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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 6h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · 29/09/2026

here's a section of rafah pre- and post-israeli bombardment

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

we really need to start calling out these conservative christians for just straight up not believing in christianity. if you don’t believe christian teaching, nobody is forcing you to call yourself a christian! free yourself!

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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Many men would rather engage in violent fantasy about what they WOULD do instead of doing what they easily COULD.

Threads post from @protextor

“I'd kill for my daughter."

OK. Will you risk social inconvenience by calling out your peers loudly and to their face? Or is that bare minimum real-life scenario scarier than your hypothetical one? 1/2

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ideas for my midlife crisis: -Become swift like a coursing river -Develop force like a great typhoon -Build all the strength like a raging fire -Mysterious like the dark side of the moon

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.

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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/09/2026

I don't want to be hyperbolic. But here are some people who need to square up with God about how much suffering they bring into the world. Actual, for real, bona fide blood on their hands. I'm sure it's all just an abstract intellectual challenge to them; gotta hit those KPIs; just following orders.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 26/09/2026

Have I played “Control Resonant”? Sorry…I’m too busy reading the story of a man who “Controls Rocinante”…that’s right, Miguel Cervantes’ immortal tale “Don Quixote de La Mancha”. So you enjoy your strange “Federal Bureau”…I’ll be delighting in the adventures of Sancho Panza and his “Friendly Burro”

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is so good to see @reportermatt.bsky.social, who was in like 80% of my classes in college, become the most influential reporter in Massachusetts. He just loves the place, and you can tell in everything he does. A truly wonderful man making the whole state better.

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 25/09/2026

got to watch nothern minnesota guy yesterday order lunch. turkey sandwich. nothing in it, just the turkey. white bread. catholicism tells you to feel guilt over desire; nordic protestantism frees you from desire itself

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

video games as a whole make hundreds of billions of dollars a year and apparently somehow nobody can make any money on them or pay anyone to make them

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don’t know why, but something about the one-two punch here strikes me as morbidly hilarious in a cosmic sort of way.

An engineer on the Claude AI subreddit explains his frustrations with artificial intelligence’s impact on his job

Claude responds with the most AI summary to ever AI summary

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026

THIS IS THE KIND OF SHIT I WANT MY GOVERNMENT TO DO Hold large corporations accountable. Distribute the proceeds to the workers. Rinse, repeat.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a very recognisable depiction of various political subcultures and we all know it. I am Pessimistic about our ability to persuade people not to do this, but I am also baffled by the fact that so many people in fact want to do this. Some sort of instinct to small-group meanness is common!

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 16/09/2026

LLMs won’t wipe out humanity because they just don’t have that dog in them.

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

it never fails

meme of guy looking at girl walking past while his actual gf looks at him angrily. the guy is "The West", his gf is "China Does Something Right," and the other girl is "But at what cost?"

beneath the meme are various screenshots of headlines that basically say "chinda did something good, but at what cost?"

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

what the fuck

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Halt and Catch Fire made the 100 Best Shows of the 21st Century.

This drama began in the early days of the personal computer evolution—before social media, before FOMO, before AI angst—to tell the story of a Quartet of tech pioneers, who looked at those clunky beige desktop boxes and saw kaleidoscopic future. Computers were “the thing that gets us to the thing,” the latter thing being connection, empowerment, even a new kind of art. What began as a familiar tail of business-suite intrigue—“mad men” with processors—became a rich, heartfelt, human exploration of the cost and rewards of work and the necessity of failure. Its portrait of 80s and 90s techno-optimism may seem quaint now, but its rendering of the love of creation remains bleeding-edge. —James Poniewozik

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olive consumer @machete.gay · 21/09/2026

An idea largely lost in contemporary politics is that of the veneration of the happy warrior. There was a time, not terribly long ago, that a pugnacious attitude and refusal to budge on certain views was treated as an aspirational quality in a politician.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

good for them! better than I'd feared.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

your tax dollars paid for a beautiful building in which the people have access to countless free performances and exhibitions of high culture that were once gated to aristocratic elites. are you going to, proverbially, fight or perish like a dog?

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Praise and shade Benjamin Franklin wrote this to Arthur Lee on 3 April 1778, but apparently never sent.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

nice of him to give away the game. so, they want americans to "be healthy" enough to... work more. notice how they don't talk at all about happiness or well being. they only want to extract the maximum value out of you until they dispose of you

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Based upon their documented behavior over the past few years, the tech industry is less afraid of the potential ramifications of Artificial Superintelligence than they are of Lina Khan.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

genuinely giving a shit about the nuts and bolts of governance - really, seriously, trying to make it work properly - is the real mamdani superpower the charisma is of course a cheat code but it wouldn't be enough if he wasn't actually following through

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the experience of COVID really drove this home for me. It wans't the apocalypse, life went on, but a million people died and there were enormous social costs, some of which continue to this day and then when it was done most people were like "let's never think about that again"

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Absolutely lost my shit at this co-op mode for Hearts of Iron, which you play as the Army, Navy, Emperor, and Government. All have their own win conditions aside the Government, which lost the game automatically in 1925. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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True Imperial Japan Experience

True Imperial Japan Experience A Hearts of Iron 4 Game This is a counteroperative roleplaying game. The resolution system is a game of multiplayer Hearts of Iron 4 and a number of discord chats. Requi...

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 18/09/2026

Another must-read from @ftrain.com, a profoundly informed (and undeceived) writer on all things A.I. (n.b. Paul is an Ellie award-winning writer, an entrepreneur and businessman, an insightful theorist of the internet of the olden time, etc. etc.) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

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Opinion | A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. (Gift Article)

Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 18/09/2026

this from @ftrain.com is terrific, unsurprisingly, and I think this sentence actually understates the issue; it's not just that the big labs are in a hurry, it's that they don't see producing useful and well-documented tools for using these models as an important part of what they're doing

I don’t blame the coders for this, or even the bosses. I blame the big A.I. companies, who are in such a hurry that they often release new versions of their models and tools without manuals or even clear YouTube tutorials.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 18/09/2026

Speaking from my own experiences, the gains from AI generated software are going to be in back of house applications that were always kind of like fitting a square peg into a round hole but can now be created and customized by people who have business knowledge but not as much technical knowledge

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skate witch @skatewitch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You are placed into an era of loneliness. Locusts with the faces of men envelope the sky. The world keeps spinning though you wish it wouldn't. Move with the W, A, S, D keys. Rotate your camera with the mouse

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

oh hey it's that thing I said Seriously tho print this article out and take it to your next city council meeting and ask them if they're willing to invest in air defense systems for your town too.

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AWS Says It Can’t Restore Some Data From Mideast Facilities Struck by Iran

Amazon’s announcement is the first indication that some data stored exclusively in Bahrain and the U.A.E could be gone forever.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This industry frames its regulations in this way because it has, at its core, a millenarian death cult that worships and fears AI as the cause of the end of the world, that feels compelled to create AI, and that at least somewhat wants to destroy AI as a field.

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