John Bronson

John Bronson

@jbronson.bsky.social

Suitable for the boardroom or the discotheque

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David_j_roth
@davidjroth.bsky.social

This is excellent, and especially thrilling because it's the first thing I've read on this topic that gets past its supposed inevitability to assess what AI ed tech is actually like, and what it actually does. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

newyorker.comWhat Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?“I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block,” Jessica Winter writes. Read her report on the push for A.I. in educ...
John Bronson
@jbronson.bsky.social

"shoes that look a half-size or so too large"

The New York Times@nytimes.com

In recent months, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy have all been photographed wearing shoes that look a half-size or so too large for them. It’s an affliction — and not one relegated to the Trump administration. nyti.ms/476cwGN

John Bronson
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Mike Hixenbaugh@mikehixenbaugh.com

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

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Richard Doom
@richarddoom.bsky.social

My not “not the gestapo” tshirt, has a lot of people asking questions that will get them kidnapped if I find out who’s asking them

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."

John Bronson
@jbronson.bsky.social

This is very good and also infuriating because it's the kind of plainly stated condemnation of Trump World's crimes, misdeeds, and excesses people like Schumer should be making every morning noon and night

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

John Bronson
@jbronson.bsky.social

If the Democratic Party as an org ran this upcoming midterm campaign on getting a majority so it could impeach and convict Trump, then criminally convict him and put him in prison for the rest of his life, they'd end up with a 2009-2011 style supermajority. But they won't, and they wouldn't.

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Bort
@senatorgiggity.bsky.social

Your life is worth less than a taillight to them

Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social

The USA, where the summary execution of an unarmed man can now be justified by the actual president, because on a separate occasion he kicked the tail light of a "very expensive government vehicle."

John Bronson
@jbronson.bsky.social

Look for the helpers

Donie O’Sullivan@donie.bsky.social

Man arrested on charges of impersonating an FBI agent in alleged attempt to free Luigi Mangione from jail www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/u...

cnn.comMan arrested on charges of impersonating an FBI agent in alleged attempt to free Luigi Mangione from jail | CNNA Minnesota man was arrested and charged with impersonating an FBI agent after he tried to enter a federal jail and release suspected murderer Luigi Mangione, according to law enforcement sources.
John Bronson
@jbronson.bsky.social

Guy who spent his professional life losing to an insurgency: Getting a lot of 'insurgency' vibes from this

Jeet Heer@jeetheer.bsky.social

MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.

John Bronson
@jbronson.bsky.social

LLM vendors have stumbled into a commonly misunderstood reality of software: It's one thing to build a technology, and quite another to deploy it in scale to the world. It's probably more difficult to tune an LLM so it doesn't do stuff like this than to develop the technology in the first place.

Lenna 💛🩸@lenna.gay

I hate this shit. I hate this shit on a level that I can't possibly control or accurately describe. I have worked on my own ethos a lot to realize that ontological evil is rare, but holy shit how can you look at this and know that the people involved are fine with it and not remember that it exists

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John Bronson
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As with so much else in the US economic system, the profits will be privatized and the losses socialized. The SaaS companies will pocket all the money and individual people will be stuck dealing with the technology generating CSAM, revenge porn, and psychosis on an industrial scale.

John Bronson
@jbronson.bsky.social

LLM vendors have stumbled into a commonly misunderstood reality of software: It's one thing to build a technology, and quite another to deploy it in scale to the world. It's probably more difficult to tune an LLM so it doesn't do stuff like this than to develop the technology in the first place.

Lenna 💛🩸@lenna.gay

I hate this shit. I hate this shit on a level that I can't possibly control or accurately describe. I have worked on my own ethos a lot to realize that ontological evil is rare, but holy shit how can you look at this and know that the people involved are fine with it and not remember that it exists

John Bronson
@jbronson.bsky.social

There are an infinite number of possible inputs and you have to anticipate every possible interaction that could be harmful. You also have to define what is harmful. You have to determine what to do about it. We've already seen how difficult this moderation problem is with pre-AI social media.

John Bronson
@jbronson.bsky.social

Add to that the same economic imperatives social media companies have - prioritizing engagement above all other concerns. This tech isn't going away and I don't think this problem will ever be solved.

John Bronson
@jbronson.bsky.social

Don't know if "ironic" is the right word but it's certainly something that in the game's story, the SPARTAN program that created Master Chief was originally concieved to crush dissent within a fascist empire.

Kelsey Atherton@atherton.bsky.social

I truly wish that I were joking x.com/dhsgov/statu...

John Bronson
@jbronson.bsky.social

Emma’s post will not age well. And not just because she’s still posting on Elon Musk’s Twitter

Jemaleddin Cole Scares You@jemal.co

People who have zero tattoos should stop telling people why and how people get tattoos. My first tattoo was in the military, and it was my grandfather’s nickname for me: Tigger. Yes, the Disney art, no, it’s not cool.

John Bronson
@jbronson.bsky.social

"The political humiliation of this moment is not limited to the president nodding off or crashing out on camera...Do you want a candidate who supports genocide or one with a Nazi tattoo on his chest?" Great piece by David Roth here.

David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social

I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine. defector.com/what-job-is-...

defector.comWhat Job Is A Guy With A Nazi Tattoo Qualified For? | DefectorThe man that my wife and I found ourselves talking to at the bar of a restaurant in Rockland, Me. in the summer of 2019 had arrived in town as your fancier visitors do, which is by boat. He told us th...

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Reality Winner
@reazlepuff.bsky.social

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

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Richard Doom
@richarddoom.bsky.social

You can tell a lot about a person/org/society by who it lets be children

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social

Funny how the press + white politicians just about never refer to unarmed Black teenagers who get murdered -- like Laquan McDonald, Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Ma'Khia Bryant, & younger, like Tamir Rice, Aiyana Jones- as "kids," even though they call 30something racists "kids". 🤔

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

you know what probably isn't great for military readiness? turning a blind eye to violent hazing, sexual assault and bigotry, while purging leaders on the basis of race and gender.

apnews.comHegseth declares an end to 'politically correct' leadership in the US militaryDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of U.S. military officials to an in-person meeting to announce directives for troops that include “gender-neutral” or “male-level” standards for physic...

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Karl Jacoby
@karl-jacoby.bsky.social

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I would also add that Hegseth is damaging the prestige of the Medal of Honor by supporting its being awarded to people who committed atrocities against women, children, and the elderly. 7/

John Bronson
@jbronson.bsky.social

Social media is so cool because you get to find out how stupid all the supposedly smart people are

Ezra Klein@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social

"I had friends say to me, look, we can oppose political violence without whitewashing this guy. I spent some time thinking about that over the weekend...and my reaction honestly is that it is too little to just say we oppose political violence."

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster
@chriswarcraft.bsky.social

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

John Bronson
@jbronson.bsky.social

I've yet to see a negative reaction to this WIRED article that actually engages with the content of the article, which takes about 10 minutes to read. This one doesn't even engage with the summarized coverage, which includes a bulleted list.

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Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social

I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives (racists? fascists?) on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.' Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry. Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...