Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 8hlet's go further back. smedley butler was right and nearly all of america's business elite back _then_ should've been worm food and then there's the whole civil war thing, where a lot of very shitty people basically experienced no hardship for trying to ruin the union 3277
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 13hElite impunity is perhaps the single greatest problem in American politics going back to Gerald Ford’s Watergate pardons. These people keep getting away with it. This needs to stop. 1345677
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 21hThis is a big deal. DC fed judge says that DOJ's pursuit (and use) of the state voter files is unlawful, on a bunch of different grounds. And effectively confirms that for the 18 states that submitted files willingly, whoever collected the files at DOJ Civil Rights committed federal crimes.storage.courtlistener.comMemorandum & Opinion – #51 in COMMON CAUSE v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01352) – CourtListener.comMEMORANDUM OPINION re the 29 Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and the 32 Motion to Dismiss, or in the Alternative, for Summary Judgment. See the attached document for details. Signed by Judge Spark... 17708275
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 7hWe need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1goodlawproject.orgJason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law ProjectCommission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death. 05333
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 18hIt is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...news.berkeley.eduUsing AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley NewsA UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life. 212087754
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 18hI think, if I’m being honest with myself, this is the main reason I refuse to touch these things. More so than being environmentally dilligent, even more so than wanting to avoid being a thief. I am very good at my job. I enjoy being very good at my job. I do not want to become less good at my job 1461648
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 6hImagine if a crib that sometimes collapsed while a baby slept inside was treated as an impossible to predict feature of the emergent complexity of cribs and therefore we decided nothing could be done. 318839
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 6hIt is a CHOICE to treat gen AI products as something other than what they are: Manufactured by humans and capable of being poorly, incompetently, or recklessly made. 27013
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13hI keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world' 1052210478
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 13hThese guys keep loudly pointing a gun right at everyone else's face and they do not seem to be able to understand why the reaction isn't to shower them with praise and money. Everyone's like "so you're telling me you need to visit Charlie Kirk" and they're like no you lowly cur you need to buy my 18016
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 13hThey're like "my company is gonna kill you and you will suffer the entire time" and they seem to legit be shocked that the reaction is "so you're saying someone needs to take you out to dinner" 0516
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 107109464684
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 11hLove to see an article talk about some cool science in an accessible way, *and* center it around Indigenous data sovereignty. 07429
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I feel like we don’t talk about millennials in particular, hitting our 40s - in earlier generations many of us would be reaching the peak of our careers, but because of disaster after disaster, locust after locust eating our industries, many of us are on our 3rd or 4th fresh start. 572371531
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 14hno idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave 3758891078
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Democrats will never learn. 934608996
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 21hIf you’re rightfully outraged by this execution livestream, may I introduce you to the US’s history of lynchings as spectacles 1132
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 21hwww.npr.org/2022/02/07/1...npr.orgHow Black activists used lynching souvenirs to expose American violenceNPR's Adrian Florido talks with Christine Turner, the filmmaker behind the short documentary, Lynching Postcards: 'Token of A Great Day,' about her film and its present-day resonance. 053
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could. 19467092897
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 09/10/2026last night eyewitnesses saw Oscar Belgal — the man shot by ICE with his 5 year old in the car — discharged from the hospital into ICE custody, with feds speeding off as NYPD cleared the roads for them of protesters. his attorneys don't know where he is; he's seemingly been taken out of NY state. 211035407
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/10/2026Who went through all the major platforms where the Pentagon might stream their barbaric firing squad "livestream" execution to see if it violated their policies? Me. I did it. 351409412
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Bea Eli 🏳️⚧️ @msbeaeli.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is an emergency. ‼️ Bex’s surgery wound is gaping and they need $263 to pay the upfront costs of getting medical help. They have stage 4 cancer and I don’t think they should go home like this. Black lives matter. Bex’s life matters. Please don’t make them wait. Their link: bit.ly/HelpBexbit.lyPay RMM Creative using PayPal.MeGo to paypal.me/thelongestroad and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries. 25487
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Jess Kali 🏳️⚧️ @jessicakali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I've been saying this for a minute. If your candidate might be harmed by trans people not voting for them, then why aren't you calling your candidate? 6335126
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21hOne of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW. 171936574
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20hIf you're in Colorado and need help... 69348
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“If you’re really that sick you should be in the hospital” Please stop saying this to chronically ill people. If we went to the hospital every time we suffered, we would live there. Hospitals can’t help us and they often make us worse. We are on our own, and being subtly gaslit doesn’t help. 34936201
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek. 14558871113
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/10/2026Annie Andrews in 2022: "This does nothing to protect or support women or children in SC. I will always support trans youth" Annie Andrews in 2025: It's wrong to "throw this population under the bus to score political points." Annie Andrews today: 651615396
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/10/2026Seriously. What a fucking coward. 987979
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it 96114352656
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place. 252163367
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026We're now at two objective studies for the best use case anyone has for LLMs and both found it useless even for that. It's a scam. It has no use 214244
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...gadgetreview.comOne of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data CenterA rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land. 8536792201
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The right has been gloating that the #MeToo era ended, but we're due for a reckoning that's going to make that look like nothing by comparison. 662134485
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 56120113571
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the US With nearly 3,900 reported cases, the nation is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991, according to the CDC.politico.comPennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the USWith nearly 3,900 reported cases, the nation is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991, according to the CDC. 415630
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 06/10/2026fwiw arstechnica.com/apple/2026/1...arstechnica.comCommand-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27The tool can free up over 12GB of storage. 9723317
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The “fastest growing Ebola outbreak in history” has spread to Kenya. This is devastating. Thousands have lost their lives at a time when the regime has just made massive cuts to USAID in Africa. It’s important we keep talking about Ebola and ensure those fighting it have the support they need:apnews.comKenya confirms first Ebola case imported from Congo after patient dies in NairobiKenya’s Health Ministry has confirmed the country’s first imported Ebola case from Congo. Health Minister Aden Duale said on Tuesday the patient, a Kenyan citizen, arrived in the country Saturday from... 6273144
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is an important statement people, and especially elected Dems need to really understand. The current Republican project is one of destruction, by design. Yes, they have other goals, in RFK’s case he’s objectively pro-disease, but their primary metric of success is breaking government. 26947390
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Karissa Barrows @sjbsmama.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is going to be the worst bubble burst in history when it happens. WHEN. If for no other reason than you’ll need the skills you build by doing so post-AI crash, intentionally & vehemently refuse to use LLMs 100% of the time. Make sure employers, schools, etc leave ALL non-AI pathways open. 12111
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Every last woman in this video matters more than any man who has sexually assaulted someone. 270346
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Stop accepting that if they’ve gotten away with it this long it’s too late for there to be consequences Stop acting like admitting to it after they’ve been caught is some sort of atonement 2107678
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives 1851891381
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of 6163382431
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist. 5846991399
Reposted by beck 😷🐩💜🌈Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off 81581676