Would this be known as the Reacher Principle? (I don’t even watch the show, but AFAICT it fits).

GreenEngineer@eubanksengineeringresearch.com · 13h ago

Ripping out abusers’ spines *is* morally upstanding.

Privilege is sitting in my air conditioned house while the air quality is unhealthy at the same time minimum wage farm workers pick the produce I eat in the exact same conditions.

United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · yesterday

"Rena" sent this from Moses Lake WA where she is weeding carrots for a non-union company. She shared: The air is bad. See my cell phone. The AQI is 166, which is unhealthy. We start at 4am. We'll work 7-8 hrs & earn minimum wage. #WeFeedYou

@volts.wtf makings some nice points that "steering at the last minute did not stop iceberg collision" should not lead to the conclusion that steering isn't important for ships.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 10h ago

🧵 One of the most annoying narratives after the 2024 election was: "by funneling investment to left-behind red areas, IRA was supposed to persuade them to vote blue; those areas didn't vote blue, therefore the IRA & the political strategy behind it are failures." Many variations of this around.

Good reason for them not to want you to know this.

Death to fascism, freedom to the people@atriflemiffed.bsky.social · 15h ago

The moral of JJK is "the government doesn't want you to know this but you can just kill all of the geriatric assholes"

This should be a statement about climate change but it’s not.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 14h ago

I fundamentally do not know how to square the politics whereby Democrats will essentially have to tell the American people that because they (the voters) made an extremely stupid decision, they need to lower their expectations substantially for the foreseeable future, but here we are.

Gotta wear a mask on a plane these days too, if you’re smart. I guess N95s are easy to get now so there’s that.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 16h ago

I reject the claim that air travel was better 40 years ago because 40 years ago you could get lung cancer by riding enough planes

A pure profit maximizing firm would not do this! Capital as a *social* class has interests outside maximum profits and that's what everyone misses

*at the cost of efficiency and profit* So-called capitalists are just a new generation of robber barons, and should get what thieves get.

open borders now@radtranslib.bsky.social · 3d ago

RTO was a pure capital strike and I think if you're an ideological capitalist, you need to understand that capital did RTO because they wanted to break labor power *at the cost of efficiency and profit*

This only works because our economy is completely ecologically illiterate. It’s institutionized theft from the future.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

This was seen by more people than I expected, and someone is complaining about liberal smug in the twitter QTs so in the interest of fairness I must note that this situation is definitely much more aggravated with self-identified liberals having no clue about liberal political philosophy

It’s past time to BAN CONGRESSIONAL STOCK TRADING!  No member of Congress [or the White House] should be trading stocks. Period. The American people deserve to know their representatives are working for them, not corporations and stock portfolios. It’s time to ban Congressional stock trading.

Every time we fail to draw this distinction, we help an AI boss raise another billion dollars. 49/

lol YUP. One of the funniest 48 hours on Bluesky. They would try to bait all the big accounts, get the nuclear block, get added to a bunch of moderation lists, and then just be standing there like 

Ryan's Confused Stare (The Office)

ALT: Ryan's Confused Stare (The Office)

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John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

@kaurifish.bsky.social

Jake Berman@lostsubways.com · 3d ago

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

I've been trying to tell yall for the last fifteen years that carbon capture is a SCAM in more ways than one.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 3d ago

WATCH: ProPublica & @drilledmedia.bsky.social found that oil and gas companies have been funding climate research at prestigious US universities for 30+ years. This research fostered a misperception that climate change could be solved without dramatically curtailing fossil fuels: propub.li/3TTgAGp

No compromise with Nazis. This isn’t just a moral precept. It’s a practical fact that there is no way to negotiate with them because what they really want is death - yours and, ultimately, theirs. They are an actual literal death cult.

more mr. nice guy@juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 3d ago

RIGHT: we're poisoning society to death so it can be replaced with one that exists only to enable our violent fantasies LEFT: we must strengthen society by expanding social services and expelling those who seek to kill it CENTER: so... the right gets what? nothing?? come on. let em kill it a little

RIGHT: we're poisoning society to death so it can be replaced with one that exists only to enable our violent fantasies LEFT: we must strengthen society by expanding social services and expelling those who seek to kill it CENTER: so... the right gets what? nothing?? come on. let em kill it a little

Also, once you do this once or twice, they will flag you as A Person Who Will Cause Problems On Purpose and be much more liberal about approving your claims -- the last one I fought was a maintenance drug denial and it was 3 weeks and a ton of paperwork last year, 24 hours this year.

To everyone in a similar scenario: the tactic my doctor's office has taught me is to ask, in writing, for: 1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;

The RICO Act was built for people like Donald Trump.

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 4d ago

The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.

Fundamentally I think he developed a problematic relationship with AI because he was already addicted to the endless cycle of hockey stick growth and it sold him a fantasy that he could keep putting out more without ever getting him to ask if that was actually good.

And I think this detail actually matters because while it's all well and good to just say "if you use AI you are dead to me" I think the ship has sailed for quite a few people and it's better to understand the various ways it's doing harm to better tailor interventions

I think this is true but upon reflection I strongly suspect an even deeper and more classic problem: a CEO who doesn’t know how to delegate, or at least, not enough.

GreenEngineer@eubanksengineeringresearch.com · 5d ago

It sounds to me like cannibal capitalism (in the form of algorithmic imperatives) is what actually ate him: the demand to constantly do more and more with less and less. The LLM was just the means.

The perception that urbanism ignores kids is interesting. I kind of see it in transit world? But half of cycling BlueSky is Kidical Mass. @lauragmitchell.com and others. YIMBYs talk a lot about housing prices as a barrier to having kids. Single-stair helps family-sized apartments.

Addison Del Mastro@ad-mastro.bsky.social · 5d ago

American politics “un-bundles” these two issues in ways that can make it difficult to synthesize them, because of the distrust between left and right, and the mutual suspicion that each cause is a Trojan horse for a more radical cause.

Ani Difranco was right.

GreenEngineer@eubanksengineeringresearch.com · 5d ago

Every tool is a weapon and every weapon is a tool and what matters is how you hold it and where you point it. The idea that the technology itself is the problem just serves to obscure the actual problem, which is cannibal capitalism.

The problem with @hankgreen.bsky.social is not that he used AI. It’s that he used it poorly: at the very least, with insufficient review of outputs or attention to detail. Steve Jobs called the personal computer “a bicycle for the mind”. If so, then LLMs are a motorcycle.

Also we need to win, and given the short time, these candidates should drop out. But the reason the party brand is so bad that “D“ is a killer is because Schumer and Jeffries and other D leaders have not tried to boost the party brand and change public opinion.

also i'm worried that a "pack the court to 13" scenario (which Harris proposed the other day but gives the dems only a one vote majority) winds up with a lot of "Kagan/Sotomayor joins the conservatives in 7-6 ruling that says the DOGE guys can stay in their civil service jobs" or whatever

karl rove knausgård@uhactually.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is why the number one thing liberal con law people should be working on is arguments that Trump’s pardons are not valid. Obviously none of this can happen without court packing but once the new liberal court is in place, there need to be arguments ready to hand them.

I’m so sick of this shit. POLITICAL PARTIES ARE NOT TEAMS! POLITICS IS NOT SPORTSBALL! But I’m especially tired of people who act like this yet are too cowardly to actually stand behind their stupid.