The ~ AI skepticism ~ camp, so overcome with zealotry and in-group/out-group signaling risks becoming a fully anti-intellectual movement hostile to fact, new information, and any nuance that challenges whatever telephone game version of the truth they heard from the last viral post

i don’t like or understand ai. but it’s wild to see this person, who clearly DOES understand it and obviously knows a LOT about it, be repeatedly told they are stupid? i think a lot of bluesky thinks the simple solution to discomfort is bullying which is so weird given we were all surely bullied??

mencius moldbug is thinking of fleeing the country because he thinks the trump administration's chaotic half-assing of dismantling liberal democracy is going to bite them all in the ass

'And despite its accuracy in many ways, “Past Tense” was too optimistic and did not consider cruelty as policy.' letsdothepanicagain.beehiiv.com/p/for-whom-t...

i would personally prefer a non-feudal-system, pro-technology point of view to have some amount of footprint

the only reason claires could exist was a strong childhood vaccination schedule

Same as it ever was

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

It feels like the internet‘s cooked us into presenting every position in the strongest moral terms and responding to every disagreement as an all-out attack that must be annihilated before it destroys everything and it seems not great

I have a weird nostalgia for the parts of a series before everything goes to hell Life on the Canterbury in The Expanse Sinclair’s tenure on Babylon 5 everything is so cozy and normal

when a poster breaks their thoughts into distinct stanzas, each in their own post within a thread: thoughtful, persuasive, tidy when a poster just types until they run out of fucking room, sentences straddling post boundaries: brain necrosis

tescreal but the 'c' stands for 'cat immortality' and none of the other letters mean anything.

me when I log into bsky

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote. zohranfornyc.com/register

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

The first totally unforced major error of the campaign on Mamdani's part. Cuomo would have to get an entire series of lucky breaks to make it to #1 but Mamdani just handed him the first lucky break on a silver platter. And it's also horrifically bad policy.

What Klein couldn’t seem to admit was that his core political analysis is born of his personal experience, and nothing about his personal experience prepared him to face the complexity of the current moment. What he could not cope with acknowledging, is that he never thought that would matter.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Here’s empirical data. 73% of adult Americans say they would be willing to let AI assist them at least a little with day to day activities. www.pewresearch.org/science/2025...

To everyone who called out the 2024 demographic shifts as non-durable, ding ding ding ding!

Right. Zohran explicitly links his economic populism w/his attack on Trump's authoritarian abuses, which also hurt working people. Some commentators are trying to only elevate the former, to push Dems away from taking on Trump frontally, but they're (deliberately?) missing the real innovation here:

boricuaaaaaaa

I listened to the whole exchange between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, and to the original "Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way" column, and among the takes this piece is the best I have read. Long-ish, so set aside a bit of time. (Disclosure: I have been on Ezra's show...)

By the time the US Civil War was over, so was the US cotton industry. Egypt had ramped up to growing so much cotton, nobody really needed any from the US South anymore.

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

Under my administration we captured 3 gray aliens and 2 green

I exchanged text messages after the speech with a Democrat running for a swing Congressional seat, asking if he had a statement about the President ordering his generals to invade American cities. He told me it's the last day of the fundraising quarter, and he had to go.

like, the fact that they felt this spectacle was necessary is itself evidence that they don't have the military support that they want

Bombing my big stand-up special in front of a totally silent room of generals. "What else, what else. Bagram Air Force Base, we're going to do that again, okay? And we're going to do it the right way: through specific types of tattoos, and haircuts."

I'm skimming, but this paragraph stood out:

Post a banger that's not in English

My reaction when the hotel people try to explain to me what the “resort fees” are paying for

*Blowdried Chicken Month

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

The bees have discovered Brutalism

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

Here. This is what to be nostalgic about from 2002.

The number of cancelations Disney saw in the week after suspending Kimmel was 436% above baseline subscriber churn.

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

unfortunately here a lot of people treat social media like an Asshole’s Excursion so this is a difficult lesson to take onboard

the history will continue until morale improves

a conversation we have to have if we respect the arena of open dialogue

Surveys find that voters think AOC and Bernie are “moderates.” That’s not because your average American is a CPUSA member, it’s because people just mean “they seem like honest, reasonable people.” Telling the truth is the best strategic move right now.

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

Billions and billions of dollars and all he wants is to be cool and he just...can't. Completely sauceless, down to his DNA.