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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11h

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Jesse Herro, Department of Spreadsheet Chair @abraxis.bsky.social · 13h

The nerds (deragtory) building this shit have too much money and are too online to have any idea about what people are like, or like. They think everyone is as shallow as they are, they are incapable of conceiving anything else.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 13h

I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 22h

I think it's closer to the truth that LLMs *can* save time on *some tasks* which can be valuable *if* you monitor them and check their output. But that doesn't get you a trillion dollars so they have to squint into the middle distance and say stupid sci fi bullshit instead

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Jesse Herro, Department of Spreadsheet Chair @abraxis.bsky.social · 19h

o shit, who's going to tell them what pepsi is?

PEPSICO: CEO: 'WE DON'T FEEL GOOD ABOUT THE BEVERAGE BUSINESS'

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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If this isn't the most brutal of metaphors for the status of women in US politics in 2026. She's brave for running against MAGA and brave for reporting and I am wishing Greene-Placentia all the strength and healing I can.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Jesse Herro, Department of Spreadsheet Chair @abraxis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I transferred to UWM from Madison for my sophmore year and had recently moved into my apartment. Stayed up way late listening to this over and over 34 years ago tonight.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pete Hegseth gave a speech in front of a backdrop that almost perfectly matches Nazi imagery. Meanwhile, Trump calls opponents “vermin” who he will “root out,” and says the blood of our country is being poisoned. We are far past left vs right. Our choice is democracy or fascism.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Every billionaire believes this because they all see themselves in the role. None have the depth to think about what any dictator would necessarily have to do to be "efficient" in governance and "benevolent" for the people: seize billionaires' assets and nationalize their industries.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I met the founder of the Schools Consent Project a couple of months ago and they do important work in this area. They’re lawyers who go into middle schools and high schools and have frank conversations with student about ethics and legality

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What a dickhead

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

brings me no joy to say that Fukuyama nailed it

But supposing that the world has become "filled up," so to speak, with liberal democracies, such that there exist no tyranny and oppression worthy of the name against which to struggle?
Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier gen-eration, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain boredom: for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle. And if the greater part of the world in which they live is characterized by peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy, then they will struggle against that peace and pros-perity, and against democracy.

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Jesse Herro, Department of Spreadsheet Chair @abraxis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That pales though to how badly The Day After scared me a few years later. That one led to years of nightmares about the sun swallowing the earth and eventually a degree in Russian.

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Jesse Herro, Department of Spreadsheet Chair @abraxis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A commercial for The Shining scared me very badly.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 05/10/2026

A 103-year-old bartender—presumably the world's oldest—serving drinks out of his (legal) basement bar. (Also a "bratender," if you look at the decor.) wapo.st/3ViDWpR

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Last call? Not for this 103-year-old bartender.

Irvin E. Koch, a World War II veteran, serves beer and more out of his cash-only (of course) basement bar.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is a gutting piece www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Samantha Maldonado @smaldo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Guardian Angel founder is also a self-proclaimed expert on getting shot -- actually shot, by bullets. He survived being shot five times in June 1992. "I know about getting shot," he assured the mayor. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-may...

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Mayor Mamdani holds hands with one-time rival Curtis Sliwa to get flu shot

An apparent bromance has continued to blossom for the one-time political rivals.

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Jesse Herro, Department of Spreadsheet Chair @abraxis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Have you seen this tho... bsky.app/profile/tcar...

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WBEZ @wbez.org · 02/10/2026

Built by a past tobacco boom, Viroqua has become synonymous with the so-called Driftless Slow movement — or intentional living with a DIY streak.

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Living slowly in the Driftless region’s Viroqua, Wisconsin

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hegseth seems more intent on waging war against the Pentagon than against Iran. @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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Pete Hegseth Just Declared Victory in the Wrong War

The combative culture warrior in the Pentagon may soon be Congress’s top target.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The techno-dystopia I actually fear is a future where most people think truth is whatever Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok say, and the very small number of people who control those systems use that to manipulate for their own ends, making our current epistemic crisis seem small in comparison.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke

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Jesse Herro, Department of Spreadsheet Chair @abraxis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Semibreve sounds nice too! Not sure how crochet is pronnounced.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Correct. Concentration camps.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New piece from me on James Talarico leaning into the immigration debate in the Trumpiest of border states:

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