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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It was probably a very short story, though.

winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The fact that they're still doing stuff like this a year after all this blew up in their faces indicates that they either have no idea what they're doing and have refused to learn from everyone who is doing it, or they absolutely do know what they're doing and hoping no one notices.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I've said gladitorial combat wasn't far away. It's even closer now.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Love the Gothic window frames on the fence!

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An excellent and harrowing report of how those with power silence and destroy their critics. It's not just Hollywood, either. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/n...

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Dmitri. #freeLink @momus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the most predictable consequences ever: Strikingly, every single one of the many smart glasses videos we found were captured by teen boys — and their bad behavior was overwhelmingly directed at girls.

futurism.com

Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm a fan of Midnight Maredsous.

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

alternet.org

Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos

Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you needed proof that investors never read the ‘risk factors’ section of the prospectus….

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These days with the billionaires pulling up stakes, you’d think there are bargains to be had there. Or somewhere. Can you fit a practice field in a sphere?

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026

Called it again

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh • 6h
€ UPDATE: A migrant caravan just RUSHED into Mexico and is now full steam ahead to the
U.S. Southern Border
This is NOT a freaking game! THEY ARE WAITING FOR DEMOCRATS TO TAKE POWER
VOTE RED!!
You see these people? Each one is a future Democrat voter if Dems take Congress then win in 2028.
Punish RINOs in primary season, SAVE OUR REPUBLIC IN NOVEMBER
We can kiss any hope of the SAVE America Act and ICE funding GOODBYE if Democrats take power ever again e
x.com/AnthonyAguero/…

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Iran was supposed to save Trump this year. That didn’t work out so well so he’s looking for an “easy win” he can do in a month’s time. Hint: invading islands is never easy, especially when they’ve been anticipating it for 65 years.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The new Red Scare is a lot weirder and dumber than when they were just looking for communists in government.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Any position on ICE that is less than "Shut it all down immediately and open the files" is morally unconscionable.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We're now at the "we disappear those we declare to be enemies of the state" stage of totalitarianism.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And this goes trebly for AI, which is probably the best tool international scammers have ever adopted.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

... her name), and would be just the perfect kind of intro to a middle-aged professor who can't remember most of their students' names but might be intrigued by a "personal" connection. ... Everything is a scam now. Whoever does something about it gets my vote.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Annals of AI: "Someone" wrote to me *at my personal email* (which I don't distribute) to say she was a student of mine or met me on campus several years ago (when I wasn't teaching; the second tell) asking to reconnect. Perfect English, somewhat formal, gmail account not obviously fake (based on...)

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

No ulterior motive except I like the author and it's a new book (Tim Powers is the author).

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nothing quite says "wrong side of history" than building a monument that you expect people to try to vandalize or tear down, so you threaten to kill them. Nicolae Ceauşescu would like a word. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...

nytimes.com

Trump Says His Contested Arch Would House Drones and Snipers

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ignatius Reilly also said we needed a king.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Match was mine for a while, if only because there are 7 _atch words, and if one of those seven is the winning word, I wanted to have better odds I wouldn't get stuck trying to guess which of the 4 remaining words it was with my last guess.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pittufik Air Base is available!

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ssh. Don’t tell him it’s the same deal we’ve always had!

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Article of impeachment no. 427. Any takers?

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

arstechnica.com

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

ballsandstrikes.org

A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The NY Times is in “but her emails” mode regarding Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker. Relentless and unfair. Where’s the big story about a Republican megadonor who is a white supremacist? Maybe NYT has heard of him. His name‘s Elon Musk.

NYT headline: A provocative streamer creates headaches for El-Sayed in key Senate race

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This was one of Hitler's first acts when he came to power, too.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yeah. Once again: who’s going to stop him? The East Wing is gone and they’re getting ready to break ground on the fake triumphal arch.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is very true. The Democratic brand is toxic to any MAGA Republican, and most other Republicans too. They'll never vote for a Democrat no matter how reactionary they get. They should stop wasting their energy courting the right and focus on turning out disillusioned left-wing voters.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Called it. He's going to bulldoze it if he can't steal John F. Kennedy's honor.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

LB's a great book! Well deserved!

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I mean, I'm all for burning less petroleum... it's as clear today as it was in 1977 that the oil industry left to its own devices will kill us. I'm also in favor of bringing back the word "ecology" and switching to metric.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Huh, interesting. Both in that the dynamics changed significantly, and in that the producers here also had to pull the plug because things were getting way out of hand. And that even Philip Zimbardo said the experiment didn't need to be re-run. And this also wasn't a real prison, unlike w/ Netflix.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So we're going back to Jimmy Carter's policies to deal with our national malaise?

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He’s an idiot. And he’s also giving away the whole game: just sub “Republican” for “communist” and you’ve got the GOP’s only talking point for the last 45 years.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Next up: bulldozers. apnews.com/article/kenn...

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is barbaric. Reality TV exists for manufactured conflict. Even if a participant wants to be good, they're pushed to not be. The original Stanford Prison Experiment was bad enough. A reprise for mass entertainment is unconscionable. Gladitorial combat would be morally preferable.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Very late-stage Strom Thurmond vibes today.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I would love to see more big-name titles get rid of the black-hat options, especially when we're dealing with issues where the black hats are obvious for the skulls on them (i.e. slavery, the Holocaust, etc.) You can have an enjoyable game without fascist fan service.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The book asks the key question: IF Trump were a Russian asset, what exactly would he do differently?

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

computer programs like minesweeper or notepad could also bring about the extinction of the human race within a few decades, if they required setting the planet on fire

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He'll raze the Kennedy Center the way he's razed the East Wing, the golf course, and everything else before he allows it to reopen. To paraphrase the old aphorism, "when your only tool is a bulldozer, all your problems look like century-old monuments without any gold leaf."

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