Reposted by TheParagonthethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 28/09/2026This week's show is a round-up of stories about bad choices that produced (for some) tragically obvious outcomes. ] sbee.link/fjexd9ungmsbee.linkThe Darwin AwardsThis week's show is a round-up of stories about bad choices that produced (for some) tragically obvious outcomes. 031
Reposted by TheParagonJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026In case you don't know, it's very simple. In an authoritarian cycle the "opposition" liberal party is captured by wealth interests and becomes conservative and defenders of a decaying status quo. Fascists come along, offer the critique of the status quo the "opposition" can't and gain converts. 417441
Reposted by TheParagonJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's disgusting watching people buying into the "Tucker Carlson is making sense?!" bullshit and it's probably time to wrap our heads around the fact that the people susceptible to this are unconsciously fascist curious and just need the ugly delivered to them in an "acceptable" package 23829200
Reposted by TheParagonthethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 26/09/2026FROM THE PODCAST ARCHIVE: Ex-vangelical Kristi Burke has been called a "Jezebel." She joins us to explain why and share her journey. sbee.link/k6njp3hrbxsbee.linkJezebel Vibes: with Kristi BurkeEx-vangelical https://www.youtube.com/@kristiburke has been called a "Jezebel." She joins us to explain why and share her journey. https://youtu.be/70NvWHB9TEA 072
Reposted by TheParagonJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 16892933066
Reposted by TheParagonBeachbard @beachbard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Currently, AI mimics all of the amoral traits the developers employed in building it: lying, stealing, cheating, general disregard for culture, discernment, humans, the law, & possible/probable outcomes beyond profit & survival. Prosecute the CEOs for conspiracy & hacking. 0465
Reposted by TheParagonAP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.apnews.comhttps://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d 5542341627
Reposted by TheParagonthethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 24/09/2026WATCH: sbee.link/bya37de6nm 0102
Reposted by TheParagonSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 27/09/2026substack.com/@sarahkendzi...substack.comSarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)My father died six months ago today. I wrote this while he was dying. https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-empty-stage 1117130
Reposted by TheParagonthethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 27/09/2026Avoid Elon Musk's VoteSafe. It's a tool for his America Political Action Committee and shares voter info with third parties. sbee.link/uxpy7nca6dsbee.linkElon Musk's VoteSafe.org shares users' personal information. Here's how we knowMusk's America PAC funds the online voter registration hub. 0103
Reposted by TheParagonthethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 27/09/2026Dr. Onishi has done a deep dive into MAGA's desire for an all-powerful god king. WATCH sbee.link/fvcthgm89y 1103
Reposted by TheParagonAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone. 786178154778
Reposted by TheParagonMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026New Meta strategy is clear. They’re going to flood the market with non-perv glasses so you can’t tell who is wearing the perv glasses.apple.newsMeta VR Glasses, Ray-Ban Meta Audio, Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3: Specs, Features, Prices — WIREDAt its Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a handful of new smart glasses, including a slimmed-down VR headset and the company’s first camera-free glasses. 36315124
Reposted by TheParagonDrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 23/09/2026#NoOnProp39 🧵 Richard Uihlein, Schlitz beer heir, owner of Uline office products, & ultraconservative WI multibillionaire, has given $17M to support Prop 39 in California, a backdoor voter suppression effort introduced by GOP legislators. The proposition, if passed, would require Californians... 108548500
Reposted by TheParagonCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI. 2241431197
Reposted by TheParagonThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/09/2026Artificial intelligence is turbocharging scams in unimaginable ways, as millions of Americans report being targeted and victims of AI scams. Take this AP quiz and test if you know how to spot what's real and what's AI.bit.lyCould you spot an AI-powered scam? See if you can tell what’s real.Artificial intelligence is turbocharging scams in ways unimaginable just a few years ago. Ninety-eight percent of Americans say they have been targeted by scammers — many on a daily basis — according to a poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. 46535
Reposted by TheParagonEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/09/2026Free newsletter: I estimate that ~50% of AI chip sales - $200bn to $300bn+ - are sitting in warehouses, with NVIDIA selling hundreds of billions of GPUs years in advance. Data centers take way longer to build than hyperscalers are leading us to believe. www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-the-ai-chips/wheresyoured.athttps://www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-the-ai-chips/If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter, and you can subscribe on the following links: $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month. In return you get a weekly premium… 29838214
