Shyam Akash
feelsbadshyam.bsky.social
Shyam Akash
@feelsbadshyam.bsky.social
SWE
Urbanist, Anti-e/acc Aktion
Hard to imagine how we’re gonna unfuck this country when this steaming pile of garbage has a chance of winning and becoming the law of the land. Why don’t we legalize insider trading while we’re at it, after all, why wouldn’t non-public information be subject to the first amendment? 🙄
BREAKING: RealPage is suing New York, challenging a new state law that bans landlords from using algorithms to set rents.

RealPage claims that its software, which landlords have used to collude on rents, is protected by the First Amendment.
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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I'm tired of responding to bad-faith MAGA outrage, which always distracts corporate media, centrists, & those who feel they must indulge their temper tantrums.

They're blaming all of us now for the National Guard shooting.

Just say:

"Fuck Off, Release the Epstein Files, and Happy Thanksgiving."
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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People are talking about ultras on twitter having backlash towards Zohran's "pivots" (positions he had on day 1 of his campaign) but in truth there is no backlash. Before the election, Musk changed the algo so attacks against Zohran from all sides would float to the top and be liked by bots.
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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These Megan Kelly clips are pretty good proof that a lot of people have gotten much much much worse over the last 10 years
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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I fuckin hate AI, if I catch one more person posting generative content, I'm gonna skin them alive (in Minecraft). 😇

I was planning on upgrading my PC, and the fuckin DDR5 ram costs skyrocketed in a few days because of AI, FUCK.
November 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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basically a trojan horse for panoptic totalitarianism, a fully automated surveillance state -- but with the the only real goal being wealth and power for a handful of oligarchs and their governing enablers.

No motivation to solve any actual societal problems.
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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part of the AI "race" is US vs China, but there it's less about model sophistication and more about implementation. The idea that the US falls behind if we can't ram it down everyone's throats and hand these companies the keys to large parts of our government and civil society.
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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“It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Months ago, we did this deep dive episode desperately trying to sound the alarm about this impending disaster. The story was totally ignored by the national press, including liberal/Democratic media outlets.

It’s enraging that literally everything we warned about is now happening. Everything.
Why Your Health Insurance Could Explode Next Year
A perfect storm is coming for Obamacare in 2026.
www.levernews.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Here’s the thing about healthcare premiums about to skyrocket: they will never come back down, short of a complete overhaul of our system for universal healthcare. Which clearly won’t happen bc of all the money tied up between health and politics.
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
MS recently changed the UI of the Outlook desktop client. Mail content is now deliberately poorly-sized, and right above the content pane they've placed a button to request an AI summary. The dark patterns they're jumping through to get us to use AI is making me go insane.
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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“It's a boon for shareholders. It's a boon for militarism. It's a clear negative for ecological & climate goals.” — @triofrancos.bsky.social

Listen back to the recording of our launch event via @macrodosepod.bsky.social!

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Just going to save this to use as a reaction image whenever someone comes out as trans
November 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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The robber barons of America are going to do everything they can to destroy Mamdani.

They will follow the SF playbook: they will run wedge campaigns, pay PR firms, manipulate social media, encourage cop work slowdowns then crow about crime, and run impeachment campaigns.
crying, screaming, throwing up
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Folks, saying ABOLISH ICE isn't hard. Quite easy. The water is warm here. Jump in. Mainstream it. People will follow.
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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“They have no idea how tough we are.”
October 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Counterpoint: they're right to be scared. They don't live on some immortal plane of existence. They probably see the NSA reports of how much people hate them.
November 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Israel’s Defence Minister is accusing the IDF’s top lawyer of spreading blood libel because the lawyer leaked a video of IDF soldiers raping a Palestinian prisoner

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israeli military's top lawyer resigns over leak of video allegedly showing abuse of Palestinian detainee
Maj Gen Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was facing an investigation into how the video at a detention facility holding detainees from Gaza was leaked last year.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society

also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.
Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...
October 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM