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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

An attempted attack on a Hindu temple came amid a weeks-long right-wing frenzy over "The Indian Question"; police found a manifesto from the alleged shooter "containing statements expressing white supremacist and extremist ideologies."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2026

in addition to everything else this is just a genuinely stupid person

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I'm not saying every "dirtbag leftist" was and is an amoral garbage bag, but I'm not not saying that.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I was, because I didn't (and don't) think the state should hold vast power over the rights of individuals, like, say, the right to deport and denaturalize someone for having takes they don't like. the problem is that the vast majority of "libertarians" also want to deport people for their takes.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

hi I’m your new press secretary and this is my first time reading words out loud www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

theatlantic.com

Hi, I’m Your New Press Secretary, and It’s My First Time Reading Words Out Loud

A very uncomfortable 14 minutes

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12/10/2026

I am normal, I don't hang out with platforms and people that sell child porn. That's who I was ten years ago; that's who I've stayed. That's *the big things*. It is the people who have stayed on Twitter who have changed, and who have not realized it. They embrace the dumpster fire, and can't see it.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Dr Saad having a sad because the Nobel Laureate is a woman who doesn't smile prettily enough for his liking

Gad Saad
@GadSaad
I’ve been watching clips of Anne Carson pop up on my feed. She is the Canadian author who was just awarded the Nobel for literature. In every single clip, she exudes a dark and nasty aura. Am I missing something here?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

bring back ass whoopings

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

new wolfenstein looks like shit

its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

oh and before i forget, congrats to reihan salam for hosting rufo at the manhattan institute. great catch.

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Ms. K @msk1st.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you so much to everyone for your help! The snacks have been cleared from our list🥹

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sometimes I come across a screenshot of a normie using ChatGPT with memory on (viz. this from TikTok via Twitter) and people get crazy cooked even just through bare chatbot interactions. Persistent interaction with long-running agents via texting/voice will be another 4o style mass psychosis event.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The most notable thing of the last so hours and the Schmitt-Hawkeye screw up of epic proportions, is how Trumpites are primed to pump out any narrative handed to them without thought or reflection. It’s Putinesque.

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Ed @ed3d.net · 29/09/2026

observing for no particular reason that you should be treating inference providers as dumb pipes because their only way to ramp up the extraction machine on you is to sell a product that you can't get out of

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Best part is when Schmitt gets angry that she points out he has the team wrong, as though he's the one who was wronged bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can you tell texas republicans are not used to competitive races bsky.app/profile/head...

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Recession indicator

A box of Hamburger helper. At the top it says to try using hot dogs instead of ground beef

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Megan McArdle's WaPo column celebrating the end of the woke left's ability to "cancel" right-wing voices over their social media posts, while making no mention of @karenattiah.bsky.social's legally enforced reinstatement to the WaPo after being fired for her social media posts, is chef's kiss.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

“i woke up every morning and name searched myself on twitter. i am normal by the way”

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wonder what it would be like to write the same column, over and over again, endlessly. Seems like it’d be boring. But maybe it brings one comfort, like having your parents read you the same story every night before you go to bed.

Opinion
Opinion by Megan McArdle
The Great Awokening is over.
This lesbian bar shows why.
A meltdown over masking shows where cancel culture is now.
Today at 07:00 ET

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 18/12/2024

I'm about to rebrand all my cron jobs to AI agents and raise a $100,000,000 seed round.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...

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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh, how cute. A nutcase tried to dox me. Brought my mom and dead dad into it. Classy.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026

REPORTER: Why not ask Russia to stop targeting energy sites first? MARCO RUBIO: Well, how do you know we haven't asked Russia to stop?

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He does not possess the Flame Imperishable. He does not have the power of creation and he knows it, so he seeks to destroy everything out of jealousy.

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Adam Bates @abates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

bro you had one job

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

some chud interviewing for patel’s FBI: “if anything the goat fucked *me*”

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This site is legitimately unhinged and unserious. Trump really isn't perceived as being that bad based on what I'm seeming from this site cause there is still absolutely no urgency to stop his party from staying in power. Maybe we need 20 years like Orban got for people to get serious

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I can't stand this kind of "I'm not saying I want the Republican to win, I'm just saying I want the Democrat to lose" evasive non-sequitur, but it's also a dispositive tell that the person making the argument knows perfectly well that they're advocating an indefensible position

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Aaron Rodgers (actual quote): "The entitlement to information about my private life is so fucking ridiculous and embarrassing" Also Aaron Rodgers (6th podcast of the week): let me tell you guys about my bitch ex

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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

BELOW: Donald Trump honors the victims of 9/11 by flying his eyelids at half-staff.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Trump is rolling out plans to kill off work opportunities for foreign-born recent graduates of American colleges and universities and tilt the H-1B pipeline even more to outsourcing shops. www.slowboring.com/p/trumps-ter...

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models⁠." - OpenAI researchers on complaints from an Anthropic researcher that his use of Codex helped OpenAI solve the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem ~~ Not a good look...

openai.com

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.

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it’s me, aubrey plaza accord @sellingtheta.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

talked to a John’s Hopkins prof of material science. said he can’t assign problem sets anymore because of AI. so now they do group studies on material and then have presentation pop quizzes

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Routine reminder that Bhattacharya is an economics researcher who has never practiced medicine and whose best known publication is overtly fraudulent. He has never done infectious disease research and has never treated a single virus or infection in his entire career. He’s likely never seen measles.

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it’s me, aubrey plaza accord @sellingtheta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026