Reposted by ZachMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22hstatler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans 774851652
Reposted by ZachFactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Sen. Ossoff to Mike Collins: It's not just that you've hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office and that you've promoted Neo-Nazi content online. It's that you're robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors. 317649
Reposted by ZachAubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I do like the all-hands-on-deck approach to Democrats from the moderate to progressive wings all just dunking on Republicans in a variety of ways. It's nice. Feels like a team. 28211
Reposted by Zachg.h. kirsch @gh-kirsch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Let me see if I've got this right. The team of lawyers who stole an election in Florida, and gave W the presidency, are now the Scotus team at the center of the GOP theft of our democracy. 17700102
Reposted by ZachAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades 25172591931
Reposted by Zachmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026among other things, musk is the #1 donor to the Republican Party in 2024 and 2026, now appointed to a board where he can steers contracts to his businesses. Bought and sold. Thieves. 19748209
Reposted by Zachmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I feel like if AI wants to be in the business of offering medical opinions, then AI companies need to be in the "getting sued for medical malpractice" business too 18984198
Reposted by ZachSam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026we could solve the western water crisis overnight by simply charging alfalfa farmers market rates for water 211004180
Reposted by ZachEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026The GFC, much like the AI bubble, was nothing to do with reality, but ever-twisting levels of speculation. Too much of our financial system is powered by number games dressed up as investment. 2390180
Reposted by ZachMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026As someone in a STEM discipline, I really abhor the kind of messaging that Mark describes. The messengers aren’t people who actually care about STEM. It’s really a shorthand for “do something practical, focus on your relation to the labor market”. 1241377
Reposted by ZachElise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If an individual did this, we'd treat it as a crime. We should treat this as a crime too, and hold OpenAI liable for what its models, under its supervision, did. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auOpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM saysAnthony Albanese says he has spoken to the Open AI chief executive to express his concern about the incident and the length of time it took the tech company to inform the government of the breach. 411248461
Reposted by Zachmeshell @meshell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I grabbed a mug out of my dish robot, to put it in my coffee robot, while I started my rice robot, then I loaded up my soymilk robot. Overnight my clothing got washed & dried in my laundry robot. I woke up to clean floors courtesy of a vacuum robot. “The future” is now. & it could be great. 4444
Reposted by ZachEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/09/2026... and much, much more from MANY voices. When the EA claim "no one has been warning you about this stuff" they are doing a double erasure: 1) Of the people doing the warning 2) Of the actual harms they are warning about bsky.app/profile/emil... >> 418859
Reposted by ZachProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵 412114486109
Reposted by ZachScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan CollinsThe inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials. 24982253350
Reposted by ZachScott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... 805149203699
Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I miiiiiiiiggt be willing to have a less knee jerk reaction to AI if our fascist leaders weren’t always collaborate by with its makers 000
Reposted by ZachLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Alex 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. 801510387
Reposted by ZachElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Democrats *cannot* support the Protection College Sports Act. It’s the most anti-labor coming out of this Congress. We cannot cap the mobility of black athletes, but not white coaches. My newsletter is up. www.thenation.com/article/poli...thenation.comWe Need to Protect College Sports from Ted CruzIn this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent looks at the many ways Ted Cruz’s college-sports bill threatens athletes’ labor rights. Plus: why our mail-in voting nightmare isn’t over. 32958289
Reposted by ZachDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war. 30828257
Reposted by ZachJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The AI debate has forced me, somewhat agst my will, to grapple a bit more closely with the "longtermists", basically a movement or subculture of morons who propose novel forms of moral reasoning based on sci-fi ideas they imagine might happen hundreds, thousands or millions of years in the future. 38562120
Reposted by ZachFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026Yes, there is a deranged millenarian sex cult running much of the immensely powerful US AI industry. No, we are not making this up, and you need to know about it. Read this: 620155
Reposted by Zachsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026i've been thinking a bit about killer robots in literature and how it's kind of ambiguous whether skynet is sentient. art knows that the machines don't need to think to have blood on the gears 951025
Reposted by ZachTim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Driving me crazy that a lot of very smart people aren't entertaining the idea that the **AI might kill us all** narrative is kabuki theater -- orchestrated by some of the world's richest people, whose net worth is tied up in people believing their technology is just on the cusp of super intelligence 2859577
Reposted by ZachLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"One 2025 study out of M.I.T. found that people who used chatbots as writing assistants struggled to remember what they had written only minutes after finishing their essay." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...nytimes.comUniversities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace ItAs A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students. 1216262
Reposted by ZachW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It’s so awesome that every billionaire is insanely stupid 983630458
