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wondering which news organization will be the first to use "super intelligence" sted "artificial intelligence" unironically.

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Kade Peregrine @kadeperegrine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The ruling classes can't seem to go more than a couple of decades without forgetting that the people need bread AND circuses

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I saw a post arguing that LLMs are a highly effective disability aid for neurodivergent people, and it really underscores a gap in worldviews. What I've found to be lacking is *social* support, and as far as I'm concerned, the continual offloading of cognitive functioning to AI is making that WORSE.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 26/09/2026

i think that anyone who [spins wheel] DRINKS ICED COFEEE at a [spins wheel] JOB INTERVIEW is [spins wheel] A GROOMER. shit, wait, let's do that again, im sorry, i'm trying to re-do it

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Indeed, we should be MORE, not less vigilant in enforcing the law upon those charged with its enforcement, and with its creation.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it is genuinely obscene that prior to this point it was considered good for american democracy that nixon and reagan were never prosecuted

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes! Image a future where parents put their kids in driverless cars to take them to school while they themselves get in different cars to go to work. Instead of one or two cars chaining trips, now you might have four separate cars making four separate trips. Would be a disaster at scale.

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm told it has been four years since the "sunrise I will never see" monologue from the first season of Andor. Give some love to a Skaarsgard today. It is statistically likely there is one near you.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Okay, so I have a plan to get everyone on our side. First, we be absolutely as viscerally unpleasant as possible. Next, we downplay any time we get what we want, say it's the bare minimum and so forth. Finally, if anyone gives up and says we win or apologizes, we belittle them.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today’s John Coltrane’s centennial. Listening to his music taught me as much about thinking as Gramsci, Husserl, Hall, or Anderson. One of the very few historical figures who I’d call a hero.

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YouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Donald Trump, why don't you go take a boat tour under a bridge in Chicago?

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I took a spontaneous walk through a cemetery today and happened upon a spot I'd like to show to any antivax people I happen to encounter: the grave markers of four children from one family who died before thd age of six.

Caroline, daughter of H. & L. 1868-1874
Josephine, daughter of H. & L. 1873-1874
Eleanor, daughter of H. & I. 1878-1879
Ethel, daughter of H. & I. 1889-1873

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

joke of a fucking country

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In a larger sense, a LOT of people are just really committed to engaging with the world around them as if it is much simpler and more predictable than it is in reality. It seems that most whacky beliefs and practices are rooted in an inability to cope with the unavoidable chaos of existence.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s important to understand that fascist movements that turn to violence and oppression and genocide often begin with buffoonish performance that eventually transforms to action and widespread violence after the performances radicalizes and creates a false self with false motivation.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026

New Study Shows That Bones Are Incredibly Cool

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Indeed, what is important in every instance is not whether the blatant abuse of power is ultimately successful, but whether there are real, actual consequences for the attempt. In their absence, it will happen again. It will KEEP happening again.

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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 21/09/2026

The three news orgs sue the Trump administration today, seeking an injunction immediately. They will surely prevail, given the blatant illegality - which the Trump administration has to have known. Yet no known official refused to enforce the blatantly illegal order- that in fact is the story here.

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batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Pepperidge Farm remembers… 🎶 the twenty first night of September

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Mostly soldiers" is kind of baffling. Why would you specify that the people being killed *in a war* are mostly soldiers? It seems to imply that that is somehow worse than the dead being mostly civilians.

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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Finally.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/09/2026

I know I ask for this at least once a year, but can some nice historian reassure me that the world has ALWAYS been this stupid?

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trump is going to get asked about "Al Qaeda Cheese." I guarantee it. And he's going to say something like "it's something we're looking very strongly into and we'll have an answer in about two weeks. But they can't do that. They can't do it, and we're looking very strongly into it."

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's almost beyond comprehension, the existential insecurity driving this conservative outrage machine. How the fuck do so many people feel threatened by the mere possibility that they're enjoying a type of food that Muslims, or vegans, or whatever other group could hypothetically enjoy too?

