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Flamebait @flame-bait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Many people put tasks on To Do lists explicitly *not* intending to complete them at all. They’re tasks weighing on the person’s mind, and writing it down gives them permission to deprioritise it.

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Doug Smith @genejockey57.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember back when the Apple Newton was introduced. It was supposed to "learn" your handwriting over time but it seemed more likely it would train the user to write so it could read. I figure the same with AI - you won't teach it YOUR routine. It will teach you ITS routine.

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Matthew 🦖 @moosewithablanket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's probably the biggest reason why we don't have universal healthcare, imho.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt

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JDKahler @jdkahler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Journal actual journalism side has always done real journalism. The editorial side is looney.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

To summarize: there's nothing wrong with fighting when you're fighting fascist fuckers.

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Alice Lastname @rbdfwkedkegfkt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This and the math thing in a way are good news. At the end of the day, LLMs and all their harnesses and bells and whistles still can't go beyond the distribution. They are great if you want to get to the mean. If you are out of the distribution, they can't replace you. They won't even know you.

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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026

I feel like one of the most radical, best and most rebelliously good things you can do right now in the informational online space is just....give people credit, love, support and shoutouts. Even if they just inspired you or prodded a thought you built on, name them and thank them loudly.

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Policy Vibe · by NoMAGA @policyvibe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once one network resumes coverage, the White House learns that excluding a competitor carries little cost. The pool’s collective leverage disappears precisely when it is most needed.

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The far right in Europe and the US very much depends on people seeing the superiority of our civilisation over the formerly colonialised peoples as permanent rather than a product of particular factors. Its anti-educational and anti-science attitudes are also likely to hasten our relative decline.

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Elissa Taub @ejtaub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The SAVE database is notoriously slow in being updated. I'm an immigration attorney & my clients' medical and driver's licenses often depend on SAVE verification. I can't tell you how many times they get an initial rejection because SAVE hasn't been updated. Using that database for voter reg insane.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meanwhile the real miraculous future tech is solar & mRNA vaccines: preserving the planet and curing cancer. But we’re supposed to hand everything over to malevolent peeping toms and resource oubliettes for an ill defined ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ progress. It isn’t rational.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A work of art, including the finer points of (a) 60 Minutes, which was mutilated by conservative Republicans and (b) the cowboy hat, which for 50+ years has symbolized faux-self-reliance subsidized by an intricate web of government policies.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 22/09/2026

The idea of AI curing all diseases is, IMO, silly. Biomedical research is mostly limited by data, not ideas. Imagine saying AI will build a world-champion basketball team by replacing basketball coaches with hyperintelligent AI. You see the problem. Someone still needs to dribble and make shots.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So as a practical matter, Congress must delegate. But Trump/Vought want to be able to determine the final decisions, to reduce spending (contrary to the law), and pursue ideological control and petty revenge missions. That is what "the president's priorities" is a euphemism for.

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pleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When there's some activity or hobby or preference you find personally uninteresting or distasteful, it's generally mentally healthier to either A) try to see what other people like about it or B) say "it's not for me, but I'm happy for them". This will solve many problems in your life

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Brenda A @brendalnk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Of course they knew what were doing. It’s their business model!! Steal the collective intellectual property of all mankind and then sell it back to us and hoard all the profits. They’ll be shocked when they realize that’s not a world even they will want to live in.

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Oak @liveoaklaurels.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One thing the R wing hasn't recognized is that even their most cotton-wool protected babies grow up to resent being told they have to be protected from ideas they might not be able to handle.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Most conservatives and libertarians in this country only thought they hated government because it was perceived as helping undeserving (read: black and brown) people. Turns out their commitment to limited government was bullshit all along. Who could've guessed!

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Lisa who used to use her last name here but deleted it:) @amidprivilege.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is key too so much. One of the top things I learned in Silicon Valley career is that the smarter people are–the better they can often be at lying to themselves to justify doing whatever they please.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/09/2026

As I said the first time Trump proposed tariffs: this is precisely why he likes them! It makes everyone come to him on bended knee, begging for exemptions. It makes economic survival dependent on his whim. That, not any economic theory, is the whole attraction. Mafia boss thinking.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm good thanks

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Dumbstash @dnlmsstch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have a lot of experience with police department and misconduct cases and the one reform I would do is that all IA of local cops should be done by sheriff dept, sheriff by state AG, and state agencies by an independent agency that only does IA. With transparency for everything & power 2 discipline

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CRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yeah, the whole game is to seed distrust in the public by lying about election fraud and then use that distrust as evidence supporting voter suppression laws. And meanwhile, voter fraud remains vanishingly rare because it's a *felony charge* for *zero gain*.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

18 months ago, Trump was yelling at Zelenskyy that he didn’t have any cards and was about to lose the war. Now he’s begging him to stop bombing Russia.

