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Trevor Smith

@tsmith81.bsky.social
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Pro-nerd. Liberal. Russia Hawk. Childfree. Never Elon. Never Trump. Never Poilievre - Nevre Evre. Cat poster. KDH fan. Lower decks! Lower decks!! Cherry Point Beach. 🍁 🐈 🐈 🐩 🐰

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 28/09/2026
GS: “Based on average annual capex in 2026 and 2027, our equity analysts estimate that the hyperscalers need to generate annual AI revenues of roughly $300 billion in the next few years to break even on their investments.“ www.ft.com/content/f83b...
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 28/09/2026
‘Can the US grow its way out of debt? Don't bet on it. The problem isn't growth. It's the tax structure.‘ www.reuters.com/commentary/r...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're witnessing the Rapist-to-President and/or Rapist-to-Supreme Court Justice pipeline with this Cornell scandal.
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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is it people. The average ocean temperature in the Nino 3.4 region of the Pacific Ocean is now 29.822C. The previous record was 29.815C in 2015, 2 months later than today's date. That means the heating isn't done yet.
29.822C temperature in the Pacific Ocean Nino 3.4 region breaking the previous record in 2015.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
how is silicon valley real
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/09/2026
All Of Man’s Best Clothes Associated With Relationship He Destroyed
All Of Man’s Best Clothes Associated With Relationship He Destroyed
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026
We're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.
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r58r58 🍁 @r58r58.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்) @jgownder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The possible Russian asset has been thawed out from her cryogenic sleep during midterms to help the GOP. Also, she can't even spell Kool-Aid properly.
Dr. Jill Stein O @DrJillStein
X.com
If you had high hopes for Democratic Party reform,
you may want to reset your expectations.
PS.
Stop drinking the cool aid.
10:00AM. 9/23/26 .
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If we had actual journalists in this country, this would have been reported as a story.
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Green Alliance @green-alliance.org.uk · 23/09/2026
This year's super El Niño is projected to cause 450,000 deaths globally in the next six months. Researchers have called it a 'postcard from our future'. Extreme weather will increasingly affect communities everywhere, including across the UK. #GAAdaptation
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 23/09/2026
Local Transphobe Not Sure How Much Longer He Can Pretend to Care About Women’s Sports: tinyurl.com/mry79s75
Man looking panicked, stressed, and burned out with a hand on his forehead at a girls high school basketball game
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
this is a genuinely crazy story
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Rosina O @techysaavy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My fourth grade colleague would love to fund books for her book clubs. Please repost. Thanks www.amazon.com/registries/g...
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 20/09/2026
Breaking News! Code FUBAR!!! Yesterday's Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly (preliminary) was a record 3.047°C above the 1991-2020 baseline, beating the previous record of 3.034°C set on November 19, 2015. It will take about 2 weeks to verify. Stay tuned!
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
im sorry mr secretary but the houthis have refused your challenge of a push up contest to end all push up contests
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Trevor Smith @tsmith81.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They’re not shaking the “genital inspector” accusations anytime soon. Creepy toxic hyper masculine garbage.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the data.
washingtonpost.com
More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/09/2026
I've been doing trans rights related work for a decade and I don't think I've ever had so many friends in community in crisis. People are cracking under the weight of the despair of the current moment. I don't know what to do at this point. It's all so incredibly heavy.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is eugenics
Emily Hilliard, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed on Wednesday that the department had not yet made a decision about whether to provide the shots through that program.
Vaccines for Children provides free shots to children who are uninsured, underinsured or eligible for Medicaid, as well as to American Indian and Alaska Native children.
Pediatric doses are available for children who have insurance, or whose parents can afford to pay for vaccines out of pocket.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
During the Jim Crow era, several southern states passed laws that made it a felony to file frivolous lawsuits, a category that included challenges to state segregation statutes. This was a news story about Georgia in 1960, for instance.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/398119086/?match=2&search-id=ba20bc13-4574-4ac5-8e66-c168c1e858fd&search-rank=1&clipping_id=new
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Something old, something new / Something borrowed and something GRU"
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Trevor Smith @tsmith81.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Russia's Air Defense Fails: 6 Aircraft Gone in One Night
YouTube video by Jay in Kyiv
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/09/2026
ProPublica identified 17 people who each shielded at least $1 billion in capital gains from the so-called Net Investment Income Tax. Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes. (Published Dec. 2024)
propublica.org
How Billionaires Sidestepped a Tax Aimed at the Rich
Wall Street financiers were a clear target of the tax, but some, on questionable legal grounds, have claimed their outsized profits were exempt, sometimes avoiding hundreds of millions in taxes.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Swedish institute that tracks conformity of supposed democracies to actual democratic norms, IIDEA, concludes unsurprisingly that the United States is no longer much of a democracy... because it's become a kleptocracy. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...
