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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The AI backlash is completely the fault of the dishonest hype merchants whose only talent is innovating new ways of lying. You pissed people off, now everyone hates you (justified) and your tech (less justified, but again, your fault)

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fukuyama: the way to avoid this trap is for everyone to read my book, which is titled ironically (world follows basically exactly what he says) Everyone: haha your book title was wrong

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Its a really bad feature that trump caused a global crisis for which americans are the most isolated. This will in fact tank a bunch of lib-friendly govts.

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DHinrio @dhinrio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fascism in the '20s and '30s arose from military defeat, national trauma and extreme economic instability. Present-day fascism seems to arise from boredom, impatience and chronic public amnesia.

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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think it is crucial for the health of the Democratic party that the entire consultant class from previous administrations, including and especially Clinton, be told to go home and stop bothering people. They are wrong about everything and have been holding the party back for decades.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The scene most emblematic of this issue to me is the bus parking lot atop the mountain at Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto. WHY are tourist buses allowed up there? They’re a climate menace, ruin the atmosphere of the pilgrimage road, and flood the zone with people who should have to WALK like everyone else.

Bus parking lot at Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, Japan

Map showing proximity (6 minute walk) of bus parking lot to Kizomizu Temple in Kyoto, Japan

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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The manifesto I could write about this and its intersections with anti-immigrant (???) and generally xenophobic sentiment. Large swaths of the Japanese tourism industry (and particularly tourist hotspots and sites of national heritage) are just not being responsible.

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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

really sucks how much social media (even just text based ones) has fragmented....bluesky has lib chopped uncs...substack notes has annoying writers...threads and twitter have all the really mentally ill people. That used to be all in one place!

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

talking about water use policy is impossible because "AI data centers use a lot of water to cool the computers" sounds way more believable than "they're draining the Great Salt Lake so the Governor of Utah can sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia" and yet

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

if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Firstly, cringe and embarrassing... But secondly, these people are the Taliban and you can't convince me otherwise.

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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm sorry but I want to circle back to the +31% net positive sentiment towards a military coup...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

Marc Andreessen and the team at his fund a16z hired — as a *partner*! — a man who has no background in finance, in tech, in startups at all, simply because that man had strangled one of my unarmed neighbors to death on the subway. To send a signal about what they support.

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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

**This is NOT meant to discredit the actual real dangers of "AI" (and more specifically thousands of frontier model agents with limited guardrails working in tandem) but rather to emphasize the liability of these engineers/execs for whatever wanton damage THEY cause.

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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you've ever told a junior engineer to "just do xyz" and walked away, then congratulations, you've seen this exact behavior

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tokugawa America folks, they’re talking about it more and more. Sakoku, a beautiful word, closed country policy. I have loyal retainers coming up tears in their eyes saying “Shogun, you’ve got to close the borders”. Tokugawa America

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So literally "Allahu akbar," only in English

@60Minutes on X:
Bravo, the U.S. Air Force weapon systems officer who was stranded behind enemy lines in Iran for two days, tells 60 Minutes about the first message he was able to send to the U.S.: “God is good.” cbsn.ws/4gOIzjI
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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Some people are literally impossible to help. They will complain and complain, all the while proffering every possible excuse, sometimes for months or years! It may sound grotesque but honestly time to shit or get off the pot! You're boring!

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's kind of crazy that the right wanted to turn Charlie Kirk into their Reichstag Fire, but instead they accidentally turned him into their Harambe

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10/09/2026

We've got a Muslim man running the most multicultural city in the world and making space for all the people in it. That's what cultural victory over fundamentalism looks like, it's a shame that there's a part of the population that couldn't identify a cultural victory if it slapped them in the face.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My husband has NEVER talked in his sleep, a streak he recently chose to break by loudly whispering, “There’s someone at the window.”

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I know this is a common belief, but it’s not true. If people went anti-vaxx/MAHA because they were excluded from the medical establishment, we would see sky-high rates among poor people, minorities and the uninsured. We don’t.

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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you want to hedge with the term "democratic socialist-aligned," then you should note that he does not self-identify as a socialist, but as a capitalist. Would you refer to Trump as a "white supremacist-aligned" candidate because of endorsements from figures like David Duke or Richard Spencer?

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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see it, but FYI—Abdul El-Sayed is NOT a member of DSA. He is just Muslim. These are in fact different things. cc: @tanglenews.bsky.social

readtangle.com answer to reader question on DSA support for abolishing the police

Text: "As for individual DSA or democratic socialist-aligned candidates, it’s a mixed bag. Politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) were vocal supporters of defunding the police in 2020 but have stopped centering the issue in their platforms (though they haven’t explicitly renounced the slogan, either). Some, like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) and Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), have sought to distance themselves from past support. And others, like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), have opposed the idea from the beginning."

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

we are the screams of the cats you've already fed dinner

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Life seems to be happening *around* people at this current historical moment. This means that commentary is the main form of action for the vast majority. And it turns out that commentary keeps folks anxious and unfulfilled. People don't have a clear sense of what they can actually DO.

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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 29/08/2026

17 years ago, Beyoncé performed at the opening of the Donbas Arena. At the time, Donetsk was one of Ukraine’s most prominent cities. Then, russia invaded, destroyed the stadium, and devastated the entire region. One day, Donetsk will be free again, welcoming top artists from across the world.

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Springfield Ohio bullshit is like, the most pronounced and clear cut example of American moral rot I’ve seen in forever. Literally asking Haitians to come to revitalize your hollowed-out community, and then subjecting them to this racial terror and humiliation after they do? Fucking hell

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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I...I would like to hear the story

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Since I can’t respond to all comments here, I’ll mention as others have that Piker’s response to an anti-Zionist Jewish caller’s ? is essentially what Arendt sd in 1944: Israel’s war on Palestine & its neighbors risks turning the country into a pariah state & the diaspora into unwilling accomplices

If a Jewish commonwealth is obtained in the near future-with or without partition-it will be due to the political influence of American Jews.... But if the Jewish commonwealth is proclaimed against the will of the Arabs and without the support of the Mediterranean peoples, not only financial help but political support will be necessary for a long time to come. And that may turn out to be very troublesome indeed for Jews in this country [the U.S.], who after all have no power to direct the political destinies of the Near East. It may eventually be far more of a responsibility than today they imagine or tomorrow can make good.

[Tlhe Zionists, if they continue to ignore the Mediterranean people and watch out only for the big faraway powers, will appear only as their tools, the agents of foreign and hostile interests. Jews who know their own history should be aware that such a state of affairs will inevitably lead to a new wave of Jew-hatred; the antisemitism of tomorrow will assert that Jews not only profiteered from the presence of foreign big powers in that region
but had actually plotted it and hence are guilty of the
consequences...

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