The Infinitely Prolonged
@wowbaggert.bsky.social
he/him/his
Either way - patriot or treason
it's gonna be one long hard ride
- Melissa Etheridge
Either way - patriot or treason
it's gonna be one long hard ride
- Melissa Etheridge
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"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations"
- Corey Doctorow
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
- Corey Doctorow
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
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If anyone in town is willing to Dumpster-dive for this stuff I'll pay you to ship it to me.
The Trump administration is shutting NASA's Goddard library down today and things will be archived in a warehouse or "thrown away."
Much of this material is literally irreplaceable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
Much of this material is literally irreplaceable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:43 PM
If anyone in town is willing to Dumpster-dive for this stuff I'll pay you to ship it to me.
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Something I have started trying to ask - as non-assholish as I can - when someone I know asks an LLM something and gets a completely wrong answer, is, "why do you think it would have that information" -
January 2, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Something I have started trying to ask - as non-assholish as I can - when someone I know asks an LLM something and gets a completely wrong answer, is, "why do you think it would have that information" -
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Stop showing me the Grok “apology” like it matters, like it’s not just a meaningless string of pre-determined output. Stop normalising the idea that software is capable of accepting responsibility in the place of the people who created it.
January 2, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Stop showing me the Grok “apology” like it matters, like it’s not just a meaningless string of pre-determined output. Stop normalising the idea that software is capable of accepting responsibility in the place of the people who created it.
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you think the Revengepornatron9000 produces revenge porn? Dummy, it's actually the greatest invention of our time: it speeds up global warming
January 2, 2026 at 3:28 AM
you think the Revengepornatron9000 produces revenge porn? Dummy, it's actually the greatest invention of our time: it speeds up global warming
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AI companies are playing a game wherein these computer programs are presented to the public as autonomous individuals capable of issuing a meaningful apology. The machine is just a machine. Human beings owe the apology for building the machine irresponsibly and unleashing it on the world.
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
January 2, 2026 at 1:23 AM
AI companies are playing a game wherein these computer programs are presented to the public as autonomous individuals capable of issuing a meaningful apology. The machine is just a machine. Human beings owe the apology for building the machine irresponsibly and unleashing it on the world.
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Guy whose favorite insult is “pedophile” creates giant CSAM machine.
more on the nightmarish situation on X where users are apparently generating non consenting pirnographic imagery & sexual images of minors (csam) using xAI’s Grok. Musk merged xAI and X (fka twitter) last year.
January 2, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Guy whose favorite insult is “pedophile” creates giant CSAM machine.
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Tapping the sign so hard I'm about to put a finger through it
January 2, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Tapping the sign so hard I'm about to put a finger through it
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Hi, I’m Dani Sterbinsky, and I’m running for Congress in AZs 9th District, against Paul Gosar.
I’m a veteran who believes our government should work the way good teams do—by listening, collaborating, and solving problems.
Please sign to help get me on the ballot:
👉https://go.azsos.gov/267p
I’m a veteran who believes our government should work the way good teams do—by listening, collaborating, and solving problems.
Please sign to help get me on the ballot:
👉https://go.azsos.gov/267p
December 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Hi, I’m Dani Sterbinsky, and I’m running for Congress in AZs 9th District, against Paul Gosar.
I’m a veteran who believes our government should work the way good teams do—by listening, collaborating, and solving problems.
Please sign to help get me on the ballot:
👉https://go.azsos.gov/267p
I’m a veteran who believes our government should work the way good teams do—by listening, collaborating, and solving problems.
Please sign to help get me on the ballot:
👉https://go.azsos.gov/267p
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Plantation Owner Explains "If I had to pay them a livable wage, my business wouldn't be viable."
January 2, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Plantation Owner Explains "If I had to pay them a livable wage, my business wouldn't be viable."
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
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Revisit one of our most-read stories of 2025:
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate became the DHS official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
(Published June 2025)
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate became the DHS official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
(Published June 2025)
“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
www.propublica.org
January 2, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Revisit one of our most-read stories of 2025:
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate became the DHS official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
(Published June 2025)
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate became the DHS official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
(Published June 2025)
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what’s happening with grok and nudity spam requests should be a global wake up call about AI image gen and instead very few media outlets have even covered it yet
January 2, 2026 at 12:48 AM
what’s happening with grok and nudity spam requests should be a global wake up call about AI image gen and instead very few media outlets have even covered it yet
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one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!
