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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 19h
No, bombing Yandex has not impacted automated Russian trolling operations in the U.S.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Damn. What an icon. RIP
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Who Is Behind the AI/Existential Risk Scare? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/who-i...
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Who Is Behind the AI/Existential Risk Scare?
For years, and especially in the last month or so, we’ve been...
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Absent major institutional reforms that turn us into a multiparty democracy, totally transform SCOTUS, & significantly rein in the imperial presidency, this is the <best case> scenario of what is going to happen. Other, more permanent authoritarian scenarios are also possible.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A picture of Brian's face with the text 

"Repost if youre really fucking stupid"
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 03/10/2026
Mods are out partying, we’re going to need a new set of AI safety experts that know how to negotiate stuff like arms control agreements and cyber warfare deescalation instead of experts on thought experiments about shrimp and basilisks.
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026
When I worked at the White House, we constantly had to correct the speeches and memos that started with "The cost of college is rapidly rising." It's one of those zombie ideas that is hard to kill. College can be expensive, and moreso than it was for our parents, but let's get the facts right.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026
third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this is why i’m not interested in “Bibi told Trump to do this war so it’s Bibi’s fault.” Bibi had told every president since Clinton to bomb Iran. It’s the President’s job to know when a foreign leader is being a bloodthirsty idiot and NOT LISTEN TO THAT GUY. This war is because of Trump.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 23/09/2026
The short-sightedness of "guaranteeing film-industry jobs" is clear: the merger will produce job losses here in L.A. anyway. People caught up in layoffs won't be fooled by fig-leaf campaign claims that state Dems' deal 'protected Hollywood.'
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Humoring conservatives & acting like they make good points over the last 30 years brought us here. You never have to listen to them for the rest of our lives. It's time to treat career arsonists with the contempt they've earned instead of imagining a fake world where they're reasonable interlocutors
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This point, from my recent interview with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for TNR, is so crucial. Trans people are desperate for relief from the relentless Republican attacks impacting all of us. When Democrats move right, they signal relief may not be coming, and that engenders a lot of despair.
And so for Democrats to say, They have a point on some of this, it is engendering a lot of hopelessness and a lot of fear in the trans community, because we have been just trying to hold on, hoping that this time would end and we would be able to get back to where we were five years, six years ago. And what Democrats are signaling is, like, No, we’re going to keep things as they are, and maybe even make them worse.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Can confirm, I am exhausted and burnt out and just sick of it all.
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Pink's actions in all this have been a tremendous disappointment. I guess the only enlightened one in the group was Roger Waters.
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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
DEGROWTH DON DOES IT AGAIN
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
one of the things that became clear during the DOGE saga is that a lot of anger about "corruption" is aimed at actual gov't employees who, it turns out, have to bring their own coffee machines into the office so that taxpayers aren't funding it, meanwhile consultants get this treatment
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Jesus Christ they killed this kid
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
'Chaos potatoes' born at zoo weigh less than a pound but are related to elephants www.wbaltv.com/article/chao...
A family of rock hyraxes, which look a bit like prairie dogs
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the greatest president on climate change in history and all y’all do is complain
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Erin Returns From The Grave 🦇🖤🦇 @woodaba.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
hey remember when i played all of the mass effects in rapid succession over the past couple months? well, here is what i have to show for that: a post attempting to articulate the virtues and vices of the most over-signified ending of a video game, possibly ever.
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The Last Mass Effect 3 Ending Post
No esteemed deed is commemorated here.
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
mathandai.org
Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you create child porn you should be prosecuted. If you create child porn with AI you should be prosecuted. If you faciliate the distribution of child porn you should be prosecuted. If you're a trillionaire and you create or facilitate the distribution of child porn you should be prosecuted.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you made software not intended to kill everyone and now you think it might kill everyone that sounds like a product liability issue. You should go fix it and stop bothering me
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 10/09/2026
I'm having some fun in this thread but I do think you should get in trouble for unleashing insane hacker robots on the open Internet that you've explicitly instructed to attack critical public infrastructure, which, to be clear, it eventually succeeds at.
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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Putting the :/ in https://
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm a white-knuckle hater of the "both parties are the same/uniparty" blackpill, which really crumbles if you compare GOP state trifectas and Dem trifectas for 10 seconds.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Cannot believe there’s a tremendous mathematical result and instead of being exciting it’s annoying
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...
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Facts on the ground
Two things matter now: votes, and solar panels. (And wind turbines. And batteries)
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
i am rooting for an AI bubble not because it would eliminate LLM-AI but because it might eliminate Sam Altman
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We should make housing affordable NO NOT LIKE THIS
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026
the speed at which everyone forgets is utterly shocking to me - it's basically just a single election cycle no matter how bad the damage is george w bush ran the country into a ditch, covered it in petrol and set it on fire and two years later republicans gained 63 seats in the midterms
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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It just sucks that American conservativism is so well defined by lack of empathy that the onlh way to get these mfers to understand anything is for them to experience their own policies. Its terribly depressing.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The pressure, the shouts, the chorus of WTFs, all of it is working. And no surprise that Clyburn is taking the lead.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026
it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The pitch of the Democratic leadership, Democratic-adjacent pundits like Chait, and Democratic consultant firms touting 'popularism' is that Trump is an existential threat so every Dem must sacrifice to win general elections at all costs. But on this issue, they'd rather lose than sacrifice.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/08/2026
Proof we got RFK lying on the record during his confirmation hearing (a crime). RFK should be referred to the DOJ for criminal investigation, and when Democrats retake the Senate, he will be at the top of the list of Trump officials I will hold accountable for endangering American families.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Unilateral nuclear authority
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 27/08/2026
elected democrats working themselves up into a dancing plague about a twitch streamer in possibly the most winnable environment for an opposition party in the history of the planet. beautiful stuff
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