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We did a deep dive into AI agents on this week's The AmberMac Show podcast. Sneak peek below / listen to the full episode here: theambermacshow.captivate.fm/listen P.S. @jeffmacarthur.bsky.social and I just recorded a segment on Meta's Muse (coming next week!).

It's a parody of a parody.

@rachelgilmore.bsky.social On your rec I read To Catch a Fascist. I found the book interesting. I found the ethics of the fascist-catchers, though, questionable. Also, the scale of the problem is understated. It seems there are way more fascists than fascist-catchers. Thanks for the rec.

@ambermac.bsky.social Thanks for the excellent interview on when is good time to buy an EV. It made me want to buy one sooner rather than later.

How can I create an atmosphere account on bluesky?

For somebody who is supposedly a genius at using leverage, it’s surprising that Trump doesn’t recognize that decarbonizing the economy eliminates Iran’s leverage, ie as a gatekeeper for crude.

Donald Trump is trying to destroy my country one industry at a time. Who keeps feeding him this nonsense?

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now. Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations. Source: dr.dk

Please take a moment to listen to this woman.

Is it a fair suggestion that under slightly different circumstances Trump might have asked the US Air Force to fire a Sidewinder up Epstein’s derriére while cruising in his private jet over the Caribbean?

Am I alone or does anybody else think Trump needs hearing aids and glasses?

Citizen Lab director @rondeibert.bsky.social receives SFU’s Sterling Prize for his groundbreaking work at the intersection of global security, digital technologies and human rights. youtu.be/41wkXFyEsP8

“It’s astonishing how the industry is able to experiment on human populations with such far-reaching technology and largely unrestrained.” Citizen Lab director @rondeibert.bsky.social discusses the ethical risks of AI in an interview with the @financialpost.com. financialpost.com/technology/c...

Here’s to the 2025 American League Champions.

Here’s to Trey Yesavage and the Toronto Blue Jays for a sensational coming out party yesterday. Check out this video from this search, trey yesavage vs yankees share.google/dsOumPP04oRy...

@indrevis.bsky.social Is inquiring Minds history?

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social At some point Donald Trump will pass from the scene. How likely is it that America will experience its own “Khrushchev moment” or will America continue down this path of xenophobia, white nationalism, and the brotocracy of the ultra rich for some time to come?

DOGE layoffs pin Texas deaths directly on Trump program to downsize Federal “bureaucracy”

Interview by @hcrichardson.bsky.social today. Well worth 26 minutes listening. www.youtube.com/live/FWjR6_q...

Kristi Noem's leadership of DHS has been nothing short of disastrous. But while she seeks to turn the Department into a reality TV show – real people are hurting. Today, I want to talk about it. youtu.be/nvyuVK3bN4k?...

With his war on trans-Pacific trade Donald Trump may ironically go down as the greatest pro-environment president in history as the ocean-going freighters fall silent and Christmas presents rot on the piers of Shenzhen.

Overseeing the presidential gift rules was among my duties as White House Ethics Czar -- so I know how it's supposed to work The gift of this plane to Trump is illegal & unconstitutional The AG & the WH Counsel oughtta be ashamed of themselves for allowing it abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

Also, one of the largest uses of glitter is in boat paint.

It’s long overdue to penalize mercenary purveyors of spyware.

Two thematically related skeets here: one, great detective work by Bellingcat exposing an egregious AI forgery NCII peddler. The scumbag behind the site coincidentally shut it down last week… 🤔

“There’s a clear factor dividing which countries are seeing faster EV adoption and which are going slower: openness to Chinese carmakers.” Canada needs to rethink its approach to Chinese autos. It should begin lowering tariffs, dependent on Chinese automakers opening factories in Canada.

Trump replaced the physical bribery palace of the Trump hotel with a virtual one and it’s doing orders of magnitude more business.

@lizzieohreally.bsky.social I wonder what Trump thought about St. Peter’s Basilica. He was probably thinking: a) It could use some gold; and b) Maybe we can get a themed Trump golf course in the Vatican Gardens and the guys running around in skirts as caddies.

What will life look like after Elon leaves DC? @chafkin.bsky.social, in this great profile of Russell Vought, lays out what a true believer could do www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

These cases will never survive federal courts overseen by federal judges...which means at some point I'm pretty sure they're going to resort to military tribunals or kangaroo courts in soccer stadiums

Many of the Signal group members presumably used their personal devices to connect, writes @rondeibert.bsky.social. “In doing so, they exposed the Pentagon, and the United States itself, to a slew of sophisticated digital security risks.”

I'm honestly baffled why this angle is not being covered more thoroughly by MSM

An April sunset in Haliburton.

“I was in paradise,” she said. “I would very much like to stay in paradise.” The story of Harvard researcher Kseniia Petrova, who has been in ICE detention for nearly two months and fears she will be deported to Russia. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

Worth reading. And....not surprisingly...worth being alarmed about.

Little Straggle Lake

What’s up? First Amendment, that’s what.

Today Canadians will unite in a retail blackout of American goods as our protest against unilateral tariffs on Canadian goods scheduled to come into effect March 4. We negotiated changes to the US, Mexico, Canada Trade Agreement in good faith just a few years ago. This is no way to treat a friend.

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social Among his many initiatives, Zelensky put forward legislation to introduce greater transparency to govt procurement. Is there any evidence to suggest his anti-corruption efforts accelerated Putin’s timetable to invade Ukraine?

Dark Pence is back.

not surprising. @parismarx.com did an episode on shopify last year. didn’t know about its far right connections until i listened techwontsave.us/episode/232_...