David Kaib
@davidkaib.bsky.social
Political education, socialism, abolition, unions, cats
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David Kaib
@davidkaib.bsky.social
· Jul 12
For what it's worth, if you are a socialist or interested in socialism, it is *my job* to educate you, so ask away.
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renewed my library card and checked out a book
the book is fantastic and if you're doing any kind of movement work, i highly recommend it
thank you, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
the book is fantastic and if you're doing any kind of movement work, i highly recommend it
thank you, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 6:56 PM
renewed my library card and checked out a book
the book is fantastic and if you're doing any kind of movement work, i highly recommend it
thank you, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
the book is fantastic and if you're doing any kind of movement work, i highly recommend it
thank you, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
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Some personal news
Scoop–CFPB just fired employee alexisgoldstein.bsky.social for allegedly disrupting &documenting a meeting a year ago between CFPB & DOGE www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
She says she's being retaliated against after asking DOGE visitors who they were & if they'd completed training on handling info
She says she's being retaliated against after asking DOGE visitors who they were & if they'd completed training on handling info
CFPB Fires Employee Over a Confrontation With DOGE a Year Ago
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fired an employee for disrupting and documenting a 2025 meeting between the agency and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, according to emails rev...
www.bloomberg.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Some personal news
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I gotta say, "the Pentagon uses a high powered laser to shoot down a party balloon" feels like enough symbolism for awhile. all full up thanks
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
I gotta say, "the Pentagon uses a high powered laser to shoot down a party balloon" feels like enough symbolism for awhile. all full up thanks
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I'm pretty good at operating tiny buttons in response to predetermined environmental stimuli, in case any scientists out there are looking to hand out small cheese rewards for that
February 11, 2026 at 12:28 PM
I'm pretty good at operating tiny buttons in response to predetermined environmental stimuli, in case any scientists out there are looking to hand out small cheese rewards for that
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It's demonstrably true that the most aggressive claims about what LLM's are capable of right now are patently false!
February 12, 2026 at 1:11 AM
It's demonstrably true that the most aggressive claims about what LLM's are capable of right now are patently false!
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I don’t really pay attention to charges of doomerism. I don’t know what it means offline.
I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.
I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 5:51 PM
I don’t really pay attention to charges of doomerism. I don’t know what it means offline.
I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.
I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.
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We have created an impunity machine, and invited and incentivized terrible people to join it. Abolish the whole damn thing.
At least two dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have been charged with crimes since 2020 and the wrongdoing includes patterns of violence, sexual abuse and corruption, a review by The Associated Press found.
As ICE expands, an AP review of crimes committed by agents shows how their powers can be abused
Investigators say one immigration official abused his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he sexually abused a woman in his custody.
bit.ly
February 11, 2026 at 6:33 PM
We have created an impunity machine, and invited and incentivized terrible people to join it. Abolish the whole damn thing.
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Many analogies made btw resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act & popular resistance to ICE. One analogy not often made is that it literally took the creation of a new political party to get the “opposition” to stop compromising w the slavocracy
January 31, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Many analogies made btw resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act & popular resistance to ICE. One analogy not often made is that it literally took the creation of a new political party to get the “opposition” to stop compromising w the slavocracy
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"These are the times to grow our souls. Each of us is called upon to embrace the conviction that despite the powers and principalities bent on commodifying all our human relationships, we have the power within us to create the world anew."
--Grace Lee Boggs
--Grace Lee Boggs
February 11, 2026 at 9:15 PM
"These are the times to grow our souls. Each of us is called upon to embrace the conviction that despite the powers and principalities bent on commodifying all our human relationships, we have the power within us to create the world anew."
--Grace Lee Boggs
--Grace Lee Boggs
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Generally, i.e., by definition, hype isn't true tho
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Generally, i.e., by definition, hype isn't true tho
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the giant amounts of money being kicked around back and forth like a ball in midfield should be a sign that nothing is actually being produced
February 11, 2026 at 5:48 PM
the giant amounts of money being kicked around back and forth like a ball in midfield should be a sign that nothing is actually being produced
Another reason is because we can see what the hype is being used to do right now, not maybe. Actually happening.
February 11, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Another reason is because we can see what the hype is being used to do right now, not maybe. Actually happening.
One reason I think we should dismiss AI hype tout court is because the people pushing it are 1) blatantly lying about it’s current capabilities and 2) often trying to keep a bubble inflated.
