I'm about as addicted to Marvel as a man can be, I cannot say no to the MCU, even the bits I hate, and I *love* way way way more of it than I hate. But damn, the little additions in Endgame Encore feel really insulting to the audience. Most of Doomsday's production feels insulting, tbh. *sigh*

This is a good breakdown of the many wrong assumptions in anger at trans ppl upset with Dem transphobia. "All they have are “vibes” that Democrats will likely be better off without trans people supposedly “weighing them down.”

Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...

Good piece. "On two of the other hands, though, it is in Anthropic’s interest both to illustrate how powerful its own software is said to be, and to demonstrate that they’re aware of possible misuse cases and have been trying to mitigate them"

Derek Lowe@dereklowe.bsky.social · 2d ago

Thoughts on Anthropic’s worries about people accessing Claude for possible bioweapons design:

There is no Republican "split" with Trump. It's catnip for access media, but the desperate ploy to align with the supermajority of voters who can't stand the president is tissue-thin. The same people saying the Iran war needs to end voted yesterday to keep it going. #Realtalk here.

Republicans Had 690 Days to Oppose Trump - The American Prospect

They’re trying to cram all the opposition into the last 40 before the election.

prospect.org

This is what happens when you dump an inconceivable amount of money on a demographic of people who are thoroughly convinced that regulations are Stalinism and that their Roomba has a soul

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

The Independent@the-independent.com · 2d ago

An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet

Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 2d ago

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

As someone with AuDHD, this can mean the difference between life or suicide. And they just decided people can wait *at least* 2 years. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments

Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses

theguardian.com

I did my part, will you do yours? Vote in #FatBearWeek 🫡🐻 explore.org/fat-bear-week

“And that, my friends, is the new climate denialism to a tee, with an Orwellian spin on ‘sustainability’ and utter defeatism with respect to how to jointly tackle the affordability and climate crises.”

Seth Klein@sethdklein.bsky.social · 2d ago

Is Prime Minister Carney a climate denier? My latest: sethdklein.substack.com/p/is-prime-m...

"half the news cycle is yud refusing to read a book" 💯

Joe Bak-Coleman@jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 6d ago

I don’t mean this to be cruel, but there’s just too much air being taken up by people with media or tech backgrounds who think their hot take on consciousness with LLMs is new, and lord it has all been done before and we’re past that. Christ, half the news cycle is yud refusing to read a book.

I had plans for tomorrow night, but I apparently forgot to record what, where, and when, and now I'm left with nothing but the faint memory that I'm supposed to do *something* tomorrow night. This is why I need a secretary, a butler, an assistant and two interns.

Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.

We have *six days* left until the Academy of Natural Sciences, North America's oldest Natural History museum, is scheduled to close it's doors. Here are *six reasons* why we cannot - and will not- let that happen.

There are a lot of people, from the ring-wing through the centre and (sadly) even to the left, who define "working class" as "white cis het male with anger issues," making only occasional exceptions for individuals that don't meet one (maybe two) of those five criteria.

Bonta just handed the American movie and TV sector to two of the most odious creeps to draw breath, surrendering without firing a shot.

Happy Oligarch Day as Trump-Aligned Billionaires Take Over Hollywood

It’s a good day to be an oligarch. CNN, CBS, HBO, Paramount, Warner Brothers, and a host of other properties will now be under the control of Larry Ellison, who also owns Oracle and TikTok.

thebignewsletter.com

I do worry about upcoming generations of voters having been inculcated with the idea that the president is the sole arbiter of the economy, having witnessed the "unitary executive" nonsense go unchallenged, and becoming normalised to open corruption...

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 2w ago

I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs

This is incredible nitter.app/banteg/statu... H/t @gregdoucette.bsky.social

AI taking jobs away from Colin Powell :(

Kieran Healy@kjhealy.co · last wk.

That’s a load-bearing assumption, Dr Strangelove. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

Katelyn Burns put such a fine point on this: The guy financing the trans bashing is the dirtiest data center guy alive. These Democrats are refusing to seize the wedge issue of our time while propping up that data center dick terrorizing his own daughter!

The Data Center Guy Wants This Election to be About Trans People

Elon Musk obviously hates trans people, but let's not pretend he has nothing to gain personally from a Republican win this fall

burnsnotice.com

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · last wk.

Again, there is clear evidence a data center moratorium would peel far more votes away from the GOP than the 10-15 (not thousand, literally 10-15 total) who might switch over this same crowd’s demand to betray queer people. It’s malpractice that the party won’t ditch these professional losers.

Is there a conspiracy theory RFK Jr doesn't believe in?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

RFK Jr: "We are also looking at chemtrails"

💯 Good thread.

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · last wk.

I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...

For my newsletter, I wrote about how we shouldn't ignore that a billionaire trying to build data centers is putting a hundred million into Republican anti-trans ads in these midterms. www.burnsnotice.com/the-data-cen...

The Data Center Guy Wants This Election to be About Trans People

Elon Musk obviously hates trans people, but let's not pretend he has nothing to gain personally from a Republican win this fall

burnsnotice.com

The fact that Musk himself is sponsoring so many of the anti-trans ads this cycle presents a pretty golden opportunity for Dems to point out that of course the guy who literally wants to build a gas-powered data center in your backyard wants this election to be about trans people.

I found the second best version of The Odyssey after Wishbone

trans people are by and large the working class. we get paid less than cis people overall (trans men make less than cis women, and trans women make less than everyone). we face housing and job discrimination. when will the conmentariat get this into their goddamned heads

rose@breadnrosie.bsky.social · 2w ago

i think it should be more commented on that jacobin put out a 57 page report that basically says candidates need to moderate on social issues, in particular trans rights

🧵CO₂ removal (CDR) is back in the news, but just because the UNEP report says we need CDR, it doesn't mean we'll have CDR. Many challenges will take decades of research and negotiation to solve. Here are some examples: Technological: We currently don't have any durable CDR method that scales.

It is, to put it mildly, quite difficult to govern a society which has no shared conception of objective reality The government should be more concerned about this than it is

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 2w ago

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It's important to recognize that the ads aimed at young girls are training them to accept subordination -- you're nothing unless men approve of you, etc. -- whereas capitalism preys on young men by telling them they COULD and SHOULD be totally dominant, but that rightful status is being withheld.

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2w ago

But it feels like the way advertising and capitalism preys upon young men has a different form. Whereas those ads for women and girls focus solely on these unrealistic expectations, the big predator industries are things like pornography, sports betting and video games. All those feel more escapist