This is barely intelligible. Does the author even understand the point they're trying to make? Have they ever spoken to another person? I can see why they're excited about AI writing, as it would be a big step up.

Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 21h ago

There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.

She only got about 700,000 votes. She spent about $100 for each voter that voted for her. That's absolutely insane money for a primary. AIPAC alone spent more than $40 on each voter.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 15h ago

Unfathomable

No matter the margin the story is that Haley Stevens got $70M of support, more than $30M of it from a single organization, and still lost.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 20h ago

30,000,000 dollars

Use this as those robot training videos

Los Angeles: sports capital of the world@theamitie.bsky.social · 17h ago

There’s a guy on TikTok who posts just him taking a pizza out of the oven every day with tongs and all of the comments are about how their day is ruined from having watched this

Can you imagine a candidate so bad that spending record-breaking sums, more than 10x the amount of your opponent, and also having your entire party apparatus rally around you is still not enough? Stevens is a historically bad candidate, and her backers are fools at best.

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 14h ago

LOL. Abdul El-Sayed WON the Democratic Primary in Michigan despite being outspent 10-1! Amazing gaslighting here.

In my lifetime the only time I've ever seen a progressive electoral victory portrayed in establishment media as meaningful is when it is so immense that it gets portrayed as a cataclysmic disaster.

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11h ago

Pretty sure when you win the election it's a big election night. Pretty sure when your party's leadership all endorses the loser, it means the leadership is out of touch with the electorate.

Abdul El-Sayed wins the Michigan Democratic Senate primary!!! More than 1.2 million ballots cast. Over $60 million in outside spending alone. The most expensive Democratic Senate primary in American history. On to Mike Rogers in November. LFG.

He means nothing they _will_ do.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Just so everyone knows, this is a tried-and-true mainstream media tactic. For progressives/leftist candidates, every election is a “crucial test” and any loss would serve as proof to the media that the latest left-side moment is at its end. Any win, though, just means it’s time to find a new test.

Politico@politico.com · 2d ago

Michigan will provide another crucial test of whether progressives can not only keep up their winning streak in safe-blue seats but also break through in battlegrounds crucial for control of Congress. The stakes for the Democratic Party are huge.

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

Too bad we don't have a press corps that can simply find out and report the truth of the matter instead of just telling us what both sides are saying

I mean, do the math. "I want to be in power, and in order to get power, I need to promise to harm people." I don't care whether you actually want to harm people or not, I'm not giving you power.

the republican party is the party of child genital inspectors. any "moderate" who thinks that republicans are on to something here is a supporter of child genital inspection, and you should remind them of rhis

Washington to vote whether to allow crazy people to sexually assault your daughter.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

From Worcester to the Merrimack Valley, Massachusetts knows what’s possible with fare-free transit. My new report with @pressley.house.gov shows that going fare free saves money, grows ridership & simplifies transit. We must pass the Freedom to Move Act so communities can go fare free.

This framing is common but evil-minded. It's like asking why we pay for a fire department when your house isn't on fire, or why we pave roads you don't feel like driving on. These people never complain about all the money we spend murdering girls in other countries, so I assume they want that.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

New Yorkers had to subsidize the $117 million that the NYPD paid out for misconduct lawsuits in 2025 alone, even though most of them were never personally abused by a cop. Where's your worried op-ed on that one?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

the next president has a duty to the country to prove that “tax immunity” is a completely made up thing that doesnt exist. they need to do this through intense prosecution to signal to future leaders what will happen if they try this

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

I have a very, very low opinion of Sam Altman, and yet apparently I think better of him than he thinks of himself. Also, great thread from @doctorow.pluralistic.net.

Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺@margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Excellent thread on the sleight of hand that is the bastardisation of the Turing Test and leads to Sam Altman proclaiming, "i am a stochastic parrot, and so r u".

Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Hey, friends! I put my big face in a video like the kids do! Time to join the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social and tell @mayor.nyc.gov to enact a moratorium on "A.i." in the schools! Please share - and please tell the mayor you want a moratorium! www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Flattery, but also the feeling of giving orders and having them obeyed rather than having to work at anything.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d ago

I sincerely believe that men cannot handle this. women may be falling in love with their chat bots, too. But I don't think they are categorically attached to its flattery to the same degree.

Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

this guy gets it

i honestly want to talk to someone who thinks this is a bad thing to say

Berlatsky is right about this danger, but the challenge of talking about LLMs is that there are multiple domains of insurmountable problems with them, each sufficient to be "the danger" of LLMs. I'll list a few here, each of which could be a long essay -- and I'll get to that when I can.

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 5d ago

again, the danger from AI is not that it will attain sentience and destroy us. the danger is that it's a mindless flattery machine and being mindlessly flattered literally drives people insane.

This is nonsense. If I built a non-LLM bot that took criminal actions, I would definitely be liable. The only pretense otherwise here is that LLMs have their own agency that relieves the builder or prompter of responsibility, which is pure fiction.

WIRED@wired.com · 4d ago

Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot? www.wired.com/story/openai...

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Better to beg forgiveness; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/07/31/j... #Pluralistic 1/

Writing Mrs. Grimblob with a heart over the i over and over in my journals

Actual names@actualnames.bsky.social · 6d ago

Robert Grïmblob Groom Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008

[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody