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"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 2h
This strikes me as really fuckin bad
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The Onion @theonion.com · 7h
Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h
"Yeah, sorry your kid died or whatever. What do you think about my chandeliers?"
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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 4h
In 2010, Ellison again tried to bankroll a movie for himself to star in. He wrote a script for "Northern Lights," and almost signed Taylor Lautner to co-star (for $7.5 million!) but then Lautner backed out when he found out Ellison was trying to co-star hahahah
Screenshot of 2010 Deadline article by Nikki Finke reading "So I’ve got to ask: If Taylor Lautner was supposed to be paid $7.5 million to co-star in David Ellison’s Northern Lights, then what’s Liam Hemsworth worth now to play the same role? Say, half? A quarter? The project by the son of Oracle’s Larry Ellison has seen several young actors pass ever since Taylor dropped out. “It’s scaring some actors off because David has written himself a big role in the movie which he’s also financing,” an insider tells me. [Ellison’s people say he is not financing the pic, just producing it.] “What, you’re going to work for your co-star who doesn’t have a big body of work? I’ve never seen anything like this before.” You may recall that Lautner was being paid per ab, making the then 17-year-old the highest paid Hollywood teen. Northern Lights was supposed to have a start date of April 1st. The pic is about extreme flying and follows four young pilots as they compete against the world’s best. It’s being made by David Ellison’s new company Skydance Productions, and Paramount has a first look at his development."
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2h
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 9h
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3h
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1h
Trump said the June 2025 B-2 strikes “ended” the war with Iran, despite launching the current war on February 28, 2026.
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Trump Says Iran War Ended Eight Months Before It Began
In a rambling Baltimore speech, Trump claimed the B-2 strikes of June 2025 effectively “ended” a war he didn’t launch until February 2026. Seven months later, the fighting continues, U.S. weapons stoc...
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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 9h
I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.
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Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 1h
popping in quickly to post the new toon: tinyview.com/this-modern-...
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A modest proposal
TMW cartoon for Oct. 6, 2026.
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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 6h
Never forget that David Ellison's Skydance Media was originally created so he could be an actor. Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys. It grossed $17m Here's a bit of David's acting:
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 1h
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 1h
they were *lying* when they were "worried" about Asian-American college applicants, and they are *lying* now when they're "worried" about "strivers." They do not want non-white people being in any way superior (or evident) to white people. that's it. that's the whole thing.
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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Alpha treats software-measurable signs of attention and compliance as evidence of learning, then gives those measures authority over a child’s time and opportunities. ... facial movements cannot be reliably translated into specific feelings without context." Perverse incentives encoded...
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 05/10/2026
Public officials accepting tips should be illegal. Here's why.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
Trump isn't beating the "can't walk in a straight line" allegations
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: on the set of the Jerry Springer show, a man sits in a chair. Jerry signals off-stage and says, “we have with us: your ancestor who crawled out of the ocean 375 million years ago!” Panel 2: the live studio audience is booing. Panel 3: security attempts to break up a fight between the man on stage, and his ancestor, a tiktaalik.
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Annie Altman @anniealtman108.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB youtu.be/akjrfwYPvy8?...
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First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB
YouTube video by Annie Altman
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CBS Philadelphia @cbsphiladelphia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dennis Hastert — the former House speaker who was later sentenced to prison time over hush money payments made to cover up sexual abuse of teen boys — has died at age 84.
cbsnews.com
Dennis Hastert, disgraced former House speaker, dies at 84
Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"But the handicapped need cars!" No, what they need are options in mobility. The tech exists to enable their freedom of independent mobility, but almost always what is lacking is the enabling infrastructure. Bike lanes and quality sidewalks serve everyone.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’d missed this: Annie Altman, Sam Altman’s sister who alleges in civil lawsuits that he ​sexually abused her repeatedly — starting when she was 3 years old — uploaded the first hour of her deposition to Instagram (and YouTube) this weekend. It has about 38k likes. www.instagram.com/reels/DeAx3h...
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Annie Altman (she/her/human) on Instagram: "First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB Wearing my Dad’s fleece ❤️ Grateful to share this and also upset to once again hav...
39K likes, 916 comments - anniealtman108 on October 2, 2026: "First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB Wearing my Dad’s fleece ❤️ Grateful to share this and also upset...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
what an asshole
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Daily Wah (red pandas) @dailywah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Daily red panda carving a pumpkin!
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For all the talk of Ai replacing creatives, the reason this "Tiffany Sloan" is stealing other comedians' jokes is because Ai can't write jokes. LLMs are built on anticipating what word or piece of information you're looking for and comedy is built on surprise. Also, Christ what a weird fetish...
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
chat is this good
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A customer just tried to use an employee discount code that ChatGPT gave her. I work at a high-end clothing store and clocked in to my manager telling me about the most unhinged interaction from yesterday. A woman walked in asking if she could use a 40% off code she got online. We don't have any sales running, so my manager looks at the screen and realizes ChatGPT straight up handed this woman a real employee's internal ID number.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
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A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/10/2026
Especially since he claims in the story he was only vaguely aware of the things people were saying about Haitians in Springfield online. If he was spreading that slander himself, that seems real relevant
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i’m not accusing the atlantic reporter of malice, but i do think these posts bring up questions that are pretty foundational to the framing of the story and ones that deserve answers.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
sure, i guess it’s possible that jack buhring voted for biden on november 3, 2020 and by january 11, 2021 he was posting support for trump’s insurrection contesting the results of the election. but even if that were true, it belies some pretty complicated politics not articulated in the story.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Abstract interests like having accepted a job and moved your family to a red state.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Can’t believe the price of power converters these days. Voting for Palpatine
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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes
A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
weight-bearing “allegedly”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yeah, famously, eggheads and poindexters and nerds have never asked “is this true.”
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Mourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just when we think it can’t get worse … it does.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This and the commitments are my two favorite band movies
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar
At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.
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Jo @whatsjo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
her: did you know makeup expires? me: *spits mine out* WHAT
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James Gunn @jamesgunn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s been a long journey since #Lanterns started as an idea from Tom King in the DC writers’ room all those years ago. So happy to see how so many have embraced it, and can’t wait for you to see the Season Finale tonight. 9pm ET on @hbomax.bsky.social.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is batshit. This is vastly worse than any Biden decline. Trump has come unglued. He's a danger to the republic.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026
Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I am not an influencer, I am an upsetter.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
These people cannot be trusted to vote in their best interests. Ever. They have failed at the most simple task and have driven this country to ruin. They are too stupid to be allowed to have a say in the future of the country. Convince a non-voter to vote. There are LOTS of those.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Establish that violations of the Emoluments Clauses and the Establishment Clause are impeachable. Establish that war crimes are impeachable. None of these require the mens rea questions that so sidetracked the first two Trump impeachments. The facts are the facts.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
such that the impeachment votes could be held seriatim on day one of a new Congress. There could be fifty different charges against Trump. Let the Senate try ' em all. Establish that violations of the War Powers Act, the Budget and Impoundment Act, or the Antideficiency Act are impeachable.
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