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David Welch

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I’ve made some games and a TV show.

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Mike Lacher @mikelacher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i rebooted minesweeper as a AAA shooter. loot boxes coming soon minesweeper.mikelacher.com
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 08/10/2026
Wall Street and corporations have schemed for decades to stack the bench with judges who rule against consumers and workers. Result? Federal courts have distorted the law to further rig the economy—and you're paying the price. Democrats must be clear-eyed about this challenge.
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“from the archive” jfc 😑
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"The more a regime depends on AI, the more it depends on the people who keep AI running. And those people, like every other praetorian class in history, will quickly discover what their indispensability is worth." www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
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How Technology Empowers—and Imperils—Dictators - Schneier on Security
This essay was written with Seva Gunitsky, and originally appeared in Foreign Affairs. Two weeks after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in March 2022, the Russian TV Channel One editor Marina O...
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The most important political task in America is clawing back wealth from the very rich. The most important ballot measure in America is the California billionaire tax. Oligarchy is at the front door. Time to stop fucking around. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag...
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The War Against Accumulated Capital
Either pass wealth taxes or learn to love digital feudalism.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Voting Simulator from @theonion.com has great environmental storytelling
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Honestly a pretty stunning interview with Bill Gates. I've never heard him this urgent & combative. I take him seriously in a way I do not take most apocalyptic AI tech bros youtu.be/A_156w0aYtU?...
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Bill Gates: A.I. ‘Makes Nuclear Weapons Look Like Nothing’ | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975” www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-...
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You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner
We’re witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One way tech oligarchs retain power is through dual-class shares, allowing them to cash in on public stock markets without giving up power over their companies. @ryanlcooper.com thinks this needs to end: Dual-class shares should be banned, or taxed in proportion to founder control over the company.
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Here’s a Way to Stop Silicon Valley Megalomania - The American Prospect
‘Dual class’ shares are a fraud on the public market.
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The worst part of Bonta caving on the Paramount merger is that it's a big flashing signal to every other company that there is no antitrust enforcement in America and you can bully your way into getting whatever you want. It's a monumentally bad decision.
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wrote an article 🙃 Why are movies, concerts, books, board games — basically every form of media I enjoy — getting so expensive? Unfortunately, I have a theory. 🧵
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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/
A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
walked into a grocery store in malibu…the rich people are not ok
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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For the next 30 years, Los Angeles will be spending $100 million of YOUR taxpayer money EVERY YEAR to pay for the convention center. That’s enough money to: - Hire 625 firefighters - Remove 185 mil sq ft of graffiti See what else $100 million buys: convention.nithyaforthecity.com
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What $100 Million Could Buy
Los Angeles is paying $100 Million a year for the next 30 years to pay for the Convention Center expansion. See what that money could have funded instead.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
seems... bad
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I would love for Alfonso Cuarón to return to genre filmmaking 🤞🤞 deadline.com/2026/09/dung...
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Dungeons & Dragons Series 'Ravenloft' In Works At Netflix (Exclusive)
Netflix is developing 'Ravenloft,' a live-action series based on the gothic horror setting of Dungeons & Dragons. 'The Forgotten Realms' is dead.
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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
youtu.be/uJuKN0chAZk?...
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Yes, Dolly was Actually That Great
YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis
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lighthouse prince @historiancole.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
tim curry keeping up the bit twenty years after the fact by writing in his memoir that he and miss piggy had an affair during the filming of muppet treasure island is just so good and funny
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
incredible gag in the new Quake episode: there's a new enemy type that's just the old dog enemy — except now it has 3 grenades strapped to its back (after you kill it you need to dodge them)
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I still can’t believe Gou Tanabe managed to make H. P. Lovecraft’s goofy-ass Yithians — described as having a cone body, lobster claws, three eyes, and face tentacles — look cool as hell
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
next time I go to the airport, this will be my fit
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
looks like AI shops really, REALLY don't want these cases to go to trial. I wonder why 🤔 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge
Anthropic must pay thousands of impacted authors.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Bass promoting fare-free LA metro is a really funny example of a politician attempting to pander but instead landing on a proposal that, within the community of people who care a lot about the issue, is a specific shibboleth for not knowing what you're talking about: bsky.app/profile/mayo...
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
something i learned a few years ago is that the odyssey and the iliad were part of a larger cycle of epics about the trojan war but we lost the other six. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Cy...
en.wikipedia.org
Epic Cycle - Wikipedia
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.
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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 16/07/2026
Raffi you’re so right
Threads post from raffi_music:
stay creative. after Baby Beluga, I didn't worry about how can I top that.. just kept growing as a person and musically. 14 years later, Bananaphone!
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I respect the new Cape Fear’s commitment to being absolutely unhinged
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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...
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We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."
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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
youtu.be
The REAL Story Behind the LAX People Mover Fiasco
YouTube video by nandert
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
hell yeah
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zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I know it’s not a popular position but I really don’t see mass unemployment from generative AI soon because of structural and technical features of the tech. Gift link where I explain the reasons. It’s distraction when AI will really cause many other big problems. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
evergreen
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
best Philip Glass opera, tho
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"AI agents are agents of the person or organization that deploys them—and should be treated by the law as such [...] To allow businesses to hide behind the excuse of faulty AI [...] would introduce disastrous incentives for corporate misbehavior." 🎯 www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
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AI and Liability - Schneier on Security
Earlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries. Rejecting defenses like “users can check for themselves,” and that they generally know “that information gen...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026
SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...
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The True Source of Value
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What you see are the eggs
What produces them is the factory itself
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Last night, 800 people came to Echo Park Lake to see the Argentina vs. Algeria game as part of 100 watch parties being staged in city parks. Today, LA's City Council is voting to doom the city's parks department
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As LA's parks host the World Cup, the city votes to defund them
We always knew these megaevents weren't going to fix our public spaces, but we didn't expect our councilmembers to abandon them as well
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Ethan Elkind @ethanelkind.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Spot on op-ed from Payton Rockwood asking California state leaders to give urban rail transit the #SB79 treatment - i.e. preempting local veto over rail lines: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor....
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Contributor: The Wilshire subway took 46 years. Future projects should skip the decades of objections
California can't afford to entertain lawsuits and stalling by local entities. Transit, like housing, is too important to let NIMBYs interfere.
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Writer of “Rape Apologists Must Die!” @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
rollingstone.com
How Stephen Root Became the Greatest Character Actor of Our Time
Character actor Stephen Root reflects on Season One of 'Widow's Bay' and memorable roles from Milton in 'Office Space' to Fuches in 'Barry' and more.
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
seeing alternating posts about the Obama Center and motocross stunts on the White House lawn makes my brain feel like it's being hurled between timelines. (we're in the bad one)
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Chris ßrinton @cjbrinton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
love these regular “oopsy-daisy we leaked all your info” payments 🙄
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy
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