The AI denialism on this app is so deeply weird to me. Whole threads of people just having a meltdown about it, claiming AI is like Napster or that is will “go the way of nuclear power” (there are hundreds of nuclear power plants across the world, BTW). Y’all are living in a fantasy world.

One of the most common things I help nonprofits fix: a website only one person knows how to update. They leave, and suddenly it takes two weeks to publish an article. It's not a tech problem — it's an ownership problem that was always waiting to happen.

@faircount.bsky.social used AI to help reach 2 million undercounted voters in Georgia. @aapivictoryfund.bsky.social built organizing tools at a weekend hackathon. The same technology everyone's shitting on constantly is already powering progressive wins: progressivesforai.com/archive/issue-7

I'm not a developer, but with #AI tools I've stood up a newsletter platform, #RSS reader, monitoring systems, and my website. The #fediverse needs that energy, but keeps pushing it away. jordankrueger.com/blog/fediver...

A lot of us in USA would be well served to recall that when we look back on that era we don't call it Germany With Some Nazis we call it Nazi Germany. We don't distinguish between people who silently disapproved or didn't like it but accepted it. We lump them in with the Nazis. And that is correct.

At CREDO, we launched a superPAC after months denouncing them. My boss: "We don't get to unilaterally disarm." 1/3 of political consultants use AI daily. Nearly 4 in 10 progressives haven't touched it. Why that gap should worry us: https://jordankrueger.com/blog/you-need-to-learn-ai/

"AI productivity gains should become shorter hours, not just profit." @johnquiggin.bsky.social in the Guardian today -- he's right! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Issue 6 of #ProgressivesForAI is dropping tmrw and I'm excited about this one. We're diving into a fascinating tension: AI democratizes access to expensive expertise (legal advice, financial planning, technical knowledge) but it also raises real concerns.

This touches on something I've been feeling but couldn't articulate: @craigmod.com built his own accounting software in five days with Claude Code — not because he's a programmer, but because no off-the-shelf tool fit his life craigmod.com/essays/software_bonkers/

What if AI actually gives us our time back? Progressives are great at AI guardrails but we're not talking about the genuinely good futures enough. More time for family, creativity, rest - that should be OUR vision. progressivesforai.com/archive/issu...

This is exactly the shit that makes this platform absolutely insufferable

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

Considering deleting my account here. I was hopeful this would be “the better Twitter” but the discourse here has got to be the most shrill, annoying, high-horse nonsense I’ve ever seen — and that’s coming from someone who works in the progressive space, loves it dearly, and never wants to leave it.

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Zero credibility like 3 paragraphs in.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

If you're a progressive who's excited about AI, but you're concerned about the environmental, diversity, labor, and disinformation effects, you'll like the newsletter I just started as I launch Progressives for AI! Check out the full first issue: progressivesforai.beehiiv.com/p/newsletter...

starting in six weeks or so, you will hear right wing and centrist commentators on cable news, podcasts etc start to refer to Mamdani as if it's obvious that he's failed, extremely unpopular etc. its very important in order for their plot to succeed that any left wing pol be discredited

Bahaha this is so good

OMG YES bringbackdoors.com

Another reminder: Privatization of government institutions is a mistake which has been proven again and again. www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...

For journalists and progressives alike, when we talk about #AI & #datacenters, some important reminders from @andymasley.bsky.social. (e.g.- golf courses use way more water than data centers.) andymasley.substack.com/p/requests-f...

AI water usage is so small when compared to golf courses and mining operations, you can't even see it on a chart. www.understandingai.org/p/16-charts-...

Your regular reminder that we desperately need to overturn Citizens United and get big money out of politics. It is among the worst Supreme Court decisions in history. It corrupts our political system every day.

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

Why doesn't any journalist just ask Elon Musk how he got into Naziism and what he likes about it? His ensuing freakout will bring in about 1000x as many views as any stupid interview with him would.

My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.

I don’t understand why @bsky.app doesn’t have a language filter (that works). What value does seeing posts in other languages have to me? They just take up space on my timeline.

I keep getting tricked into "trying" new cold brew concoctions only to constantly be 😝 by how bitter they are. Blegh, who enjoys this?!

This explains so much about #StudenLoanForgiveness, #UniversalBasicIncome, #HousingFirst, etc.: "I want no one else to succeed." kottke.org/25/05/i-want... (Click the link to read the rest or watch the TikTok source.)

Hey, so if you're anti-AI, just don't @ me or engage with me, k? I super-duper enjoy having interesting discussions with skeptics, and people who want to learn more, but I find vehement hatred to be off-putting and stressful. There's no reason for us to have an argument, so let's just not 🤷‍♂️

Wow, a comment on HN I actually agree with!

Great infographic from www.reddit.com/r/DeFacebook...

I’m not judging any form of protest but I do agree that it’s important we remember that we can’t defeat fascists with logic. Like, idk how else to say this & it might sound like I’m an asshole but people on the side of liberation are already correct about everything. They still beating our asses.

The problem with these kinds of gaffes is that most people in America don’t know what habeus corpus is.

I love hearing from people who've used ChatGPT for approximately six minutes about how bad it is at doing anything and how it's all hype.

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

Progressives should be fighting for shorter work weeks from AI's gains: #4DayWithAI fourdayswithai.com #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Asked ChatGPT to make a picture of my dog Baxter, who passed away in 2020, sleeping in a peaceful place 😭

I think I've realized something about the #AI debate: People who are vehemently against AI have no conception that someone else's enthusiasm for AI might be genuine, or more than just about making money, or that there's any room for wonder and hope within this tool.

The best thing that could happen to Mozilla Firefox is Yahoo buys Chrome. That company absolutely destroys everything it touches.

lol love this prompt I found on @annemurphyai.bsky.social's LinkedIn, who got it from @marymasseyai.bsky.social.

Breaking up Google is a good thing, and will result in more innovation, more wealth created, and more tech advancement.

Did they not end up doing this? Because I hadn't seen anything by my friends in months or years before I quit a few months ago. So, effectively...

Oh, so maybe the fact that I've had like 15 of these—at least five of which were on my gd face— isn't great, huh? arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

20,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world. A better world is possible.

Not in the habit of praising billionaires, but this from Warren Buffet is pretty great: "So thank you, Uncle Sam. Someday your nieces and nephews at Berkshire hope to send you even larger payments than we did in 2024....

I'm looking for the stories of people who have been through hell & back trying to get a job. Have you been duped by a ghost job? Taken a job offer only to find out they change the terms after the fact (e.g.– told you it was remote and then made you come into the office)?