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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 4h

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2h

The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL? The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?” Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug.

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Tom Test - Reed Awards Voice Actor of the Year finalist - 2025 @tomtest-vo.bsky.social · 21h

Our support of this fascist regime cannot hang seen. I guess we'll have to wait until January 2030 when a Dem becomes president

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Billionaires are vacuuming up all the wealth, while workers get screwed. They’re laughing in our faces while Trump steals from us and builds a ballroom. (H/T @qasimrashid.com)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🇺🇸 US TRAVEL ASSOCIATION: “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation. It’s mind-boggling.” The Trump effect. 🤷🏼 www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Tom Test - Reed Awards Voice Actor of the Year finalist - 2025 @tomtest-vo.bsky.social · 23h

Bubble incoming that will make the tech bubble of 2000 look like a tiny little blip

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Tax War Room @taxwarroom.bsky.social · 23h

Since 1978: 📈 CEO pay: up 1,316% 📉 Typical worker pay: up 28%. Same economy. Same decades. Very different rules. Time to rewrite them: tax wealth, raise the corporate rate, raise the minimum wage.

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CEO Pay

CEO-to-worker pay has skyrocketed over the last six decades, growing 1084% compared to a typical workers' pay which only grew 26%. It's excessive no matter how you look at it...and it doesn't have to ...

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional." www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...

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Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns

Bailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Exactly. As he becomes more deranged and politically weaker, he will become more desperate and more dangerous.

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Tom Test - Reed Awards Voice Actor of the Year finalist - 2025 @tomtest-vo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This was one of THE most memorable games I have ever watched in my 55+ years as a Tigers fan!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The United States government killed another innocent person.👇

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Notably, this man works in New Zealand, far outside of Silicon Valley. He says he is NOT part of the “rationalist community” He cites his Christian faith as one reason for his resignation and is an elder in his church. (Faith-based resignations is something I’ve been wondering if we would see.)

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“I've talked to many people in Google Deepmind…and almost all of them have sincere and serious concerns, whether or not they voice them in public. I have seen no hard evidence that people are hyping Al risk as a means to boost company stock prices or regulate away their competitors.”

First, for those who don't know me: I've been in the tech industry a long time and I have a lot of Silicon Valley connections, but I live in New Zealand so I live outside the industry bubble and also outside the American bubble. I'm a Christian, and actually an elder and occasional lay preacher in the English-speaking congregation of Auckland Chinese Presbyterian Church in Auckland's inner city. That is, I am not a "tech bro", nor do I fit into the self-described "rationalist community" ... but I do think many of their arguments deserve to be taken seriously.
I have a lot of thoughts about Al, but I'm not going to elucidate them all in this post. In summary, I think the existential risks many people are warning about deserve to be taken seriously; a lot of the phenomena predicted by the "doomers" have come to pass (e.g., reward hacking, misalignment, deceptive models, model eval awareness, psychotic swarms). However, I am not convinced the chance of ASI doom is 100%. Rather, I think the risk is real but uncertain — but that itself is very alarming! We are morally obliged to make a massive effort to minimise such risk, and most likely the risk is high enough that aiming for ASI in the near future is inherently irresponsible. I'm also very concerned about other Al-related issues: cognitive surrender, Al-induced psychosis and loneliness, power concentration, economic disruption, cybersecurity, lack of accountability, and so on. I think the potential benefits of Al are quite unclear and currently, if I had to bet, I'd bet the negatives will outweigh the benefits ... but I'm uncertain about that too.

Here are some things I'm confident about. I'm confident that the people in Al labs who are issuing warnings about Al are generally sincere.
I've talked to many people in Google Deepmind about these issues and almost all of them have sincere and serious concerns, whether or not they voice them in public. I have seen no hard evidence that people are hyping Al risk as a means to boost company stock prices or regulate away their competitors. (I think national and international regulation is desperately needed!)
I've seen a lot of arguments of the form "you can't trust those people", and maybe that's true, but such distrust is not a good reason to disregard their warnings, as Russell Moore eloquently explained recently.
I'm confident that Al capability will continue to keep increasing steadily as long as we keep working on it. I wish that Al would hit some kind of plateau, or that we would identify important human cognitive abilities that Al will never replicate without a paradigm shift, but I don't expect those wishes to come true. Model progress on benchmarks seems as fast or faster than ever, and with it, qualitatively new capabilities keep emerging. Even if model progress stopped today, we could spend years effectively unlocking new capabilities via new prompts and harnesses. Many prominent Al detractors (looking at you, Zitron and Doctorow) seem to think that Al is some kind of scam that won't really work. I think it will.

