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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 21h

Counterpoint: I did not use AI to draft my team, and it’s probably the worst and, independently, most injured team ever drafted

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 21h

If I’m the democrats on the Oversight Committee in 2027, I’m subpoenaing proof by the end of January

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You notice he doesn’t say San Francisco? It’s because all of his crypto scam benefactors live on the Peninsula. Anyway, impeach this motherfucker for treason

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If a person did this, we’d put them in jail. Why do we allow companies to deploy tools that they know will behave criminally, and then escape responsibility because they say the magic word (“rogue”)? Ban tools that break the law and put the people who built them in jail.

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There are three groups of people opposed to California’s 1-time billionaire tax:

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’ve probably said this before, but it should be against the rules in NFL games to wear equipment that is the same color as a penalty flag. Too confusing for fans

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I should have lunch with someone who thinks I am a second class citizen because people with my eye shape can’t assimilate?

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The applied-math problem that I often think about is: what is the optimal speed to run if a murderer is chasing you with a knife and there is no hope of getting help? The parameters are:

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The good thing about Jedd Fisch being a 7-5 kind of coach is that we don’t have to worry that anybody is going to poach him

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There are zero justices on the court whose decisions can be credited to originalism or textualism over policy preferences

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a very “What’s Good for Ford is Good for America” manifesto

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In fact, outsourcing DOD to Musk is bad

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can’t imagine a position, including utility, where he’d be an upgrade over anyone already on the 40-man

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Part of the political problem is that mass media credits both sides’ framing when only one side’s is (at least partially) accurate. Both sides claim to be fighting for “rights,” but in actuality one side (sometimes weakly) defends rights and the other defends prerogatives. They’re not the same thing

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I read the ending and I wanted to koolaid man through a wall!!

Screenshot of article which reads: To restore a functioning and
pluralistic democracy in the United States, reversing over a decade of
democratic backsliding in the world’s oldest democracy, the thing to
“fix” is not polarization. Polarization is the country’s immune response
to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success,
reputation, and democratic self-government. Tamping down that immune response only allows this minority faction to have greater control.

Screenshot of article which reads: But the fury of the argument shows the importance of the outcome.
When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for ev-
eryone to quiet down and be “civil”—an outcome that benefits those
who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern
for legality or civility. When we see the problem for what it is, the
solution is to defend the most robust social progress in American his-
tory—progress that has already been codified into law and enjoyed
by everyone alike. U.S. democracy needs leaders who are willing to
defend those rights and voters who are willing to hold accountable the
leaders who will not defend them. It does not need everyone simply to calm down.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"In other words, the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists."

Screenshot of article which reads: These numbers are relatively similar between Democrats and Repub-
licans, which often leads political pundits to claim this is more evidence
of “polarization,” and that both sides are equally to blame. However,
a closer look tells a more interesting story. The people who are most
likely to vilify and dehumanize their partisan opponents are Republicans
who are high in racism and sexism and Democrats who oppose racism
and sexism. The people who are least likely to vilify and dehumanize
their political opponents are Republicans who are low in racism and sex-
ism. One explanation for these patterns is that those Republicans who
are racist and sexist vilify and dehumanize Democrats because they see
the Democratic Party as a party of racial minorities and women; and
Democrats who score low in racism and sexism will vilify and dehu-
manize Republicans because they consider Republicans to be racist and
sexist. In other words, the people who are the most “polarized” in the
U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who op-
pose racists and sexists.

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AI disapproves of renaissance art because of all of the nudity

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They’re not “going rogue.” They’re software that is programmed to behave a certain way, and their programmers know that this is one of the ways their software behaves. The term “rogue” is false framing to absolve the companies themselves of responsibility

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is so great (except for one certain building)

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Elon Musk, an anti-democracy white supremacist with chronic impulse-control failure, is a supply chain risk, and any company over which he exercises control should be banned from government contracting through the withholding of appropriations effective the moment we hold either house of Congress

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Liberté biberté fraternité braternité egalité begalité,” a struggling actor, an emu, and Doug cry as they guillotine Flo. The actor and the emu soon guillotine Doug to resolve a power struggle. Then the actor guillotines the emu for being insufficiently revolutionary.

