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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 8h

A story indistinguishable from those depicted/dramatized in all the WWII / Holocaust movies and plays and novels we grew up with

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 14h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 10h

with one of the most incredible kickers i've ever seen

NYT excerpt that reads:

On Thursday, Mr. Benioff said he had never been progressive even if many San Franciscans thought he was. He said he was a longtime Republican before switching to become an independent voter.

At the end of the interview, he turned to a public relations executive. He could be heard asking why her mouth was wide open and if he had said anything he shouldn’t have.

“What about the political questions?” he asked. “Too spicy?”

Then he hung up.

Heather Knight is a reporter in San Francisco, leading The Times’s coverage of the Bay Area and Northern California.

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 10h

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 14h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 14h

Good on TechCrunch for still pubbing these details, but if how bad are you as a spokesperson if you don't even understand the basics.

techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/s...

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 11h

The thing about all this is - I thought Silicon Valley business leaders were pragmatists. Do they not see that dividing the country this way is long-term terrible for America, terrible for business? Or have they all given up on society and it's just about, hoard now to escape later?

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 11h

I've definitely been frustrated and grossed out by scenes on SF's streets in recent years. But it's way better in 2025 than it's been for 7 or 8 years, and sending in the national guard is completely absurd and unncessary.

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 11h

Uh... what? And to think all these years I defended the guy to friends and colleagues who thought he was a blowhard empty suit who didn't really believe any of the pro-school pro-community politics he was spouting. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 11h

I used to cover early stage startups, especially hardware and deep tech. And back on that beat today with a scooplette w/ my colleague @kif.bsky.social - Apple acquihiring PromptAI makers of the Seemour app that added cool features to smart home / security cameras... www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/a...

Apple nears deal to acquire talent and technology from computer vision startup Prompt AI

Apple is in late-stage talks with startup Prompt AI to bring on the company's employees and its computer vision technology.

www.cnbc.com

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 14h

Happy Friday to you guys

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 13h

A lot of you think you are running for office in California.

I can’t believe how many of you had the nerve to say sprouts.

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12h

Nova lox, plain schmear, onion, caper, sesame bagel, not toasted what are you nuts?

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14h

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14h

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 13h

Love this from @lot49.com -

We would argue that political bias ... is not only unavoidable in LLMs trained on human-created content but desirable.... The more interesting question is how LLM bias should be tuned.
www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/o...

OpenAI claims GPT-5 has 30% less political bias

: AI model maker touts effort to depoliticize its product

www.theregister.com

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 13h

Bong cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 13h

How can people believe this stuff? I guess it makes one feel significant to be at the end of time, instead of just another nobody in a long line of stardust. The egos!

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 19h

My favorite formulation of this one remains @tomscocca.bsky.social 's: hmmdaily.com/2018/10/16/n... so short, yet convincing

No Billionaires

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20h

It is impossible for OpenAI to build the 26GW of compute - which will require 33.8GW of power - that they've promised. It requires massive pre-ordering of custom electrical gear and hundreds of billions of dollars of infrastructure.

Sam Altman is lying.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

It Is Fundamentally Impossible For OpenAI To Build The Data Center Capacity It’s Promised, As It Would Require 33.8GW of Power, Massive Pre-Ordering Of Custom Transformers, and Hundreds of Billions Of Dollars In Power Infrastructure Alone — And Most Of The Capacity Remains Unplanned
In any case, as I’ve explained, the power infrastructure necessary to build out these data centers is immense. For example, the power necessary for a 900MW data center planned in Virginia will be run across three different 300 Megawatt phases, won’t begin construction until February 2027, won’t finish construction until June 2028, and won’t even complete its first 300 Megawatt phase until 2031, despite Google saying it would take 18 to 24 months to build the data center.

For OpenAI to build 26GW of compute capacity would require them to secure 33.8GW of power. For comparison, the US Energy Information Administration predicts that the US will add approximately 63 gigawatts of new power capacity in 2025.

