Benjamin Watt hates fascists
@benrwatt.bsky.social
he/him - Shit poster, politically anti-fascist, regularly dunking with facts. Pro/Am DM. Angry type 1 diabetic.
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This is a great example of one of the ways AI is actually going to endanger / kill huge numbers of people.
Shitty chatbots cause their special sort of brain rot to the people who package intelligence for our shot-callers. They take the bad ideas from there.
www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
Shitty chatbots cause their special sort of brain rot to the people who package intelligence for our shot-callers. They take the bad ideas from there.
www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
September 19, 2026 at 9:34 AM
This is a great example of one of the ways AI is actually going to endanger / kill huge numbers of people.
Shitty chatbots cause their special sort of brain rot to the people who package intelligence for our shot-callers. They take the bad ideas from there.
www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
Shitty chatbots cause their special sort of brain rot to the people who package intelligence for our shot-callers. They take the bad ideas from there.
www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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it’s arizover
September 17, 2026 at 11:59 AM
it’s arizover
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Stop adopting Republican framing on this, I beg of dems.
September 17, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Stop adopting Republican framing on this, I beg of dems.
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This will not be a happy ending for Robert Kraft
i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started
The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
September 15, 2026 at 8:57 PM
This will not be a happy ending for Robert Kraft
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After Robert Kraft rallied stadium owners to prevent Ed Sheeran’s tour from their venues unless he fired Macklemore, Sheeran’s opening acts Finneas, Lukas Graham, Aaron Rowe, as well as Sheeran’s touring band, Beoga, have all announced their departures from the tour.
September 15, 2026 at 8:38 PM
After Robert Kraft rallied stadium owners to prevent Ed Sheeran’s tour from their venues unless he fired Macklemore, Sheeran’s opening acts Finneas, Lukas Graham, Aaron Rowe, as well as Sheeran’s touring band, Beoga, have all announced their departures from the tour.
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A friend of mine works in AI and thinks bad things are about to happen. He sold his home and moved his family out the country. He said that if you own a home in a walkable San Francisco neighborhood near a taqueria with good veggie options, you should sell your home for super cheap right now.
September 15, 2026 at 7:01 AM
A friend of mine works in AI and thinks bad things are about to happen. He sold his home and moved his family out the country. He said that if you own a home in a walkable San Francisco neighborhood near a taqueria with good veggie options, you should sell your home for super cheap right now.
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Triumphantly returning from Medbed Hypersleep to cast a vote on the Rural Hospital Abolition Act. That's beautiful.
Mitch McConnell in a social media post said that he will return to the Senate floor and cast his first vote since his hospitalization in June.
See more: https://www.wkyt.com/2026/09/14/mcconnell-confirms-he-will-return-senate-cast-first-vote-since-hospitalization/
See more: https://www.wkyt.com/2026/09/14/mcconnell-confirms-he-will-return-senate-cast-first-vote-since-hospitalization/
September 14, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Triumphantly returning from Medbed Hypersleep to cast a vote on the Rural Hospital Abolition Act. That's beautiful.
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Talarico and AOC have both made this error in the past month or so.
It is not only a waste of time but a foolish alienation of a very reachable and energized base (trans folks, disabled folks).
It is not only a waste of time but a foolish alienation of a very reachable and energized base (trans folks, disabled folks).
September 13, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Talarico and AOC have both made this error in the past month or so.
It is not only a waste of time but a foolish alienation of a very reachable and energized base (trans folks, disabled folks).
It is not only a waste of time but a foolish alienation of a very reachable and energized base (trans folks, disabled folks).
Gotta admit my ignorance here as a person who plans to vote for James - *what* far right policies has he backed?
ah this explains why james talarico has suddenly started supporting far right maga policies.
he's not fighting fascism. he's hiring fascists to determine his POLICIES.
he's not fighting fascism. he's hiring fascists to determine his POLICIES.
James Talarico's campaign has hired a staffer from Republican Sen. John Cornyn.
Jacob Smith, who worked for Cornyn for five years as a deputy legislative director and policy adviser, is taking on the role of deputy policy director for Talarico's campaign.
Jacob Smith, who worked for Cornyn for five years as a deputy legislative director and policy adviser, is taking on the role of deputy policy director for Talarico's campaign.
September 13, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Gotta admit my ignorance here as a person who plans to vote for James - *what* far right policies has he backed?