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State of U.S. democracy reaches new low, report finds
A new global democracy report finds the U.S. at its lowest level of democratic performance in the 50 years it has been measured.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is the same crew that are telling Canadians to come across the border and spend our money in their state. File under fuck right off and keep going. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Republican senator warns Carney: Closer ties to EU hurts chance of trade deal with U.S. | CBC News
A long-serving Republican senator from a border state is warning Prime Minister Mark Carney against strengthening Canada's economic and political ties to the European Union.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/09/2026
It's important to remind readers that while there are a few anti-trans dems, many are doing great work. Spanberger in VA did not flinch at anti-trans attacks. Now, she just ended Governor Youngkin's infamous rule that would ban trans students from bathrooms. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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VA Gov. Spanberger Kills Youngkin-Era Rule That Would Have Banned Trans Students From Bathrooms
“Spanberger showed how Democrats win amidst Republican attacks.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
promise kept
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Rep. @aoc.bsky.social : “To see what Patriots owner Robert Kraft did to line up all the stadiums to censor speech in that one specific way… this isn’t just about one artist.”
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Joe Perticone @cheetah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You should be very skeptical of CEOs begging "please regulate us." It's often a tactic to box out competitors and solidify their power. www.thebulwark.com/p/ai-ceos-wo...
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AI CEOs Would Very Much Like Congress to Save the World
Guardrails might save humanity. They could also entrench the companies already on top.
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Trevor Smith @tsmith81.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m for kicking a ginger as much as the next guy but I had to mute his name, it’s drowning out actual people from Gaza in my feed. Donate about it, don’t hate about it. Also I’m too old to sustain that energy 😆
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 15/09/2026
There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but a Russian oligarch bankrolling the wedding of the president’s son is the kind of story that should dominate headlines in any functioning political culture.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The financier of the president’s son’s wedding.
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Trevor Smith @tsmith81.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Don’t trust anything Elon, Sam and Dario say they’re doing for the good of humanity. They’re calling for a pullback because they’ve been ordering like it’s a $25Tn market and it’s coming in well under $1Tn. Cutting back on training and agreeing to raise prices, for “safety” is about their survival.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A Far-Right International Is Assaulting Democracy MAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵
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A Far-Right International Is Assaulting Democracy
MAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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Mia V. Moss @magicrobotcarnival.com · 14/09/2026
This is very funny to me b/c as someone who grew up with a narcissist parent I can assure you that her statement here means she is *seething* at the *very idea* that people will not watch her boring reheated cash grab show 😂
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
To ppl suggesting Stanford as an "independent Anthropic & OpenAI auditor" “The membrane between academia and industry...is practically nonexistent at Stanford, a school so entangled with tech that it can be hard to tell where the university ends and the businesses begin” nymag.com/intelligence...
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You Are Not a Parrot
And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
starting to think the GOP have a Nazi problem
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Trevor Smith @tsmith81.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Repositioning for the market they actually have vs the $27Tn dragon they’ve been chasing, before the IPO, gussied up as philanthropy.
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Trevor Smith @tsmith81.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@edzitron.com you buying any of this “we care about humanity” codswallop from Anthropic? I think they’re repositioning for the market they have before an IPO and selling it as philanthropy. What are the haters saying? 😆
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Trevor Smith @tsmith81.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ukraine will stop sanctioning diesel production the second Putin ends his attempted genocide. If Putin wants to to refine petroleum products, he can simply withdraw from Ukraine. He could do that today, with one phone call. Let’s not forget who is attempting genocide and who is attempting survival.
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Trevor Smith @tsmith81.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Congrats on being too stupid, racist and sexist to survive, most of America. You could have had $25k for new home owners. You voted to be spatchcocked by billionaires, again. The unending barrage of bullshit is on ya’ll too. Feel free to do the mass daily protest thing anytime. We’re sick of it - 🇨🇦
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Trevor Smith @tsmith81.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
From the people who let your communities and schools be flooded with AR-15s, “OpenAI knows best”.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
In Beijing, a think tank at Renmin University recently published an assessment titled
"Thank Trump," which wryly hailed his efforts to hasten the "twilight of an empire," by undermining America's alliances, civil service, scientific institutions, and democratic credibility. In the past two years, the international approval rating of the U.S. has dropped nearly forty points, according to a worldwide survey by the Alliance of Democracies; in multiple polls, China now rates higher than the U.S.
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Trevor Smith @tsmith81.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Americans, this is what you do when your country has been captured by a strong man and his oligarchs.
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