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Raigan Burns

@raiganburns.bsky.social

I make games (and music), and play games (and music). One half of https://metanetsoftware.com

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elias isquith@eliasisquith.blog · 16h ago

see, the reason it's worth learning how the world of geopolitics works, whether or not you like it, is because you find out a significant feature of the global political economy is that water in the US gets wasted on mass producing alfalfa that will then be sent to saudi arabia to feed livestock

Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social · 18h ago

if we stopped growing alfalfa in deserts to feed cows in saudi arabia basically all of the west's water problems would be solved without anything else having to change (And denver is on the wrong side of the continental divide for that discussion)

Dean Baker@deanbaker13.bsky.social · 24h ago

Remember, they prosecuted Aaron Swartz and drove him to suicide for hacking one system with the goal of making academic articles freely available to the public. Sam Altman hacked 1000s of sites with the goal of being a trillionaire.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 3d ago

Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:

Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI

Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...

little-flying-robots.ghost.io

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social · 2d ago

When Trump launched “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” without ICE facilities to accommodate it, inhumane overcrowding was inevitable. Judge Kaplan’s 9/24 ruling shows the results. Diagrams simulating a NYC holding cell in Aug 2025 look like slave ships. 1/5

Hold Room 1(820.78 sq. ft.) With 87 people (out of 193 people total) Lying Down/Sitting Diagram showing the largest tenth-floor hold room containing eighty-seven detainees in which each rectangle represents one lying-down detainee with the average height and shoulder width of an adult man and each circle represents one sitting-down detainee with the average shoulder width of an adult man. PX303, Ex. 1.
jesse, head of endorsement deals at Boingo Wireless@killgoldfish.bsky.social · 21h ago

For a lot of rich men, COVID/Me Too/BLM/“everyone having jobs and extra money” is grouped in their mind. And they want to make sure none of that ever happens again. Other than COVID. That one is less important

Micah@rincewind.run · 22h ago

some pretty prominent dudes lost their jobs (with massive payouts, of course) and it made the executive class absolutely furious and determined that there never be consequences for them again

Phineas@phineas.bsky.social · 23h ago

We didn’t uninvent filling buildings with asbestos or putting lead in all the gasoline and paint. You’re allowed to stop doing harmful things and it’s possible to do so.

MondoAB@mondoab.bsky.social · 3d ago

Quebec — where more than 800 doctors have opted out of the public system to operate privately — has the worst track record out of the four largest provinces on wait times for elective surgeries, according to data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Will Alberta's dual-practice model reduce surgery waits — or only for those who can pay? | CBC News

As provinces grapple with how to decrease wait times for surgeries, Alberta is introducing a system in which doctors can simultaneously work in public hospitals and do private care on the side — a mod...

cbc.ca

Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d ago

Network TV used to trust their audiences. That first season of 90210 literally had Kelly's mom doing blow in front of her kid and this was beamed into every livingroom in America during primetime viewing hours. Now we get 14 seasons of big bang theory

rot economy critic@rotonomics.bsky.social · 2d ago

I feel like it’s reflective of something broader that social media has brought on. There’s a cycle where people are less open to media that makes them uncomfortable and companies are more squeamish about making media that can be uncomfortable.

Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Dr Peter Kalmus was a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory until 2026 and an Adjunct Professor in the Division of Earth and Climate Sciences at Duke University. He holds a BA in Physics from Harvard University and a PhD in Physics from Columbia University. His research

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 7mo ago

Good words of warning here. AI models are generally designed to read and incorporate (and, in a sense, believe) virtually everything they find online, with very few guardrails. The information can get divorced from its original source, context, & rebuttals or retractions. That's a really big problem

Nick Tsergas@nicktsergas.ca · 7mo ago

MAHA-aligned research is entering the training data of AI models that millions of people (and increasingly governments) rely on.

Dominic Tarason@dominictarason.com · 2d ago

I just found an account on Steam that has reviewed over 21,600 games... Most of them indie. Almost all of them negatively and at least several paragraphs long. Misery given flesh.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2d ago

I kinda get why people hate on fussy philosophical stuff, but on the other hand don't you think we live in a time where it'd be especially helpful to have rigorous conversations about things like personhood, meaning in life, the point of art, the point of pure mathematics, & operationalizing ethics?

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

Oracle has a ballooning $27 billion contract with one federal agency to do health records. Do you have any idea how much internal tech capacity the government could build if it hired capable tech people and opened up the procurement process to non-oligarch vendors? fedscoop.com/bipartisan-b...

Inside the bipartisan backlash to the $27 billion VA-Oracle EHRM contract blindsiding Congress

Billions of dollars, dozens of hearings, three administrations and no answers. On the VA’s fourth attempt to modernize electronic health records, Congress says “enough.”

fedscoop.com