Erik Conway
@erikconway.bsky.social
Historian, rocketeer, capsuleer in New Eden, adventurer in Azeroth. Writer of books. Opinions not my employers.
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Erik Conway
@erikconway.bsky.social
· Mar 20
The Network - Threat Level Midnight (Official Video)
YouTube video by The Network
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Feeling like it’s time for another re-emergence of The Network. #greenday youtu.be/_i6-_fuDrio?...
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A reminder that Republicans aren’t the only corrupt politicians.
BREAKING: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul gutted an AI regulation bill awaiting her signature and replaced it wholesale with a weaker version sought by Big Tech firms. At least two of the groups lobbying on the bill held fundraisers for Hochul in recent weeks.
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Hochul Caves to Big Tech on AI Safety Bill - The American Prospect
A bill that passed the New York legislature was completely gutted and substituted with language perceived as friendlier to the industry.
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December 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A reminder that Republicans aren’t the only corrupt politicians.
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Interesting to see how @thehill.com is suddenly feeding its readers a steady diet of fossil fuel industry climate denial & delay propaganda:
December 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Interesting to see how @thehill.com is suddenly feeding its readers a steady diet of fossil fuel industry climate denial & delay propaganda:
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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Excellent Guardian lead editorial on the need for a moratorium on solar geoengineering. It hits all the right points, and highlights African opposition to normalizing the technology www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on solar geoengineering: Africa has a point about this risky technology | Editorial
Editorial: Sun-dimming risks putting the planet’s thermostat under Donald Trump’s control. Better to adopt the precautionary principle with high-stakes science
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Excellent Guardian lead editorial on the need for a moratorium on solar geoengineering. It hits all the right points, and highlights African opposition to normalizing the technology www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
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On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
December 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
It wasn’t a long program to “shrink agencies.” The program was to eliminate business regulation. That means getting rid of the agencies that do that.
News Analysis: A decades-long conservative project is coming to a head at the Supreme Court as President Trump pushes to oust leaders of independent agencies.
Presidential Power Gets Tested Before Supreme Court After Long Conservative Project to Shrink Agencies
President Trump has repeatedly ousted leaders of independent agencies despite federal laws meant to shield those regulators from politics.
nyti.ms
December 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
It wasn’t a long program to “shrink agencies.” The program was to eliminate business regulation. That means getting rid of the agencies that do that.
It’s remarkable how blindly uninformed our oligarchs are about how things are actually funded.
This is a post about future NASA Adminstrator Isaacman.
drive.google.com/file/d/16j95...
This is a post about future NASA Adminstrator Isaacman.
drive.google.com/file/d/16j95...
Athena-ocr.pdf
drive.google.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It’s remarkable how blindly uninformed our oligarchs are about how things are actually funded.
This is a post about future NASA Adminstrator Isaacman.
drive.google.com/file/d/16j95...
This is a post about future NASA Adminstrator Isaacman.
drive.google.com/file/d/16j95...
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Excellent reporting from @charliesavage.bsky.social and @julianbarnes.bsky.social starting with the "plain reality" that there was no warship, and no fighting going on, in the Sept. 2 strike, or any of them:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
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December 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Excellent reporting from @charliesavage.bsky.social and @julianbarnes.bsky.social starting with the "plain reality" that there was no warship, and no fighting going on, in the Sept. 2 strike, or any of them:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
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A horrifying CNN investigation reveals how Israel buried hundreds of starving Palestinians some of them alive using bulldozers and unmarked graves.
Missing in Gaza: CNN investigation points to the Israeli military bulldozing the dead bodies of Palestinians seeking aid | CNN
A CNN investigation into Palestinians who went missing near the Zikim crossing in Gaza this year points to aid seekers being killed and, in some cases, bulldozed into unmarked graves by Israeli forces...
edition.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A horrifying CNN investigation reveals how Israel buried hundreds of starving Palestinians some of them alive using bulldozers and unmarked graves.