Honestly, it’s hard to even calculate the amount that this power infrastructure might cost, as things vary wildly based on location (hotter climes require more cooling, and are more susceptible to transmission loss), the kinds of chips used in these facilities, and so on.

There are hard, physical limits to the amount of power that you can build, with each massive power project requiring bespoke transformers and infrastructure, each in and of itself requiring anyone planning these massive deployments to pre-order them years in advance.

Money can only accelerate so much, and custom projects built with electrical-grade steel cannot be accelerated if the steel itself is in short supply, a problem compounded by tariffs. Even if the steel were available, power companies require massive amounts of surveys and testing to make sure the power is reliably and safely delivered to the end customer. You need to win the approval of local governments — and, crucially, local communities, who might ta…

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 5d

Zoom out 🙏 🤩 #wonder

Cartoon strip by me who is Stephen Collins. The imagery of the comic starts off with a single electron and then each panel zooms out one step - first to the microchip, then the OLED screen, then the iPhone, the person holding the iPhone, and onwards

Script:

An electron, forged in the first fire of the Big Bang

Courses through a deeply intricate maze of transistors and diodes

mined with unfathomable ingenuity from our planet’s deep geological past

and assembled from all over the world

Into a device perfected through centuries of technological evolution

to perform a beautifully synchronised pixel dance on an OLED screen

in an intricate moving pattern of shifting light

[Show a phone screen with an Instagram post featuring Ryan Gosling and bearing the legend:]

WATCH RYAN GOSLING EAT A PASTY FOR THE FIRST TIME!

whose choreography is powered by an global information network of unknowable complexity

which is specifically tailored to the interests of the being observing the screen

who is a member of the most advanced species on Earth

[Show a shlubby looking GUY idly looking at the Ryan Gosling/sausage roll Instagram reel on his phone while sitting in his pants and a stained t-shirt and eating a massive bag of crisps]

with a brain perhaps more capable of reconfiguring these signals into conscious thought than any other for billions of miles around

[Guy has a thought]:
“Mmm…"

in this endless, silent void.

[Pull back to show the Earth as a tiny blue dot among the stars with a thought bubble coming from it]

"… I want a pasty.”

[ends]

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 21h

There’s a better word than “influencers.”

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 21h

I've been thinking about how this is maybe the biggest propaganda arm of the administration. Between the antifa roundtable this week and Benny Johnson's remote shoots with Kristi Noem, it's only gaining more momentum.

Great article:

makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 22h

NEW: Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It

Wrote a bit about the content mill for consensus the Trump administration has created to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.

More here:
www.wired.com/story/trump-...

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 21h

Seems mostly correct but I think there’s evidence Musk always had these beliefs but hid them. But yeah these guys view it as their birthright to be fabulously wealthy.

Max Chafkin @chafkin.bsky.social · 22h

Reviewed @jacobsilverman.com’s Gilded Rage for @bloomberg.com. A smart, thorough look at the radicalization of silicon valley. Gift link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What Really Drove Silicon Valley’s Shift to the Right

In Gilded Rage, journalist Jacob Silverman argues that a decade of free cash turned tech’s utopians into power brokers and made Trump their unlikely ally.

www.bloomberg.com

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 1d

You love me

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 1d

It’s like we’re stuck in a hybrid of Idiocracy, Office Space, and Groundhog Day.

Every day we wake up, and it’s the same as the day before, only dumber.

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 1d

Didn’t that guy break the Peter Thiel - Hulk Hogan story?

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1d

Business Insider wrote up a story on how some of their past investigative work led to a new California law. The story is strangely unbylined.

The reason perhaps? The publication recently laid off the reporter behind that investigation, Matt Drange.

www.businessinsider.com/california-e...

California enacts law to prevent sexual abuse in K-12 schools following Business Insider investigation

The new legislation comes after a 2023 Business Insider investigation into sexual misconduct at a California high school.

www.businessinsider.com

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