Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialMike Masnick @masnick.com · 3hRemembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening. 232211680
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9hRemember this when pundits and politicians tell us it would be a "weaponization of law enforcement" to hold Trump officials accountable for their crimes. *This* is what actual weaponization looks like. 131061292
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 7hTeam Trump is telling you, in effect, that 4 years of Biden were so high-impact and transformative that they're utterly helpless to make their own mark. 1221269
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.social🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 12/10/2026they’re going to keep doing this shit as long as there are no consequences 301101197
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I mean, you can just see it happening! bsky.app/profile/poli... 830627
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026if Elon is spending millions of dollars of his own money to push this message with paid media, what do you think he does to the black box algorithm on his platform that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are shown to others? 332618629
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialMaggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes. 237531338
cyrusnaim.bsky.social @cyrusnaim.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I dunno. If we're gonna get another Carrie reboot I'm at least glad it's not trying to retread the story beat for beat and is looking for new angles. Better if we just had new art, but we are where are. 000
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death 594504894
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialStrahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It is a very easy task. He sounds like he understands that they have to be punished. End of. 211716
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/10/2026WE DON’T HAVE TO TOLERATE THIS DETESTABLE FOOL 1750960
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“Illegally detaining and brutalizing a racial minority until they agree to flee the country” isn’t immigration enforcement, it’s ethnic cleansing. There’s no legal standard here - these people meet the standard! What differentiates them is not their legal status but their race and color. 5553131
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission. 11149951483
cyrusnaim.bsky.social @cyrusnaim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think if you’re gonna make the claim on this app, you should follow up with the basics of the argument? Why isn’t he the awful dude I think he is? 020
cyrusnaim.bsky.social @cyrusnaim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Counterpoint: no one else’s definition of “what counts” as reading needs to matter to you at all. If you’re gatekeeping the term you probably care a little too much yourself. You can also cheat at crosswords. No one will ever catch you. It’s still fun to play. 010
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026what I had to say turned out not to be a columntheatlantic.comSomething Like PeopleA poem 13344104
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Really was one of the dumbest and most harmful things possible for “virtue signaling” to become some kind of epithet. Sending externally visible signals that you are engaging in pro-social behavior is normal, natural, and good, it’s how society works. Other people can’t read your fucking mind. 703323590
cyrusnaim.bsky.social @cyrusnaim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026There’s a guy in (I think) the Thin Blue Line documentary who has lots of gay sex who argues that not finding the male form sexy is inherently unmanly. I think about him a lot. 000
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialCat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"why would I ever need a task to be done faster" come on, guys. Because we're dying. Because we are literally all dying all the time. Because we're running out of time. The fact that it's often hard to measure or stupidly measured doesn't mean "saving time" isn't an important thing to human beings 1651461
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I am so beyond fucking tired of the insane levels of deference and plausible deniability news media orgs--esp legacy ones like the NYT--afford Trump and the absolute intellectual rot and cravenness that it represents among the ownership & leadership of those orgs 654099
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets. 8039121132
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialIan Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026You do not have to be a parent to feel anger at the details in the latest investigation by @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and @samanthamichaels.bsky.social. But the white-hot rage I felt as a dad reading this is going to stick with me for some time.motherjones.com“You kidnapped my son”ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.” 318181
cyrusnaim.bsky.social @cyrusnaim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'd guess that's one factor, but I'd also guess that, statistically, you'd expect more open marriages to fail? Even putting aside jealousy issues, they're actively going out to meet other sexual partners! It would be weird if that didn't correlate with sometimes choosing another partner long term. 020
cyrusnaim.bsky.social @cyrusnaim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026static.klipy.comOK but that's worseAlt: OK but that's worse. You do get how that's worse, right? 000
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is a community note for the ages. 6759361178
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them 973725437
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts, 1013158644
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Adorable 🥰 Gorilla 🦍 Family 1604374889
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 02/10/2026feels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying they're wrong that ai is bad! but i think they're gradually losing touch with what it is and does 235968105
cyrusnaim.bsky.social @cyrusnaim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This constant lack of imagination about what is possible to rein in the fascists, while they dismantle our government in defiance of all law, is so maddening. They’re putting people named Big Balls in power to kill millions and we still have people on our side harrumphing about normal order. 000
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026But they're not cementing shit. That's the problem. They're deluded about what they're actually accomplishing here. The more crazed and lawless shit they do, the weaker their precedents. At this point, much of their jurisprudence has no more staying power than "Lake America". 726622
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialNute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else 51298187
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up" - C.S. Lewis 234569
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialm @keptsimple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I think Smith could successfully sue Schmitt for defamation now, since he's restating the falsehood outside of the Senate hearing, and by this point he clearly knows what he's saying is false 19761148
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialT. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The thing about Trump is you know he's going to fuck things up, you just don't know how bsky.app/profile/tomw... 2895
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Thinking about social and political shifts as “outside forces acting on a complex system that in no way resembles an individual person” will give you a far, far better schema to understand the world than thinking about ”what does the population believe” 0529
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialSamuel ✡️ 🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is wildly unconscionable. Everything Israel stands for is betrayed by this choice. 34113
cyrusnaim.bsky.social @cyrusnaim.bsky.social · 26/09/2026How did you train it do this stuff? What access does it have to your email? 110
cyrusnaim.bsky.social @cyrusnaim.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Physicists at least have the advantage of a whole world to explore. Philosophers are not allowed any of that. It's all logic and definitions all the way down. There's far more limits. 110
cyrusnaim.bsky.social @cyrusnaim.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yeah, totally fair. But also, there's a lot of philosophers out there, and they all need to make tenure. So they all need to write something that wasn't written before. It makes for bad incentives. 210
cyrusnaim.bsky.social @cyrusnaim.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My philosophy of mind professor in college actually said it out loud. He described his own "view", and then when we weren't super receptive to it, said, "there are only so many views people haven't taken yet!" 010
cyrusnaim.bsky.social @cyrusnaim.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I think a lot of the most useful ground in philosophy was already covered thousands of years ago. New philosophers need to carve new ground, and all the ground still left is only there because it's dumb. 200
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialsamhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 25/09/2026mc escher is old news, have you seen ｓｈｉｎｊｕｋｕ ｓｔａｔｉｏｎ ｍａｐｓ 1625455
cyrusnaim.bsky.social @cyrusnaim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You don't even need to hope for wholesale defection. In the best cases you just need 6 or 7. But yeah, hoping for anything other than exactly one short of the votes needed does seem like 20% still. 021
cyrusnaim.bsky.social @cyrusnaim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Everyone calls you pedantic and stubborn for refusing to accept the most pedantic arguments based on obviously motivated reasoning. 020
cyrusnaim.bsky.social @cyrusnaim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think he thinks it's a maxim so obviously true it has become a cliche. 000
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My underlying point isn't REALLY a big philosophy argument, anyway - it's this. We are rapidly approaching an event horizon where philosophy arguments are going to be of real consequence and not dusty thought experiments. But I don't know what the actual resolution of the philosophical puzzles is. 101347
