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Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 6m

This is really, really powerful.

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Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 2h

We must eliminate the creeping scourge of Bannonism.

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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My favorite thing about collecting records is to cower in my house talking to my computer

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Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 4h

This is probably closest to the truth.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 12h

Jesus Christ Cornell

What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.

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Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 6h

But it sounded good to the Baileys!

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 17h

Shut every fraternity down.

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Elly @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 16h

FYI this was Very Good—super flavorful and required only a few minutes earlier in the day and like 15m to cook chicken eggs and ramen. Aces! Have a gift link cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/7863...

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Sesame Soy Chicken With Ginger-Scallion Noodles

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Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 20h

Like if Jeff VanderMeer wrote a Talking Heads song, Jesus

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 23h

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social keeps talking about bringing back shame. I think "criminal corporate behavior must not be something you can simply price in and keep doing" is one structural equivalent that we seriously need

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Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Okay, I'll hand it to Sen Klobuchar just this ONE time.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026

"Sign up for SCOTUSblog Plus so that Sarah Isgur can text you about the Supreme Court" should be a legally actionable threat

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This child is 13 and was testifying without an attorney present. Monsters.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The way that AltNPS uses the language of persecution is just so gross to me. No one is "taking a shot" at you. It's not about you. The Alt National Park Service has done this "targeted individual" thing since the start of the second Trump term, to varying degrees:

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 29/09/2026

I will buy a lifetime subscription for a Chotiner/Yudkowsky interview

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Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I read this like it was the punchline to the famous joke. The Rationalists!

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Somebody is stepping into the appalling leadership vacuum caused by Ivy League cowardice at Cornell.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To self-promote, I think high-decoupling is terrible. It means falling for blatant figleaves and ignoring blatant dogwhistles. The example there imagines Sam Harris saying that his beliefs about intelligence weren't racist because he said they aren't about race. It is an invitation to be a mark.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...

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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
From nytimes.com
6:47 AM • 9/26/26 • 274K Views

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Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The worst fucking people in the world.

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SeasonalPun @pixelfish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and like Andy, the idea of giving myself even more homework to double check and recheck things I could do for myself AND WHICH GIVE ME VITAL CONTEXTS AND MOMENTUM give me hives. I don't find AI useful in my workplace bc it divorces tasks from contexts & i have to do MORE work to keep up.

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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think about the AI agent hype sometimes from my perspective as a person with ADHD. I already struggle to delegate to others because usually the task of figuring out what needs doing requires the same mental investment for me as just doing the task.

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Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Find a Unitarian Universalist congregation. Still not a guarantee of healthy community, but we're definitely the least likely denomination to house a death cult.

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Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The GenX version of the antique shop where Tintin and Haddock buy their diving suit.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Spellcaster

Illustration of some kind of bestial wizard holding a sword-like wand and casting a spell that looks like a 70’s Sesame Street cartoon.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026

NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...

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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell

Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

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Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great evidence of this last night, with @jaketapper.bsky.social groveling and begging UN Ambassador Mike Waltz to put in a good word for CNN so that Trump might consider letting them back into the press pool. Sad!

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Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dr Volts understood Trump better than almost everyone else in media years ago. Trying to apply a "typical political figure" theory of mind to him is like a Matryoshka of category errors.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Honestly it’s such a funny character where on the one hand he is evil and cunning and on the other he sometimes is just a fuck up, and that’s Tolkien being good at what he does man that’s what evil is, sometimes it’s just some dipshit with a helmet

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lord of the Rings Sauron: this city is the dread Kazamür Dür in the region of Alzadior Silmarillion Sauron: this town is now named Kick Ass City and its mayor is an evil cat

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

[twink sauron, pretending not to cry] : you. you don’t understand how powerful the valar are, Manwë alone cou [eastern orc, probably]: Manwë? man, wë sure got a little bitch for a king

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Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fantastic - I was just wondering about this today as I picked up the gorgeous new deluxe edition of Neuromancer. I'm not ashamed to admit that it's a book that I gladly own multiple copies of in different editions.

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Neuromancer: Deluxe Edition

SOON TO BE AN APPLETV+ SERIESThis deluxe trade paperback edition of Neuromancer features stunning new cover art, art printed inside the front and back covers, and sprayed edges.Winner of the Hugo, Neb...

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Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jesus, Jake, have some dignity. This "pretty please, sir" bullshit is awfully embarrassing to have to witness.

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ceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026

the tech titan backlash to “woke dei hr ladies” makes a lot more sense now huh

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mike m @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m just done with this crap. who gives a fuck about “choosing texas.” fuck texas. everything about texas is phony as shit, including this song

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Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rural lifestyle porn for boot fetishists.

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Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

JUSTICE FOR TORGO WHOSE KNEES? OUR KNEES!

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 27/09/2026

Charlie Kirk was good example. If you asked conservative people, their feeds were full of nice, warm things he said about family, and the angry liberals happy he was dead. If you asked liberals, their feeds were full of clips of all the vile, hateful things he said. Now imagine that for everything

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Did private equity buy your grandparents' nursing home? That’s what almost happened in Sauk County. And around Wisconsin. Meet the folks fighting back.

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Like an octopus, the Rationalist spews ink when threatened

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