Joe Audino
@joeaudino.bsky.social
Geek. Roller Derby Announcer. Mask Wearer. He/Him.
Co-founder - historic4thavecoalition.org
Ex-Treasurer - bnctucson.org
Tucsonan, Philadelphia Phan
Co-founder - historic4thavecoalition.org
Ex-Treasurer - bnctucson.org
Tucsonan, Philadelphia Phan
Pinned
Joe Audino
@joeaudino.bsky.social
· Feb 27
The travesty of liberalism — Crooked Timber
crookedtimber.org
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time."
tinyurl.com/5c63x4ne
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time."
tinyurl.com/5c63x4ne
Reposted by Joe Audino
Weasely Dems think you can split the baby on this -- oh, just a little discrimination at the high school sports level, but not elsewhere! We defend trans kids here, or here, but not here.
RWers understand the dynamic better. If you open the door to hate, it doesn't stop in the first antechamber!
RWers understand the dynamic better. If you open the door to hate, it doesn't stop in the first antechamber!
December 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Weasely Dems think you can split the baby on this -- oh, just a little discrimination at the high school sports level, but not elsewhere! We defend trans kids here, or here, but not here.
RWers understand the dynamic better. If you open the door to hate, it doesn't stop in the first antechamber!
RWers understand the dynamic better. If you open the door to hate, it doesn't stop in the first antechamber!
Reposted by Joe Audino
There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
Reposted by Joe Audino
I have been researching just how hard the "new drug war" laws are/became, and here is yet another example. Totally abandonment of healthcare, housing, etc and just criminal punishment all the way down. "involuntary treatment" is just prison.
Law enforcement who respond to an overdose and would be directed to take the survivor into custody and transport them directly to a screening for treatment. But the bill also goes further.
NJ May Expand Civil Commitment to Anyone Accused of Recent Overdose - Filter
New Jersey legislators are considering a proposal to require involuntary commitment for any overdose survivors revived by law enforcement. It ...
filtermag.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I have been researching just how hard the "new drug war" laws are/became, and here is yet another example. Totally abandonment of healthcare, housing, etc and just criminal punishment all the way down. "involuntary treatment" is just prison.
Reposted by Joe Audino
Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu
December 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu
Reposted by Joe Audino
This tracks with my experience. DHS made up stories like this in Chicago, too. Every story ICE told about being attacked by community members was debunked in court. To assume anything they say is even potentially credible is irresponsible and out of touch with reality.
Re: the ICE actions in south Minneapolis Monday. DHS said "rioters" attacked officers with rocks and pepper spray. Note: I received lots of evidence and didn't see any rocks, the only pepper spray I saw was ICE agents sometimes spraying each other. I did see snow and possibly ice being thrown. (1)
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This tracks with my experience. DHS made up stories like this in Chicago, too. Every story ICE told about being attacked by community members was debunked in court. To assume anything they say is even potentially credible is irresponsible and out of touch with reality.
Reposted by Joe Audino
I see this argument made all the time and it's embarrassing for CCDH to keep making it, because it's a lie. Section 230, what they're talking about, does not give anyone a "get out of jail free" card. It simply puts the liability on the party who actually engaged in the violative behavior.
"Without checks and balances, [social media companies] have become a little bit tyrannical, very arrogant, and completely dismissive of their impact on our society."
Our CEO @imranahmed.bsky.social in @kpbssandiego.bsky.social ⤵️
https://bit.ly/48Xjtdl
Our CEO @imranahmed.bsky.social in @kpbssandiego.bsky.social ⤵️
https://bit.ly/48Xjtdl
December 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I see this argument made all the time and it's embarrassing for CCDH to keep making it, because it's a lie. Section 230, what they're talking about, does not give anyone a "get out of jail free" card. It simply puts the liability on the party who actually engaged in the violative behavior.
Reposted by Joe Audino
Here is the Department of Homeland Security touting this new ban by describing the (among others) spouses and children of U.S. citizens coming on visas as "foreign invaders."
