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Writer, @TechCrunch.com weekend editor, Original Content co-host, loud karaoke singer

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · yesterday

Tick-tock, just past seven o'clock. Today is August 4, 2026 in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday! Today is "There Will Come Soft Rains" day! This celebration has been scheduled in advance. This message will display even if none are left to read it.

Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 4d ago

When New Yorkers see a dumpster they start jumping and hooting like the apes in the beginning of 2001: a space odyssey

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 4d ago

[putting on my academic hat] the trash bags smell and attract rats, but they're also part of the erotic biotic infrastructure of the city. i was ferried to an orgy by a rat king the other day. until the dumpsters offer to fist you, count me out

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...

The parking is an issue that will be hotly contested, but the real problem is the aesthetics. These dumpsters —it is important to use this word, because that is what they will be in practice—will drastically alter the visual streetscape of the city.
The main problem is that these dumpsters will be on the street 24/7.
Currently, trash bags are typically on the street two mornings each week, with only a handful of weekend routes. Yes, these bags smell and attract rats, but there is no guarantee that the dumpsters will fully alleviate either problem. Instead, they will introduce worse problems.
The bins will contribute to the sense of New York becoming more
"sanitized" each day, where it is gentrified and perhaps physically cleaner but losing its character and history.
The West Harlem pilot was launched with 1,100 dumpsters in an area with no historic district designation, a set of protocols designed to protect the visual character of the streetscape. While they reduced reports of rats, they are limited as a case study. Once enacted, the Empire Bins will destroy the character of neighborhoods. We will have fewer cars and more dumpsters.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d ago

What if KITT were wrong all the time and also gave all its insights about you to the government.

Santos said the new GM assistant, which she declined to disclose a name for, will be able to better “understand the vehicle, the drive and our customers’ needs, and make everyday ownership simpler.”

With Gemini, customers can speak naturally without memorizing commands or repeating context. It also is beginning to offer “live sessions” in which the bot will speak with a like a normal conversation or play games like trivia or 20 questions. It also can control some aspects of GM vehicles, such as temperature and radio controls, but in general operates like it would through a phone.

Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · last wk.

I think it's absolutely good & fine for people to disagree with the essay's points but it is baffling to see complaints like "Wilson doesn't get that an adaptation makes changes" or "Wilson doesn't get cinema" or "Wilson should be more polite & gracious," like come on friends what are we doing here!

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2w ago

Mamdani criticizes Netanyahu. Later, a crazy man stabs a Jewish man and an Asian man. And we get an article suggesting that while one stabbing (dismissed in six words) is just a shrug, the other implicates the mayor. Disgraceful framing. Shame on everyone involved. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/n...

After Stabbings, a Rise in Jewish Fears and Questions for Mamdani (Gift Article)

Some politicians said Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s criticism of Israel had created a dangerous environment. He pushed back, condemning the stabbings of two men on the Upper West Side and defending his state...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Definitionally, these are not “friends.”

Warning: Your Friends and Colleagues Are Now Recording Every Conversation

People in tech circles are carefully recording every single conversation they're having — not just at work but in their private lives as well.

futurism.com

Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 2w ago

this is the point I've been making too. They say: 1. AI is as smart and creative as a human 2. humans aren't actually very smart or creative 3. if nothing we do has any value, then there's no reason to pay for labor or art or anything but more exploitative technology

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2mo ago

The goal isn’t to replace the work of humans. It’s to make a case for its devaluation.

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2w ago

Every fucking day of my life I see an article in a centrist outlet titled What The Democrats Need to Do Now by John H. Republican and the entire argument is “Be more Republican.”

hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Josh Marshall. Gift link, I hope. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-p...

The People Own the Constitution, Not the Court

I wanted to direct your attention to this podcast episode from Slate....

talkingpointsmemo.com

Anthony Ha @anthonyha.bsky.social · 2w ago

read this instead www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

theatlantic.com

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Could AI be conscious?

Anthony Ha @anthonyha.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fun Mamdani interview, but I think we can go ahead and retire "Democrat or democratic socialist?" and "what is the exact upper income limit of the working class?" as questions www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/m...

Question: Do you see yourself as a Democrat or a democratic socialist? Because you said “our party,” and obviously you ran as a Democrat.

Answer: I am both. I’m a Democrat and I’m democratic socialist. So much of what makes me proud to be a Democrat is looking at what our party used to stand for. You think about the Four Freedoms, you think F.D.R., you think the New Deal. Those are at the core of what our party’s identity is, and yet it feels like to experience it, you have to read about it. You can’t see it around you anymore. And that isn’t something that I’m willing to accept, and I know that many feel similarly.

Question: So someone making $250,000 a year is working class?

Answer: I haven’t asked myself where it starts and stops. What I would say is those who are working to try and afford the basic dignities of life and aren’t able to do so, I think that that is also working class. Oftentimes we’re asked how we divide this country. I think there’s only one majority in this country — it’s the working class.

Question: That just doesn’t ring true to me.

Answer: What do you think?

Question: It just seems a very easy answer to what is a complicated question. Because politically, if you’re saying everyone is the working class, or anyone that gets a salary is the working class, yes, that opens up your tent. But practically speaking, we are divided by income — and especially if you want to tax people, where you draw those lines matter.

