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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 9m

YES. Jefferson, noted human trafficker, had his friends write about how Adams was "mentally deranged….a hideous hermaphroditical character" Cranks have been with us all along folks

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 13m

Jerks have been with us since the dawn of time. Societies with the most health & well-being are generally the ones who learned how to undermine their cranks, & keep them from gathering power. Not the ones who ignored them. Or patronized them. So let's make them own their choices. Like adults.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 13m

Yep. Same for how people think Fox News "turned their friends/family mean & stupid." Sorry, but Fox News wasn't exactly subtle. If your loved ones were watching that stuff uncritically in the first place... I got bad news for you. It's not Fox News that made them like that. : /

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Corn Anon @cornanon.bsky.social · 20m

I mean it looks more like blasphemy to me but at the same time that’s just extra-spicy heresy if you agree to disagree on the definition of divinity iirc.

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Corn Anon @cornanon.bsky.social · 22m

A lot of the inefficiency with corn is in how utterly durable the stalk is. A good shorthand intuition for that is just trying to literally burn the stuff. The amount of solid ash left over, and how hard it is to keep it burning, is just ludicrous.

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Corn Anon @cornanon.bsky.social · 35m

Oh for general energy absolutely. For an anti-knock additive in spark-ignited liquid fuels ethanol can make some sense even if our current implementation absolutely doesn’t.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

And yes, there are still semi-regular outbreaks of the plague, including pneumonic plague, worldwide, because there are plenty of animal reservoirs! There are a few cases of it in the US every year, too. It's easily treated if you get medical care immediately after symptoms start.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

Because it's buried at the bottom of the article and CNN is presenting it in a misleading way: before people worry, the "unknown" part is how the worker was exposed, the pathogen is good old fashioned Y. pestis which we understand extremely well and can treat just fine if caught early

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Corn Anon @cornanon.bsky.social · 44m

Both. Definitely both. If only we’d do actual sugary crops for it because then it’d at least have a higher yield. Corn just isn’t optimized at all for biomass to alcohol yields. 🌽😿🌽

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

He systematically targeted Black scholars, offering bounties for evidence of plagiarism. He's make the accusation, regardless of the evidence. In one esp bad case, I wrote a rebuttal and Rufo personally went after every faculty member who (rightly) disagreed. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/open-seaso...

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

this is a well-reported piece with an awful lot written between the lines, and one of the things that jumps out at me is just how ill-informed these people are. the trucker, his partner, his mother — they can’t even agree *amongst themselves* on a shared understanding of events

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1h

my best friend worked at University of Mississippi at the time when nearly the entire faculty and student body was demanding the Confederate statue at the entrance be taken down but it wasn’t, because apparently the answer to Mike’s question is “a handful of very rich football families”

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1h

Ok we're continuing to miss the point in the replies here? It did not ACCELERATE cranks finding each other. They were already doing that just fine. It made the cranks VISIBLE TO POLITE SOCIETY.

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jordan! @jordanjamboree.pittbert.gay · 01/10/2026

Sure it's mostly about how the oil market and car companies are fucked, but I also managed to talk about how EA games is fucked too!

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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 3h

I think the anti-Indian stuff and the anti-Arab/Muslim stuff before it, two immigrant groups in the U.S. who are pretty capitalistic, successful and entrepreneurial, just demonstrates the pure colorism of American racism. If your skin is darker than a paper bag conservatives hate you. Doesn't matter

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2h

This. I'm seeing a lot of "Yeah! Social media just let the idiots find each other!" in the replies/QTs. That is FALSE. Believe me- fools, jerks, & conspiracy nuts were already finding each other! Polite society just didn't have to hear about it!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 4h

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 12h

I personally think it is so hard to speak out against sexism in the rationalist community, because you enter this convoluted world where everyone must truly mean what they say & they can't have ulterior motives if they're a Known Rationalist or AI Safety Person

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I shared this sentiment on Instagram and a man—a former fraternity brother—obliquely threatened me and my family from what he thought was a private account. It wasn’t. I called him directly on his cell phone this morning. Panic, apologies, excuses, hung up. Don’t bring piss to a shit fight.

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Holly ⏸️ Elmore @ilex-ulmus.bsky.social · 17h

My ex-husband is one of the rapists at Aella’s simulated rape orgies that John Wentworth, Nate Soares, and I’ve heard Eliezer Yudkowsky also attended. He was an emotionally abusive partner and, until I left EA/rationality, he used the cult to keep me trapped. Journalists please DM.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19h

everyone especially the Senators confirming them knew this.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 03/10/2026

I remind everyone, again, that they tried year-round daylight saving time and stopped it because it got bunch of kids got killed in just a few weeks

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accidentalflyer 🇨🇦🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @accidentalflyer.bsky.social · 16h

I despise this kind of headline. It makes it seem like only Democrats have agency when in fact, the article mentioned the book's authors interacted with Republican lawmakers who completely rejected their recommendations and changed the tax laws to worsen inequality.

