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Davey

@historicaloracle.bsky.social

Actual lol

Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 19h

imagine how much harder the post would have hit if Elon knew who Joyce Carol Oates was

November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM

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Patrick Cosmos

@veryimportant.lawyer

@trillbrodude.bsky.social
Doc Rivers on his deathbed: I blew all those 3-1 leads because of a betting scandal that I was involved in. You just never heard about it. It's not because I was a bad coach. Write that down.
October 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM

November 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM

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George Monbiot

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough.

BBC Newsnight mock-up of Jeremy Corbyn as a Bolshevik revolutionary, in the style of a Soviet propaganda poster.

November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM

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Margot Finn

@eicathomefinn.bsky.social

A puff piece that relentlessly refuses to adduce actual evidence or to consider that any aspect of 'the other side' might have any virtue. Why publish this superficial guff? The topic deserves much better.

Universities risk irrelevance by failing to engage fully with AI

It is difficult to think of another sector that has so dismally failed to strategically engage with the transformative potential of IT, says Ian Richardson

www.timeshighereducation.com

November 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM

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Snowjob

@snowjob.bsky.social

Pelosi: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find Congressional Leadership That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’

November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM

Davey

@historicaloracle.bsky.social

I forget where I heard it, but I came across someone arguing that the managerial class loves AI for (among other reasons) its promise to take over moral decisions, and I think they were 100% right

(They also hate their workers and customers too)

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23h

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

r/ExpectationVsReality u/Additional-Simple858 • 3d
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Al 'doctor' said my back pain is depression, not a slipped disc. Now physical therapy won't get approved.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM

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Drew McKevitt

@drewmckevitt.bsky.social

My two cents is that at the end of the day, after everything, Senate Democrats identify more with Senate Republicans, and ultimately with Donald Trump, than they will ever identify with you and me

November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM

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Adam Shprintzen

@veghistory.bsky.social

I may actually just spontaneously combust into the ether if someone else makes unsubstantiated claims that AI is inevitable or valuable in education.

November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM

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Matt Gabriele

@profgabriele.com

Americans generally are rising to the moment. Elite leadership are cowards

November 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM

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David Ho

@davidho.bsky.social

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics

The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

www.economist.com

November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM

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Jason Koebler

@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.

November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM

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David Lawton

@davidlawton.bsky.social

After teaching today one of my students said they'd found a meme which summarised our lesson. I don't know if this is the point I was trying to make about epistemology but it made me laugh

November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM

Davey

@historicaloracle.bsky.social

This was pretty predictable!

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.

November 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM

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Ian Dunt

@iandunt.bsky.social

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

news.sky.com

November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM

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Nils Gilman

@nilsgilman.bsky.social

"Any discussion of Cheney's works must begin with the 2021 assessment of Brown University’s Costs of War Project that found, conservatively, that the War on Terror killed between 897,000 and 929,000 people across five of its battlefields." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies

As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in US history.

www.thenation.com

November 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM

Davey

@historicaloracle.bsky.social

Part of OpenAI's pitch was that they needed to develop AGI first because otherwise it might fall into the "wrong hands," like China. So this prompted massive investment into the technology, which no had been contemplating, but which may bring about exactly what they claimed to be preventing

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 5d

NVIDIA’S JENSEN HUANG SAYS CHINA ‘WILL WIN’ AI RACE WITH US: FT

November 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM

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derek van vliet

@derek.bike

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

guy said, “Do you like Marx?”

I said, “I haven’t met him.”

Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.”

“Wow, what happened?”

“No, no, he died long ago.”

I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?”

“No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.”

I said, “Sounds amazing.”

I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.

BS: The FBI.

MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM

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Nothings Monstered

@nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social

Mads-Schubert

www.tumblr.com/mads-schuber...

Illustration in green and black

IT'S PUNK TO CARE

a skeleton with a mohawk wearing a spiked leather jacket is holding an armful of bunnies and further captioned on the bottom:
"Rebellion for its own sake is the behavior of children. fight for the downtrodden, minorities, and for the betterment of all"

May 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin.com

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People

“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”

www.teenvogue.com

November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM

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Michael Caley

@michaelcaley.bsky.social

this, to me, is the core story of the election

in the primary, voters in central Brooklyn, and Southeast Queens supported Cuomo by large margins

but in the general, they voted for Zohran by double digits

Cuomo's inability to hold on to the moderate Democratic base cost him the election

November 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM

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Nick Lloyd

@spaincivilwartours.bsky.social

Great poster. "The art of Spain is an objective of the fascist aviation". From the remarkable archive of @craiubpavello.bsky.social in Barcelona
t.co/7ei2oNPx5a

November 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM

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Alissa Walker

@awalkerinla.bsky.social

*taps sign*

Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · Jun 26

Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets.

He'll make a great mayor

In February, 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was crossing the intersection of Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria with her mother and sister when the driver of a 2021 Ford Explorer blew through a stop sign, striking and killing Dolma. One month later, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez visited the crash site with other officials, met with community members demanding a traffic signal be installed, and promised to make changes to the street - including "daylighting"
the intersection using curb extensions and plastic bollards. State assemblymember Zohran Mamdani also visited the scene that day and realized that something else needed to change. "When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City," he said, "you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars - namely, bigger SUVs and trucks - are more likely to kill a 7-year-old. This is why Mamdani is co- introducing legislation for a weight-based vehicle-registration fee
intended to discourage people from purchasing heavier vehicles. "The car industry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles," he says. "The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles
come with a certain kind of cost."

soar above adult shoulders. But there may be another way to disincentivize the purchases of such vehicles, says Edwards. "One other potential idea would be for someone, maybe a city's DOT, to start keeping a list of the different makes and models of vehicles that are killing pedestrians and cyclists, or kids specifically, and post that publicly," he says. "That could bring awareness to which cars are more dangerous and also potentially affect insurance rates,
which would possibly convince people not to buy certain cars." There's a bit of accountability in New York's bill, which would
require the State DOT to track all fatal crashes by vehicle weight. But the other encouraging aspect of the proposal is that the collected fees stay local, by county, and, after the annual dedications to highway, bridge, and transit trust funds are met, a full 75 percent of the funds raised will go toward safety
improvements like bike lanes, bollards, road diets, pedestrianization of streets, and raised crosswalks. This means the neighborhoods most impacted by large vehicles are likely to see the biggest changes. And that might be the most important part of the legislation, says Mamdani. "This is an initiative to make our streets safer for our children," he says. "And we are making sure a significant portion of this funding goes toward creating the very
streetscapes that we know will save their lives."

November 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM

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tamara nopper

@tamaranopper.bsky.social

In the intro issue of New Left Review, Stuart Hall noted, “The humanist strengths of socialism—which are the foundations for a genuinely popular socialist movement—must be developed in cultural and social terms, as well as in economic and political.“

Zohran Kwame Mamdani‘s campaign got the point!

November 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM