If I were looking for a photo to make the Canadian Army look weak I certainly wouldn't choose candidates on the Patrol Pathfinder course, one of the physically hardest courses out there that requires airborne and recce quals just to be eligible to attend.

@collie.bsky.social · 5h ago

Konrad never served but he loves mocking people who actually did.

This type of thing is a much larger contributor to the childcare affordability crisis and birthrates than many admit. The state essentially mandates a higher spending on childcare than previous generations experienced, while crime is at historic lows.

Reason Magazine@reason.com · 2d ago

A mom of five was convicted last week of delinquency of a minor. Her offense: allowing her 5-year-old son to walk about a half-mile by himself in their gated community. The government also placed Karyann Parkinson on its child abuse and neglect registry, where she will remain for seven years.

There appears to have been some sort of industrial accident at the subtext factory

Joe Wrote@joewrote.bsky.social · yesterday

The Jerusalem Post argues indebted Americans should be conscripted into the Iran War.

I mean, there it is. What they want to do, laid bare. Give us the data to target your voters we don’t want to vote or we’ll just stop all of them who vote by mail. They want to do this *now*, for *this* election. Please make a plan to vote in person if you’re able.

Patrick De Klotz@patdeklotz.bsky.social · 21h ago

May there be everlasting shame on all of the attorneys collaborating in this.

G.R.E.A.M (Glonzo Rules Everything Around Me)

David Wallace-Wells@dwallacewells.bsky.social · 5d ago

The most important thing about the data center backlash is that, in a time of intense polarization and micro-movements, it is astonishingly large—such a big tent mass politics that any time you try and an atomize or explain it you end up diminishing it. nytimes.com/2026/08/31/opi…

Trump and Hegseth are trying to take away billions of dollars that Congress appropriated for disease research, and illegally funnel it to pay for their disastrous war

Simon W Davis@woodforbrains.bsky.social · yesterday

Ho-LEE fuck democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...

Once again observing that the awed reverance that our society's elites supposedly had for Supporting The Troops when that was being used to bolster support for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was complete bullshit. Trump shits all over dead troops and they celebrate him. It was all a huge joke to them.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterday

Following the president’s example, Trump officials have taken to saying whatever comes to mind with little regard for the significance of their office, or the truth. trib.al/qNT7jYR

LEAVE THE PAINT.NET GUY ALONE YOU PSYCHOS

dems would be well served by ditching the ambiguous "affordability" platitudes and just hammering these clowns on corruption, all day every day. That's what they did to Orban in Hungary

Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

Perceptions of government corruption in the U.S. hit a record high in 2026, with broad agreement across partisan lines.

news.gallup.com

okay with all due respect: YOUR CITY’S JOB IS NOT TO MAKE AMAZON’S BUSINESS DECISIONS YOUR CITY’S JOB IS TO TAX AMAZON TO PAY TEACHERS AND SOCIAL WORKERS

Ditty Doop’s Daring Deeds@goosname.bsky.social · 2d ago

Also, apparently many of the data centers in my city are already sitting idle because the power grid can’t handle them, so I don’t see any point in building more.

every single day elon musk says or endorses stuff on x dot com that is worse than any of the quotes they've pulled up for hasan piker and he will be the single biggest political donor in the entire country, supporting republicans up and down the ballot somehow none of them are asked about it

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Not even the anodyne “controversial” thrown in there for good measure. When you are a megadonor the rules for podcasters obviously don’t apply.

The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?

Steve Benen@stevebenen.com · 2d ago

Ahead of the midterms, Trump isn’t even being subtle about his brazen politicization of federal disaster relief aid, explicitly tying approvals to campaign endorsements and election results. It’s one of the underappreciated scandals of his second term. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

NEW ICE wants to build a nationwide database of voters, their voting history and, potentially, their party affiliations too. ....and it's willing to pay someone up to $5M to do it www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...

ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database

As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.

wired.com

Like this guy is serious, he’s seriously arguing that beef *specifically* is a necessity for poor people to get sufficient protein Beef, the meat which the cheapest form is more expensive than the most expensive cut of every other meat (avg$/lb per the BLS) Because he hates AI

I should copy over to Blueksy my thread on my emotional reaction to the ongoing developments in AI math.

Yikes

AAA games are incredibly expensive to make, and developers are going to use every tool they have to try and bring development costs down. Getting mad about developers using AI in any capacity makes about as much sense as getting mad about them using procedural generation. It depends on how it's used

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 2d ago

Video game companies keep trying to bait and switch us with AI, and it sucks aftermath.site/1666-amsterdam...

people routinely get mad at me for describing zitron as a charlatan but at this point given his track record.....

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? danluu.com/zitron/

People keep telling me that I'm being an alarmist for worrying about this, but it has the potential to render Oregon's voting system completely non-functional. If USPS won't deliver ballots to voters there is no plausible alternative that Oregon can set up in the next two months

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? danluu.com/zitron/

one thing which is being underrated is the risk of Hispanic voting patterns nationwide matching voting patterns in California. that could take Republicans off the board in a lot of places they're not predicted to be vulnerable.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3d ago

Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa www.tampabay.com/news/2026/08...

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

SpacePrez@spaceprez.bsky.social · 3d ago

The polls are super bad for Trump so he's definitely going to try to cheat www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...

the infuriating thing about all of the crises going on right now is that they were completely predictable the second they announced they were gutting food safety monitoring, everyone knew it would lead to a bunch of contamination and recalls! we could have just not done it! it's all so stupid

Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 4d ago

This summer's food recalls are broader in scope, longer-lasting, and more severe than past years as regulators are slow to respond. The parasite surveillance staff at the CDC, which responds to outbreaks (such as cyclosporiasis), was downsized last year by DOGE from 11 people to three.

i’d like to report a mass murder

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Besides being deeply cynical, Chomsky’s supposed pragmatism has not stood the test of time...We may have manufactured consent once upon a time, but America has long since transitioned to a post-manufacturing economy." Very harsh but worthwhile read. strangematters.coop/noam-chomsky...

Large portions of the data center backlash are based on moral panic, but the the tech right VC types upset by it are very funny considering how gleeful they were about the demise of ‘legacy’ media. What’s that? You’re missing epistemic gatekeepers who would place complex facts in context? Tough shit

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

I don't think enough people are saying this. Like or dislike AI in general or any aspect of it; can't we all come together and agree that the fact that we've created *machines that talk* is pretty incredible. It's a moon-landing sort of thing. It's "Look what we can do."

violentlycar@violentlycar.bsky.social · 5d ago

I do feel like the fact that we've been able to invent a technology that can do this at all is absolutely bonkers, regardless of the human mistakes made here, and a big part of this incident is that it forces us to reckon with that fact.

You can’t say you weren’t warned

If Dems win a trifecta in 2028 and don't push forum-shopping reform (and related judicial reforms) as their first bill, they'll doom everything else they try to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/u...

How Trump’s Policy Agenda Runs Through One Federal Court, in Texas (Gift Article)

For years, conservative litigants flocked to Judge Reed O’Connor’s district. Now, North Texas has become a favorite destination of the Justice Department.

nytimes.com

GLM-5.3-Flash rips the doors off and is under a full MIT license we have, and I mean this literally, a Smart Enough model for almost any task a normal person and many AI perverts can envision, and it is free to use at the same time, inference hardware will only get more accessible to you

absolute horses@jcoglan.com · 6d ago

could a handful of billionaires owning the means of production of all knowledge/creative work revive socialism