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bryson
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tell me the news. yelling at the telecom oligopoly for you. also giving the robots a chance. you're probably mad at capitalism, not technology 📍Toronto
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bryson @brysonm.bsky.social · Nov 11
Just gonna pin this so you know where I'm coming from: www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-onl...
The Only Ethical Model for AI is Socialism
Today's large language models (LLMs) are produced by data from the public, so they can't ethically be owned by any one individual. Socialism is the only fair way to govern this technology.
www.currentaffairs.org
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brysonm.bsky.social
don't go to work tomorrow
brysonm.bsky.social bryson @brysonm.bsky.social · 1d
general strike now
January 24, 2026 at 7:30 PM
brysonm.bsky.social
incredible the conservative subreddit has a strict censorship policy and the posts that do get through are begging for the military to intervene in minnesota. the only posts allowed are "plz tread on me"
January 24, 2026 at 8:14 PM
brysonm.bsky.social
don't go to work tomorrow
brysonm.bsky.social bryson @brysonm.bsky.social · 1d
general strike now
January 24, 2026 at 7:30 PM
brysonm.bsky.social
the new standard is every person with a carry license is a "would-be assassin"
January 24, 2026 at 7:26 PM
brysonm.bsky.social
general strike now
January 24, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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rsgat.bsky.social
It's -20 in Minneapolis and organizers are in the streets before dawn getting ready for actions related to the general strike. They've had locals training out-of-town volunteers on how to prepare for and endure the cold. AND IT IS WORKING. THE STRIKE IS HAPPENING. THE CITY IS DOING THE DAMN THING...
January 23, 2026 at 12:42 PM
brysonm.bsky.social
oh he's dying, dying
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump: "RECORD NUMBERS ALL OVER THE PLACE! SHOULD I TRY FOR A FOURTH TERM?"
January 22, 2026 at 10:28 PM
brysonm.bsky.social
a lack of understanding of the differences between generative models and software interfaces they power continues to be astounding
January 22, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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davidmackau.bsky.social
him having to pretend to love the show is very much that meme "put the pronouns back in the bio. woke is BACK"
Empty Netters host called Heated Rivalry 'trash,' producers 'losers' - Outsports
As he publicly praised 'Heated Rivalry,' one 'Empty Netters' host privately trashed the show. Outsports has seen the texts.
www.outsports.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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cameron.stream
I'm making a default agent for us called Loop, which is designed to be a default consumer agent for Letta.

I built an agent called loop-master to help iterate. It has a tool to message loop iterations and just decided to start iteratively testing it.
January 22, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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tznkai.bsky.social
For a site full of communists (value neutral) there's a lot less discourse about the attempt at a general strike in two days than you'd expect.
January 21, 2026 at 1:07 PM
brysonm.bsky.social
remember when the instagram staff was like "no politics on threads!"

well
publishingninja.bsky.social Publishing Ninja @publishingninja.bsky.social · 4d
So Disney deleted their post on Threads asking users to post Disney quotes that show how their feeling - I suspect this is because it didn't quite go as they expected but the internet is forever so, for your delectation and delight...
January 20, 2026 at 8:43 PM
brysonm.bsky.social
Anyone in Toronto want to get coffee and chat about they use generative CLI tools for work outside programming?
January 18, 2026 at 3:30 PM
brysonm.bsky.social
the 258 unloaded messages was a great kicker here
"Allow for session" only allows once for shell commands that include a path · Issue #16750 · google-gemini/gemini-cli
What happened? The agent prompted for confirmation before running commands like tools/autotest.py foo or testing/xvfb.py bar. I select "allow for this session". The agent continues to prompt me for...
github.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:10 PM
brysonm.bsky.social
the actual people who work at salesforce say this piece is basically anti-AI fanfic www.reddit.com/r/salesforce...
January 17, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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danhon.com
I keep seeing it without a source link, so here it is:

