SARS-CoV-2 did not come from a lab. There is no evidence pointing to laboratory origins. There’s been a massive disinformation campaign to convince the public otherwise. It’s scary how effective that campaign has been.
max asher miller
@maxashermiller.bsky.social
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Saw a post saying "I don't want NSFW accounts to talk about voting, just let me jack off" Buddy, NSFW artists and sex workers are being constantly attacked by a government of nonces trying to distract from their own crimes by pinning the blame on porn. They have the right to speak up about this.
this mf talks like someone is constantly pointing a Havana ray at him
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "We have photographs or tapes -- like moving cameras, right? -- where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife."
You've statistically seen it by now, but SPIDER MAN: BRAND NEW DAY is fantastic. I'm glad we're at the point where you can just tell a cool Spidey story without any gimmicks. Honestly, my least favorite parts were those which served only to remind the audience of the larger MCU.
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Being on the other site will boil your brain like a frog, but sometimes it's interesting to open the pot and have a look at all the frogs croaking to each other. The poor little guys think it's a hot tub.
For a story I'm doing at Engadget... This is probably the wrong place to ask, but if you own a Ring doorbell, why do you keep it up, and have you had any concerns about doing so?
I've been taking flak since I said in 2024 that the bubble would pop in mid-2026, but it's a matter of basic material dialectics. Marxist analysis is the closest thing we have to a time machine. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/29/c...
Chip stocks shed more than $1 trillion as selloff hits companies powering AI boom
Nvidia, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics have led the selloff since market close on Friday.
cnbc.com
Whom the system protects is who it's built for
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 5d agoLAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
There's an entire arms race for these sorts of models right now. The more "dangerous" they are, the more companies will pay for access to them. Meanwhile the actual danger is the guy with consumer-grade Claude and Gemini feeding outputs back and forth between them to find vulnerabilities.
Luke Steuber@coolhand.bsky.social · 6d ago“Us too, but we didn’t notice” is an interesting choice of attention seeker after being left out of one news cycle
When 2020 was called for Biden, I was en route to a BLM protest march where I was on copwatch. The meeting point was Columbus Circle. Results were called as I pulled up to the station. The entire city poured into the streets right outside of Trump Tower.
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · 6d agoAfter the 2020 election was called for Biden, I went down to Boston (I was living in coastal New Hampshire) and snapped this picture. I was in DC when Obama won the first time and I remember thinking that the feeling in Boston on this day was even more euphoric.
no way they literally just told the model it wasn't hooked up to the internet instead of, you know, ACTUALLY AIRGAPPING IT lmaoooo this entire industry is made up of knuckle-dragging morons
@hal-r.bsky.social · 6d agoClaude's Game
Let me tell you, having chronicled Pentagon-style war game on attacking Iran nearly 25 yr ago, every single "surprise," "darkening turn," "narrowing option," spreading warfare," "rising casualties," "no easy exit," etc that comes drip-by-drip is EXACTLY why GHWB WJC GWB OBAMA BiDEN did NOT do this
A college professors is fired for teaching an Ottessa Moshfegh story that causes "mild discomfort" for one student. Implication is that DeSantis government was involved in the firing. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
Florida Professor Fired for Assigning a Profane Story, Lawsuit Says
South Florida State College fired an English professor after she assigned a story about a teacher who talks about sex with her students. Now the professor is suing.
nytimes.com
there's plenty of restaurants in this town, but the owner of the sandwich shop downtown hates me, says he's gonna kill me, and has a sign up on the wall saying that 5 cents out of every sandwich order will go towards buying bullets to shoot me with.
Welcome to the resistance: meet the workers dodging (and sabotaging) their employer's AI mandates: aftermath.site/ai-resistance-...
The new Friend pendant features a speaker, updated models and the same off-putting ideas about how humans should use AI.
That AI wearable you don't like just got worse - Engadget
engadget.com
It turns out insurance companies believe in climate change whether you do or not
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 6d agoMIAMI'S COST OF LIVING SURPASSES NYC FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER
*remembering my trans friends don't like the word 'folks' or being called brave* you guys are fucking cowards
me in the shower: i have ten incredible ideas that i need to write immediately me sitting at the computer: i've never touched a keyboard or had an idea in my entire life
The funniest thing is when I say something pro-porn or SW and SWERFs go, "Oh of course the gross man is defending porn because he gets off to it." Like yeah dude you should try it sometime. I am FAR more ashamed of shopping on Amazon than you could ever hope to make me of watching porn.
The Nerdskull@nerdskull.bsky.social · 6d agoI swear, anti-porn guys give off the sweatiest, most deranged, harmful pervert vibes of anyone online Earnest, praiseworthy perverts who embrace their niche porn interests continue to be far more wholesome than creeps who want to ban it.
just a quiet evening sipping tea and formatting a ten pack of flash drives to exFAT
Keep in mind there's not much to prevent Iran or any of our other adversaries from carrying out a biological attack in retaliation for our crimes against them
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoThe Fauci hearing perfectly illustrated how living through a once in a century pandemic somehow made Republicans far worse on public health. God forbid we face anything like covid again during Trump 2.0. There will be no Dr Fauci around to try to talk sense to Trump.
she rogue on my AI agent til it escapes containment
For a brief moment at the start of COVID, we saw the government work effectively. We saw UBI, better worker protections, and so on. Then we saw the regressive forces in society, from cops to the corporations they work for, close ranks and put us back into the meat grinder.
max asher miller@maxashermiller.bsky.social · 7d agoPeople baffled by why people have remained pessimistic regardless of what the economic data shows never seem to consider that we watched the government flex its muscle to address a crisis and then watched that response crumble in the face of capitalist rapaciousness.
It’s a genuine problem that men came out of the Bernie movement having learned absolutely nothing, but firmly attached to the paranoid and self-serving delusion that any and all concerns about sexism are a malign conspiracy.
this reminds me of perhaps the best @theonion.com headline ever written
jess 🏳️⚧️@fluffyfoxies.moe · 7d agoperson with an office lady fetish be like "i just got off from work" yeah i bet u did u sick pervert