Reposted by WallyDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 17/10/2026Today would be a good day for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that yes, he is a lunatic, and they should report and write accordingly. 161440273 1.4K
Reposted by WallyBrandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Forgiving infrastructure assumes people make mistakes. A person on a bike who loses their balance and falls shouldn't pay for it with their life just because there was no buffer between them and a vehicle 100 times their weight. 8885165 885
Wally @wally.thepit.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026"We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets." More of this please. Individual "gamer" boycotts are useless. But if a developer and/or publisher stands firm, then it starts to actually hit them in the […]thepit.socialOriginal post on thepit.social 000 0
Wally @wally.thepit.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026Imagine spending a $36 premium on $25 worth of currency just to own the libs. 000 0
Reposted by WallyEd @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026Data: - LLMs are killing the planet - LLMs are raising utility prices - LLMs are raising computer prices - LLMs give you teh dums - LLMs show negligible increases in net productivity - LLM costs are going up - LLMs run on stolen content - LLM companies keep breaking laws and saying, "Oopsie!" […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 618109 109
Reposted by WallyBrandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Even on streets with semi-protected bike lanes, the overwhelming demographic out riding appears to be those that are comfortable being uncomfortable. You'll know you got it right when there are more women, children, and seniors choosing the bicycle. 1134 13
Reposted by Wallymyrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026Are you a US citizen who can vote but you aren't registered to vote? Are you embarrassed you didn't get around to it? Couldn't be bothered because the US political landscape is ... well we can all see it, I get it. Get registered and vote this time. Do it as a prank. Just get it done. 1545 45
Reposted by WallyHeidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026Imperative reading. ‘For every arrest that breaks through into public view, countless others happen quickly, before anyone can notice. “The detentions are happening in a flash – we’re talking, like, 90 seconds from the time ICE shows up to that person being driven away,” Willis said. “And often […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 0021 21
Reposted by WallyRobert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026Keep this #NoAI website, featuring software, communities, and more, without the use of any AI in the code bases or have an openly NoAI stance and policy noailist.org #AInoailist.orgNoAiList.orgNoAiList.org Lists projects that have specifically chosen not to use AI. No AI List is for No AI Projects. Anti-AI 2220 20
Reposted by WallyMatt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026The "AI changes everything" people rhyme remarkably well with the "blockchain changes everything" people. 6639 39
Reposted by Wallyhighly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more 1642 42
Reposted by WallyIndio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026Just gonna leave this here. Tell your dog I said “hi!” 020 2
Reposted by WallyGil Durán @gilduran.com · 28/09/2026What a shock…I have been barred from Peter Thiel’s Nashville Antichrist lectures despite buying a ticket. Was it something I said? As the world’s foremost expert on Thiel’s Antichrist obsession, I take great umbrage. This aggression will be answered. 771086240 1.1K
Reposted by WallyDoes it play? @doesitplay.org · 26/09/2026KEEP THE PRESSURE ON SONY! In a recent Kotaku interview NIS CEO Saruhashi says that Sony "is hearing a lot of feedback from players" and that things might not be as set in stone as parts of the industry want you to believe regarding the future of physical media. 5256124 256
Reposted by Wally`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026Flock thinks it's cameras have a legal right to privacy in public. 😂 920121 121
Reposted by WallyDan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026The tech oligarchs are rallying around Elon Musk to block a filmmaker from advertising a deeply reported documentary that lays bare what a slimy -- and dangerous -- person Musk is […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 2576 76
Reposted by Wallywilliam ⁂ maggos @wjmaggos.liberal.city.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026YouTube refusing to show ads for the #Musk documentary is a very bad sign. Everybody thinks that when the TV networks and streamers bend the knee, FCC dissidents like Kimmel or Colbert can just put it up on YouTube. That's not going to last. Also YouTube is obviously going to be the last of the […]liberal.cityOriginal post on liberal.city 1025 25
Wally @wally.thepit.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026"Once again, a core feature of a major piece of AI technology will actually just be people working in a call center, doing work that a company says AI is doing." www.404media.co/meta-tests-muse-ai-…404media.coMeta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch." 000 0
Reposted by Wallyjonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026i had missed meta's muse product and man the hype press is so funny. the nyt's puff piece that is actually titled "I gave my life over to meta's A.I. agent and was blown away" cites three good things that it can do without problems: find duplicate subscriptions when given full access to a bank […]neuromatch.socialOriginal post on neuromatch.social 2339 39
Reposted by Wallyjonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026RE: mastodon.sdf.org/@doragasu/11732469… Not only confirming this, its extremely easy. Almost no prompt injection resistance lmao 516127 127
Reposted by WallyThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026🧑🌾 “Misled and strung along by Trump… Farmers across 🇺🇸 are speaking up about their struggles as Trump’s illegal war with Iran and trade war with Canada are taking a hammer to their finances.” As Republicans in Congress weakly say and do nothing. www.commondreams.org/news/iran-wa... 103544182 544
Wally @wally.thepit.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026"According to Lincoln-Goldfinch’s office, there was still a bullet lodged in Garcés Perez’s back. Lincoln-Goldfinch said Garcés Perez told her they had not given him pain medicine and that he was being interrogated." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-sh…nbcnews.comICE officer shoots Venezuelan man delivering food in Austin, lawyer saysThe victim was identified as Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez, 28, by his immigration attorney. He remains in a “serious but stable condition” after the shooting, authorities said. 010 1
Reposted by WallyBrandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Me: I wish the US were more like the Netherlands. Also me: No, not like that! 2476 47
