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tef @tef.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps! PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/09/2026

Also everything about this is framed in terms of what might happen, as if everything so far hasn’t been a result of the recklessness and unlimited resources of the frontier labs. We are nowhere near recursive self improvement! What’re they all on about?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/09/2026

None of the stuff about “AI slowdown” actually explains what that means or what’s being slowed down. Anthropic’s blog about it says they’ll still train new models. I guess if it’s a “slowdown” maybe that’s how hyperscalers could reconcile with letting them out of compute deals?

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

would love to hear even a single actual argument about how AI "changes the nature of humanity" not based in fanciful speculation

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Glyph @glyf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

truly, spoken like a man who doesn't know what trains or bicycles are

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If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Episode 53: The Body Keeps The Score In 2014, a Dutch researcher revolutionized our understanding of trauma with insights like "don't talk about it" and "get a massage."

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Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · June 18 · 1h 50m

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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This is epic games ceo tim sweeney objecting to steam making people tag their games if they used ai to make them. It’s weird how much work people do to treat people having preferences as fucked up or harmful

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Some of us just don't like getting colds

obert W Malone, MD
@RWMaloneMD
Did some airplane travel this week- the number of people back to wearing masks over hantavirus and Ebola is truly shocking.
I feel sad for the people who live their lives in fear over over-hyped, extremely rare diseases.
People, so fearful that they can't go out in public or travel without masks...
I pity them, I worry for their mental health, I even worry for our country that has so many guillible people - but these poor fools are not my enemy.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

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Glyph @glyf.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Since I guess Bluesky doesn’t have polls, this one didn’t make it through the bridge, but if you have a fediverse account you can vote over there: mastodon.social/@glyph/11654...

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Glyph (@glyph@mastodon.social)

Is agentic coding the future of software development? [ ] yes [ ] no

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Bumping this in case you know anyone who can speak to the science in "The Body Keeps The Score" or works with patients who've experienced trauma. Thanks!

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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Also I guarantee it still says "great question" and "you're absolutely right" all the time because this is simply too many instructions for the chatbot to reliably implement simultaneously.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

And even the "good parts" are mostly nonsense. FMRIs, norepinephrine addiction and the triune brain model have been debunked for years! The only redeeming feature of the book is the title.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Part of the core thesis of the book is that you should not talk about your trauma! You should suppress your feelings and pursue things like dance and equine therapy to get at the "root cause" of your symptoms. It's 1950s garbage repackaged as New Age forbidden wisdom.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

As well as its myriad factual errors, the book claims: - We're wasting taxpayer dollars on abused children - Trauma is the cause of autoimmune disorders - Most fat people were sexually abused as children. It's stunningly, shockingly bad! People should not be reading or recommending it.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Both *can* be true but they aren't in this case! The text of "The Body Keeps The Score" is fundamentally unscientific and reactionary. If you've taken something good from it I'm happy for you, but that's despite the message of the book, not because of it.

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Seth Larson @sethmlarson.dev · 27/04/2026

pip 26.1 is an incredible release, thank you to the pip maintainers!! 💜 – Relative dependency cooldown support! – Installing from pylock.toml – Multiple security fixes Read the full blog post by Richard Si: ichard26.github.io/blog/2026/04... #python #pypi #pip #security #oss #opensource

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What's new in pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns!

pip 26.1 adds support for dependency cooldowns, experimental support for reading/installing from standard lockfiles (pylock.toml), fixes several long-standing limitations of the 2020 resolver, and dro...

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crimes new roman @crimesnewroman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Telling people to subscribe/check out your links when you make a video is important. People might get annoyed, but it's important. The amount of hits on my patreon i get when i do vs don't explicitly say so in my videos (cause i forget) is night and day. Shill for yourself people, it's important.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.

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Jonathon M. Floyd @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I remain convinced that one of the most important things the next Democratic president can do to avoid falling victim to a Biden-style vibecession is to mercilessly, relentlessly crack down on crypto and organized gambling. Just go full scorched-earth.

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 06/04/2026

for the American left to be “illiberal” it would need to have any institutional power at all and since there’s no non-laughable case to be made that it does I think we don’t need to worry about it very much

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I do think that those lawyers and law professors who tried to fabricate a historical or legal case against birthright citizenship should be socially and professionally ostracized for their shocking cynicism and intellectual dishonesty as well as for their bald hostility to pluralist American values.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 21/02/2026

I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE. Donations are down, but ICE is very much still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater We keep us housed 💛 Please share and help if you can! Thank you!

