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TheForceWorks @forceworksthe.bsky.social · Apr 9
“I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran. In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them." - Hillary Clinton on ABC's Good Morning America, April 2008
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"The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity."
doctorow.pluralistic.net By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17h
Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/10/01/d...

#Pluralistic
Two suffragists in period dress, ceremonially putting ballots into a ballot box. The background has been replaced with an elaborate collage of 19th C printing-press parts. The ballots are glowing with radiant spikes. The face of the ballot box has been replaced with an Nvidia Vera Lynn GPU.
October 1, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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caitoz.bsky.social
Saying You Listen To AI Music Is Like Saying You Have An AI Girlfriend

"When you’re talking about human interaction, which is what art is at its very nature, it absolutely does matter if there’s someone on the other end of it."

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/saying-you...
Saying You Listen To AI Music Is Like Saying You Have An AI Girlfriend
Video reading by Tim Foley:
www.caitlinjohnst.one
September 30, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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johncusack.bsky.social
From things that can and cannot be said
September 30, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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realinfowars.bsky.social
Your son's playdates are LOST CAPITAL. Listen to Jay Weingarten, a man very comfortable around information.
September 29, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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ign.com
A professional Pokémon player is going viral after begging his fellow competitors to keep up with their personal hygiene, claiming he literally threw up at an event due to someone’s stench. https://bit.ly/4hSEc7w
September 29, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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democracynow.org
Has the Gaza ceasefire "ended up just buying more time for the genocide"?
“Buying More Time for the Genocide”: Muhammad Shehada on Trump’s Gaza Plan 1 Year Later
The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has surpassed 74,000, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. While this figure represents the official death toll as confirmed by local autho...
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September 29, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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trackaipac.com
Night Flower: Inside AIPAC’s Fight for Influence

Coming soon from Zeteo.
September 29, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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#StarWars #McDonalds #Fries #RogueOne #SawGerrera
September 26, 2026 at 12:00 AM
forceworksthe.bsky.social
Jensen Huang is such an idiot
mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 7d
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?”

Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address. And I —— I don’t really believe that to be true. It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you. One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it. But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded —— Yeah. I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books. You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers. Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker. What do you mean by systems thinker? They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things. So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
September 25, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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“It’s continuing now. There is no ceasefire. People are getting killed every day.”

Doctor @hamawyfornj.bsky.social protests Israeli PM Netanyahu and Israel’s genocide in Gaza in New York City.
statuscoupnews.bsky.social Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 7d
"I've seen war. I've seen disaster. It's always horrible. What I witnessed in Gaza was way beyond that." - Doctor who was in Gaza speaks out against Israel as Netanyahu gives a speech to the UN in NYC w/ @jordanchariton.bsky.social
September 25, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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politicsjoe.bsky.social
Cory Doctorow reckons the AI Bubble is about to burst. Is he right? @doctorow.pluralistic.net
September 25, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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democracynow.org
“We understandably focus on the person of Netanyahu, but this goes so much deeper,” says former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy, responding to Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the U.N. on Thursday.
September 25, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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iamdevil.bsky.social
“We don’t have the money”
September 25, 2026 at 12:46 AM
forceworksthe.bsky.social
Isnt it funny how the Israel First government wants to paint everybody as a "foreign agent"?
kenklippenstein.bsky.social Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 8d
🚨 AI data center critics are being scrutinized as foreign agents.

DOJ warns: "public demonstrations designed to further the propaganda or other goals of the foreign power...may result in significant criminal sanctions" 👇
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-think...
Feds Think AI Critics Are Foreign Agents
Trump admin thinks China is bankrolling opposition to AI data centers
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 24, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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anem.bsky.social
"How dare you accuse us of war crimes... Anyway, remember that war crime we did? Wasn't that great?"
September 24, 2026 at 6:54 PM
forceworksthe.bsky.social
Physical is king, but we also need to be careful to not fall for a certain grift from companies. For example, Oblivion on Switch 2, after the patch, doesnt really open anymore unless you patch the game. So the "having it on the card" thing just became irrelevant. And DoesItPlay doesnt reflect this.
September 24, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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democracynow.org
Ahead of Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations, hundreds of demonstrators led by Jewish Voice for Peace staged a sit-in protest in New York City on Thursday, stopping traffic for over an hour just three blocks away from the U.N.’s headquarters. Over 100 protesters were arrested.
September 24, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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For as much as the US has lost on the battlefield in Iran, it has continued to solidify its position in the West through brute force. This isn't a good strategy by any means, but it "worked" in Venezuela, it's working with Greenland / Denmark, and Canada / EU may oppose on paper, but not in action.
September 24, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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jayapal.house.gov
At least 9 U.S. citizens have died in the West Bank since 2022, including my constituent Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi.

We need accountability and answers. The Senate must pass @vanhollen.senate.gov's resolution.
The image features information about a vote being forced by Senator Chris Van Hollen to prompt the Trump administration to report on the killings of U.S. citizens in the West Bank. It includes a photo of Aysenur Ezgi Eyi, a constituent of Rep. Jayapal, who was killed. A statistic in bold states 84% of voters want investigations into U.S. citizen deaths believed to involve Israeli actions. A source is noted at the bottom.
September 24, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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theonion.com
“Damn, I wish I’d had the foresight to put some money down on rice back in 5000 B.C., because I’d probably be loaded right now.” — Keith Towers
Regretful Man Realizes He Would Be Rich By Now If He Had Invested In Rice 7,000 Years Ago
ST. LOUIS—Kicking himself for missing out on a potentially lucrative financial opportunity, local man Keith Towers reportedly realized this week that he might have become rich if he had invested in ri...
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September 23, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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‘Darkwing Duck’ Reboot Ordered to Series at Disney+ With Mark Hamill, Seth Rogen in Lead Roles variety.com/2026/tv/news...
September 22, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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New: OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI, including reading ChatGPT users' prompts

We've found many of those contractors have been fired for themselves using AI to train the AI. People using AI "all the time and people are let go for it all the time" www.404media.co/people-train...
People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.
www.404media.co
September 22, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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POLL: 57% of Democrats want Biden officials in jail over Gaza

- via Liberal Currents / Center for Strategic Politics
September 22, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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“If Vance manages to succeed Trump, Thiel - his benefactor, mentor, and maker - will become the most powerful man in the world.” ~ @gilduran.com
September 21, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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jimtrinca.bsky.social
I think it's very funny that like. My whole life they've been speaking in hushed tones about "if we're not careful one day China will be the dominant superpower instead of the US" and most of my generation are like don't threaten us with a good time lads honestly
September 21, 2026 at 9:29 PM