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Dan Murphy

@bungdan.bsky.social
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Ex Journalist Bloomberg/FEER/CSM. Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, then Iraq/Egypt with a smattering of everywhere else. Same handle over at Mos Eisley Spaceport. Made wine for a few years. Now training a blue heeler in the CA foothills.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 11m
This performance is ideal for dubbing in one of Joe Piscopo's really sad standup routines, a Creflo Dollar scam sermon, or a mypillow ad. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18m
Hundreds of Israelis storm Al-Aqsa Mosque compound aje.news/4knbqq
Hundreds of Israelis storm Al-Aqsa Mosque compound
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 18m
Totalitarianism
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 30m
was just having a conversation about this. it's true. of all the trump admin crimes since 1/2025, these killings are among the clearest cut, with the most law/jurisprudence to support prosecution of a whole range of ppl involved, from leadership to subordinates.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1h
This Ukrainian sizzle reel showing a turtle tank attack under heavy bomber drone support is important in the context of America's Pentagon chief rambling about "fatties, trannies, beardos and weirdos." While he's doing that, combat is *fundamentally changing* and it's not clear we're keeping up.
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CODE 9.2 | ТАНКИ + ДРОНИ | Тандем
YouTube video by CODE 9.2
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1h
every service and at least pappy (one assumes the idiots in tampa and donovan will be all about it) upon getting this directive bsky.app/profile/dbur...
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Old Captain America: No I Don't Think I Will!
Alt: Old Captain America: No I Don't Think I Will!
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Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 2h
Just don’t send me to airborne, air assault or ranger school. And don’t give me command higher than platoon level.
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 2h
Pascal's wager really blew my mind when I was 12. And then, well, and then I stayed in school and now it's just risible.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 6h
Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.
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Timothy E. Kaldas @tekaldas.bsky.social · 3h
Arresting the entire newsroom of journalists at Matsadaash is an alarming escalation in the Egyptian goverment's attacks on press freedom. Egypt already had the distinction of being one of the world's worst jailers of journalists. TIMEP joins the call for the release of these brave reporters.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 4h
On the other hand it reveal him as super-qualified to be a GOP vice presidential nominee.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 7h
These are the guys who built their test reactor in a tent.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 7h
LEONIDAS OF THE POTOMAC HOSTS HISTORIC WORKOUT SESH
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h
Me too! emptywheel.net/2026/09/30/i...
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In the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" - emptywheel
Once you realize Trump's morally binding AI code doesn't even spell "United States" properly, the whole sham looks even more ominous.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 8h
I'm absolutely fascinated by "journalism" that can't seem to tell readers an obvious truth. Like the fact this is absolutely meaningless bullshit designed to pre-empt real oversight
reuters.com
Trump releases AI accord with tech executives
President Donald Trump released a document on Tuesday that his administration cast as an accord ​on artificial intelligence and which he said earlier was signed by ‌him and tech executives that he met...
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 16h
And here is a thread linking to articles that describe how, within the IDF, to-the-foundations earthmover demolitions became the norm in Gaza. It wasn’t because of orders from IDF high command, really—it was a highly successful bottom-up revolution by the extremist reservists who had the earthmovers
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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 9h
ross glick, the betar us cofounder who definitely didn't do revenge porn (www.rossglick.com/legal-notice), brought a bunch of judeofascists to storm and shutdown mahmoud khalil's book release last night
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Protesters stormed Mahmoud Khalil’s book release. His Israeli editor confronted them.
The memoir focuses on Khalil's time in ICE detention after leading pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19h
So campus speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas.
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Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com · 21h
The “protest against the death penalty” that Neo Swee Lin and Lim Kay Siu (and others, including myself) have been charged for was this: we went to court to support a friend who’d been charged. Afterwards, we stood outside the courthouse and someone snapped some photos. Then we left. That’s it.
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Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com · 21h
This is how journalism that picks up a narrative from govt sources and other media end up misrepresenting reality to readers. This says charges are for “protests against the death penalty” which, w/o context, paints a diff picture from what actually happened. www.independent.co.uk/asia/southea...
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Singapore actors charged over protests against death penalty
Singapore retains the death penalty for murder, certain drug-trafficking offences, and serious firearms offences
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 21h
What's really baking my noodle here is... so what if Jack Smith HAD gone to a basketball game in Atlanta in February 2024? I can't really get from there to "go straight to jail, libtard!"
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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 21h
This drunk, coked out idiot throwing other countries into chaos:
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 23h
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Patrick Osgood @patrickosgood.bsky.social · 21h
This framing is both too narrow and over-egged. The 2003 invasion was the strategic victory for Iran. That ship has sailed. This exit is more than all that. It’s an aperture by which Iraq may become whatever it itself can be, with all the dire challenges and legacies it might - might - shuck away
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 21h
Hmm... J does not care about sport, certainly not college sport. She once asked me after hearing on the radio about the UCONN women's latest title "how did they get all those tall women to move to Canada?" I started to tell her about this. J: "Hawkeyes? Like Iowa?!" bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22h
The bros in the back don’t seem to understand what is going on. Sen. Britt does, however.
