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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 8h

Seriously: Hate Digger all you want, but [pauses for flow of hate] movies like Digger are why we need studios. A world in which Digger doesn't get made one in which Sinners and One Battle also don't get made. You miss with Heaven's Gate and you still swung. You miss with Paw Patrol and you >

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 9h

There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 10h

It’s a lose-lose situation because a historically accurate Germany would have half the players pour all their resources into death camps while jerking off.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 10h

three key problem with HOI: 1.) Germany is the country that gets to do stuff. It’s the de facto “protagonist country” 2.) In order for it to reliably do stuff, it has to be cracked or the game ends in 1940 3.) Refusal to grasp with Nazi atrocities makes it implicitly endorse a clean Wehrmacht myth

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 9h

Sunday's @washingtonpost op-ed on why “The Great aWOKEning is over" was so absurd, I thought it was a parody article... Until I saw who wrote it 9 years ago, that same columnist whitesplained why I should "be careful" who I called a white supremacist

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Throwback Thursday: Megan McArdle Can’t Tell Me Shit About White Supremacy

Before Jeff Bezos hired her, the whitest white woman who ever whited dedicated an entire column warning me to “be careful” who I called a white supremacist.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10h

Mr Turner was widely considered to be a fine gentleman, even on the unusual occasions when caught out of doors on a full moon. As his friend Mr Cmnb-/78 remarked, sheep are common and good company rare.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10h

In a gesture of reconciliation I am adding Tom Cotton to all the group chats I have made fun of Tom Cotton in.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 10h

I suppose I agree with those saying that there has to be some form of rehabilitation for those guilty of rape and crimes like it. But I think rehabilitation without atonement is bad. And I believe that a suitable form of atonement, for people who escape going to jail, is ostracism and self-exile.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10h

Oh this idea has been drifting around for a while, maybe even the 1980s?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10h

Reacher is playing a third person action game, Neagley is playing a Telltale detective game

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

People have no idea how strict the quarantine protocols around TB patients are!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

While never great, pneumonic plague outbreaks happen every few years and there is a pretty good protocol for containing them and treating victims.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13h

this is exactly my opinion. there may be a superstrate of extremely difficult and unique safety problems around AI, but the substrate is simply that no one takes basic precautions seriously becasue they imagine (or pretend to imaigne) that it is futile, and basic precautions slow down launches.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 13h

I keep seeing people say some version of "it used to be normal to politely disagree on things before the Internet," and I don't think that's right. It was and remains normal to not be a shithead in face-to-face communication. We just have less of that now, and WAY less with people we disagree with.

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 22h

In addition to the direct harm, this is also blatantly unconstitutional. Of course, the NYT refers to this act of dictatorial lawlessness as "creative ways to work around Congress."

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The issue with "monsters are marginalized people in fantasy clothes" is that it ends up with things like people making orcs more explicitly like people from IRL sub-Saharan Africa. "There's kind of a racist subtext with orcs, so we've fixed it by making them H. Rider Haggard Zulus." Which, um.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I guarantee you there are Jesuits right now engaged in a skeptical but serious inquiry into the question of AI sentience and what the theological implications would be.

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redthespian - EVERYBODY WALK THE DINOSAUR @redthespian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ALL conservative men are throwing a fit over the Cornell case, but the fear it seems to have inspired in Matt Walsh specifically tells me that there are likely a staggering number of skeletons in his closet. Grotesque pig of a man.

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 02/10/2026

I mention this because after wrapping up the first round of corrections on the first draft of Mathews, I asked Claude Code to express its thoughts on the project creatively using fframes. It took the one-line description of 'lep' from the docs and came back with this:

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

yeah, I think calling 'terror attack' early was pretty justified on this one

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The Wyzard @thewyzard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Is the computer conscious?" I don't fucking know! I know that if you gave me six each of philosophers and psychologists I could start intractable arguments over whether my asshole is conscious. Fifty bucks says I could hang that jury.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 02/10/2026

In this piece I tried to tackle something that's been bugging me: If someone is demanding that immigration be cut because their kids can't find an entry level job, it is neither fair to say that they do not have a legitimate concern - nor that their position on immigration is one.

