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Yossarian J. Duffy

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“What are they going to say? ‘He was a kind man, he was a wise man, he had plans?’”

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 20h
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
To the young mom walking & watching in horror as her husband - who was playfully but aggressively pushing & releasing a red wagon containing their baby, causing it to veer off the sidewalk almost landing in front of my car: I read lips and yes: "Are you a fucking idiot?" was the correct exclamation.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
...or at least remove them from the pink plastic tchotchkes that you sell to increase "breast cancer" awareness while spreading phthalates and vinyl chloride...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin
Elon Musk, douchy and doughy and pale
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 03/10/2026
"Whether it is scoring a hole-in-one in rugby or the Knicks winning the Super Bowl, I, too, find it difficult to keep track of which teams are which." buff.ly/hFrhZKG
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An Open Letter to Senator Eric Schmitt About It Being Totally Okay Not to Know Anything About Sports
“It is hard in America not to be good at understanding sports! People have no idea how excluded people like us feel.”
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium brags about Zach Bryan’s attendance for his second show. Bryan wore a “Free Palestine” shirt both nights of his concert.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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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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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Annette Yancey Allgood @ayallgood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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lihoro.bsky.social @lihoro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Never did, never would, but this is a great explainer on how bad it it . Medicare Advantage: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver youtu.be/Ejoi9yfLVCc?...
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Medicare Advantage: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Klobuchar on Schmitt: "He's not aware that there's also women's sports ... because they wanted to do this to distract everyone, I would say they got their comeuppance"
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Yossarian J. Duffy @fibboi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rejectomancy: The arcane practice of divining substance from the unsubstantial. Dear (Author), We have had a chance to read [Title]. Hoo boy, hard pass. The Editors Subscribe to our newsletter!
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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's Lit Mag Week! We hope that you'll visit participating journals' sites, read the work they publish, show them some love—and maybe take advantage of some of the sweet deals they offer. litmagweek.com
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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This video, man.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This, from Dennett, I wish I'd taken to heart earlier in my life. www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/28/d...
How to compose a successful critical commentary:

