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Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h agoWrote about the border search exception: a massive loophole in the Fourth Amendment that allows border officials to search through your phone without a warrant, the exception provides an easy pretext for the Trump administration to target its political enemies. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Wild what powerful people will just straight-up say on the record.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 20h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Meta is a menace to society is the most generous thing I can say about the company
Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 6h agoNEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days
Meta is a terrible company! It’s more than time for everyone to be on the same page about this.
Dhruv Mehrotra@dmehro.bsky.social · 6h agoMeta approved and profited from ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found dozens more that were still live. Insane story scoop by the one and only @mattburgess1.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
Forget "Don't be evil"; Google's true motto is a form of vulgar spidermanism: "With great power comes no responsibility." The internet's *de facto* boss is an absentee landlord. 1/
I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.
Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 19h agoOne way to be safe is to never write an electability take
If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"
If you need some perspective (and many people online do), here’s some for free.
W.E.D.em Boyz@leftistwonk.bsky.social · 18h agoAny AES supporter would have been thrilled with a win of any margin as recently as a month ago. A few late polls showing a bigger lead shouldn’t change that reality. He won against the Dem establishment and $62M of PAC money. He was barely on the radar when he entered the race.
It is the single worst deliberate change I have ever seen made to a product, and might be what stops me using Microsoft Office after…25+ years? Imbecilic product decision, but just one among *many*.
Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · yesterdayThe most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten
And I’m sure that’s not going to affect the quality of their games…
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 22h agoEA's annual Ebitda is around $1.5 billion, which should be enough to service the interest payments. But the publisher has told debt investors that it will cut $700 million in annual costs including $170 million in "organizational efficiencies," per Bloomberg. In other words: mass layoffs
EA is a dead man walking. This ownership group is going to destroy it. All you need to see is what they’ve done with NCAAFB and EA FC (aka FIFA).
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 22h agoEA officially goes private tonight, meaning: - EA will no longer trade on the NASDAQ for the first time in 36 years - All stockholders of EA (including many employees) will receive $210/share - EA will take on $18 billion (!) in debt, putting it on the hook to pay ~$1.8 billion/year in interest
Like I said, this is naked corruption
Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · 23h agoIn addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/
I think about this finding a lot: "Students whose school uses AI for many reasons are more likely to report that they or a friend of theirs has had a back-and-forth conversation with AI, like chatbots, in potentially troubling ways." From @cdt.org's report:
Hand in Hand: Schools’ Embrace of AI Connected to Increased Risks to Students
Artificial intelligence (AI) has continued to alter the educational experiences of teachers, students, and parents during the 2024-25 school year. The frequency and variety of AI uses continues to gro...
cdt.org
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · yesterday“…the researchers found that opening up to chatbots about personal issues made some people feel not better but worse.”
“…the researchers found that opening up to chatbots about personal issues made some people feel not better but worse.”
AI companions may worsen loneliness for vulnerable users
Stanford research finds that users with limited social networks who seek emotional support from AI chatbots experience lower well-being.
news.stanford.edu
Also, if im spending money on a BMW and you force an ad on me, thats a great way to ensure i never buy another car from you ever again.
"that was fraud" ~@montanaskeptic.bsky.social
egg16z 🥚@notlikewe.bsky.social · yesterdayElon projecting one launch of starship *per day* by next year lmao
The issue isn’t “trust” at all, it’s media consolidation that allows a small number of wealthy oligarchs to manipulate the entire country’s politics to their benefit and to the detriment of everyone else
💯🎯 There are a lot of people who are being quite obtuse on this front. I wish people who profess to know a great deal about history and politics actually read a bit of history.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is all correct, especially the Dems' 2024 incumbent overperformance part (bsky.app/profile/mcop...), & again, the national front <must> include <everyone> from the DSA to Liz Cheney ex-GOPers & Harris understood that & it's not her fault that others still refuse to (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).
They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...
Tarrant County considers cutting 140 Election Day polling sites for November
County commissioners vote Aug. 4 on proposed reductions to the number of early voting and day-of sites for the midterms.
fortworthreport.org
The kids are out here getting looks mogged when they could be getting books mogged, is what I’m saying
Another day where the president & other national Republicans get to sh*t on cities/urban voters & we have <exactly none> of the National Conversations™️ about Civility, Tone, Respect for/Reaching out to Real Folkz, or the GOP’s problem of not offering enough Moderate Solutions on Kitchen Table Issues
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
this is like expired milk giving you an ultimatum
Mediaite@mediaite.com · 3d agoJames Carville Tells Fox News He’s Out of the Democratic Party if Hasan Piker Stays: ‘One of Us is Going to Leave’
No one who saw that movie and came away convinced it proved anything should be able to make decisions for other people, yet *gestures toward the us federal government*
