Seems to me that if smart/"pervert" glasses are to be justified by their merits as accessibility technology, we might try regulating them as medical devices.

Dan Davies@dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'm convinced by the stories people with visual impairments tell about how useful smart glasses are for them, but none of these users seem to depend on being able to record video, which is the main thing that makes them "pervert glasses". Why can't we just regulate that?

Three bags full, sir

Shot...

404 Media@404media.co · last wk.

NEW: “I am fully of the notion that clapping is a First Amendment right that I have. I can exercise that as long as I'm not disrupting, and I still argue that I was not disrupting at all." 404 Media's @mjgault.bsky.social spoke to the person who was arrested for clapping at a data center meeting.

The person behind the “firebomb a Walmart” tweet liberals/radlibs love is just a paid advertiser for gambling now. that’s so fuckin funny man

Shrek@spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · last wk.

Most of them don't have the sponsorship disclosed but yeah

I cannot emphasize enough how fucked up SpaceX's Texas site is and the Biden administration (specifically the FAA under Pete Buttigieg) gaslit everyone who pointed out this was de facto eminent domain (w no compensation) of protected wildlife habitat

Zero percent concerned about that, but I think we should take e.g. the British Home Secretary quite seriously when she says the plan is to build a Bentham-style “digital panopticon”.

Raised one eyebrow at "Asian", then another at who reposted this.

I wondered why @ahjohnson.bsky.social had been quiet here lately! (@thrasherxy.bsky.social also great!)

In These Times@inthesetimes.com · last wk.

Liberal institutions knew how to take a side on Ukraine. They knew how to speak the language of anti-racism after George Floyd. When Palestinians were being killed in Gaza, many suddenly found “neutrality.” @ahjohnson.bsky.social & @thrasherxy.bsky.social in conversation about complicity.

Again, it's gonna be reeeeeeaal fuckin' interesting to see how British transphobes harassing people based on presumed sex interacts with the UK's shiny new law against [checks notes] "sex-based harassment".

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · last wk.

They're coming for your children www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/jk-r...

JBN for a Facebook based site called Jewish Breaking News aimed at radicalising Jews into Islamophobia, which is just considered fine and not something that should lead to counterextremism measures.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last wk.

The "Wall Street Journal" has a column accusing Mayor Mamdani of antisemitism, and they've chosen to illustrate it with just about the most blatantly Islamophobic illustration of Mamdani one could find. This is the equivalent of illustrating a Jewish politician with moneybags and puppet strings.

The "Wall Street Journal" has a column accusing Mayor Mamdani of antisemitism, and they've chosen to illustrate it with just about the most blatantly Islamophobic illustration of Mamdani one could find. This is the equivalent of illustrating a Jewish politician with moneybags and puppet strings.

Trump take تَبُّولَة.

Whitney Curry Wimbish@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · last wk.

even worse 😭

More political science that takes advantage of a big political event happening in the middle of survey fieldwork. And the actual finding is interesting in itself: Spain's center-right Partido Popular walking away from a coalition with far-right VOX raised PP support but not VOX support.

Werner Krause@krausewe.bsky.social · 3w ago

New working paper w/ @denis-cohen.bsky.social @rantuna.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com! *Does publicly refusing to cooperate with the far right only strengthen it?* A widespread belief says yes. In this paper, we test it based on a natural experiment from Spain. tinyurl.com/5azkfnas [1/6]

We still have the cultural image that actual Nazis were defeated in the 1940's, and the remaining Nazis are either unemployed basement-dwellers or fringe militias in Idaho. There is still a reluctance by media and business leaders to say openly that the world's wealthiest person is a Nazi.

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · last wk.

The ongoing Musk nazi tweets just have me wondering if corporate boards are even a thing anymore

Remember, only Chinese models can protect you against a cyberattack from OpenAI

cbass@stochasticbrainrot.com · 2w ago

>be me, sam altman >announce evil version of AI for cyberwar >inadvertently attack open model site >guy I hired yells in public abt dangerous chinese AI is >hacked org can't secure themselves with US AI (isn't a member of the elect), has to turn to chinese AI >have to admit role in attack >mfw

In the first image Elon "pedo guy" Musk is replying with "Deal with traitors first, then invaders" to @visegrad24, a far-right account that Musk personally had un-suspended after it was auto-suspended for posting imagery of, in Musk's words, a "poor kid in Afghanistan being sodomized with a stick".