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“What have I done!” 🤡
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“What have I done!” 🤡
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What a good idea. 😁
(Also, if you want to order a signed copy of the book, you can get one from my local bookstore here. Just ask them to have me sign it (and personalize it, if you like) in the order comments and they'll take care of the rest. Signed books make great gifts…)
#booksky 📚🎁
(Also, if you want to order a signed copy of the book, you can get one from my local bookstore here. Just ask them to have me sign it (and personalize it, if you like) in the order comments and they'll take care of the rest. Signed books make great gifts…)
#booksky 📚🎁
December 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
What a good idea. 😁
(Also, if you want to order a signed copy of the book, you can get one from my local bookstore here. Just ask them to have me sign it (and personalize it, if you like) in the order comments and they'll take care of the rest. Signed books make great gifts…)
#booksky 📚🎁
(Also, if you want to order a signed copy of the book, you can get one from my local bookstore here. Just ask them to have me sign it (and personalize it, if you like) in the order comments and they'll take care of the rest. Signed books make great gifts…)
#booksky 📚🎁
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Premium: The Ways The AI Bubble Might Burst
I've been struggling to think about what to write this week, if only because I've written so much recently and because, if I'm honest, things aren't really making a lot of sense.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Premium newsletter: The much-demanded 16k word guide to how the AI bubble might actually burst, starting with the collapse of data center debt financing, the end of venture capital funding for AI, OpenAI's death, and how NVIDIA's AI GPU era might come to an end.
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This is correct. There’s no war, and drug trafficking isn’t a capital offense. Then there’s the lack of evidence, identity and therefore due process.
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
This is correct. There’s no war, and drug trafficking isn’t a capital offense. Then there’s the lack of evidence, identity and therefore due process.
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Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
Absolutely. But the Dem leadership are cowards.
Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
December 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Absolutely. But the Dem leadership are cowards.
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Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
But what will they do with the heat? There’s a reason data centers need tons of water…
“In a decade, Pichai said that it'll be normal to build extraterrestrial data centers”.
And he’s definitely not the only one speaking about the *necessity* of data centers in space. Apparently the planet is not big enough for their scaling “laws”.
www.businessinsider.com/google-proje...
And he’s definitely not the only one speaking about the *necessity* of data centers in space. Apparently the planet is not big enough for their scaling “laws”.
www.businessinsider.com/google-proje...
Sundar Pichai says Google will start building data centers in space, powered by the sun, in 2027
Google announced Project Suncatcher earlier this month. CEO Sundar Pichai now says it could begin building data centers in space as soon as 2027.
www.businessinsider.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
But what will they do with the heat? There’s a reason data centers need tons of water…
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Tragically, this trend is not going to end well.
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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Tragically, this trend is not going to end well.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”
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I recently received word that Obama loved my OpEd.
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The first honest American president
Trump's shameless corruption is not a deviation from American history but its fulfilment.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I recently received word that Obama loved my OpEd.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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At a time when the food-stamp system is under fire & more strict work requirements are starting to kick in, a review of companies with the most SNAP recipients in the state shows many are employed by high-profile companies in retail, health care & the gig economy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
‘The government is subsidizing corporate profits’: Who employs the most SNAP recipients in Massachusetts? - The Boston Globe
In Massachusetts, 74 percent of working-age SNAP recipients have jobs.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
At a time when the food-stamp system is under fire & more strict work requirements are starting to kick in, a review of companies with the most SNAP recipients in the state shows many are employed by high-profile companies in retail, health care & the gig economy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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He scammed over 1,000 people, most of whom were not wealthy - veterans, farmers, teachers, nurses, small businesses owners. Some lost everything. But he’s a rich Republican, so Trump let him get away with it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
He scammed over 1,000 people, most of whom were not wealthy - veterans, farmers, teachers, nurses, small businesses owners. Some lost everything. But he’s a rich Republican, so Trump let him get away with it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
More imperial blowback. The GWOT keeps paying dividends, doesn’t it?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/us/dc-shooting-suspect-afghanistan-cia-unit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4U8.CfQC.fMPoJiOyUhVc&smid=nytcore-android-share
The gunman was alumnus of a CIA goon squad
The gunman was alumnus of a CIA goon squad
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
More imperial blowback. The GWOT keeps paying dividends, doesn’t it?