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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm old enough to remember when a sitting POTUS starting a war and then inviting the enemy to bomb major US cities would have been literally unthinkable. Of course, middle school students are old enough to remember that.

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees.

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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Superman waving around an open beaker with every deadly microbe known to man

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files

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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"When you can buy your way out of any mistake, when you can fire anyone who disagrees with you, when your social circle consists entirely of people who need something from you, the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat

For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TIL My shoulders are hypermobile, which means I have a larger range of motion than most people. I had no idea. "Hey, let's see how high up our own backs we can put our hands" isn't a suggestion that ever occurred to me.

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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"In the view of A.I. consciousness skeptics, the fact that these models have begun mimicking deep human ideas...simply reflects how much human researchers and commentators have trained them with language that anthropomorphizes them." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/s...

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Are A.I. Models Being Misled to Act Too Human? (Gift Article)

A corporate spat between two tech giants last week was just the latest volley in a conflict over whether dangerous mistakes are being made in A.I. training.

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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

To my USian friends: I'm sorry, but we are not the good guys. The people who murder children are never, ever the good guys.

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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you can't explain it, you don't understand it

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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Asked if GOP leaders were canceling session to protect members from a politically difficult vote to impeach Hegseth, Johnson said the move had nothing to do with the defense secretary." www.cnn.com/2026/09/16/p...

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House to adjourn early, stave off Hegseth impeachment vote | CNN Politics

Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday announced he is sending members home from Washington early for their seven-week campaigning recess ahead of the midterm elections, a move that will stave off a vote o...

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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"...of course many people don’t find Trump morally repellent. He’s just an exaggerated version of the kind of person modern society was designed to create." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Why Do So Many People Think Trump Is Good?

The work of the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre helps illuminate some central questions of our time.

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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I just made a sandwich with Canadian bacon, American cheese, and Mexican hot sauce. I call it the NAFTA

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yep, I'm up for that! Anybody else want to join me? #BookSky

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In all seriousness, what the hell happened to Senator McConnell?

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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

SEPTEMBER 1ST IS NOT HALLOWEEN. NOVEMBER 1ST IS NOT CHRISTMAS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Can someone explain to me why we aren't talking about Asimov's Laws all day every day?

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Jellyfish

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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#FavoriteSongFriday These guys are basically a Tuareg wedding band that got noticed by the wider world www.youtube.com/watch?v=dheW...

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Etran de L'Aïr - Ighre Massina (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm afraid to read the ingredients

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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The inevitable is here: "They ended up making DNA molecules from 285 of Evo’s suggested sequences...All told, they discovered that 16 of Evo’s genomes produced viable new viruses." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/s...

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This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature (Gift Article)

Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.

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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Fair point. The only difference I can see is which holy book they pretend to have read

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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"One of the paradoxes of the moment is that there is intense outrage at Epstein and his enablers — as there should be — but almost no effort to protect the girls or boys who continue to be trafficked all around the country and the world." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

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Opinion | What Our Epstein Outrage Has Obscured (Gift Article)

It’s easy to shake our fists at a monster. It would be more effective to actually help exploited girls.

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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

When I see pics of concept cars from the 50s and 60s, they were often fantastically beautiful. Why were the production designs so dull?

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Don Rea @donrea.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"...cheating is only the most visible and least interesting part of the problem. The more profound risk is that young people will use artificial intelligence to bypass the development of their own interior lives and fail to hone their actual intelligence." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/o...

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Opinion | The Kabbalah Teaching That Changed How I See A.I. (Gift Article)

Prospective students of the Jewish mystical practice are urged to delay their studies until they reach the age of 40.

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