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

so where does the next generation of talent come from? who are the young journalists, and how are they paid? every career incentive, both economic and prestige-wise, now points to the olivia nuzzi route

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Andrea Joy Campbell @ajcampbellma.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The public values authenticity in public figures above almost everything else. The fact that Newsom was a standard center-left politician and is now shifting to the right will alienate him from both his old constituency and his new one. Have Democrats really not learned their lesson on this?

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

“I vocally supported immigration for years but then turned on immigrants to win votes” does not endear you to pro-immigrant voters or anti-immigrant voters. It’s the same with every other issue. This is *the* reason people hate politicians, they’re wormy and fake.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

For the record, Oren Cass is simply not an economist. He does not have the training. He has never practiced. “Chief Economist” is a deliberately deceptive title.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

so much clothing is marketed as "conversation starters" but as an introvert, i want "conversation enders." no more talking. let me go home.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

*sigh* here we go again. Your phone is not listening to everything around you 24/7 for advertising purposes. *If* you have voice activation on for the assistant, the mic is listening for the activation phrase: the processing power for listening for a single specific phrase is much lower.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

SUPERB discussion between @volts.wtf & @michaelhobbes.bsky.social on reactionary centrism—the “woke left” gets criticized for “suppressing debate” yet the damage done by the extreme right is ignored Their discussions of anti-vaxxer RFK Jr & of the lab leak conspiracy theory is really excellent

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

90% of conservative political analysis is just "this group I don't like does this thing I don't understand due to motivations I made up."

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

We literally have an organization called “Neighbors for More Neighbors.” Everywhere I go I see some neighbors and I’m always happy to see them. Some are young, some are old, some are black, some are white, who cares. It’s called community and the degenerate fascist freaks can never understand

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

“What if your neighbor is Muslim” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor is Somali” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor speaks Spanish” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor is Hmong” They’re my neighbors

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I love when people who are professionally wrong for a living describe it as being really into "nuance"

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Lily Alexandre 🛰️ @lily-is.online · 24/01/2026

during the George Floyd protests, the NYT commissioned an opinion piece titled "Send The Troops In", because they wanted to "hear from all sides of the debate". they still haven't published a single article in favour of abolishing ICE

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Queer. VIciously, with intent to wound. @leilashafiqmog.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The quickest and easiest inoculation against getting scammed is..accepting that you could definitely fall for it and need to be vigilant. You may still get scammed, but at least you won't be shamefaced about it!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Scam alert: Someone is pretending to be me and reaching out to authors. The pitch contains enough specific details that it sounds plausible at first. This is not me! I'm so sorry to anyone who has fallen for this.

I'm Michael Hobbes, yes, that Michael Hobbes from If Books Could Kill. I help run our little corner of chaos where 69,000 readers, writers, and mildly obsessive book nerds gather to talk about the stories that shape (and sometimes ruin) our brains.
I picked up
your book
reminding us that
and honestly.. I didn't stand a chance. The humanity, the humility, the sheer scope of what you do, it's staggering. You somehow make your topic feel both epic and intimate,
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We don't reach out to every author, mostly because l'm lazy, but your writing grabbed me by the collar. We'd love to feature you in our next author section, where our readers and listeners connect directly with the storytellers and thinkers who make us rethink what "impact" really means.
Would you be interested if we chose
your book
for our next section?
Thanks for making my week with your work. I promise this isn't one of those "team emails", it's really just me, geeking out in your inbox.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Utopia is only ever found in the becoming, never in the destination.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

The entire debate about whether Democrats should moderate or focus on economic vs identity issues is moot if the media is just going to report that they're doing SJW Shit irregardless

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 14/11/2025

we have a president who only does good things when everyone calls him a pedophile. our mission for the next 3 years is clear.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

the AI-generated chapter titles for our episodes are making me believe in the power of AI

AI generated chapter of IBCK’s “Of Boys and Men” episode titled “The percentage of boys back in town”

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

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Christopher Neugebauer @chrisjrn.fyi · 20/10/2025

Put another way: the useful properties of decentralisation make AWS possible. Want AWS outages to affect less of the internet next time? The tool you're looking for is _regulation_.

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