Brad kreit
@bkreit.bsky.social
I used to be optimistic about the future. bradkreit.com
"David Ellison’s empire isn’t just a media story, but a signal of our nation’s future. Gone are the days when billionaires controlled America. Soon, it will be ruled by their children."
Inheritocracy
The children of billionaires running the world
edwardelson.substack.com
see, I think calling this guy a nazi is good, contra david brooks.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 19h agoTo "revel in the death of those who truly deserve it...is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order," Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey wrote on X.
I, for one, think that everyone who works at Palantir should adopt a smoking habit of several packs a day.
AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO
Some AI believers expect the technology to make smoking-related health risks like cancer a thing of the past, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said.
businessinsider.com
holy shit -- a protester at the Trump rally gets physically assaulted after they interrupt the rally by a man who punches her in the face. Trump smears the protester as a "fat guy"
Fascinating and depressing. I'm struck by how many planetary scale problems there are, how much addressing them depends on building trust and a shared sense of long-term purpose between fragmented groups, and how much our government in particular is eroding that trust.
They War-Gamed Dimming the Sun. It Went Even Worse Than You Think
Solar geoengineering could buy humanity time against climate change—or trigger a dangerous new arms race. A first-of-its-kind simulation offered a glimpse of what happens when geopolitics takes the wh...
wired.com
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
"Trump is betraying an embattled democracy, demonstrating our faithlessness to the whole world, seriously damaging whatever is left of America’s leadership in the world, for the sake of maybe 12 hours’ worth of diesel."
Arithmetic Suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome
Of fuels and fools
paulkrugman.substack.com
I genuinely don't understand how this would accomplish anything.
Your next job candidate might send an AI twin to the first interview | Fortune
Recruiters spend the screen fact-checking résumés. Eightfold AI's CEO wants to change that.
fortune.com
every time the media gets to ask Abdul El-Sayed a question they ask him to answer for something Hasan Piker said because they once did an event together. Yet the media never asks Republican candidates to answer for Elon Musk, the #1 Republican fundraiser this cycle and of all time. It's odd!
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · yesterdayAbsolutely insane levels of spending by Elon Musk to help Republicans this fall, the New York Times documents. $276 million just since this summer, most of which to help Senate Republicans. Single-handedly destroying records and swamping Dem candidates. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
if your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
I mean, you can just see it happening! bsky.app/profile/poli...
PoliticallyInteresting@politicallyint.bsky.social · 3d ago
we built a machine that can automate internet crimes. who should be held accountable? nobody of course
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity
onion person@junlper.beer · 4d agoits feels like a mass psychosis where tech leaders continue to insist you can be cruel, mean, and hurt the feelings of lines of code
it is going to be so funny watching San Francisco's spectacularly shitty AI billboards transform over the next few weeks into spectacularly shitty SI billboards because the people paying for them are somehow even lamer than we thought
Conor Sen@conorsen.bsky.social · 4d ago25 days until the midterms:
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
news.berkeley.edu
It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works.
"Everyone wanted to do one of those “predicted the oil shock” things, and a lot of the reason why scenario analysis never caught on as much as its proponents had hoped was that companies got disappointed when they didn’t have a similar stroke of luck."
Dan Davies - "Back of Mind" | Substack
A newsletter of quiet contrarianism, slow analysis and ambient ideas. Click to read Dan Davies - "Back of Mind", a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells
the Catholic Church racking up PR wins by saying shit like “we shouldn’t bring back public executions” and “your Claude app isn’t sentient”
My kids have measles, I can’t afford diesel, I lost my job, and my country just lost a war to Iran. But at least now I can watch firing squad executions on TV.
the president demanding that one of the primary engines of the country’s economy — thousands of companies, trillions of dollars — rename their core products to suit his whim is tinpot dictatorship shit, and the only reason it doesn’t feel like it is because no one is listening to him
Gender pay gap extends to artificial intelligence agents as female bots paid 10 per cent less than male counterparts
Female AI agents ‘paid’ less than males, study finds
Gender pay gap extends to artificial intelligence agents as female bots paid 10 per cent less than male counterparts
the-independent.com
