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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There’s like dozens of replies explaining to Ken that it’s SAD when the dog dies, we’re at a point with media illiteracy where a work producing the exact intended emotion isn’t seen as success lol

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 24/09/2026

Mass lesbian bar masking story is getting Oberlin cafeteria levels of coverage, meaning it will define reactionary and reactionary-fearing centrist politics for the next 15 years

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Was there like a big rash of lightning related deaths at football games that produced all these new policies whenever there’s a storm in the same state?

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 19/09/2026

I think GameDay's actual "problem" these days isn't the rightward political bent (look around the CFB media industry right now tbh) but the sense that the desk is always trying to carry water for something without just saying it. Senate bill, Lane Kiffin's career choices, Playoff stuff, etc

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play by post @playbypost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The two warring sex cults that rule America are fighting

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Group chat psychosis should be in the DSM

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Dirlewanger Bureau of Investigation

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Kinda funny that almost all of sports TV is about DEBATE But a piece of federal legislation — something which is, almost definitionally, meant to be debated about — gets presented uncritically as Good

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쏨이시대 @missom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

bessent is touching the oil futures. i've gone full tinfoil on this, do not try to speak rationally to me, he is molesting the oil futures through the treasury

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

That there’s no longer like a time of the year new shows come out means even a very engaged viewer is often unaware of there even will be a second season of a show that like, much less know when to expect it. Dark Matter’s second season started last month, for example

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I invite defenders of capitalism to consider this person, who apparently sincerely believes that the product he is making has a one-in-ten chance of eradicating all human life, but has apparently not considered even for a moment just not making it

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Tucker clip saying algebra having numbers in it is a Jewish plot is perhaps the pinnacle of everyone is 12 theory, but that ~half the responses on here are people smugly correcting him that algebra was invented by Muslims shows libs can incredibly still lose to child minds

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So obviously ESPN employees shouldn’t be interviewing people they are providing guidance to, but lol Lane, buddy, incredible judgement to pick a podcaster as a mentor.

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Z(1969) is an increasingly tough rewatch

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A two door coupe with giant rims is a terrible choice for a taxi. Big wheels like that mean low profile tires! You don’t want that in a car that drives around theoretically 24 hours a day

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Were the headline and subhed of this written when they were gonna run this as an interview instead of a letter to the editor lol? Bari is so so bad at just the nuts and bolts stuff

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 31/08/2026

my sense for why data centers have become heinously unpopular in the space of one year prospect.org/2026/08/31/d...

The AI rollout has been the ne plus ultra of Silicon Valley arrogance. A handful of billionaires—whose steadily more incomprehensible podcast appearances indicate participation in some truly unhinged group chats, or consumption of heavy-duty chemicals, or membership in literal, no-joke cults, or all three—declaimed that AI was going to revolutionize all human society, take everyone’s job, and/or maybe wipe out the human race. Therefore they needed to spend trillions and trillions of dollars building AI data centers everywhere, as fast as possible. When the tech barons blearily realized that this wasn’t the best sales pitch, and pivoted to ads about how AI had dull business applications, the damage was already done.

In the meantime, it turns out that while AI technology might not be at the HAL 9000 level yet, the various models are unsettlingly capable and potentially dangerous. Some models seem to touch off psychotic episodes in some people. A “swarm” of hundreds of OpenAI agents recently went rogue and hacked the Hugging Face site used by open-source AI development, causing severe damage. The potential AI use for mass surveillance is particularly troubling.

In short, AI is manifestly a technology in need of democratic deliberation and regulation, and the Big Tech billionaires manifestly are not going to listen to anyone but themselves, unless we force them. Take the simmering unease about AI risk, add in irritation at 20 years of Silicon Valley megalomania, as well as the increasing popular backlash against tech companies—Meta recently settled an enormous lawsuit about harming children for almost $17 billion—and you get a good old-fashioned NIMBY frenzy against the one Big Tech thing Americans can obstruct: data centers. And this time, Big Tech has no one to blame but themselves.

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Zero Company first impressions is that gameplay wise they didn’t mess with the very successful XCom formula but when I picked a short haircut for boy Hawks every cutscene turned into a glitchy disaster. (Also they shouldn’t let you respec your recruits, makes them less individualized)

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

an ethnonationalist faction using the machinery of state to purge its own ranks, you say?

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Very funny that as Democrats fall over themselves to demand condemnation of Hasan Piker the US government’s taking official action to protect literal Nazis. Finger on the pulse, guys

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I don’t know if she’s over medicated or under medicated, but the contrast between the top guy’s normal amount of movement and her hyperactive gesticulating and wild eye searching is not doing her any favors, ditch the split screen imo

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is genuinely the breakdown of our republic? Like we’re not a country anymore, states do not have discretion to not extradite fugitives, the end result of this is a collapse of the constitutional order

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The Margaret Weis/Tracy Hickman Death Gate Cycle. I would still run out of money

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

An actual story worth writing about for both Cofnas and Arday is how once you pass a prestige threshold in media and academia everyone turns off all their critical thinking and loses the ability to just identify when someone is obviously full of shit, and it’s a pretty low threshold

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The Peaky blinders parts where Grok just completely biffs how cigarettes work is my favorite

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Mike @mikesbadtweets.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Why is there no conspiracy theory that fat, gravel voiced non funny dave chapelle is a completely different guy

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If you’re not on Twitter this is now the only thing the dipshit reactionary centrists ever post about, from Jesse to Matty to this guy: a group workshop for the Case for Woke Reparations(because they or their friend got accurately described as racist 7 years ago on social media)

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I'm sure there are some newish computer programs that make certain jobs easier. That's fine but it's none of my business! Why does the general public need to be made aware of it constantly? Because "A.I." is fake and a con and a scheme to enrich liars... www.welcometohellworld.com/the-past-is-...

We don't usually have hear about the run up to any other experimental product every day of our lives for years. If there were going to be flying cars in 15 years that would be a pretty interesting article to read like once. "Damn that's crazy" etc. They wouldn't have an article every single day counting it down though. And perhaps most importantly the flying car inventor wouldn't try to sell it by saying "Here's the flying car. Fuck you you're poor now lol."

Listen I'm sure there are some newish computer programs that make certain jobs easier now. That's fine but it's none of my business! Why does the general public need to be made aware of it constantly? Because "A.I." is fake and a con and a scheme to enrich liars and they are trying to push it through despite most people's very natural skepticism.

This is all a media story mostly. No one left in the desiccated corporate media wants to write about some new lines of code that helps some nerds be more efficient at some niche science task. So they enthusiastically let themselves be conned by the hucksters so they can feel like they're writing a more important story than the press release they are actually writing.

"This rich guys says he's changing the world and here I am talking to him about it. Hmmm come to think of it I'm changing the world too."

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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 27/07/2026

Ogre-Americans, an imaginary demographic, getting more respect here from the political press than Muslims, who are real people.

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Why does this have exactly the same aesthetic as the movies set 50 and 80 years before it? I don’t think the people making this understand why the first movie looked the way it did

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Capitalizing on 90s nostalgia by pitching Elon on an AI-created reboot of that Marine Corps ad but instead of fighting a Balrog he’s fighting a kaiju Jimmy Kimmel. The resulting loss in morale causes us have to return the Louisiana Purchase to France

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Just as an easy example, realtors, as a class of people, were ENORMOUS beneficiaries of Obamacare and would benefit even more from Medicare For All, but still almost exclusively support Republicans across the country because the people who run the Realtor lobby aren't actually concerned with that.

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It’s awesome the training material was obviously the big epics of the 60s and 70s so despite being entirely computer generated this still looks like it had budget constraints

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If we’ve both got the same diseases, it’s irrelevant, girl

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The way Twitter’s algorithm has become so tilted towards weird right wing obsessions is honestly undercovered. The biggest story over there this week was some random murderer in Florida getting life instead of the needle, which provoked a lot of Grok essays about how criminal defense lawyers are bad

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Incredible list of users to be discoursing with

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Smoking cigarettes in solidarity with my comrades in the Northeast

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treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

they do this because we are not part of the club and they hope that GOP will do it for them when they die (they won't)

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I do love how all this dude’d religious fervor immediately disappears when it comes time to subdividing Christianity. Fake fanaticism, just in it for the bigotry, no real zeal in his zealotry

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I never had a teacher believe in me like this.

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Lukács Doncic @weirdalf.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Man got Chotiner’d without even agreeing to an interview. Astounding

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

most irritating part of "how can you root for the US did you know we are bad" is why the fuck do you think I got here without thinking about all this and coming to my own peace with it why do I have to be in the slow lane with you, ever you missed this meeting I'm not giving you my notes

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Man the media really won’t quit trying to wish this into being

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It’s very funny Klein threw that snooty temper tantrum about getting outed as a member of Peter Thiel’s Sekrit Smart Boy Club like a week ago. He knew full well he had this Rufo puff piece in the queue!

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