Bo Brinkman
@bobrinkman.com
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he/him. Irvine, CA. Progressive. Software engineer. ACM Committee on Professional Ethics. Alphabet Workers Union. Former CS prof.
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Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
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"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
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It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It
He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.
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The New York Times twists itself in knots pretending it doesn’t know things that it absolutely knows. Such as referring to the shit in Trump’s AI video as “brown liquid.” 9/
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if the president does something so awful it would be indecent to describe and ask about then you very obviously need to describe and ask about it, thats the entire job
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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net
· 1d
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
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By my count: Of the 15 Departments of the US Government, 13 launched new BlueSky accounts tonight (all but Justice and HUD), and all 13 have posted explicitly partisan political posts blaming Democrats and/or Chuck Schumer for the government shutdown.
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In calling out Cuomo for only visiting a mosque AFTER he lost to a Muslim candidate, Mamdani perfectly illustrates what’s wrong with Centrist Dems. They are:
•Elitist
•Reactionary
•Out of touch
•Transactional
•Consultant driven
•Offended when shown how to do better
They’ve learned Nothing since 2016
•Elitist
•Reactionary
•Out of touch
•Transactional
•Consultant driven
•Offended when shown how to do better
They’ve learned Nothing since 2016
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In 1910, the Census director had the brilliant idea of paying local census officials by the person counted. Grift thrived. Eg, 30,000, or 25%, of Tacoma WA's records were found to be faked.
Paying ICE bonuses for exceeding a quota of people disappeared makes the 1910 Census bureau look great again.
Paying ICE bonuses for exceeding a quota of people disappeared makes the 1910 Census bureau look great again.
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CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.
Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete
The tech lobby kills off two key California AI bills, and why it matters. Plus: How Sam Altman played Hollywood with Sora 2, organized mass social media deletions, and more.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
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Chris Kluwe
@chriswarcraft.bsky.social
· Aug 25
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