Kevin
@doubleohkevin.bsky.social
Software & security by day, history & politics by night. Strengths include film trivia night. Weaknesses include sports trivia night. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇺🇸
i can’t help it, this is such a hysterically, comically corrupt fucking presidency, just comic book villain levels of cartoonish corruption
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h agoLombardo on Trump: "When the press and media runs him down, they think about 'he's taking care of his billionaire friends.' But those billionaire friends provide jobs. And unless you take care of them, those jobs are absent."
well well well, not so easy to replicate the most successful collaborative information effort in human history with a stack of GPUs and a pile of logits, is it?
Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · 13h agoGrokipedia appears not to have updated any articles since April 24. @noupside.bsky.social and @rer.bsky.social explore why it matters that the encyclopedia hasn’t edited itself or processed edits from humans in more than 3 months. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grok...
Amazing update. These firefighters do not get enough praise.
Gov. Bob Ferguson@governorferguson.bsky.social · 10h agoGood news from Spokane — firefighters are making significant progress containing the fires, with established containment lines at all 3 fires. Grateful for their hard work. I encourage those in the area to remain alert. Fire danger will increase as temperatures rise this week.
As someone who has to use AI for their job as a performance metric, I would love this. Yes, please make AI disappear.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterdayGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
MICROSOFT TO LAY OFF 605 WORKERS IN REDMOND, EFFECTIVE 9/4/2026 - WARN NOTICE
Can’t reply so I’ll quote: Yes it’s possible to mess with a narrative while the vote is happening. But we have found time and again that the antiseptic for misinformation is more transparency, not less.
Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social · yesterdayit's only possible bc their constituency populations are so strong but i genuinely think the UK does it right by not announcing any results until they've counted everything
Disappointed that for all the mentions of "There will come soft rains" today I haven't seen anyone post the Soviet animation. youtu.be/OumNKTn6iek?...
Watch: There Will Come Soft Rains (1984) | The Rediscovered Soviet Animated Warning
YouTube video by Trailer HQ
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All great families should follow this progression.
Zebulon Vitruvius Pike@vitruviuspike.bsky.social · yesterday
this man should get combat pay bc he was FIGHTING here
“Everyone is yelling ‘fire’ and nobody is even appreciating how good the popcorn tastes”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTom Emmer on Republicans trailing Dems by 8 points in the generic ballot: "Right now there are great things happening in our economy. Nobody wants to talk about 78 cent eggs, nobody wants to talk about milk that's under $2. No no. They want to focus on gas prices."
Today is August 4th, 2026, which coincidentally is the date set in this famous short story by one of the great science fiction writers, Ray Bradbury. Despite being written seventy-six years ago, it still packs quite the punch:
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They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · 2d agoin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
It's also full of skilled workers who warn us that on-the-job AI is producing tech debt at unimaginable scale, seriously depreciating the quality of the tools we use today, and setting us up for painful reckonings in the future. 39/
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d agoAbsolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
yeah, Alan's right. Harris overperformed compared to global incumbent parties and did better in swing states where people saw both campaigns. so if Cheney did anything, it likely helped around the edges. But probably it had little effect.
Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 2d agoI just don’t think Liz Cheney doing a couple campaign events cost Harris the election. People who are too on here already knew if they were or weren’t going to vote for her. Normies who aren’t either too online or political junkies did not decide based on this. This is vibes and cope.
discovering that there is a thing called “a government” that we all pay into that provides an array of services that some of us need at different times of our lives
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Incredibly frustrating to see the way big orgs try to vacillate between 'AI is a tool, the human is responsible when it does harm' and 'no, the AI is responsible' based almost entirely on what it would cost them to own it. Humans are only a moral crumple zone (a la Elish) when they're not C suite.
Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 2w agoSeeding the “maybe our model is exhibiting self-awareness?” narrative to obliterate the “OpenAI is a negligent and potentially criminal actor” narrative is a reputation management move exclusive to this industry. Not a stunt, but a desperate need to control the narrative.
Question: Tell me what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989. Here are the answers from two popular open-source Chinese AI models.
Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 3d ago"Most tech analysts are aware that Chinese models have Chinese Communist Party controls built into them, but the problem is often understood too narrowly. Many assume that these models simply refuse to answer politically sensitive questions..." www.worldpoliticsreview.com/china-ai-mod...
i am begging you — including some of you who follow me that i'm seeing in the OP QTs — to actually read what senate democrats are getting out of this and to stop and think for, like, at least 90 seconds, about what *else* you think a minority party *in both chambers* can squeeze out of the majority
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 3d agostripping OMB of the ability to dole out grants is an enormous win, this nukes the SAVE act, it prohibits further ICE bailouts, adding a "no, really, trump can't break already on-the-books laws regarding elections the federal government doesn't run" clause would be both unnecessary and unproductive
every single day I am baffled by the fact that this man - this incredibly, astoundingly embarrassing man - is the one half the damn country built a cult of personality around
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”
This may dramatically slow down the attacks on science. It also provides a template for how to prevent the federal government from becoming a patronage state. It’s a big deal!
Politico@politico.com · 3d agoSenate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul