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On Legitimate Concerns

Problems, Policies and How To Parse Them

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

having seen an early cut, I did think the part where Dr Doom rewinds the movie was pretty disturbing.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

THE PHANTOM OF HEILBRONN (Ty Von, 2015) A team of forensic detectives at Interpol (Al Pacino, Josh Brolin) find themselves utterly baffled when mitochondrial DNA reveals that a mysterious female assassin has killed 6 victims in 3 European countries, including a German SWAT officer (Franka Potente).

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer

College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jews could be and still are the victims of antisemitism regardless of their levels of oppression in the state and society in which they live(d).

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That stone is made chief cornerstone which builders did despise. This is the doing of the Lord and wondrous in his eyes. (Psalm 118, but a frequent referent in the Gospels)

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

TIL that enslaved people who ran away to the woods (as opposed to cities, the north, etc.) were referred to not just as ‘maroons’ (the term I knew), but ‘outliers.’ I checked, and this word seems originally to have referred to a stone that was quarried but not used.

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Jackson Crawford @norsebysw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our medieval sources on Norse don’t give us an organized canon, so when a place is mentioned one time it’s hard to know what to do with it. “Folkvang” is one. I doubt many if any poets thought of it as another afterlife; I suggest it may just be another name of Valhalla that alliterates with Freyja.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

also, this shit is just run-of-the-mill segregationist ideology. the substance of keeperman and rufo's discussion is identical to the infamous line from the trial judge in loving v. virginia

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DisheveldYoshi @disheveledyoshi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To be fair to the book, which of these seems more likely to create a sense of unity at first glance: -A shared history of oppression and overcoming, deeply ingrained with and tied to a common faith -A couple, (2); of these!!! “bad” boys… ;)

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I haven't seen any of these "popularists" coming anywhere near to Gretzky levels of anticipating where the puck will be. If anything they are diving to where the puck was a second ago. Having values and selling them/fighting for them is the only sane course.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

also depressing how few reviewers seem to have remarked on this section, which is so colossally wrong (and antisemitic) that it should call into question every other claim in the book

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

was discussing this at dinner last night: one of the many problems with trying to make policy 'that the American public wants' is that the American public change their minds all the time and are frequently very very stupid.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I do think that ‘Hi-def video of horrible shit’ is our generation’s version of smoking or leaded gasoline tbh. As in it’s something that future generations will look back on and be appalled that we thought it was ok to have as an environmental hazard.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

in fairness to Friedersdorf I do think that he is actually very, very stupid

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But nobody is gonna care, because they're gonna read a fact in an unrelated book about punctuation of all things, and that fact will determine their understanding of a culture they have no access to, and that will be how they perceive my culture

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are copious sources one can read on this if one is interested in knowing something about another culture rather than simply painting an image of it that matches one's own concept of evil, frequently obtained from looking in a mirror and noticing what one doesn't like about themselves

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hebrew punctuation precedes Zionism as a political movement by about a 800 years. It was not in any way integral to "spoken Hebrew" and the unity between Jews across the world was never "artificial". It's just wrong on so many levels.

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The fact that this idiocy got past an editor in a book on godamn punctuation shows how deep the ignorance of Judaism and Jewish history is in the wider culture and how that ignorance is being weaponized so as to create a better scapegoat for Western uses

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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taxgirl @taxgirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The IRS is looking for VITA/TCE volunteers for filing season. Last year, I said yes—and ended up preparing tax returns in rural Alaska, traveling by single-engine plane and snowmobile. ❄️ You don’t need tax experience to volunteer. Here’s more: www.taxgirl.com/2026/10/01/i...

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IRS Is Looking For Tax Volunteers. Here’s Why I Flew 4,300 Miles To Be One. | Taxgirl

The IRS is seeking VITA volunteers for the upcoming filing season. Here’s what I learned preparing tax returns for free in rural Alaska.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

hmmm, wonder what's going on over at the other place? Oh. Oh my.

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Ghostship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm so glad the 4th Estate loves this guy who's openly calling for ethnic cleansing. He definitely deserves column inches and attention and praise.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026

We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.

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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights

After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.

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