If I were a DOGE guy, ICE agent, or any other administration goon who's been involved in some shady work over the past two years I'd be seriously thinking about stepping forward to inform on my colleagues before they inevitably do the same to me
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲
@chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social
Reformed Digital Utopian. Bought the late 80's and 90's tech hype. Sorely regretting that purchase. A better internet is possible but we need better people making it. Not big on fascists or tech bros but that may be redundant.
Our voices are never louder than when we howl together. Thank you for speaking up for wolves and other wildlife!📣
Prediction markets “predict” much like Tesla FSD “self drives”. Disengagement right before the impact event.
Gonna start a GoFundMe for this motherfucker he's in desperate need of a spine transplant
"The American people don't want us to get even; they want us to get things done on their behalf." House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is now poised to become the next House Speaker, says that Democrats will focus on affordability concerns and not retribution after their midterm wins.
I hope everyone in Minneapolis feels like tonight is a warm, loving hug from an entire grateful country. We made you a hotdish out of votes, to say thank you.
I didn't think Zuck could fuck anything up as badly as he did with the metaverse. And yet
BOOM: NBC projects Dems win South Carolina. Thank you, Mr. President, for ordering Darline Graham to take her brother's seat. Brilliant!
Talarico at nearly 70% in Cameron County, home of Elon Musk's Starbase
A reminder, pay attention to legitimate pollsters like @gelliottmorris.com not betting markets Kalshi or Polymarket. One is based in science, the other algorithmic rumor amplification.
54-55 seats very possible at this point
Apparently the new Apple Watch will be designed to look like a Flock camera! At least it should be. Who’s gonna build a privacy focused health tracker where only users have access to the data?
Apple is rolling out its "always-listening" tech to Watch users, which summarizes conversations & allows live replaying of the last 15 seconds of audio. It's very gross, and no way for others to opt out. techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/a... I wrote back in Sept. why this Apple feature is a very bad idea:
It’s good that CEOs can still be shamed into intermittently behaving better.
New: Proton CEO Andy Yen just cancelled the company's 're-interviews'. Comes after our investigation yesterday The re-interviews would have been about how workers were using AI, with the clear implication you might be fired "He has a rebellion on his hands." www.404media.co/protons-ceo-...
JD Vance accidentally comes out for abolishing the electoral college bsky.app/profile/atru...
JD Vance on ranked choice voting: "I don't understand it. It seems to me that you have an election, the person who wins the most votes should win...The fact it's so confusing to a person who pays pretty close attention to politics I think suggests we should do our elections in, like, the normal way"
The NYT devoting two pieces to the Cheesecake Factory "controversy" and none to the latest rape allegations against POTUS is a good reminder that there is no attack against Obama bad faith enough that the press doesn't amplify it, while with Trump when the charges are horrendous, caution abounds.
Law and order party apparatchik breaks law to prove laws can be broken. Consequences follow.
Getting hit with felonies is the funniest way to fail to prove that it's actually hard to commit voter fraud
Small menus create hard men Hard men create big menus Big menus create weak men Weak men create small menus
It’s so amazing that there is a political coalition that, for now, includes Evola quote bio guys and Cheesecake Factory defenders
Our election research team put out an article today explaining how the prediction markets (e.g. Kalshi, Polymarket) — and social media posts featuring visualizations from those platforms — may feed election rumors & conspiracy theories around the U.S. midterms: uwcip.substack.com/p/what-to-kn...
What to Know About Election Forecasting and Prediction Markets This November
What to Expect When We’re Electing
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Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice
Youthful, ambitious Secretary of State looking for discrete connection
Did he think this was a private message or something?
Wrote a thing about how it doesn't really matter whether Zuck shut down the No Kings Insta on purpose or if it was an accident. The problem is relying on him in the first place. www.techdirt.com/2026/10/20/a...
Accident Or Not, The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn’t Rent Your Megaphone From Zuck
This past weekend was the latest in an ongoing series of (massive) “No Kings” protests held around the country (and in some cases around the globe). The latest one was part of a “…
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The NCGOP showing their true anti democratic colors here. If they can’t win an election fairly then they’ll steal it and claim they are, “just following the rules.” Pathetic.
🧵ICYMI: In a loss for voters, a judge ruled North Carolina's restrictive absentee ballot rules will remain in place for the midterms. This comes as over 30k absentee ballot votes have been cast, some of which have already been rejected because of the state’s new requirements. Here's what it means👇
Sherry Turkle's latest book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines, comes out on September 29.
How AI Chatbots Are 'Deskilling' Human Empathy
Sherry Turkle's latest book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines, comes out on September 29.
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Goodnight from Terry Anderson, wondering why there’s a freezing fog inside the cab of his truck, but none on the Northmoor Road. Goodnight from the bingo on Blaxwich Pier, where tonight’s caller has unknowingly invoked the gematria of several minor demons. Goodnight from Hookland.