John Minnihan
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John Minnihan
@jbminn.bsky.social
· Oct 12
company culture isn't magic pixie dust that gets sprinkled on your startup when you get funded.
it's your character amplified thru the organization
it's your character amplified thru the organization
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On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights
Illinois becomes one of the few states to regulate employer use of AI. House Bill 3773 amends the Illinois Human Rights Act to make it a civil rights violation for employers to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on race, gender, age, or disability.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights
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This is your annual reminder, from me, that Facebook launched Groups in 2010, meaning the company has fostered, repeatedly refused to ban, and defended its Holocaust denial groups for 15 years. A generation.
"When you encourage Holocaust denial, you get a Trump."
www.engadget.com/2017-05-26-t...
"When you encourage Holocaust denial, you get a Trump."
www.engadget.com/2017-05-26-t...
December 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This is your annual reminder, from me, that Facebook launched Groups in 2010, meaning the company has fostered, repeatedly refused to ban, and defended its Holocaust denial groups for 15 years. A generation.
"When you encourage Holocaust denial, you get a Trump."
www.engadget.com/2017-05-26-t...
"When you encourage Holocaust denial, you get a Trump."
www.engadget.com/2017-05-26-t...
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December 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
when vacationing at Lake Como, we stayed near rhe villa where Mussolini was shot up against the wall out front. less than 24 hrs from his capture to execution.
if this dam ever breaks, these things will occur everywhere
if this dam ever breaks, these things will occur everywhere
I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
when vacationing at Lake Como, we stayed near rhe villa where Mussolini was shot up against the wall out front. less than 24 hrs from his capture to execution.
if this dam ever breaks, these things will occur everywhere
if this dam ever breaks, these things will occur everywhere
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December 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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The Signalgate report showed that Hegseth risked American lives. Instead of taking responsibility, his sniveling responses were the worst kind of bureaucratic ass-covering.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Pete Hegseth’s Weak Excuses
His evasive responses to Signalgate are shameful nonsense.
www.theatlantic.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The Signalgate report showed that Hegseth risked American lives. Instead of taking responsibility, his sniveling responses were the worst kind of bureaucratic ass-covering.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Some simple moral clarity. Our country is run, and our public life is dominated by, wicked people.
I wish there were a party -- or christ, just a substantial faction of Americans -- who stood up for love, compassion, & decency with the same vigor these fucking ghouls celebrate murder.
I wish there were a party -- or christ, just a substantial faction of Americans -- who stood up for love, compassion, & decency with the same vigor these fucking ghouls celebrate murder.
Opinion | What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Some simple moral clarity. Our country is run, and our public life is dominated by, wicked people.
I wish there were a party -- or christ, just a substantial faction of Americans -- who stood up for love, compassion, & decency with the same vigor these fucking ghouls celebrate murder.
I wish there were a party -- or christ, just a substantial faction of Americans -- who stood up for love, compassion, & decency with the same vigor these fucking ghouls celebrate murder.
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I’m pretty confident that the industry could prevent this if a single tech exec were charged with creating child porn. It’d just take one.
The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’
The use of ‘nudify’ apps is becoming more and more prevalent, with hundreds of teachers having seen images created by pupils, often of their peers. The fallout is huge – and growing fast
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I’m pretty confident that the industry could prevent this if a single tech exec were charged with creating child porn. It’d just take one.
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I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
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I don’t know why this is so complicated other than the fact that Americans do not have faith in the outcome of debating moral questions. Calling this a war crime gives first degree murder too much dignity.
"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
A war criminal without a war
It's just murder.
www.publicnotice.co
December 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I don’t know why this is so complicated other than the fact that Americans do not have faith in the outcome of debating moral questions. Calling this a war crime gives first degree murder too much dignity.
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The Roberts Six have thoroughly politicized the Court and turned it into a reliable arm of the RNC.
Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.
Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The Roberts Six have thoroughly politicized the Court and turned it into a reliable arm of the RNC.
Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.
Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.
