Trying something new for the remainder of the Flyers season: I've put together a custom feed featuring PHLY and Broad Street hockey crews! Philadelphia Flyers bsky.app/profile/did:...

Imagine how badly you have to fuck up to get your gambling app banned in Vegas

Yes. And *then* we need to apply this point to the press's role in propping up the AI phenomenon. Just because AI is more "real" and AI can actually "do things" does not mean we should not interrogate how similarly breathless and credulous media coverage has led us to this juncture.

what if - & i know its a wild thought - we stood on our own values, not theirs www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...

Wowwww pretty big miss on that blatant trip. TK certainly right to be mad at the refs

ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.

I'm not one to normally come and evangelize about the Fediverse here but it's international nature is one of the differences (for now I hope) between ATmosphere and Fediverse.

broke: bluesky needs more political diversity woke: bluesky needs more topical diversity, more fun and more sports bespoke: bluesky literally just needs more diversity

There's a special place in hell for men who make liberation movements unsafe spaces for women

this absolutely wrecked me

I am in Tears at my desk oh my god 🎁 link

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Will probably close this out in the next day or so, so if you'd like to fill out our post-trade deadline survey, now is a great time. We're well over 2000 replies already. www.nytimes.com/athletic/712...

Some of the world's largest businesses urging governments to back the electrification of economies as quickly as is feasibly possible. This is so self-evidently true that it remains utterly mad that it is somehow still up for debate. www.businessgreen.com/news/4526980...

Even when I've tried to stop underestimating the venal stupidity of our oligarchs, Marc Andreesson still manages to surprise me.

regardless of who wins, as long as it isn't Fine, I'm going to insist we give Kat her due for launching what seemed to be a pointless challenge in the first place. I do not for a second believe Schakowsky was sure to retire and it's set off a chain reaction across the party.

Growing up we went to the Golden Plough Tavern in York PA where the Continental Congress met while they were retreating from the British army during the Revolutionary War. Congress was in York because the PA legislature had dibs on Lancaster which was seen as the "better" city.

The thing that's unusual--even in tech--about Palantir is that it was born evil. Like it was founded by evil people to do evil things, very explicitly. Gave it a special "we do evil things" name, put together a founding team that was on board with the "do evil" program. They didn't back into it.

A military coalition of Canadian girlfriends

Several months ago several Democrats cut a video reminding soldiers to refuse illegal orders, even if it's dangerous to do so or comes at personal cost. Hugh Thompson couldn't prevent the My Lai massacre, but he did make sure it wasn't worse and that the world didn't forget those murdered.

It's wild to me that higher ed leaders can tell themselves that institutional neutrality will get the job done and then you've got Hungarian ambassadors and Russian dissidents saying this is the way you aid authoritarianism

Ron, we like you, so we're going to say this nicely: the Congress should impeach, convict and remove Hegseth. And his boss as well. Just telling people "it's a war crime to give such an order" doesn't do anything to stop the war criming.

They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

Government support for media could be a part of Reconstruction II and actually reminding people about the important role that bureaucracies play in our lives.

I want a slate of procedurals as copaganda but for good NTSB NTSB: Los Angeles IRS USPS Postal Inspectors The Secret Service’s Other Job CPB CPB: Tampa

When I watched the actual deposition videos on Thursday it had less than 200 views on YouTube. Gonna guess that number has exploded now from being clipped to other platforms.

There's a good reason people in positions like this need to choose their words carefully. He's using "no quarter" because he thinks it means "we're being tough," but it's a real term and opponents will take a different meaning This pushes opponents to declare no quarter because we did it first

If something is so broken even the fascists can see it, and agree it's an issue, we should acknowledge that fact and use that as a pivot back to actual policy that can help people. Broken clocks are right twice a day but that doesn't mean they're useful, it means that sometimes they're correct.

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Saw an AI prediction for 2026 that includes "Google gets its act together" and I nearly hurt myself rolling my eyes. A safer bet would have been "Google releases AI messages app"

Excellent reporting here by @raphae.li about a hacker who breached an FBI server, apparently without knowing it was the FBI, and accessed the Epstein files. The hacker allegedly threatened to report the server's owner TO THE FBI bc of disgust over CSAM on the server, www.reuters.com/world/us/for...

Hello waiter, I'll have what they're having

Victory is also changing public opinion. The support for Gaza has never been stronger. And even I, always firmly against the Iranian regime, feel that they have been the victims of an unjust war. The biggest loss is to international legal institutions and ideals of democracy or human rights.

The most sane policy we can enact is getting off of fossil fuels yesterday. The next best time as they say is today.

I cannot wait for Mika Zibanejad to retire forever.

Sure I worked hard, but there's no accounting for timing and luck. I graduated the week before the local startup mixer and two weeks before the community's marque tech mixer. Networking is also hard but it's the way to get a job.

What does participatory democracy look like for progressive communities?

I have proposed the "Presidential Slap Rule" It is simply that every day you decide to drop a single bomb, a young Marine slaps you in the face, hard. This would decrease bombing to zero.

Let's be clear about what the "SAVE Act" is all about, another phase of the "rigged election" strategy. Trump is exploiting the voter fraud myth he created to pass laws and enact policies that will make it harder to vote, suppress votes, cause confusion, & sow distrust democracy. Rinse. Repeat.

The military draft comment from Leavitt feels like a trial balloon. If there's enough outcry, Trump denies it and Leavitt falls on her sword for "misspeaking." If there's not, Trump and Hegseth bring it up casually and slowly push. For example, Trump may "joke" about it as a next step. 1/2

Every single professional journalist who uses the phrases “Department of War” or “Secretary of War” without scare quotes should be lined up on a public viewing stage and bopped on the head with a giant inflatable hammer that says DUMB DUMB on the handle and makes fart sounds.

yes, you can reasonably argue that People Should Adapt and all, but the likely runway for how one does that while retaining a non-abusive job that pays a living wage is arguably more coherent for people in tech who make software for a living than for many others who are not

“the party of procedurally correct warmongering” just a quick note, how’s that going for Labour

Eagerly awaiting a Muppet Theory of LLMs

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I got to watch 15 minutes of the 3rd period in the Flyers game. It had 5 shots.

Philly GMs holding firm on their demands

I've seen the posts suggesting that the US used AI to find targets for its bombing campaigns and it erroneously named a school as a legitimate target but I have only seen this be repeated by the same AI that is supposed to have been used initially Has anyone actually seen credible reporting on this?

Imagining what Christian Dvorak could’ve been traded for at the deadline and turning even more into the joker.