February 11, 2026 at 5:38 PM
One reason I think we should dismiss AI hype tout court is because the people pushing it are 1) blatantly lying about it’s current capabilities and 2) often trying to keep a bubble inflated.
I have some other ideas about what we could do with a massive catapult.
February 11, 2026 at 1:50 PM
I have some other ideas about what we could do with a massive catapult.
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A.I. needs to watch its back, I'm coming for its job.
Borrow tons of money with no chance of ever making it back? Kid shit.
Lie that I'm good at stuff that I'll never be good at? Doing it now.
Always be 5 years away from meeting my potential? Buddy, that's my life story.
Borrow tons of money with no chance of ever making it back? Kid shit.
Lie that I'm good at stuff that I'll never be good at? Doing it now.
Always be 5 years away from meeting my potential? Buddy, that's my life story.
February 11, 2026 at 2:01 AM
A.I. needs to watch its back, I'm coming for its job.
Borrow tons of money with no chance of ever making it back? Kid shit.
Lie that I'm good at stuff that I'll never be good at? Doing it now.
Always be 5 years away from meeting my potential? Buddy, that's my life story.
Borrow tons of money with no chance of ever making it back? Kid shit.
Lie that I'm good at stuff that I'll never be good at? Doing it now.
Always be 5 years away from meeting my potential? Buddy, that's my life story.
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"Only two English words rhyme with culture, and these, as it happens, are sepulture and vulture. We don’t yet call museums or galleries or even universities culture-sepultures, but I hear a lot, lately, about culture-vultures (man must rhyme)."
Raymond Williams
Raymond Williams
February 11, 2026 at 1:16 PM
"Only two English words rhyme with culture, and these, as it happens, are sepulture and vulture. We don’t yet call museums or galleries or even universities culture-sepultures, but I hear a lot, lately, about culture-vultures (man must rhyme)."
Raymond Williams
Raymond Williams
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7. Political messaging is lagging regular people’s sense that tech has gone rogue. There is an opportunity to tap into fear about government overreach and economic insecurity. That would tie together several threads of political structures of opportunity — from occupy to environmental racism
February 3, 2026 at 2:03 PM
7. Political messaging is lagging regular people’s sense that tech has gone rogue. There is an opportunity to tap into fear about government overreach and economic insecurity. That would tie together several threads of political structures of opportunity — from occupy to environmental racism
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The “TikTok-pilled Gen Zers” queueing for the expensive grocery store in Manhattan are likely not the same individuals who will struggle to purchase property. Hope this helps
Gen Zers and millennials are swimming in student debt and may never own homes, but they’re splurging on gut-healthy juices and rotisserie chickens.
The Booming Business of Luxury Grocery Stores
A new crop of gourmet grocers has hit the city, drawing lines of trendy TikTokers, MAHA-curious health fiends and Instacart devotees who want to pop in for a treat.
on.wsj.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:45 AM
The “TikTok-pilled Gen Zers” queueing for the expensive grocery store in Manhattan are likely not the same individuals who will struggle to purchase property. Hope this helps
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Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
I remember thinking surely there would be at least some effort to address this stuff when Biden took office.
February 11, 2026 at 3:35 AM
I remember thinking surely there would be at least some effort to address this stuff when Biden took office.
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“New lease on life“ implies that you’re renting your life from someone else who owns it
February 11, 2026 at 3:19 AM
“New lease on life“ implies that you’re renting your life from someone else who owns it
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Unfortunately, me spending nearly 10 months reading watching, and listening to work on the Red Scares is really paying off
the statute that Jeanine Pirro reportedly tried to indict congressional Dems under, 18 USC 2387, was originally passed as part of the 1947 Smith Act, a notorious law used to clamp down on free speech during the Red Scare
They tried to prosecute members of Congress under the Smith Act. Absolute scenes
February 11, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Unfortunately, me spending nearly 10 months reading watching, and listening to work on the Red Scares is really paying off
You cannot leave shit like this on the books.
the statute that Jeanine Pirro reportedly tried to indict congressional Dems under, 18 USC 2387, was originally passed as part of the 1947 Smith Act, a notorious law used to clamp down on free speech during the Red Scare
They tried to prosecute members of Congress under the Smith Act. Absolute scenes
February 11, 2026 at 3:15 AM
You cannot leave shit like this on the books.
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My god.
I keep rereading this paragraph expecting the words to change
February 11, 2026 at 12:24 AM
My god.