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
December 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Here is the Department of Homeland Security touting this new ban by describing the (among others) spouses and children of U.S. citizens coming on visas as "foreign invaders."
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
Reposted by Joe Audino
These people are literal baby killers
The CDC officially adopted ACIP recommendations to change the universal hepatitis B vaccine at birth; the agency says it will still be available through Vaccines for Children. They're still reviewing the rec on blood testing.
December 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
These people are literal baby killers
Reposted by Joe Audino
Reposted by Joe Audino
In all seriousness, Trump’s intelligence agencies said fentanyl is not a weapon and his DoD got a more potent fentanyl analog, sufentanil, approved to treat combat injuries in austere battlefield environments. It’s one of the most valuable medicines for our military therapeutically, not as a weapon.
December 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
In all seriousness, Trump’s intelligence agencies said fentanyl is not a weapon and his DoD got a more potent fentanyl analog, sufentanil, approved to treat combat injuries in austere battlefield environments. It’s one of the most valuable medicines for our military therapeutically, not as a weapon.
Reposted by Joe Audino
"At Walmart, recalled products were found in stores across 21 states.
In a letter to Target, the health regulator said officials in Arkansas found the company offering a $2 discount on the recalled formula from November 16 to November 22. Target had the formula in stores across 20 states."
In a letter to Target, the health regulator said officials in Arkansas found the company offering a $2 discount on the recalled formula from November 16 to November 22. Target had the formula in stores across 20 states."
US FDA sends warning letters to Walmart, Target for selling recalled baby formula
The FDA said four major retailers continued to sell baby formula linked to a nationwide outbreak of bacterial illness in infants even after the products were recalled.
www.reuters.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
"At Walmart, recalled products were found in stores across 21 states.
In a letter to Target, the health regulator said officials in Arkansas found the company offering a $2 discount on the recalled formula from November 16 to November 22. Target had the formula in stores across 20 states."
In a letter to Target, the health regulator said officials in Arkansas found the company offering a $2 discount on the recalled formula from November 16 to November 22. Target had the formula in stores across 20 states."
Reposted by Joe Audino
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
Reposted by Joe Audino
Reposted by Joe Audino
2. The evidence we can now see demolishes the core argument made by opponents of the Robinson-Patman Act. They claim not enforcing the law has led to lower prices. But this new material shows the opposite: Pepsi forced all grocers besides Walmart to raise their prices.
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
2. The evidence we can now see demolishes the core argument made by opponents of the Robinson-Patman Act. They claim not enforcing the law has led to lower prices. But this new material shows the opposite: Pepsi forced all grocers besides Walmart to raise their prices.
Reposted by Joe Audino
nothing can put a bigger smile on my face than reading that Microsoft has to scale back its AI ambitions because NOBODY uses copilot.
December 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
nothing can put a bigger smile on my face than reading that Microsoft has to scale back its AI ambitions because NOBODY uses copilot.
Reposted by Joe Audino
GenAI truly is the asbestos poisoning our collectively shared resources and infrastructure.
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
GenAI truly is the asbestos poisoning our collectively shared resources and infrastructure.
Reposted by Joe Audino
New from me for @theintercept.com: As public support for the death penalty fell to the lowest level in 50 years, the US is poised to execute 48 people in 2025 -- the highest amount in 15 years. FL drove the surge in executions. I wrote about @deathpenaltyinfo.org's report, which was released today.
Despite Declining Support for the Death Penalty, Executions Nearly Doubled in 2025, Report Says
Fewer Americans support capital punishment. Fewer courts are handing out death sentences. And we’ve got way more executions in 2025.
theintercept.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
New from me for @theintercept.com: As public support for the death penalty fell to the lowest level in 50 years, the US is poised to execute 48 people in 2025 -- the highest amount in 15 years. FL drove the surge in executions. I wrote about @deathpenaltyinfo.org's report, which was released today.
Reposted by Joe Audino
“Internal tests found that the AI was generating podcasts riddled with errors and bias, with anywhere between 68 and 84 percent of the scripts deemed unpublishable by evaluators across three rounds of testing.”
The Washington Post Deployed Its Disastrous AI-Generated Podcasts Even After Internal Tests Showed It Was Failing Miserably
Semafor reported that the Washington Post launched its controversial AI podcast feature despite knowing it was severely flawed.
futurism.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
“Internal tests found that the AI was generating podcasts riddled with errors and bias, with anywhere between 68 and 84 percent of the scripts deemed unpublishable by evaluators across three rounds of testing.”
Reposted by Joe Audino
man this is brutal. Just a reminder: Marc Andreessen took a man with zero experience in either tech or finance, and hired him at the most powerful and influential venture capital firm in the industry, solely on the basis that he strangled one of my neighbors to death for being Black.
🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
December 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
man this is brutal. Just a reminder: Marc Andreessen took a man with zero experience in either tech or finance, and hired him at the most powerful and influential venture capital firm in the industry, solely on the basis that he strangled one of my neighbors to death for being Black.
Reposted by Joe Audino
please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
Reposted by Joe Audino
This is an aside, but there are plenty of "Right" on Bluesky, from Newsmax to MAGA chuds to official Trump administration accounts. We never see those because there is no algorithm to promote them (in fact there is no algorithm to promote anything).
December 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is an aside, but there are plenty of "Right" on Bluesky, from Newsmax to MAGA chuds to official Trump administration accounts. We never see those because there is no algorithm to promote them (in fact there is no algorithm to promote anything).
Reposted by Joe Audino
After these terrible events at Bondi Beach and Brown University, Australia will probably move quickly to shut down even further mass carnage like this, the US will likely do nothing, knowing full well that more kids and many other innocent people will die again soon.
December 15, 2025 at 4:54 AM
After these terrible events at Bondi Beach and Brown University, Australia will probably move quickly to shut down even further mass carnage like this, the US will likely do nothing, knowing full well that more kids and many other innocent people will die again soon.
Reposted by Joe Audino
Just need to be clear that the US Air Force almost caused a major commercial flight catastrophe because they are flying over Venezuela with transponders off
NOT GOOD 🫠
‘the air traffic controller noted not seeing the military aircraft on their end, as it had the transponder off and was not transmitting its location.
“We almost had a midair collision up here,” the pilot said, according to ATC recordings. "They passed directly in our flight path ..."’
‘the air traffic controller noted not seeing the military aircraft on their end, as it had the transponder off and was not transmitting its location.
“We almost had a midair collision up here,” the pilot said, according to ATC recordings. "They passed directly in our flight path ..."’
JetBlue pilot narrowly avoids 'midair collision' with Air Force plane near Venezuela
A JetBlue Airways pilot said he narrowly avoided a "midair collision" with a U.S. military aircraft that entered his flight path.
abcnews.go.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Just need to be clear that the US Air Force almost caused a major commercial flight catastrophe because they are flying over Venezuela with transponders off
Reposted by Joe Audino
In a taxi with my sons. All masked.
Taxi driver said "I've been meaning to get a mask but haven't got round to it."
I gave her a couple. One white. One black.
I've blocked 2500 bots on X this weekend.
That's the message - you can block things you don't want. #ChristmasFever
Taxi driver said "I've been meaning to get a mask but haven't got round to it."
I gave her a couple. One white. One black.
I've blocked 2500 bots on X this weekend.
That's the message - you can block things you don't want. #ChristmasFever
December 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
In a taxi with my sons. All masked.
Taxi driver said "I've been meaning to get a mask but haven't got round to it."
I gave her a couple. One white. One black.
I've blocked 2500 bots on X this weekend.
That's the message - you can block things you don't want. #ChristmasFever
Taxi driver said "I've been meaning to get a mask but haven't got round to it."
I gave her a couple. One white. One black.
I've blocked 2500 bots on X this weekend.
That's the message - you can block things you don't want. #ChristmasFever