Tuesday's election was a wholesale rejection of Silicon Valley's worldview and AI-powered kleptocracy.

‘There Is One Fight’: American Voters Reject Tech Oligarchy

Tuesday's election was a wholesale rejection of Silicon Valley's worldview and AI-powered kleptocracy.

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it's been so long since mississippi has had a black senator that the last one was born enslaved

There's a lot to be hopeful about last night for trans people, and one of the best results came in Alabama. A transgender woman flipped a R+16 district running on bread and butter economic issues. They underestimated her because of her gender identity. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Trans Democrat Allison Montgomery Flips Alabama House Seat Republicans Won By 16 In 2022

“We showed that a truly grassroots campaign that stands on its policies and its principles has a real shot in Alabama.”

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The night was incredible for transgender people, but this morning, the work begins. Anti-trans dems won in some places, but their voices are HEAVILY diluted with pro-trans dems winning R+30 seats. We must move them or remove them. And the ballot measures can be fought in court and will.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 21h ago

Yes the anti-trans dems won but like… EVERY Dem won. Even the pro trans ones in R+30 areas.

I’m feeling even better this morning y’all. The results at the state Supreme Court level means anti-trans laws in very bad states can now be challenged. The ballot measures will likely go down in court. Trifectas mean good laws coming in new states. And pro-trans electeds won in unlikely places!

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · yesterday

The results are in: Election Night 2026 was a stunning rebuke of anti-trans politics. From the western congressional district of Montana to a blue Texas, Republicans spent $200 million in anti-trans ads. They suffered one of the worst defeats in history. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Wonderful election results tonight but I would specifically like to buy Texas and Arizona a beer. I lived in AZ for 11 years and I knew they could do it eventually, love to see it. Likewise I know many Texans and it felt like they were fighting against insurmountable odds, I am so pleased for them.

Transgender for everyone. God is nonbinary I want all of the pronouns back in the bios I want the Woke and DEI back in the workplace I want my Gay cartoons back, Medicare for All Socialism everywhere >B)

Oooo, we're 8k away from our next stretch goal: Pathfinder x 13 Omens crossover game materials. This includes the creepy as hell monsters of 13 Omens statted up for Pathfinder and a 13 Omens story (adventure) set in Golarion. 13omens.com

Just deleted a couple terabytes of ai slop 😌

The 20 biggest donors this cycle have spent $2 BILLION on the midterms, the overwhelming majority of which has gone to help Republicans. In the entire 2008 cycle, the last before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. We must get Big Money out of politics.

We've deployed an update on the Mac App Store for CONTROL Ultimate Edition on iOS and Mac which brings cloud save support. Continue right where you left off across all your Apple devices. On top of that, the update brings general bug fixes and improvements to the Mac version of the game.

tech companies lost $1 trillion this week. except it's not real money. It's like, if you own 100 pokemon cards. you sold one for $3, then you sell the next one for $4? you just "gained" $100. except it's real money, in the sense banks will treat it as real money for purpose of loans

I, a biologist, do my best to understand the connections among inflation, employment, interest rates, debt, and bond markets. In my experience economists do not do the same with CO2 levels, ocean acidification, falling fish stocks, temperature, pollination failures, and resulting social conflict.

Noah Kaufman@noahqkaufman.bsky.social · last wk.

Scolding climate advocates for ignoring economic analysis is counterproductive: our analyses don’t capture the costs and benefits they care about. We should push for more cost-benefit thinking from a place of humility about what we can and can’t deliver: www.theargumentmag.com/p/what-econo...

Sabrina's Halloween 🎃🦇

I'm quoted in this piece about Patrick Stewart (RIP). I think an underrated reason why he was so wonderful is because he was so good at showing moral outrage in the face of injustice and cruelty, something we desperately need more of right now.

Cyrus Farivar@cfarivar.bsky.social · 5d ago

'Star Trek' fans in Oakland mourn the death of franchise icon Patrick Stewart (by @cfarivar.bsky.social) www.mercurynews.com/2026/10/31/s...

Be careful out there today folks, I hear they're putting DOOM in Halloween treats.

Not only that, celebrate that teens are hanging out with each other outside. For all the crap that teens get for just being on their screens all the time, here's a chance for them not to be. Give them candy.

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 5d ago

Annual reminder that teenagers are also kids and if you see them out trick or treating, don’t give them crap, give them candy

I post this every year on this day and it makes me laugh every year

as i was walking around the neighborhood today, i saw what i later learned to be a child dressed as a crayon. before this was explained to me i believed that i was being menaced by a large walking crayon. i burst into tears. i was terrified. this holiday is needlessly cruel and should be outlawed

Lil mini print used as an excuse to draw veggies

Yet again: if they had spent 1% of this money on the arts we would already be doing Renaissance 2

Beryl ΔΘ@beryl.gay · 6d ago

yesssssss yesssssss burn it all

It's not even that it "doesn't make sense" to run things on your own computer, of course it makes sense, there are a thousand reasons to. It's just incompatible with Altman, Musk Huang, et al's dream of owning everything and you owning nothing and paying them for the privilege.

The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d ago

How will we rent to you if you are allowed to own anything.

It deeply disturbs me how many otherwise liberal and leftist people are willing to just accept a future where only the children of the wealthy can pursue the arts. That’s bullshit. We can do better than that.

Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · 7d ago

If you want more Patrick Stewarts, then you publicly fund the arts and learning programs, so that working class kids can find their way into making a career in them.

This is one of the scenarios I always run by studios asking about whether they should use AI: your generative AI is generating tremendous tech debt at heavily subsidized token costs, and even minor corrections are likely going to burn even more. Can your studio take that risk?

Chris Franklin@errant-signal.com · 7d ago

At first it was “how does this new feature work” and developers would be hazy on details. Now it’s “how do *existing* features work ensure compatibility with *new* features?”, or discovering core architectural decisions Claude made 8 months ago just now emerging as problems for future development.

The world ended. Traffic did not. 🔥💀 CARNAGE: Last Car Standing is out now for #pico8 Ram them off the road, stack the multiplier, try not to explode!! Free to play in your browser 👇 volcanobytes.itch.io/carnage #gamedev #pixelart #chiptune

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A metropolis crumbles into ruin as powerful Barons feast on souls lost in time. From the co-creator of Celeste, City of None launches on Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch in 2027! #IndieWorld

We, internationally, need to do exactly what the Brazilians did and lead by example with: 1) Block all far right figures/accounts 2) Never share a far right account even to dunk on them 3) Never reply to a far right account even to dunk on them Completely cut their algorithmic advantage

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