It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.
January 2, 2026 at 12:45 AM
one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!
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The Hunt family is worth roughly $25 billion. More than 120 studies show public subsidies for stadiums are a net loss for taxpayers. | Opinion
Kansans never voted to move the Chiefs, and Arrowhead Stadium is KC’s heart | Opinion
The Hunt family is worth roughly $25 billion. More than 120 studies show public subsidies for stadiums are a net loss for taxpayers. | Opinion
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January 2, 2026 at 12:01 AM
The Hunt family is worth roughly $25 billion. More than 120 studies show public subsidies for stadiums are a net loss for taxpayers. | Opinion
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In 2025 billionaires went from controlling the government to being the government and they still can't stop crying all the time
January 1, 2026 at 10:38 PM
In 2025 billionaires went from controlling the government to being the government and they still can't stop crying all the time
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For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok.
Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.
Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
January 2, 2026 at 12:53 AM
For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok.
Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.
Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.
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The way we need to market this shit is to do what conservatives did for the past 30 years and write books like “The ten forbidden truths you’re not allowed to say on politically correct tv” and then it’s just cities are mostly fine and it’s good to get a flu shot
A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News.
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
January 1, 2026 at 5:04 AM
The way we need to market this shit is to do what conservatives did for the past 30 years and write books like “The ten forbidden truths you’re not allowed to say on politically correct tv” and then it’s just cities are mostly fine and it’s good to get a flu shot
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Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
2026
God, it's creepy. Do we actually have to go in?
January 1, 2026 at 10:03 PM
2026
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Kevin Drum was the first journalist to really get into the ties between lead and crime rates (not just serial killers) and I think it is one of the most important articles we’ve ever done www.motherjones.com/environment/...
January 1, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Kevin Drum was the first journalist to really get into the ties between lead and crime rates (not just serial killers) and I think it is one of the most important articles we’ve ever done www.motherjones.com/environment/...
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Can’t stress enough how universal childcare would almost single-handedly ensure my wife and I stay in New York long-term
January 1, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Can’t stress enough how universal childcare would almost single-handedly ensure my wife and I stay in New York long-term
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if you really want to know why the techbros pressure writers, artists, and other creatives to think ai/llms are inevitable—just have a look at this headline. it’s not just about making a market for a product they spent billions on before it had a commonly desired purpose.
January 1, 2026 at 6:20 PM
if you really want to know why the techbros pressure writers, artists, and other creatives to think ai/llms are inevitable—just have a look at this headline. it’s not just about making a market for a product they spent billions on before it had a commonly desired purpose.
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We just cancelled all federal funding for foreign language & area studies at America’s universities to “save”…$86,000,000:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Trump golfed 1/4 of the days he was president in 2025. Costing US taxpayers to pay his Golf clubs $110,600,000.
January 1, 2026 at 5:45 PM
We just cancelled all federal funding for foreign language & area studies at America’s universities to “save”…$86,000,000:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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#BestOf2025, from @candicebernd.bsky.social: Approximately 40 crypto-mines are operating in the state in 2025, together consuming about 3,200 MWs, enough to power 800,000 homes. The 15 largest operations each consume more than 75 MWs of energy.
The Crypto Racket
Bitcoin mining afflicts locals with noise pollution, threatens water supplies, and receives generous public backing.
www.texasobserver.org
January 1, 2026 at 6:00 PM
#BestOf2025, from @candicebernd.bsky.social: Approximately 40 crypto-mines are operating in the state in 2025, together consuming about 3,200 MWs, enough to power 800,000 homes. The 15 largest operations each consume more than 75 MWs of energy.
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i know politicians listen to rich guys because they're rich but too many of them believe therefore they are smart and lol
January 1, 2026 at 6:36 PM
i know politicians listen to rich guys because they're rich but too many of them believe therefore they are smart and lol