Charles Rubinoff
@charlesrubinoff.bsky.social
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I'm sure doing the drug war will work this time
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I'm sure doing the drug war will work this time
“Eat the rich.”
Many people are saying it.
As a worker in the tourism industry, I’m glad to see it being said here (more palatably, yes). And put in the context of the much larger, systemic problems with American capitalism.
skift.com/2025/08/12/t...
Many people are saying it.
As a worker in the tourism industry, I’m glad to see it being said here (more palatably, yes). And put in the context of the much larger, systemic problems with American capitalism.
skift.com/2025/08/12/t...
The Great American Tourism Shakedown
The U.S. has built a tourism economy designed to extract maximum revenue from every interaction, and it's backfiring spectacularly.
skift.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
“Eat the rich.”
Many people are saying it.
As a worker in the tourism industry, I’m glad to see it being said here (more palatably, yes). And put in the context of the much larger, systemic problems with American capitalism.
skift.com/2025/08/12/t...
Many people are saying it.
As a worker in the tourism industry, I’m glad to see it being said here (more palatably, yes). And put in the context of the much larger, systemic problems with American capitalism.
skift.com/2025/08/12/t...
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I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.
July 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.
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We don’t talk often enough about the Superman issue where, fed up with pedestrian deaths from car collisions, he sets out to try and destroy every car in the city.
July 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
We don’t talk often enough about the Superman issue where, fed up with pedestrian deaths from car collisions, he sets out to try and destroy every car in the city.
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The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI:
It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that
It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that
May 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI:
It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that
It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that
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SV elites: we should use tech and AI to revolutionize education (but their kids go to private schools that don't do this), college isn't important (but their kids go to the best ones), and everyone's jobs can/should be replaced (but not the ones for them or their kids)
AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels.
The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people
The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people
April 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
SV elites: we should use tech and AI to revolutionize education (but their kids go to private schools that don't do this), college isn't important (but their kids go to the best ones), and everyone's jobs can/should be replaced (but not the ones for them or their kids)
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Don't trust "AI" and also realize that the push to have "AI" in everything happened because some tech people wanted to get rich and other tech people didn't want others to get rich without them, and now they've all spent too much money on a bad product and are trying to scramble out of the hole.
Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
arstechnica.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Don't trust "AI" and also realize that the push to have "AI" in everything happened because some tech people wanted to get rich and other tech people didn't want others to get rich without them, and now they've all spent too much money on a bad product and are trying to scramble out of the hole.
The hotel strikes in San Francisco sure have been going on for a long time. Curious how you can help the workers?
As noted by Unite Here hotel workers union, "Joining us on the picket line and donating to the hardship fund are the main things: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
As noted by Unite Here hotel workers union, "Joining us on the picket line and donating to the hardship fund are the main things: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Support Hotel Workers
Hotel workers are demanding that the industry respect our work and settle contracts that are enough to live on. We are ready to do whatever it takes to win a good contract including going on strike. S...
actionnetwork.org
December 6, 2024 at 5:07 AM
The hotel strikes in San Francisco sure have been going on for a long time. Curious how you can help the workers?
As noted by Unite Here hotel workers union, "Joining us on the picket line and donating to the hardship fund are the main things: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
As noted by Unite Here hotel workers union, "Joining us on the picket line and donating to the hardship fund are the main things: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,145!
I am the 0.1%.
I am the 0.1%.
September 16, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,145!
I am the 0.1%.
I am the 0.1%.
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Taxing billionaires out of existence should be a completely mainstream idea in the Democratic Party. The longer it takes to get there, the worse things get.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/confiscate...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/confiscate...
Confiscate Their Money
Taxing billionaires out of existence must become a mainstream idea.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
August 30, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Taxing billionaires out of existence should be a completely mainstream idea in the Democratic Party. The longer it takes to get there, the worse things get.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/confiscate...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/confiscate...
I joined this e-bike movement last year to get my son to school. Since, I’ve encouraged and welcomed others to as well. San Francisco has a decent start, but there is so much room for improvement. Making streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists benefits everyone.
“It’s really time for the city to understand the percentage of transportation that’s happening for children that needs to be considered in design. There is a moral imperative to do it for the future and for these kids.”
'This is not a blip': A quiet movement grows on San Francisco's streets
This "quiet movement" is growing on streets all over the San Francisco Bay Area. And it is not just a blip.
www.sfgate.com
July 29, 2024 at 7:25 PM
I joined this e-bike movement last year to get my son to school. Since, I’ve encouraged and welcomed others to as well. San Francisco has a decent start, but there is so much room for improvement. Making streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists benefits everyone.
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computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong
tech CEOs: let's add it to every product
tech CEOs: let's add it to every product
May 31, 2024 at 10:27 PM
computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong
tech CEOs: let's add it to every product
tech CEOs: let's add it to every product
Eat shit, haters.
The car-brained whiners fail again. On weekends and holidays, this space is for the people. More to come.
You love to see it, @greathighwaypark.bsky.social.
The car-brained whiners fail again. On weekends and holidays, this space is for the people. More to come.
You love to see it, @greathighwaypark.bsky.social.
