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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h

A lot of people in the comments are mentioning that USA Today is owned by Gannett. One of my big concerns is that *every* Gannett-owned newsroom might have access to my interview now. I will never interview with any of them again.

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Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh yeah. It slaps. Calling all mineheads! games.mino.mobi/orb

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bvoret.bsky.social @bvoret.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Who am I to say which is better, dys or dat topia?

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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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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Nick 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My first teenage job was reorganizing files for a law firm, and I’m only realizing much later how useful it was to read a bunch of letters and filings and get a sense of how to effectively have a fight in writing.

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Loved seeing Rep. Laura Friedman there who authored the bill as a state assemblymember allowing cities to do these pilot projects — a process that started 7 (!) years ago. Worth watching her drill down the privacy protections in place. These are not Flock cameras!

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Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik @hatethathedgehog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

you arent a burden. you are a human being with wants and needs. having desires does not make you selfish. unless you are sonic, in which case you are not human and everything you do sickens me.

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Nick 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I thought canceling people’s ACA policies was just to undermine ACA - didn’t occur to me it would be another round of making people think trump is personally giving them money.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Two of the world’s largest pine cones. A heavy Coulter pine (Pinus coulteri, left/taller) and a long sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana, right/shorter. IG: @bigtreehunters www.instagram.com/bigtreehunte...

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you.

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Nick 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Having something like one in every 3000 people in the state be members of the legislature leads to some lovable moments in state politics.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Men, it’s never too late to leave your fraternity. Membership is lifelong. And these segregationist institutions use your name to uphold the power they abuse. This is what your fellow alums are doing. Do you really want to be associated with that?

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Nick 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trump Administration Releases Unsettling Poetry

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hippie libs 🤝 tax revolt conservatives🤝 nazis 🤝 communists 🤝 moderate democrats “We should all live in a little peasant village where everything costs 1 million dollars”

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.

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LLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.

The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about.

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Nick 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

…How can you claim “most enduring popular song of all time” about something written last year? If I had to guess the most enduring popular song of all time is from the same side of the same culture war, though - it‘s Yankee Doodle.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Average annual spending as % of US GDP

A chart of percentages of US GDP at various tech splend periods, from canals to AI. AI is outpacing all of them

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Nick 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Anyone remember Howard Stern? He sure was a bellwether of 21st century elite media and politics.

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Nick 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“First Among Equals”’ is an excellent foreign policy principle.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

the paramount/warner antitrust suit could have done serious damage to this man’s empire and I will not stop being furious at everyone in california politics who caved on it

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's no debating with the centrist who does this because they're not even approaching these issues with informed awareness. They see fascists as bad so they can't be fascists and unconsciously employ a series of rationalizations as to why fascist ideas are "good strategy" or "necessary"

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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It continues to be mind-boggling to me that, to first approximation, everyone in positions of power and influence in America are basing their entire worldview on various pieces of popular fiction. And not even like The Wire; instead we get governance via 24, or Terminator, or Harry fucking Potter.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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g @g--0.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

very specifically, they are focused on the idea that eventually the chatbot will tell them about a secret loophole that lets us keep spewing carbon into the atmosphere without suffering any of the ill effects described by science but even 'AGI' can't find loopholes in physics that don't exist

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...

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Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

Alt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

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Nick 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Two things people have been forced to think about in this era that they’ve largely responded to making it part of their personality to loudly belligerently refuse to think about them: 1. Climate change 2. The danger of breathing other peoples backwashed air

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Igor #IStandWithUkraineTregub he/him @igortregub.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bay Area voters: saving our regional public transit system is one of the more important items on your November ballot. Proud to stand with a broad coalition in support of Bay Area Measure RTM! 🚌 🚋🚈

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🦫 Libby Lee-Egan 🦫 @libbington.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey Bay Area people! Did you know there's a downballot race where you can have a huge impact? Joel Young is a bully and he's corrupt as hell. Adriana Valencia is running to unseat him on a platform of reliability, access, and transparency. Vote and Donate secure.actblue.com/donate/valen...

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Donate to Adriana Valencia

Show your support with a contribution.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

we are going to find out some truly horrifying shit in 2026-2028 and we are morally obligated to build a party that will punish them in 2029

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Nick 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I sometimes wonder how different Musk’s situation would be if he were saying everything he tweets with his mouth on TV instead.

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We really need to do more to raise the salience about the partisan nature of jobs like “car dealer” and “chiropractor” the same way conservatives have done to teachers and scientists. Dem elites need to do more to signal to their base that small business tyrants are their enemies.

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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🔴🇺🇸 [#DeportationProject] Explore the Map Behind the US Third Country Deportation System When people are deported, but not to their countries of origin... Where do they go?

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Here's David Ellison's statement on his successful Paramount-WBD. Thanks Newsom "for his support throughout this process." State AGs were on track to kill the the merger with litigation and delay. Is Newsom giving up on the presidency and instead pursuing a post-gov career as Friend of Oligarchs?

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Nick 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“You may plead to invoke constitutional rights if you first solve this riddle” is so incredibly bonkers.

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Hopefully Hypervigilant (a.k.a. Libby Milliken) @hpfllyhyprvglnt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Human rights policy and laws arose out of the well-established and highly-practical premise that we cannot protect our people unless/until we are willing to to protect all people.

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