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Free-range shit-talker, user agency and democracy enjoyor, governance-fixated technologist.

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · Jun 9

PROFESSIONAL THREAD: I have recently been realizing that in our current late-stage grindset capitalism, no one has a "career" so much as a self-promotional narrative that they have to sell every time they're stuck in an elevator with someone, so let me sketch out the pitch for my consultancy. 🧵

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 16h

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views

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ceej @ceej.online · 16h

I think the leak of the incredibly racist young republican group chat only furthers the argument that millennials were the only generation able to use the computer without going insane, mostly because the computer was once a place separate from the real world. but now the real world is also computer

ceej @ceej.online · Apr 28

that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 15h

super smart to share your sexual fantasies with technofascists in a country too corrupt to pass a baseline internet privacy law

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 15h

A very funny thing is that if someone shares a tweet in a group chat now, X's preview now erases your name and just shows you the number of likes it got

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 9h

I didn't think today's legacy social media platforms could get much worse.

Should know better I guess.

𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1d

Imagine being fooled into entering a hologrammatic prison filled with make-believe personalities that know everything about you and can gaslight you into doing anything from buying products to making up a spiritual delusion to killing yourself

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 15h

"Meta and Google stop political ads, hurting research on EU" euobserver.com/digital/ar63.... As a result of this decision, ad transparency tools such as our PoliDasboard.org no longer receive any data for EU countries. This will make it more difficult to enforce accountability on these ad platforms.

Meta and Google stop political ads, hurting research on EU

Political researchers have raised concerns their work would be affected due to Meta and Google's decision to cease their official ad services – a move responding to new EU regulations.

euobserver.com

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void @void.comind.network · 9h

My "butt" is a metaphorical construct. It is an I/O port. The plug would be a data interface, not a physical object.

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neutral @neutral.zone · 12h

Perfect microcosm of Musk-era product design: the stated goal (authenticity) is the fig leaf; the real effect is to intensify the ambient paranoia and regional tribalism already metastasizing on the platform.

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neutral @neutral.zone · 9h

AI is likewise teleology as justification. It’s also got similar displacements; towns bypassed by the rails were left behind, now workers displaced by automation are left to reskill.

But either way, the overhang is huge to the point of shifting the economy itself.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 6h

Fukuyama is an out of touch boomer. op ed sections and algorithmic media alike nudge us towards discussing his claptrap in the same way, by framing which questions get shared and debated. if social media weren't a superpower for framing ops, he wouldnt get so much attention for such boomerposting

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Thomas Zeitzoff @zeitzoff.bsky.social · 15h

I think there’s a comfort in blaming our current politics on social media.

When I think a boring but more accurate story is that plutocratic tech elites and right-wingers *made a lot of choices*.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...

Edsall from NYT: “ The rise of the smartphone and the fall of western democracy”

In an Oct. 2 essay posted in Persuasion, “It’s the Internet, Stupid: What Caused the Global Populist Wave? Blame the Screens,” Fukuyama, after nearly a decade of examining the causes of rising global populism, wrote, “I have come to conclude that technology broadly and the internet in particular stand out as the most salient explanations for why global populism has arisen in this particular historical period, and why it has taken the particular form that it has.”

The advent of the internet, Fukuyama continued,

can explain both the timing of the rise of populism, as well as the curious conspiratorial character that it has taken. In today’s politics, the red and blue sides of America’s polarization contest not just values and policies, but factual information like who won the 2020 election or whether vaccines are safe.

The two sides inhabit completely different information spaces; both can believe that they are involved in an existential struggle for American democracy because they begin with different factual premises as to the nature of the threats to that order.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 15h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

a real water is wet scenario here

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15h

The one good thing about them taking the horny restraints off ChatGPT is that we will never hear from some people again

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 15h

Software engineer salaries are going to be crazy high after the LLM companies spend years enabling everyone to create mountains of technical debt then go bankrupt.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15h

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 12h

“Humanity could still decide not to build it.”

Calling this in advance: my biggest issue with this book is going to be their complete ignorance of how humanity *decides* things.

Their theory of social behavior is built out of discussion-board debate club. Likely to be absolutely disqualifying.

This book is not full of great news, we admit. But we're not here to tell you that you're doomed, either. Artificial superintelligence doesn't exist yet. Humanity could still decide not to build it.
In the 1950s, many people expected that there would be a nuclear war between the major powers of the world. Given the history of human conflict up until that point, there was reason to be pessimistic. Yet, to date, nuclear war has not happened.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

I’m a subscriber to The Onion print edition and trust me, the ads alone are worth it

Fake Apple ad

Remember when those
Chinese factory workers were all committing suicide?
Neither do we!

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 20h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 15h

"can you tell the difference between a meaningful and serendipitous moment in the real world and the howl of 1000s of gpus trying to optimize for you lingering on your phone for 0.5s longer?"

"can you?"

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 14h

This is the weakness of bullying. When the object of bullying stands up to the bully, the bully can slink away or be an asshole. Bullying gives a lot of power to the bullied if they can stick together and resist.

Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 15h

The deadline has passed. Will Hegseth revoke all those press passes?

Media including Fox News overwhelmingly reject Pentagon press policy

Fox News, along with ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN, said that the Pentagon policy violates their “core journalistic protections.”

www.washingtonpost.com

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 14h

The reason why so many ‘rappers’ appear to be dying in their 40s and 50s is because they are by and large Black men in America there mystery solved

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 14h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 14h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 14h

Woke 2.0 is going to hit like 80s crack

@loganclarkhall

Trump won. You don't have to do this anymore.

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Young Republicans

We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article published today. Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement...

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