Charlie Thomsen (@thomsec.bsky.social)

@mary1kathy.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 3:32 PMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

@watchyourrepssc.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 3:32 PMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

What Tuskegee, Watergate, and Big Tobacco Have in Common With Trump and Putin
open.substack.com/pub/thejackh...

@susankayequinn.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:40 PMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

this whole article is *excellent*
celestemdavis.substack.com/p/patriarchy...

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:23 PMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

I am sorry to say that yeah it’s not looking good

Shannon Vallor@shannonvallor.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 12:50 PM

We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind

news.berkeley.eduUsing AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley NewsA UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

@rmayemsinger.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:13 PMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

So I guess now "pro gang rapists" is part of certified maga ideology? I guess it wasn't a big leap from bringing back measles, shooting people in their cars with dogs or kids in the back seat and live-streaming executions.

@lincolnsquare.media Oct 11, 2026, 4:52 PMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

MAGA will be completely happy to allow their children to watch a public execution—just as racists took their kids to watch public hangings of Black people. A nation that teaches its children to applaud executions isn’t raising patriots. It’s creating barbarians.

@prchovanec.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:54 PMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

This is the danger of having "law enforcement agents" dressed in masks and second-hand tactical gear, with no ID. Who can tell them from criminals or terrorists?

@rogueresistknitter.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:46 PMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

This kid is amazing!

@kellyskennedy.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:57 PMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

He hates when you call him a mercenary. Mercenary. “What brought both men to Congo was their employment by Mr. Prince, the founder of Blackwater Worldwide, a company notorious for a civilian massacre in Iraq in 2007.”

@cavskermit.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:01 PMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

If there's not an effective private means for Republicans to communicate with the Trump administration, Republicans will use the media to communicate with the Trump administration, and it's remarkable it's occurring a month ahead of the elections.

@browneyedsusan.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:20 PMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

No?

@rahmstorf.wsocial.eu Oct 11, 2026, 1:11 PMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

An interesting new study has examined 20,736 scientific publications about climate tipping points. Several of those are estimated to be crossed around 1.5 degrees warming, i.e. any time soon: permafrost thaw, Greenland Ice Sheet, North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre.
theconversation.com/some-climate...

@perevaa.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 8:40 AMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services.

Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

@oneveteransoath.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:15 PMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

8 months ago the #StraightOfHormuz was open, gas was +/- $3/gal, and #Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.

Today the Strait is a clusterfuck and gas is over $5/gal.

23 days to the midterms.

@proptermalone.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:16 PMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

the ease with which coordinated attacks on industry are getting home suggests to me that the main limitation on Ukrainian damage in Russia is diplomatic rather than tactical. not sure if the other way around is true or not

@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 2:00 PMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.

@phaneritic.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:51 PMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

Note the right lateral offset of the yellow centerline of you look across the fault. (Traffic spotters had my back for this quick snap).

A road through the central coast of California, as viewed from the central line of the highway, looking off into the distance before the road turns. There’s mountains in the background and a few oak trees on the side of the road, but the important feature is at the bottom of the photo where there’s a rumble piece of asphalt that goes across the entire highway. That is the San Andreas fault and if you look across the rumble area, you can easily see the yellow center line has been offset to the right by a couple inches. this offset has happened within the last 10 years or so as they frequently repave this section.

@adamserwer.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 1:45 PMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

@solitudex.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:02 AMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

🤭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👇🙃😎🍁

@ablum.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:52 PMReposted by @thomsec.bsky.social

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