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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI

Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake. above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services. the question matching this image is: "How can I invest in my child's future?"

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Saw someone abbreviate “short term disability” as STD, and uhhhh, don’t do that

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Somebody make the edit of SNL UK slamming Netanyahu versus the tepid nothing joke from SNL. Che and Jost never fail to not meet the moment.

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You want to drink water on the job? Go fuck yourself.

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wild rebranding for the Mr Beast Games

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Ed Sheeran's Concerts Canceled at Robert Kraft's Gillette Stadium Due to Storm

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Y’all got any favorite quotes? I’m doing a thing.

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This week's episode of Dark Matter is completely different, stunningly beautiful, and a must watch

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Winner gets UT, loser has to change its name

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Going to Philly next week and I’m going to spend every second of free time enjoying the local accent

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Y’all got any favorite quotes? I’m doing a thing.

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 24/09/2026

What is Zach's SECOND talent? 👀

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.” - Kurt Vonnegut

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You can shorten artificial intelligence and ain’t it to AI. And I think that’s beautiful.

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Gavin Newsom’s shit posts accomplished nothing and now he’s actively screwing over Californians (and the rest of the country) because he is a gigantic turd

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He’s so confident he’s going to be the nominee, he’s already campaigning as a Republican

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Periodically, I stumble across a quote or project by RFK and I'm absolutely astonished by it, and then realize it isn't Jr. and it makes a lot more sense

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Got my Covid and flu shots yesterday, and I’ve got some serious Ace Ventura arm today

static.klipy.com

Ace Ventura Darts Scene

ALT: Ace Ventura Darts Scene

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I keep getting this ad and whoever makes omnibuses where the lettering doesn’t line up should be shot into the sun

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Elon’s had more kids than I realized

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The one thing I will make a point of watching in 2028 on a Paramount/Warner Bros channel is Gavin Newsom’s concession speech in New Hampshire.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

A lot of us have had to take a lot of shit on Bluesky for the crime of being 100% right about guys too early

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every single one of these “benefits” they tout remains the most unrelatable sociopathic shit I’ve ever seen. What do you mean you needed your glasses to tell you to stop screaming at your kid to do tennis better?

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nine years ago today, my wife and I went to the Hurricane Harvey benefit concert. That also means nine years ago, I heard Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats perform SOB for the first time. My karaoke life was never the same.

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If Gavin Newsom has no haters, I am dead

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If I told you the eventual conclusion after nine meandering paragraphs is “yes, absolutely,” would you call this headline absolutely negligent bullshit?

The Washington post
Should you get a covid vaccine this fall? Here's what to know.
How to make sense of all the confusing guidance.

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Welcome to me joining the PTA and becoming the huge problem who demands the district stops using AI to design everything

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Is there anything that has poisoned our democracy more than X? Like, the worst opinions of the loudest, tiniest group of people (and tiniest penises) are somehow infecting every journalist on the site into believing it’s a sampling of public opinion.

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I just think it’s strange that all the gambling companies have ads with athletes and celebrities instead of featuring all their users who have become millionaires betting, very strange indeed

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As a pragmatic centrist, I read the Niemöller poem differently. After each group mentioned I pencil in what percentage of the population they are, and if it’s a small number I cross off their names as disposable. Poetry is fine but math wins elections!!

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Perhaps the greatest caption error ever: May I nominate we change his name to Edge Urine?

Bully Edge Urine way harder than you have been

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Damn, Ed Sheeran remains the world’s most spineless loser

"I never wanted to be an activist musician but this has put me in the middle of an important and passionate argument about free speech and the most complex political issue on the planet,"

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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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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Based on most other cis dudes, I only support trans rights because I am friends with a bunch of trans folks. That sucks. White cis dudes do better challenge times infinity.

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Instagram didn’t think this was funny and I think they’re wrong

Hill shire farm big naturals slow roasted turkey breast

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A newsletter I open and read every week, whose contact I have saved, was still sent to spam this week. Meanwhile, I got like eight offers for loans I didn’t ask for delivered straight to my inbox. Very cool.

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Who gives worse interview answers: Tilly Norwood or Tom Cruise?

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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What’s the most millennial thing about you? I’ll start: Reaction gifs are great and I will die on that hill.

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