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Openai is blowing through cash spending on datacenter buildouts and hoarding gpus and other data center components for demand that will likely never materialize. This will be the bubble of the century.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h

Solid chance Openai goes belly up and takes softbank and oracle with it. Couldn't happen to more deserving companies.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 10h

Still the absolute funniest "trailer remix" ever made -- as well as one of the very first of its kind, debuting in 2005 Every shot is perfectly chosen God I could watch this all day

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1. The thing about Donald Trump is that he's bad at being president. I don't mean tyrannical or fascist or criminal or corrupt. Those adjectives obviously apply, but I mean *just plain bad*.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/09/2026

jason benetti you are my GOAT

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The members of DOGE should not comfort themselves that were doing good or making government more efficient. DOGE treated government like that restaurant in Goodfellas: they took a legitimate business, stripped of its assets, and burned the joint, youtu.be/ZPtjyqgZAUk?....

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party" I don't care what this guy or anyone else thinks about policy X or agency Y. It's a crime to do what the DOGE guys did. They all, including Elon, need to go to jail forever.

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Terry Moran @terrymoran.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Here's a good article by HamNo that gets at a point that's missing in today's debates. We tend to argue about something without agreeing on its basic definition. few "no socialism!" people want to go back to the days of Pinkertons @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/i-want-you...

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I Want You To Tell Me What “Socialism” Means

Before you tell me if it’s good or bad.

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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We will vote to rebuke him so decisively no president will dare such abuses again for centuries.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I guess we can add Trump managing to end the Kennedy Center to the rest of his legacy: - new wars, incompetently managed - destroyed USAID, killed hundreds of thousands - highest debt and deficits in US history - out of control costs and inflation

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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Having a visual of how much debt we're in is always helpful as looking at $40 Trillion seems incomprehensible. And to think, with all this waste, we could have healthcare, free school lunches, affordable housing, etc. 1 red cup = $1 Billion! Get out and VOTE! #ProudBlue 📹: yobencohen

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Look at this loathsome repulsive creature yelling at a reporter. In addition to the fact that he’s the worst president in US history, he’s one of the worst human beings on planet earth. His supporters have a very serious defect in their character.

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Terry Moran @terrymoran.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I want to say wonderful, but really, a touching personal note from someone who was there on 9/11. There on the periphery.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Here’s what did and didn’t happen on September 11th, 2001.

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

🎯SIX IMPEACHABLE THINGS BEFORE BREAKFAST: "The agreement has not been shared with member of Congress, who determine how US federal funding is spent"

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Will Republicans Be Asked to Disavow Elon Musk Over His Latest Creepy Antisemitic Post?" Amid the never-ending frenzy over Hasan Piker, the GOP’s top donor just posted a bizarre pseudoscientific statement about Jews, DNA, and white identity. My latest for Zeteo's 'First Draft' morning newsletter:

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First Draft: Will Republicans Be Asked to Disavow Elon Musk Over His Latest Creepy Antisemitic Post?

Amid the never-ending frenzy over Hasan Piker, the GOP’s top donor just posted a bizarre pseudoscientific statement about Jews, DNA, and white identity. Plus: Congress says you have to like Israel.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I dug up the full episode of the Duffy podcast from 2024. He connects Sydney Sweeney’s “assets” to climate change.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction.

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Terry Moran @terrymoran.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Definately worth a read. As these stories all do, this brings back all the feelings of that day. Personally, I remember seeing the next door Sear's Tower as the reports came it that it was a probable target.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"should cyclists wear helmets" discourse is such a good one because the arguments for both positions are totally common-sense and unassailable, everyone just digs in.

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Terry Moran @terrymoran.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just a fantastic thread. Do read all the way to the end

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 19/08/2026

🧵You can't talk about Natalie Harp w/o talking about how strange she is. This isn't making fun of physique or bearing. It's about obsessive/creepy behavior. And it matters on policy. As a former Republican media consultant, I can tell you that this attack is astonishingly effective w/the public...

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Terry Moran @terrymoran.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Another great Doctorow string on how we need to start thinking of AI/LLMs as a normal technology; useful to some, useless to others. And stop elevating their leaders as super villains.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 14/08/2026

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahhaahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha

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Terry Moran @terrymoran.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Here's a good (but long) string on digital advertising, and why your ad-block, or ad-block pro, sometimes let's ads through.

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 11/08/2026

I wrote up a pretend edit of David Brooks’ “Let’s just ignore Epstein” column last February and life happened and I didn’t post it. I am correcting that error. www.patreon.com/anamariecox2...

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EDITING DAVID BROOKS | Ana Marie Cox

Remember that piece about how David Brooks encouraged us all to stop talking about the Epstein case, because it was too divisive and painted

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Aaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Most people do not know the name of this bridge in the South Loop in Chicago. It's been around for 127 years and it was designated a Chicago landmark in 2007. It's called the St. Charles Air Line Bridge. Image at sunrise last Friday.

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Terry Moran @terrymoran.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Doctorow does a great job here and in earlier articles, putting words to the skepticism I feel regarding AI.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Earlier this month, a New York Times journalist was watching “The Sheep Detectives” when FBI agents showed up at his door with a subpoena. Last week, a judge had some questions. It didn’t go well for the Justice Department. My dispatch from the NYT hearing: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

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The Subpoena Detective: A Dispatch from the Times Hearing

On jets, journalism, and a judge

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

How about a jet-lagged live posting while I read? Trying to read this because I keep getting tagged in posts about it, but the first paragraph already contains synthetic text (a quote from Claude). I will skip that bit and persevere... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Could AI be conscious?

Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

sometimes i try to think perhaps i am being hyperbolic about everything, but it just is inarguably true that, after essentially winning an outright, sweeping victory for income inequality and a police state light on anything approaching services, the superrich are now attempting the coup de grace

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

THANKX to Paris Hilton and Hilton for stepping up to cover hotel rooms for all the hockey players to attend the ESPYs together and celebrate their TEAM OF THE YEAR nomination together,!!

Paris Hilton steps up to help cover hotel rooms for the hockey players

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is an explanation, not an excuse or justification, but there are so many white-collar men who - whenever they're interacting with men who code as more grimily masculine - will accept social transgressions, comments, and general shittiness that would never fly otherwise.

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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I know there are trans people right now, wondering if anyone is going to stand up for their simple right to exist. Well, I am.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Biden: Putting his name on the Kennedy Center. Building an arch in his own honor. Even hiring his own pool guy to fix the reflecting pool. Whoa. What a loser.

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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Gilded Age cast member just dropped footage from inside the black church after the Knicks win www.instagram.com/reel/DZiJant...

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

Statue of Liberty, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi & Gustave Eiffel, dedicated 1886, 📸’s by @natlyphoto, PannaPhoto

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