“Search engine” is actually a terrible thing to use AI for. It gives results that look plausible very quickly, often mostly right, and in order to check them you have to do more & different work that feels like a waste when results are kind of right, so you just trust the thing because it’s easier

I keep being asked about if I'm doing a book: 1. Yes! Portfolio/Penguin Random House 2. It's called The Hater's Guide To Silicon Valley 3. It's out July 2027. 4. It is currently going through edits! I have written it between podcasts/newsletters. I have been very busy!

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

Joined Steve Bartlett on Diary of a CEO for a 2.5-hour-long chat to talk about the Al bubble, why OpenAl and Anthropic are burning billions, the fake Al boom, and what the aftermath of the bubble could look like. youtu.be/Lf5oqGOCRCM?...

The Man Who Calls BS On AI: They’re LYING About AI, 2027 Is When It All Breaks! | Ed Zitron

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Have you seen any reporting on how solar power generation in the USA is 5 times higher than it was in 2020 in mainstream outlets? If not, why do you think this is not being widely covered the same way other large technological changes are?

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 7d ago

Official monthly data is in today, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 20% compared to this time last year!

Apparently ICE arrests are at an all-time high and I'm guessing they've managed that by decentralizing. Focus on a specific urban area, and you get a lot of targeted resistance. Anyway, helpful reminder that ICE are literally everywhere and we should all be watching out for our neighbors.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 7d ago

If you live in an area that has pockets of immigrants, and you think nothing is happening with ICE, you are probably wrong. I've been hearing about things happening EVERYWHERE right now.

3 minutes of Tim Curry holding back laughter while filming scenes for Red Alert 3

Any opposition politician who is serious about justice needs to be running on "abolish and prosecute."

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · last wk.

"ICE tactics, already sadistic, are looking increasingly like torture," writes @judith-levine.bsky.social. "The slim avenues to legal recourse and the refusal of transparency or accountability by the perpetrators of de jure and de facto torture are driving detainees to desperate measures..."

There’s an aggressively paid for influence op going on right now to defend AI slop as art and protected speech across platforms. AI execs realize they have a problem and don’t wanna get Marie Antoinette’d. The free ChatGPT trip is the tip of the iceberg. First person to nail it down gets a Pulitzer.

"Let’s pitch in and get them at least one such generator, and the necessary solar panels, so they can quite literally organize their own power." chuffed.org/project/1969...

Let’s ship a Solar Generator to folks without power in Gary, Indiana

Gary, Indiana is a predominantly Black, relatively poor, post-industrial city with a shrinking population.

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In my opinion, a failure to understand the white-hot rage so many people feel about ICE's campaign of terror and oppression is what has taken some establishment Dems by surprise in their primaries. Abolish ICE and Nuremberg 2.0 is basically the floor for what the Dem electorate is demanding.

There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 2w ago

The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.

Excellent read. "AI Overview offers the seductive promise that the messy, effortful, contestable business of finding things out [...] can be replaced by a single, confident, algorithmically fluent paragraph." www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

What Was the Internet?

As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.

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When you hear "NVIDIA" and "data center" in the same breath, know that this person is not talking about VOIP or Instagram or online banking or online gaming, they are explicitly talking about generative AI services. These data centers aren't useful for anything else.

The biggest mistake that people made about the AI bubble is assuming that the rich and powerful are smart, better-informed or somehow intellectually superior. Yes, they'd absolutely spend all this money without really knowing if it would work! Everyone around them said it would

Guys I volunteered to donate skymiles to get folks home after they’re released from detention. My first person got home last night and I am just over here like 🥹😭 One way flights are often under 50k miles. They don’t need to be skymiles either. Please consider. www.standwithminnesota.com/skymiles

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2026 MN State Fair Crop Art entry "Witness" based on pStar Tribune photograph by Leila Navi with MPR reporter Sam Stroiza.

donate your miles! help us add to the list of 100+ families we’ve gotten to reunite with no money changing hands!

Katie@katiestp.bsky.social · 2w ago

Guys I volunteered to donate skymiles to get folks home after they’re released from detention. My first person got home last night and I am just over here like 🥹😭 One way flights are often under 50k miles. They don’t need to be skymiles either. Please consider. www.standwithminnesota.com/skymiles

Unidos has a whole toolkit on how to avoid shopping at Target this Back to School season. 🚫🎯 Alternatives galore . unidos-mn.org/corporate

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elliot hughes@elliotshughes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Target Corp. announced Wednesday it received nearly $1 billion in tariff refunds, and immediately afterward, consumers wondered on social media if they would see a slice of that.

🚨 🚨🚨The comment form, for Mpls folks. app.smartsheet.com/b/form/019fc...

Robin Wonsley - Minneapolis Ward 2@ward2.minneapolismn.gov · 2w ago

The Frey admin shared a proposal to make significant portions of our city eligible for data centers. If you want to stop data centers in neighborhood, now is the time to organize and make your voice heard. Read more➡️ https://content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/MPLS-425c6d1?wgt_ref=MPLS_WIDGET_64

Reporting to you live from Pine Island, MN, a small town outside of Rochester where Google is holding a community event to help sell their proposed data center to the community

If you are a Jewish DFLer who wants to unite and spend our fall fighting fascism rather than each other, please consider signing.

Eli Sherman@elitalksmpls.bsky.social · 2w ago

A statement from the DFL Jewish Community in Support of Peggy Flanagan:

Meltwater, a poetry collection by @cwahmanholm.bsky.social, illuminates just what you are describing with deft and expansive tenderness, dread, and wonder. Here’s one of several prose poems in the book titled “Glacier,” which I think about often.

Excited to be moderating a panel at @awpwriter.org's 2027 conference centering emerging Queer Minnesota authors as they discuss their roles as writers in our resistance movement.

this story is batshit Here is the full article, which includes all prompts, trial transcripts, the report itself. The firm hired charged more than $80,000 for the report. Also shows that AI transcripts can be discoverable and can be very revealing: www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit

ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.

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Not a conspiracy. The tech industry generally targets edtech and defense. General users are important, but the real, long term cash flow is in education and defense. They will often pour lots of money in, and once they have enough investment it's harder for them to pull out.

Dr Vanessa@hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 2w ago

My sounds-like-conspiracy-theory-but-is-probably-true take is slopAI firms are deliberately targeting education sector; it’s underfunded & weakly protected & by becoming standard there they create generations of dependent users which is only thing that can stop inevitable financial bubble bursting

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

Sophie Hurwitz@hurwitz.bsky.social · 3w ago

This story’s got everything: Spiderman-villain weaponry, Black Hawk Down, vaccine conspiracy theories, weird YouTube videos www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Canadian director Ally Pankiw on working on on HBO‘s Harry Potter series: "Absolutely fucking not!" deadline.com/2026/08/ally...

'Black Mirror' Director Ally Pankiw Roasts 'Harry Potter' TV Series

'Black Mirror' director Ally Pankiw has shared a post giving a "hard no" to an apparent offer to work on HBO's 'Harry Potter' series.

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DEI means recruiting the best candidates and appealing to the widest possible customer base - which results show is good for people, and for business www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

ICE has started its crackdown in Springfield, Ohio -- the town where JD Vance accused Haitians of eating dogs and cats. Residents reported "a caravan of vehicles" conducting raids. One unnamed neighbor "praised all the Haitians who live around him." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...

Springfield Haitians in ICE custody following immigration enforcement

Several Haitians from Springfield are in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in the Butler County Jail following an apparent increase in enforcement after the official end of Temporary Protect...

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