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It’s still striking how shamelessly Musk went in and manipulated Grok when it diverged from his very specific deranged world view and the coverage of Ai scarcely ever even acknowledges that power as a real problem.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 5h

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 19h

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

they are stealing billions from us in order to build data centers in our backyards in order to run machines designed to take our jobs and ultimately enslave us

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/09/2026

I actually don't think the Republican Senator mixed up "Hawks" and "Hawkeyes." Going by his own statements, it appears his staff saw he went to a basketball game on that date and googled basketball games and found the only men's game that night in the whole country was in Atlanta.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's kind of crazy that the Natalie Harp news cycle raised some extremely valid questions about the extent of her influence on our octogenarian narcoleptic, none were answered and the press just stopped wondering.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Disabled people make society uncomfortable. Left or right…. It doesn’t matter. People want to believe it can’t happen to them. That if they become disabled there will be a magic “fix”. We challenge their denial, so they deny us solidarity and support. That’s ableism.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wu on redistricting if Dems get control: "You do the exact same thing that they did to you until they say mercy" and agree to national, bipartisan reform.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyways, this is genuinely the funniest chart in the world because it shows Jill Stein's twitter use spikes every four years and only during years where there's a federal election so if she's breaking her silence now *someone* is panicking

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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think the main issue here really is that lots of nice polite mainstream figures in media think quietly agree with him about this stuff or find it unobjectionable bsky.app/profile/asel...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

All the things everyone pretended were happening on an unprecedented scale during the entire Biden administration, from real wage/income declines to the widespread Suffering From Inflation™️ are actually happening now.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026

Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The oligarch class is deeply freaked out by how badly Republicans are losing the midterms, not because of 2027 (Trump already a lame duck) but because of the possibility of 2029 featuring a huge Dem Congressional majority. Look for the run-up to the midterms to be an oppo dump on D Senate candidates

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I come back to this book all the time when I think about the climate crisis. Let's pretend there was a technology that could fix it. Why would Thiel/Musk/Andreesen/Zuck/etc deploy it? They already have everything they want. If anything they'd exploit the technology for increased leverage!

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

so i may be out of my depth here but hes at 30% approval, you elites can stop capitulating now

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

newsom and bonta let paramount threatening to pull out of california torpedo the entire lawsuit and this is going to be an abject disaster for everyone - including california, where they'll gut jobs anyway what a fucking disgrace

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.

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David Mack @davidmack.pro · 21/09/2026

A “financial penalty” is just a price for doing business. Look for the Ellisons to violate this agreement and skate by writing a check. Does anyone believe he’d have moved the studio to Tennessee? Absurd. This is a betrayal and a failure by all the AGs.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

RWers know what mainstream left & center do not: society-wide info control in news, edu, & SM is powerful. RWers have fought a century-long sustained assault to do just that, investing over a $ trillion. Meanwhile, centrists/left have touted the damaging "neutrality" of MSM, edu, & socials.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Idea: Maybe we shouldn't be treating 7th grade girls volleyball like the Thunderdome? It's not just bad for the parents (who hate each other due to playing time) and culture (watch ESPN for ten seconds), it burns out the kids and makes them worse adults AND athletes. Sports are supposed to be fun!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Outside the obvious timebomb of selling out trans kids to appeal to ~16 bigots in deep Ohio, an underplayed part of the whole "trans kids in youth sports" stuff is making the most psycho Little League parents the most important political demo in America. They're joy vampires for the kids themselves!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.

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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump saying we urgently need well stocked sniper nests overlooking the nation’s main location for political protest should ring alarm bells.

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Harlot🔞 @harlotprincess.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

those are the kind of dems that vote for forever wars and arming genocidal regimes and bombing kids. THEY TOOK PUT OUT ATTACK ADS ON A MINORITY! how do you not understand that's fucking nazi shit?

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Harlot🔞 @harlotprincess.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I dont know how to explain to you that democrats putting out attack ads on a minority currently facing global genocide instead of on their opponents are not the kind of people who will fight for anyone. those are the kind of democrats that side with Republicans when it comes to ice/police budgets.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Republicans know that too, but they also know this is something they can make Dems flinch and equivocate about, which makes them look overall weak and indecisive. They did it with immigration last cycle, they did it with gay marriage 20 years ago. The only way to win is to tell them to eat shit

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Now, in the case of A.I., it's just a complete dead end. You can not deploy those methods against a faithless opposition and a corporate elite that has chosen to side openly with that opposition. www.offmessage.net/p/ai-risk-ne...

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You do understand that everything he's doing to Washington DC is about fortifying the city when he decides he's not leaving office

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Russ @russ41.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The coverage of Piker made so much more sense once I realized they see him as a business competitor.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 19/09/2026

Gonna be a lot of ink spilled abt the President’s assault on the free press from the corp press and I wonder how much is performative For the last 10yrs, he put reporters in holding pens, called them piggy, debased them, called them enemies of the state, etc. & they kept coming back. Access. 1/

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We already have an AI kill switch: cut power to servers. Really want to talk existential threat? Fine. We humans have many ways to blow things up. Like data centers. Panicky discourse assumes the first priority is protect tech company investments and expand their businesses. But why should it be?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026

Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

This is such a great thread because it tells you instantly how to answer the supposedly intractable regulation problem: liability, potentially joint liability, for the person who set up the AI system.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026

people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent

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