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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 7h

Super duper intelligence or GTFO

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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 11h

No discounts on draft beer in pubs in Doha. Trump take happy hour 🤬

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11h

amongst all the other reasons it’s bad, racism makes you stupid

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11h

setting aside that musk is nowhere near this popular, the US is years deep in a pretty massive accountant shortage, a fairly basic fact about the labor market the vice president should know, but doesn’t

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 13h

I recently wrote that I’ve found KING LEAR and NETWORK to be as useful as anything in understanding Trump’s reign

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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 13h

I’m long overdue for a rewatch of Network which I picked up on Blu Ray over the summer and the greatest King Lear adaptation (Akira Kurosawa’s Ran, of course)

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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 13h

*Jerry Seinfeld voice* “a bus whistler? So annoying”

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BILL RYAN @faceyouhate.bsky.social · 13h

My first Film Project post for Shocktober or whatever is up. Today I cover Jamil Dehlavi's BORN OF FIRE and Avery Crounse's EYES OF FIRE. billryan64.substack.com/p/overturn-t...

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Overturn the World

On Jamil Dehlavi’s “Born of Fire”, and Avery Crounse’s “Eyes of Fire”

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Wolfcat 🥄 @wolfcat.bsky.social · 15h

Then awake owners at 5am for first breakfast.

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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I remember my father telling me how anti trust laws worked as a kid. Something like "Well son, we have laws where one electric company can't just buy all the OTHER electric companies. Then they could just charge whatever they want because there'd be no competition." We were a very optimistic people.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Congress *can* discipline a president. They can sack his incompetent cabinet secretaries, refuse to confirm anyone who isn't competent and normal, pass laws to constrain his freedom of action and if necessary bully the judiciary into enforcing them.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't necessarily expect it, but the best thing that could come out of this mess - thin gruel for the human suffering it has entailed, but nevertheless - would be a resurgence of an assertive Congress, willing to use its power to discipline the president, to bend the executive (and SCOTUS).

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...

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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hahahaha *huge breath* hahaha

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 20h

Lads. Bad news.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 07/10/2026

I take this very personally, because this is my immediate community. My friends and colleagues' lives are being disrupted. The whole town of Champaign-Urbana, actually, is being attacked, because international scholars and students are a huge part of what makes it vibrant.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 19h

The word "proxy" has become a catch-all reason to license a refusal to look at the reasons people have for doing what they are doing, by casting them as merely the agents for somebody else. Ukraine as a supposed proxy for NATO, Houthis for Iran, French lycéens for LFI. It is all so lazy and enraging

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hugo Chavez-linked PR flack Michael Shellenberger — a random guy with a Substack who rakes in donations to fight a “censorship complex” that he created — would like you to know that journalists reporting on his attempts to smear people are propagandists.

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Ben Shultz @benmshultz.net · 20h

Global Affairs Canada (GAC) claims it dropped out of #Disinfo2026 "following changes to the framing of several panel discussions." GAC was scheduled to chair my panel today on disinformation in the Arctic. But, our panel description hasn't changed since June...! Receipts in the next post below.

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Canada drops sponsorship of conference that cites U.S. as foreign-interference actor

Officials will no longer chair sessions at the event in Lithuania, including one on disinformation in the Arctic

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 20h

RIP to Margaret Hamilton, the engineer who led the 100-person team that wrote the software for the Apollo missions. An absolute icon. Fun fact: She started college at the University of Michigan (my alma mater! Though she transferred elsewhere).

Black and white photo of Margaret Hamilton standing next to a literal stack of code she and her team wrote for the space program. It's as tall as she is.

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Phoenix New Times @phoenixnewtimes.com · 07/10/2026

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congre…

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To add to this a bit: in the mid-to-late-00s, military advisors going to Iraq and Afganistan were urged to watch The Sopranos to try to grasp the intersection of honor, family, money, and duty that they would see made manifest among their Iraqi and Afghan counterparts.

