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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
my @newyorker.com column this week goes in depth on how using AI makes us less original, unique, and creative as writers, thinkers, and communicators. Various new studies are proving that AI is a rampant force of homogenization: www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
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A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.
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sanjukta paul @sanjukta.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Impossible to watch this video without weeping. What these people have gone through I simply cannot imagine.
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Liam Denning @liamdenning.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Tesla's latest earnings were abysmal. Strip out EV credits, net interest and 'other', and underlying operations flipped to a loss. But Musk led the call with a MAGA-gram. @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
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Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally)

Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
welcome back david lynch
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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
the culture of lawlessness in silicon valley literally cant be reformed, they are hostile to the basic idea of a nation with laws because they are such special little boys
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Richard J. Evans: “The fascist project was to remake human beings into a new kind of ruthless, hard, pitiless entity [and] to expunge humanitarianism from the political system and from people’s consciences.”
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DB 📉 @konvolutj.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
a large part of white collar work is having no idea what someone is talking about when they ask you to do something but labouring to figure it out from context clues
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 15/04/2025
Only need to look at the pre-1980 part of this chart to see why Bessent is so keen on making banks' Treasury holdings great again.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/04/2025
one of my tiktok followers made this
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brendo @bren-o.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Fark. Another offside clinical finish for Nelli
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Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
this is disgusting.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?
Screenshot of the Atlantic Signal exchanges, including Michael Waltz saying "the first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Masked plainclothes goons snatching someone who's committed no crime off the street? I'd say we're in the bad place, folks
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
this site is free 😌
wint@dril.bsky.social • 2h
blue sky is supreme because every time you post you get 100 school principals in the replies asking to see you in their office

uriel52.bsky.social @uriel52.bsky.... •2h
Maybe stop posting childish bullshit.
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ostonox @ostonox.com · 20/03/2025
mr beast talking about the human lives he has trapped in simultaneous simulations with "cant wait to upload these" is why black mirror can never be as good as it used to be
mr beast tweet reads: I have a pilot living in a $2,500,000 private jet and if he doesn’t leave for 100 days he keeps it, a cop/criminal in a jail and if they don’t leave for 100 days they win $500,000, and someone living in a gym until he loses 100 pounds for $500,000. Can’t wait to upload these 🥰
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 19/03/2025
on my way to the flight to El Salvador after being convicted of "extreme domestic terrorism" for calling Elon Musk a "stupid head" online (2026, colorized)
Nic Cage in Con Air, being led in handcuffs, surrounded by police
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Tim Stillman ⭐️⭐️ @tim-stillman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This was very similar to how I saw us lose to Mourinho’s peak Chelsea team several times. Nick a goal and then hold them off cos you’re physically stronger and your defence is better than their attack.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
"When partisanship is taken into account along with class, the ["Trump's Kryptonite"] study finds that “Democratic working-class respondents strongly favor candidates promoting progressive social policies,” while Republican working-class respondents sharply oppose them." jacobin.com/2025/03/clas...
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Is This Really the “Age of Class Dealignment”?
Class dealignment perspectives tend to overstate the extent to which center-left parties can boost their fortunes today through a strict focus on pocketbook issues.
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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The courage of Mahmoud Khalil's family releasing this terrifying footage vs. the total capitulation of Senate Democrats.
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...
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Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"
The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Good piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social on how the oligarchic regime is doubling down on clientalism in the face of economic downturns and rapidly softening poll numbers... newrepublic.com/article/1926...
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Trump’s Crazed Midnight Tirade Over Musk’s Unpopularity Shows Weakness
Trump hates green energy—but he loves Teslas, which he’s now pathetically pleading with his followers to buy as a show of loyalty and devotion to Elon Musk.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/03/2025
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
An industrial policy in which the President personally buys all the cars using memecoins
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
"I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind." - Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Thinking of Andrea Long Chu's description of the "far center" as people who hold reactionary beliefs but are obsessed with maintaining their self-image as a liberal person
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 07/03/2025
Nothing says future pandemic more than deregulating disease control in farm animals.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We're gonna move fast and break things. Sometimes we'll make mistakes. If we remove the wrong organ we'll put it back in. We are disrupting surgery
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, etc.
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 04/03/2025
Had incomes across distributions continued to grow roughly with GDP growth since 1975 like they had over the three decades prior, median income would be about twice what it is today.
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A Funny Old Game @sidlambert.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Simpler times.
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zenoist.republican @anarchomorphist.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Straight from Yarvin's "Cathedral" model
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Gene Hackman is gone but thanks to the magic of Generative AI he can still star in pornographic films forever
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/02/2025
Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence. That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received. The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 26/02/2025
DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b Annual increase in deficit: $900b Cuts to Medicare: $880b
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/02/2025
Hochul’s move here is profoundly racist and dehumanizing. Defining Palestinian studies as fundamentally antisemitic means defining Palestinians as something to be erased. It is genocidal. This is also an unacceptable attack on academic freedom. The governor should have no say in faculty hiring.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The Trump admin is causing chaos in transport research. Studies have been canceled, datasets have vanished, and experts have been fired. The Nat'l Academies’ Transportation Research Board has caved to Trump’s demands for censorship, triggering upheaval. Its future is in doubt. From me (w/scoops) 🧵
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The Trump Administration Takes Aim at Transportation Research
Researchers warn of a “chilling environment” as studies examining road safety and other topics are killed off and layoffs hit federal agencies.
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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The second half of this quote deserves to be remembered in the history books
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