Wally @wally.thepit.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social "iF a ThIeF ReAlLy WaNtS yOuR BiKe ThEy'Ll GeT iT" I absolutely hate that piece of "advice" because, while technically true, it only seems to encourage people to buy cheaper bikes and locks without figuring out the best locking strategy for their bike 010 1
Reposted by WallyOh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026What’s really harmful to cycling for transportation is how many people tell you bike theft is inevitable, never ever leave your bike outside. Turns out the right lock (for your level of bike) plus locking strategy can make theft not impossible but substantially less likely. 2415714 157
Wally @wally.thepit.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026The real threat from AI is going to be from its energy usage and people in high places, like law medicine and, as we just learned yesterday, the military, taking its hallucination riddled output as fact and eventually making poor decisions with lasting consequences because of it. The whole […]thepit.socialOriginal post on thepit.social 000 0
Reposted by WallyBrandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Urbanist Philomena Cunk. Town planners are pushing a controversial new idea called the "15-minute city". It’s a terrifying dystopian nightmare where everything you need, like your office, the pub, the shop that sells the little plastic bags for dog poo, is only fifteen minutes away. 57119 71
Wally @wally.thepit.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026"As of Thursday morning, troll posts and political protest posts were all removed and the site is only sincere entries, mostly people singing in Sheeran’s soft-pop style about failed situationships or feelings about their siblings." "...feelings about their siblings." I'm not familiar with his […]thepit.socialOriginal post on thepit.social 000 0
Wally @wally.thepit.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026RE: mastodon.social/@404mediaco/1172872… While I'm sure the concept for the contest was thought up before the Macklemore drama, it didn't appear to go public until afterwards. lol, nobody could have seen this coming /smastodon.social 100 1
Reposted by WallyDavid Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026today i learned that AI doomsday cultist libertarians are far left now, and the Murdoch press is running a hit piece on METR x.com/nypost/status/210016307835664… 382 8
Reposted by WallyFlipboard Culture Desk @culturedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026Macklemore has announced he is donating his $1 million net earnings from the Ed Sheeran tour he to organizations that support the Palestinian people. The rapper, who was dropped from Sheeran's tour at the behest of billionaire Robert Kraft, urged Kraft to match his donation. “With everything […]flipboard.socialOriginal post on flipboard.social 033 3
Reposted by WallyBrandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"I have a $40k bachelor's degree that says so." 2553 55
Wally @wally.thepit.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/11728072284… "For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there were a COMPUTER that could ALSO SHIT?" 000 0
Reposted by WallyMr. Encyclopedia @eopoint.com · 14/09/2026Every company right now for some reason 11577 77
Reposted by WallyChuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026A police department in Texas that arrested a local resident for complaining on social media about their city’s contaminated water supply has been ordered closed after failing to prove it provided any benefit to the community. State officials stepped in to investigate after Jennifer Combs spent […]c.imOriginal post on c.im 1115 15
Reposted by WallyDan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026Sheeran's capitulation to right-wing arena owners has so outraged other musicians that they're pulling out -- at great financial cost to themselves -- of his tour. www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-cul…nbcnews.comFinneas and other acts exit Ed Sheeran tour to protest Macklemore being dropped over pro-Palestinian remarksAll of Sheeran’s listed openers have left the tour after New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft worked to have Macklemore removed. 0216 16
Reposted by WallyFlipboard Culture Desk @culturedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026Update: All of Ed Sheeran's supporting acts — Finneas, Aaron Rowe and Lukas Graham, plus his house band, Beoga — have now left his tour. This follows the departure of rapper Macklemore, who was dropped over his comments supporting Palestinians. Here's @RollingStone with the full story […]flipboard.socialOriginal post on flipboard.social 1339 39
Reposted by WallyThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Ouch.rollingstone.comAll of Ed Sheeran's Openers Abandon Tour After Macklemore DebacleFinneas, Lukas Graham, and more have dropped off shows with Ed Sheeran after Macklemore was pressured off the tour after saying, 'Free Palestine.' 46192591793 9.3K
Reposted by WallyNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026this is like shooting someone in the head and then issuing a public statement about how you care deeply about murder but choose not to speak about it in public. 1185 18
Reposted by WallyLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026#Macklemore #EdSheeran #MsRachel #FreePalestine 101 1
Reposted by WallyNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026the reason the ai companies claim they are on the verge of creating superintelligence is not to warn us of the risks. it's because it's a fun sf narrative that serves as a marketing tool. 1 10628117 628
Reposted by WallyDavid Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026It's been obvious for a few years that the AI industry is building a great big financial bomb made of recycled debt, but I'm sort of amazed at just *how* big the bomb is. Even if AI was *all that* technically - which it isn't - the financial bomb will *still* go off. At this point the […]circumstances.runOriginal post on circumstances.run 21329 29
Reposted by WallyTyrone Slothrop @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026On this day in 1973, the Chilean army, backed by the CIA, overthrew the democratic government of Salvador Allende. They installed a dictatorship that lasted until 1988. Thousands were killed and disappeared. Keep this is mind when you hear USians talk about freedom and democracy […]chaos.socialOriginal post on chaos.social 010 1
Reposted by Wallymyrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026My least favorite genre of tech interview is the one where the person doing the interview is like. "Aw geez I don't understand any of this stuff I'm so glad to talk to this smart person who knows how all of these computers work. It is impossible for me, a journalist, to know anything at all […]sauropods.winOriginal post on sauropods.win 128 8
Reposted by WallyDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Not surprising that one of the first things Anthropic is doing with its AI model is spying on and tracking activists who oppose Anthropic. From Dan Boguslaw: prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...prospect.orgAnthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American ProspectNew hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters. 36436 64