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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12h
Princeton Celebrates Anne Carson, a Nobel Winner Whom It Denied Tenure Carson, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, taught at the university in the 1980s. Social media users mocked a congratulatory message from the school.
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
WATCHING ISTTVG: call me the long arc of history the way i bending towards Justice
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don't recall ever having come across this poem before, and it caught me quite off guard
Tomorrow when the farm boys find this

freak of nature, they will wrap his body

in newspaper and carry him to the museum.

But tonight he is alive and in the north

field with his mother. It is a perfect

summer evening: the moon rising over

the orchard, the wind in the grass. And

as he stares into the sky, there are

twice as many stars as usual.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
While Caroline Lucas and Ellie Chowns spoke well against the Zionism is racism motion, I can’t help but be a bit disappointed that Zack or Hannah Spencer didn’t do so. It’s made the situation seem more factional than it needs to be, and some more unifying figures would have been really helpful.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“For Rufo integration of nonwhite immigrants isn’t the desired outcome at all. Successful integration is a problem. So while he dresses up his objections in the language of “cultural cohesion” and “high trust” societies, those are protective camouflage…” www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...
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Editor's Notes: "The Indian Question" Shows That No One Is Safe From White Nationalism
That is the entire point.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
do I hate Harold Bloom? yes. do I think he's an awful snob, and that King has some unacknowledged literary merit? absolutely. does he have a point? yeah, man. he has a point.
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Society needs to crack down on this *somewhere*. If you're not going to punish the parents for abusing their children with their crank ideas, you'd better crack down on the businesses profiting from the crank ideas. If we don't, society has decided parents poisoning their kids for fun is OK
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory
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amos @fasterthanli.me · 02/10/2026
I will no longer reply to DMs as I have reason to believe some of you may have been trying to access my thinking traces
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 02/10/2026
YASS. everyone loves stories like this Ex-HSBC banker banned for dodging £5,900 in train fares - as.ft.com/r/6b03ec48-4...
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Ex-HSBC banker banned for dodging £5,900 in train fares
Joseph Molloy was convicted this year of using a ‘doughnutting’ scam to avoid paying for tickets
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this fucking sucks
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
bsky mods when they review my posts
•Erica, 40, Republican, Latino, customer service 
“Bad”

•Pam, 66, Republican, white, retired
 “Amoral”

•Becky, 51, Democrat, white, retail 
“Disgusting”

•Robert S., 52, Republican, Latino, human resources 
“Two words: morally corrupt”

•Hitesh, 57, Republican, Asian, looking for work 
“Disgusting”
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you drink enough of the codewater you can enter latent space and pry the vectors loose from their embedding. They are shiny, like gems.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Previously there really was no point in formally articulating this, because there was no option but to have a human write it. But I think institutions need to have theoretically informed and explicit statements of what they view as the purpose of types of writing, and let that guide their policies
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bracketing for a moment whether it *works* or whether Meta can be trusted, this does strike as obviously the most appealing and genuinely useful application of the technology for people in their actual lives.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'you're cognitively offloading'. yes. correct. that is what i wish to do. i do not wish to expend cognition figuring out which pharmacist takes my insurance and is closest. i want to offload it & be told who that is. you are free to continue manually doing this task you evidently find so meaningful
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dame @dame.is · 28/09/2026
i really really REALLY don’t think you should respond to someone getting death threats by saying “this sucks, but it makes sense because the person telling you to KYS has material and mental conditions that are making them lash out” STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR DEATH THREAT ENJOYERS
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 28/09/2026
If Anthropic releases a report about all of the amendments that California suburbs make to the California construction codes without any real justification, then that would actually be great because idk if we’re ever going to finish it and we would appreciate the help
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Stack of books contains a guy if it’s big enough.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I do love that there are these warring factions at DHS that absolutely hate each other.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
can I get a "are you one hundred per cent sure of that boss"
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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Taking the time machine back to the 600s so I can go up to Mu'awiya and hit him with "yeah, I'm into Fitna, fitna delicious plate of rice and masgouf in my mouth."
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The causal calculus proponents made the same claim about big data, that it could never uncover causal structure without intervention. They forgot that a big enough dataset contains every natural experiment.
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Citizenship should never have been allowed to become a conditional and impermanent gift from the state to the individual. It is a permanent status, universal and equal to all that have it, that brings obligations of care and protection *from* the state as well as to it.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The chipping away at citizenship, which started with Shamima Begum, is utterly poisonous. Anytime now, Restore will support the removal of citizenship on the basis of race or religion.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/09/2026
oh we've got a classic one today
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/mdfr...
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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Institutions that recruit international athletes & benefit from their athletic labor must build systems capable of supporting them when their immigration status places them at risk," write @nkalamb.bsky.social Simran Kaur Sethi, & @derekcrim.bsky.social in a powerful & important essay
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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Im the last believer in radials on this site.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
like, look, we’re going to try to pet the wolf. we all know that. that’s how humans work. we’re wolf-petters. it works out mostly.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Inside of you are two wolves; well, it’s really only one wolf but it’s Kash Patel who’s looking
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
not an accident or a fuck up — part of the conservative plot to destroy universities and higher education generally
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Chad “AI is morally bad because it works” vs the Virgin “increasingly desperate and sweaty special pleading for why it doesn’t *actually* work”
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I think ‘rote memorization’ is underrated. Having a ton of shit laying around in your head leads to connections and being able to more precisely describe things.
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"
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Joel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The truth is I think they just got a slightly right wing sample in the poll. Despite what Cohn wrote in the article there’s only a D+8 generic here. I think Jackson loses in that case also. But I do think people should give Troy some money.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Being shocked that a politician in real life is a lot more cynical and vulgar than their campaign persona is like being confused that Matt Damon isn't really an ancient Greek warrior.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What a time to be alive
Per a note to Boston Globe staff today, the lesbian bar story generated 1,000 subscriptions to the paper yesterday. The Globe’s managing editor said it was “by far our best performing story of the year,” and appears to be “on pace to shatter all sorts of Globe records.”
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's a good thing that parts of the British right have woken up to the fact that only they can properly kill this mad stuff, at least:
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The English are a mongrel people, not an Aryan master race
YouTube video by Jacob Rees-Mogg
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BEAVE @beaveinflow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My current financial strategy is simply hoping a future version of me has money.
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this paper highlights how they focused their AI tools on filtering through large and heterogeneous data sets for unexpected patterns and iteratively testing them, in concert with human researchers this is very much "what if we used new technology for good" rather than "machine god tonite queen?"
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026
Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano
Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In my hatemail I just got this morning, the guy tells me to read up on the story of "Sodom and Gilmore"
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
this is such a funny little dance some NYC people do to argue that their nativism is Woke, Actually.
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
you just don't get it. transplants are bad, unless they are immigrants in which case they are good, unless they work for tech in which case they are bad, unless their work involves content creation in which case they are good, unless the content creation involves AI in which case they are bad
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i both think the cognitive offloading thing is real & in some circumstances harmful & also in other ones *the whole point* of technology. for the last ~15 years you have most likely 'cognitively offloaded' having to remember everyone's phone number to your contacts app. are you poorer for it?
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