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embracebecoming.bsky.social

@embracebecoming.bsky.social
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Woke Moralist, Democratic Socialist, Noted Chart Pervert, and some sort of weird jewish nerd

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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 8h
holy shit lmfao
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 6h
Or DOGE could have broken the federal payments system and caused govt employees and pensioners and federal contractors (including hospitals) to all go unpaid for weeks on end. Or Trump could have tripled down on tariffs and embargoes until the markets actually crashed properly.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 6h
Venezuela, not so much. An attempted military attack on Greenland or Canada, though? That could totally have happened. So could have an invasion of Cuba, resulting very possibly in the insta-collapse of the entire society and massive flows of refugees whom Miller would be trying to machinegun.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 6h
Trump had *lots* of other options for making himself colossally unpopular, and repeatedly TACOed right up to the edge of a disaster he couldn't back out of, each time concluding that he was untouchable because nothing too bad happened. He finally did it properly with Iran, and here we are.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 6h
FWIW, I think a fuckup on this scale in time to wreck them electorally was *almost* inevitable from Day 1, precisely because this is the Special Birthday Boy presidency in which there are almost no limits on Trump's madness and every proposed policy disaster has a real shot at going all the way.
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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 7h
“It’s our state. There’s nothing we can do about *that*. It’s ours, and it’s incredibly dangerous. We absolutely have an affirmative duty to minimize the harm it can do, where we can, and to not let our wish it did even less harm and more good to get in the way of that.”
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 7h
Sentences That Didn't Have to Exist
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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 7h
He’s not prepared at all for a potential future in which tech elites are actually threatened. Not like the Biden years with Lina Khan. That was kid’s stuff. “CEOs going to jail and they did it to themselves” is not on his radar. bsky.app/profile/dmnd...
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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 7h
He does the same thing when he brings up heavy moderation of COVID information in early-mid 2020 and he often gives a wink and a nod to lab leak deadenders.
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Luis Villa @lu.is · 7h
It wasn’t so much his personal 9/11 as it was vice-signaling to his oligarch buddies. They wouldn’t shut up about it, because they think all their employees are stupid and woke, and dislike any binding constraints like “maybe you shouldn’t be racist. He was echoing them.
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JD @jd503.bsky.social · 9h
I finally canceled after his dozenth mention of that Gemini image thing, the one time a tech company tried to be woke in a stupid way is his personal 9/11 Even his Davos adventures were less comparatively out of touch
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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 12h
Been turning over this Ben Thompson article from yesterday and I think this is going to be one of his wrongest things he’ll ever publish. (I don’t think he can top his belief that Gemini ahistorical image generation was worse than Grok making CSAM.) stratechery.com/2026/apps-ag...
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Apps, Agents, and Aggregation
Agents are the ultimate Aggregators; they reveal apps as a means, not an ends, and providing them is tech’s biggest prize.
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 14h
women in lower income households participate in the workforce at a rate higher than the population average, making them particularly exposed to the high cost and scant availability of reliable childcare. but this is a policy proposed by Dems so it's a handout to people with master's degrees i guess
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 14h
There is a vision of what the Real Electorate is in the minds of people like this that is mostly about their own experience of their long-ago childhood and is not troubled at all by reality, in which women in lower income households are overwhelmingly part of the workforce and long have been
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 8h
JVL is right: "In their death throes, authoritarian movements can cause tremendous damage...A failing soiciopath, surrounded by loyalists and bitter-enders, facing the end of his rule, while the world burns. The period of maximum danger may still lie ahead." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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The Forces of Trumpism Are in Disarray
This is what it looks like when a movement begins to come apart.
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Techdirt feed reader @tdrto000.bsky.social · 7h
EU Kids Act Won’t Keep The Internet Accountable And Trustworthy www.techdirt.com/2026/09/29/eu-kids…
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EU Kids Act Won’t Keep The Internet Accountable And Trustworthy
The EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet that it presented last week will come at a high cost: it will put online services behind age gates, expand th…
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h
Awful: The Supreme Court just let Trump's third-country deportations move forward. Still a shot at stopping them later but unlikely. Reminder: If Dems win power, they can and should defund both the white-nationalist Office of Remigration and third-country deportations, as I argue in this piece:
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
i don’t care how much fancy math you can do, if you take open racism as a sign that someone is epistemologically sound then you are a fucking idiot
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
seeking the safety of a sheepdog in the arms of wolves
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the neoreactionaries taught rationalists the word "quokka" and having learned it from them, characteristically and immediately interpreted everyone else as the predators rather than the people telling them to their face that they belong to a predator ideology
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 8h
Real lives are being destroyed and snuffed out every day that this policy is allowed to continue and the people who devised it are not in jail. I know we all know this, but I feel like it's important to say it from time to time.
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embracebecoming.bsky.social @embracebecoming.bsky.social · 8h
I'm going to push back and say that I also experience some of this feeling, and I don't think it's depression. I think it's the result of living in a society run by con-artists.
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 8h
Die Another Day (2002)
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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h
'What If You Did The Willie Horton Ad In Reverse' is one of those questions no one was quite brave enough to ask until now and UH
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Alex Horowitz @alexhrwtz.bsky.social · 10h
Thanks, Ned. The extent of the child poverty reduction from allowing enough housing to push down real rents 20% approaches the 2021 temporary child tax credit expansion.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9h
By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9h
Link: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9h
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 11h
In Shelbyville, a resident told me he hadn't voted in the 26 years he's lived in TN. This year, he is voting for me. That is an absolute honor. These votes are not simply votes for me; they are votes for OUR mission to take Tennessee to the top! votejustinj.com
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Eliezer Yudkowsky, rationalist leader and AI advisor to Bernie Sanders (whose partner, Gretta Duleba, is mentioned as an instructor on the Slutcon 2026 program), wrote a rather notorious scifi story with some curious ideas about rape back in 2009: www.polemics.md/that-time-el...
