Brian_Bo
@brianbo.bsky.social
This is the #1 reason why you should not listen to any techbro CEO on what AI can/will do.
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 5:52 PM
This is the #1 reason why you should not listen to any techbro CEO on what AI can/will do.
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When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress’ worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
This week at Democracy Docket: The worst voter suppression bill ever passed, and an FBI raid built on conspiracy theories
When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress' worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one.
www.democracydocket.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:53 PM
When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress’ worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
I'm exhausted by terrible topics like this. Somehow they are all threatened by something that parrots what it's been fed via learning. It's a smarter autofill, but still dumb enough that it can't ever scale to what big tech CEO's are hyping. LLM's are just like a hammer and not everything's a nail.
Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg
February 13, 2026 at 5:12 PM
I'm exhausted by terrible topics like this. Somehow they are all threatened by something that parrots what it's been fed via learning. It's a smarter autofill, but still dumb enough that it can't ever scale to what big tech CEO's are hyping. LLM's are just like a hammer and not everything's a nail.
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🎁Gift
Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.
By Lisa Friedman Maxine Joselow www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.
By Lisa Friedman Maxine Joselow www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:26 AM
🎁Gift
Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.
By Lisa Friedman Maxine Joselow www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.
By Lisa Friedman Maxine Joselow www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
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This is an outstanding resource and very clear rundown on a) why Substack is bad because people apparently still need to be spoonfed in 2026 and b) the MYRIAD options to use instead
That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.
You Should Probably Leave Substack
You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.
leavesubstack.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:52 AM
This is an outstanding resource and very clear rundown on a) why Substack is bad because people apparently still need to be spoonfed in 2026 and b) the MYRIAD options to use instead
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The U.S. government and Europe provided illegal thermal weapons to Israel that *evaporated* nearly 3,000 Palestinians according to an Al Jazeera investigation. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:38 AM
The U.S. government and Europe provided illegal thermal weapons to Israel that *evaporated* nearly 3,000 Palestinians according to an Al Jazeera investigation. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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They’ll no longer need to wear masks once we know their identities.
Small European Website Is Exposing US Immigration Agents via @theguardian.com ⬇️
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Small European Website Is Exposing US Immigration Agents via @theguardian.com ⬇️
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE List: the small European website exposing US immigration agents
Netherlands-based site uses public information and tips to reveal identities of agents involved in crackdowns across US
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:27 AM
They’ll no longer need to wear masks once we know their identities.
Small European Website Is Exposing US Immigration Agents via @theguardian.com ⬇️
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Small European Website Is Exposing US Immigration Agents via @theguardian.com ⬇️
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 AM
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
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NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
February 12, 2026 at 3:22 AM
NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
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CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.
CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"
February 11, 2026 at 9:36 PM
CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.
Minnesota is still under violent attack. Do not get apathetic!
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Minnesota is still under violent attack. Do not get apathetic!
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Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency.
She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.
She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.
February 10, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency.
She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.
She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.
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The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau.
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
February 6, 2026 at 6:55 PM
The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau.
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
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I actually don't think the racist post was a distraction. I think it was a "fuck you." But that's just me.
February 6, 2026 at 8:15 PM
I actually don't think the racist post was a distraction. I think it was a "fuck you." But that's just me.
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(FT) - Canada will open a consulate in Greenland on Friday in a show of support for the Arctic island after US threats to take control of the country.
@financialtimes.com 🇨🇦
www.ft.com/content/7c78...
@financialtimes.com 🇨🇦
www.ft.com/content/7c78...
February 6, 2026 at 7:20 PM
(FT) - Canada will open a consulate in Greenland on Friday in a show of support for the Arctic island after US threats to take control of the country.
@financialtimes.com 🇨🇦
www.ft.com/content/7c78...
@financialtimes.com 🇨🇦
www.ft.com/content/7c78...
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The late sex trafficker appears to have had his own personal fixer in Moscow.
Epstein’s Top Secret Relationship With Trained Russian Spy Revealed
The late sex trafficker appears to have had his own personal fixer in Moscow.
trib.al
February 6, 2026 at 7:54 PM
The late sex trafficker appears to have had his own personal fixer in Moscow.
Just in case you were prone to believing the lies coming out of this administration about stepping down their violence in MN.
A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, other countries. n.pr/4qlvIaa
Minneapolis now has daily deportation flights. One man has been documenting them
A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, other countries.
n.pr
February 6, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Just in case you were prone to believing the lies coming out of this administration about stepping down their violence in MN.
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AOC on the Kennedy Center: The renaming is completely illegitimate. All they did was screw some nameplates onto the building. That’s coming right off. Enjoy your name on there for a year or two, but that’s getting ripped right out.
February 6, 2026 at 1:36 AM
AOC on the Kennedy Center: The renaming is completely illegitimate. All they did was screw some nameplates onto the building. That’s coming right off. Enjoy your name on there for a year or two, but that’s getting ripped right out.
Bezos created the darkness that democracy will die within.
“With Amazon’s role in ICE ops under greater scrutiny and Bezos’ dismantling of the organ that once proudly declared itself on being a defender of democracy, it’s worth examining how close Amazon and Trump are—& how closely aligned their projects are”
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-jeff-b...
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-jeff-b...
How Jeff Bezos and Amazon became instruments of authoritarianism
And how to stop them
www.bloodinthemachine.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Bezos created the darkness that democracy will die within.
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AIPAC-aligned super PAC United Democracy Project spent millions to defeat Tom Malinowski for backing conditions on US aid to Israel. They may help elect Analilia Mejia, a more progressive candidate who deems Israel's actions a genocide. (Race is too close to call.) A spectacular own-goal.
February 6, 2026 at 7:33 PM
AIPAC-aligned super PAC United Democracy Project spent millions to defeat Tom Malinowski for backing conditions on US aid to Israel. They may help elect Analilia Mejia, a more progressive candidate who deems Israel's actions a genocide. (Race is too close to call.) A spectacular own-goal.
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo
The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.
www.theverge.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:09 PM
I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
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Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”
February 5, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”
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My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.
After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
February 5, 2026 at 3:10 PM
My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.