Saganomics
@saganomics.bsky.social
Hey I'm Mitch, some guy with an engineering degree, a construction job, a lot of cats and a house full of projects that's a local Democratic chair.
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As we roll into an actually snowy Christmas Eve here, I put up the porch lights. We didn't do as many this year, we've been too busy and we passed on the cat and rooftop Santa figures, but we still did respectably I think. The new heat pump condenser changes things a bit, but not too much.
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Happy New Year! We're looking forward to kicking it off soon with our annual meeting on Saturday, January 31!
Hope to see you there!
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Progressive Mass 2026 Annual Member Meeting
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January 2, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Happy New Year! We're looking forward to kicking it off soon with our annual meeting on Saturday, January 31!
Hope to see you there!
#mapoli
actionnetwork.org/events/progr...
Hope to see you there!
#mapoli
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who is the “vulnerable house democrat” going into the 2026 midterms?
This is just sickening. Back when people were saying "Primary every Democrat," we should have stuck with that
January 5, 2026 at 4:11 PM
who is the “vulnerable house democrat” going into the 2026 midterms?
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Yeah again, not telling you how to post but the number of people I see both enthusiastically celebrating “running off” someone and decrying people still being on X is not zero. You gotta choose guys!
I find it hard to square the preciousness about "why would someone ever stay on Twitter?" when everyone on this site knows that the community here intentionally chased off lots of people.
January 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Yeah again, not telling you how to post but the number of people I see both enthusiastically celebrating “running off” someone and decrying people still being on X is not zero. You gotta choose guys!
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“Someone got canceled on BlueSky for saying that the oil Trump is trying to steal from Venezuela is sludge” sounds like a joke people on X would tell about BlueSky, and yet it actually happened
I find it hard to square the preciousness about "why would someone ever stay on Twitter?" when everyone on this site knows that the community here intentionally chased off lots of people.
January 5, 2026 at 8:27 PM
“Someone got canceled on BlueSky for saying that the oil Trump is trying to steal from Venezuela is sludge” sounds like a joke people on X would tell about BlueSky, and yet it actually happened
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Will Stancil also does not have not bizarre politics, he is a bog-standard progressive who takes it seriously and is also way too online, it is *extremely weird* that this is considered beyond the pale of comprehension by the pop-left posting class.
Karl is still out there defending his posts in the comments now.
January 5, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Will Stancil also does not have not bizarre politics, he is a bog-standard progressive who takes it seriously and is also way too online, it is *extremely weird* that this is considered beyond the pale of comprehension by the pop-left posting class.
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we also really need to prevent the mindset that posting is a form of political action, short of actually going outside, because so many people think aggro'ing enemies online is the same as building a public, imo
tbc i’m not endorsing this model but it’s as Sharon says: the natural cost of short-form communication in a forum with immense reach.
the fact that this reach spans conflicting ideologies and different languages makes the problem worse, even without the pressure cooker of current events.
the fact that this reach spans conflicting ideologies and different languages makes the problem worse, even without the pressure cooker of current events.
i think it's just the dynamics of short-form microblogging in general tbh. people find it a lot easier to misread things on here or aggro people they wouldn't do on other platforms
January 5, 2026 at 3:27 AM
we also really need to prevent the mindset that posting is a form of political action, short of actually going outside, because so many people think aggro'ing enemies online is the same as building a public, imo
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if you didn't immediately clock this as AI within 2 seconds of seeing it out of the corner of your eye you're ngmi
This video, viewed millions of times on TikTok, Facebook and X, claims to show Venezuelans taking to the street to thank the US for detaining Maduro.
But the video is a combination of four AI-generated clips and was first posted on TikTok by a user who frequently shares AI videos. It's not real.
But the video is a combination of four AI-generated clips and was first posted on TikTok by a user who frequently shares AI videos. It's not real.
January 5, 2026 at 12:56 AM
if you didn't immediately clock this as AI within 2 seconds of seeing it out of the corner of your eye you're ngmi
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actually knowing how things work is pretty important! one of the single best things about social media is learning how things work from people who have domain experience and expertise! it helps you understand the world you live in!
if you call for doxxing someone *who you then go on to misgender* because they offered an explanation of something *that is not an endorsement*, i don't think you should be allowed to use this website, and if you follow someone who does that, i think worse of you as a person [sad trombone noise]
January 5, 2026 at 3:08 AM
actually knowing how things work is pretty important! one of the single best things about social media is learning how things work from people who have domain experience and expertise! it helps you understand the world you live in!
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just QTing this to emphasize that no, this is not okay (the screenshot’s behavior toward Sky), and no, yelling at Americans is not praxis, it will not help, and I’m not going to self flagellate and say i’m okay with it because i want my country back, not to feel morally superior
January 4, 2026 at 9:20 PM
just QTing this to emphasize that no, this is not okay (the screenshot’s behavior toward Sky), and no, yelling at Americans is not praxis, it will not help, and I’m not going to self flagellate and say i’m okay with it because i want my country back, not to feel morally superior
Among tolls of Bush's invasion of Iraq, along with the last two decades of regional chaos and many thousands of people killed, is destroying the left of center’s ability to discuss foreign policy and international affairs through any new lens. And the oil lens wasn't even entirely accurate for Iraq.
The amount of “this is clearly about oil” posting across all platforms as story after story comes out where the oil industry is saying that the oil isn’t worth extracting is making me feel a little insane
January 4, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Among tolls of Bush's invasion of Iraq, along with the last two decades of regional chaos and many thousands of people killed, is destroying the left of center’s ability to discuss foreign policy and international affairs through any new lens. And the oil lens wasn't even entirely accurate for Iraq.