January 16, 2026

MINNEAPOLIS LABOR UNION DELEGATION AND LOCAL REGIONAL LABOR BODIES ENDORSE JANUARY 23: DAY OF TRUTH AND FREEDOM
NO WORK, SCHOOL, OR SHOPPING

minneapolisunions.org/system/files...
January 16, 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Stacie Balkaran — stacie@minneapolisunions.org / 971.291.9486 MINNEAPOLIS LABOR UNION DELEGATION AND LOCAL REGIONAL LABOR BODIES ENDORSE JANUARY 23: DAY OF TRUTH AND FREEDOM NO WORK, SCHOOL, OR SHOPPING MINNEAPOLIS – The Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO along with regional bodies throughout the state, including the Saint Paul Regional Labor Federation, the West Area Labor Council, the North East Area Labor Council and the East Central Labor Council, have joined in solidarity to endorse a powerful unified statewide action on January 23: Day of Truth and Freedom. The Minnesota labor movement is united against the violent ICE occupation of our beloved cities that has directly impacted union members, our workplaces and our families. Workers are essential for our communities to function. Since the ICE campaign of terror began, both immigrant and non-immigrant workers have feared for their safety when going to work, being at work, and coming home from work. Union members and our families are being illegally detained at alarming rates, with workplaces and schools facing increased challenges. Chelsie Glaubitz Gabiou, President of the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, shared why union federations are joining this call: “Working people, our schools and our communities are under attack. Union members are being detained commuting to and from work, tearing apart families. Parents are being forced to stay home, students held out of school, fearing for their lives, all while the employer class remains silent. Our labor federations are encouraging everyone to participate on January 23rd. It’s time for every single Minnesotan who loves this state and the notion of truth and freedom to raise their voices and deepen their solidarity for our neighbors and coworkers living under this federal occupation.”
January 16, 2026 at 11:40 PM
brysonm.bsky.social
who let me care about baseball signings
January 16, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.
DHS: It is horrific to see radical agitators bring children to their violent riots. PLEASE STOP ENDANGERING YOUR CHILDREN. ABC News • @ABC• 7h Two children, including a 6-month-old, were hospitalized last night after federal agents deployed tear gas during Wednesday night's protests, according to the Minneapolis Office of Community Safety.... 7:32 AM • 1/16/26 • 145
January 16, 2026 at 3:38 PM
brysonm.bsky.social
god if only the AI industry would be so generous as to take down the US economy before trump invades any more neighbours
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 9d
Tomorrow: My 13,500 word historical and financial analysis on how the AI Bubble is magnitudes worse than the Dot Com Bubble, with a contagion that will spread throughout the global markets and our society.

Here's $10 off annual.

