Sam Barry

Sam Barry

@samueljbarry.com

One of the top million people from Delaware https://samueljbarry.com

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applying liberatory rhetoric to a technology that is explicitly being developed to replace humans holistically (rather than just at specific tasks) is goofy at best and probably much worse

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the dumbest all AI pileons all start the same way. an AI booster makes a nonspecific claim about how there are valuable use cases and opposition is from luddites and idiots.

James Ball@jamesrball.com

Gonna briefly do an AI take: it used to be possible to have interesting discussions about AI here, and it's got progressively less so. You can't just think AI is bad, or overhyped, you've also got to subscribe to a very particular worst-case scenario about *how* it's bad and how bad it is.

Also none of the rank and file software engineers on Bluesky have talked to a non software engineer in their entire lives

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

the average tech exec and venture capitalist and honestly an alarming amount of bay area software engineers have close to zero interaction or connection with regular people, and the richer they are, the more isolated they've become. They have built rationalizations for everything.

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“The anti AI people simply refuse to accept reality” *has not talked to a human being making under $400,000 a year since graduating college*

Also none of the rank and file software engineers on Bluesky have talked to a non software engineer in their entire lives

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

the average tech exec and venture capitalist and honestly an alarming amount of bay area software engineers have close to zero interaction or connection with regular people, and the richer they are, the more isolated they've become. They have built rationalizations for everything.

Software engineers think that every person on earth needs to “optimize their workflow” by vibe coding a program that reads their calendar to them in the morning. Also none of them have read a book since middle school

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It's worth disambiguating this, on Democratic professionals, from simply "wanting to win." The GOP wants to win in order to enact fascist policies. But Democratic professionals want to win because anyone else winning would be childish and irresponsible. This is why their main posture the lecture.

Gary Alexander@garyalexander.bsky.social

Everything else is negotiable besides the idea that they're more serious and responsible than the right or left. Letting anyone else make these calls is simply irresponsible.

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it's that plus a pretty large amount of "we cannot let these people into politics" - even where a muslim candidate tries to avoid the issue (mamdani) it's all israel all the time whenever one of us runs. you'd think they'd see it but i genuinely think a lot of them dont

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New poll: Americans believe the U.S. should arrest Benjamin Netanyahu by a +22 margin Total: 49-27 Black: 53-13 Hispanic: 52-15 Ages 18-29: 58-17 Harris voters: 74-10 Independents: 55-20 23% of Trump voters agree as well Economist/YouGov:

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The beautiful game. The people’s game. Throughout this World Cup, we have been reminded of a simple truth: football belongs to everyone. So does the joy and community it creates. Yesterday, I joined New Yorkers on Rikers Island to watch England take on Argentina.

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You're absolutely right. The Republic of Iraq didn't have a weapons of mass destruction program, which was easily verifiable. That was my bad with the unilateral invasion and assassination of Saddam Hussein's sons - It's good you're such an intuitive thinker who can avoid future missteps like that.

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mr president sir, im a lifelong conservative and im just wondering which deeply held belief of mine today you would like me to dump in the trash no questions asked to defend your dementia-fueled insanity sir? preferably something ive been incredibly vocal about my entire life

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it's so fucking incredible

June 8@junayt.bsky.social

I never knew that in the United States literally the president can do anything as long as everybody agrees not to stop them. Very weird, realizing the entire thing was made of cotton candy

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UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs “The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”

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NEW Quinnipiac poll of registered U.S. voters: • Half now say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza • Only 47% see backing Israel as a U.S. interest, down from 69% in 2023 • 60% oppose more military aid to Israel • 58% favor UN recognition of a Palestinian state www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

haaretz.comSupport for Israel in U.S. drops sharply, Netanyahu unpopular, new poll showsQuinnipiac Survey Finds Only 47% of Americans See Backing Israel as a U.S. Interest, Down From 69% in 2023. Half of Voters Believe Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, While Just 31% Approve of Trum...

One of the worst kinds of people on here has got to be the “that isn’t a war crime you obviously don’t understand proportionality under the Geneva convention” poster Just spiritual bankruptcy in its purest form

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Centrists bigots and right wingers have this all backward. YOU are the ones constantly bringing up trans issues. I would be happy to not think about this shit every day of my life unless I was talking to or reading something by one of my trans friends and thought of it in passing. SHUT THE FUCK UP

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if you can't sell the american public on the idea that federal troops in the streets is fundamentally unacceptable then you have no business being in politics. and if you do not forcibly believe this at your core such that you can't shut up about it, that goes double for you

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

Toxic feedback loop has kicked in: Trump's propagandists tell credulous reporters that occupying cities is good politics for him. Media echoes this as self-evidently true. That reinforces Dem instincts not to engage. My exchange w/ @monicapotts.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1993...

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Replying to @peark.es

Trump didn’t order CMPD to pepper spray protestors in Charlotte, Trump’s Marines didn’t open up with tear gas in LA, Trump didn’t tell cops in Savannah to detain a protestor for wearing a medical mask. It’s worth asking why electeds in those heavily blue places won’t answer for any of that.

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People online will really be like “you believe in having principles? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, conceding every principle to build a winning coalition” and then not build a winning coalition