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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 2h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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casallenademagia.bsky.social @casallenademagia.bsky.social · 3h

One of the best movie critics working today dropped his piece on the silliest Oscar-bait flick playing right now and you best get on your ass and read it right now. @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social has yet to disappoint with his insight and handle of the written word and his latest upholds his streak.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 1h

It's inspiring to learn the idea for this school first started in 2019 and education scholars have been working on it for years: www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/202...

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Hip-Hop Education Enters a New Era in the Bronx

The Bronx School of Hip-Hop was co-created by TC’s Maxine Greene Chair for Distinguished Contributions to Education, Christopher Emdin

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 1h

I wrote about EIGHT TAELS OF GOLD, and Mabel Cheung's extraordinary abilities to tell romantic stories. She's an unbelievable director and I hope she will be widely rediscovered someday. www.patreon.com/willowcately...

The organic quality seen in her pauses, her integration of characters within the space, and the accumulation of little moments building to a whole is also emblematic of the strengths in her romantic film Eight Taels of Gold. Some films feel as if they hold the entire world in the frame, because they are so lovingly detailed that our emotions feel as though they emanate from the characters. We’re right there with them. Cheung’s characters in these two films encounter the great swell of meaning that can be achieved through romance, and her characters grasp its greatest possibilities of fulfillment and heartbreak. This sometimes even occurs in the same scene. The great David Bordwell called the temperament of Hong Kong cinema, “an unabashed appeal to emotion.”, and I think about this movie when I read that phrase. Romantic films are usually prone to contrivances of separation and reintegration—those operas of want—and while Cheung’s films may seem like they contain those devices of conflict, she makes them seem quotidian. It is a very hard trick to pull off, but she does so with the elegance of a David Lean, whose Brief Encounter (1945), remains the model for all romantic films.

a still image from EIGHT TAELS OF GOLD of a young couple (a man and a woman) approaching an older man who is sitting by a tree.

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Jeff Goldsmith @yogoldsmith.bsky.social · 1h

John Carpenter (@TheHorrorMast) on They Live @AcademyMuseum : It’s about Yuppies The KKK, the white arian resistance, started the rumor that it was about Jews. And they asked me, was it about Jewish people taking over? I couldn't believe it. And I'm like these assholes. How dare you! Fuck you!

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h

Never been MORE VINDICATED he's literally using AI as Digital Jenny McCarthy to do vaccine denialism HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT I need to play the lottery

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 9h

Most TV is just this now.

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Devindra Hardawar @devindra.bsky.social · 2h

I wrote about Freckle, a new smartphone designed to help kids get out the house and feel more independent www.engadget.com/2273319/frec... I haven't tested this yet, but the concept is interesting.

engadget.com

Freckle's smartphone aims to get kids back outside on their own - Engadget

Freckle's smartphone encourages kids to get outside. What a concept!

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 7h

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 12h

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 18h

not sure why I made this but now you have to see it

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Devindra Hardawar @devindra.bsky.social · 5h

I'd love to understand why anyone would pay this much for an Android tablet

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J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்) @jgownder.bsky.social · 8h

Rep Walkinshaw (D-VA): From mining deals in Kazakhstan to Russian weddings, Trump and his family are getting rich off of corruption while YOU pay more for everything

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 14h

… ?!

An excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on playwright, writer and actor Wallace Shawn. The passage:

Personal life
Shawn is a Jewish atheist. [4] [5] [6] [7] His longtime partner is writer Deborah Eisenberg. [1]

As of 2012, he lived in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. [42]

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20h

oh man, I just tried it and america.gov really does get REAL weird when you tell it to “play Minecraft”

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America.gov

Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 22h

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 29/09/2026

I obtained a recording of Peter Thiel's Nashville Antichrist lecture. He was asked to respond to something I wrote in @newrepublic.com epublic (below). He evaded the question, but responded: "I don't think I'm the Antichrist, [maybe I'm] lacking in self-awareness...You shouldn't trust me."

