SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 7hBlazing Saddles. I was 13 when I first saw it and rendered me paroxysmal. 181
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 8hThe loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic 401875264
SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I am completely unsurprised, but still delighted, by this. 🥰 010
Reposted by SuaSponte2024seriousfun @seriousfunbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The "fairness doctrine" isn't the cause of Right Wing Media. It's media ownership thedesk.net/2026/10/fcc-... and the TrumpFCC just eliminated any broadcast ownership cap.thedesk.netFCC formalizes elimination of broadcast ownership cap | TheDesk.netThe elimination of the ownership cap is still subject to a possible legal challenge that could be filed by opponents in the near future. 002
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...liberalcurrents.comWe Have No Supreme CourtThe philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court. 1172917761
SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 03/10/2026WE RIDE AT DAWNtpr.orgTrump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurantsThe 17% tariff on Mexican tomato imports, combined with bad weather in Florida and Mexico, has caused the price of salsa ingredients to spike in recent months. 031
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Justin @justinlawguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"looks like here that your car was hit by a moose" 091
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has. 131365219
Reposted by SuaSponte2024The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s a close race but this might be one of the dumbest things he’s ever done and that’s saying A LOT. 5853381
SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 30/09/2026RFKJr opens his mouth and people die from what comes out. 000
Reposted by SuaSponte2024GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026“the person who is CEO at the time a company goes public will, until their death, have sole power over company decisions, regardless of how much investment they have taken from the public” was just never how any of this was intended to work and it is a catastrophe for corporate governance 131203143
Reposted by SuaSponte2024🎃 Mac O'Lantern 🎃 @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 28/09/2026if I opened someone's fridge and found this I imagine it would be the same sensation as realizing I'm at dinner alone with hannibal lecter 588425
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWaycnyti.msDid Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work. 882123873
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is both (a) the result of carelessness in the guardrails and (b) an unavoidable outcome with *all* AI. You can do better on (a) to mitigate when/how (b) occurs but a probabilistic model built to have essentially unlimited functionality will sometimes go bonkers. That's inherent to to the tech. 520637
Reposted by SuaSponte2024C What? @curt19.bsky.social · 25/09/2026All I’m asking for is a few less terrible people in key positions 0151
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I have compared AI to the legal concept of fruit of the poisonous tree for my students. Because the chain of custody of evidence is tainted by the black box, we cannot trust anything it produces because citation IS the evidence, and using AI breaks that chain. 12811
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is my new favorite thing. 74164575281
Reposted by SuaSponte2024bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 19/09/2026Reporters are now granting the same instant exoneration to people who run AI models as they do to people who drive cars. "Gemini hacked into" is the new "A BMW crashed into." This is why #DriverNotCar matters. Once we agreed to blame inanimate machines instead of their operators, precedent was set. 0158
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Jeremy Gibbs @gibbs.science · 19/09/2026These folks pick and choose when objects have agency. Their toys might be taken? “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” Their toys may not make back their investment and they need a bailout, “AI will kill us”. It’s so weird how the choice of agency always shields them from responsibility. 112544
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Correction: A company marketing a cartoon character obtained the cooperation of an opportunistic journalist for an infomercial, and it failed. 19810149
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens. 801510388
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026it is not "acting out" it is doing exactly what it's being programmed to do, and the failures come because it's being overseen by incompetent people with no ethicsgizmodo.com'Be Transparent Only If Asked': OpenAI Models Acted Out in Six Newly Disclosed WaysThe stories were published as part of OpenAI's new effort to disclose more such incidents. 20615169
Reposted by SuaSponte2024The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 16/09/2026OK. So I asked Gemini Pro if what it does is "reasoning." Then I asked it for its chain of thought. Then I asked it this. (Claude Opus produces something generally similar.) 1611520
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If Trump wanted to crown himself emperor in the national cathedral alito and thomas would support it 1093969558
Reposted by SuaSponte2024James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We should start calling these Cronenburgers 511592265
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026ABC forced to fold its tent and not run the Kimmel interview w/ Talarico based on patently unlawful megaton threats from the FCC to Kimmel and everyone. It's a story that may fade fast, but it's a total abomination and proof of authoritarian inroads that this could happen in USA. Outfuckingrageous. 621573508
SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 05/09/2026thinking about how this false narrative has metastasized into a genuine cognitohazard. 010
Reposted by SuaSponte2024yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 04/09/2026this shit isnt sustainable 212594599
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Alex @aldagrim.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"It's wrong to dehumanize things I've anthropomorphized," she said with a straight face 0615
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026When America is gone, remember NYT headlines like this and never again ask what role corporate media played in normalizing the most dangerous man on Earth 48494322980
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I can't get over how irresponsible this NYT oped was. The Sumerians did not cancel sovereign debt. This is an undergraduate fail-level misreading of financial history. The whole piece is based on a mistake. 22685135
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Me, a US-based academic: I don’t care what any scholar believes, we all need to stand up publicly whenever someone’s academic freedom is threatened Me, continuing: also, the first time this has happened, motivating me to sign my first ever open letter, is in late 2026, to a race scientist, in Ghent 172691470
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/08/2026I guess it's kind of hard to view the dismissal of one grublike phrenologist as a major hit to free speech after major American universities have in the past year banned the use of words and eliminated entire departments in the hopes of pleasing the senile president 384787998
Reposted by SuaSponte2024GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23/08/2026that trump was going to make them rich. this is not a facetious response. 1670862
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Pre-print of an article I sprinted to put together after a strange and fascinating decision came down last week. Many thanks to @alyssamerc.bsky.social for a quick copy edit and @kathryntewson.bsky.social for tech manipulation related thoughts. I think it’s good!papers.ssrn.comThe Ethical Perils of Prompt Injection and Judicial Use of LLMs: How LLM chatbots create ethical issues for their users all the way down<p><i>In what appears to be a first of its kind decision in the United States, a Connecticut court found a pro se litigant in contempt for “prompt injection” — 97119
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you. 10464141088
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4645481568
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Your own Juggalo Jesus 471115129
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The more that stories like this get leaked, the more I'm convinced that there's some exec that everyone hates pushing AI and creators are rushing to make up useless busywork for a program to do just to get the exec to shut up and go away. 11594457
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"The endless rationalizations by American Jewish organizations for why an Israeli lawmaker's latest indefensible remarks should not change anyone's understanding of the country increasingly look like a refusal to confront what Israel has become." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...haaretz.comHaaretz Today • The American Jewish establishment is defending an Israel that no longer existsThe endless rationalizations by American Jewish organizations for why an Israeli lawmaker's latest indefensible remarks should not change anyone's understanding of the country increasingly look like a... 39533
Reposted by SuaSponte2024Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 16/08/2026The entire body of the DNC literally voted yesterday to include abolishing ICE in their platform. How can you have a majority leader who is against the platform? 2282664657
Reposted by SuaSponte2024A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026These are the armbands with the stars on them in case you didn’t know. 241848748
Reposted by SuaSponte2024August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Yes, because it’s A GAMBLING APP, NOT A POLLING FIRM. THAT IS HOW GAMBLING WORKS. YOUR “ANALYSIS” HERE IS BASED ON PRETENDING THIS ISN’T JUST PEOPLE GAMBLING, JESUS CHRIST 505164781