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Shane Parish @shaneparish.bsky.social · 8h

Playing through the Sunn O))) rig with acoustic guitar. 😮🤯 Huge thanks to the band and their incredible crew for being so generous and welcoming! Make sure to catch one of these shows if you can, a transcendent experience like no other. 🙏♥️ 📸: Stephen O’Malley

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4h

yep. Hegseth is a dozen times worse at his job both morally and in terms of competent execution of administration strategy

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/10/2026

believing in libertarianism all the way to adulthood is on par with the baseball players who say they don't believe babe ruth was real. I simply don't accept that as a real position someone can stake out other than for shock value

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.

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gauaren.bsky.social @gauaren.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

For the ATLUS/Persona heads, I made a video breaking down everything we know about Persona 6 with high confidence. I looked at the achievements translations in the 14 available languages to see what I could learn, and it was quite a bit! youtu.be/ZZdkwe9ML4c

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Everything We Know About Persona 6 (With High Certainty)

YouTube video by gauaren

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

the thing is there’s lots of lawyers who mean well - and vladek is one imo - but still have this idea that the judiciary can somehow be a Special Thing That’s Not Political And My Good Friend Yale Professor BasedSturmerBoi69 Makes A Fair Argument - and no, sorry, that’s fake

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

That's right. The Judiciary Wars are long since underway: the only way to end them is to win them

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 15/10/2026

It’s Ballroom Bribes Thursday. Amongst others, $25m each from Apple and Nvidia. $10M each from Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, and Rocket Mortgage. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Secret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroom

The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Can't believe Jean Twenge, the woman who has dedicated her career to manipulating data about teen mental health, would manipulate data about teen sexuality.

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

No, bombing Yandex has not impacted automated Russian trolling operations in the U.S.

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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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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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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.

nytimes.com

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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gauaren.bsky.social @gauaren.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's basically division by zero. They just come up with two numbers off think air and multiply them and justify their galaxy brained ideas, but because it's formally a (garbage-in garbage-out) Bayesian computation they think it's impeachable logic. Suffice to say it's not serious Bayesian practice

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gauaren.bsky.social @gauaren.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Long time fan. I want to clarify bc this is something I do for a living that the math is actually not complicated, and their arguments exhibit a common failure mode of probabilistic risk assessment: if you're multiplying a very big cost times a very small probability, is the number big or small?

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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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gauaren.bsky.social @gauaren.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It'd be great to see them crash and burn but sama is one tenacious guy

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gauaren.bsky.social @gauaren.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I gotta confess absolute ignorance about finance here, but is this announcement a good thing or bad thing for OAI? Cannot tell what the gif means lol

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gauaren.bsky.social @gauaren.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I don't think this is entirely true about 3. Nyx has a very Evangelion-like lore (down to the moon-egg theme)

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gauaren.bsky.social @gauaren.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The issue is not so much interp vs extrap but in vs out of distribution. The problem tho is that LLMs are not just trained on data, which makes even this view somewhat confusing

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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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gauaren.bsky.social @gauaren.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Their attitudes are so obnoxious. So they're either too blinkered to see what's happening and so have to be stopped, or too full of shit to do anything about it and so they have to be stopped. They love having it both ways and as a society I think we need to stop letting them get away with it

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gauaren.bsky.social @gauaren.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The thing is that it's self-reinforcing. The labs (mostly OAI, really) engages in irresponsible behavior partly because they think it gives them good copy. One more reason why they should be fully stopped

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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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