1 You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.”
2 You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement).
3 You should mention anything you have learned from your target.
4 Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026
Two thing can be true. The WH kicking out media it doesn’t like is absolutely a First Amendment violation. And There is little journalism of value to be found in the highly controlled, substance-free halls of power—wall-to-wall navel-gazing about one’s access probably being of the least value.
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Newman Taylor Baker aka WashboardXT @washboardxt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tomorrow I’ll be at Green-Wood Cemetery with Frank London’s Loisaida Fife & Drum Corps for an immersive preview of "Lincoln in the Bardo." Looking forward to this one. #WashboardXT #LincolnInTheBardo
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This ruling affirms what we've long known to be true. The holding room conditions at 26 Federal Plaza are completely deplorable.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit theonion.com/xi-jinping-impressed-w…
Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/09/2026
Macklemore announces Free Palestine tour to benefit humanitarian aid organisations
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Macklemore announces Free Palestine tour to benefit humanitarian aid organisations
The US rapper, removed from Ed Sheeran’s US stadium tour after voicing support of Palestine, has convened a charity show that will visit Dublin, Paris and London, with a North American run to be announced Macklemore has announced a “Free Palestine” tour, a series of live shows that will feature the US rapper performing alongside musicians and friends to raise funds for humanitarian causes in Palestine. The news comes after Macklemore (AKA Benjamin Haggerty) was removed from Ed Sheeran’s US stadium tour after he called for a “free Palestine” onstage and said he wanted the people of Gaza and “the occupied West Bank” to know “we have not forgotten about them”. Continue reading...
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Exclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment
A cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base.
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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My super awesome wife Sheerine Alemzadeh is publishing a book on December 15th, a labor of love called "Survivor Genius: A New Vision for Ending Gender-based Violence." I've read it and it is really amazing. Please consider a pre-order, 10% of proceeds would go to @healingtoaction.bsky.social.
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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What is taking shape out there is potentially the biggest blowout election of the 21st century and there might not be more than a handful of truly safe Republicans in the Senate. New for @thenation.com
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The GOP’s Incredible Shrinking Senate Map
Trump has so badly damaged the Republican Party’s brand that strategists are contemplating bitter fights—and losses—in races they’d been banking on as sure things.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is the most Single White Female picture I've ever seen. Trump is gonna show up with an almost racist shade of tanner tomorrow wearing a blue tie
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/09/2026
NEW: On social media and in tabloids, photos from Don Jr. and Bettina Trump’s Bahamas wedding were tightly curated. But sometimes, what — or, who — isn’t pictured is just as important as what is. Let’s go on an investigative, visual tour.
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“Our Dear Friend Umar”: How We Uncovered That a Russian Oligarch Bankrolled Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding
On social media and in tabloids, photos from Don Jr. and Bettina Trump’s Bahamas wedding were tightly curated. But sometimes, what — or, who — isn’t pictured is just as important as what is. Let’s go ...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/09/2026
“Unfortunately, we have reached the point where we either sell off President Kennedy’s skeleton to the highest bidder or lose the renowned cultural institution named after him entirely.” — Matt Floca, executive director
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Bankrupt Kennedy Center Auctions Off JFK’s Skeleton
WASHINGTON—Saying dire financial circumstances had left it with nothing but the most desperate option, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced Monday that it had filed for bankrup...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Holy shit that's a nasty surprise. There are things you expect to cost $500, like a Nintendo Switch, or tix to see Ed Sheeran 2 weeks ago 👀... being able to breathe is not one of them." John Oliver on our broken health care system ☠️ people unnecessarily. #MedicareForAllNOW
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#ELB: ‘Top DOJ official warned that prosecutors would be fired for not pursuing alleged voter fraud’ electionlawblog.org/2026/top-doj-of…
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026
for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com
image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the backgroundblack and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Al Gore invented the internet, and now social media and AI run on the Al Gore Rhythm
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Ossoff: "Then there's the ex-staffer posting swastikas and Klan regalia. And the neo-Nazi with a million followers who produces neo-Nazi propaganda at Collins's house ... a man who won't take responsibility for what happens under his own roof can't be trusted with our national affairs."
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@ratlimit @ratlimit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think this was ultimately the right move.
The passengers (excluding the hijackers) and crew on board Flight 93 were nominated for the Congressional Gold Medal on September 19, 2001.
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Yossarian J. Duffy @fibboi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Got to see @mariabamford.bsky.social tonight at Boston's Wilbur Theater! She was very funny and my wife said she's never laughed so hard at standup, but I was disappointed she refused to perform, "Don't Worry, Be Happy." I hate it when performers refuse to play the songs that made them famous.
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Yossarian J. Duffy @fibboi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This remains one of the best things I've ever read. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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The Falling Man
Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in i...
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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yeah so we’re going to need 52 seats, folks.
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This woman changed my life. I read Revolution from Within as a teenager and there was no going back. I regret that I did not ever get to meet her in person despite being one degree of separation from her for years. There aren’t words enough for her legacy. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Justifies the existence of short form video.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If the arts were properly funded it’d be 76
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i’m just ken @shepardcdr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This level of venom from a CEO of a company on the record should get this dude fucking kicked to the curb in a normal, functional society.
“Stella who? I had to ask Claude because I have never spoken to her or seen her. We have already said we are using AI for certain parts of the game and will update the Steam page once we have finalized the feature set.

“Let me clarify that the entire story script, were it to win an award, would go to someone who can walk up on stage and receive it. It was always our intention to reveal this until Stella violated her confidentiality clause and revealed this before we were ready.

“We look at our use of AI in this particular game, which will be a lower priced title, as a plus for consumers,” he said.

“As far as Stella is concerned, she was replaced by someone more talented and terminated for a variety of reasons a few months later. From what I can gather she enjoys controversy even more than I do. I would frankly in retrospect have been happy to replace her with AI. At least we would be dealing with someone programmed to be honest.”]
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Every time a bird poops on my car, I eat a plate of wings on my front porch to show them what I'm capable of.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A meme using images of Scully from The X-Files getting increasingly more interested at what she's reading on the computer. It is in the style of the Vince McMahon meme. It reads

They are making a Neruomancer TV Show

For Apple+

JD Dillard is co-creating it

William Gibson is thrilled with it
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I love you forever my hero of heroes.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 25/07/2026
Dr Evil is happy to pose for panoramic shots during his supervised forest outings. No wildlife are harmed in the process (other than Dr E getting bullied by a chipmunk) 💚 #caturday
Orange cat sitting on a granite rock in a green pine forest.
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