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So fucking what? Stupid shit on a fashion show runway has less importance in the universe than what Martians are wearing this fall. If it weren't for New York media, no one would ever know or care what happens on fashion runways. What an incestuous bunch of shitheads in that city.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 6h

ROFLMAO Anyone with half a brain would have known that reporters would be the biggest users and come hard with everything Trump didn't want to hear asked. Duh.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 6h

Had to unfollow Aaron Rupar after 35 clips from Hegseth's dumbass speech today when 2-3 would have more than sufficed. Knowing what crazies said is different from diving in and wallowing 24/7. Which, incidentally, just amplifies every loony Trumpy talking point in existence. Trump counts on it.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 7h

The common thread in Pete Hegseth's rant to the troops, JD Vance suggesting Talarico is a pedophile, Brendan Carr calling the Trump ads aired with tax dollars "normal force PSAs," and Eric Schmitt fabricating a Jack Smith conspiracy is the whole GOP is incentivized to be performatively evil.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h

Trump expressed support for the Iraq war as it started. He later criticized Bush for not stealing oil or doing enough war crimes (namely targeting innocent family members of insurgents). Then he acted on that vision of war with Iran, and it's failing badly. Enough Trump-absolving revisionist BS.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

I really think a lot of people underestimate the damage done to society by the conviction that, no matter what product we want, it should be delivered to us in a matter of hours.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 9h

This is the mistake AI people make when they think education can all be left to bots. It is NOT primarily about conveying information and work instructions. Focusing on that is a guaranteed formula for students to check out completely.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 10h

They're fantasy stories; you want your superhero to kill the bad guy, not fly into a building by mistake. Just applying the classic trope to a narrow example that is no more real than the rest.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 11h

Built on a lie, strategically stupid, close to complete failure. "U.S. withdraws forces in Iraq as balance of power shifts to Iran...More than two decades of American involvement in Iran resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians and thousands of U.S. troops."

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 13h

And every defensive player they face won't be trying to smash that fragile arm into toothpicks? Which is legal? Really? Dumb

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 13h

It never ceases to amaze me how political scientists.... 1) Are oblivious to how and why their work is detached from the public and the business of politics 2) Expect that to change while just doing what they have always done It's very possible the profession just collapses around them.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 15h

Gen Z-ers, the first generation that can’t remember a world without smartphones, participate less in “embodied social experiences” than their counterparts in every other generation. They’re less likely to work, go to church, attend parties, date or play sports, Cox notes.

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Opinion | ‘Attention Infidelity’ Is Ruining Romance (Gift Article)

Your full attention is a gift. Give it more often.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 16h

If you never click on that stuff and DO click on nice stuff, you can fool the FB algo into giving you more nice stuff. My FB feed is cute and sweet, a nice diversion sometimes. It can be done. Don't surrender to the algo Nazis.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Toufanian: So we recently polled in Alaska, Ohio, Iowa, and Texas—four states with key battleground Senate races..Trump won by double digits in 2024, he actually has a net approval of negative 14. He’s underwater in each of those states. Llooking at Iowa in particular....underwater by 17 points.

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

More seriously the way people* rapidly moved to contempt and dehumanization upon hearing someone is different from them in this very minor way is a bigger lesson for us all.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If there’s a “Guariglia’s law” it’s this: if ever a company draws an “ethical line” of something they won’t do, specifically around technology, surveillance, or weaponry, there is always another company willing to step in, do the dirty work, and offer the evil products others won’t.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Down 7-9% in ONE MONTH. Gas prices matter. "“The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index tumbled 6.7 points to 81.9 in September, down from 88.6 in August.” “Respondents’ views of their present situation fell by 7.9 points to 109.3. Their short-term outlook slid 5.9 points to 63.6.”

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FIFTH REPORT: CHILDREN HARMED AT ALPHA SCHOOL'S BOOT CAMP Just over a week ago, 73 Alpha School high school students were left almost entirely unsupervised for three days in the Texas wilderness. It was a Fyre Festival-like disaster. buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/fifth-repo...

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FIFTH REPORT: CHILDREN HARMED AT ALPHA SCHOOL’S BOOT CAMP

Student hospitalized during Survival Challenge on wilderness ranch; police investigation is ongoing; other concerning incidents re student safety and privacy; one guide fired; also Little B. Diddies

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He is not. A wilful indifference to civilian casualties is a war crime. Both Netanyahu and the Hamas leaders who executed the 10-7 butchery that began this war should be in the dock at The Hague together. Genocide is the attempt to eradicate a people. The human cost of Gaza, as appalling as it is..