JERRY YES
IM READY WITH THE HIDE REPLY FOR EVERYONE BUTTON
December 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
JERRY YES
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Again: the Purpose of LLM- type "AI" bullshit engines is not to tell you the truth or to lie to you, but to tell you something you are statistically determined to be more likely to accept, irrespective of facts— which makes them perfect for accelerating dis- & misinformation & persuasive propaganda…
AI dialogues shifted political support by 2 to 3 points in trials, eclipsing standard ads. Roughly one-third of this effect persisted for a month. However, models optimized for persuasion proved more factually error-prone.
#MLSky
#MLSky
AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds
Conversations with AI can sway people’s political views. Concerningly, a chatbot’s facts are not always accurate, especially when it supports right-wing positions.
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Again: the Purpose of LLM- type "AI" bullshit engines is not to tell you the truth or to lie to you, but to tell you something you are statistically determined to be more likely to accept, irrespective of facts— which makes them perfect for accelerating dis- & misinformation & persuasive propaganda…
propaganda works because the average person is a dipshit with no critical thinking skills
December 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
propaganda works because the average person is a dipshit with no critical thinking skills
the moon looks really cool right now
December 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
the moon looks really cool right now
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This administration literally pardoned over a thousand people for doing exactly this.
Patel on J6 arrest: "When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation's Capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life."
December 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This administration literally pardoned over a thousand people for doing exactly this.
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I am humbly requesting that lawmakers in every Democratic-controlled state spend every waking hour between now and Christmas cooking up new congressional district maps that draw Republicans out of electoral existence
December 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I am humbly requesting that lawmakers in every Democratic-controlled state spend every waking hour between now and Christmas cooking up new congressional district maps that draw Republicans out of electoral existence
it sure looks like murder. who will prosecute this, though?
there’s apparently no rule of law for these monsters
there’s apparently no rule of law for these monsters
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
it sure looks like murder. who will prosecute this, though?
there’s apparently no rule of law for these monsters
there’s apparently no rule of law for these monsters
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2/ As long as this short post is getting some attn, here I explain why there is no saving the American Republic without reforming the Court and breaking the hold of the corrupt six Republican appointees. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
The Status Interview—Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List
Over the last couple days I’ve argued both that the denouement of...
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December 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
2/ As long as this short post is getting some attn, here I explain why there is no saving the American Republic without reforming the Court and breaking the hold of the corrupt six Republican appointees. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
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The Supreme Court of the United States is an illegitimate body, and every Democrat should run on negating and replacing it
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The Supreme Court of the United States is an illegitimate body, and every Democrat should run on negating and replacing it
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What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?
wrt rabies: a coyote once trotted down the path to within two or three ft of me. i chose to just stop walking + let it pass, but it was a bit freaky.
it wasn’t aggressive, per se, but it did widely open its mouth as it went by me. coincidental or not, i saw all its teeth.
it wasn’t aggressive, per se, but it did widely open its mouth as it went by me. coincidental or not, i saw all its teeth.
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
wrt rabies: a coyote once trotted down the path to within two or three ft of me. i chose to just stop walking + let it pass, but it was a bit freaky.
it wasn’t aggressive, per se, but it did widely open its mouth as it went by me. coincidental or not, i saw all its teeth.
it wasn’t aggressive, per se, but it did widely open its mouth as it went by me. coincidental or not, i saw all its teeth.
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Reality Sets in for the House GOP … And Every Urge Is Unleashed talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/reali...
Reality Sets in for the House GOP … And Every Urge Is Unleashed
Rep. Elise Stefanik, last seen lighting her political career on fire in...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Reality Sets in for the House GOP … And Every Urge Is Unleashed talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/reali...
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NEW: The Trump Justice Department failed to secure an indictment today against New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Grand jury declines to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, less than two weeks after the first case was dismissed
Federal officials failed to secure the new indictment against James, whom Trump has targeted, after a judge said the previous one was secured by an unlawfully appointed prosecutor.
www.nbcnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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