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.

Elon Musk: "deal with traitors first then invaders" (June 29th), having endorsed the message with a picture of shooting on June 28th x.com/elonmusk/sta...

This kind of Elites™-coming-after-me-is-actually-Elites™-coming-after-you bullshit deserved mockery coming from e.g. Trump, and it deserves mockery coming from Haley Stevens.

Howard Mortman@howardmortman.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Cool kids on the Internet. They're doing the cool kid chatter. Some of 'em might be the coastal elites, making fun of how I talk. But let's be real. They're making fun of Michigan. They're thinking they're better than us. Their jokes, their criticism, only make me fight harder." -- Haley Stevens

Mmmmm I'm gonna stick my neck out and suggest that tankies have actually been responsible for fewer foreign-policy boners than The Blob.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2w ago

But also however bad you think The Blob is, the tankies are worse. You thought it couldn't get worse than The Blob and got Pete Hegseth for your sins. The tankies will go exactly the same way. Actually foreign policy is hard and does not get easier for gullible fools.

Never stop asking why Trump’s personal lawyer is covering up the crime of withholding the Epstein files.

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.

Guy resorting to UPPERCASE YELLING about how millions of people can't do a Simple Math Problem as well as him treats half the vote share as equivalent to "Half this country".

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2w ago

THIS IS ABOUT RESPONDENTS TO A POLL. You are allowed to say many people are idiots! Half this country elected Donald Trump for god’s sake! “The masses are dumb” is not the same thing as personally insulting people by name.

The editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

At one point she notes that AfD, the German political party that Musk supports, has "real neo-Nazis." Musk literally just shrugs.

Private equity again! "The company was founded in the 1980s with private-equity money from Bain Capital, and the private-equity firm maintained ownership over it from 2008 to 2013. [...] Eight of the ten largest child-care companies in the country are owned by private equity".

Bryce Covert@brycecovert.bsky.social · 2w ago

A Manhattan Bright Horizons childcare center was charged with horrific child abuse last year. I spent months figuring out how this could have happened at an expensive, ubiquitous, corporate brand and uncovered many other deeply troubling problems at the chain: www.thecut.com/article/brig...

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Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · 2w ago

Support For Abolishing ICE: All: Support: 48% Oppose: 40% Support Among: DEM: 73% IND: 48% GOP: 24% YouGov / July 20, 2026

Always interesting when online posters/creators quantify the impact of different choices. YouTube must be the biggest platform in the world to offer its users routine multi-armed bandit A/B testing.

Alanah Pearce@alanahpearce.bsky.social · 2w ago

it happened again (vaguest title always wins by a significant margin, it sucks lol)

A year after the Online Safety Act, British regulator Ofcom confirms its age-verification regulations haven't stopped kids from accessing porn — despite widespread industry compliance. "Our research shows that almost half of the pornography services visited by children have no age checks in place"

Use of Age Assurance Report 2026

This report assesses how sites and apps use age checks to protect children from online harm.

ofcom.org.uk

So Andy Burnham's wife is getting endless nasty comments for having a body. I bet the "women's rights movement" that is heavily made up of trans-exclusive columnists who claim to be defending women are right on that. Yeah?

When I was in the US for uni, the BBC were doing vox pops about the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. As a poli-sci major, I briefly went into why this would be a disaster, and then was stopped by the reporter, who (rather politely) went "I agree w/ you, but we can't use that, it's too critical"

"Bloodless Quant" may have escaped containment!

Pandemic 𓅃. Index@panaccindex.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨 NEW: Understanding Emily Oster's Calmmongering Just why does the billionaire backed, self-described "CEO" of a blog want you to stop caring about outbreaks of disease caused by contaminated food? Let's find out. 👇 READ, SHARE, SUBSCRIBE: www.panaccindex.info/p/understand...

Cybertruck vs Ford Edsel sales. (Note: the U.S. population in 1960 was half the size as it is now.)

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 6mo ago

Fewer than 39,000 Cybertrucks were sold in 2024, and just over 20,000 found homes in 2025.