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everything is bigger in Texas, including assholes and the sheer number of rubes willing to shitkick their way into a voting booth and pull a lever for them. Can't fence them in.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ROFLMAO "The impassioned argument for free trade, which Dimon said could be expanded to allies including Canada, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Australia and the Philippines, comes as the Trump administration pursues protectionist tariff policies." www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/j...

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Jamie Dimon has a plan to revive the West: A 'big, beautiful' deal with Europe

"Many of the current disputes between Europe and the U.S. are minor compared with this agreement's size and benefits," the JPMorgan boss wrote this week.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I LOVE Voting early at Courthouse, especially voting in September for a November election.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Online mass transit junkies are blissfully unburdened by resource limits, physical infrastructure already built, conflicting political interests, planning processes, construction timelines, how to manage while existing infrastructure is disrupted... All that stupid crap in the real world. GMAFB

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

LOL no surprise... “A retired Army colonel turned social media influencer, who has worked with the Pentagon to promote Defense Secretary Hegseth’s agenda, has a history of praising dictators, denigrating women and minorities, and suggesting that only people with children should be allowed to vote,”

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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 28/09/2026

NEW: A Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report released today "exposes how [Howard Lutnick-linked] Tether & its...token have become central to Iran’s shadow banking system" allowing Iran to fund proxies, commit human rights abuses, and...defy US sanctions, says Senator Blumenthal.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Panic button time....LOL “Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) declared a statewide disaster Monday to address high fuel prices, allowing expanded use of dyed diesel, raising the allowable weight for certain truck loads, and suspending some federal diesel emission rules,” the Washington Post reports.

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I keep trying to get my 3yo to tell me her dinner preferences in the family group chat so that our AI agent can order groceries for us, but she refuses

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This juicy quote applies even moreso to teaching. Like: "The language is shaping the action. It cannot do a good job at doing what teachers are actually doing — building relationships, communicating social relations, connecting events often in non-linear and hard to categorize ways."

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you ever wonder why most IR and PoliSci profs will never have any access to actual policymaking or policymakers, it's stuff like this. They have painted themselves into the tiniest corner imaginable then wonder why their departments get slashed.

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The government doesn't "take in profits" it generates revenue which it uses to provide services, and the fact that he's stuck on that phrasing betrays, yet again for the umpteenth billion time, that Trump fundamentally doesn't understand what a government is, what it does, or why it's important.

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swmseattle.bsky.social @swmseattle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The horror. Brown people are going to come into my house, vacuum, clean my toilet, do my laundry, take care of my kids, take $3 off my dresser and mow the lawn on their way out. I don’t think I’m going to lock my door.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's amazing how some people dehumanize others simply for choosing a transportation method that doesn't involve a car. They also hate traffic and other drivers, while simultaneously seething with rage at anyone walking, cycling, or proposing we fund better public transit.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With regard to the overt and jaw-dropping use of public money to manufacture and broadcast Trump politicals ads, I'm just spitballing here, but maybe, perhaps, if the U.S. Supreme Court didn't give the president blanket immunity from prosecution for crimes he wouldn't feel so comfortable criming.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not making it up: Just boarded a Southwest flight and as I passed the cockpit, pilot and copilot were telling a flight attendant about being furries. Regrettably for the intellectual powerhouse that is the U.S. senator from Alabama, in the next breath they started laughing and called him an idiot.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Government stepping in to stop people from getting hurt isn't just a low priority in red states, it's a nonexistent priority. Getting washed away and drowned is just the price of freedom. Or getting shot. Or dying of diseases. And so on.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This thread is so important because it gets at the AI industry’s central failure of imagination. While I’ve met exceptions to the rule in Silicon Valley, most human beings do not reduce their sense of being alive to a stream of successive task completions, and find it a truly alienating vision.

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

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And SCOTUS stopped it, wonder why. “Trump’s order would have forced postal workers to serve as gatekeepers, deciding which ballots would be delivered and which wouldn’t. Beyond that, it would have inexplicably handed authority to Commerce Secretary Lutnick, who has no formal oversight over USPS.”

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cuz he has bad ideas? At every turn, Trump’s ideas for aiding U.S. consumers run into resistance From beef to diesel, White House efforts to bring down prices — the top concern among midterm voters — have failed so far to pan out.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Always amazed me how the people who scream the loudest about their Christian faith get off the most on hate. That's another 1500-year-old tradition.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So true. It's always something(s) keeping Dallas off the top perch.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This stat probably reflects overall partisan sentiment right now. "But when we described the checks as he actually offered them, voters were opposed, at 35% support and 54% oppose, net −18."

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