Reposted by Oscar JamesMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18hI keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true. 551242687901
Reposted by Oscar JamesMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 13hI posted a joke the other day about how my kid wanted a Mickey song that didn't exist, and a bunch of people were like "just AI to make it." I understand needing to please a toddler, but man--that's just not how I want him to think about music at all. It's not a vending machine. 613499359
Reposted by Oscar JamesDavid C Bell @moviehooligan.bsky.social · 8hIf you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale. 252056477
Reposted by Oscar JamesSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 6hmildly amusing that Gruber thinks he's defused this objection without revealing that he didn't understand the objection in the first place 2575672
Reposted by Oscar Jamespixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 5hSad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike. 613905729
Reposted by Oscar JamesRick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 6hI know the ChatGPT ad about the old lady renting a boat is supposed to be “fun” “kooky” and “empowering” but as someone who has actually spent time with an elderly loved one (who only had access to infomercials) it’s fucking terrifying 3696
Reposted by Oscar JamesLindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social · 7hHey #polisky, what text(s) are the cool kids using to teach qualitative research design these days? 003
Reposted by Oscar JamesAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 7hI LIVE. 10/10. Absolutely no notes. 310616
Reposted by Oscar JamesDeb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 9hYour occasional reminder that, if you can afford it, please consider setting up a standing monthly payment to a local food bank. It’s the best way to support the existing systems to help those most in need. 24520
Reposted by Oscar JamesRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11hall those people who called me "irresponsible" for advocating air strikes against specific data centers better be eating crow. 473944625
Reposted by Oscar JamesI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 19hAgain, what do you think the police are doing to people you can’t name if they’re willing to do that to the mayor? 8691166
Reposted by Oscar JamesAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 14hlol show me a bigot who stands in their bigotry without a gun and hood and I'll show you a ghost LMAO these guys are punks 1373
Reposted by Oscar JamesDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026So we are warring with Iran And Russia is supplying weaponry to Iran. And we are paying Russia to send us diesel fuel. Because we are warring with Iran the ships with the diesel can't get to us. So we are buying it from Russia, which... Yeah, this is some three-dimensional chess right here. 561046302
Reposted by Oscar JamesLevi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Handsomeness usually sucks the dependability out of men. The two things cannot survive in the same host body. —Richard Osman, We Chase Shadows 181
Reposted by Oscar JamesChokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent. 8562213
Reposted by Oscar JamesErik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This Day in Labor History: October 10, 1947. African workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway in modern Senegal went on strike with the demand that they be treated equal to French workers. This is a hugely important moment in both African labor history and the anticolonial struggle in west Africa!!! 325675
Reposted by Oscar JamesKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Everytime I mention that BlueSky is just not good for non-US global news and discussion, I get piled on. BlueSky is great for many, many reasons, but the rest of the world is still very much on Twitter / X. What is happening in India is *massive*. 731009190
Reposted by Oscar JamesDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Trump has picked a side in the Russia Ukraine war. News organizations should make that clear. And every single Republican running for office should be forced to answer whether they, too, support Russia, and how much of Ukraine Russia should be allowed to rule. 22453177
Reposted by Oscar JamesRyan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 10/10/2026Thanks to Apple for pushing a giant Apple Intelligence iOS updated that completely filled the hard drives of the iPads used by our small, non-profit, local folk festival, rendering them essentially unusable a day before the fest started 827357
Reposted by Oscar JamesBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I understand this view but I think we should consider the implications of preemptively giving up charging a criminal with crimes because the jury may not convict 845205537
Reposted by Oscar JamesRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 11/10/2026One for our “data collection process is model” slides 212717
Reposted by Oscar JamesMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Graydon Carter’s memoir says he wrote an unflattering piece about how vulgar Trump is for GQ. Thin-skinned Donald got employees to buy all the copies. Si Newhouse, noting the brisk sales, recommend that Random House publish “The Art of the Deal,” which led to “The Apprentice.” Hence this presidency. 541067268
Reposted by Oscar JamesLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Everywhere there is money to be made from wholesale imperial murder, this bastard is to be found. Along with the conman at the top, the perfect personification of a malignant empire. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/w...nytimes.comInside Erik Prince’s Mercenary Deal in CongoThe injury of a former Green Beret and death of an elite soldier from New Zealand have highlighted the Blackwater founder’s growing role in one of Africa’s most intractable conflicts. 24921
