Tommaso Sciortino
@sciortino.bsky.social
Dad, Husband, East Bay YIMBY, socdem🧦, founding board member of @eb4everyone, singer/pianist, 🇺🇸🇮🇹🇪🇺, I � Unicode, Gemini CLI Dev
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i think it might be worth banning or heavily restricting LLMs, but doing so by asserting that the commons has always been completely closed and that it is absurd to assert otherwise is contrary both to what the law actually says and to good public policy
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 AM
i think it might be worth banning or heavily restricting LLMs, but doing so by asserting that the commons has always been completely closed and that it is absurd to assert otherwise is contrary both to what the law actually says and to good public policy
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I am pretty sure they think that you could survive by just, like, shoplifting from nature or whatever
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I am pretty sure they think that you could survive by just, like, shoplifting from nature or whatever
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There's a tendency among a certain type of poster to assume everything they hate about politics and the state can be blamed on avarice, and I'm here to tell you it's actually worse than that.
I continue to disagree with this. The goal of mass detention is mass deportations. A private prison company leasing 100 beds to ICE gets paid the same if the beds are filled by 100 people for a year each or 1,000 people for a few days each. They don't earn more with long-term detention.
It's not about deporting them. It's about detaining them indefinitely and enriching Prisons for Profiteers and the grift the Convict in the Oval Office collects per detainee.
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
There's a tendency among a certain type of poster to assume everything they hate about politics and the state can be blamed on avarice, and I'm here to tell you it's actually worse than that.
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In addition to being straight-up Nazi rhetoric, the "undocumented immigrants caused the housing crisis" lie seems designed to drive me, personally, insane.
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
In addition to being straight-up Nazi rhetoric, the "undocumented immigrants caused the housing crisis" lie seems designed to drive me, personally, insane.
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“With great power comes great responsibility” is the core moral of what is fundamentally a famous picture book for children. It is quite naturally far too complex a text for our media betters to comprehend.
“But we are just smol reporters” doesn’t fly at the nation’s largest and most powerful publication.
November 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“With great power comes great responsibility” is the core moral of what is fundamentally a famous picture book for children. It is quite naturally far too complex a text for our media betters to comprehend.
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how about a piece of investigative journalism that accuses a mayoral candidate of fraud based on an application for college he filled out when he was 17 that a neo-Nazi gave the paper because they were racist? you're insulting the intelligence of everyone here to imply this is about standards
I am not defending Landon’s relationship with Epstein. In fact, the NYT didn’t even try to defend it. He left the paper. What I’m saying is that a piece of investigative journalism that exposes a secret, criminal act such as statutory rape requires far more than what is in these emails.
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
how about a piece of investigative journalism that accuses a mayoral candidate of fraud based on an application for college he filled out when he was 17 that a neo-Nazi gave the paper because they were racist? you're insulting the intelligence of everyone here to imply this is about standards
The punishment for everyone in the meeting choosing not to share their video, is that they have to watch my video.
November 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The punishment for everyone in the meeting choosing not to share their video, is that they have to watch my video.
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CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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The filibuster has become a fascinating litmus test of the chasm separating D senators from their voters. It's not just a disagreement. Ending the filibuster is now close to an article of faith among D voters; for the Senators it's like abolishing habeas or trial by jury. Unthinkable, unamerican.
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The filibuster has become a fascinating litmus test of the chasm separating D senators from their voters. It's not just a disagreement. Ending the filibuster is now close to an article of faith among D voters; for the Senators it's like abolishing habeas or trial by jury. Unthinkable, unamerican.
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People in my "progressive" neighborhood NIMBY'd a *senior affordable housing development* into reducing its units from 71 to 41. Just an absolute moral travesty. (Rogerson/Beaufort project in JP)
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
People in my "progressive" neighborhood NIMBY'd a *senior affordable housing development* into reducing its units from 71 to 41. Just an absolute moral travesty. (Rogerson/Beaufort project in JP)
Douthat sits down at his desk, cracks his knuckle, and decides today is the day to write his ten billionth article about liberal decadence.
November 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Douthat sits down at his desk, cracks his knuckle, and decides today is the day to write his ten billionth article about liberal decadence.
Constitutional law courses should make students spend a week writing essays about this bluesky post.
It’s plausible the Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariffs, at least in part, since the majority’s earlier rulings have followed the standard that Trump can break the law whenever he wants except perhaps when doing so causes the Justices, their bribers, and other rich people to lose money.
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Constitutional law courses should make students spend a week writing essays about this bluesky post.
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It’s plausible the Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariffs, at least in part, since the majority’s earlier rulings have followed the standard that Trump can break the law whenever he wants except perhaps when doing so causes the Justices, their bribers, and other rich people to lose money.
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It’s plausible the Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariffs, at least in part, since the majority’s earlier rulings have followed the standard that Trump can break the law whenever he wants except perhaps when doing so causes the Justices, their bribers, and other rich people to lose money.
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Basically, the choice is to have an app where people get in trouble for this kind of thing, or an app where people are constantly making death threats.
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Basically, the choice is to have an app where people get in trouble for this kind of thing, or an app where people are constantly making death threats.
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marx was anti-capitalist in the sense that he longed for what (he thought) would come after; these days it seems many anti-capitalists are anticapitalists insofar as they long for what came before
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
marx was anti-capitalist in the sense that he longed for what (he thought) would come after; these days it seems many anti-capitalists are anticapitalists insofar as they long for what came before
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Well well well, if it isn't the thing literally everyone whose brain is functioning properly saw coming.
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Well well well, if it isn't the thing literally everyone whose brain is functioning properly saw coming.
I support betting markets, but only for this.
Now we enjoy the brief lull between our conservative friends learning about the damning allegations, and their conservative media coming up with an excuse to ignore it.
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I support betting markets, but only for this.
Now we enjoy the brief lull between our conservative friends learning about the damning allegations, and their conservative media coming up with an excuse to ignore it.
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Now we enjoy the brief lull between our conservative friends learning about the damning allegations, and their conservative media coming up with an excuse to ignore it.
I appreciate the dilemma that conservatives find themselves in: Most don't like pedophiles but voting for one is the only way to get:
* masked federal goons invading our cities to violate citizen's rights
* super high import taxes
* usurping Appropriation powers from congress
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* masked federal goons invading our cities to violate citizen's rights
* super high import taxes
* usurping Appropriation powers from congress
(cont.)
November 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I appreciate the dilemma that conservatives find themselves in: Most don't like pedophiles but voting for one is the only way to get:
* masked federal goons invading our cities to violate citizen's rights
* super high import taxes
* usurping Appropriation powers from congress
(cont.)
* masked federal goons invading our cities to violate citizen's rights
* super high import taxes
* usurping Appropriation powers from congress
(cont.)
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Actually, many of us prefer the term "people experiencing euphemisms" actually. Thanks!
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Actually, many of us prefer the term "people experiencing euphemisms" actually. Thanks!
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Fun fact: Gordon Lightfoot wrote the song first, and then sank the Edmund Fitzgerald himself in what has come to be recognized as one of the first viral marketing stunts
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Fun fact: Gordon Lightfoot wrote the song first, and then sank the Edmund Fitzgerald himself in what has come to be recognized as one of the first viral marketing stunts