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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3h

Impeachable acts every day

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: The Trump administration has blocked or slowed almost $28 billion in federal aid since the shutdown began, largely harming Democratic-led cities, congressional districts and states, underscoring how the president has weaponized a fiscal stalemate

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 3h

This is a real “or barbarism” situation.

Value the work you wish to reward. With dollars and clicks and attention and time. Or suffer the consequences of the world you’ve built.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3h

Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 3h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3h

Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 3h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 4h

Yep another U.S. attorney who Trump HANDPICKED this time around who team trump quickly determined: nope sorry not authoritarian enough, next

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 5h

Extraordinary NYT story:

Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 3h

💯🎯

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 3h

I’ll share a lot more on this topic once the book comes out. Short version: practically all futurism is *conditional futurism.*

People tell stories about the future in order to influence behavior in the present, and make their prediction more/less likely.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 10h

Remember when Alex Pareene predicted this after Charlottesville in 2017 www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 5h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 9h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 10h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 5h

everything else aside, it still surprises me how almost every highly publicized “AI” implementation could in fact be replaced by a very small shell script

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

“Like a smartwatch reminding you to stand up or drink water, Evergreen will notice if a student who normally visits the fitness center hasn’t done so or encourage a student to leave the library after studying for six hours…”

Dartmouth Builds Its Own AI Chatbot for Student Well-Being

The undergrad-assisted research project will draw on students’ data to provide chatbot support and personalized plans for health and wellness.

www.insidehighered.com

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 7h

The servicemembers who are conducting these strikes need to be told, explicitly, by Dems in Congress that they have criminal liability, because they do

Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 7h

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 6h

@rweingarten.bsky.social, please cancel the @aft.org's partnership with this terrible company. They cannot be trusted to keep this away from products they offer children.

404 Media @404media.co · 7h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

www.404media.co

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kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 5h

I look forward to the thread so I don’t have to sully my brain cells

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kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 5h

AI is a revolutionary technology…

So much so that OpenAI is just actually pivoting to making an everything app.

Amazingly, companies that resisted other’s attempts to become anything close to an Everything App seem like they might fall for this one.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5h

"Within the next few months, U.S.-based ChatGPT users will be able to buy Walmart products instantly and directly in ChatGPT. The products will include nearly everything available on Walmart’s website, except for fresh food." www.wsj.com/business/ret...

Soon You’ll Be Able to Shop Walmart in ChatGPT. Here’s Why It Matters.

The retail giant is signaling that online shopping is about to change.

www.wsj.com

kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 5h

And no accountability app to protect him 😱

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kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 5h

When will people, but journalists in particular, learn that the wisdom about bad apples is that ONE BAD APPLE TURNS THE WHOLE GROUP BAD?

It’s not that a few of these bad things aren’t representative of the whole group. Just for a moment, I beg you; think about what stuff means!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5h

Dedicated cadres of small-d democrat, small-r republican people working extremely hard, in their neighborhoods, with history-making passion, to resist tyranny on the most basic, body-on-the-line level, the most important component being: MANY of the participants never having been activists before.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5h

This is what I've had the privilege to watch happening in Chicago:

A genuine social moment, so new and spontaneous (though not without antecedents and seedbeds) it doesn't even yet have a theory or "ideology." Just: people doing....

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 7h

The boring and obvious take that anti-woke positions have the effect (and in many cases the intent) of making it acceptable in polite circles to be a degenerate racist was and remains correct.

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 6h

For real. OpenAI knows exactly what they're doing here and they know it's actively harmful.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 10h

“Copyright growing pains” is one hell of a euphemism for the biggest IP theft in history

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 9h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 7h

I hope I’m not, but OpenAI has destroyed any benefit of the doubt that could be extended to them.

kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 7h

OpenAI is publicly announcing this in order to drum up demand.

And then, thanks to their creative accounting scam of using annualized revenue (that no one can actually track since you never know what month they are multiplying by 12), they will juice their “revenue” with December’s numbers…

Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 7h

Tell me you're desperate for revenue without telling me.

Seriously, imagine your elevator pitch is "we offer an AI that revolutionizes the enterprise, answers questions at a PhD level, and also talks dirty to horny young men." It would be like if PornHub was selling a productivity suite.

404 Media @404media.co · 7h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

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kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 7h

Getting harder by the day to say this is something other than Enron level fraud

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 9h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com