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Andy Barnett

@hof1991.bsky.social
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I recommend books. Retired librarian, author and 3rd generation Packer owner. Make the New Deal great again. Third Reconstruction is the charm. #indivisible

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Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social · 2h
Occasional photo from a recent trip. Defiance until death. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lit...
A statue of a child with a helmet and weapon, ready to fight fascists.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 8h
Is social media, which is run by a handful of morally insane fascists, the problem with American democracy? Is the media, which is dominated by white nationalist maniacs Rupert Murdoch and David Ellison, the problem with American democracy? Is AI, which is
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Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Green Bay Packers might have actually assembled the worst running back room in NFL history? Which is actually kinda impressive?
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Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I needed a break from non-fiction. It was too much like doomscrolling. Here’s where I went. app.thestorygraph.com/books/a4f977...
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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating,...
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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 16/04/2025
Finally saw "Just A Bit Outside", the '82 Brewers documentary, and (setting aside a LOT of Bud Selig) it's a delight. Confirms all your suspicions that that team was an All Time Boys team, and the ending is really really sweet.
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Just A Bit Outside: The Story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers | Theatrical Release Trailer
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Dropkick Murphys—organized labor’s favorite band—just brought out IUPAT President Jimmy Williams at Power to the People Fest. Big cheer for unions!
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Mel 🔜 GATEway FATE 504 @melshardae.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
happy October baseball
Star wars hux meme from movie 9. I don't care which team wins, I need the dodgers to lose
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IndySnix @indysnix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Lea Leander @lealeander.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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3 Billionaires Have Largely Funded Republican Nominee for Wisconsin Governor (Gift Article)
Under its current rules, Wisconsin has not had a race in which a small number of donors have made up such a large share of a campaign’s funding.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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HARPETH RISING | I AM EVE (I AM THE REASON)
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Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@rebeccaforwi.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/rbre...
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...
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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals
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Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Subverting democracy isn't new to John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, or Amy Coney Barrett. All three were on George W. Bush's "Florida Recount Team," which lay the groundwork for stopping vote counting in Florida—and Bush v. Gore, the politically-motivated SCOTUS decision that gave Bush the election.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pouring out a cold beer tonight for all the generals and admirals who were once again forced to sit through another lecture on manliness from No Tab Pete.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot by ICE 10 days ago. The bullet is still lodged in his back. He’s been forced to sleep on the floor and hasn’t been given medication, according to his attorney. Now DHS is claiming he assaulted an agent. Can we trust anything DHS says given its track record?
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Acme Packing Company @acmepackingco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's actually happening
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Packers sign Wisconsin native Kevin Zeitler in latest OL move
The former Badger and Wisconsin native is coming out of retirement and returning home.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Americans will support expanding the courts.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 29/09/2026
Truly incredible story and video here from @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social and @fiona-murphy.bsky.social: Barred from the U.S., a pastor leads his Wisconsin church from Guatemala —> religionnews.com/2026/09/29/h...
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Barred from the U.S., a pastor leads his Wisconsin church from Guatemala
(RNS) — RNS found at least 25 immigrant pastors were detained, deported or otherwise separated from their churches. While the Rev. Esdras Paredes ministers via video, his congregation sells tamales to...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“You don’t have to stretch to paint this picture: OpenAI models are attacking websites and taking anything they can out of them because that is the business model of the company.”
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Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American Prospect
OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Exclusive: Earlier this month, the Supreme Court blocked an executive order restricting voting by mail in ways that could have thrown the upcoming midterms into chaos. But the White House originally had far more disruptive plans, @propublica.org has learned. 🧵
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And as their voters cry out for help affording basic necessities, Tom Tiffany, Derrick Van Orden, Bryan Steil and the other Republicans running Congress are doing nothing about it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
RAJU: Only 33% of Americans approve of how Trump is handling his job. Is he a drag in your district? VAN ORDEN: I am fully supportive of President Trump. And if that's not popular, that's just the way it is
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Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Just one more chance!
A cartoon by Pedro Molina.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There are 6 SCOTUS judges who need to be impeached for giving the Federal Government power over state elections! They need to read the Constitution!
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That's a headline for you cmarmitage.substack.com/p/big-balls-...
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Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States
Fired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government's model employee.
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.” ~Frederick Douglass, 1857. Image: Public domain.
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m genuinely shocked at the people on here who think long covid isn’t real. Seriously? Your actuaries, departments of health even the freaking department of defense know it’s real. Apparently people used to think MS wasn’t real. There’s a long history of telling sick people they’re crazy.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sheri Mecklenburg says she followed the instructions of U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros' front office "at every turn" as she sought an indictment against the "Broadview Six." UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story on the lead prosecutor breaking her silence: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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‘Broadview Six’ prosecutor ‘owns’ mistakes in tainted case, says she was just following orders
Lawyers for former federal prosecutor Sheri Mecklenburg say she retired Thursday from the Justice Department — a week before a federal judge is expected to hold a crucial hearing over the mishandling ...
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i increasingly think the american woke pope beheading opus dei might be even more crucial than winning the presidency in terms of our long-term survival as a species
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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CaptainWonkoTheSane @captainles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE now says the Doordash delivery driver was shot because he tried to flee. People need to go to jail. Cops aren’t allowed to shoot people for the simple act of running away.
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Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump and Vance to Zelenskyy 18 months ago: You are losing this war. You have no cards. Meanwhile, while Ukraine is kicking a much larger country’s ass who invaded it, Trump and Vance are losing to Iran.
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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
lol what
At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch, planned since the Civil War Era many years ago, at the Receptive Circle adjoining the Arlington Memorial Bridge, into a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch, to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage. There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World. Out of the 59 top cities and Capitals, Washington, D.C., IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD THAT DOES NOT HAVE A TRIUMPHAL ARCH, but it will now and, by far, the greatest of them all! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP



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