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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Our kids are going to want to know why we let this happen

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think the only way the US turns the ship around is if people like her never vote again

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That one waiting patiently in the corner wants to drop your client's prod db

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here's a good test case for our framework, demonstrating how a real incident can be turned into a false "rigged election" rumor or narrative. Here the DOJ highlights a case where a postal worker discarded mail that included ballots, and uses that to suggest voter fraud and untrustworthy elections.

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyone is electable if they're a generationally talented politician and the circumstances are right

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

Accurate naming of harmful systems is essential for moral clarity, which is essential for mobilization and reducing harm. But labeling individuals or whole movements with identity‑threatening moral categories often reduces the chance of change. Unfortunately. Human psychology sucks sometimes.

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The more I read about the history of civil rights achievements (and setbacks), the more I agree with this sentiment

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'll believe Satya (and the others) when I see specific proposals that require the frontier owners to slow down their own development

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's great that someone has passion and devotion to a cause. That doesn't automagically make their data or arguments perfect.

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Moral arguments aside, it's a 100% historical falsehood that withholding votes from the lesser evil will force the party to change. All it does is direct them to seek swing/moderate voters more. Black voters know this. All the flagbearers of the civil rights movements know this.

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Black voters, having been through more than 2 election cycles dealing with this, know how poorly it plays out in reality. I wish you've activists would do better to learn from civil rights flagbearers of the past.

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Withholding a vote gives the less-aligned candidate a better chance of winning. There is no neutral ground on a FPTP election.

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I feel like younger activists have a lot to learn from previous civil rights flagbearers

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes, if each IC's AI tool has visibility into what peers are working on, it helps a lot with coordination

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When you have a hammer in your hand, everything looks like a nail

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Killing, yeah, I get the objection. But what about just enslavement?

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think both are being misleading tbh. Cuban is technically right on the mechanics of taxes, but he is not addressing the larger point that tax code prioritizes capital over labor.

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yeah he's definitely out to lunch on this. The Report of the Presidential AIDS Commission, various books on political leadership, biographies... they're pretty consistent on this. It wasn't the most egregious mistake Reagan or any president has made, but it was certainly shlow/dissmissive/inadecuate

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am a software dev and had a client ask me to build one of these systems. I told him that he's really unlikely to end up with a product that sends emails a human would confuse with something with their time.

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I was going to say I'm skeptical there are many AI tech elite that are keen on hiring humanities experts, but I feel like that would be a great change to see.

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In tech I'm surrounded by hype masters proclaiming the imminent end of the profession itself, so it's not as if our very livelihoods aren't being assaulted. But the many benefits of AI tech are also undeniable.

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Your article seems to be being savaged on Bluesky, but as a non-academic technologist, I find it quite reasonable. Maybe it's because AI already burned a giant path through my field, but I'm absolutely shocked at the way so many in humanities academia have almost wholesale refused to engage with AI

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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 03/09/2026

More from my review of The Nerd Reich:

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm not saying either of those things, but I do recommend unwadding your undies a bit before raging at a person you don't know

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm not a politician? You're certainly correct. I'm not progressive/leftist either. I'm just an averagely civic minded guy.

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This still feels like a story in search of a story. I'm pretty politically engaged and wouldn't be able to identify Piker in a police lineup or recognize his voice.

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There was a point not too many years ago when Cox could have been a good man. It's massively disappointing he chose a different path.

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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026

16 months ago: Never forget how it started.

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I had the mind/disposition for a profession that happened to make more money and be more resilient than average (well, that may be changing thanks to AI). I have worked hard, but luck got me paid more than other people who worked hard in professions suited to their minds/dispositions.

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The Manosphere Isn't A Rabbit Hole Its a bunch of content algorithmically adjacent to a bunch of more popular stuff people prefer. It is not very durable. Many of its viewers think it sucks. It can easily be supplanted with a little effort. equimundo.substack.com/p/the-manosp...

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Even many free chatbot tools let you save durable preferences (don't gloss me, link to relevant sources) that can make then less painful

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I dunno, even guys like @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social have been calling for this for awhile

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."

But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"Living through a global resurgence of fascism, the greatest difficulty has proved to be not arguing against it, but convincing non-fascists that fascism’s adherents mean it. They believe what they are telling us they believe—and they will act accordingly." www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...

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Fascists Really Believe It

Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It seems like a deliberate post to grease the wheels with the people he needs access to and boost his reputation in certain circles. It is not an attempt to impress us here at bsky, where we understand that it's not 2006 anymore.

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

cf. ICE in the US, an organization that never had a coherent purpose in the first place and was just ripe for an authoritarian to pluck up and abuse

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Ok, but let's ditch the LLMs for a minute, I'm not sure that distinction is critical to Dare's argument, that some kind of GenAI tech will most likely overcome many of the present day limitations that still require an expert to drive.

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

You think LLMs (or whatever they evolve into) will remain static for 15 years in "reasoning" capabilities? That's a pretty bold claim.

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thenextvinnie.bsky.social @thenextvinnie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I dunno, how do you define "reasoning" such that it is outside of the realm of AI tech to mimic well enough?

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