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"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY

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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101

“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026

“Most LLMs (including those from OpenAI) are built on millions of scraped webpages and other large text datasets, and almost none of this content has been obtained with its owners’ knowledge or consent.” This is how tech executives talk when no one thinks they’re listening.

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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”

Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 26/09/2026

Genuinely, half of me thinks the main area of AI experimentation going on right now is in how fully the concept of an "ai agent" can legally indemnify its operators

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I wrote about the regrets of a Trump supporter whose fiancée was abducted by ICE, the ways these stories reinforce the exact spirit of supremacist exceptionalism that caused them in the first place, and the better, more honest, stories we might tell instead. www.the-reframe.com/this-is-us/

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This is Us

Moving from "I'm one of the Good Ones" to actually becoming good.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

When someone claims that a mistake just happens in the system, and it's always the same kind of mistake, and it always benefits the person who set up the system... It's not a mistake. It's happening on purpose.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/09/2026

There’s no better time to make sure you and your friends have a plan to vote in the midterm election. 🗳️

Graphic with a design that has a close up image of a ballot box. The graphic reads "There are 50 days until election day!" The number 50 is inside the ballot bubbles.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 10/09/2026

Always lay your baby down to sleep on their back in a product designed for safe sleep.

A baby sitting in a catapult in a suburban backyard. The baby seems surprised to be there. The text reads: Is this a safe sleep environment for your baby? No! This is a catapult! Put your baby to sleep flat on their back in a crib, bassinet, play yard, bedside sleeper or other product designed for safe sleep. If your baby falls asleep in a car seat or other product not designed for sleep, move them to a safe sleep space.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026

Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Leo: Today’s the day, Leo! Start a mutiny upon the USS Abraham Lincoln.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The idea that we need “intellectual diversity” in academia conflicts with the idea that the goal of some fields should be to learn actual truths. We don’t need to hire young earth creationists in geology departments, because the field has taught us young earth creationism is false.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

these people really want to make "racist" akin to a slur rather than what it is, a straightforward label for a set of beliefs and views. if you don't like the label because you, correctly, associate it with degenerate chuds, then get better beliefs

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

What's your favorite smell? 1. fresh baked bread 2. cozy old bookstore 3. forest in the rain 4. coffee & a functioning democracy

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The billionaire who’s hunting me for sport is mad because I’m not even trying. I’m running in slow motion making Chariots of Fire noises

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 15/08/2026

If you're headed to the pool with your kids this weekend, put away all distractions.

A girl swimming with a dolphin, a manta ray, and a sea turtle in a pool. The text reads: Your kid broke the animals out of the aquarium again. You didn't know, because you were distracted on your phone. Put your phone away and watch your kids closely at the pool.

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 15/08/2026

I’m so tired of genAI apologists telling me I only hate it because I don’t understand it. I hate it *because* I understand it, you absolute toenail.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026

That said, let us take a moment to thank our Bluesky Trans and Furry Elders for freaking out Jack Dorsey so much he bolted and left us this nice social media playground, taking most of his crypto chuds with him. We thank you for your service.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/07/2026

With Ross Douthat moving to "60 Minutes," it looks like the Times is in the market for a new dipshit. Here's an all-timer from our archives to help ring the bell.

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In Order to Keep Our Editorial Page Completely Balanced, We Are Hiring More Dipshits

By the end of the year, we aim to have 200 percent more dipshits writing columns for us. As long as you are a Ben Shapiro knockoff who can string together th...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/07/2026

Woman Who Doesn’t Use Facebook Completely Out Of Touch With Friends’ Prejudices theonion.com/woman-who-doesn-t-use-…

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

What's your favorite color? 1. fox in the snow 2. rain on a café window 3. cozy used bookstore 4. starlight through the trees

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Is nothing sacred anymore?

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Nobody disputes that having access to a car in a car-dominated society is good. It gives one access to jobs, healthcare, food, education, social opportunities and more. All we're asking is for people to go one step deeper and ask why access to such basic rights requires buying and operating a car.

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

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BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lindsey Graham’s death raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Drawings of the Moon by Galileo Galilei, 1610

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 12/06/2026

so it turns out the leftists were right, but here's how they were right in the wrong way

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026

yeah with a ouija board

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Mitch McConnell's possible death raises new questions about Joe Biden's health.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026

You know you have a great political system when you get one “is that congressman alive” scandal per month

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This Is Just To Say I told you so about that thing you disagreed with me about of which irrefutable proof has now emerged Forgive me it is too delicious too sweet not to remind you that you were wrong

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/07/2026

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026

Having a dead guy in the senate feels like a metaphor for the whole institution

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 03/07/2026

underappreciated that the racist and lawless position adopted by 4 justices in the birthright citizenship case a few days ago was considered and rejected by justices in *1898* who were like oh woof that's too racist and lawless even for us ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

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The Supreme Court’s Big Birthright Citizenship Decision Is the Absolute Bare Minimum

The justices had a simple task in Trump v. Barbara: uphold their oaths. Only five were willing to do so.

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KnewNic🖕🏼🧊 @knewagirlnic.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Being constantly outraged should burn more calories

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026

holy shit birthright citizenship is out, and the Court did do wtf it was supposed to do, but it was outrageously, unconscionably close 5-4? 5-4 to uphold BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP? this is galling honestly www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 29/06/2026

Every year, people are betrayed by their optimism. "Fireworks have exploded in other people's hands, but surely they will not explode in mine. My hands are different."

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/06/2026

There are almost as many SCOTUS justices as there were total trans athletes in NCAA sports the year before they were banned. If you think the trans athlete issue was about sports fairness, I have a bridge to sell you.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This is a reminder that some schools have already begun closing girls’ athletics teams because the requirement to verify gender was too onerous. Even just a form signed by a parent confirming their child’s gender identity is a barrier beyond what boys are required to do to play sports.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

voters dont believe you when you say there's a crisis when your next statement is about your friend mitch mcconnell and you're praising the conservative supreme court

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/06/2026

The 14th Amendment is the cornerstone of our democracy. On Tuesday, the court held back from dismantling the fundamental right to birthright citizenship, but with a slim majority that makes the reprieve not just a relief, but a warning.

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The Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship

A 5-4 decision shows the nation is one vote away from creating a subclass of children.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Roberts Court has been turning anti-discrimination law upside down for years. Its approach came into particular focus in May, with Louisiana v. Callais, in which it determined that not allowing Louisiana’s government to dilute Black votes was racist. In that case, Alito insisted that forcing the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district would be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because Republicans were entitled to discriminate against Black voters if they argued that their purpose was partisan instead of racist. The Court reaffirmed that position in a subsequent case dealing with Alabama, after a lower court had found ample evidence of deliberate racial discrimination, as opposed to the discriminatory effect of the Louisiana map.

Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/06/2026

Yesterday, someone pointed at the pyramids and said, “There’s no way humans did this.” This feels deeply insulting considering humans also created taxation, organized warfare, and raisins. Clearly, we are capable of terrible perseverance.

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Notes from a Tired Egyptian Guy Whose Job Is Explaining That Humans Built the Pyramids

A traveler asked: “How could ancient people possibly understand mathematics?” Excellent question. We accidentally invented geometry while trying to avoid car...

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