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Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying

Maybe there’s someone on here at YouTube or Google who can help Gil with this? Once upon a time, Twitter was useful for surfacing and solving issues like this but our networks have gotten incredibly fragmented since Twitter descended into its miasma of neo-Nazism and trollery.

Anyone who says “traitor to the West” needs to be taxed at 97% minimum

Is pissing in it considered touching it?

In my city, drivers are arrogant rude, break road rules constantly and kill a person almost everyday. That entitlement is the entire problem.

Here we go: Tickets now available for my San Francisco book launch at the @cwclub.bsky.social on 8/24. With special guest @wajali.bsky.social Buy before they’re gone! www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-...

@transit.app App is not showing live times at all for me for SF Muni the last two mornings, is this just a me problem?

Ceci n'est pas une golden calf.

While officially labeled "Iranian Flu" by the US CDC, most virologists reject this moniker for the 2027 Flu Pandemic and point out that the first cases recorded cases actually originated among service members at McConnell AFB in Kansas.

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Free speech absolutism.

"Boots on the Ground" is a dystopian way of describing people shooting each other.

yeah the damage a single bad billionaire can do wildly outstrips any positive impact even a theoretically ideal billionaire can have more, I think that the kind of person you need to be to become a billionaire tends to select for the worst outcomes in all but the rarest of cases

Minneapolis, MN Several women are walking through the area of protests with sambuus. They are stil hot from what I’m told.

By the way, Gavin Newsom is apparently raising money to fight AGAINST the billionaire tax. So thoughtful of him to come to their aid at this particular time in history,

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Someone went there: "It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It" via @futurism.com futurism.com/future-socie...

Moral cowards, lacking core beliefs, can be pushed in any direction. An insight to keep in mind as the billionaire class calculates the optimal path through fascism.

[Exit King.]

Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in. Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol. It's like his work never happened.

TLDR: Peter Thiel weaponizes Nazi philosophy and biblical scripture to reframe democratic opposition as cosmic evil—while building the surveillance state he claims to fear.

X’s head of product celebrating record downloads of his app on a day where a man’s murder was autoplayed on loop for all to see.

The same people who complained that “wokeness” got people fired and ostracized over tweets … are currently demanding that people be fired and ostracized over tweets.

Like if you don't think centrists use their own impenetrable jargon that nobody likes then I have a commonsense bipartisan opportunity economy where existential threats to fair trade are a national security threat to sell you

This idea that somehow rural areas underwrite metros is not only wrong, it’s entirely inverted — and yet it perversely animates basically every element of our current political life.

The NYT reports that Trump has taken to calling his opponents "evil" with a odd frequency. This demonization reflects the thesis of "Unhumans" by Jack Posobiec. It argued that Democrats are bloodthirsty, demonic creatures that deserve "exact reciprocity." www.thenerdreich.com/unhumans-jd-...

I don't really know how you don't look at the rise of illiberal reactionaries as *the* defining political trend of the Western World right now. People are reacting to the confusion and chaos of modernity by going into hysterics and trying to burn it down. So far, they're succeeding.

Traveling back to the US today so any further comment on this evening's events will wait until I'm on the other side of US border control. Six months ago, this would be a hyperbolic statement, and today I think we all know that it's not.

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

And lo, God said "You are Israel's bitch."

I know I'm just a lowly atheist, but it seems to me these days the kowtowing to Abrahamic religions has led us to a bad place.

I was trying to do the math...have I really had like 1500 burritos in my life?

Bay Area reporters: - Remember: The plan to build new tech-run cities is called the Network State. The idea is based on Curtis Yarvin's infamous "patchwork" essay, which Balaji Srinivasan rebranded as the "Network State." "Freedom Cities" is propaganda branding. Don't buy it.

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

That feeling when you realize you are the local color.

I always find these threats amusing. I'm from the Midwest. That these guys think they are somehow tougher or 'harder than the people they would encounter when they got to LA is hilarious. But obviously what they are really threatening is to shoot people.