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America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/09/2026

Last month, we refurbished 10 tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only public tennis courts in the Bronx with lights for night play. We stopped by recently to see how things were going. Thank you to NYJTL, USTA and Yonex for helping us deliver high-quality public spaces that New Yorkers deserve.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 22h

Go tell Taylor get back in her cardigan bag. Her best song by far.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 22h

Why are they getting Taylor Swift so bad is the new album really that bad? I ain’t heard the internet get an album like this since “oooh I love my wife, I love my wife AHH!”

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 23h

I’m glad the USA built up the hugest, most destructive military apparatus in the history of the world so that this pathetic creep can use it to act out his deep psychosexual issues

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 23h

Kam Patterson is not funny. This latest episode of SNL was not funny, despite Kenna Thompson’s best efforts.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 23h

Why didn’t Trump’s midterm convention work? One can imagine a world in which Obama did a midterm convention in 2010 and he gets a turnout bump and Dems don’t lose as bad. But if Rs end up with a 2010 esque House popular vote loss bc their base don’t show up… why? Just bc Trump is so unpopular?

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hiding the names of victims of sexual assault isn’t arbitrary? Isn’t it like, incredibly normal and common and good?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now I’m nobody, but I think that is indicative of a set of political principles. I think that’s worth taking a note of. They do not care whether it’s useful. They do not care about the user. If you are the user, however, maybe you care.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know this is my third or fourth go around with this kind of technological innovation for consumers and citizens. And a lot of it is the same. Same pattern of exaggerated benefits, underestimated challenges. What’s new this time is the sector isn’t even pretending to care about the consumer.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bro why are we beta testing the world’s worst intern for these very evil companies.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It continues to be the case that bespoke personalized “art” has its own lane that needn’t cannibalize the art we all love, the fundamental purpose of which is intersubjective exchange.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have opened my heart to “fur baby” and “dog parent”. I hate them, but fine. I draw the line at unironically using “son / daughter” for a pet with no qualifier. Straight to Siberia. Reeducation hours.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have trouble expressing the anger I feel when people try to defend Israel’s violence in Gaza and I think the root of it for me is the pretense that somehow October 7th could be illegitimate while the genocidal revenge ethnic cleansing campaign could be legitimate.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“It’s there, you just gotta dig for it” is a valid answer and in some ways the only valid way to write (this is also true of eg Lucille Clifton despite a deceptively accessible surface), but also how do you earn the right to ask people to dig?

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Democrats in 2026, like Democrats in 2025 in NJ and VA, are literally going to do what the archetypal Good Republican did in 2016: walk into the booth with nothing but contempt in their heart for the only person they could possibly vote for, and walk out of the booth having voted for that person.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am so glad God didn’t not gift me the ability to fight but did gift me the ability to get my ass whooped bc if it were not thus, the amount of fights I would get in when people are obnoxious on the train. I hate!

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have written what I suspect to be a bad poem, but which encodes a series of intellectual movements which I think are true, interesting, and useful. What am I to do with this?

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

AI is probably going to ruin the internet but not the way you think. Eventually there’s just gonna have to be a some form of Bad AI y/n between every computer and the internet, which will create useless government intrusion into your PC (if you want to access the internet). :/

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why is no one saying that the polls are likely to underestimate democrats in 2026 (mostly in blue states) for the same reason they underestimated democrats in VA/NJ in 2025…?

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lmao I said stop talking about AI and proceeded to talk about AI more than ever. Oh well.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I support this but the nvidia CEO is probably also evil so I support someone less evil building it and then governments mandating the use of some related technology, which should be made by some company other than the company that builds and trains large language models.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 30/09/2026

If you got in actual trouble when the A.I. breaks the law they would find ways to make this the case, which might have the side effect of making A.I.-based software more annoying and hard to use for any arbitrary task, which would be good

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah ban agentic AI. You can keep researching it, but you can’t let it out on the open internet and if you do you are like 10x as liable for anything bad it does as you would be if you did the same things. “You” here meaning every person in the chain of command that authorized letting the agents out

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AI companies:We will sell you this highly sophisticated Super Intelligent software that replaced every expensive lawyer you have on staff. It writes legal briefs, it performs sophisticated legal analysis. It knows every code, statute & history of same. Can it obey the law? Oh no, it can't do that.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think a not too insignificant amount of Trump voters really did buy the whole “he will not start wars” schtick

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why can’t AI be like hard coded to follow the law? Why isn’t that a thing? Why has no one just come up with a like “here’s the standard for keeping your AI from doing bad shit, if we catch you with an AI that doesn’t have this your company gets smushed.” Just seems like this is all unfolding oddly.

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politiburb @politiburb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Talking about why Rahm Emanuel is a bad candidate on the merits and actually going into his record is giving way too much credit to Rahm Emanuel. When your 5 year old says he's going to drive a car to Saturn you don't explain why cars can't achieve space travel. You say "cool, sounds fun!"

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maybe Millennials will live up to our destiny once we actually get some political power (when the boomers finally give it up)

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Did SNL do a high school musical sketch in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty six????

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think probably the long 20th century ends between 2007 and 2012 and the 21st century begins between 2008 and 2013. At least in terms of American history.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People taking Rahm Emanuel seriously are simply not from this century politically speaking.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Protect College Sports Act sounds racist. Sounds like “protect our ability to make a buck off Black teenagers without them getting too uppity.” Tell me why I’m wrong.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For some reason do re mi is my cue to leave Marie’s Crisis now unless I am planning to get fully drunk and hoarse by the time I go home.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The thing that really gets me is that this is probably a solvable problem. One could image AI companies that are interested in creating assistants that speak and understand a given idiolect clearly. But such companies, as far as I can tell, do not exist.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Put another way, to be legible enough for AI to be useful to most families, they would have to stop communicating as the family they have known, never had to overtly think about, and become something stranger and coarser that has no cultural foundation. Why would I do that?

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Really interesting how you play the turn in O What A Rogue and Peasant Slave Am I. I would be inclined to play it fully comedic, bc the text sets you up for that. Like fully having a mental breakdown for “about, my brain!” and then pop up straight and totally coherent for “I have heard…”

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 08/09/2026

Facebook as currently constructed is incompatible with multiracial, multicultural, electoral democracy

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The oldest bath borne most. We that are young Shall never see so fucking much, nor live so fucking long.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh wow the engineers totally combined two runs into one on Butterfly. I miss the way they used to chop up the runs in the 90s. There’s one in Run to You too…

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mariah really did just give us extra riffs and runs for zero reason whatsoever and I just love it.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

After Tonight is the underrated sequel to My All.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A fancy magazine has held my submission for over a year. I hope I get in but if I don’t I just know I better not get no fully generic rejections. I see Duotrope, I know you ain’t held everybody this long. If I don’t get my “much to admire… submit again soon” I will have a BIG attitude.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

2004 is still the best performance for a Republican candidate this century. Republican political power has been wildly disproportionate to their electoral support and they have mostly used that power to make rich people richer and start unnecessary wars in the Middle East. :/

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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think we should be asking ourselves why this industry seems to keep replicating the former politics even amongst people who claim to be for the latter.

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grok "Crazy Horn" caluprax 🦎 @grokinator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There's going to be a bunch of former ICE warehouses left once DHS is closed, might as well fill them up with pedocons and pedocon enabling criminals

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What do we think of Schatz as a future Dem senate leader? Good, bad, indifferent?

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I almost want just four years of pure revenge. Double stuff pack the court like eight new justices, withhold disaster funds from red states but give them to blue municipalities in those states, try to destroy car dealerships altogether, treat rich sex pests like Rs treat immigrants, etc.

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