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Imagine the Manhattan Project wasn't run by gov scientists to win a world war, but rather run by the greediest POS in the world for the sake of getting even more money they don't need and will never spend. Then imagine if the Manhattan Project shared their weapon with every bad actor on earth.

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Beth Dutton: That Should Concern You

ALT: Beth Dutton: That Should Concern You

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You can say what you want about their ability to follow through on any of it, but the GOP's "Contract with America" was marketing brilliance.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 06/10/2026

Too bad no one funded a sex cult focused on climate change! The different media dynamics between the very real threat of global warming (aloofness) and the imagined AI machine apocalypse (alarm) should be studied in great depth.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This feels like a psyche out, where they pick a couple of controversial podcasts of either flavor, then pick something incredibly mundane like Travis and Jason Kelce's podcast.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"I like the President because he says what he means..." "What he really means is —"

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Even a generation ago, if you told people "you will be added to a government database for tracking purposes if you speak out," folks would be in an uproar.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes. The reason why the ICE agent unwisely moved in front of Renee Good's vehicle with a camera in front of his face.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The most reckless, shoddy people imaginable in charge of the kill chain.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Crumbs compared to how much insider trading he can do on the down low. This is bait for low info MAGA.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Very happy with how this one wound up. Zesty, complex, and nuanced. Like a liquid gingersnap. #homebrewing

A goblet of dark beer with a deep amber brown color.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"It's mind-boggling," says person unable to grapple with basic causality.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He doesn't care, he has a private helicopter. Undrivable roads are a poors problem.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

“More than any other digital service, my email is a window into my brain. Now Meta has it. If that's not enough, Muse also suggested I give it my bank accounts. No thanks. I didn't let the AI run wild on my computer hard drive, either.”

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'Things may get ugly': Meta's new AI Muse is about to make the internet more annoying

Someday we'll redesign the internet for tools like this. Until then, you're in for a wild ride.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I do think they probably ran his texts through an LLM and it hallucinated crimes. That’s scary and bad and it’s funny they got caught, but imagine how many other times this happens on a day to day basis against people with no rights, let alone the ability to publicly humiliate the AI prosecutor.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Quoting Jean Paul Sartre and having the response be, "Did he say that?! I always hated that guy" is usually a cue that you're hanging out with chuds and in mortal danger of enchudification. Duncan, your heel turn is nigh complete.

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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC (H27) @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know it's dangerous to pedestal politicians, but our governor has time &again refused to take the bait on throwing any vulnerable group under the bus, and I'm mighty grateful for both the steadfast decency that he has shown to date, and the kind, invitational correctives he offers his errant peers

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nothing says confidence in your public ideological values like passive-aggressively disinviting opposing voices.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An interesting glimpse along with the other 80's comic contemporaries, Robert Altman's POPEYE (1980) and Warren Beatty's DICK TRACY (1990).

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One wonders if this movie could have landed, but one also wonders exactly what the built-in audience for this film was? Some well choreographed onscreen gags and some well delivered lines but it's a very much a hit or miss effort.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Watching the film BRENDA STARR (1989). Very much a direct comic adaptation, and has a exaggerated stylisms of the format. Brenda's wardrobe in particular are a lot of bespoke costumes that make sense on the comic book page but over the top in comparison to actual mid-century clothing. #Filmsky

The film poster for the film, Brenda Starr (1989), starring Brooke Shields, Diana Scarwin, and Timonthy Dalton.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If it's anyone, it's the Millers suggesting this. Were this not the President, this level of sychophantic deception would be considered elder abuse.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"But I spent all this money on merchandise!"

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lot of really good insight on this one. I never put two and two together on the securities market getting outpaced by hyperscaler debt.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Letting AI agents have a run of random Internet resources "because it might be more useful" sounds awfully like putting a million monkeys at a typewriter and hoping one of them writes War & Peace.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The question that needs to be asked here is "What is being solved for by adding the variability of Internet access?"

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They don't actually care about leaking. It's always been a cynical ploy to defang journalistic oversight to increase their own absolute power.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Really want to know why there isn't talk of impeachment given this dude has walked back every (bogus) promise from his confirmation hearing.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think it's really telling that people point out the many downstream harms surrounding this technology and are patronized that they aren't an 'expert in nuance.' Yet any discussion of clean tech is immediately met with cynics discussing in broad strokes any drawback, real or imagined.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I mean this in the kindest way possible because I respect Gov. Spanberger more than a lot of candidates. But I was thinking the other day about how she would have probably ran as a Republican 20 years ago, were the brand not toxic sludge in the eyes of competent people.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

At no point in my adult lifetime has there been any conservative that wanted to invest in the arts, short of as a vehicle for wealth-extraction. Why should they be honored with patronage over the thing they despise?

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why the folks who imply taking human decision-making out of the kill chain is some terrifying new reality strike me as out of touch. The current setup is outdated database→human who gives it the once-over then says "Well, computer says so... must mean we're good," and we ain't auditing that at all.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

By no means the most important topic, but... The attempt to rebrand The Kennedy Center feels a very particular vein of cruel and shallow. As though we don't live in the shadow of 30 years of conservatives hollowing out support for the National Endowment for the Arts, Radio Free Europe, NPR, PBS...

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I heard a ad today for "WAR.GOV" and it was a bunch of almost laughably overt "On the Shoulders of Warriors"-type tropes. And the whole time, I'm thinking how much these clowns with NO HOMO Leonidas fantasies are having their ass handed to them by the Arabian Pennisula's equivalent of Cliven Bundy.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Unc class grants the bearer additional attachment point (carabiner.)

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yeah, came here to say this is the exact same worn out scare tactics as 2024. Not only do they have no meaningful or prescient positions, they no longer have meaningful or prescient criticisms of their opponents' positions.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This sort of blurring is extremely convenient narrative for the social media companies, and lets them skate by on their status quo ("we can't take away friends from kids!")

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Feels like a very deceptive framing of social media as exactly same as a digital messenging app, when those are two very different product categories.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/09/2026

It's difficult to pick apart fears about AI & data centers that are intrinsic to the technologies vs. those that are connected to the fact that giant, fateful decisions about these things are being made by a small handful of insular brain-cooked oligarch narcissists.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have no qualms with a publication hiding articles for paying subscribers, but sites like Instagram that benefit from free user content *AND* marketing data? Unforgivable.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Was thinking today about how bifurcated and paywalled the Internet has become and how we've all tacitly accepted "I can't read this content, I can't follow this creator, etc."

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm sure everyone's experience here is different, but I tend to think it's a nice touch that personalizes the piece and makes it a little more inviting.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"PRESCRIPTION STRENGTH CHALUPA" 🌮

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