Reposted by TheParagonWIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026WIRED asked 634 women what they really think about working in tech. They told us about harassment, bias, unequal treatment, and the everyday indignities that still shape life in the industry. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-... 641684639
Reposted by TheParagonDigital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 21/09/20261/ Your water. Your rent. Your pharmacy. Your hospital. Your flight. Your concert ticket. Your local news. Different industries. Same pattern: fewer owners, fewer choices, more leverage over you. Corporate concentration reaches deep into our daily life. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy 23470285
Reposted by TheParagonthethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 20/09/2026Starting now! www.youtube.com/live/hI0MdIo...youtube.comWHY Should WE Be Christian??! Call Matt Dillahunty & Seth Andrews | Sunday Show 09.20.26YouTube video by The Line 0122
Reposted by TheParagonJessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Don’t use pronouns for AI. It is not a person nor ever will. Sam Altman isn’t making the god computer of his wet dream nightmares. They’ve made a shitty tool built on theft thats destroying the planet & is meant to lower human critical thinking while given military weapons by rich idiots. 161113237
Reposted by TheParagonAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A cop in rural Texas pulls over a Latino. He demands papers; doesn’t get any. Arrests the guy, throws him in a local jail cell. Hours later, GardaWorld staff show up to put him on a bus with a dozen others. They drive him to the nearest ICE jail; a bus service for the machine of mass deportation. 411462806
Reposted by TheParagonJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It’s very simple. AI isn’t independent or autonomous. It’s a tool being specifically programmed to commit crimes against humans and against rival businesses. But the fantasy of autonomy is an incredible facade that means total deniability and our political and media classes have already bought in. 216543
Reposted by TheParagonthethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 19/09/2026Podcast. Exvangelical Kayse Melone describes her journey out of fundamentalism and into humanist activism. sbee.link/bv7fwp968msbee.linkKayse Melone: Deconstructinghttps://www.youtube.com/@kaysemelone is an exvangelical turned secular humanist activist, and she has much to say about her former faith, women in activist spac 071
Reposted by TheParagonJosh Caress @joshcaress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Yes, this. I am not nearly as interested in their bullshit philosophies or pathetic kinks as I am in their material power and goals. How much power do they have? Unparalleled in human history. What are their material goals? They want us dead.welcometohellworld.comThey Want Us DeadAcclimation to mass death—and the devaluing of humanity in general—is their primary purpose 0104
Reposted by TheParagonshanley @shanley.com · 18/09/2026This journalist does an amazing job of reporting on Honduras, Prospera, and political corruption, new article on Juan Orlando Hernandez, Prospera, and Thiel/Andreessen criterio.hn/prospera-ser... 0118
Reposted by TheParagonSteward Universal @stewniverse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026And 99.99% of Americans don’t have a single fucking clue about any of this. And I can’t get anyone to understand what this means or the implications because I have to teach them a hundred other lessons first before they could understand how extremely significant this is. 1102
Reposted by TheParagonshanley @shanley.com · 19/09/2026Here is another much more ambitious project the Network State is trying to start in African countries, with multiple sites. This one is being led by a very experienced executive in Network State/tech fascism and is covered on vcinfodocs as well. www.alphacity.io 31610
Reposted by TheParagonshanley @shanley.com · 19/09/2026Itana, the Network State site in Nigeria, was quiet for awhile, but has been building all the while, and now expanding with the backing of the Nigerian government Itana is funded by Andreessen and Thiel through Pronomos Capital punchng.com/tinubu-moves... 23010
Reposted by TheParagonshanley @shanley.com · 16/09/2026Imagine how I feel having to hear constantly about someone I dated for 4 months 15 years ago, and something people are too dishonest to say, that it was before he went to trial, went to prison, got out, an got a swastika tattoo. Not shit to do with me. 3255
Reposted by TheParagonshanley @shanley.com · 15/09/2026Please read vcinfodocs to learn important information about venture capital firms, how they work, over 25 Network State sites, a deep analysis of how tech fascism is invading Latin America, Africa, and Europe, and deep-dives into venture capital portfolios. www.vcinfodocs.comvcinfodocs.comVenture Capital StatusVerified information detailing the global impacts of Silicon Valley, United States venture capital and their global tech fascist projects: Network States, ZEDEs, military weapons start-ups, medical ex... 12214