May 10, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Eat shit, haters.
The car-brained whiners fail again. On weekends and holidays, this space is for the people. More to come.
You love to see it, @greathighwaypark.bsky.social.
The car-brained whiners fail again. On weekends and holidays, this space is for the people. More to come.
You love to see it, @greathighwaypark.bsky.social.
“Protest on campus is part of higher education.”
“…they end up more devoted to order than to justice.”
Read more of the excellent @walkerbragman.bsky.social interview of Yale professor Gregg Gonsalves on the Pro-Palestine student protests.
www.importantcontext.news/p/interview-...
“…they end up more devoted to order than to justice.”
Read more of the excellent @walkerbragman.bsky.social interview of Yale professor Gregg Gonsalves on the Pro-Palestine student protests.
www.importantcontext.news/p/interview-...
INTERVIEW: Yale Professor Speaks Out About Pro-Palestine Student Protests
Important Context interviewed Professor Gregg Gonsalves about the student demonstrations and more.
www.importantcontext.news
May 9, 2024 at 11:07 PM
“Protest on campus is part of higher education.”
“…they end up more devoted to order than to justice.”
Read more of the excellent @walkerbragman.bsky.social interview of Yale professor Gregg Gonsalves on the Pro-Palestine student protests.
www.importantcontext.news/p/interview-...
“…they end up more devoted to order than to justice.”
Read more of the excellent @walkerbragman.bsky.social interview of Yale professor Gregg Gonsalves on the Pro-Palestine student protests.
www.importantcontext.news/p/interview-...
This is an interesting perspective and I appreciate it while being surrounded by cheerleaders for AI.
And when you devalue craftsmanship and expertise, you’re devaluing practice, synthesizing knowledge, experience from living. You’re devaluing humanness and individuality.
April 20, 2024 at 3:15 PM
This is an interesting perspective and I appreciate it while being surrounded by cheerleaders for AI.
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And under current circumstances in the US, it’s really an act of extreme privilege. There are lots of people to whom GOP policies are an existential threat, so choosing not to vote is placing your protest over their well-being.
April 2, 2024 at 8:25 PM
And under current circumstances in the US, it’s really an act of extreme privilege. There are lots of people to whom GOP policies are an existential threat, so choosing not to vote is placing your protest over their well-being.
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Just days after the CDC weakened its COVID isolation guidelines, the White House is suspending its free home rapid test program.
This week is your last chance to order free COVID rapid tests here: special.usps.com/testkits
This week is your last chance to order free COVID rapid tests here: special.usps.com/testkits
March 5, 2024 at 4:14 AM
Just days after the CDC weakened its COVID isolation guidelines, the White House is suspending its free home rapid test program.
This week is your last chance to order free COVID rapid tests here: special.usps.com/testkits
This week is your last chance to order free COVID rapid tests here: special.usps.com/testkits
This is so incredibly accurate.
I think before we get too caught up in what Bluesky should or shouldn’t be we should soberly acknowledge what it is: a retirement home for 2000s forum millennials
February 9, 2024 at 11:02 PM
This is so incredibly accurate.
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Weird how all the "protect the kids" folks who are rabid about banning trans healthcare have absolutely nothing to say about this.
New study finds significantly worse brain damage in adolescent football players than has been previously understood.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
February 6, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Weird how all the "protect the kids" folks who are rabid about banning trans healthcare have absolutely nothing to say about this.
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SFPD has effectively been on strike since 2017. they wont even enforce basic traffic law even tho roads are back to pre pandemic car use and pedestrian deaths are at an all time high. they blame the pandemic but that was just a good excuse for the 1st couple years. not now.
February 3, 2024 at 11:10 AM
SFPD has effectively been on strike since 2017. they wont even enforce basic traffic law even tho roads are back to pre pandemic car use and pedestrian deaths are at an all time high. they blame the pandemic but that was just a good excuse for the 1st couple years. not now.
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I have determined how much “the cybertruck is a stupid, embarrassing failure” content I am willing to consume, and it is infinite
December 12, 2023 at 10:08 PM
I have determined how much “the cybertruck is a stupid, embarrassing failure” content I am willing to consume, and it is infinite
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Richest man in the world wants to jail democratic socialist councillor who doesn’t serve his personal interests.
There needs to be a full-scale assault on the power of billionaires. Otherwise, democracy’s days are numbered.
There needs to be a full-scale assault on the power of billionaires. Otherwise, democracy’s days are numbered.
Elon Musk calls for jailing San Francisco supervisor Dean Preston
Elon Musk said on Friday that Supervisor Dean Preston "should go to jail," the latest in a tirade against the city's only socialist official.
missionlocal.org
September 30, 2023 at 2:29 PM
Richest man in the world wants to jail democratic socialist councillor who doesn’t serve his personal interests.
There needs to be a full-scale assault on the power of billionaires. Otherwise, democracy’s days are numbered.
There needs to be a full-scale assault on the power of billionaires. Otherwise, democracy’s days are numbered.
Helping spread the word for safer San Francisco streets.
August 22, 2023 at 11:21 PM
Helping spread the word for safer San Francisco streets.