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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have staffers to know about sports and stuff so you don’t get embarrassed like this. The problem with hiring groypers is that all of their normal guy knowledge has been removed and replaced with theories about skull shapes.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 23h
Per the EO, yes it really is the case the President seems to be directing federal employees to say "I can't hear you unless you say SI" to public customers, research partners, vendors, journalists, etc.
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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 23h
I mean, the promotion rate was something like 99%. Like, "promote everybody on this list' 'But General, CPT Hegseth is not on the list, but two KIAs and a guy serving confinement after a General Court-Martial are?' "Ok, remove one of the dead guys and send it up." 'Sir?' "I said what I said."
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23h
In a new interview, Bill Gates speaks to the imminent dangers of unregulated AI that could easily result in mass death. He does not hold back. (Gift link to the full interview: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...)
So why is anything needed beyond — and is anything needed beyond? — the simply natural incentives under capitalism and normal corporate reputational management?

Well, I almost can't believe you're asking that. This is the most dangerous thing that humans have ever gone near.
In other areas, do we just say: Hey, release your drugs? There's no F.D.A., there's no airline safety board, there's no requirement that cars use seatbelts. Do we just use the liability laws to try and keep humans safe? You know: Oh, you're shipping opioids. Somebody should just sue you.
I mean, we've created a society that tries to keep people safe not by saying: Oh, we can bankrupt the person who does that.And you say there's filtering. There's no filtering. You can take an open-source model that can create bioweapons and disable any monitoring of any kind, and this exists today.
So no, there is no filtering of any kind.
And so say you kill 100 million people — you want to use a lawsuit?
I almost can't keep a straight face.And part of the reason I'm speaking so loudly — as loud as I can — is that you can't rely on the industry to self-regulate here. I mean, it's just insane.
The only question in my mind is: Do we wait until a cyberattack causes massive damage and a bioattack causes massive damage, and then the monitoring safeguards are required in these models to minimize the chance of that happening many, many more times? Or can we be wise enough to put these things in and require these things to be put in before millions of deaths?
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 23h
Voluntary self-regulatory commissions are the blue ribbon panels of memorandums of understanding.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026
Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
scenes from an extremely weird cult of personality history
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"the White House is steamrolling Congress’…constitutional power to decide how taxpayer money is spent — zeroing out programs that legislators wrote into law while pouring money into airing Trump campaign ads on television. Congress could reassert its power in myriad ways, but does not."
talkingpointsmemo.com
Russ Vought Takes a New Path Toward Overriding Congress
Programming Note I’ve been gone for two days! I forgot to say...
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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The WSJ story doesn't even bury this lede — it doesn't mention at all how much this oil rebound has cost the US military and how long it can be sustained. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Middle East Oil Exports Rebound as Iran’s Chokehold on Hormuz Breaks Down
The erosion of Iran’s position comes as the U.S. Navy and Gulf oil producers have become better at fending off or evading Iranian attacks, allowing more tankers to cross the strait.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Late aughts milbloggers: 'Kurt Schlichter? The California National Guard officer who deployed to Kosovo?"
"Jeffrey Epstein? The New York financier?" Meme
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Without commenting specifically on the allegations at issue, my recommendation to the Cornell board of trustees in 2003 was to abolish fraternities and sororities at the university.
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No they damn well won't. You rubes, you absolute simps. bsky.app/profile/reut...
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Me? I think the AI cult weirdos like hyperventilating about their computer programs causing human extinction because it helps them avoid thinking about the real risk of global warming causing human extinction. And it makes them very important boys.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The rainforest is a festering pit... there is more beauty and compassion in an abandoned McDonald's" nicely captures these folk's world view. bsky.app/profile/keta...
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Truth checking Trump... Claim: Trump says he's not as bad for the economy as nuclear detonations in major American cities. Truth check: True! 1/?
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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Jonah Hill's 'Cut It' Gesture
ALT: Jonah Hill's 'Cut It' Gesture
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can be certain this won't happen as presented because if this was straight business, the billionaire Indian involved wouldn't have participated in the dog and pony show. The presence of Export-Import Bank Chairman John Jovanovic should frighten every taxpayer. www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/09/...
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Watch: Trump announces plan for $15 billion steel plant, would be largest in U.S. history
Trump's announcement with Mesabi Metallics comes as Americans' souring views of the economy are poised to shape the upcoming midterm election.
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Barak Ravid riding in with another Wallet Inspector Special
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you don't own this album, can't rattle off the names of the personnel, and haven't read Hajdu's Strayhorn biography of the same name, you live in a bubble. A big, culturally-benighted bubble. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgbL...
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John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman : Lush Life
YouTube video by Mr Kleeg
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026
"I installed the Give Away Your Personally Identifying Info app made by the We Love Stealing Your Personally Identifying Info Corp headed by Mr. Steal Your Personally Identifying Info and it gave away all my personally identifying info"
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