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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm again grateful to @theverge.com for publishing my newest long-form essay on the limits of the computational model of the mind, the benefits of understanding both biological and cultural evolution to explain human thinking, and the danger of cognitive hot dogs in education.

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Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI

AI is junk food for the mind: easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you.

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 13/09/2026

me, trying to do something today that i also did yesterday but in that time they changed the interface

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 01/09/2026

"Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do." Thank you, and RIP, Wendell Berry.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

totes true in almost all fields I know. We're all valuable if we're doing something we believe in, even if only to ourselves or a few

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I watch AI boosters try to argue that GenAI is useful, And that doesn't begin to answer the main criticism of it, which is that it's moral and intellectual poison created from theft and being wielded against the working class. And it ignores that "useful" doesn't mean "good."

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

we literally stand on the shoulders of giants. towering figures who have exited the world. fierce intellects who believed things like "you can ban or regulate dangerous stuff" and "societies can rein in excesses," and "peace is generally preferable to war and chaos." may as well have been aliens

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I have been saying this constantly over the past few years - Trump gives people permission to be their worst selves. We need to establish consequences for that behavior in every aspect of society.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/06/2026

I remember when non-binding language suggestions from university HR departments were national news, subject to repeated outraged columns in multiple media outlets. Do you see any of that national outrage about this real, bona fide, state-enforced intimidation & censorship?

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Samuel Rubenfeld (he/him) @srubenfeld.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

happy pride

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 04/05/2026

My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

‘Simply stop giving millionaires water for literally free’ is one of the most insane sounding but actually serious policy solutions out there

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Fun fact: this actually makes you a Protestant. Weird how heirarchical religions work, right?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

he's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This doesn’t seem hyperbolic now

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

i feel like a lot of people are dissociating and not reacting to the threat of nuclear war with an appropriate level of alarm?

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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 05/04/2026

we made being a charlatan a viable career path — TV talking heads, opinion columnists; even journalism proper has become little more or less than industrialized charlatanism

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

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Anthony Ha @anthonyha.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Print this, frame it www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

In a November conversation at the Urban Consulate in Detroit, the great writer and thinker Tressie McMillan Cottom was asked by host Orlando P. Bailey, “Do you have a daring idea for us to ponder and sit with for our collective future?” McMillan Cottom replied with this: “When people try to sell you on the idea that the future is already settled, it’s because it is deeply unsettled. I think that this promise of an artificial intelligent future is really just a collective anxiety that very wealthy, powerful people have about how well they’re gonna be able to control us in the future. If they can get us to accept that the future is already settled—AI is already here, the end is already here—then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.”
Today, I refuse.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

Headline:
Dow rises 300 points after Trump says U.S. in ‘serious' talks to end operation in Iran

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Betty Bangs Guitarist 🎸 @briankelley2.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Talk about a low bar, “better than doomscrolling”, ok

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Betty Bangs Guitarist 🎸 @briankelley2.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

If the Big 10 can span the country, I don’t see why the EU can’t span the globe.

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Emily Horne @emilyhorne.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

“It’s clear that the Midwesterner isn’t a real media outlet, it’s a right-wing political content mill—which the New York Times and POLITICO both failed to note when they cited its viral tweet as the kind of foreign policy criticism that Democrats just need to face.”

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I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News"

How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

2026 basically

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

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Betty Bangs Guitarist 🎸 @briankelley2.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This is killing me today- without even wading through the letters!

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Betty Bangs Guitarist 🎸 @briankelley2.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

They circumvented the NRC by using the DOE rules for research reactors, but the tech bros don’t want to do research they want electricity from nuclear power.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

It remains to be seen how the Venezuelan people will respond to a more overt CIA presence in the country post-Maduro. For years, Maduro cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man, repeatedly accusing the agency – without evidence – of attempting to topple his regime as he clung to power despite US opposition.

Now, the CIA has helped supplant Maduro and is poised to help actively manage the Trump administration’s dealings with Venezuela’s new leadership.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

“To you this is murder?” “Yes. I know it is. — People are feeling like there’s nobody here to help us. What can we do? The constitution doesn’t seem to matter.” She witnessed the killing of Alex Pretti, now she is bravely coming forward. Stella is the best of us. 🇺🇸

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/01/2026

looks like donald trump used the military to do a smash and grab for his personal benefit

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

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The year politics became brainrot

You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

One of the best things I've read about the AI bubble and how we should think about it from Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

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Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Betty Bangs Guitarist 🎸 @briankelley2.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

This is a good read. Reposting so I can find it again

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