This is all well and good and I will certainly vote but I still couldn’t wager the faintest guess about what Dems hope or plan to do with control of Congress and/or the Senate. I’m not trying to be doomer. They’ve all been banging the campaign drum but I hear no song.

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · 3d ago

Don’t get complacent. They’re still going to try to cheat. Check your registration. Vote early if at all possible.

"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not

Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 4d ago

“No they really believe it” is a way better heuristic for understanding political actors than “they are on the take” 9 times out of 10. Sometimes beliefs are downstream of materialism and political economy. But these relationships are more complicated than “bribes”

it’s amazing that there’s no crime anymore. if you do crime you’re actually just the victim for getting caught. the people who catch you are the criminals

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago

“.. The department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor’s office that investigated the famed Watergate break-in committed misconduct ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Having one of those "Man, everything is hopelessly bad" days.

I have received 12 fundraising texts today. Only 1 from a candidate I’ve ever donated to before. 6 I’ve never even heard of.

There are so many self-indulgent posts on LinkedIn about this and A) This is like me registering “Weapon.com” ahead of the release of Weapons. Different word! B) What‘s the overlap of people who are aware of new OpenAI releases and who type in [word].com to find something?

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 6d ago

The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch

I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io

lol he really didn't enjoy Orlando did he

Jason Beede@jbeede.bsky.social · last wk.

Former #Magic center Moe Wagner says goodbye and thank you to the city of Orlando on Instagram:

Last day to sign up for my email art blog newsletter before the next issue drops! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io I think this one's really fun. See if you can guess the theme based on this sneak peek. Artists: Johnny Bruck, Lee Gibbons, Fred Gambino, and Shusei Nagaoka.

bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers

I will stay loading my old Pentax with a step-by-step tutorial article open in front of me because I messed it up once and losing an entire load of film is devastating.

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

I haven't advertised this in a while so: I also run a blog about Japanese bubble era (1980s to early 90s) aesthetics. If you enjoy retro Japanese style, consumerism, and pop culture (which presumably you do if you follow this account), check out BUBBLISM here: bubblism.jp

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Fully agree. I've been on a 🎢 coaster: ititial "good" LLMs made me worried, but revenue has increased 20% in the past year and we don't do AI. Good LLMs create business chaos, and I am a chaos enjoyer. Happy to talk agentic with clients, but the "expert" work is always that: talking. With humans.

Ed@ed3d.net · 2w ago

tbh, I think a lot of the folks who are in this spot have let low self-confidence or terror chip away at their understanding of the difference between technician and expert work. being paid well into six figures to be a technician was never going to be sustainable.

we didn't know how good we had it

IGN@ign.com · 2w ago

Disney+ has altered its user agreement to clarify that ads will be allowed on all subscription tiers. https://bit.ly/4hhOjBo

Wow. I hadn’t realised how much LLMs had killed StackOverflow (the site where coders traditionally go to ask questions when they’re stuck): “Just before the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, there were more than 100,000 monthly questions asked on the site; last month, there were fewer than 1,500.”

Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

ft.com

midterms fever baby get into it

Patrick Cosmos@veryimportant.lawyer · 2y ago

i think the biggest ideological divide in america is between people who think everybody deserves dignity, and people who think dignity is a zero-sum game

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

Right-wing politics is laden with contradictions, but "We're the movement of authentic, traditional masculinity who have to ask for help sounding tough from the calculator" is one of the funnier ones.

K. Thor Jensen@kthorjensen.bsky.social · 3w ago

Lmao zionists on Threads leaving their ChatGPT response headers in their slop revealing they asked it to make them sound like Andrew Tate, scum attracts scum

The political ennui I feel lately isn’t doomerism that Dems can’t do well in the mid-terms—I anticipate they will—it’s that I do not trust them to do anything with any power they regain. I’m not even confident they have the slightest idea what they’d do with it.

Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · 3w ago

Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!

I think Criterion maybe hid this exploded diagram of the Lone Wolf And Cub baby cart I did for them a bit too well? And never mentioned me either in the short doc about artists who worked on it ~:( Seems like most people don't know they have it. But every now and then someone finds it again...

Richard Wells@slipperyjack.bsky.social · 3w ago

Good grief, thanks to a video on Instagram, I've just discovered that the Criterion edition of Lone Wolf & Cub (that I've had on my shelf for about 9 years) has a secret compartment in the spine containing the blueprint for the weaponised babycart..!

cool cool cool I assume there will be accountability that doesn't come in the form of a pennies on the dollar saved fine

James A. Hodges@jameshodges.net · 3w ago

A “computer glitch” at this data center dumped 5,500 gallons of diesel into local waterways. The company responsible is 11% owned by BlackRock btw newjersey.news12.com/2026/09/14/d...

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

I'm convinced that this is just a big a reason for the tariffs as any (misplaced) economic claims: Tariffs give Trump discretionary power, and he likes being the sort of guy who can use govt power on a whim to impress people (in this case), or in return for other favors.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Trump on his golf course announces he’s going to take tariffs off Irish whiskey. I guess our trade emergency is over!

went to vintage computer festival today, its so funny how nerds who aren’t fascists or love ai are still out there making super neat stuff and love showing off their cool old repurposed tech

Buffalo Bills chips, made from potatoes grown in soil from Highmark Stadium (The Ralph/Rich Stadium)

Was just doing basic math with shelf space measurements in my notebook and I felt like A Beautiful Mind

No you don't. You understand nothing because you are incapable of understanding.