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Skipped the Nazis, huh.

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I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Goddammit, now I have to figure out a whole new-ass Witcher 3 build I thought I had this problem solved ten years ago

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

With alt text. I yelled

INTRODUCTION

The equities here could not be more one-sided. Defendants admit that they
provide a service without fully knowing how it works.

This is not just any service. It is one that Defendants themselves concede poses an existential risk to the continued
survival of humankind.

Defendants claim they cannot stop barreling forward with their potentially civilization-ending endeavors unless they are forced to do so by the
government. They have asked the government to tie them to the mast.

Plaintiff brings good news to the Defendants: The Florida Attorney General is answering your
cry for help with a motion to enjoin you from harming Floridians with your reckless, unacceptably risky product.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...

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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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6:47 AM • 9/26/26 • 274K Views

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the chump theory paper is in analytic philosophy-speak, so here's a try to sum up the basic points without all the philosophy inside baseball: when there's a fact that people are trying to make controversial, they often point to reason-shaped things that aren't reasons, if you're well informed.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Recession indicator

A box of Hamburger helper. At the top it says to try using hot dogs instead of ground beef

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not sure it’s tenable if, going forward, every president knows that so long as they have firm control over DOJ, enough loyal senators to avoid removal, and are willing to issue blanket pardons on the way out, they can break any law they please while in office.

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Alice Lastname @rbdfwkedkegfkt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This and the math thing in a way are good news. At the end of the day, LLMs and all their harnesses and bells and whistles still can't go beyond the distribution. They are great if you want to get to the mean. If you are out of the distribution, they can't replace you. They won't even know you.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 26/09/2026

Have I played “Control Resonant”? Sorry…I’m too busy reading the story of a man who “Controls Rocinante”…that’s right, Miguel Cervantes’ immortal tale “Don Quixote de La Mancha”. So you enjoy your strange “Federal Bureau”…I’ll be delighting in the adventures of Sancho Panza and his “Friendly Burro”

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What seems to be missing from job interview coffee discourse is that if some of us drank coffee during a job interview, "shitting the interview" would not be metaphor Might as well load that up with whole milk while we're at it

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026

America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's also interesting that we only get these "the candidate is mean to staffers sometimes but we don't have anything actually abusive" stories about women.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/09/2026

Damn, socialism seems pretty fucking cool if you ask me

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Tim Maytom @trivialad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@kierongillen.bsky.social Is this how you were created?

Screenshot of a Tumblr post by the user "roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it". The text of the post is:

I think I just gave a kid his first exposure to puns. I’m a preschool teacher and while the kids were playing in the sand box one pretended to cook some food for me.

3 year old: “Here. It’s food. Uh… sand food”

Me: “like a sandwich?”

And then he got super serious and just stared at the ground for a long time. I thought he didn’t get it but then in the most dead serious three year old voice he went “that’s. really. funny.” and the rest of recess every so often I would hear him whisper “sandwich” to himself in awe.

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a fantastic brief essay in how news media & pundits turn upside down who is who is being punished for speaking freely--in the case of Kraft, Macklemore, & Sheeran--when rich elites want things to go one way, but unruly peasant masses refuse to go along. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions

In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as...

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘This is playing into his hands’/‘this will allow him to play the martyr card’/‘this will help with his fundraising’ are all really bad takes. Criminals should be arrested and charged with crimes.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think it's very simple, the bosses agreed with Trump about "wokeness" and this was an excuse to purge anything associated with it bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dems could do a lot worse than “I propose to move immediately upon your works” as a governing philosophy in January

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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

MUCH RESPECT TO PEOPLE NICER THAN ME

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is in some ways at the heart of our political dysfunction. For a lot of folks, so long as the basic civic infrastructure keeps (kept?) humming along, they don’t feel much personal effect from electoral politics, so it becomes a kind of entertainment & mode of self-expression.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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Dee Lilley🔻 @deelilley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Autumn in Orillia, Franklin Carmichael 1924

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Then yield thee, coward, / And live to be the show and gaze o' th' time. / We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are, / Painted on a pole, and underwrit, 'Here may you see the tyrant.’"

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the thing about the trump administration is it really does show how feudal monarchies lasted for hundreds of years because apparently 40% of humanity has a DNA deep need to be servile weasels brushing the fleas off the ermine robes of their betters in exchange for scraps of bread and a headpat

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As an aside, a legal solution that @surcomplicated.bsky.social is fond of, which I think is very unlikely, but offers a potential rout to this outcome, is post-Trump to declare retroactively that Trump was ineligible under the 14th amendment and so was never legally president a second time.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Decades and decades of a national policy and zeitgeist that amounts to 'nobody needs to care about social studies' and we're now in an unwinnable war with a foreign country whose culture and leadership we did not understand based around geography we ignored. 🤷‍♂️

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's strange how Democratic Socialists - who are being denounced by both parties - turned major deficits into balanced budgets in both New York and Seattle.

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

There will never be a "perfect messenger" for a message that the powerful do not want to acknowledge.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@edburmila.bsky.social on the problem with Jeffries and Schumer. " When you tell voters Trump is the Antichrist to win their vote, you can’t then get into power and say, 'The Antichrist and I are working together to see where we have common ground." newrepublic.com/article/2155...

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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026

It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here

the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.

I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A horse is a horse Of course of course Unless you’ve been forced By a horse of course If so of course you can become The bureau’s Mr. Fed

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