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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 9h

Link here, posted by Gerardo Munck there. One of the most useful things I have ever read. www.some.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 14h

My suggestion though is perhaps that we actually extend less charitable thinking to the people who were in power who have apologized for nothing and insist they'd do it all over again than random people

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'you're cognitively offloading'. yes. correct. that is what i wish to do. i do not wish to expend cognition figuring out which pharmacist takes my insurance and is closest. i want to offload it & be told who that is. you are free to continue manually doing this task you evidently find so meaningful

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 9h

rather than these techbros who are speed listening to books to boost their book stats, i am currently working on my "long-distance listening", which involves listening to 30+ hour dense history books at 1x

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10h

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 9h

didn't realize that federico garcía lorca hid out in downtown granada in the home of his good friend, the poet, luis rosales, who was a card carrying falangist!

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 10h

unpopular opinion on here, but i agree with this

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 12h

pete hegseth is a character from "the office"

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 15h

going through that list of 100 shows, seeing "community" ranked 97th and just progressively getting angrier at everything that follows

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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 16h

After the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the Trump administration shifted to a “quieter” approach to immigration enforcement. But as the timeline shows, “less visible enforcement is no less aggressive on the ground today and continues to ramp up in multiple ways."

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From mass raids to quiet crackdown: a timeline of Trump’s strategic ICE pivot

After switching tactics, federal agents are detaining and deporting record numbers of people from the US

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 15h

came across this book, which looks awesome: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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Leviathan and the Air-Pump

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i'm sorry, are you saying that without billionaires we would still have to deal with all the politicians that come into power on the coat-tails of the billionaire class? huh??

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

reading about hayek (in wendy brown's "in the ruins of neoliberalism") and, to me, his theories are almost indistinguishable from graeber's. if anything, they are more fleshed out versions of graeber's ideas.

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

taking a mandatory cybersecurity training for work and all this stuff seems like it's going to be rapidly out of date honestly incredibly surprised i am not being confronted with more and more sophisticated spamming, given what AI can do

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The ten-year yield blasts thru 5.25% @cnbc.com

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Joe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(some of this is composition but for all the hay about declining wages in 2022 ish, the trends are pretty striking. there's been like two periods of sustained wage growth in the past fourty years, and we're living in one of them)

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

you see this most starkly with the fact that every generation must come up with their own new terminology of identity markers to rid themselves of the previous generation's prejudices (even when the words being replaced were themselves created to get rid of the prejudices of the generation prior)

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

there is a dimension of political contestation that just boils down to an elevated game of worldplay. you say "climate change", i say "extreme weather."

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i don't know, the stuff jensen huang said that everyone is dunking on makes sense to me. google maps is a very helpful technology that also makes me store way less information about how to get around. it's a tradeoff.

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i think the things humans value that are hardest to quantify and judge objectively (i.e. the humanities) will be the areas that will prosper the most under AI

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

love working on a doc that is authored by one person and checked by a group of others, with each reviewer asking me to make a bunch of changes that the author then tells me to change back. it's twice the work for a worse final product (since every iteration just creates more inconsistencies errors)!

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the reason AI won't replace humans at a lot of jobs, and will simply augment human's work, is because in a lot of cases you need a stooge to be held liable...

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it's funny to think that a lot of stuff people prize as "core eternal skills and values" that we shouldn't let new tech destroy were once themselves seen as pernicious destroyers of our true way of life.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The old line that analytic philosophy is answering questions that come naturally to toddlers via methods that come naturally to lawyers remains undefeated.

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i am always a little taken aback when i think about the academics and actual experts that for some reason follow me on here. i say *a lot* of dumb, guy-who-has-just-learned-something-basic-and-needs-to-share shit. it's like my main thing on here.

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Had a blast on @librarypunk.bsky.social talking about Gramsci, Carnegie, and public libraries. Where has philanthropy gone in the politics of our elites? What's changed since the homestead strike? Listen! open.spotify.com/episode/4rzD...

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170 - Carnegie, Gramsci, and Libraries feat. Dan Greene

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'll preregister my prior that the Dems will win at least 54 Senate seats--on the outside of what's possible in our polarized environment. Plenty of time, of course, for Democrats to do dumb things. But 54 seems to me the most likely outcome given where we are & the trajectory moving forward.

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

isn't polling almost completely broken at this point? or is that going too far?

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

one reason you should NOT do this is that in the short-term major reforms tend to elicit a much greater backlash from opponents than enthusiasm from supporters (because all major reforms involve some level of compromise between parties).

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Huge finding. ICE activity was NOT correlated with immigrant density. It WAS correlated with Black and brown neighborhoods. Shocked, shocked.

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the lesson from the spanish second republic is...don't try to implement your entire radical agenda all at once. either choose agrarian reform, or taking on the catholic church, or reorganizing the military, or instituting federalism, or reforming the education system...but don't do them all at once!

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

where i see an opening in creativity in this age is in creating writing that an AI couldn't produce!

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

a lot of writing was already algorithmic writing before the advent of AI...

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i am in favor of this approach, also as a means to signal to other billionaires that they are not above the law but, boy, we better be ready for the backlash. because if you thought the tech response to COVID was bad, get ready...

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

got into an argument with my dad about whether "spain" has been a country since los reyes catolicos (later half of the 15th century). people really don't realize that regions in spain had borders with customs, their own laws and courts, and DIFFERENT CURRENCIES into the 19th century!

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

we have seen this pattern in our own lifetimes, it just happened in latin america

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

what are people's best comps for AI in terms of past technological transformations? i really need my own the ringer podcast...

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

was thinking that AI is going put an ever greater premium on live events (entertainment, sports, etc.) and live, estemporaneous commentary and conversation

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

my own personal experience of engaging with left radicals these days has left me depressed by their complete lack of a coherent ideology, beyond pining for some vague sense of "community" that will work itself out or marching off into some tiny utopian off-the-grid project

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

looking back, it is so obvious to me now that J-PAL, the development research center i worked at so famous for introducing rigurous RCTs into policymaking in the mid-aughts, was a SUCH an emblematically neoliberal project.

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

friend of mine who i have an informal reading group with asked me for something introductory on marx, and mentioned he's interested in the concept of alienation. seems like erich fromm's "marx's concept of man" would the ideal reading for that, no?

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"AI cannot think because only humans can think" is not an argument, but it's what you see over and over again from people. that's not a position based on any sort of logic or reason, it's based on belief in some inscrutable essence that cannot be described or defined but that we possess.

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Here’s my first attempt to grapple with AI companies’ conquest of mathematics and our new mathematical condition.

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Applied Pure Mathematics

Some thoughts about mathematics as a cultural and social technology.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026

Which all just reeks of what happens when a status order gets upended by some new technique. Basically everyone who is under threat runs around shouting “Never mind what I appeared to value before, what I *really* value is this incredibly intangible thing I possess that also preserves my status”.

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

what's great and fun about these kinds of social media platforms is that you are encouraged to share half-cooked, quick, spur-of-the-moment thoughts and opinions, but then the game is that you must defend your post to the death and never back down from the silly momentary feeling or thought you had

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

33 goals in 7 games. which is very close to averaging 5 goals per game

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

31 goals and counting in their last 7 games for barcelona...insane

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