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ceej @ceej.online · 17h

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 19h

i'll even admit that i am interested in large part because i am ideologically opposed for other reasons, but here's the thing: the reason these organizations are toxic and the way they promote their agenda is overbearing is that their staffing is shit and selects for being a shitty person

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

Johnny Depp/Amber Heard made it pretty clear to me that a big chunk of America only ever saw metoo as an annoying obligation to stop enjoying some of their favorite movies, and I just don't know what to do with that

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Believe women, unless it's a guy you like who makes YouTube videos

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Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 03/10/2026

this is what happens when engineers use agents that won't tell them no and no one consults anyone with UX experience

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Brainstorm: How do we use this to taint everyone getting funding from Musk. "Backed by the guy demanding the right to disseminate fake pictures showing you naked"?

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the other thing is: “go be a bricklayer” is incredibly stupid, and you know this because you, college-educated guy, know that a degree doesn’t assign you to a path. even if the robot apocalypse were real for your current profession (it’s not), a good broad education helps you to be adaptable

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 02/10/2026

Will is 100% right. Has happened to multiple clients of mine. One judge (not my case) has said that this isn't really release and ordered the person *actually* released. But it's forcing us habeas attorneys to win our cases twice (or more)

On September 9, 2026, Respondents permitted Pablo F. to exit the building where
he was detained, but he was immediately swarmed by four ICE officers and handcuffed as
soon as he stepped outside. (Doc. No. 25-3 at 4:48:45–4:49:26.)3
The officers drove him
to the back of the Whipple building and returned him to a holding cell. (Doc. No. 21 ¶¶ 8–
9; Doc. No. 25 ¶ 5.) During this encounter, officers dislocated Pablo F.’s shoulder. (Doc.
No. 21 ¶ 7.)4
Pablo F. now bringsthis Motion seeking to enforce the Court’s Order granting
the Petition.

Again, Respondents make no attempt whatsoever to support their assertion that
Pablo F. was released. Absent any such argument, the Court cannot agree that a reasonable
person would have felt free to leave when exiting the detention facility and immediately
being stopped by ICE officers. Likewise, absent some argument, the Court necessarily
concludes that Pablo F. was subject to restraints not shared by the public generally when
he took one step outside of the detention facility and was immediately stopped by ICE
officers who forcibly returned him to a detention cell. Because Respondents do not make
any legal argument that Pablo F. was ever meaningfully released from custody, the Court
grants the motion and orders Pablo F.’s release.6
6 To be clear, Pablo F. is not arguing, and the Court is not concluding, that an order of
release in a habeas matter renders unlawful any future arrests. Rather, the Court reaches
the narrow conclusion that because Respondents advance no legal argument in this case to
support their assertion that Pablo F. was released from custody, and because the
uncontested facts show that ICE officers immediately swarmed Pablo F. as soon as he
stepped out of the building, Pablo F. was not released from custody.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026

you almost have to admire the effective altruists for coming right out and saying “we feel a keen debt to the criminal who stole the money that provided seed funding for Manifund, which is why we’re hiring her and paying her with some of it instead of returning it to FTX creditors”

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mothman the wanderer @gnostichippie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this thread is dead-on: "join the trades" is bait. the goal is for white collar jobs to go to dumb and lazy failchild morons instead of someone worthier

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified

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Corn Anon @cornanon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ahh, that makes more sense at least.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Michael Tracey claims he took his post down out of principle, and that it wasn't a "retraction." But it should be. He ran with information from a junk website without looking into it. If he worked at a publication with any sort of standards, this unforced error would be a fireable offense.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.

An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."

Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."

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Corn Anon @cornanon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

TFW the dogs redefine “cute aggression”.

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Corn Anon @cornanon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

… those lyrics feel like they’d have been written by him after a bad TBI. Maybe he’s immersed in current Twitter and has rotted his mind. Collabing with Kid Rock would require that from the get-go imo.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Technologically very impressive but this stuff scares the crap out of me from a societal perspective. Just the sheer amount of fraud alone that these models will enable is chilling, let alone all the other harms.

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

she had to hide and be stealth, it’s never mentioned the character is trans but there’s something truly magic in knowing that the next time i rewatch TNG, i will see her there and i will know that someone like me helped make the show that ignited my lifelong love of Star Trek 😭

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is a little disconcerting that so many people who know a lot about LLMs on a technical level appear to go a little insane. It would be like if there was a really cool and effective new kind of pen, and for some reason about 40% of the people involved in the pen making process went mad.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Wow this thing is really effective at writing Latex code and for loops, I should learn more about how it wor—“ “It’s god.” “Don’t listen to him. It’s not god. It may kill us all.” “Don’t listen to either of them. It’s not god, and it won’t kill us. To prove this, I made a virtual hell for it.”

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“People are being hugely irresponsible with this disruptive new tech. We need robust regulation to mitigate its disruptive impacts. We’re workingon that.” “Wow, that sounds really good can I learn more abou—“ “Don’t listen to them. They’re a sex cult” “Don’t listen to him. Not a cult. Promise.”

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