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never linger; rightly grow @nlrg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Two CIA officers from the Special Activities Division at the Battle of Tora Bora (Dec. 2001)

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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Extremely tense and unsettling throughout and genuinely scary. Fathers don’t disappoint your daughters.

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 07/10/2026

This author has written variations on this one (terrible) article *five times* in the past year Oct '26, Aug '26, Jul '26, Feb '26, Dec '25

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 07/10/2026

Skywatch got another email from Shellenberger. He’s a crank yes, but Canada, Lithuania, and the EEAS pulling their sponsorship definitely speaks to some some sort of political pressure campaign targeting #Disinfo2026 and now I’m worried about if I’ll be able to get home without harassment.

I wrote to you on October 3 about #Disinfo2026 and have not had a reply.
Since then the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote to me: "Upon becoming aware of the above-mentioned discussion topics, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania withdrew from any participation in the conference. The Ministry has also formally dissociated itself from the conference content and requested that the organisers remove all references to the Ministry from conference materials, communications, and promotional activitiesiỊại
Andrius Katinas of the Radio and Television
Commission of Lithuania wrote to me that he has withdrawn as a speaker "in light of the differences of opinion that have arisen with the organisers of the
'Disinfo 2026' conference regarding the assessment of the role of the United States."
The conference's sponsors page no longer lists the Lithuanian ministry, Global Affairs Canada or the European External Action Service.
Do you still plan to take part, and what is your response to the ministry's statement and to Mr.
Katinas's?
What have the organizers told you about these withdrawals?
The questions in my October 3 letter stand. I would be glad to talk by phone at 415-710-1042. Please reply by 11 am Eastern today, Tuesday, October 6.

A poster with withdrawn sponsors covered up by printer paper

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Turner Classic Movies @tcmtv.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We are saddened to say goodbye to our dear friend, Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint. One of the last surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, we’ll forever be grateful for unforgettable contributions to cinema, her generosity and her humor. Our thoughts are with her loved ones.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When Trump says “in two weeks” or “in a few weeks,” that does not mean he has a secret brilliant plan he’s about to execute. It means he has no idea, but wants to sound like he does, while keeping attention like a TV show going “all this excitement same time next week.” We’re a decade into this.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

to me this is what a tolerant and open society is

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i spoke on a panel and the guy next to me was eating trail mix one piece at a time and going “mmm” after each one and talking to me with peanut breath. he would stop to take sips of water and go “mmm” each time. and every time a panelist said something he’d say “mmm” like it was to him directly. mmm

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Whether it's Obama telling farmers to plant arugula in Iowa or Donald Trump telling Iranians to take out Los Angeles, both presidents made deeply insensitive statements about regions of the country.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

there’s one true answer but it’s the correct one five minutes after game of thrones - the last true monoculture show - ended, we all collectively agreed not to talk about it again, and house of the dragon/knight of the seven kingdoms haven’t recaptured a fraction of that cultural presence

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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Proud of myself for meeting the Australian ambassador at this event and refraining from saying anything about “democracy manifest,” asking whether he’d had the opportunity to eat a succulent Chinese meal while in Doha, or upon shaking his hand, saying “I see you know your judo well.”

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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am reminded of General Hammerstein-Equord’s classification of officers

'I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent - their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy - they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent - he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Simply put, across the US and UK, university administrators, their management consultants and their funders no longer consider the arts and humanities worthy of being studied, taught and transmitted. Their vision of human society is anti-humanist. No wonder the kids are at the barricades.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Great lede www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I do love the republicans having to be the ones saying 'no that's not real. no, it's more complicated than that.' with the data center and AI shit for once, not gonna lie. this must be what it feels like to be on the other side of the table when they're spreading shit about vaccines or whatever.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dems honestly should just lie about this right now so Alito (a dumb guy who doesn't actually know how anything works) doesn't figure out that he needs to retire in the lame duck if the GOP loses the Senate

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

sadly the huge leaps forward in machine translation are likely to deprive us of such reliable gems as "dry" and "fuck" in Chinese using the same simplified character or my all-time favorite "Racist Park" (which was also an accurate description of the park, as it happened)

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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