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Matt Kavanagh

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · Nov 14

Since I’m new here, I thought I’d repost myTwitter thread from 2018 on #HannahArendt and #Trumphasia: a topic that is unfortunately still relevant today. 1/

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 13m

This is the dream of every industry developed post-2008. We haven’t had actual growth since then, just various debt-fueled, top-down hype cycles because everyone wants the deal that the banks got: Become so essential that any risk is collectively funded and all rewards are private.

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 18m

OpenAI has now committed to $1.4T in AI infrastructure spending on chips, cloud devices and data centers. If it falls through, there will be significant ripple effects as many companies have their fortunes tied to its success.

The AI bubble popping won’t just take down AI startups.

Is OpenAI Becoming Too Big to Fail?

Sam Altman’s ability to intertwine the startup throughout major tech players puts it at the nexus of a vital part of the U.S. economy.

www.wsj.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13m

“Zainab Iftikhar, a computer science PhD student at Brown University who recently published a study on how AI chatbots systematically violate mental health ethics, said these interactions illustrate ‘how easy it is to break the model’”.

Has OpenAI really made ChatGPT better for users with mental health problems?

Prompts indicating suicidal ideation got alarming replies, which experts say shows ‘how easy it is to break the model’

www.theguardian.com

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 1h

I would argue that almost no Tesla shareholders believe in Musk's pitches anymore, they just have to keep rewarding him to keep their shares worth anything. That's how capitalism works now.

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 1h

Making the active choice to withhold emergency funding and starve large swaths of the country is “political violence” and it should be reported and viewed as such

Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 1h

Seeing conservative commentators joyfully mock poor people and their children horrified at the prospect of going hungry really puts a laser focus into how completely full of shit they were while clutching their pearls over “political violence”.

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 3h

Going from Degrassi to Toronto’s Omelas kid is kind of like coming full circle.

Nate's Myth @natesmith.dev · 19h

Toronto, you will not taste victory until you sacrifice Drake

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4h

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more

that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 5h

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 4h

On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable

Tweet from Ella Devi: canvassing for @ZohranKMamdani in the east village today and the actor who plays dr. strugis in young sheldon is in my canvassing group!!

Photo of Ella with another canvasser and Wallace Shawn

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 4h

true

screenshot of a tweet from @heetjeer dated 2 Nov 2025 reading: "Credit where credit is due, Kristol and the Never Trump people around Bulwark are offering a more substantive and urgent critique of Trump's threat to the constitution than mainstream Dems like Schumer and Jeffries."

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 4h

I had a 45 year old rideshare driver tell me recently that he uses AI for therapy.

I asked him which one. He said “Grok— I like the voice it uses, the tone doesn’t talk down to me like ChatGPT’s does.”

He bragged that he had a 4 hour “therapy session” talking to Grok.

Chat, are we cooked?

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 7h

Hear, hear!

Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 7h

One of the most obvious things we should be doing is requiring labeling of AI content, similar to how we handle food.

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Peter Beinart @peterbeinart.bsky.social · 8h

One might think that after Amnesty, B'Tselem, the UN and the International Association of Genocide Scholars have accused Israel of genocide, rabbis would feel some need to answer their arguments. Instead, they simply waive them away.

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phyphor @phyphor.one-dash.org · 7h

1) every time LLMs have been tested for coding it has been found it makes development slower, although it feels faster

2) they are useless for "general enquiries" because they have no mechanism to detect truth, they just spit out likely text in a way that emulates human produced output

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18h

You guys are all awesome. Bluesky really did it up this World Series. Whole postseason really. Good job. It was like the group chat again. Tonight was fun until the game was over and then the cops reminded us real quick about the state of things.

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Theo Priestley @tprstly.com · 14h

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 16h

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."

manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

The men who raised the flags

Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

manchestermill.co.uk

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Mark Galeotti @markgaleotti.bsky.social · 16h

With the revised + updated version of my WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT PUTIN coming out next week, a chance in @thetimes.com to consider what seems has changed since writing the original in 2018. In short, Putin has become 'Putin squared,' almost a caricature of himself
www.thetimes.com/world/russia...

Putin still thinks he’s a genius. All the naysayers are gone

The Russian leader was once willing to listen to his critics. But now he surrounds himself with yes-men and is obsessed with his legacy

www.thetimes.com

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 16h

This is Banshee.

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cell phone\\self-own @gethaunted.bsky.social · 20h

Will Smith silenced the crowd with a hard smack? What is this, the Academy Awards?

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reggie seidman @ennui.org · 17h

The cops are just reënacting the eviction of Chavez Ravine.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

Trump having decadent Gatsby themed parties with showgirls while building a golden ballroom as he cuts off food aid to poor families sounds like fiction, and yet not a single word of what I just wrote is false.

He and the GOP should be hammered on it for the next 50+ years.

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1d

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

www.pbs.org

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 1d

“The discovery of Canadian armoured vehicles in the hands of the RSF in El Fasher, only months before the latest massacre, should raise alarm bells for this government and prompt immediate action.”

theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…#KeepEyesonSudana#cdnpolili

Pressure mounts on UAE to halt arms sales to Sudanese militia

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have reportedly killed thousands of civilians in the Darfur city of El Fasher

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Moisés Chiullán @moiseschiu.bsky.social · 18h

Dodger ownership (Mark Walter) has a private equity stake in ICE facilities, and tonight their club’s fans are being hunted and targeted by a militarized police force (including ICE troops) that they benefit from financially.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 17h

As brutal as the outcome was, I feel fortunate that I just got to watch something incredibly special.

That game featured three of the twelve biggest plays in baseball history. No other game, ever, has had that happen. It's a strong contender for the greatest game in the history of the sport.

The top 12 plays in MLB history by championship win probability added. Three of them are from Game 7 of the 2025 World Series.

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 16h

Potemkin ruins