Reposted by ZachMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026IMHO it's telling that even S&P 500 companies have difficulty pointing shareholders to how, exactly, AI is "transforming" their businesses. To the extent they say anything, it's basically what you'd expect: we can use it to cut some costs (presuming getting more work out of fewer people).apollo.comFrom Who Is Deploying AI to Who Can Prove the ROI | The Daily SparkData from the S&P 500 second quarter earnings season shows that AI adoption keeps broadening: 69% of companies now point to a live deployment, up from 64% last quarter, see the first chart below. ... 2427
Reposted by ZachAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/09/2026Extraordinary reporting: "Kremlev’s previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr. represents an extraordinary development: a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family."propublica.orgDonald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian OligarchThe oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large... 1732215760
Reposted by ZachNathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I doubt they disclosed that Larry Ellison, de facto owner of CBS, owns Oracle, which is deeply, deeply in debt building AI data centers - and any AI bust will likely bankrupt Ellison. Complete corruption of CBS to become corporate propaganda for its owner. 28470182
Reposted by ZachJacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026One thing that the AI companies making grandiose claims and threats distracts from is that they are doing extremely basic, state-level crimes such as Fraud, Theft, Criminal Impersonation, etc. Any AG or ambitious DA could likely nail these guys to the wall for their day-to-day operations. 174
Reposted by ZachTiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Reminder: AI companies talk up the fear of hypothetical superintelligent AI to distract you from the real, present dangers of AI that are happening right now 318670
Reposted by ZachCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Texas is delaying the release of the state’s maternal mortality statistics until after the midterms. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...houstonchronicle.comTexas' first post-Roe look at maternal deaths won't be ready by midtermsDemocrats say the timing is suspicious, given the Dec. 1 deadline is after Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans who supported the state’s abortion ban are up for reelection. 771531772
Reposted by ZachMark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026For anyone wondering about the cozy relationship the Ellisons have with the President and his family and how that relationship is driving and economically profiting from this merger. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comJared Kushner – and three Arab monarchies – are at the heart of the Paramount-WBD bid | Mohamad BazziThe president’s son-in-law is once again at the center of an international business deal that will require administration approval 10532311513
Reposted by ZachSnowjob @snowjob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It's like either a) they're full of shit and know it- which is deplorable, b) they're full of shit but believe it- which makes them insane, or c) they're right- which means we should TOS them where they stand to protect all of humanity. Which is it, AI hypebeasts? 745870
Reposted by ZachBenjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.buildcognitiveresonance.substack.comSPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha SchoolWhat is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp? 481008386
Reposted by ZachBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Schumer's daughter works for OpenAI. Gillibrand's son founded a new crypto exchange backed by billionaires. In case you were wondering why things are the way they are. 411378474
Reposted by Zachmarymoriarty.bsky.social @marymoriarty.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Good news! Despite Governor Abbott’s efforts to shield Castro from facing charges, he will appear in federal court in Minnesota later this month. Castro will turned himself in or be taken into custody on our state charges which will allow our process to begin. 15013
Reposted by ZachThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This would be a fucking cascading disaster for women.nytimes.comTrump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones (Gift Article)The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents. 1524176
Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Did Ian MacGregor base his performance of Obi-Wan on Sean Connerie’s William in Name of the Rose? 000
Reposted by ZachAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/09/2026NEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...cbsnews.comFederal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources sayA federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. 811119056503
Reposted by ZachEvan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"Respect the Troops" crowd continues to live their stated values huh? www.the-express.com/news/us-news...the-express.comWidow of Epic Fury airman denied death benefits as Iran conflict is 'not a war'The widow of an Alabama airman has revealed she and her children are not eligible for some benefits because the Iran war has not officially been declared a war 37328
Reposted by Zach🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 03/09/2026the actual popularist positions are, like, gently, “make datacenters build their own utilities” or, more aggressively, “political corruption should be punished by public hangings” and has nothing to do with fucking DEI training or email signatures 952668
Reposted by ZachJen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Happening now in TX: Voters in battleground Tarrant County are telling GOP local officials what they think of their plan to cut 30% of voting locations this year “Nothing you can do can stop us from removing you in November” 18568562054
Reposted by ZachMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026we have immigrant concentration camps, diarrhea lettuce, zillion dollar gas, suicidal soldiers, measles resurgence, national park land sold to the highest bidder and teachers crowdfunding school supplies, but the real problems facing our country are a muslim senate candidate and an influencer 11063331674
Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Hey let's not combine this with the Boston Dynamics dog robots, if at all possible. You know, for dystopian reasons. 010
Reposted by Zachmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The Plot to Enslave America. These will be turned on us when they run out of immigrants. 821852
Reposted by ZachIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Oh, cool Schools had to close and many residents went without water because of this. kfor.com/news/local/m...kfor.comMassive El Reno water leak traced to Bitcoin mining data center facilityEl Reno officials say a leak that lost the city more than three million gallons of water originated from a private fire hydrant on a Bitcoin mining facility’s property—and neither the company nor t… 8317197
