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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 47m

everyone is gonna have to learn about literary structure just to get along in this dang world

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15h

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 3h

incoming insult of all time is gonna be "this cornell group chat looking motherfucker". feel free to use immediately.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 3h

there should be a nobel prize for mixology because i just invented something called a sake lime and bitters (it's lemon lime and bitters but with lime cordial and sake instead of with lemon lime cordial)

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 11h

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 12h

how do they unerringly find the least palatable angle possible on this stuff? the visa processing times are a total disgrace and travesty for a multitude of very legitimate reasons but of course we have geoffrey's au pair to be concerned with. reads like parody.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The problem that we need to solve isn't rogue AI, it's that companies increasingly think they can just price crime into the business model and get away with it

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here’s the especially depressing bit: “peer review reports and funding recommendations have “suddenly become much longer, more detailed and complex”. Colleagues, what are you doing?

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Snoop-and-scoop poses a real threat to science in the AI age

Establishing attribution in research has become harder in the age of AI-assisted breakthroughs

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.

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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'

Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

right, exactly. people will respond "what does the fact that i tolerate immense racism everywhere around me have to do with you?", and -- i mean -- they have arranged their entire epistemic universe around avoiding intellectual bias and _this_ is the thing they just let slide?

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pink is a good word but it's sad that we lost 'incarnate'

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

*tearing my own hair out* the word satellite is older than the COLOUR PINK in the english language

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Silly me — When I predicted this is 2023 it didn’t occur to me that the AI companies themselves would steal your work.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

more essays should contain the line "But, and here is where it gets Satanic,"

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

namesearching yourself *ever* let alone once a day should get you immediately disqualified from public discourse. of course, in reality our discourse is controlled by people who would namesearch themselves every half an hour if they could find a way to do it surreptitiously

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But soft! What word thru yonder mute breaks?

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Why shouldn’t I custom-generate all of my child’s media?” Because the point of children’s literature, music, art, and movies is not to optimize leisure time, it is to provide your children with cultural, emotional, societal, and epistemic touch points via which they can relate to the wider world.

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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s interesting to think about this fake award on the same day that nature published the story on fake academic societies. Billionaires creating new awards for ideological capture and to launder their reputations is also a scam, but its not treated as such and gets a ‘Newsvertisement‘ in the WSJ

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

you know that quote that's like "all real problems are double-binds"? maybe all real problems are political economy

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I found it. The only good post on the covid queer bar thing. substack.com/@sproutstack...

$Russell Sprout 1d Sproutstack Hey you heard about this story coming out of Massachusetts? Apparently this group of self-selected individuals, who largely feel out of place in a world of great sorrow and despair - like, they're in this world, but not of it - formed a very intentional community as an example to the rest of the world, like a beacon that shines on a hill. And now they're tearing each other apart over seemingly inscrutable moral infractions! All this, in Massachusetts! Can you believe it?$

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thomas irvine @ahermitsvino.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

*explaining myself to woolies seccy at the self-checkout* I, uh, went rogue?

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Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Victor Frankstein like oops sorry everyone my guy has gone rogue

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rimidar @rimidar.au · 25/09/2026

Another banger from the great man

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

get in the brain injury machine shinji. get in the brain injury machine or you'll get left behind like rei will when we have no more use for her.

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Getting the last speaker in a conference session to be the session chair like

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

tech ceos are openly salivating about the idea of kids losing basic literacy and numeracy. this tells you pretty much all you need to know

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I thought it would be funny for two transmascs to watch The Lady Vanishes. And guess what, I was right! It was funny.

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Danny Lavery @dannymlavery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I talked about Ruritanian romances from The Prisoner of Zenda to Grand Budapest Hotel with Rafe Meager for the newsletter: www.thechatner.com/p/the-lady-v...

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The Lady Vanishes: A Discussion with Rafe Meager

"How often does the male romantic lead tell the female lead he's interested in her because she reminds him of his father?"

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i support gen Z. iced coffee in an interview is not wrong. the older generation has done you so much wrong you deserve the iced coffee. please read more books.

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Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The nonsensical headline appears to be just passing on a nonsensical comment they received from sources they don't name; what kind of operation are they running down at the Hollywood Reporter

As befitting a filmmaker who is known for his meticulous attention to detail in capturing a time period, even when it comes to dialogue, sources say that this adaptation will feature actors speaking in Olde English.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

if anyone tells you to cite my papers that is also paul

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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Philosopher: what could be better than being vindicated? Economist: material goods

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The UK authorities are busy arresting old vicars wearing watermelon tee-shirts.

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 22/09/2026

My two brains

An over-the-top, flamboyantly dressed Elton John, wearing a massive, vibrant pink feathered headdress, oversized sparkling sunglasses, and a dramatic costume, sits in the front seat of an ordinary car. Next to him is another man, dressed in normal, casual everyday clothes, looking unfazed.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s so cool that every American elite is desperate to stop having to think for themselves or learn anything

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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes! My time has come to post this perfect SMBC. Today is a good day.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 21/09/2026

I stand by this

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster

Daniel Thomas and his Black Shorts in London today.

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Niall Roe @niallroe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

C. S. Peirce, echoing recent comments by Terrence Tao and other mathematicians on the use of AI to solve Navier-Stokes (except Peirce is writing in 1903):

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is about regulating AI but the same applies to safety net and ALMPs in response to anticipated disruption from AI. Folks on the hill want "something for AI" but standard sectoral training and employment policy, guaranteed income, etc. are still the solutions because disruption is disruption.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

every day we learn more and more about why sun tzu has been regarded as a genius for centuries

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Ea-nāṣir @jedgarnaut.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Logical thread progression

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