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Did the entire Democratic Party miss the first season of Mad Men? There's a very simple lesson in there about the effectiveness of changing the conversation instead of breathlessly defending yourself.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The president is just such a stupid asshole. I know we try to ascribe motives to this guy but he’s at the end of the day, when the story is written, just a dumdum idiot with a tiny brain that don’t work so good.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The fact that Musk himself is sponsoring so many of the anti-trans ads this cycle presents a pretty golden opportunity for Dems to point out that of course the guy who literally wants to build a gas-powered data center in your backyard wants this election to be about trans people.

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Judging by the replies, this is a controversial take. Social media is nice, isn't it?

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I hope there's one giant afterlife for everybody, and that Charlie Kirk showed up there expecting to join the club of history's greatest intellectuals, only to find himself getting shoved into lockers and shunned in the cafeteria.

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don't think we quite appreciate how common it is for people to pickle their brains with right-wing propaganda just because it's easily accessible with low cognitive demand. "Pfft, I'm not gonna waste my money on that Netflix garbage. I'll just leave Newsmax on in the background for twelve hours."

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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“The country’s response to the worst terror attack in our history was to launch a global war of hysteria that consisted of rage-bombing two countries, destabilizing an entire region, and seeding a police state that has now been fully weaponized by an authoritarian regime against its own citizens.”

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's fairly astonishing how many people I encounter who still insist that voting is meaningless because "both parties are the same." That shit was innocently annoying in 2005, but in the era of Donald Trump, it's basically the most asinine position I can think of.

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A lot of people are just watching reality like it's one big TV show.

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I know a lot of people on this site want to believe that poll numbers indicate that the good guys are handily winning the culture war, but I wish they could shadow me as I try growing my social circle and I discover just how many people have had a tiny seed of Nazi ideology planted in their brains.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Trump: I was at the world trade center and saw the plane hit, and I saw the other plane coming, and I got in my plane, and I flew my plane into the second plane, and it never hit the second tower, and I jumped out in time Media: Mamdani, Trump Offer Differing 9/11 Accounts

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If only the media had as much interest in the world's richest person, the primary funder of the Republican Party, who spoke at Trump's Inauguration and gave a Sieg Heil, once again declaring his belief "white solidarity is the only way to survive" as they do some Twitch streamer.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026

I feel very confident that a core Elon Musk belief is that he’d better kill off as many Africans as he can while they’re still helpless children.

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Getting involved with a Gen Z woman and realizing just how fragile people's self-identity can become in the digital age when there's always a thousand different concepts and affiliations tugging at young minds and telling them, "This-- no, this! --is the ONE thing that will make sense of the world."

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It drives me absolutely crazy that the central message of every ad for an AI-forward product is, "Learning stuff and interacting with other people is inconvenient and annoying, so just let the computer do it for you. Never grow, and always create more distance between yourself and the world."

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The television series Pantheon is looking more and more prescient by the day.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The number of people who sit on this site all day and just post about how much they hate me, for no particular reason, is kinda deranged

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s true! You don’t know this man! It’s weird to have extremely strong opinions about him! You can just mute or block him!

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Wabi Sabi For Robots @wabisabi4robots.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Adulthood is periodically paying $600-800 for something out of the blue. Could be anything: that's the fun part!

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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 24/08/2026

P.S.

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I can't recall the last time I watched a movie, got to the end credits, and immediately decided that I want to watch it again and show it to everyone I know. This thing is a masterpiece. It's hilarious, instructive, and existentially horrifying all at once. It's my entire worldview captured on film.

Poster for Buffet Infinity, now streaming on Shudder and AMC+

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It is imperative that the next dem admin not only consider everything Trump has done fundamentally illegitimate and repeal all of it as quickly as possible, but they also need to rub it in everyone's face. The message is: "You cannot build any lasting change with this ideology."

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is a shocking statistic. Six years ago, a pandemic irreversibly altered the lives of every man, woma, and child, and now 80 percent of Americans look at the prospect of infection and say, "Pfft, it probably doesn't matter."

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Another day on Bluesky, another round it the never-ending debate between, "Everything will inevitably get worse; panic!" and, "Everything will inevitably get better; don't worry about it."

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