Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 22hThe Lobster (Lanthimos, 2015) weirdly enough provides a possible enforcement mechanism. 000
Reposted by ZachMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans 784988668
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
Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Wait that’s clearly a picture of Like Wilson they used by accident, right? 000
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 25172601931
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
Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I found out about it two weeks ago, at the regular Bsky users age, while reading a WWII naval history book 050
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 18983198
Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There’s probably some tense meetings at the Kashi branking department about how many ways they can mention on a sweatshirt that this is about granola not betting 1180
Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Has anyone tried just adding protein to a candy bar? Somebody must have, but we’ll feel pretty stupid about ourselves if it was that easy and we never tried. 100
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
Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think the confusion might be that a fold change of 2 is a doubling, but also called a 1 fold increase (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fold_ch...). So in the article I believe they're accurately using them in an interchangeable way.en.wikipedia.orgFold change - Wikipedia 020
Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I wasn't being ironic. Fold is often used interchangeably with multiplication (and is in my field of biology). For example, see how this fold increase calculator works: calculator.academy/fold-increas...calculator.academyFold Increase Calculator | Fold Change & % Change - Calculator AcademyCalculate fold increase from a baseline and new value, or find the missing baseline or new value when any two inputs are provided. What do you want to 110
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. 411247461
Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Aren’t a lot of books by right wingers bought up in bulk by orgs funded by the oligarchs? 110
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 🧵 412114526111
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. 24982273350
Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Bookmarking this for future arguments with other tee ball league parents 000
Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026You're the best! So we've got a ways to go still. I believe in us though. 010
Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Someone must have run the numbers on inflation since this comic was published to figure out what modern equivalent would be right? 100
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... 805149193698
Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Is "keep fucking this chicken" something other people say, or is it just you? Because I love it, but want to know how many horrified looks I'm going to get when I start saying it. 000
Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Folksy old timey Jason Statham spouting one liners like this movie when? Are we seriously going to have to wait until he's the proper age to be an old Appalachian grandmother? 000
Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Now I'm imagining snipers holding off freedom fighters on an arch dedicated to the battle they're currently fighting. 010
Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026With luck the Russians have the same WWII reading list and outdated, un-updated priors that I do and will dismiss the possibility of the French being militarily capable until it's too late. 000
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. 801509387
Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This, probably: www.politico.com/news/2026/09... Too many fuckups to keep track of, frankly.politico.comHill investigates after F-35 parts diverted to Hong KongThe incident raises the possibility that top secret weapons technology may have been exposed to a foreign adversary — including China. 042
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. 32957289
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. 30827257
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
Zach @zbzeee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I have this idea for a modern retelling of Peter Pan where that crocodile ate one of Captain Hook's devices and now instead of being heralded by a ticking watch it syncs with Hook's phone. 010