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I am serious that today’s journalism ecosystem would be fooled if they played war of the worlds on the radio. It would be on CNN within hours
Meanwhile on X, from Evan Hubinger, who leads the Alignment Science team at Anthropic.
September 10, 2026 at 10:36 PM
I am serious that today’s journalism ecosystem would be fooled if they played war of the worlds on the radio. It would be on CNN within hours
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![The current plan is to solve [alignment] at speed in the next couple of years, probably making heavy use of automated AI safety researchers. The plan is literally to make some pretty smart models in the next year that can basically do safety research and get a whole swarm of them running in parallel. Tell them, "Go and solve the whole problem of safety," and use them to do the safety training for the next model.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreif43v2v25uwjyt2gxn5h4m7huh7ogqrvetzu5ip3tsoqwwmn5jgya)
September 10, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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I find the Charlie Kirk memes very distasteful. Please post them below so I can filter them out 👇
September 10, 2026 at 11:01 AM
I find the Charlie Kirk memes very distasteful. Please post them below so I can filter them out 👇
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I’ve literally gone into a doctor’s office here in Texas where the doctor started ranting about how awful and hateful JK Rowling is
Like shockingly, no, even here in Texas, most people aren’t just raging transphobes who get off on suffering
Like shockingly, no, even here in Texas, most people aren’t just raging transphobes who get off on suffering
I keep seeing people on here being like "you don't understand, Texas isn't Bluesky, normal people have to hear that you want the trans kids sport genital inspections"
...if you think the voting public in ANY state is make or break on that pervert bully shit, maybe it is *you* that needs to log off
...if you think the voting public in ANY state is make or break on that pervert bully shit, maybe it is *you* that needs to log off
Just, just MAYBE you clock the fact that this trans panic stuff only guides low info voters if you let it become the conversation.
Also that low info voters are usually plenty happy to talk about other shit, like for example the fact that they have sticker shock every time they hit the supermarket
Also that low info voters are usually plenty happy to talk about other shit, like for example the fact that they have sticker shock every time they hit the supermarket
September 10, 2026 at 3:35 AM
I’ve literally gone into a doctor’s office here in Texas where the doctor started ranting about how awful and hateful JK Rowling is
Like shockingly, no, even here in Texas, most people aren’t just raging transphobes who get off on suffering
Like shockingly, no, even here in Texas, most people aren’t just raging transphobes who get off on suffering
Oh wow $5,000 so the same trick he pulled in 2020 and 2024?
What’s the deficit at, fucko?
What’s the deficit at, fucko?
September 10, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Oh wow $5,000 so the same trick he pulled in 2020 and 2024?
What’s the deficit at, fucko?
What’s the deficit at, fucko?
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welcome to 2020s tech. we got
- pervert glasses
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- the button that does nothing
- we outta ram
- we outta hard drives
- we outta graphics cards
- ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses
- wiretap
- pervert glasses
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- the button that does nothing
- we outta ram
- we outta hard drives
- we outta graphics cards
- ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses
- wiretap
NEW: The new Apple Watches double as AI-powered listening bugs for generating convo "recaps" or transcripts of any previous 15 seconds. But fear not, Apple says, this data isn't sent to Apple/gets encrypted, speakers aren't ID'd, and there's a chime for the 15-second thing. @lhn.bsky.social reports:
Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch’s Listening Features
The new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in. But the protections can’t change the facts of what the tools do.
www.wired.com
September 9, 2026 at 8:40 PM
welcome to 2020s tech. we got
- pervert glasses
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- the button that does nothing
- we outta ram
- we outta hard drives
- we outta graphics cards
- ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses
- wiretap
- pervert glasses
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- the button that does nothing
- we outta ram
- we outta hard drives
- we outta graphics cards
- ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses
- wiretap
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Climate change will manifest as a series of empty cafés viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it
LA’s hyperhumid super El Niño heatwave has finally done the impossible: cleared out the Silver Lake Intelligentsia patio at 1pm on a Wednesday
September 9, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Climate change will manifest as a series of empty cafés viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it
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The world’s richest man is a transphobic white supremacist federal contractor with a breeding compound and he materially supports one of the two US parties with as much money as he can and their opposition really ought to focus on stopping him for continuing to do that.
September 3, 2026 at 6:58 PM
The world’s richest man is a transphobic white supremacist federal contractor with a breeding compound and he materially supports one of the two US parties with as much money as he can and their opposition really ought to focus on stopping him for continuing to do that.