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taking this stupid, tortured analogy seriously for a moment, the american people gave the republican party an exclusive two-year contract to handle extermination duties. you're mad at the exterminator you didn't hire because they're not doing the job you hired someone else to do.
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
January 4, 2026 at 6:23 PM
taking this stupid, tortured analogy seriously for a moment, the american people gave the republican party an exclusive two-year contract to handle extermination duties. you're mad at the exterminator you didn't hire because they're not doing the job you hired someone else to do.
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Compare this to Biden leaving Afghanistan & think about what the incentives are for every American politician
everyone on the tv wants you to know that this is good actually
January 4, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Compare this to Biden leaving Afghanistan & think about what the incentives are for every American politician
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one reason people are already talking themselves into dumb conspiracies about why this is happening is because the actual reality is extremely hard to wrap your brain around
OH MY FUCKING GOD THEY HAVE NO PLAN
January 4, 2026 at 12:21 AM
one reason people are already talking themselves into dumb conspiracies about why this is happening is because the actual reality is extremely hard to wrap your brain around
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I would be much less offended by this if they weren’t saying it mockingly and sarcastically in defense of a regime diametrically opposed to America and its values of liberty, equality, and the rule of law, trampling them out under DHS’s jackboots
Incredible. CBS Evening News announces five new “simple values” — instead of their “38-page handbook” — as they roll out Tony Dokoupil is lead anchor.
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
January 3, 2026 at 4:52 AM
I would be much less offended by this if they weren’t saying it mockingly and sarcastically in defense of a regime diametrically opposed to America and its values of liberty, equality, and the rule of law, trampling them out under DHS’s jackboots
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The "rule of law" part is particularly galling from a program under the direction of a person who spiked a story about the foreign gulag where never charged migrants were sent in defiance of a court order.
Incredible. CBS Evening News announces five new “simple values” — instead of their “38-page handbook” — as they roll out Tony Dokoupil is lead anchor.
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
January 2, 2026 at 10:00 PM
The "rule of law" part is particularly galling from a program under the direction of a person who spiked a story about the foreign gulag where never charged migrants were sent in defiance of a court order.
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This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
January 2, 2026 at 8:02 PM
This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
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I hate this phrasing and how it buys into what is essentially a falsehood about the autonomy of chatbots that is RIGHT NOW deforming our entire law and society. Grok doesn't say anything. That's like saying 'Microsoft Word apologized for losing everyone's files'
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X
Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements ...
www.reuters.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:53 PM
I hate this phrasing and how it buys into what is essentially a falsehood about the autonomy of chatbots that is RIGHT NOW deforming our entire law and society. Grok doesn't say anything. That's like saying 'Microsoft Word apologized for losing everyone's files'
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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getting a variety of people who want to blame Democratic leaders for this and with due respect that is a completely insane reaction to the Republican President trying to incite pogroms
January 2, 2026 at 6:47 PM
getting a variety of people who want to blame Democratic leaders for this and with due respect that is a completely insane reaction to the Republican President trying to incite pogroms
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i'm really having a hard time getting past the "surely we can all agree that Somalis are worse than trash" thing. this feels new and very bad
January 2, 2026 at 3:36 PM
i'm really having a hard time getting past the "surely we can all agree that Somalis are worse than trash" thing. this feels new and very bad
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It still astonishes me that Curtis Sliwa, lifelong New Yorker, just looked at Mamdani and went, "Yeah, NYC has a long history of socialism. Look at David Dinkins. I disagree but it's not unexpected" while these people just went absolutely insane.
Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment
January 2, 2026 at 3:33 PM
It still astonishes me that Curtis Sliwa, lifelong New Yorker, just looked at Mamdani and went, "Yeah, NYC has a long history of socialism. Look at David Dinkins. I disagree but it's not unexpected" while these people just went absolutely insane.
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I try to be empathetic and understanding about how challenging it is to accurately report on AI stuff in 2026 but whoever wrote this headline is small-child-level credulous in the old fashioned way
Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children
Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children
Users on X raised concerns over explicit content of minors being generated using Musk's Grok tool.
cnb.cx
January 2, 2026 at 11:21 PM
I try to be empathetic and understanding about how challenging it is to accurately report on AI stuff in 2026 but whoever wrote this headline is small-child-level credulous in the old fashioned way
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who's been warning about ChatGPT's role in the 2026 midterms for months
In the last half of 2025, the President of OpenAI donated $25 million to the SuperPAC MAGA, Inc — the single largest contributor
January 3, 2026 at 3:20 AM
who's been warning about ChatGPT's role in the 2026 midterms for months
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wow, what kind of vested interest could Matt Taibbi have had in Cuomo winning? now to take a big swig of vodka and read his book about his time in Moscow.
Matt Taibbi has been melting down over Zohran Mamdani saying "collectivism" and now he's comparing Mamdani to Stalin.
January 3, 2026 at 3:46 AM
wow, what kind of vested interest could Matt Taibbi have had in Cuomo winning? now to take a big swig of vodka and read his book about his time in Moscow.
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The whole "Grok admits" "Grok apologizes" thing reminds me of the famous IBM presentation quote that evidently everyone has forgotten. And I do think representing your brand on social media counts as a "management decision".
January 2, 2026 at 11:54 PM
The whole "Grok admits" "Grok apologizes" thing reminds me of the famous IBM presentation quote that evidently everyone has forgotten. And I do think representing your brand on social media counts as a "management decision".
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so what do you think ChatGPT will say when ten million people ask it who they should vote for next year
December 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
so what do you think ChatGPT will say when ten million people ask it who they should vote for next year