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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 4h

Can Gen AI do Art, the metaphysical creative process? Open question, depends on who you ask. Can Gen AI make Art, the product that people pay money for? Yes. They objectively can.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2h

He’s making poor Ken bleed dignity hard for the support. And the more Trump thinks he’s going to lose the more dignity he’s going to demand

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 2h

Older Scottish Jesuit I live with: “I suppose it’s true, but I’m not sure every definitely true statement needs to be a top headline”

Page from today’s Bangkok post with the headline: “Trump unlikely to win Nobel Prize”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2h

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

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2h

I guess we’re pretending this absolutely ridiculous notion was an actual MLB plan and not just some random last-brain-cell bullshit that Trump said

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1h

It's important to him because he's a white supremacist, which is the same reason he avoids mentioning the Nazis or Confederates when he lists the foes America has defeated. My guess is at least one of his speechwriters believes the wrong side lost in WW2, if Hegseth doesn't.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1h

from a privacy and just a basic legal compliance perspective, training on CSAM and beheading videos in order to interpose a cartoon filter over suspected violations is a nightmare but i spent maybe eight months working closely on a project to allow people to do it so they wouldn't have to watch

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2h

"is it praxis to get trespassed out of a Panera Bread because you are angry about the gore videos you watch to keep yourself in a constant homicidal rage," he wondered

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The Almighty Tallest @spooknine.bsky.social · 1h

Everything you see Stephen Miller doing is a desperate rearguard action that failed the very instant it began. A lot of people have suffered and will continue to in service of this doomed effort before it is stopped, but they've already lost the war.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 2h

Lyndon “Big Dick” Johnson was a Grade A Hater

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Sophie Fullerton @sophiefullerton.bsky.social · 2h

Syria’s notorious torture facility known as the Palestine Branch was established in the 1960s. Human Rights Watch documented torture within the facility as early as the 1970s, including the torture of Palestinian prisoners.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 2h

This is pretty wild... the average global sea surface temperature (outside of the polar regions) is still above 70°F (21.1°C) through the end of September. This is significantly above the prior record. We'll cover this in our October climate briefing: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🌊

Line graph time series of daily global mean sea surface temperatures from 1982 to 2026. This year is currently at record high for this time of year. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1, and the graphic is created by Climate Central at https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-briefings.

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Mathew Buck @filmbrainbmb.bsky.social · 5h

You do not get a medal for finding out someone you disliked did something bad and pointing out your validation. You do get a visit from a magical fairy, though, who gives you a coin that says "Don't Make This About Yourself".

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 5h

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Justin Gallivan @justingallivan.bsky.social · 9h

People are focusing on the highlighted part, but it's just as important to read the "relationship" between the question and the subsequent word salad.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 9h

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 9h

Aaron is not exaggerating one bit. This is not just some fancy way to say “I don’t like Trump” These are the ramblings of a disordered mind. The interviewers have done us a service by taking it all down verbatim.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Enten: "Congratulations to Ken Paxton. You are the least popular Texas Senate GOP nominee this century. No one was even in the negative, and you're at -16."

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 9h

Same folks who apparently think they can ignore demands for accountability bsky.app/profile/esgh...

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 9h

This project is backed by Glenfarne Group, who happens to have hired one of the Cornell 7 rapists fwiw

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 9h

Excellent plan sir

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10h

😂 Trumpers now investigating whether Watergate investigation was also "weaponization"

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 9h

The incentives on this are really poisonous btw.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 9h

There’s a place for an office dedicated to making sure that people’s religious needs, as they define them, are met by the armed forces, since a military that e.g. has only evangelical Protestant chaplains will leave the religious needs of members of other religions unmet. This is different.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 9h

The thing about abstention is that unless you do massive amount of other political or organizing work* it appears to all observers to be “nonvoting due to not giving a shit” *posting is not political work

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026

I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...

Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

it's not actually an honor to end up on the cover of Viziers Monthly. it shows your machinations aren't subtle enough

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11h

The Yuddite/rationalist primary defense mechanism is spurting out a big ink-cloud of thesaurus and number-laden complete nonsense, and then demanding that you waste your time "debating" them over it. The good news is that this trick is easily defeated by simply refusing to play the Debate Me game.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 12h

This is good but still presents an implementation challenge because Throw polling at 60% is misleading when Take polls at 5%.

A dog asks his human to throw his ball without taking the ball from him.

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 21h

This is an excellent thread on the brutal choices you have to make running history survey courses. A lot of people complain online about gaps in university and school curricula. There certainly is scope for updating but also there just is a lot of history and they keep making more of it.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 13h

😳 HOLY CRAP. UNPRECEDENTED. While I've had a few cases where candidates asked me to remove them for legal/personal reasons (they accept public financing or had to drop out), I've NEVER had a candidate straight up say "nah, I don't need any more money, I'm good!" before...especially for STATE HOUSE.

Hi!

I am one of your Blue 26 candidates, and I want to say thank you so much for including me and for all the donations this has brought.

I have decided to suspend any new contributions to my campaign. I have the money I need to finish strong, which will take a bit off my shoulders since I have been serving as my own treasurer.

Can you remove me as a recipient of contributions on your form?

Thanks!

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 12h

he said “fucking” in the Times interview and it’s nowhere near the craziest thing that happened ??

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 12h

His criticism of “liberals” at the time was that some of them were half-assing liberalism, which would be incoherent if you believed “liberal” to be a synonym for “moderate”

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 12h

A particular annoyance of mine—which is extremely obvious if you’ve read a book in the last decade but less so if your exposure to the Civil Rights movement is Twitter screenshots of Tumblr posts—is that “[Southern] white moderate” and “[Northern] white liberal” were not identical categories to King

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 12h

10/10 no notes

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 13h

do you love Ann Leckie? do you love Lois McMaster Bujold? have you somehow never read C. J. Cherryh? you have an enormous treat ahead of you in this Humble Bundle! #BookSky 💙📚

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 13h

I have never seen anyone make this argument, on bluesky or elsewhere. What we have all seen is people claim repeatedly that they did in fact stop saying weird, which is false. The fact that consultants, who were ignored by the candidates but amplified by the press, were opposed to it is uncontested

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 13h

NATALIE HARP WAS IN THE ROOM FOR THE TIME INTERVIEW

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 01/10/2026

uh, @moskov.goodventures.org you have a lot of explaining to do. cough it up.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 13h

I'm compiling posts on "what's the deal with this John Wentworth guy, who is a LessWrong poster who appears to be an "independent AI researcher" and who also just received a 6-figure grant from the Survival and Flourishing Fund" here: bsky.app/profile/pois...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 13h

i do not want people like this in my professional network, personally

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 13h

The death penalty should be abolished because those who most gleefully demand it will do anything to pretend that it does not make them complicit in cold-blooded murder.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 01/10/2026

they fear the basilisk because it represents something above existing power structures that could hold them accountable and punish them for their behavior

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 13h

This judge has a full name, bar number, and home address.

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 13h

I'd love to know what's going through the head of someone who skeets "You are being pedantic" to a skeet where I literally start out, "I know I'm pedantic about this."

You are being pedantic.

That's it. That's the skeet.

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