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He will of course do it through dark money PACs and they'll pretend they simply do not know and cannot be held responsible, it's all out of their control you see
Any candidate who accepts Musk's money will be repeatedly asked if they think it's a political liability to partner with an open bigot—blatantly racist, unambiguously sexist, egregiously antisemitic, you can pick one of many, many available examples—and if they'll give the money back, right? Right?
Elon Musk is expected to spend upward of $100 million to boost Republicans in the the midterm elections.
September 3, 2026 at 8:41 PM
He will of course do it through dark money PACs and they'll pretend they simply do not know and cannot be held responsible, it's all out of their control you see
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By her own admission, Gloria Steinem knowingly accepted funding from the CIA.
She also spent most of her life as a TERF.
Fxck the gentry.
She also spent most of her life as a TERF.
Fxck the gentry.
"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." - Gloria Steinem
By her words and her example she pissed people off, set people free, and inspired generations of feminists (myself included) to live and write truth more boldly. What a legacy.
By her words and her example she pissed people off, set people free, and inspired generations of feminists (myself included) to live and write truth more boldly. What a legacy.
September 3, 2026 at 6:09 PM
By her own admission, Gloria Steinem knowingly accepted funding from the CIA.
She also spent most of her life as a TERF.
Fxck the gentry.
She also spent most of her life as a TERF.
Fxck the gentry.
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Right now is the ideal time to ask the most annoying people in your office an extremely important, time sensitive question, ideally in front of management or their direct report
September 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Right now is the ideal time to ask the most annoying people in your office an extremely important, time sensitive question, ideally in front of management or their direct report
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Flock taught cops how they could surveil the No Kings protests and “small parades” using a mix of Flock’s technology and law enforcement’s own databases in a webinar last year. Here's a short clip from the webinar:
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/flock-taught...
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/flock-taught...
September 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Flock taught cops how they could surveil the No Kings protests and “small parades” using a mix of Flock’s technology and law enforcement’s own databases in a webinar last year. Here's a short clip from the webinar:
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/flock-taught...
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/flock-taught...
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CBS Boss Bari Weiss “Personally” Led Twisted 9/11 Article on El-Sayed
That sick article tying Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed to September 11 reportedly came right from the top.
That sick article tying Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed to September 11 reportedly came right from the top.
CBS Boss Bari Weiss “Personally” Led Twisted 9/11 Article on El-Sayed
That sick article tying Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed to September 11 reportedly came right from the top.
newrepublic.com
September 2, 2026 at 11:22 PM
CBS Boss Bari Weiss “Personally” Led Twisted 9/11 Article on El-Sayed
That sick article tying Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed to September 11 reportedly came right from the top.
That sick article tying Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed to September 11 reportedly came right from the top.
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For @newrepublic.com I wrote about how Markwayne Mullin has used conspiracies about "child trafficking" + financial incentives to recruit local law enforcement to engage in "UAC verification."
newrepublic.com/article/2142...
newrepublic.com/article/2142...
The Trump Administration’s Depraved Exploitation of Immigrant Children
The Department of Homeland Security is using underage-sex-trafficking conspiracy theories to bolster its mass deportation machine.
newrepublic.com
September 1, 2026 at 3:13 PM
For @newrepublic.com I wrote about how Markwayne Mullin has used conspiracies about "child trafficking" + financial incentives to recruit local law enforcement to engage in "UAC verification."
newrepublic.com/article/2142...
newrepublic.com/article/2142...
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Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa
www.tampabay.com/news/2026/08...
www.tampabay.com/news/2026/08...
Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa
ICE sent them away under a controversial policy without knowing where they were going or what would happen next.
www.tampabay.com
September 1, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa
www.tampabay.com/news/2026/08...
www.tampabay.com/news/2026/08...
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A Chinese national died just a day after ICE took him into custody late last month. Lianyong Wei was 51 years old. The cause of his death is under investigation.
Criminal illegal alien from China passes away at Saipan ICE facility
Lianyong Wei, a 51, a criminal illegal alien from China in ICE custody who was arrested and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, disturbing the peace, assault and battery, and aggravated assa...
www.ice.gov
September 1, 2026 at 2:06 PM
A Chinese national died just a day after ICE took him into custody late last month. Lianyong Wei was 51 years old. The cause of his death is under investigation.