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

To everybody bemoaning a playoff entrant with a losing record, remember that we would never have had Beastquake without that scenario

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In a coffee shop listening to a dance cover of Harvest Moon and this song is not supposed to make people want to choose violence but

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

hollywoodreporter.com

The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What’s happening at UCLA reminds me that my theory of institutions is that they usually end up prioritizing their decisionmakers over their mission or supposed constituencies.

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Day 4 of saying this: if your company builds a so-called “agentic” machine that does things that break the law if done by a human, your executives should be personally liable

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This guy’s defense is preposterous. The kind of openly insincere defense that makes neo-Nazis wink and laugh but confounds journalists

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My honest-to-god take is that bringing something to your interview might affect your prospects and it might not, and it might give clues about office culture and it might not, and it’s important to factor those possibilities into your choice of whether to bring something

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Drives Like a Dream @urban-achiever.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i wonder if the people at flock see the irony in this.

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m not going to share my top-10 TV list, because who cares, but the one show on the NYT list that bothers me is The Comeback. I found it so mean-spirited, so utterly contemptuous of its main character, that the supposedly cringe comedy just felt like torture and I don’t understand the love

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here’s a story I just remembered. In college, we used to play a game called “Death Ball.” Like Calvinball, it had no real rules, but it usually involved diving from one room to another while a guy in the hallway threw stuff at you. Whatever was handy, shoes, soap, balls, books, toothpaste

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Rogerman @rogerman99.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of the major attractions is to free yourself from any accountability at all. Have an unaccountable AI stand in. A consultant on speed & steroids.

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Third day in a row I’ll post this sentiment: if your company creates a machine that behaves in a way that would be criminal if done by a human, your executives should be criminally liable. Add “inciting violence” to “hacking” and “driving into a farmer’s market”

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We just need to accept that Fetterman is a MAGA Republican now and calibrate our needs accordingly

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Among the many ways Google search has enshittified itself, beyond just the AI slop: it used to give you trusted information first. Now it often puts scam info right at the top, dressed up as real info. Like when you’re applying for a tourist visa or trying to download a printer driver

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Claire @baseball-broad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wait a minute: did Rick Rizzs just say the White Sox forced Luis Castillo to cut his hair?!?!! omw to Chicago to fight their front office

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I would not invest in a company whose growth plan is substantially premised on pretending two-party consent laws do not exist

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Put it down, Gen Z. Ice coffee is for ice closers

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I know we’d need a statutory change, but in my view the executives of a company whose AI does something illegal should themselves be criminally liable

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trump is the dumbest person in American government, but Tommy Tuberville leaves it all on the field against him every day

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"You can't make this up." -- Person who just made it up

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One thing I hate about Amazon Prime streaming: if you want to pause to look at the details of the image—composition; something written in the background; peripheral figures—you cannot. It immediately converts to an ad.

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An industry that pretends that gambling is investing, where nearly all retail gamblers lose, and where insider betting is functionally uncontrollable, now wants you to take out loans so you can lose more to the pro sharps

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In retrospect, maybe it said something that we elected a president who had a first-grader’s understanding of punctuation and then just accepted it because his ego couldn’t handle people editing him

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every couple of months I sharpen my chisels and it is very satisfying

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I will keep saying this because it has become necessary: if you run a company that creates a machine that breaks the law, you should be legally responsible. If there is no accountability for misconduct, there are no incentives to prevent harm

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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you’re mad at billionaires deciding who gets to say what at sports stadiums, maybe ask why state and local governments are building stadiums for those billionaires via subsidies, tax breaks, tax-preferred funding districts, and “infrastructure improvements” (hidden subsidies)

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