Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆

Anti-Fascist & Anti-Authoritarian Socialist🏴 | Books📚 | Plants🪴 | Urban Planning/Public Transportation🚊 | Formerly Rh3t0ticTV | I run @PoliticsLs | he/him

[Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆 @AvgLibSoc]

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[Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆 @AvgLibSoc]

That’s fucking wild lmao

[BNO News @BNONews]

Jonathan D. Miller, Libertarian candidate for North Carolina Senate, taken into custody after hours-long standoff with police and posting threats

[Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆 @AvgLibSoc]

Imagine being so stupid that you’re terrified of your own party’s AI slop

[PoliticsLs @PoliticsLs]

Conservatives invent their own realities—now with AI—to be afraid of

[The Anarchist Turtle 🏴Ⓐ🔆🏳️‍⚧️ @anarchoboognish]

I'm a disabled trans woman with cerebral palsy. I can't walk and can't work. We found me an apartment. I'm days away from getting out of this hotel, but if I can't cover move-in and the hotel bill lose it and end up on the street. Please help if you can

https://t.co/w9Spu0slSf

[Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆 @AvgLibSoc]

Revenue of only ~2% of total evaluation is fucking INSANE

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Anthropic officially files its S-1 registration statement for an IPO, seeking to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol $ANT.

FULL SUMMARY OF ANTHROPIC'S S-1 FILING:

1. Anthropic posted H1 2026 revenue of $16.3 billion with a net loss of $80.7 billion

2. Anthropic says it does not expect to pay a dividend "in the foreseeable future"

3. Expects to spend up to $120.5 billion on SpaceXAI and Nvidia compute

4. Expects to spend up to $114.5 billion with Google through 2033

5. Revenue growth rate "may not be sustainable" and "may decrease"

6. May be required to seek additional financing "sooner than expected"

7. 5% of Anthropic's shares will go to the "Anthropic Public Benefit Fund"

8. S-1 includes warnings of AI's "catastrophic existential risks to humanity"

Markets currently expect Anthropic to raise as much as $100 billion at a valuation of ~$2 trillion.

The company is reportedly targeting an IPO in the week of November 16th.

[Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆 @AvgLibSoc]

Holy shit it’s so over for tech and tech workers. 60,000 with Microsoft on their resume are about to hit an already dead job market

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg.

Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible.

This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.

[Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆 @AvgLibSoc]

@DreamLeaf5 Did they build ad buys directly into the posting UI? Unimaginable levels of greed

[Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆 @AvgLibSoc]

He realized he’s viewed as too moderate in Israel

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

New Netanyahu post:

[Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆 @AvgLibSoc]

Apparently Brazilian polls were at shit as US ones

[Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆 @AvgLibSoc]

Oh thank god

[BNO News Live @BNODesk]

BREAKING: Lula wins re-election as Brazil's president, beating Flávio Bolsonaro, Datafolha projects

[Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆 @AvgLibSoc]

Holy shit, Matthew is such a soulless ghoul

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Me: "Even if it was unpopular, are you saying the Democratic Party should not speak out against the president sending migrants who have committed no crimes to be tortured in a foreign gulag?"

@mattyglesias: "Yeah."

Me: "Just stay silent?"

Yglesias: "I think that sometimes, if you want to help people... you gotta win first."

Me: "They might be dead in three years time, by the time you win."

Despite all the arguments on this hellsite over the exact number of his Piker tweets, this was the part of my interview with Matthew Yglesias that really stood out to me. I was actually stunned by this response. Shouldn't politics also stand for something more than triangulation, polling and 4-D chess strategizing?

Full interview: https://t.co/yPv9wXnujC

[Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆 @AvgLibSoc]

Because CIA influence in Latin America has gone great in the past…

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba - now is the time.

The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.

[C @fbgcon]

May I make a suggestion that sticks to the theme

[Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆 @AvgLibSoc]

Fucking incel Nazis made a cute gender swapped fanfiction concept into another talking point for their race war. Please touch some grass dude

[Damian Mee @meeDamian]

Malfoid is quietly becoming a symbol of the West's cultural counter-revolution.

In a world increasingly starved of romance, devotion and anything worth building a future around, a fictional girl seems to have awakened something long dormant.

[Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆 @AvgLibSoc]

The main difference between D&D and other dice games is the flexibility in the story. If you want everything to be pure luck there are other games you can play. Or just find a DM that relies solely on dice rolls for all decisions (even if that seems far less fun to me)

[Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆 @AvgLibSoc]

A really good DM is basically an author writing in real time. There are moments where the pure chance of a dice roll is crucial, but there are also moments where you can let the DM adapt a story to other actions and ideas. I don’t see a problem with this.

[Corpse Kings @CorpseKings]

Just heard about Critical Role not using dice to determine important gameplay moments and I don't know if I should be either embarrassed or annoyingly bored at this point. Just stage a play already, this isn't even a game anymore.

[Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆 @AvgLibSoc]

Even though Jubilee videos are a cancer, I love when a debater can shut down an opponent this well. Kudos to Zina here.

[Jubilee @jubileemedia]

Do you agree that women perpetuate homophobia more than we think? #hottakes #jubilee

[Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆 @AvgLibSoc]

ProPublica is doing the A+ quality journalism that risks them getting disappeared.

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

ProPublica: Trump Appointees Wanted a Voting Machine Hacked

A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security made an unusual request of its agency focused on cybersecurity: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it.

The appointees wanted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to procure the machine, examine it and report back the findings so they could be given to the White House, according to two former administration officials with knowledge of the request.

https://t.co/bLvQxY7rJK

[Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆 @AvgLibSoc]

Using private company stock to fund social programs is such a shameless way to make it politically unpopular to do anything that harms Anthropic or SpaceX. Individual private companies should never be permanently cemented into the economy and wellbeing of average people.

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Elon Musk just confirmed that its the beginning of Universal High income. Enjoy your last months before the abundance begins and we enter the golden era.

[Annia Ciezadlo @annia.bsky.social @annia]

So under Anthropic's bill, Anthropic can kill 49 people and steal up to a billion dollars before anyone can legally stop them

[Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆 @AvgLibSoc]

It’s interesting to see certain extremely mainstream establishment politicians (Obama, Harris, Newsom, etc) slowly come around on progressive issues but half a decade late and only when it becomes politically detrimental to not change. Spineless cowards.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Obama, speaking in Northern Ireland this week:

Israel "has lost the moral high ground in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."