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waldo.net
To the extent to which big consulting firms don't feel threatened by AI, it's because they understand that a big part of their job is merely decision-laundering. A big organization wants to do a thing, and they need somebody to blame in case that thing goes wrong? Time to bring on a big consultant!
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. With Democrats having shown no signs of budging .. and a growing number of Republican lawmakers warning about potential blowback, the White House is now planning to hold off at least a little longer on sending out notices of Reductions in Force ..”

@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/p...
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. Never before has so much money been spent so rapidly on a technology that, for all its potential, remains largely unproven ..”

@bloomberg.com $NVDA
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Reposted by: Greg Linden, Victor Galaz, Michael D. McDonald , and 2 more

carlquintanilla.bsky.social
NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Reposted by: Greg Linden, Simon Lester

rincewind.run
I am not a constitutional scholar but I am pretty sure “the president my personally levy taxes and choose what they fund” is not in fact what the founders intended
peark.es
George Pearkes @peark.es · 11h
Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT
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Reposted by: Greg Linden, Will Jennings

galvinalmanza.bsky.social
It's not, like, some minor paperwork mistake. If this is correct, ICE rammed a woman's car, threatened her derisively, shot her, and then wrote up a report claiming she drove at them.

Someone prosecute someone for perjury someday please.

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...
Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...
chicago.suntimes.com
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Reposted by: Greg Linden, Jon Green, Robert Black , and 1 more

nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 11h
Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT
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Reposted by: Greg Linden

xkcd.com
Window Screen

xkcd.com/3151/
4-panel comic. (1) [person in front of window, shaped like a trapezoid with a curved top] This weekend, I had to make an oversized screen for a porch window. (2) [person sitting with hands on head surrounded by images of assorted equations and measurements] It involved countless tiny problems, each somehow way harder than it should be. Oblique angles. Curved edges. Noncoplanarity. (3) [person in front of window with screen on it, with building detritus strewn on the ground] ...I solved them all. I measured precisely. I did trigonometry. I made custom parts. And it fit *perfectly.* No gaps, no ripples. (4) [person typing at computer] I know that your foundation normally limits its purview to physics, medicine, peace, chemistry, and literature. However, if you review the attached photos showing how well the screen fits into the...
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Reposted by: Greg Linden, Brendan Nyhan, Tom Clark , and 9 more

peark.es
Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT
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by Greg Linden

glinden.bsky.social
It's a publicly traded company, so I'd think maximizing shareholder value, not some political agenda, would be required for the stock price not to tank eventually. They're arguing this does maximize value, but if being a bad imitation of Fox News craters their viewership, there will be pressure?
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Reposted by: Greg Linden, Gerald Friedman, Stacy D. VanDeveer , and 2 more

briantylercohen.bsky.social
This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.
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Reposted by: Greg Linden

bluespacecanary.bsky.social
It's fascinating to me that there's a whole "AI skeptic" misinformation ecosystem out there that somehow continues to deny that Waymo exists. Like, this is easy to fact check! Waymo runs publicly-available service in 5 cities, you can just go look up how it works and see it's not planned routes!
A bluesky post with the user's handle cropped out: "In 2015, I was told, confidently, that AI would end human drivers in the trucking industry w/in 5 years. [Begin my highlight]10 years later, and there’s what-some experimental cabs rolling around a few cities in heavily-engineered preset routes?[end my highlight] Not to mention the fact that the AI industry itself is Enron on heroin."
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Reposted by: Greg Linden, Woodrow Hartzog

josephcox.bsky.social
Good job Sora 2 has watermarks on its videos (people have already made tools that instantly remove the watermark)

www.404media.co/sora-2-water...
Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web
Bypassing Sora 2's rudimentary safety features is easy and experts worry it'll lead to a new era of scams and disinformation.
www.404media.co
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by Greg Linden

glinden.bsky.social
More on why Tesla will never be able to build these from a well known expert in the field:
rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-h...
Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity – Rodney Brooks
rodneybrooks.com

