$11 for a bowl of soup at panera 💀 and they're out of bread so i had to get chips

what kind of backpacker are you???? cause i'm the kind clearing out my bag from a trip in *checks notes* june for my next trip tomorrow

"Just as the East India Company’s commercial success gradually justified new powers, today’s AI firms seek to leverage technical prowess to assume public functions by default...," writes @allisonstanger.bsky.social. thebulletin.org/2025/09/the-...

My take on the bad takes on Charlie Kirk's death. @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/09/terr...

lol that's the backpack ive had for more than 20 years, i'd know it anywhere, but this one is in MUCH better condition

FYI Brooklyn the Duane Reade at 436 86th Street is denying Covid shots to those who want one. They cite the CDC guidelines despite the executive order by Gov Hochul. Any local reporters want to call them and ask about this? (718) 833-7758

yay managed to log off for a bit

my friend visiting from out of town needs to get here faster bc im having a lot of trouble Logging Off

epic ratio proportions here

No one could have predicted this. #ableg

do people remember how they learned about furries? for me, it was the csi episode

wish @npr.org could maybe interview some of these internet extremism researchers instead of reading the same threads i am, and also consider whether their radio coverage this pm reflects the complexity/uncertainty described here AT ALL or if it's rather misleading www.npr.org/2025/09/12/n...

NOPE I JUST LISTENED AGAIN. can confirm this is the ONLY detail about the casings being shared

regret to inform everyone that npr is repeatedly telling listeners that the shell casings included the message "hey fascist catch" but makes no mention of the arrows or any of the other hyper online brainrot gobbledegook

"This is a feature that’s inherent to all totalitarian regimes. They are invariably staffed by incompetents, because competence itself is a threat to absolute leadership." @pkrugman.bsky.social in @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/premium/2025...

“We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life,” said CEO Jeanine Wright WHAT

🚨 JUST IN: No national study of the health risks posed by existing US nuclear reactors has been conducted since 1990, despite many reported cases of cancer and other diseases, Joe Mangano and Bob Alvarez write in @thebulletin.org. thebulletin.org/2025/09/why-... #nuclearenergy #reactors #nukesky

what an odd thing to say (if you're the sierra club)

Ireland's peat bogs contain a vast record of archaeological and natural history, and sequester a LOT of carbon, but between resource extraction and climate change, they're at risk. Is there a way to preserve the peat bogs without sacrificing the treasures within? thebulletin.org/2025/09/tick...

can someone explain why email filters for spam and phishing attempts are getting worse? this seems like it shouldn't be a hard problem to solve, but microsoft and gmail just don't feel like it (because they'd rather be forcing ai down our throats)

1. hilarious disagreement in the chat over which site to be mad at, wapo or nyt (i think based on font wapo but they've already changed the hed) www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... 2. this is so INCREDIBLY dumb he can try to shaggy-it-wasn't-me out of it but you don't have to be the mouthpiece!

To anticipate new threats, policymakers should see the Indian Ocean as a whole and no longer as a compartmentalized patch of sub-regions, Nitya Labh of @chathamhouse.org writes in @thebulletin.org. thebulletin.org/2025/09/why-... #IndianOcean #nuclearweapons #nukesky @dawnstover.bsky.social

honestly a pretty flattering portrait of rank and file bankers, who tried to get their bosses to dump epstein on multiple occasions, to no avail. very "not all bankers" etc.

imagine how tired the liberal justices are. i'd be exhaaauuuusted

I do think you’ve gotta hand it to Ezra Klein for this one, which we need more of, much more, from his peers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

it's maybe a little funny that the trump delay (at least an hour) at the us open is impacting the wealthiest of fans who could afford finals tickets (didn't @marisakabas.bsky.social say cheapest tickets for sale yesterday were more than $700?)

sure, jan

so brave to bring this twitter-ass take here

technically all the rooms are shared but the mess is 99% mine

about that! i recently revisited one of my older articles about geothermal energy and the various hurdles/challenges it faces, and of course permitting reform came up, but what stuck out on this reread is that the offices responsible for permitting are understaffed thebulletin.org/2022/11/geot...

i see we're all posting about abundance and just want to point out that @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social was talking about energy dominance and the abundance movement making uncomfy bedfellows earlier this year thebulletin.org/2025/07/the-...

just spitballing here but concern over ai consciousness & "model welfare" may be peak white saviorism defending & speaking for a downtrodden "group" that cannot "speak" for itself (because, contrary to techno-desires, AI is not conscious), & probably in ways that advance the interests of the savior

it seems unlikely that ai companies will do this (unless forced to) because it is in their financial best interest to convince users that their chatbots are all knowing powerful beings because that's the appeal. adding more disclaimers breaks the illusion/delusion

🚨 JUST IN: Netanyahu's gamble merely delayed—not erased—Iran's nuclear program. It also won't lead to strategic stability in the Middle East, Shahin Berenji of the US Naval War College writes in @thebulletin.org. thebulletin.org/2025/09/why-... #Israel #Iran #nuclearrisk #Netanyahu #nukesky

Nate Silver claims “Blueskyism” is: • “Smalltentism” • Credentialism • Catastrophism He compares size and activity without addressing bot traffic there. He does not address algorithmic suppression there or the better engagement here. He ignores community, education, mutual support, and organizing.

Bluesky, which is a very tiny dying network that no one cares about and is just a liberal bubble, is so powerful that it's going to destroy Democrats' chances of retaking power. - by Nate Silver

now, just wait a damn minute..

reading closely to determine if i am a blueskyist www.natesilver.net/p/what-is-bl...

hahaha i had to look it up and

i think this was posted in the wrong sub

cursed phrase omg

"At this point, he is able to slide his finger under Kavanagh’s cheek all the way to her nose. Nearly his whole hand can fit inside...the features on top move freely and in one piece, like a Halloween mask." felt p queasy, for several reasons, while reading this excellent article

seeing some oyster farmer hate on my timeline which leads me to suspect he is making people nervous! whoever is pushing the 'he worked for blackwater' line to divide the leftists is very very savvy

“I think Edward Teller never met a dangerous technology proposal that he didn’t like—whether it’s the hydrogen bomb, geoengineering, or Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars.”” lololol @michaelemann.bsky.social thebulletin.org/premium/2025...

“[Trump] sees rules and norms as invitations to violation” —Harvard University strategist Graham Allison the latest @thebulletin.org magazine issue is out today, on the New New World Order. read my colleague's intro here: thebulletin.org/premium/2025...

"one clutching a hot cup of simp soup, the other a pumpkin-spiced lobotomy" wow that's poetry a very entertaining mid-afternoon pick me up www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

not to be that person but frankenstein is the scientist, the monster is the monster, so should be "he's your monster, frankenstein"

lol @ cassidy reading a personal email from a doctor friend into the record

but literally why is rfk jr talking about regenerative ag?? genuinely curious if his interest in the "soil biome" and regen ag is changing hearts and minds about regen ag. when i was reporting on regen ag as a freelancer i felt that most conservative/trad farmers thought regen ag was hippie bullsht

A powerful government official made news today for pursuing dangerous changes to vaccine policy (and it wasn't RFK Jr.). @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/09/in-a...