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Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 2h

Televising an execution is unconstitutional under an Originalist interpretation because the Founding Fathers didn't have TVs.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15h

My quote of the day Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Frank Herbert

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am aware of the history of 20th century fascism and grew up around Holocaust survivors. When fascism returns, they said, expect indifference or outright cowardice from 90% of your friends, neighbors and colleagues. AND YET, it still shocks me to see this groveling cowardice in real time.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I say again it’s sort of amazing the libs are getting both Great Books and the Protestant Work Ethic in the national divorce

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is a community note for the ages.

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Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some people mourn with silence. Some people mourn with song.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For what it’s worth, arguing LLMs can’t do addition now is flat earth-level science denialism. Here’s Gemma 4b, a non-reasoning model that could only theoretically memorize binary operations up to 65535 x 65535, oneshotting a eight digit addition and hex conversion *on my phone* with no tool calls

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm not saying I endorse it, but every day I understand the French Revolution better.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Once again struck by the thought that I'm absolutely sure I know more about this western civ stuff than the people who'd think I'm emblematic of its downfall!

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“I’m planning to punch myself in the balls” “I don’t think you should do that” “But what’s the alternative plan?”

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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thank you @garbageday.email for *actually* explaining why nobody you know has heard “Choosin’ Texas,” yet it is paradoxically topping the charts www.garbageday.email/p/why-choosi...

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Why "Choosin' Texas" doesn't feel like a hit

Read to the end for FlubberLover01

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Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Choosin' Texas is an unremarkable song and my bubble was right to ignore it.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.

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Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1987 was only a couple of years ago, surely

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

sometimes you've gotta put the watercoloring brush down and give ruining the world another go

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greg macdougall (613) @equitableeducation.ca · 22/09/2026

I haven't heard the 'transplants' thing before but I do think that ex-pats is a term that should be used more to refer to migrants. Just to demonstrate the double-standards.

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Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Every reporter who attends an admin briefing until this is reversed is a scab.

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well, everyone should just walk out then. This isn't complicated.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 17/09/2026

Accusations don’t have to be false to be racist or malicious. Insisting that they do is just answering bad faith with bad faith.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

2. Any discussion about higher ed that misses that women and people of color were largely excluded until the *1970s* misses the fulcrum of these debates. 6/

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Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Guillermo del Toro movie inspired the reread, and I waited to watch it until I'd finished. Great movie, not entirely faithful but breaks from the original in interesting ways that I mostly liked.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

the median researcher at OpenAI spends $600 a day on coding agents. 90p spends $7k openai.com/index/resear...

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Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One tell of the dysfunction inherent in the US Constitutional order is that we have polarized to coasts/not-coasts instead of the more natural East/West. Because I think I speak for the whole of the East when I say that the West is Godless and their aesthetics are debased.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I don't know what the answers are, but the first part of planning about AI is believing that AI can already do the stuff AI can already do.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Like, man, there are people trying to convince you things aren't getting freaky for reasons I don't understand. Tao is a reliable witness, and math is the tip of the spear, and he's talking about capabilities gained in the last few *months*. Saying what's true is not saying that it's 100% good.

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When reactionaries advance some bullshit, the FIRST thing to do is identify the framing and reject it They're selling this as "trans rights vs. women's sports" when they hate both those things and want to ruin them both Accept the frame and you've lost Reject the frame and call bullshit

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026

another shot of Trump snapping at a reporter (woman) tonight (REUTERS/Evan Vucci)

see alt text above -- this is a different photo where Trump's face can be seen more clearly

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026

Trump lunges toward and growls at a reporter (a woman) who asked him about why he's offering money to voters if his economic policies are working (Andrew Harnik/Getty)

pic of an orange-faced Trump leaning forward with an angry look on his face as he snaps at a reporter

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Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

These guys are being super corrupt, unless they're using their corruption to punish anyone who accuses them of corruption, in which case they have definitely NOT been corrupt, like at all.

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Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Lindsay Graham memorial Grindr outage

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Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just finished rereading Frankenstein and it is still relevant.

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Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My contrarian take on cilantro is that I don't feel strongly one way or another about it.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 09/09/2026

Animated satire "South Park" says it is changing its name to "South America" in an apparent dig at US President Donald Trump's bid to rename swathes of the world u.afp.com/SjS5

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 07/09/2026

First as the understanding of self, in the same way astronomy changed our understanding of our place in the universe, and augmentation of abilities, in the sense that a toaster gives us the power of toast

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A. Rascal @rascality.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“‘No one intrinsically owns anything; all that is, that has come ultimately from the gift of God, belongs to all of us,’ McElroy said. Private property, in his telling, exists ‘as an accommodation to the ways of the world to make economies work.’ From that gift flows a duty.”

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Pope Leo XIV’s Top US Cardinals Visit Silicon Valley and Warn Millions Will Lose Jobs

McElroy, Cupich, and Tobin spent several days in August with the AI frontier labs, a trip no outlet has reported. At Sunday's Labor Day Mass, McElroy told union members what he heard.

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AlderFish @alderfish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Let’s rename everything America and everything in America America too and everything else also

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Vaccine conspiracism is overwhelmingly clustered among the religious, white and affluent. It’s a function of conservative ideology and bad faith media. Being nicer to MAHA types will not ‘bring them into the fold,’ it will only increase their sense of entitlement.

Objective: Strengthening of antivaccination movements in recent decades has coincided with unprecedented increases in the incidence of some communicable diseases. Many intervention programs work from a deficit model of science communication, presuming that vaccination skeptics lack the ability to access or understand evidence. However, interventions focusing on evidence and the debunking of vaccine-related myths have proven to be either nonproductive or counterproductive. Working from a motivated reasoning perspective, we examine the psychological factors that might motivate people to reject scientific consensus around vaccination. To assist with international generalizability, we examine this question in 24 countries. Methods: We sampled 5,323 participants in 24 countries, and measured their antivaccination attitudes. We also measured their belief in conspiracy theories, reactance (the tendency for people to have a low tolerance for impingements on their freedoms), disgust sensitivity toward blood and needles, and individualistic/hierarchical worldviews (i.e., people's beliefs about how much control soci hould have over individuals, and whether hierarchies are desirable). Results: In
order of magnitude,
antivaccination attitudes were highest among those who (a) were high in conspir-
atorial thinking, (b) were high in reactance, (c) reported high levels of disgust toward blood and needles, and (d) had strong individualistic/hierarchical worldviews
. In contrast, demographic variables (including
education) accounted for nonsignificant or trivial lev
f variance. Conclusions: These data help
identify the "attitude roots" that may motivate and sustain vaccine skepticism. In so doing, they help shed light on why repetition of evidence can be nonproductive, and suggest communication solutions to that problem.
Keywords: vaccination, conspiracy beliefs, health communication,

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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Friday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner.

ICE vehicle - black Nissan Maxima with plate cover - posted up in a spot that also serves as an elementary school bus stop.

Another ICE vehicle, black Dodge Durango, lurking around the community.

Two more ICE vehicles - black Dodge Durango and a white SUV, unclear on make, model - on a quiet residential street, being quietly creepy. Note that the white SUV has its plate covered.

Yet another ICE vehicle. Black Nissan Pathfinder. They were all over the neighborhood.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

as a reminder, the boat murders are a) very clear cut crimes and b) crimes where the command responsibility liability is limited to a couple dozen people, total, from pete to ac commanders it's the one specific area dems (if they have to pick only one) should be focused on making examples of in DoD

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 04/09/2026

Agentic work rewards skills our culture codes as feminine and therefore pretends are not skills

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

WSJ, with an ice-cold graphic: @wsj.com

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