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Mark Shore

@markshore.bsky.social

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interests are politics, how states collapse, the media, and science, especially climate change, astronomy and geosciences "A Republic, if you can keep it." Benjamin Franklin, Sept 17, 1787 photo: red sunset over the Pacific from the coast of Hawai'i

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1h

this is one of the best articulations of the AI bear case I've read

most of the AI companies are also massively wealthy and profitable hypercorps, but OpenAI specifically is a bomb planted at the heart of the American stock market helpfully labeled "this is a bomb"
prospect.org/power/2025-1...

The AI Ouroboros

Nvidia and other companies are paying startups to buy their products.

prospect.org

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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 1h

it's hard to beat Republicans on their home turf, but "superficial activism has its place" is a strong contender in this year's projection playoffs

Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 16h

I think it was @faineg.bsky.social a few months ago who posted about the original 1960s(?) bot that people who should have known 100% better interacted with as though it was a real conscious entity

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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 16h

the thoughtful digital equivalent of the crappiest Hallmark cards there ever were (assuming they even still exist)

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Matti has a Boo-ty 👻 @mrbtx.bsky.social · 18h

this is wild

What is ball lightning? Rare weather phenomenon caught on camera in Alberta

YouTube video by Global News

www.youtube.com

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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 17h

seriously, does this man - this titan among titans - really look like a grifting bullshit artist/idiot?

August 17 2015 Time magazine cover showing 22-year-old Palmer Luckey (his real name, I guess) in jeans, a light green polo, and bare feet, wearing an Oculus headset and pretending to jump in front of a sandy beach and ocean background, his arms extended

The lead story is headlined The Suprising Joy of Virtual Reality
And why it's about the change the world

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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 17h

it's all fixed, cancer and world peace are next

Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 17h

they're gone now, but I remember setting up computers and phones and email (not social media) accounts for older relatives

only a couple went rogue, but in hindsight it was completely pointless, they'd have been happier with TV and a landline

Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 17h

ah, no big deal

Alberta man in an orange t-shirt, blue shorts, and sandals mowing a lawn inside a wooden fence on a cloudy day in June 2017, no big deal, except there's a very large tornado in the background

it was further away than it looked, explained his wife

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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 18h

he does that now and then, maybe the huge joyful dancing crowds around the world will acknowledge that

John Oliver Trump Wall and Rope

YouTube video by John Tehan

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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 18h

something I look for from posters is whether they delete posts with significant errors or quickly and prominently acknowledge those errors

(typos excluded)

Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 18h

hey, these are male members of the master race at the very peak of their potential, show some respect 🙃

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 18h

Clergy member shot w/a pepper ball by a federal agent outside of an ICE facility says that showing up for immigrants “is an act of solidarity and a deep desire for those who are inside the facility to know that they are not alone.” New at @americasvoice.bsky.social:

Clergy Member Shot With Pepper Ball Outside ICE Facility Says He Could Hear Agents ‘Laughing’

Rev. David Black, who has since joined a lawsuit against the administration “alleging violations of the First and Fourth Amendments,” says he protests to let immigrants know “that they are not alone."

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 18h

surely Trump will help him get out from under his temporary financial difficulties

Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 18h

looks so innocent, doesn't it?

but... ok, I can't think of anything mean to say about red squirrels

Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 18h

and a problem for many of the successor emperors too

Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · Aug 11

the brief reign of Gaius Valens Hostilianus Messius Quintus, overthrown when his wooden denarii, "just as good as the metal ones, boys!" was not well-received by the legions

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 19h

In fairness, I was traveling, but I completely missed that there'd been yet another lethal strike on a boat in the Caribbean. We're getting to the point where the military murdering boatloads of civilians is a below-the-fold kind of story. We're in a very dangerous place

Trump says U.S. struck 5th boat accused of carrying drugs off coast of Venezuela, killing 6

President Trump says the U.S. has struck another small boat he accuses of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

www.cbsnews.com

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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 19h

since the 1960s the Presidential Medal of Freedom *has* been awarded to some illustrious recipients, but it's suffering now, its condition seems terminal, and the next president should do the merciful thing

Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 19h

I wondered about this too, and the only Argentinian trip I could find (at any time, including before being elected) was his 48 hour stay for the 2018 G20 meeting in Buenos Aires where he did not have a good time and left as soon as he could

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 23h

Today, with more than a dozen global media partners, we’re exposing a surveillance firm whose untraceable phone-tracking tech has been used around the world to target politicians, journalists, and executives—and maybe even you. Check out this extraordinary investigative reporting. ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

ow.ly

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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 23h

the bigger the group, the more likely it has rats

Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 23h

the ongoing question of what (if anything) the Trump administration would do differently if it were being run from Moscow or Beijing...

be more subtle about it, maybe

Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 23h

under Harris, especially if her administration had focused on democratic and legal reforms (an unknowable question now), the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence might have been celebrated unironically around much of the world instead of being a tragic farce

Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 23h

the original Nazis would have envied this level of technocruelty, all of it funded generously from the public purse

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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 1d

there aren't many explanations for Meloni's expression (and at the same meeting, Starmer's) other than the long-running rumors that Trump literally stinks