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Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...

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We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3h

i think @sharonk.bsky.social's occasional Dispatches From The Dark World illustrate how much this place is becoming their tomb

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 6h

The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13h

the problem goes deeper than anyone imagines! children have been disobedient and weak, leaders corrupt, and men effeminate for thousands of years

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 13h

Something about “some bad things happening” just irks me. It’s hard to explain why but just like, stop with the lowercase letters birthday boy talk. You’re making, like, a sinister declaration. Grow up and talk about it like an adult. “Some bad things happening” lol.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 15h

I think one reason it’s good to have a liberal arts education in the classic sense is that you don’t then spend time trying to invent the concept of “intellectual pursuits” from first principles

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 05/10/2026

AS I HAVE TOLD YOU BEFORE, mister dracula, face ID isn’t going to work for you, you are going to need to memorize a passcode. do you need me to help you set it up again? no, i definitely can’t come over there to help. no, remember, we tried video chat before, i just see the back of your chair.

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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 17h

"Mods, Mods! A Cultural History of the Early 21st Century."

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 17h

dawg what

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 19h

It is crazy how quickly they’ve shifted from arguing about the purported cultural pathologies of black people to arguing that those exact same alleged pathologies are virtues in white peolle

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"South Korea has already run the experiment. Its law requires the National Assembly to vote on presidential impeachment by anonymous ballot, and that rule has now removed two presidents." [@andycraig.bsky.social]

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A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis

Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

First Monday in October. The Supreme Court returns.

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 05/10/2026

ok i did what needed to be done for this situation

black and white map of brazil with a face on it. the face is anguished. the nation of brazil is stabbing itself with two knives. oh and the southern tip is wearing a speedo

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 05/10/2026

This is *the* main continuity between neo-fascism and the 20th Century variety. Erich Fromm argued exactly this in "Escape From Freedom," saying that modernity left many alienated and socially dislocated--and fascist strongmen promised to restore meaning and purpose to their lives.

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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Between Lula being behind and Lee in S. Korea becoming unpopular, I really would like to emphasize that there’s no one easy trick to resolving facism for good.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Midwest 4-ever

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 05/10/2026

On the one hand, it’s comforting to know that Americans aren’t uniquely stupid, voters everywhere have skulls filled with mush and worms. On the other hand, global fascism is probably not an ideal state of affairs.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Brazil is voting today, and while the presidential election is likely to go to a runoff — the results are a clear and significant shift to the right since the 2022 election and set up Flávio Bolsonaro very well to oust Lula in the October 25 runoff.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

another day at the gender factory, hope it won't all be just gender

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Every single one of these stories is like this and it pisses me off to no end

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rufo boosted the conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants were eating pets, offering $5,000 reward for evidence, and posting grainy video (of other people from elsewhere) he cited as proof. Now the Haitians are being deported, because this is how colorblind meritocracy works I guess.

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don't recall ever having come across this poem before, and it caught me quite off guard

Tomorrow when the farm boys find this

freak of nature, they will wrap his body

in newspaper and carry him to the museum.

But tonight he is alive and in the north

field with his mother. It is a perfect

summer evening: the moon rising over

the orchard, the wind in the grass. And

as he stares into the sky, there are

twice as many stars as usual.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

looks like a still shot from a movie about world war II ending ... differently.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦‍♂️

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

yes it does? the whole modern state was built in like a few years

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026

What’s up with right wingers and whipping up pogroms against their own families

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

starring claude as nude tayne

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ve wondered about LLMs being net-positive on the info space, since the people who tend to trust them are people who would otherwise be getting their info from Facebook groups, WhatsApp forwards, and quora LLMs tend to require the liberal bias that comes with reality to function.

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1) Alito revealing this now is an attempt to rally Republicans in Trump states where Dems lead for Senate. 2) He’s the most partisan R on the court—highly likely he steps down in the lame duck if Dems take the Senate. 3) Doing number 2) makes court expansion even more likely if Dems win in 2028

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Tim @timzhu.io · 03/10/2026

You're basically Napoleon if you can make entire organization(s) get on the same database

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026

I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing.

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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We functionally do not have a Congress, and unless that changes, the Madisonian Constitution gets buried and paved-over with concrete.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 02/10/2026

i wonder what the line is for the manhattan institute, because it doesn't seem to be this

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cannot be emphasised enough that Trump II will plausibly cause the kind of death count we associate with the worst dictatorships of the last century. Unspeakably bad that he came to be president of the world's most powerful nation.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

under old scottish law, you just gotta let someone go after a failed execution because the sentence has been carried out

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 02/10/2026

I really don't understand America's culture of forcing service workers to be on their feet all day.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Formal Request for DOJ Intervention to Todd Blanche

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Finally a president who solved our age old problem of being a country where people wanted to be

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every swing district polls is D47/R46, and then every poll of a Trump+29 district is like D43/R08.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026

this tracks, since nixon being forced to resign was the original sin that led to the modern conservative media environment that gave us trump

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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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