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I Am Deeply Worried About How Not Like The Dot Com Bubble This Is I spent hours and hours reading old articles through broken paywalls and archive.org links in the hopes I’d find some sort of positive spin - a way that the AI bubble wasn’t as bad, some sliver or nugget of joy, some shred of hope, and everything I’ve read has made me more and more worried. The real problem is that there are similarities, but only with the worst parts of both bubbles. We’ve got stupid amounts of money being sunk into stuff. We’ve got stupid companies that want to IPO. We’ve got hopeless startups juiced up by credulous venture capitalists and marketed by even-more credulous journalists. Except this time we have the worst margins this side of a vineyard planted in Las Vegas Nevada, and despicable boosters that will go to war with you to try and prove you wrong using ghost stories, fairy tales and pixie dust. I realize I’m being a little cavalier and colloquial about this, and that’s because I feel utterly emotionally drained by this - things are so much worse than I thought. I really felt like I’d dig into the past and find that there were direct, obvious similarities, and thus have some degree of hope that things wouldn’t be apocalyptic. Instead, I’m convinced that things will be much, much worse. The dot com bubble was relatively distributed, and created useful infrastructure. The ideas of some of the most prominent dot com startups were valid, but based on stupid hypergrowth business models that didn’t make sense and were only sustained through mass hysteria and ignorance. By comparison, AI startups are fundamentally illogical, selling unreliable software that’s best-known for its consistent mistakes and active harms backed by the corrosive and ever-worsening infrastructural costs. And they’re the customers of the largest company on the stock market, that can only keep its valuation, on which the markets depend, by selling more of an expensive-to-buy and more-expensive-to-ins… The Logical Endpoint Of My Argument Depending on how right I am, I worry that the following will happen: NVIDIA will lose anywhere from 40% to 90% of its revenue, which will annihilate the value of the S&P 500. Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta will face massive, multi-billion dollar impairments within the next few years. Oracle will face potential bankruptcy or at least a severe, horrendous series of layoffs and restructuring efforts to try and right the ship after agreeing to $248 billion in lease obligations primarily to get the revenue from its $300 billion, 5-year-long deal with OpenAI, a company that is going to run out of money in the next year. Venture capital is going to take such a severe haircut from the AI bubble that it will effectively kill any chances of raising a round after Series B for many, many years. Those $178.5 billion in data center debt deals will be predominantly underwater, leading to massive losses for private equity and banks (leading to a chill in effectively all debt markets), and massive job losses across the many, many construction projects that have started as a result of the AI bubble. If OpenAI or Anthropic can manage to go public, every investor will lose out as they collapse under the weight of their bullshit assumptions. Every partner, every company relying on them, every infrastructure provider will be burned. I also believe that we, as a society, will face a violent paradigm shift as a result of the AI bubble bursting, because it revealed how many people do not understand stuff. The amount of bosses, influencers, movie stars, politicians and other individuals of note that have fallen behind generative AI and claimed again and again that it can do things that it can’t and perpetuated myths that will lead to massive societal harms both today and in the future have revealed themselves as fucking frauds. It’s been obvious since 2023 that generative AI flat out does not do what many people say it will and obvious since 2024 t… And believe me, even if I’m half right, things will likely be so much worse than when the dot com bubble burst. I don’t see a scenario where anything survives the collapse of CoreWeave, let alone the collapse of OpenAI. I don’t see a scenario where any more than a few AI startups survive, and if that happens, there won’t be any customers for those GPUs - not that anywhere near enough existed to fill even a tiny percentile of the demand. On some level, I hope I’m wrong. I just don’t know how anymore.
January 16, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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alexselbyb.bsky.social
Is flashing red good?
January 14, 2026 at 10:49 PM
brysonm.bsky.social
Oh god what now
January 10, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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🧑‍🎨🧑‍🎨🧑‍🎨
January 9, 2026 at 2:45 AM
brysonm.bsky.social
everyone in the US should just stop going to work until this is over
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16d
ICE/CBP just shot two people in Portland.
January 8, 2026 at 11:50 PM
brysonm.bsky.social
lol
officiallogank.bsky.social Logan Kilpatrick @officiallogank.bsky.social · 16d
I am happy to share that we (the @GoogleAIStudio team) are now a sponsor of the @tailwindcss project! Honored to support and find ways to do more together to help the ecosystem of builders.
January 8, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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samleecole.bsky.social
we have to, at some point, address the fact that there are thousands and thousands of people are behind these prompts. there are no guardrails against misogyny. it's a feature, not a bug, as they say bit.ly/452c8bj
In 2018, less than a year after reporting that first story on deepfakes, I wrote about how it’s a serious mistake to ignore the fact that nonconsensual imagery, synthetic or not, is a societal sickness and not something companies can guardrail against into infinity. “Users feed off one another to create a sense that they are the kings of the universe, that they answer to no one. This logic is how you get incels and pickup artists, and it’s how you get deepfakes: a group of men who see no harm in treating women as mere images, and view making and spreading algorithmically weaponized revenge porn as a hobby as innocent and timeless as trading baseball cards,” I wrote at the time. “That is what’s at the root of deepfakes. And the consequences of forgetting that are more dire than we can predict.”
January 8, 2026 at 3:50 PM