“jeff dean leaving google” sure is a four word sentence

for months, ive been trying to map out the ways the right and the left were uniting against data centers and AI both here's my story on my efforts, featuring steve bannon's anti-tech prophet, my girlfriend's high school english class, and the unabomber:

How Data Centers Broke American Politics

What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.

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*Everywhere* used to smell of cigarette smoke. Restaurants are the obvious example that everyone thinks of, but people used to smoke in banks, on buses, airplanes, post offices, movie theaters, and even public schools. Also, it used to be considered normal to drive home completely-ass drunk.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 15h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Appropriate air quotes because the most infuriating part about Americans debating "lockdown" is that it simply never happened. Having to pick up your Applebees and eat it on the sectional does not count. There wasn't even a brief moment where "everything" was closed. That's not real.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 3d ago

if you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid

people don't know anything.

"knowing things" is a conspiracy by Big Knowledge to get you to buy more Knowledge

store in a cool, dry place such as my wit

i am: back on my bullshit #ff5fjf (why is Blue Mage always my first job??)

It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough

The idea that automation breaks the chain of responsibility of human decision-making is an intentional choice to obscure this reality, and which is being imposed via propaganda and other social construction by media, influencers, and corporate executives.

This seems uncomplicated to me. Someone established a goal and commissioned a process that resulted in a criminal act. Agency always traces back to the font of human decision-making at the entry point to any process, including automated ones. Layers of automation may obscure, but not obviate, agency

Tim Marchman@timmarchman.bsky.social · 4d ago

If I go on a hacking spree, it’s clearly covered under a variety of civil and criminal laws. If a robot does due to the negligence and incompetence of a person or company? That’s a little more complicated (for now), @lhn.bsky.social reports:

imagine if we woke up tomorrow and astronomers announced the discovery of a 'starlanes' mechanic

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I’ve seen a lot of my colleagues’ interactions with Claude working on research problems & it would be easier for me to accept it as a serious scientific tool if it didn’t end every single response with the LLM equivalent of “you want fries with that?” — constantly trying to goad you into asking more

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

a lot of what the right does nowadays is create an emotional support system for bigots. bigotry will offend and alienate people in your life, so the right looks provides a counterweight that lavishes you with praise.

All the replies to this are negative but personally, as a (mostly) cyclist and pedestrian, I'm looking forward to a fleet of cars that aggressively follow the rules of the road. Asshole drivers who think it's their god-given right to speed and compulsively run red lights deserve to be mad about it.

Only In Boston@onlyinbos.bsky.social · 6d ago

Self-driving cars are being tested across Massachusetts. Cities that have approved it: Arlington Boston Braintree Brookline Cambridge Chelsea Malden Medford Melrose Newton Revere Somerville Weymouth Winthrop Worcester

It really really really bugs me how many people simply do not understand what it means when the government tries to convict you even IF THEY FAIL TO DO IT. Do you know how many thousands of dollars in legal fees it costs? You will most likely lose your job. You might lose your home.

like, do you make a grocery store, which already runs on thin margins, artificially cheaper or do you give food insecure people money directly? or some third or fourth thing? the question is worth asking. none of the answers imply you hate hungry people.

if there’s anything I would want to drill into the public consciousness it’s that there are almost always like a dozen ways to approach any given problem and some of them will be more effective than others and we have to stop acting like the questions around it are against fixing the issue

The DSA is in a better financial position than the DNC. What a world.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · last wk.

okay now we're really on a heater news.bloomberglaw.com/employee-ben...

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if i were an airline, i would ban these people for life.

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

As I've said many times, the revocation of TPS for Haitians is horrific on its face, but it's *also* going to have a devastating cascade of effects because Haitian workers are the backbone of health and human services supports for elderly and disabled folks, especially here in Massachusetts.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

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the median voter was designed in a lab to make me, personally, angry I will not be dissuaded from this view

the corruption number here makes me want to turn into the joker and then, as the joker, turn into a significantly more unhinged joker

Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · last wk.

"Who's better on..." 🔵Women's Rights: D +18 🔵Environment: D +17 🔵Democratic Norms: D +10 🔵Cost of Living: D +4 🟣Political Violence: Even 🟣Wars/Terrorism: Even 🔴AI: R +1 🔴Corruption: R +1 🔴Guns Control: R +3 🔴Immigration: R +5 🔴Crime: R +14 Ipsos / July 26, 2026

I say again, the very first and perhaps only durable reform to policing in Somerville that came about due to Black Lives Matter was the cops negotiating themselves a raise. 13/?

Had a webserver getting crushed by Claude for some reason. Dug in to the logs and someone made a shitty php hangman game back in 2008, the dipshit computers found it, and were “playing” it 1M+ times a day until I blocked it. The future sucks ass