Answer: I’ve drawn it at about a million dollars a year.

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 3w ago

i’m at the combination wildfire smoke and flash flood warning

Anthony Ha @anthonyha.bsky.social · 3w ago

LinkedIn remains a god tier social network

LinkedIn message offering me "FREE Professional Teeth Whitening" that's supposedly only offered to "a small number of TechCrunch employees in NYC"

The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 3w ago

One thing I’ve noticed is that people who primarily tell others what to do are impressed by AI. The people who actually do the things are not impressed by AI. Gee, wonder why that might be.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 3w ago

George Lucas Goes To The Dark Side, Says AI Is 'The Future' https://kotaku.com/george-lucas-artificial-intelligence-ai-museum-art-2000715801

Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 4w ago

The Ones Who Walk Away From Discourse

Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 4w ago

Me Too did not go far enough.

Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

gossip göre@britneyspheres.bsky.social · 4w ago

what rhymes with lol

Colored drawing of Troll by Rob Liefeld, a Wolverine clone with the muscular mass of a giant unequally distributed to a dwarf

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · last mo.

The story here is not this stupid movie – which will never get made and never come out – but how the Tilly Norwood people keep getting these credulous articles placed in national news sources despite zero demonstration of any success or demand for this.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · last mo.

The comedy-drama will star AI "actor" Tilly Norwood in a “hybrid production with traditional film and TV professionals — such as directors, writers and editors — working alongside AI specialists, with AI training and mentorship built into the production itself,” the company says.

Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · last mo.

OpenAI employee: "How did the obvious and inevitable result everyone predicted happen?!?!"

Ryan Brewer
@ryanbrewer
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22h
It’s shocking to me that LLMs didn’t create an educational renaissance. Shouldn’t I be able to learn a language in a month? What did we get wrong?
Yishan
@yishan
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18h
Because it’s not about what the teacher can do, it’s what the student can do.

Learning is energetically expensive and the brain doesn’t want to do it. All educational systems are methods to motivate, trick, or force brains into learning.

(You can make AI systems to do this, but
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Ryan Brewer
@ryanbrewer
I’m looking at my little sister’s high school class now, and i guess it just seems like all motivation to learn anything has gone completely out the window. All her teachers lesson plans are Chat generated. All the students essays are chat generated. Just seems to me like some systemic change to the system is necessary.

Those who are genuinely curious people will 10-100x their ability to learn. The opposite however is also true, the bottom 95% of learners will use Chat to skip work completely. Just sad to see a tool like this be used to escape critical thought by all parties involved. Curious how we fix this

Anthony Ha @anthonyha.bsky.social · last mo.

I am here! To start shit? 1. The Wrath of Khan 2. The Undiscovered Country 3. First Contact 4. The Voyage Home 5. Generations 6. The Motion Picture 7. The Search for Spock 8. 2009 9. Beyond 10. The Final Frontier 11. Insurrection 12. Nemesis 13. Into Darkness 14. Couldn’t finish Section 31

Avery Kaplan@averykaplan.bsky.social · last mo.

I am here to start shit: 1. Voyage Home 2. The Undiscovered Country 3. First Contact 4. The Motion Picture 5. The Wrath of Khan 6. Generations 7. The Search for Spock 8. Insurrection 9. The Final Frontier 10. Nemesis 11. 2009 12. Beyond 13. Into Darkness 14. Section 31

Anthony Ha @anthonyha.bsky.social · last mo.

So proud to be a verified editorial contact path

Pitch email for TechCrunch that reads, "Thought of you because Anthony Ha is publicly listed on TechCrunch's current team page, making this a verified editorial contact path."

Anthony Ha @anthonyha.bsky.social · last mo.

Celebrating our nation’s 250th birthday with a classic tale of American heroism

A still from Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Anthony Ha @anthonyha.bsky.social · last mo.

At 15 I was mid-transition from Asimov nerd to PKD nerd

Rob@greaterhermit.bsky.social · last mo.

If you’re a dude at 15 you have to pick a book to choose what kind of nerd you’re going to be. You can be a Dune nerd or a Tolkien nerd or a William Gibson nerd. This is like picking your starter pokemon

Anthony Ha @anthonyha.bsky.social · last mo.

"Soon it would be too hot [...] Even though the massive olive-green fronds the relentless power of the sun was plainly tangible." - The Drowned World

Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · last mo.

Helen Lewis implying that watching to deliberately incorrect and harmful propaganda is the same type of exposure to human reality as having your gay neighbour take in your parcels. Thing is, guys, she is both malicious *and* stupid, you don't have to choose.

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · last mo.

Yeah I wonder why negative stereotypes about trans women pushed by the literal Trump administration wouldn’t have a positive impact for trans people? A huge mystery!

Hypatia L.A. Seneschale @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · last mo.

The plain language of the 14th amendment is incontrovertible. This should have been 9-0. The fact that it was not, supports court expansion and, frankly, impeachment of the conservative justices.

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last mo.

The outcome is thus: 5–4 that the Constitution protects birthright citizenship for the children of all immigrants. 6–3 that Trump's order is unlawful (because Kavanaugh says it violates a statute, NOT the 14th Amendment.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · last mo.

Well, we gave them a chance to fix their hearts.