Reposted by Oscar JamesJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Speaking of migration and top incomes, here is a helpful figure from the Fiscal Policy Institute: The eight states with a top marginal tax rate of $1 million or more, also make up eight of the nine states with the highest number of millionaires per capita. fiscalpolicy.org/states-with-... 2306
Reposted by Oscar JamesElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Trump's options are even more limited now -- even if he made a deal tomorrow with maximum humiliation (just conceded), the war dynamics involve many more actors now. Other countries/groups always had agency in this war but now they're fighting and escalating. 18340125
Reposted by Oscar JamesBailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Can't imagine why everyone is pissed off all the time and feels like the economy is bad 1236
Reposted by Oscar JamesRuth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 10/10/2026In the decades since the end of the Cold War, US policy has fluctuated between disengagement, distrust, and - at the start - the aspiration that Russia could be encouraged to align with the US. Now the White House aspiration is that the US could align with Russia. 418933
Reposted by Oscar JamesRuth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It's important to recognise is that this *isn't* about the US getting "back" to business with Russia, because there's never been much US-Russia business of any kind beyond arms control. What the Trump admin is pushing for is an unprecedented alignment of the US with Russia. 36604221
Reposted by Oscar JamesIt's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026"Construction workers in #SanDiego stood up to ICE agents who tried to kidnap their co-workers on the job site...workers stopped their job, helped their co-workers get away and demanded that ICE leave." Source Stop ICE: www.instagram.com/p/DeQGKxtv4Pq/ 14848294
Reposted by Oscar JamesBosphorus Observer @yoruk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Trump has been hiding his Russian diesel deal for over a month: the deal was announced yesterday, but it was likely agreed when Witkoff and Kushner visited the Kremlin on 5th September. While Trump was signing the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 on 18th September,… 1779319
Reposted by Oscar JamesLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 10/10/2026So Israel enforces apartheid beyond its borders? www.middleeasteye.net/news/air-fra...middleeasteye.netAir France enforces Israeli ban affecting pilots from Muslim countriesIsraeli restrictions exclude crews holding certain nationalities, even if they also have French citizenship 13215
Reposted by Oscar JamesRuth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 10/10/2026News media 3 weeks ago, despite all evidence to the contrary of where this was going: 1417948
Reposted by Oscar JamesKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026I’m gonna guess they did it by being born rich 1591563
Reposted by Oscar JamesSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Interesting that they’ve learned that people will react positively to socialism if it is defined correctly so they’ve had to stop doing that. 631150
Reposted by Oscar JamesTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I can’t keep up. Is AI god or just a little scrappy company trying to revise its terms and conditions? Anyone have the latest on that? 1342043
Reposted by Oscar JamesI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026There’s already video of some NYPD helping ICE leave after the shooting and the role of the police in aiding these incidents has to be addressed. 181088286
Reposted by Oscar JamesLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 4093513110582
Reposted by Oscar JamesLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Nasser Abourahmeh is one of the best theorists of Palestinian liberation writing right now. Every paragraph, every sentence of this piece is quotable, and the whole thing is brilliant: www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/sto...parapraxismagazine.comStones Are the First Words We Speak — ParapraxisAnti-Zionism as Praxis nasser abourahme 13823
Reposted by Oscar JamesDeb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“Gloves on!” Carson on boxing, handwriting, being diagnosed with Parkinson’s, and ‘the black door’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukAnne Carson · Gloves on!So, your life. There it is before you – possibly a road, a ribbon, a dotted line, a map – let’s say you’re... 1133
Reposted by Oscar JamesBrian Taylor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Dmitry Medvedev making clear what they think of Europeans and Americans still traveling to Russia. Probably just a coincidence that this comes a week after the annual Valdai conference. 062
Reposted by Oscar JamesGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 811206934621
Reposted by Oscar JamesGothamist @gothamist.com · 08/10/2026AI wary NYC students say the tech is still sneaking into classrooms gothamist.com/news/ai-wary...gothamist.comAI wary NYC students say the tech is still sneaking into classroomsStudents are calling out educators for still using AI in posters, slideshows and quizzes. 217249
Reposted by Oscar JamesProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026In case you hadn't been following this disturbing sequence of events, here's a recap: RFK Jr wanted to fund a randomized trial, run by Danes, involving newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau Ethicists across the world, including in Nigeria, Cameroon, & Ethiopia, were horrified: it's an unethical study 9381203
Reposted by Oscar JamesDana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Relevant- bsky.app/profile/then... 0132
Reposted by Oscar JamesAlex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I don't believe them. That's what the film is about. 28721
