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A History of Getting Things Wrong. But in podcast form. One time I discovered that a submarine wasn’t. Constantpodcast.com

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think that the chances of this aren’t that low. Frankly, some degree of ceding digital space and activity over to AI is an unavoidable ramification of these agents. Think of the degree to which email, phone lines and texts have already become semi-non-human concerns with very little AI involvement
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every time I think I’ve come to grips with how stupid things are, the bottom drops out once more
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tennessee plans to execute a woman tomorrow. She was 18 when she committed the crime. She's now 50. Like most on death row, she's also a victim. And like most on death row, she's a far different person now than she was then. No one humanizes the condemned better than @lilianasegura.bsky.social.
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The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.
After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rahm should be shunned from polite society, not given even an eye roll for his misconceived political ambitions.
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Beginning to think there was a dark side to this Hitler fellow
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I agree: do that!
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ever wonder about the difference between coroners and medical examiners, and where they came from? Up until today, no one could’ve told you. But now I can!
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Turning a Coroner
Podcast Episode · The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong · September 22 · 1h 9m
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Keep your ears clean and your optimism cautious
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This past weekend Jensen Huang declared that OpenAI has successfully created AGI. Here, coincidentally, is my argument for why that’s bullshit.
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Your Hand in Mine (AI Yi Yi) by The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Unpopular opinion: When someone is factually wrong about something important—eg vaccination—telling them that they’re wrong is treating them with respect. The condescending thing to do is indulge them, act like they have a point, as if the thing you know to be wrong might be at least somewhat right.
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Seems like a lot of knives getting sharpened for Hegseth this weekend, eh?
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
He really is the world’s stupidest man
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“My parents only wanted one thing: for future generations to toil without ceasing until it kills us like it killed them. God willing and the creek don’t rise, I will ensure they get it.”
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It’s only one poll, but if it’s anything close to right then Marquette is basically saying the Wisconsin gov race is already over.
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It’s only one poll, but if it’s anything close to right then Marquette is basically saying the Wisconsin gov race is already over.
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I do a mostly terrible job promoting the show here, but I’m taking some big swings for the next few episodes, so maybe give it a listen. Today’s story is the lead up, about the world’s first chess-playing robot. You might know the gist, but come listen to the ridiculous particulars.
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The Turk
Podcast Episode · The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong · August 25 · 1h 3m
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I also don’t know why the new episode dropped two days early, but if you’re looking for an hour’s worth of content about the history of the metric system, I’ve got you covered.
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I had a joke about Icarus but it didn’t go over well
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If your spider-sense wasn’t going off after Major Scandal #3, I regret to inform you you don’t have spider-sense
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I don’t mean offense to anyone who couldn’t smell that Platner was going to be an awful mistake long, long ago, but I also don’t know how to talk about him without offending those people, because it seemed severely obvious
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Body Snatchers: Man's Epic Point
ALT: Body Snatchers: Man's Epic Point
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
[taking the deepest possible breath] the Dutch East India Company was established in 1602,
headline that says “why is trump hosting a cage fight at the White House” with photo of same
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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Legit chance Curtis Yarvin ends up taking the old Andy Rooney spot by, like, August.
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Since they learned that the concert is at The White House, everyone has dropped out other than Big The Cat.
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Stand back and standby.
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Some people are saying that hemorrhagic fevers are having a moment, but for me it’s Marburg or nothing.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 16/05/2026
what i think @hurricanexyz.bsky.social is dead-on in highlighting here is that the VA supreme court ruling was a violation of the VA constitution itself, which quite explicitly notes that the power of the people to reform their constitution is sovereign and inalienable
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 15/05/2026
there's obviously A Lot in this story, but i'm struck again by matt mcmanus' point: the ability to see yourself as both the put-upon victim and the conquering hero is a powerful cocktail. even when you're backed by a y combinator ceo, you're *actually* the little guy speaking truth to power
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The Modern Far Right Canon
Modern far right thinkers style themselves as an insurgent movement against power, combining a self-pitying victimhood with exaggerated fantasies of rediscovered manliness.
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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The VRA Was the Nice Version
SCOTUS has forced our hands, and now patience is our enemy.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...
There likely is nothing to be done at the moment to prepare for these possibilities (the only body of writing on the subject available in an emergency is science fiction), because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
RIP Project Freedom 5/4/2026-5/5/2026
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
God I love Bluesky discovery
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Oh great. I have to root for James Comey *again*?
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I regret to inform you it is actually much wilder than this article makes it out to be.
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
They’re calling him Sleepy Don and they’re calling him very strongly. Big, muscly men run up—tears in their eyes—and say “you’re so sleepy, sir! We’ve never had a president quite so sleepy!” And we will and we do and we have again…
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Really wish someone with expertise could explain why two American planes get downed in one day after flying with impunity for the last month. Coincidence, or has something changed?
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
You gotta hand it to Pete Hegseth: he is living by the sword, and that’s the sort of noble adage which he appears to believe has no second half.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown (Pic via petermarietoto on X)
Elderly man with a thin mustache holding a cardboard sign
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
NGL, I'm captivated by these new shirts at temu
Jesus it better Tim know know him before's work drot in helllI I served my my my fou coutnry my childrry my futurey my fiverr grand grandpaI'm not porfect but Jesus thinks I'm thinks tie for
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Fuck Everything, We’re Doing Alchemy www.constantpodcast.com/episodes/the...
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The Last Alchemist, Part One
Your second favorite series about putting right what once went wrong
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.
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Five-Time Regional Kosho Championship Semi-Finalist @unaha-closp.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Very on-brand for Gingrich to seek out a new, younger canal the moment the current canal starts having health problems
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This is simply wrong. You can’t put boots on the ground on the table. The table must go on the ground, and you can put the boots on the table, but you shouldn’t if you’re planning on eating off of it.
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The Michaels agree
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Hey maybe you would like to listen to this episode of @constantpodcast.bsky.social about a previous rise of fascism that also featured Nobel Peace Prize shenanigans. A reminder that we are living in quite precedented times.
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Peace Forever
Your second favorite series about putting right what once went wrong
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Here’s a story about Nazis, antifascists, corrupt political movie-making and The Nobel Peace Prize, which has zero contemporary relevance. megaphone.link/ARML4304032796
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Peace Forever by The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
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