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Itsa Mee, Caitie Vee

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 8h
an expert here: designing chatbots to be anthropomorphic, sycophantic yes-men is a choice ai developers make
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
like I guess could get behind this as a story if the frame was “this woman thinks people should be put in concentration camps for violating civil codes but breaks traffic laws with abandon” but headlining basically “she texts and drives” cmon. she’s dumb goebbels, I think that’s the focus
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Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The Ilhan Omar stuff is grotesque and feels worthy of impeachment by itself
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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 14/10/2026
They can get fucked, Mike 👍
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 13/10/2026
Matthew Shepard died on October 12th in 1998, 28 years ago. His ashes were interred at Washington National Cathedral 20 years later, in 2018, because before Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson offered the Cathedral's crypt, his family had no place for him that would be safe from desecration.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
if you have even a second of wondering, "well maybe she did something..." -- she was raided by DHS, not the FBI
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Also it’s time for the news to stop treating this administration’s racist war against Somalis as “Trump being Trump.” They targeted Minneapolis because they hate an ethnic group here, and now they’re targeting the most prominent political figure in that group with thinly rationalized state violence.
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Kevin Hell-iott @kjephd.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Suggested headline: Trump Intimidation of Critics Intensifies with Search of Congresswoman's Home
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
every time the media gets to ask Abdul El-Sayed a question they ask him to answer for something Hasan Piker said because they once did an event together. Yet the media never asks Republican candidates to answer for Elon Musk, the #1 Republican fundraiser this cycle and of all time. It's odd!
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12/10/2026
I (probably obviously) disagree with John's POV here, but let's grant that all of what he says is true, and that X is good in all the ways listed in the post; let's even grant that's true for all demographics (it's not). It'd *still* be a site that pays known CSAM distributors at its owner's behest.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:
El-Sayed: “That’s rich coming from someone who wears his bed sheets out at night.”
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's flatly obscene for Elon Musk to be talking about cruelty to robots when he is personally, singlehandedly and gleefully responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. (And, not to put too fine a point on it, when he thinks nothing of dressing those robots up as sex slaves for him)
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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/10/2026
elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
guy's not fucking around
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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a community note for the ages.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
people who got angry about those buddha statues should be even angrier about this
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Aaron Littman @aaronlittman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Believe it or not, the Supreme Court was presented as far back as 1947 with the question whether attempting to execute someone a second time, after a botched first go round (then, in a portable electric chair known as “Rusty”), was cruel and unusual.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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Itsa Mee, Caitie Vee @caitievbob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on
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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Stop calling this a DC makeover. This is an illegal desecration of our capital and a huge waste of American families’ money. DC is sacred ground, and we shouldn’t minimize the real damage being done.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Has any Democrat of any stature ever said "no single person deserves to go without"? Without qualifying it with "hard-working Americans" or "taxpayers" or some shit. Just a blanket true statement. No single person should suffer. Period.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11/09/2026
indeed, as my colleague jason briggeman notes, republicans are currently in the process of slandering and desecrating and dishonoring the more than one million dead americans of covid-19 these lies and slanders and utter fucking lethal bullshit have somehow become central to their party platform
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11/09/2026
no, i do not think abdul el-sayed has debased its memory by calling for us to save lives instead of wasting them
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 08/09/2026
My late father worked for Port Authority of NY & NJ for 32 years. He was assigned to work on cleanup after the 1993 WTC bombing. He spent months after 9/11 going to funerals for the 37 Port Authority cops. I never say this glibly: I’m glad he isn’t alive to hear this defilement of their memories.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Screenshot of a headline and quote from the Financial Times following the 2024 election. The quote reads:

“I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled… it’s a new dawn.”
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
[eyes go black] you have to kill the supplement industry
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Culturally. we absolutely need to change how we think about wage theft. Petty crimes like shoplifting & vandalism routinely make the nightly news but wage theft can have an even greater impact... the people being harmed are workers with the least power" 5/7 www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/202...
LA City Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez On Wage Theft
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026
anyway i think DC statehood is a non negotiable. only way to give DC residents the tools to protect themselves.
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I guess it’s important to communicate that MAHA is fundamentally an movement by individuals to capture health care dollars by lying to people about having products and services that work
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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
we actually have to destroy the alt-health industry in its entirety, much like we also need to destroy car dealerships
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
local12.com
Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Impeach Fetterman
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.
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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“Think I give a damn about what this Piker guy is saying when the richest Nazi the world has ever seen is bankrolling the destruction of America via the Republican Party?” — how every Dem should answer questions about Hasan Piker
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026
every single day elon musk says or endorses stuff on x dot com that is worse than any of the quotes they've pulled up for hasan piker and he will be the single biggest political donor in the entire country, supporting republicans up and down the ballot somehow none of them are asked about it
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
come take it, you sclerotic old pedophile
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