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 13/09/2026

Yeah, the easiest way to slow progress down would be to require that any model available to the public must make all of its weights public and state that there is no IP in model weights. That would mean there would be no way to make money, and the frontier would stop advancing. They'd hate that.

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Erinn @erinnm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

That's why he hates NATO. He truly thought the money the allied countries spends on defense went to a big kitty that naturally, the US has control of. I am sure Putin helped to advance this belief. When he found out there was no money to shake down, he soured on it. He has said as much in interviews

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm convinced that this is just a big a reason for the tariffs as any (misplaced) economic claims: Tariffs give Trump discretionary power, and he likes being the sort of guy who can use govt power on a whim to impress people (in this case), or in return for other favors.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Let us break the law or we’ll shoot this dog” essentially

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Interesting point. this would be a great topic for an essay or article - what happened to Gilded Age philanthropy and why? How are our current oligarchs different from the past? Someone should write it.

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rationalpear.bsky.social @rationalpear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

that’s what fascism does, right? the “them” out group grows broader with time. started with the hispanics and haitians, but doesn’t end there.

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So (if I understand this correctly), the way AI (companies) will "solve" all the major problems in maths, biology, and medicine in the next 5 years will be by stealing and building on the ideas of researchers naive enough to think their chats with AI companies would be private.

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counterpunkt.bsky.social @counterpunkt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I will always remember a conversation I had in grad school in 2007 with a Homeland Security official who said “if there’s another 9/11 America will become a police state.” And I realize now that Homeland Security was always set up to make such a transition and they didn’t wait and just did it.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'd vote for the future where there's the option of a box that pops up when lazy nonsense appears and says "this looks like AI slop. Would you like me to find a piece written by a thoughtful human on this topic - something that's valued by other humans and is actually worth reading?"

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joewv.bsky.social @joewv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If they really wanted to get rid of all immigrants, they would go after their employers. But they don’t want that. They want to make sure they remain in illegal status so those employers can abuse them and Trump can extract bribes from employers to keep ICE out.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Precisely. Strange bedfellows are a lot easier to accept when someone is outside the house trying to burn it down.

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not agents. People. If a dude is driving a bulldozer and loses control it’s not the bulldozers fault

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026

AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money

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Spencer’s Butte’s Shadow @brienmcmullen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"If they commit conventional warfare we will have to commit war crimes" is very British Empire.

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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Medical Establishment tells you the truth, and the truth is often “We don’t know”, and that infuriates people. They want to know - and if there isn’t an answer they will invent one, and people will happily shill products to assuage their fears even though they do nothing to help or make it worse

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Don O'DNA ("🦖🧬") @badfengshui.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fascists and insurrectionists, voted into power because they promise to harm minorities, are smashing complex and delicate systems. They are aroused by the cruelty and know that some fraction of what they destroy today will generate opportunities for profit in the future.

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bawfuls @bawfuls.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Because Balmer committed crimes against his fellow elites. They had a mutual agreement to suppress wages, when one billionaire breaks that agreement the rest must punish him severely to ensure no one else gets any ideas.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We’re looking at generational damage—in the economy, arts, science, innovation, labor, manufacturing—from this admin’s immigration policies.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Citing absolute numbers for this is always dumb but it's not true even by that metric. Biden still got more votes in 2020 than Trump did in 2024.

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is like the worst parts of the historical punishment of "marooning", combined with modern-day concentration camps -- on a mass scale.

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Marooning - Wikipedia

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

ALL-CAPS LEGAL HOT TAKE (which I believe): HELLER WILL EVENTUALLY BE OVERTURNED BY SCOTUS AS "WRONGLY DECIDED AND IMPOSSIBLE TO IMPLEMENT", BUT IT WILL LIKELY BE DECADES FROM NOW. BETWEEN NOW & THEN, TENS OF THOUSANDS WILL DIE BECAUSE SCALIA REWROTE THE SECOND AMENDMENT TO PLEASE THE NRA.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

There’s lots of empty land in and near Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster, and for that matter at the very spacious estates of the tech oligarchs and the nice campuses of the tech companies. Those seem like easy places to put data centers.

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Stoic in Wisco @stoiccitizen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

US has an administration filled with people whose only talent is white collar crime. They expect the rest of the world to be as gullible and ignorant as the people that voted them in.

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