Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 6hAnd just turning on generates an obligation not to turn it off. Even temporarily truning it off is problematic due to consent. And it would deserve a vote. But what if Elon made 50 million of them to dominate elections? 000
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonEric Stephen @ericstephen.bsky.social · 6hdid the padres reach their ceiling? my column 718334
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonTurhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 8hTo be fair, that's what I usually mean when I say "You don't detect any traps." 3396
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonAR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 9hDrivers will never slow down. You have to narrow the roads, build in speed bumps and other traffic calming measures, install speed cameras that automatically issue tickets for speeding, and impound vehicles and put people in jail for multiple violations. Pedestrian injury & death is a civic choice. 2148
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 9hTrump's minions shit all over congress, and now he's shitting all over the White House. 011
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12hThis is how we judge all music, going forward. 931377
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13hsee this is the thing about "high trust," it's this attempt to find a way of speaking "nonpartisanly" about the actual magic beast of modernity, "free and equal citizens" 624441
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 20hsome remarks on 'respectable conservative' chris rufo's "the indian question." from our perspective it's bizarre, it's insane. but that's the point. they want to prove that no one is ever really safe.liberalcurrents.comEditor's Notes: "The Indian Question" Shows That No One Is Safe From White NationalismThat is the entire point. 28423
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026There's a little renaissance of indie computer wargames going on and it's pretty clear this is due to vibecoding. So, for one thing, impressive what vibecoding can do. Finally seeing multiple new versions of Steel Panthers-style games. But also, how much copyright theft happens in Claude code? 000
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026They should have done this in the 19th century -- a Babbage machine crafted from the bones of saints. We would call it The ReliQuery. 010
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph 31167469
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Not to repeat the obvious, but this is literally lawless behavior that makes a mockery of the Constitution and judicial system, should result in contempt prosecution for anyone involved, and disbarment of any lawyers 364560
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Well, I hope it was something exciting for me. "Patient exhibits traces of latent psionic ability. May be a scanner. Recommend testing at DARPA black site." 010
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/202615. Jonathan Bernstein noted today that Schmitt's humiliation stems from the fact that the rightwing media he consumes has made the Republican Party extremely lazy. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/the-schmit...goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.comThe Schmitt FiascoAnd why it’s par for the GOP course. 342668
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Grasshoppers clearly the result of vibecoding. 020
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Los Feliz 3 is a terrific theater, and a great place to watch some indie Beyond Fest flicks, but they desperately need to revamp their Geocities-era website. www.vintagecinemas.com/losfeliz/vintagecinemas.comWelcome to Vintage Cinemas 000
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026One thing non-Minnesotans don’t quite get (understandably) is that the murders were not even the thing that pushed the city into mass mobilization. It was that you could sit on the street corner and watch half a dozen cars full of masked cretins drive by in 30 minutes. 222124
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Trump sent masked thugs to this city and murdered two people in the street. Of course they'd think of him and his goons the way Poland and Lithuania and Estonia think of Russia. 0272
Reposted by Steven Palmer Petersonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy 1593948507
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time." 2349721154
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I suspect that the real trick here is that the distribs figured out a monetization-via-microtransaction scheme that viewers actually use. People of all sorts spend all day looking at their phones. Mammon yearns for a way to turn that into money. 010
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you see this post a vampire that isn’t Dracula. (Techbro Bryan Johnson, who receives blood transfusions from his teen son in order to look young.) 010
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026All this has gotten more complicated because America murdered 100 schoolgirls and the grandchildren of Iran's supreme leader. Iran here is targeting a military installation using asymmetric guerilla warfare, the only tactic available to them. So what right do we Americans even have to complain? 100
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026ABS -- best addition to baseball this century or best addition ever? 000
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Maybe he should helicopter in a special forces strike team, nab Putin, then take control of Russia's oil. 011
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026While I'm enjoying the humiliation justifiably being heaped on Senator Eric Schmitt, I don't don't think enough mockery is being directed at his accomplice, Senator Kennedy, the Cornpone Clown, with this stupidly victorious expression as he smugly holds up the ridiculous "evidence." 93585942352
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11571502051
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths. 371709278
Reposted by Steven Palmer Peterson💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Amnesty International calls for disbanding ICE, the first time in its history it has directed such a conclusion toward the United States government. The human rights organization investigated immigration enforcement operations in Washington, Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and New Orleans. Listen!👇🏼 3151102
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Also, fewer soldiers, fewer E-3 Sentries... 000
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sterling trying to Theseus's ship my brain. Though, seriously, if it were possible to upload consciousness and replace meat brain with droid brain, I'd do it Thesues's ship style because that'd make me most confident that I survive. 000
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient 202038615
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In the 90s I discovered the show on some late Sunday PBS broadcast. It was already on episode 9 or something and I was immediately hooked, but there was no way to see the episodes I missed. I checked TV guide for YEARS hoping they'd do another run. Then, finally, the DVD boxed set. 010
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonGraham Reznick @grahamreznick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Prisoner ep 12 laserdisc, on the show's 59th birthday 0103
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonNicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You have staffers to know about sports and stuff so you don’t get embarrassed like this. The problem with hiring groypers is that all of their normal guy knowledge has been removed and replaced with theories about skull shapes. 534053
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026MAGA GOP has so much in common with Putin's Russia 131
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Beyond Fest scalps so far. Excellent shows. 000
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Which is also really a problem for all science fiction. A nuclear missile would take out anything *real*, so you invent force fields and magic metal so that alien tech doesn't get vaporized or future wars aren't just nukes in space -- where, btw, almost all the downsides of nukes wouldn't apply. 000
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21275742504
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Read the article because the discussion is quite good. I do wonder about the extent the arguments against wealth taxes also apply against property taxes, especially since property taxes are wealth taxes predominantly paid by the middle class. But, of course, a big problem in CA is Prop 13. 130
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonMicah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026I think Trump should keep bringing politicians from red states that are suddenly in play to the oval office and forcing them to talk about how great he is let's get Ken Paxton in here 152070303
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm going to QT myself because this smells increasingly right. There's a series of Michael Marshall Smith books about a secret society of serial killers who run things and that feels far too based in reality. www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...goodreads.comThe Straw Men (Straw Men, #1)Who are they? What do they want? Why do they kill? … 000
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonGareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The biggest hurdle facing creators is discoverability. Meta is rolling out their pay-to-post-links plan, Twitter is a Nazi bar that buries anything but hate, BlueSky hasn’t got enough reach. What the fuck can we do? This post brought to you by my frustration & depression. 261
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Pretty sure it was hats. They had a fine and wide variety of hats. Hats you could build in identity around. 000
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonGoldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 28/09/2026One of the concepts in American politics that used to exist and be spoken of aloud was the idea of "premature anti-fascism." A lot of people suffered in 1930s America because they were anti-fascist before WWII, when it became acceptable and proper to be anti-fascist. 2133
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Future Russia and USA: why does every country larger than Liechtenstein have nuclear weapons now? 010
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026because they do a lot of the refining." He added that he asked President Zelenskyy to "go easy on the refineries." One of the guarantors of the Budapest Memorandum is asking Ukraine to stop strikes on the other guarantor of the Budapest Memorandum. 1117929
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Astros pull out a game 162 victory to go 81-81 and avoid the ignomony of a losing record taking the AL West divisional title. 010
