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The rule is: If you have talent, you have to focus on that talent instead of offering opinions on politics. If you don’t have talent, opine away.

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The consequence of MAGA’s destruction of the USG’s data collection capabilities will become apparent only when a terrible thing happens (that could have been prevented had the data continued to be collected)—as when a man who has torn his eyes out gets run over by a car prospect.org/2026/10/05/a...

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An Architecture of Ignorance - The American Prospect

How the Trump regime is taking away our ability to know what’s going on.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 06/10/2026

one thing about me that consistently seems to shock people is that I do actually believe that all people have the right to live in freedom, regardless of their race, gender, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, disability, or age. like I do actually believe that and I apply it to *everyone*

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this sort of thing is particularly embarrassing because it should be nominally within musk’s area of expertise. he was a graduate student in physics and is a prominent military aerospace contractor

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of the foremost scholars of polarization in the world is telling us that polarization is the wrong concept to apply to the contemporary United States...so maybe don't do that

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 28/09/2026

The children are scared and it’s your fault hope that helps

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism

"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m not sure why we are giving Steve Bannon credit as a “thinker” on AI, when he’s just a guy who will bang any trash can lid in sight.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there is actually one thing that explains putin far more than money, but which the likes of jones are too cowardly to mention

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 25/09/2026

Inevitable that GEO would not be constrained to corporate websites. This is the sane tactic used to skew search engine results — and a serious flaw in the passive “wisdom of the crowd” approach to a lot of tech-based knowledge (e.g. Wikipedia is good but not replicable).

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i both think the cognitive offloading thing is real & in some circumstances harmful & also in other ones *the whole point* of technology. for the last ~15 years you have most likely 'cognitively offloaded' having to remember everyone's phone number to your contacts app. are you poorer for it?

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Massholes? More like

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Social Justice Warboss5 @warboss5.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was trying to explain this to my mom last week. The AI didn't "go rogue," it did exactly what it was designed to do by amoral shitheads.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 17/09/2026

"Our founders took years of experience in casino design and timeshare sales and swaddled them together into a first-of-its-kind solution that asks: Do poor people deserve to have kids?" buff.ly/stGSoST

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Rumpelstiltskin Isn’t Your Typical Fertility Startup

“Our founders took years of experience in casino design and timeshare sales and swaddled them together into a first-of-its-kind solution that asks: Do poor p...

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Mass Wisseteria @wissewords.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As always, if you don't want to become a nazi bar, don't allow nazis, not even polite ones.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

so the thing is that i am not worried about "superintelligence." i am worried about an agent swarm doing something like, e.g., turning off BGP and us having to hunt down and quarantine a bunch of Kimi instances on rented clusters BGP redirecting half the world's Internet traffic down a hole.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”

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Robin, Our Birdie of Perpetual Expletives @rockinredbirdie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Maryland may have the most visually appealing gradient. I love how orderly it is.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

If you’re a Gondorian soldier your experience with hobbits is a tiny guy shows up with a wizard and is immediately taken in the Steward’s counsel. He saves Faramir when the Steward goes mad. A second tiny guy arrives with the Rohirrim and kills the Witch King. The first one then goes on campaign …

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Even from a purely national pride perspective, this requires you to think that the 100 year period from 1926 was a failure for the United States, instead of the zenith of its power, prosperity, and influence

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In a sense, expertise had created a gap in the political market: We’d been doing more-or-less smart things for so long, there was a lot of unmet demand for terrible ideas in an electorate with no direct memory of why they’re terrible.

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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 27/08/2026

It turns out that inserting a tech based rentier into every human interaction is a truly terrible way to run a society and it's making everyone not named Musk or Zuck miserable

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/08/2026

WELKER: Do you think democratic socialists have a place in the Democratic Party? VAN HOLLEN: Yes they do as part of the debate. I think that those in the Dem Party who are afraid of a healthy debate are missing the point, because Democratic voters do not want a return to the pre-Trump status quo

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Trump's covert surveillance of anti-ICE protesters is much worse than we thought. I dug into this and found that DHS agents secretly spied on over a dozen meetings of left-leaning groups, all protected by First Amendment. The details are unnerving. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2144...

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Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.

Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

i think that the entire history of AI has told us that the real "bitter lesson" is that machines become fluent in environments when we remake those environments for them or work very hard to integrate them into those environments

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I find the discourse around "wokeness" to be dishonest and tedious, but this is what I wrote about it a couple of years ago and I think it remains correct: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I could go on, but I think you get the point. These things are real; they happened. To believe that the disadvantages of race, class, and gender imposed lawfully over centuries never occurred or entirely disappeared in just a few decades is genuinely “radical” in a negative way; to believe that creating those disadvantages was wrong and that they should be rectified is not. The idea that no one ever succeeds based on advantages unrelated to their personal abilities is likewise radical, and also ludicrous. But you can, perhaps, understand why one of the richest men in the world would consider the opposing idea—that where many people end up in life is the result of unearned advantages—to be a “woke mind virus” that should be eradicated. That kind of thinking leads to higher marginal tax rates for people with private planes.

Some people so deeply resent the implication that they possess any unearned advantage that, in Republican-run states all over the country, the same folks who were recently shrieking about free speech and oversensitive snowflakes are busy using the power of the state to ban discussions about factual matters that might hurt their feelings, such as descriptions of racial segregation in the story of Rosa Parks. The irony here is that by framing everything they don’t like as a symptom of pervasive oppression against white people or Christians that must be rectified by the state, they have themselves adopted the inverse of the logic they decry as “wokeness.” They believe that America’s demographic majorities are the targets of broad institutional discrimination, which is unjust not because such discrimination is morally abhorrent but because it is targeted at the wrong people.

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Remote work is a feminist issue and this study (and NYT op-ed) panning it are just plain silly reason.com/2026/07/27/n...

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No, remote work is not making us miserable

The rise of remote work is a tech success story, despite what one new and very convoluted study claims.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Air tanker scores a direct hit on a fire line in the Hollywood Hills, dumping thousands of liters of retardant as Santa Ana winds threaten to turn dry chaparral into an explosive blaze.

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michellegrosser.bsky.social @michellegrosser.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“ train a system on its own outputs for long enough and the variance drains away until everything converges on the mode. Urbanists have their own word, placelessness, for what’s left when everywhere optimises toward the same template”

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

In general, it would be better if fewer Americans formed their views based on people whose main job is to sit in front of a microphone and talk all day, whether they lean right or left.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

What I find striking is the the lack of the converse: the conservative 'masculinity' discourse isn't very interested in making men Christian or moral or hard-working or mature or good providers. It is interested in physical strength (or its appearance) and high-earning, but that's hardly the same!

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 09/08/2026

I know the corpus will throw chaff about the first amendment, but I don’t think that’s a real concern. Democrats really can sweep on a platform of doing this. Be the anti-scammer party, in all of scamming’s many forms.

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France is banning unsolicited telemarketing calls starting next week

France is banning unsolicited telemarketing calls starting next week following years of people's complaints.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Also: the Trump presidency isn't even half over yet, and the maximum alarmists weren't nuts. ICE is operating as a death squad or is at least building up to it. Birthright citizenship nearly died in court. Mass corruption. Iran War. Haitian ethnic cleansing. Concentration camps. It's very bad!

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It is dangerously naive to believe that cruelty can be directed only towards the guilty. An appetite for cruelty is equally sated by the victimization of innocents. There’s no reason that a straightforward prosecution of the administration’s crimes would be inferior to performative cruelty.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It sometimes feels like we're living in a ridiculously exaggerated folk tale with wildly implausible villains. For example, as the president takes billions for himself and his family and *coats his things in gold,* the soldiers fighting his war can't get toothpaste, hot water, or a clean toilet.

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Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln

The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

*You know when you're in a Gray Zone, but when you're in a "hybrid warfare zone," you don't know. Instead, daily life just has this balky, metallic, "years-of-lead" feeling

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I will say that it makes sense to have a much lower error tolerance for AI though, because if it can do a thing, more of the thing will be done. a 5% error rate vs a 10% human one is not unambiguously an improvement in the world at large if 1000x more of the thing is being done

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This woman entered U.S. legally, and then applied for asylum, which case has been “pending” for years. Now, because the USG is violating her 6th Amendment right to a speedy trial in her asylum case, that same government has arrested her for overstaying. Kafkaesque. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-v...

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Trump voter pleads for fiancée's release after ICE arrest: "They're destroying families"

"They are picking up law-abiding citizens. They're destroying families, jobs," said a Texas man who regrets his vote for President Trump after his fiancée, an immigrant from Venezuela, was detained by...

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is remarkable

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is a weird form of gaslighting MAGA is very fond of: They act like the preservation of core American traditions and norms that have been around for centuries is actually some wacky novelty. I guess because they want to pose as “conservatives” rather than the radicals they are.

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