Reposted by Trevor SmithJesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 28/09/2026GS: “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... 192
Reposted by Trevor SmithJesse 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... 0266
Reposted by Trevor SmithWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We're witnessing the Rapist-to-President and/or Rapist-to-Supreme Court Justice pipeline with this Cornell scandal. 14072831788
Reposted by Trevor SmithNMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This 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. 916995
Reposted by Trevor SmithMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026how is silicon valley real 3982192
Reposted by Trevor SmithThe Onion @theonion.com · 27/09/2026All Of Man’s Best Clothes Associated With Relationship He Destroyed 14122463
Reposted by Trevor SmithDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The 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...theguardian.comOpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogueDecision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways 20815324
Reposted by Trevor SmithTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026We'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. 6602233
Reposted by Trevor SmithJ. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்) @jgownder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The 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. 2234772
Reposted by Trevor SmithScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If we had actual journalists in this country, this would have been reported as a story. 22546662407
Reposted by Trevor SmithGreen Alliance @green-alliance.org.uk · 23/09/2026This 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 10215109
Reposted by Trevor SmithThe Needling @theneedling.com · 23/09/2026Local Transphobe Not Sure How Much Longer He Can Pretend to Care About Women’s Sports: tinyurl.com/mry79s75 131012219
Reposted by Trevor Smithjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026this is a genuinely crazy story 11955291178
Reposted by Trevor SmithRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Five 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. 720160466058
Reposted by Trevor SmithRosina O @techysaavy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My fourth grade colleague would love to fund books for her book clubs. Please repost. Thanks www.amazon.com/registries/g... 187
Reposted by Trevor SmithProf. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 20/09/2026Breaking 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! 601312599
Reposted by Trevor SmithAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026im sorry mr secretary but the houthis have refused your challenge of a push up contest to end all push up contests 329623
Trevor Smith @tsmith81.bsky.social · 19/09/2026They’re not shaking the “genital inspector” accusations anytime soon. Creepy toxic hyper masculine garbage. 010
Reposted by Trevor SmithThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/09/2026Exclusive: 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.comMore U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publiclyOfficials 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. 14724971209
Reposted by Trevor SmithAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/09/2026I'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. 401825359
Reposted by Trevor SmithRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is eugenics 301659775
Reposted by Trevor SmithKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026During 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. 7392127
Reposted by Trevor SmithKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"Something old, something new / Something borrowed and something GRU" 1055092
Trevor Smith @tsmith81.bsky.social · 17/09/2026youtube.com/watch?v=Awev...youtube.comRussia's Air Defense Fails: 6 Aircraft Gone in One NightYouTube video by Jay in Kyiv 000
Reposted by Trevor SmithProPublica @propublica.org · 17/09/2026ProPublica 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.orgHow Billionaires Sidestepped a Tax Aimed at the RichWall 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. 22551281
Reposted by Trevor SmithScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The 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...npr.orgState of U.S. democracy reaches new low, report findsA new global democracy report finds the U.S. at its lowest level of democratic performance in the 50 years it has been measured. 37745
Reposted by Trevor SmithCharlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This 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...cbc.caRepublican senator warns Carney: Closer ties to EU hurts chance of trade deal with U.S. | CBC NewsA 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. 1891122305
Reposted by Trevor SmithErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/09/2026It'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.erininthemorning.comVA Gov. Spanberger Kills Youngkin-Era Rule That Would Have Banned Trans Students From Bathrooms“Spanberger showed how Democrats win amidst Republican attacks.” 313232685
Reposted by Trevor SmithMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026promise keptthehandbasket.coRepublicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problemA spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same. 262714738
Reposted by Trevor SmithThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Rep. @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.” 277111233099
Reposted by Trevor SmithJoe Perticone @cheetah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026You 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...thebulwark.comAI CEOs Would Very Much Like Congress to Save the WorldGuardrails might save humanity. They could also entrench the companies already on top. 1154
Trevor Smith @tsmith81.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I’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 😆 010
Reposted by Trevor SmithAndrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 15/09/2026There’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. 11246201321
Reposted by Trevor SmithRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The financier of the president’s son’s wedding. 831950700
Trevor Smith @tsmith81.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Don’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. 020
Reposted by Trevor SmithThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A 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: 🧵steady.pageA Far-Right International Is Assaulting DemocracyMAGA 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 7611285
Reposted by Trevor SmithRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The 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 10632621549
Reposted by Trevor SmithMia V. Moss @magicrobotcarnival.com · 14/09/2026This 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 😂 2172
Reposted by Trevor SmithTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026To 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...nymag.comYou Are Not a ParrotAnd a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this. 6504131
Reposted by Trevor SmithPaul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026starting to think the GOP have a Nazi problem 5634
Trevor Smith @tsmith81.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Repositioning for the market they actually have vs the $27Tn dragon they’ve been chasing, before the IPO, gussied up as philanthropy. 000
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? 😆 010
Trevor Smith @tsmith81.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Ukraine 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. 020
Trevor Smith @tsmith81.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Congrats 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 - 🇨🇦 010
Trevor Smith @tsmith81.bsky.social · 13/09/2026From the people who let your communities and schools be flooded with AR-15s, “OpenAI knows best”. 010
Reposted by Trevor SmithDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A 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... 361742737
Trevor Smith @tsmith81.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Americans, this is what you do when your country has been captured by a strong man and his oligarchs. 042