Slavery was and is a real thing that has brutalized hundreds of millions of people over the course of human history, if someone tells me a fucking chatbot is enslaved I'm immediately throwing hands. It's not cute, it's not intriguing, it's an insult to real people who suffered and suffer now.

can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.

If the disruption really is some kind of political intervention, this is only further proof that Europeans—or anyone in the world—can’t rely on any of Musk’s products, as they will be at the whims of the technocrat that still finds himself at Trump’s beck and call. newrepublic.com/post/216600/...

Ukraine Loses Starlink Access as Musk Says Zelenskiy Went “Too Far”

SpaceX suddenly throttled access to Starlink with no warning, Ukraine says.

newrepublic.com

I will sit here until fucking 4 in the morning if I have to until I complete this fucking pull-up challenge in 'Final Fantasy VII Remake'.

You guys, I don't think there's a cure for cancer coming.

So let me get this straight... 1. Every rich cunt in America wants data centers everywhere, no matter how destructive. 2. The Ukrainian military bombs a data center, which has nothing in it but thousands of far-right bot phones. 3. Far-right online rhetoric in the US plummets literally overnight.

*Alex Windsor walks into an Arby's* WE HAVE GOT BEEF, MOTHAFUCKAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

FNAKC@fnakc.bsky.social · 4d ago

*Alex Windsor shopping in a hardware store* Chainsaaaaaah!

The official U.S. Department of Education account posted a Columbus Day video set to the song L'Amour toujours, which, if you don’t know, is a random dance song that’s been song co-opted by Nazi groups across Europe, complete with new (nazi) lyrics. link in next post. x.com/usedgov/stat...

*Alex Windsor bakes a delicious Austrian torte* LINZAAAAAAH!!!

Fats Falafel@fatsfalafel.bsky.social · 4d ago

*Alex Windsor helping Will Ospreay with his tie while getting dressed for a wedding* WINZAAAAAAHHHH

One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d ago

(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

Gee, it's almost like everyone who thinks taxing the rich is bad *is completely full of shit*.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · last wk.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

This is indistinguishable from the white nationalist comments at our city council meeting last night, including the part where they started shouting “White man fight back”

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last wk.

Donald Trump is an absolutely vile racist. Trump: “The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!”

reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news

Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.

phoenixnewtimes.com

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

It’s a bummer that American brains are so cooked that you have to go on the podcast of a guy who looks and sounds straight up like a Neanderthal to gently explain to him the idea of a social safety net but I think Zohran is straight up the perfect guy to do that

what a disgusting room with some of the worst people in modern history

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hegseth hosts his first Project Meridian meeting with Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich. They’re looking at ways to use tech to boost Hegseth’s agenda, most likely using AI for surveillance and weapons.

Seattle

Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 2w ago

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

That’s fucking demented. “Hey did you broads think about getting a little group together and doing something?”

Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 2w ago

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

Schiavone: "Just watch the sex, dude." Taz: "DUDE, I'M CALLING THE FRICKING SEX! DON'T TELL ME TO WATCH THE SEX! I'M CALLING IT!" People in bed: "I thought I'd be into this but it's actually a real mood killer..."

Watch what you post because Threads just might pretend you're the guy who masturbated on the plane. What just happened to Peter Shankman is a warning for all of us using Meta products.