I'm very confident that even if there is a path to a better future through Al, the current rate of change is far too high. Al is developing faster than humans can individually and collectively understand it and adapt to it. People trying to plan their futures, e.g. trying to plan for a world several years in the future as they enter university, can no longer do so the way previous generations could. I don't think we've seen anything like this before, certainly not in the previous technological shifts I have lived through (PCs, the Internet, smartphones). Even during the Industrial Revolution, not only was change much slower but there were large swathes of human activity that were not and could not be directly impacted by the new machines. That is not very true anymore.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another AI resignation—this one from Google DeepMind: “I definitely want my future work to be unambiguously pro-human.” “The existential risks many people are warning about deserve to be taken seriously…” (robert.ocallahan.org/2026/09/good...)

Robert O'Callahan @rocallahan
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I resigned from Google today.
enjoyed my work and loved the people, but my GDM team was working on a new generation of chips to make Al much faster and cheaper, and I think Al is already progressing too fast, so I had to quit.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 23/09/2026

🔊 Half a million Gazan children returned to makeshift classrooms for the first time in nearly three years after 98% of schools were either destroyed or damaged during the war. Listen now on the Reuters World News podcast reut.rs/4rnUEji

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

CEO pay is up 1,316% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 28%. CEOs are now paid 325 TIMES as much as the typical worker in their industry, according to @epi.org Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

👇🏽 #AbolishICE

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Tom Test - Reed Awards Voice Actor of the Year finalist - 2025 @tomtest-vo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The details of the Boebert scandal are JAW DROPPING. The hypocrisy of these people staggers the imagination. Read the whole thread.

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A photo of Donald Trump inspecting the scale model of the Trump arch with drones, snipers, and golden statues was unavailable due to reporters being banned from the briefing. So, here is Hitler and other top Nazis inspecting a scale model of a planned Triumphal Arch in Berlin, circa 1939.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Republican Governor Jim Pillen has been a champion of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. But at least 20 of his family farms employed undocumented immigrants, according to a new investigation by the Flatwater Free Press and The New York Times. youtu.be/5RZgrR1_7Dc?...

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This GOP governor said ‘illegal aliens’ have ‘invaded.’ His family farms EMPLOYED them, report finds

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So notoriously anti-LGBTQ Lauren Boebert had a sexual relationship with a woman on her staff and then paid her hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep quiet? Republican hypocrisy is so shameless.

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Lauren Boebert accused of sex with three staffers in complaint alleging $200K hush payment

An explosive sworn complaint filed with the House Ethics Committee alleges Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) carried on a sexual relationship with her district director in the office, in a car and in campaig...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bloomberg reports that officials directly involved in an internal Pentagon investigation found that Peter Thiel’s Palantir Maven Smart System played a significant role in the February 28 U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

According to the investigation, the Pentagon relied on outdated intelligence that still identified the site as an IRGC facility, while personnel placed too much trust in Maven to flag stale or conflicting information. It didn’t. The school ultimately appeared as a recommended target.

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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School

Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.

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nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A complaint filed with the House Ethics Committee accuses Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert of relations with three different staffers, 2 women and 1 man, and in at least one case a hush money payment. This is anti-gay congresswoman.

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Lauren Boebert Accused Of Bisexual Affairs With Staffers

YouTube video by The Rational National

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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A French military source told Le Monde that France is already carrying out undisclosed conventional military responses to Russian hybrid attacks. Asked whether Paris could retaliate militarily without making it public, the source replied: “That is already happening.”

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Germany is preparing hospitals for a possible Russian escalation with NATO, Bloomberg reports. Berlin estimates up to 1,000 casualties a day could require medical care.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

An anonymous French Defence Ministry source tells Le Monde France is already conducting covert conventional military operations against Russia.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

WAPO is reporting that at least four more service members have died in the war in Iran than DOD is publicly acknowledging. CNN is reporting that the US almost seized a Chinese vessel because AI incorrectly identified it as containing Iranian nuclear material. Clown show.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

👇👇👇👇

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Tom Test - Reed Awards Voice Actor of the Year finalist - 2025 @tomtest-vo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the hardest I've laughed out loud in awhile! Share freely and widely - mockery is one the best weapons.

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Tom Test - Reed Awards Voice Actor of the Year finalist - 2025 @tomtest-vo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ever see the 70s movie "Colossus: the Forbin Project?" It's about an international AI enitity that is supposed to bring about world peace, but instead enslaves humanity using nuclear holocaust as blackmail. www.imdb.com/title/tt0064...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And this is pretty funny: Trump's PAC now sees an urgent need to spend in Texas districts that Republicans just heavily gerrymandered to the GOP’s benefit, after he corruptly commanded them to do so. Oops! newrepublic.com/article/2155...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Crucial point. Very possible that what I'm reporting here is the beginning of Rs starting to write off the Trump +3, +4, +5 districts and now starting to put money into the Trump +8, +9, +10, +12 districts to save those:

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