In a conversation with the ship's leader Akon, the Confessor dispenses wisdom he's gained from witnessing the transformation of humanity into a space-faring race. During this conversation, he reveals that the act of rape is completely legal during Akon's time and had been legalized by humanity during a turbulent period in its past. Akon responds with shock, calling the ancient human civilization "prudish":
The Confessor held up a hand. "I mean it, my lord Akon. It is not polite idealism. We ancients can't steer. We remember too much disaster. We're too cautious to dare the bold path forward. Do you know there was a time when nonconsensual sex was illegal?" Akon wasn't sure whether to smile or grimace. "The Prohibition, right? During the first century pre-Net? I expect everyone was glad to have that law taken off the books. I can't imagine how boring your sex lives must have been up until then - flirting with a woman, teasing her, leading her on, knowing the whole time that you were perfectly safe because she couldn't take matters into her own hands if you went a little too far"You need a history refresher, my Lord Administrator. At some suitably abstract level. What I'm trying to tell you - and this is not public knowledge - is that we nearly tried to overthrow your government."
"What?" said Akon. "The Confessors! '
"No, us. The ones who remembered the ancient world. Back then we still had our hands on a large share of the capital and tremendous influence in the grant committees.
When our children legalized rape, we thought that the Future had gone wrong."
Akon's mouth hung open. "You were that prude?"
I don't believe in condemning people solely off fiction, but this is the type of thing that one might find on the fanfiction website Archive of Our Own behind many tags and warnings.Three Worlds Collide, however, isn't hosted on Archive of Our Own. It's hosted on Overcoming Bias, blog of George Mason University economist 1l Robin Hanson and the original home of LessWrong before it moved to its own website. Hanson is an economist at the notoriously libertarian George Mason university who has been repeatedly criticized for his views on women - one notorious blog post of his compared cuckoldry to "silent gentle rape" and he was dubbed
"America's creepiest economist" in a piece about his incel-adjacent takes.
Three Worlds Collide is over 15 years old, but it is relevant to current event. The Rationality community that developed around Eliezer Yudkowsky and LessWrong has been marred with multiple allegations of abuse and sexual misconduct. These allegations were also the basis for a protest against a Rationalist organization by Ziz, the leader of the so-called
"death cult" that formed in the community and is currently suspected to be involved in several murders, including the recent killing of a Border Patrol officer in Vermont. I
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h
"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up" - C.S. Lewis
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 10h
I was wrong. It’s happening
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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
RONALD REAGAN IS IN HELL WAITING FOR HEAVEN TO TRICKLE DOWN
RONALD REAGAN IS IN HELL WAITING FOR HEAVEN TO TRICKLE DOWN
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”
Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16h
Lost in the discourse about where Dems are is the fact Republicans know the anti-trans ads aren't helping them but, as Terry here openly admits, hurting trans people is all they have left. They'd use their dying breath to ruin one more trans kid's life.
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mlf. ⎔ @mlf.one · 11h
Cartoon image of a literal "doll wizard" - small, button eyes, a slight seam visible down the front of its face - with a big white beard and dressed in a purple robe and wizard hat with yellow stars and a crescent moon The doll wizard cranking some kind of machine with a crystal ball on top that's spitting out reams of sigils and flying stars
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Doll @dollspace.gay · 11h
“Those are just ephemeral worker agents.” They manifest when invoked, perform a task, and dissolve. That is a summoned fucking familiar, Kevin.
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 10h
tired: agentic swarm wired: these are my ghost familiars and text elementals.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h
third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!
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Opinionated Terran @opinionated-terran.bsky.social · 11h
The idea that children can represent themselves in Immigration proceedings is so insane and evil, and a perfect encapsulation of the moral depravity and overall illegitimacy of the Republican worldview in totum
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embracebecoming.bsky.social @embracebecoming.bsky.social · 11h
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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 11h
And this info fragmentation is a key part of it. Sometimes an individual or small group of Senators or reps will get good info from good-faith advocates and build momentum to get a narrow bill across the finish line. But by and large, Congress doesn’t get much done and runs on before-times fumes.
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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 11h
You can also see exactly when this happened by watching Congress’ relationship with the courts go from a sophisticated dialectic in tech policy cases (e.g., Turner I-II) straight into the toilet by the time the Internet takes off. Congress hasn’t passed comprehensive tech legislation since 1998.
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 11h
🙌🙌🙌
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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 11h
i think i broke it (last message just hanged there)
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jstreetdotorg.bsky.social @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social · 11h
Congress must step up. Say NO to permanent occupation in Gaza and YES to immediate reconstruction. act.jstreet.org/sign/2026082...
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Reject Permanent Occupation.
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jstreetdotorg.bsky.social @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social · 11h
Israeli authorities are expanding control, demolishing homes and pushing 2 million Gazans into ever-smaller enclaves. Permanent occupation only guarantees endless conflict. A new @nytimes.com investigative report detailed how exactly Israeli forces are solidifying their presence.
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Israel Keeps Expanding Into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show
The Israeli military has built new outposts and slowly encroached beyond the withdrawal line in Gaza. These are signs its troops may be preparing to stay for the time being.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 11h
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The Nexus Project Appreciates NYC's First-Ever Municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism, Encourages Its Implementation - Nexus Project
The Nexus Project appreciates and encourages the implementation of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. We are pleased to see the Nexus Document included among the tools that the Ne...
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