quote from Gil Duran story on Thiel and the Antichrist: Thiel co-founded Palantir, a software company literally named after an all-seeing orb controlled by an evil wizard in The Lord of the Rings. Palantir is partnering with the Trump administration to supercharge government surveillance at a moment when the president openly embraces authoritarianism. The irony is so striking it almost seems like a confession.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 21h

This period will go down as one of the greatest moments for Democrat attack ads in history. We're seeing LBJ "Daisy"-level spots daily.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h

Fox News just did a long segment on this Jack Smith hearing and, you're never going to be believe this, but they didn't play any of Schmitt embarrassing himself.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mass shootings, multiple suicides, families torn apart by AI ‘psychosis’ and now his tech is hacking governments around the world.

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 29/09/2026

Q&A with Timnit Gebru, who says the "existential risk" narrative is a harmful marketing strategy and the "stochastic parrots" metaphor is not outdated (Lauren Goode/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Marty Day @marty.day · 29/09/2026

hey delete the app if you're using it dummies

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In the 4 years that Alina Habba, traffic lawyer turned Trump attorney turned US Attorney, worked for Trump she won a total of "ZERO" cases. Not a single one. But she married a Turkish billionaire so I guess her "I'd rather be pretty than smart" philosophy paid off. www.the-sun.com/news/1706775...

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Ex-Trump lawyer, 42, weds Turkish billionaire, 29, in $10m MAGA-studded ceremony

DONALD Trump’s former lawyer has tied the knot with a Turkish billionaire in a lavish wedding reportedly costing around $10 million. The star-studded celebration saw political heavyweights rub shou…

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026

Society’s pursuit of faster experiences has made avoiding other people far too easy—and a new book details what this costs us, @julieebeck.bsky.social writes.

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Convenience Is Lonely

Far too many innovations keep us from other people.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Devindra Hardawar @devindra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don’t worry, another billionaire will keep helping her fail upwards

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

our enemies are so well funded and organized, it physically pains me to think about it

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

I love how @ani-obsessive.bsky.social was able to document the films at OIAF. In an age of AI use, it’s always good to know that there are people pouring their hearts and talents into the animation medium. Check out some of the films mentioned in this article! open.substack.com/pub/animatio...

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The Films Proving That Animation Is Alive

Plus: news.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...

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bag of moons 🏳️‍🌈 @bagofmoons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

a thing that needs more media coverage is how many kids end up *back* in public schools after leaving for a charter

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I want to take this video back to 1985 show it to someone and tell them 'this is TV now'

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Zoe Tunnell ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm so fuckin tired man

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/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🚨Hades: Developing Hell RETURNS🕹️ In the first episode of our second season we talk to the team @supergiantgames.bsky.social about the decision to finally make a sequel to one of their games. WATCH: youtu.be/UWFfmD8n-xA

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Why Supergiant Games Chose to Make a Sequel to Hades - Developing Hell II

YouTube video by /noclip

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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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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The powerful generally do not want a free press to exist. This is not a matter of political partisanship so much as it is an observation of reality. And a more urgent one to acknowledge today, because they are closer to winning. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...

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The Free and Unfree Press

Journalism, and its adversaries.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/09/2026

The data also strongly suggests that campus rape is perpetrated by a small number of actors. Put differently, most men on campus don't rape, but the ones who do rape a lot of women. Getting rid of those guys would make campus way safer . psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-...

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Can't recall whose line it actually was but back in 1998, a critic who may or may noy have been Roger Ebert accurately described Martin Cambell's sizzling swashbuckler THE MASK OF ZORRO as a “gift from the movie gods” and honestly ... I could not agree more. 📽️

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A ★★★★½ review of The Mask of Zorro (1998)

“There is a saying, a very old saying: when the pupil is ready the master will appear.” Cannot recall whose line it was but back when it was released, a critic who may have been Roger Ebert accurately...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026

Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is literally a Simpsons joke

So learn on the go with
your phone, wherever you are.
Genghis Khan
Professor of History

Genghis Khan Simpsons

YOU'LL GO WHERE I GO DEFILE WHAT I DEFILE, EAT WHO I EAT HMM?

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