexpected, even chaotic behavior can result. We don't even need a trillion neurons -- anyone who has worked with animals (even invertebrates) knows that they all have personalities.

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The Brute Choir @slightwraith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

and B) Just because humans and LLMs have different hardware doesn't mean that they both can't "think" under any reasonable definition of thinking. There's no secret sauce. Neurons obey deterministic chemistry and physics, in ways that we understand to a large extent.

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The Brute Choir @slightwraith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Seems to me that the entire debate can be boiled down to what Stancil says here. Two things can be the same at the same time: A) Humans and LLMs will be _fundamentally different_ as long as their hardware is fundamentally different (e.g. continuous humans vs. discrete LLMs).

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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The Brute Choir @slightwraith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

LLMs have hardware layers different from human brains, sure. However, their "thinking" at the "application" layer comes from training on human language and reasoning. Is it possible to "think" using non-neuronal hardware? Why not? It's not like neurons are any less deterministic than transistors.

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The thing with thinking is that it's another fuzzy term for a cognitive thing about which we have no consensus. It's not clear what thinking is.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trump's nominee for special counsel of the United States wrote "I do have a Nazi streak in me from time to time," intensifying the need for every elected Democrat to go on Sunday morning shows to denounce Hasan Piker.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dear Dems and libs: Stop helping Republicans muddy differences between the parties on AI and data centers by acquiescing to the "bipartisan opposition" frame. Rs are laughing at you while polls show Rs now leading Ds on these issues. Instead, tie Rs directly to Trump's AI/data center malevolence.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well, that blew up. Hey, EU, you listening? We're the world's fourth largest economy, and we bring direct access to the Pacific Ocean! 😉

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

May everyone find something that makes them as happy as I, a probability instructor, am upon discovering that there is a shared birthday in my class of 25.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One of the League of the South's founders was on the faculty in my PhD department (the rest of the department was embarrassed by him) and hoo boy do I have stories about both him and his passel of grad students

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(1/X) I more certain of the following than I am that the sun will tomorrow: (a) Trump will leave the US (and GOP) in shambles. (b) Neither Trump nor anyone who facilitated him will pay price. (c) Ppl who accurately predicted how bad Trump2 would be will continue to be portrayed as hysterical...

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Micah Schwartzman @micahschwartzman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In a concurrence to his own majority opinion in a Title VII vaccine exemption case, a Ninth Circuit judge claims that the administrative state is “inherently hostil[e]” to religion because administrators rely on rational and secular reasons to make decisions. /1 cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 12/09/2026

There’s no hate like Christian love.

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MingTheMerciless @mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Unfortunately, the last two US presidential elections have demonstrated that it's the majority of U.S. citizens who (vote) are 'uneducated, insecure, angry people'.

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is why science class was the best and science teachers wizards 🪄 🧙 🧪🧑‍🔬🧬🧫🥼

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 09/09/2026

Arc De Capitulation - A cartoon by Nick Anderson @andertoon.bsky.social

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 08/09/2026

Ruby Bridges is younger than the oldest existing McDonald's at Downey. She is also younger than the credit card, diet soda, Frosted Flakes, the hedge fund, Mr. Potato Head, the original KFC recipe, Legos, Olay, Oral-B, the photocopier, tater tots, the treadmill, the washer dryer, and WD-40.

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Miles Bruner @mbruner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is Romney’s former campaign manager. Speaking as an ex-Republican staffer one thing I tell people is that no one will go to the mat against our former party more than people like us. First, we’re bitter and angry for having been apart of what turned out to be a colossal, fascist lie.

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Kid Phantasm @kidphantasm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

One thing, I don't think we fully appreciated how BADLY Trump f'ed up the 250th national birthday. It was an easy slam dunk opportunity to raise America's morale and he just pissed it away because of his massive ego and childish image of what a "celebration" should be.

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This man delivers a no-bullshit takedown of Trump and his MAGA supporters, no fucks given. We should all be this mouthy and vocal. And I love his hat.

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Republican Party, even before Trump #MitchMcConnell

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