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DavidB

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American in Japan. Observer of things. "Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think." –Ursula K. Le Guin

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7h
In America—and, therefore in the rest of the world—unless you are a special case, consent isn’t on the menu. There’s something to defend here, in this predator’s paradise, and, at last—at long last—I would like that something to be the victims, not the predators. www.the-reframe.com/the-good-guys/
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The Good Guys
Raising uncomfortable answers in a predator’s paradise, and the vast gap between being ashamed and living in shame.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Stig Børsen Hansen, a founding member who was one of two reviewers who presented the study to the Danish committee, resigned from the group in protest on Friday, citing major ethical issues with the study.

“You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said. The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage. “They contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design”.

Three other members of the committee have also resigned in protest.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"When someone is gang-raped, there appears to be something to defend, and it’s not bodily autonomy; there appears to be something to protect, and it’s not the victim." Life in this predator's paradise and the problem of shameless people. www.the-reframe.com/the-good-guys/
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The Good Guys
Raising uncomfortable answers in a predator’s paradise, and the vast gap between being ashamed and living in shame.
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acemaxx analytics @acemaxx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I think @stephaniekelton.bsky.social ’s post is particularly valuable b/c it combines sound public-debt accounting with a broader macroeconomic point: a rising bond yield is a market signal, not, by itself, proof of an impending Govt-debt crisis.
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Gertie @gertiegreen.bsky.social · 23h
“In America—and, therefore in the rest of the world—unless you are a special case, consent isn’t on the menu.” One of the most concise distillations I’ve read yet about the Cornell rape case and its relationship to privilege in America today.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 22h
This is the correct energy. No respect to Republicans, KKK, or any other hate group.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h
statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 23h
El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:
El-Sayed: “That’s rich coming from someone who wears his bed sheets out at night.”
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
Ossoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026
just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 09/10/2026
Happy Free Day! #TGIF #Friday #Friyay #etymology #linguistics
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
impeach hegseth should be on the list day one it is not even debatable tbh
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He’s mad our country is run by crooks and murderers and so am I. I’m no longer interested in negotiating with these people and neither is he.
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fletcheredington.bsky.social @fletcheredington.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Give Lina Khan a Gundam remains the moderate position
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The discourse on antisemitism in the country is such that Mike Rogers can simultaneously attack Abdul El-Sayed *as* antisemitic, as a scary foreign Muslim critic of Israel, and also *with* antisemitism, as a tool of the foreign-born Jewish puppeteer.
"LEAKED: Footage of Abdul El-Sayed fundraising last night in the California home of the far-left Soros family. 

Abdul’s education was paid for by the Soros family and NOW they are funding his campaign to make him a U.S. Senator 

The Soros family is funding Abdul because he will carry out their agenda of: 

➡️ defunding the police 
➡️ emptying prisons, and letting violent criminals & sex offenders back onto the streets 
➡️ gender transition surgeries for minors 
➡️ allowing illegals to vote in American elections 

Abdul is too extreme for Michigan."
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John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Right, the first instinct I had was very much not the philosophical question of being mean to a robot, but rather the pervasive surveillance implications of being required to speak a certain way in their own homes. Especially kids, who will be socialized that way.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
To every politician in New York: Do not tell the protesters to behave peacefully. Do not tell the protesters to disperse and go home. Instead, tell ICE to behave peacefully. Tell ICE to disperse and go home. Side with your constituents, not the Trump administration.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Good news: in this case the newly elected House can meet at a convenient location of their choosing and vote on whether to expel Johnson as one of its first orders of business
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Very happy to announce the Spanish edition of Bring the War Home, coming 10/19 from @capitanswing.bsky.social. Though it has been almost a decade since its publication, this history still has much to teach us about white supremacy, racism, violence, & the way these forces structure society.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i do think it's worth stopping for a moment to recognize how extraordinary and how fucked up it is that this sentence exists.
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Make Some Noise @makesomenoise.dropout.tv · 07/10/2026
This is every tech bro ever 🤣🤣
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Eric Harris Bernstein @ehbinmn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They started texting with a 16-year-old. After two years, they offered to sell him a gun. They consider that "stopping a terrorist attack." And they are calling it heroic. What an absolute embarrassment.
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Simon Frankel Pratt @simonpratt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The US will probably topple the Trump regime in the coming years. If whatever government comes next wants to salvage some of its now-tattered liberal reputation, it would help to have successful prosecutions of the monsters who arranged for these deportations and the other anti-immigrant abuses.
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Larch 🏳️‍⚧️ Valheim is cozy change my mind @larch.northsky.social · 08/10/2026
No exaggeration, @lingthusiasm.com singlehandedly reignited a mostly-dormant-since-high-school love of exploring human diversity through a lens of how we communicate. It's such an easy recommendation!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Look at this, a nation state, nationing and stating.
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Susanne Raines @rainesgs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Lingthusiasm is an especially great podcast when you want to hear friendly voices talking about something that is not depressing. It will prompt you to consider the wonder of our human world. Recommend!
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You can buy a huge media conglomerate with money you don't have using leveraged debt you'll never pay off and then immediately start firing its workers, but people will still say that capitalism is compatible with democracy and is capable of "reform" or "regulation"
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DavidB @badivad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Harry Potter and the Foreclosed Future
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Harry Potter and the Necropolitician
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Harry Potter and the Stochastic Parrot
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Harry Potter and the Generational Culpability
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DavidB @badivad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Harry Potter and the Networked State
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Harry Potter and Aella’s Birthday Gangbang
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DavidB @badivad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Harry Potter and the Singularity
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
📚 Preorder your copy today via the links below. US edition: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804175... UK & international edition: www.penguin.co.uk/books/476377... DE signiertes Buch: shop.autorenwelt.de/products/ant...
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Anti-Fascist Economics by Isabella Weber: 9798217154432 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
As inequality, inflation, and overwhelming corporate power threaten democracy, a rising-star economist asks what it would mean to create an anti-fascist economics that guarantees dignity for all....
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is the deepest crisis of Western democracy since the Nazi era. Growing up in Nuremberg, I have learned that being anti-fascist is my first civic duty. There can’t be a question which side I’m on, as a human and an economist. As a student of FDR, I say: “I welcome their hatred.”
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Make Some Noise @makesomenoise.dropout.tv · 05/10/2026
🔊 TONIGHT! The season five premiere of Make Some Noise launches on Dropout at 7PM ET / 4PM PT! Starring host Sam Reich, and your fave Noise Boys: Brennan Lee Mulligan, Zac Oyama, and Josh Ruben!
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*
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DavidB @badivad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That wording and timing in the video is just 🤌
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DavidB @badivad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The wording + timing in the video = 🤌
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DavidB @badivad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Absolutely excellent and fun podcast everyone should listen to.
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 06/10/2026
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 05/10/2026
It's Nobel Prize week! Time for your annual reminder that 72 years after Alfred Nobel died, economists got Swedish bankers to endow an econ prize "in honor of Alfred Nobel," against Nobel's descendants' wishes. Media now pretend the econ prize is as newsworthy as the phys/chem/med/lit/peace prizes.
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