Reposted by TheParagonWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Was it worth it CNN, MSNow and Politico? Was it worth it, White House Correspondent's Dinner? 1361437343
Reposted by TheParagonAxios @axios.com · 18/09/2026BREAKING: Trump announces ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White Houseaxios.comTrump says CNN, MS NOW and Politico are banned — and more could followHis post leaves the ban's exact scope unclear. 12318782
Reposted by TheParagonSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This reminds me of Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet colonel who disobeyed orders when a technological warning system told him that the US had fired nuclear missiles. He distrusted the machines, waited, and investigated. As a result, he prevented nuclear war. AI makes rash, deadly mistakes more likely. 22325137
Reposted by TheParagonLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026⚠️ The US almost went to war with China because of a false report generated with AIcnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 4180101
Reposted by TheParagonAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026As gas prices in Michigan hit $5/gallon and diesel hits a record $6.59, it shouldn't be this hard to buy gas, groceries, or afford healthcare. Our economy has been rigged against the very people who make it work. I'm running for Senate to change that. 14353971629
Reposted by TheParagonJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Not great when you recognize the whole AI thing reflects the mentality and worldview of white supremacist slavers looking for free labor to increase their profits while doing nothing and also living in total, all-consuming fear that there will be an uprising that leads to their violent comeuppance. 622774
Reposted by TheParagonSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"I watched time run out until it lay in careless piles, like dirt on a pauper's grave." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-lost-v...sarahkendzior.substack.comThe Lost Vortex2022 was the last best chance to turn things around. 412036
Reposted by TheParagonthethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 18/09/2026RUN! sbee.link/cgudtjkp8qsbee.linkWomen are running away from church to escape MAGAWomen in the U.S. have been slightly more religious than men for untold decades. And many are recognized as the driving force for organized religion and getting kids and spouses to church on religious days. 0122
Reposted by TheParagonHuman Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 17/09/2026Michiganders deserve a champion who has a history of fighting for equal rights for everyone. That’s why we’re proud to endorse abdulelsayed.bsky.social, who has: 932796
Reposted by TheParagonSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I wrote for Fangoria when I was in college! Some of my Fango stuff is still online, manually typed out by fans decades ago. I did the American Psycho cover story (interviewed Christian Bale from my dorm!) Did some X-Files stuff; here's an article by me at age 21: www.eatthecorn.com/itw/2000/05/...eatthecorn.comFangoria: His Darkest X FilesMay-??-2000 Fangoria His Darkest X Files Sarah Kendzior Transcribed by pam. All [] are mine; the original article's brackets are denoted by {}. X-FILES veteran Kim Manners has directed some of the ser... 315616
Reposted by TheParagonSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Disclose the money! Show the receipts! Any "influencer" taking money from a campaign or PAC should have to reveal it. These sleazy shills destroy politics even more. Podcasters etc who fundraiase for candidates or who do their PR should be marked as operatives, not as journalists or creative people. 419563
Reposted by TheParagonOn the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A lot of money has been changing hands between online creators and political campaigns and much of it has gone undisclosed, according to a recent New York Times report. @davejorgenson.bsky.social sees the revelation as a teaching opportunity. 14413
Reposted by TheParagonPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In one of the most important convos I’ve had this year, I talked with Sherry Turkle about how our interactions with AI platforms, simulated companions, and artificial personalities can reshape us, diminish our capacities, and alter our very conceptions of ourselves and what it means to be a person.truthout.orgArtificial Intimacy Is Changing Who We Are“We start to judge our human interactions by what the chatbot can deliver,” says author Sherry Turkle. 423196
Reposted by TheParagonAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Lt. Gov. Hashmi's leadership has always been about delivering for the people she serves—from lowering costs and expanding access to healthcare to defending reproductive freedom and voting rights. I’m proud to have her support. 302520646
Reposted by TheParagonLt. Governor Ghazala Hashmi @ltgovhashmi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I’m proud to endorse Michigan’s Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social for U.S. Senate. Dr. El-Sayed and I come from a shared tradition of education and public service, and we both understand the responsibilities that come with a focus on building resilient and healthy communities. 620947
Reposted by TheParagonthethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 16/09/2026I'm speaking to Dr. Brad Onishi about his book next week. sbee.link/vangbkhyej 0246