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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 2h

No one has ever been angrier on the internet than someone you beat on @chess.com repeatedly challenging you to a rematch

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 13h

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 12h

This is clearly not acceptable

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 13h

for my friends everything for my enemies the law

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 13h

all my homies love to live in a post -truth society (alt text has the context)

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Trying to reduce the entirety of human experience to mere sensation (derogatory)

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have struggled to properly articulate this, but it's like they don't understand that books, movies, games, etc., are more than a collection of sensory inputs. Communication is a relationship between a creator signifying something and a recipient interpreting the signified.

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Amy, I have [a dream] where I'm drowning. And I gotta wake myself up and start breathing or I'll die in my sleep. Right now, you can help me and the country wake up from the horrors of the Trump administration with a generous donation" etc

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

respectfully, the revamped WaPo podcast section definitely beat you to the punch here

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

bonzo, vic-20 (1982) www.mobygames.com/game/124820/...

person in overalls and hat walking on a blue platform, near a red ladder (one heading up, another heading down). they are carrying something. a creature with a big mouth and sharp teeth is behind them. the art style is slanted. title font is styled in pseudo 3d and shades of blue.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.

rollingstone.com

CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study

“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's even more notable given newsroom discussions re use of "lie." The command from many on highs is that you cannot determine intent, so you cannot say he is lying, just that it is false. Interestingly, many of the same newsrooms can now determine whether he intends to "joke" or be serious.

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I would probably enjoy him more now but haven't gone back yet

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

great summary of why I hated reading Faulkner in HS

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I love that this appears to be a table with an honest-to-god interesting playfield, not a glorified computer screen with two flippers attached

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Curtis Yarvin, a major influence on Vice President JD Vance, is openly fantasizing about Hitler again. Extremism isn’t fringe on the right.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have zero context for this but I just had a good chuckle

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

will eventually be a fun securities fraud suit

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was going to say, didn't he also randomly drive a video game studio into the ground but then I googled it and realized I had confused him with Curt Schilling

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

tbh it's pretty messed up of valve to drop a huge new deadlock update the day before I have to go on a work trip

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI

Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake. above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services. the question matching this image is: "How can I invest in my child's future?"

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A few of these up north too! Everyone is shocked at the official of Cairo, IL

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You're correct, this conduct was highly dishonorable and shameful. Executing <<seppuku protocol>>

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Because the US government is effectively a monopoly lender/monopsony purchaser of student loan risk, I always thought that they should use that purchasing power to get universities to commit to reducing the rate of increase for tuition, but instead we get bullshit like this

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I always thought this was because of not wanting to be taxed on internal stairwells, but apparently it had more to do with setback requirements

atlasobscura.com

The Twisty History of Montreal's Outdoor Staircases

Immigrants, artisans, economics, and the Catholic Church all played a role.

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

really incredible reporting on Kimberly Guilfoyle (US ambassador to Greece). She's made it her mission to promote US LNG in southern Europe also lots of bizarre details illustrating Trump admin's gangster diplomacy www.wsj.com/articles/kim...

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"I hesitate to call this pump and dump scheme a scam because some people enjoy gambling on pump and dump schemes"

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

personal computing, magazine, cover art (1978) archive.org/details/Pers...

a man in a trenchcoat and rimmed hat, wearing shades with a smoke in his mouth, is secretly opening his trenchcoat to show a computer inside that says 'they say elephants never forget...' on the screen in bold white caps text, as he looks the other way. a man standing close by in a suit, tie, rimmed bowl hat, seems aware that he is being shown this, even though he is not directly looking at it. a hand protruding from behind his back is pressing a key on the keyboard (or typing). behind them is an elephant, its trunk reaching for the computer.
red text:
cloak and dagger
with your personal computer

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What's it like / Tangy'n brown Now you know it's Cider Town

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've never needed to know more about something less than this moment

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We need to crowdfund sending Javier Bardem in character as Anton Chigurh to the DNC to just keep saying "If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" to everyone

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This guy is going to start posting on r/overemployed

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I appreciate this season's writers trying to give us a modern version of "L'État, c'est moi" but it's simply too farcical to truly work I think

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yeah I mean if I kept raving about how my business was both inevitable and likely to end the world as we know it I think it would be fair to question how much I was opposed to that outcome.

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Didn't you basically just do a "why I'm leaving the left" with The Free Press

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

First thing I thought of, too—as I read her post I heard the voice of Dana Snyder when someone got him to do a cameo read of the slurp juice tweet.

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