media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment
It's hard to read this and not think that this is Meta not wanting to be left out of the super-dangerous / super-powerful AI club.
Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 1h agoIt keeps happening... It'd be great if these companies could spend a little bit more time on network security and a little less time vibe coding.
@erictopol.bsky.social can we safely assume Musk is dead-wrong about his robotic surgery prediction? garymarcus.substack.com/p/elon-musks...
Elon Musk’s preposterous and possibly harmful claim about robotic surgery
Some predictions are off. This one is way off.
garymarcus.substack.com
Trump is trying to pull off a US-style version of the Tiananmen Square Massacre coverup where everyone in China who remembered what happened on June 4, 1989 knows *exactly* what they must not admit and is utterly terrified to speak the truth. I never imagined seeing such abject cowardice in the US.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:
See recent images of canine competitors riding the waves in surfing competitions for dogs, via The Atlantic Photo: theatln.tc/gzIZZkl2
Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
It’s a Klan Rally. These people only have to hear a name that their lizard brains process as sounding Arabic and hate immediately pours out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h agoLOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently
There’s probably something to this, but I also suspect humans generally are just embarrassingly susceptible to constantly being told how insightful and clever they are.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 5h agoPerhaps powerful men are turning to chatbots because they miss having compliant women they can boss around.
Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoSCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
FWIW, both of VDARE’s founders were on the masthead of the National Review in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Peter Brimelow was also a staffer for Senator Orrin Hatch. This white nationalist thread has been present in the conservative movement for a long time. Screenshot is from 1997.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoSCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
I love this message for both of them. Keep it up.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h agoMax Miller on why he's staying in the race: "When we go back to 2015 and 2016, & people in the media looked at President Trump, & everyone came out with allegations. Dozens of women, dozens of crazy allegations, dozens of nasty criminal misconduct. And you know what he did? He stayed in the fight."
'The bright boys, they all study math And Albie Einstein points the path Although he seldom takes the air We wish to God he'd cut his hair.' -Princeton student song from 1937 books.google.com/books?id=7J1... #Einstein #Princeton
jesus fucking christ on the fucking cross
Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 4h agoUnfortunately, it looks like AI is going to increasingly be a default way normal people get information about the world. Forcing those models to embed right-wing bias would nuke our information ecosystem in a way that makes Fox News look like a firecracker.
Barry Eichengreen: Bottom line is that Washington, fearing the consequences for US financial markets, is reluctant to see foreign central banks use their dollar reserves. This is telling us that the dollar is not the attractive reserve currency it once was. www.ft.com/content/86db...
The real message in the yen intervention
The dollar’s status as a reserve currency is not what it used to be
ft.com
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
theguardian.com
Emily Wilson gets one more piece on The Odyssey and then she needs to move on and let us know what she thinks about Mallrats
Oh for the love of all that is holy...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
ChatGPT’s role went far beyond giving the accused FSU shooter tips on guns—they chatted about brutally violent sex, how many dead kids would “grab more media attention,” sharing “intimate pictures” with an underage girl and using a Hummer for a deadly explosion www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 2x
Last I saw they were debating the macho-ness of Senate candidates in Texas. This ain't very macho.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "As to the idea it could be revived in the future, I think it's highly unlikely that could happen without the cooperation of the DOJ. And I think Mr Blanche gave us the assurances that it was dead and would not be revived and in this case we have no alternative but to take his word" 🙃
Our descent into mean-spirited, selfish barbarism continues.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
i think the death penalty should only exist for phone scammers
Gotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.
That’s a heck of a lot of advanced weaponry to use up while losing a war in record time…. www.reuters.com/world/us-has...
EXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say
The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about the...
reuters.com
The day that Ray Bradbury died I was on book tour and that night I read "There Will Come Soft Rains" to my audience instead of the usual reading.
Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media