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Era Vulgaris

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There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026
Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We let them commit genocide with one party in office, let it continue at a more limited scale in the next and then started a disastrous war, in no small part, on their behalf. They need peacekeeping forces, not security guarantees
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
becoming a vulgar rawlsian. the veil of ignorance isn't perfect, but 'is this how you would design things if *you* thought you might end up here?' is a test that way too many people fail. on everything from criminal justice to public transit, across the ideological spectrum.
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farner @farnerb0cken.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
republicans talking about how delicious veggie burgers are isn’t a recession indicator it’s an apocalypse indicator
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Era Vulgaris @austinlawhead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mr. President, please, please, PLEASE, ban fishing
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Era Vulgaris @austinlawhead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Both, I’m not a professional rock star and can’t drink alcohol anymore, but my wife is a smoke show and I make a lot of money.
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Windy @windyspirals.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
a lot more anime about people who had dreams and then they were crushed and are now making a second chapter, really speaks to the millennial generation.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
happy pubversary for Karl Marx's Das Kapital, Sept 14, 1867! open thread of good C21 critiques of p.e. and more:
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 13/09/2026
Lessons from the day...
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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 27/06/2026
I found out that the sea drone the Houthis used is called the Blowfish. Come on. Houthis and the Blowfish
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is just round 2 of people blaming Arabs for Harris' loss. If your calculation is that you'll net more votes by burning a vulnerable demographic, you do not get to be mad when they're mad at you. Trying to then browbeat them into your preferred messaging is both counterproductive and immoral
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
One of the many reasons you shouldn't base your opinions and moral judgements about the world on electoral strategy is that it leads to people reverse-engineering theories of electoral strategy entirely to backfill justifications for their moral beliefs.
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 08/09/2026
My working theory is that it is not possible for those of us in the imperial core to have a truly productive and honest conversation about something we are all deeply addicted to
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We cannot have a rational debate about technology.
As long as we rely on screens rather than on forests and sunsets to soothe our pain, we will fight to defend the screens, not the forests.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
anyway I’m talking to people a world away through a sheet of glass. tomorrow I’ll probably yell at a robot a little, maybe buy something that will be delivered to my doorstep from China.
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Era Vulgaris @austinlawhead.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Dead to rights
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Every time someone makes excuses for the "Trifecta" of the 117th Congress they are missing the point. They asked for a trifecta. We gave them one. They did not actually use the damn thing. The reasons are not exculpatory.
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Dan Tuke @danieltuke.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
One of my most firmly held beliefs is that anyone who amasses and maintains a fortune greater than like $10m is mentally ill. “That’s not that much really” nope wrong bonk try again
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Era Vulgaris @austinlawhead.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@notalawyer.bsky.social line from @ifbookspod.bsky.social “look how bad liberalism is, it lead to modern conservatism, and that’s why im a modern conservative” is a contradiction skeleton key to a lot of center right meta analysis of the past year and a half.
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Era Vulgaris @austinlawhead.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Not sure I’m shocked by much anymore, but sometimes…
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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The mother of a USNA midshipman was detained by ICE AT HER GREEN CARD INTERVIEW and is now being held in a concentration camp and I find it insane that people don’t understand how THAT is a bigger national security threat than any undocumented immigrant.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2026
this is absolutely perfectly said
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I mean it’s kind of remarkable that he’s a heretic to both Christianity and the American civil religion in the exact same way: he places himself at the top of them, and the people who most loudly proclaim allegiance to those creeds are the biggest adherents to his heresy.
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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Opening these files may be harmful to your computer." Good, great, perfect, I love it, I hope they are. Open these files. I hate this fucking thing, let's kill it.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Very, very badly need a costly “I will actually read this” signal from employers imo. Im happy to write it if i think you’re gonna read it.
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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 23/08/2026
I think the thing the racist prof defenders imply but don't like to admit is there's no benefit to hiring/debating a guy who says mushrooms are created by fae because it's obviously silly but they do think it's worth your time to debate a race science guy because they think he's partially correct
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
www.niskanencenter.org/two-hundred-...
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Era Vulgaris @austinlawhead.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Mondays going to be a hellva market open
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Era Vulgaris @austinlawhead.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
May be the thing that breaks me
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Nicky 2 @nickyflowers.com · 17/08/2025
its frustrating because like... i don't think AI tools are automatically of the devil or anything. i think if we had an entirely different kind of society, i wouldn't be as upset about it. maybe we'd have better AI tools. but we have the society we have, and the tech industry is the way that it is
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Era Vulgaris @austinlawhead.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I appreciate a good unexpected karaoke song blend or lyrical crossover (music from one song, lyrics of another) but it’s not really all that difficult since 70% of songs are in 4/4 time signature.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
the only moral reason to confine people is to prevent future harm they have a realistic chance of committing. which sounds obvious and commonsense, but if you take this (imo obviously correct) principle to it's reasonable policy conclusion people disagree with you a *ton*
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Era Vulgaris @austinlawhead.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Raising and then killing millions of sentient mammals a year to eat, largely unnecessarily, is a deeply, deeply immoral thing our species does.
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Era Vulgaris @austinlawhead.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“So, is it Alexandria, or do you prefer ‘Alex’ ? Anyway, what’s your favorite queens of the stone age album? Oh yea? Me too…
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
the reactionaries sort of thought you could just thrust your chest out and slap a bunch of paint and memes on things and recover national pride and a lost era of white male triumph or whatever. how's your national pride now. are you proud yet. are you feeling strong
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I think the thing we are all in denial about when it comes to the One Cool Trick to win elections forever is that low info swing voters are basically incomprehensible eldritch horrors to politically engaged people. There’s no understanding them and you’ll go mad trying.
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1st Minnesota Volunteers Stan Account @himdogson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I’d say this election is just about all Sayed and done
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Era Vulgaris @austinlawhead.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
merchandising holidays 3 months in advance, should be ILLEGAL. I saw Halloween stuff going up in JULY! This is unacceptable- makes the holiday less “special”/ seasonal and then becomes impossible to get decorations in October because all that’s up is Christmas! Congress, do YOUR JOB!
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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
>DSA recruiter comes up. >"Want to join our new progressive movement? >I ask: "progressive movement or religion replacement" >He's confused. >Pull out charts showing line between radical reformism and secular utopian millenarianism. >"It's a good movement sir." >Joins >Religion replacement
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Era Vulgaris @austinlawhead.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Turn on the bright lights, antics, our love to admire. Really tough to beat interpol in terms of 21st century threepeats
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Era Vulgaris @austinlawhead.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Immediate Impeachment level offense, do not pass go, do not collect $200
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