by Greg Linden

glinden.bsky.social
The stock price shot up based on Musk's false promise, so did they really abandon Elon Musk's goal? On a more serious note, Tesla is never going to be able to build these, and Tesla investors are going to lose a lot of money if they're the last ones standing when the hype music stops playing.
techmeme.com
Techmeme @techmeme.com · 15h
Sources: Tesla abandoned Elon Musk's goal to make thousands of Optimus robots in 2025 due to significant technical challenges, especially with the robots' hands (Theo Wayt/The Information)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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techmeme.com
Sources: Tesla abandoned Elon Musk's goal to make thousands of Optimus robots in 2025 due to significant technical challenges, especially with the robots' hands (Theo Wayt/The Information)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Reposted by: Greg Linden, Gavin A. Schmidt

theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
See that small, moving splotch?

That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS

last Friday
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Reposted by: Greg Linden, Rosemary A. Joyce

ryanlcooper.com
more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold
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karlbode.com
The U.S. press isn't capable of admitting this clearly, but Bari Weiss was hired to turn CBS into a right wing propaganda machine and troll operation
Paramount Formally Hires Bari Weiss To Turn What’s Left Of CBS News Into A Soggy Right Wing Propaganda And Troll Farm
It’s super curious how the folks most vocal about being cancelled or having their “Conservative viewpoints silenced” now own or control most major U.S. media companies. Almost as …
www.techdirt.com
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fintwitter.bsky.social
NY FED: SEPTEMBER ONE-YEAR AHEAD EXPECTED INFLATION 3.4% VS. AUGUST’S 3.2% NY FED: SEPTEMBER THREE-YEAR AHEAD EXPECTED INFLATION UNCHANGED AT 3% NY FED: SEPTEMBER FIVE-YEAR AHEAD EXPECTED INFLATION 3% VS. AUGUST’S 2.9%
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
Faced with a post-truth ideological movement, media orgs have only two options:

1) Regularly distort reality to please the post-truth movement, and lose the trust of truth-based news consumers

2) Try to regain trust from the reality-based audience whose trust you lost while fruitlessly chasing 1
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Reposted by: Greg Linden, Alan Richardson, Adrian Daub

nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
I keep waiting for the powers that be in media to grasp the concept of bad faith, realize how often "restore trust in news" and similar statements mean "stop doing journalism, lie more in ways I like," come from people ideologically committed to destroying trust in news, and can never be satisfied.
karlbode.com
Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16h
I too am keen to "restore trust in news" by turning a major broadcast network into a 24/7 slurry of right wing culture war propaganda and engagement trolling
maxtani.bsky.social
max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 17h
Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."
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Reposted by: Greg Linden, Henry Farrell

techmeme.com
JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

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ryanlcooper.com
"As we can see all around us today—from crypto scams, to fake or counterfeit goods being sold online, to abusive microtransaction-laden mobile games, to gambling apps—cheating and lying require much, much less toil than building a quality product or service." prospect.org/economy/2025...
The Socialist Case for Antitrust
Markets need regulating. Always have, always will.
prospect.org
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Reposted by: Greg Linden, Anna O. Law, Jan W. Mueller , and 6 more

npr.org
President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained
President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
n.pr
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Reposted by: Greg Linden

justinhendrix.bsky.social
"OpenAI has signed about $1tn in deals this year for computing power to run its artificial intelligence models, commitments that dwarf its revenue and raise questions about how it can fund them."
OpenAI’s computing deals top $1tn
Partners including Nvidia, AMD and Oracle have signed up to Sam Altman’s huge bet on the future of artificial intelligence
www.ft.com
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Reposted by: Greg Linden, Ugo Panizza, Ian Hall , and 7 more

rikefranke.bsky.social
And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch
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Reposted by: Greg Linden, Anne Applebaum, Anna O. Law , and 33 more

chicago.suntimes.com
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
trib.al
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Reposted by: Greg Linden, Joanna Bryson, Kim L. Scheppele , and 12 more

jameeljaffer.bsky.social
It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
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Reposted by: Greg Linden, Will Jennings, Steve Peers , and 5 more

rollingstone.com
“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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