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olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 29/09/2026

It occurs to me with the futurists back in the news, no one's posted the Bostrom Singleton thing in which he suggests the solution to the various looming problems of the world is a kind of benign totalitarianism. Bostrom is useful in this stuff for two main reasons. nickbostrom.com/fut/singleton

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What is a Singleton?

Introduces the concept of a singleton: a world order capable of robustly solving global coordination problems and choosing the path of its own development.

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The Empire Never Ended @tenepod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rey starts off a new series on Anthroposophy, an even more racist spin-off of Theosophy, by examining the race theories of founder Rudolf Steiner, who is best known today as the creator of the holistic Waldorf educational system. www.patreon.com/tenepod/post...

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396: Anthroposophy pt. 1 - Cosmic Eugenics | The Empire Never Ended Podcast

Rey starts off a new series on Anthroposophy, an even more racist spin-off of Theosophy, by examining the race theories of founder Rudolf St

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The Crumbling @thecrumbling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

www.patreon.com/TheCrumblingpodcast E31 is on early access now! and were diving into the Manosphere man oh man ft- @kattenbarge.bsky.social @sophiaflorence.bsky.social

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you make any sort of money off betting or are a sharp, they also just ban you lol

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

CDC’s 9/11 world trade center health program was one of the first things this regime purged. just something to remember when republicans get really into the performative nationalism this week

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New York Republicans scold Trump for CDC cuts that affect 9/11 responders

Critics say the Trump administrations cuts to CDC staff will negatively affect a health fund for 9/11 first responders.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

if people want to smile and nod at it to get RFK the fuck out of there, i think i can swallow that for a bit....just as long as we all actually understand there's not going to be allyship here and you are never going to get rid of their underlying anxiety or desire for control

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

they're not actually that interested in regulation, they are invested in a personal sense of control over things that sometimes aren't controllable at all! they are going to align with whoever seems to agree most with letting them do what they've already decided to do, which is not consistent

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

and the other thing is, there's not really a policy that placates people like this besides leaning into individualism, which is never going to work as a baseline public health policy i don't have a big problem with trying to pick up a few in an election, but there's not much to listen to

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

and it sort of causes you to shrug at things that are good for the collective. I need to actually read her essay about it. But it is a position that definitely comes more from affluence

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

actually Emily Wilson said something yesterday talking about tech bros embracing stoicism that made me think about this—the gist was that they think that they can understand the uncaring nature of the universe but also harness it themselves in a way that provides security for them as an individual

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

i know several women who are kinda MAHA lite (they mostly still vaccinate their kids but don’t get them started on food additives kinda thing) and it has always felt to me like an outlet for anxiety for knowing actually a lot about all the things that can go wrong and trying to control them

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I recently spent several months caring for a loved one with terminal colorectal cancer. In his last two months of life, he had a gastric tube Usually I avoid calling for violence on the Internet for obvious reasons, but both the judge and the agent should be publicly executed

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 06/09/2026

I really think this is a key thing people are missing (aside from the fact that they might be psychologically addicted to the way consuming far-right propaganda makes them feel inside). People are being repeaters or pushers of the stuff into their communities.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 06/09/2026

One of the goals of the propaganda is to get everybody to talk about far-right culture and far-right culture heroes all the time, to think about these things constantly as if they were the normal mainstream monoculture of society, in place of thinking or talking about anything else.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 06/09/2026

You can actually control your personal media and information environment. You don’t actually have to subject yourself to face-rolling in a stream of far-right propaganda every day and then spending the day talking about and sharing it with other people. You won’t be missing anything if you stop.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 02/09/2026

Very good thread about how propaganda and disinformation spreads, and an example of how people who are ostensibly “against” such propaganda continually participate in its circulation and amplification into national news.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

we are the screams of the cats you've already fed dinner

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 01/09/2026

This pelican is a liar and a charlatan.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As somebody who grew up during the era in which there was a massive public push to reduce teen pregnancy, it’s absolutely wild to me to see people on Fox News now complaining that not enough teens are getting pregnant.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This may never be topped.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

while milo gets to chit chat on TV with clear access to safety and basic needs, the US is flying untold numbers of immigrants to unsafe countries of origin or other countries where they don't speak the language or know anyone.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 31/08/2026

Massachusetts votes tomorrow — and there’s something pretty remarkable happening in the Senate race. Seth Moulton, who attacked progressive populism last year, is now running as a progressive, with Wall Street and private equity money helping pay for the makeover.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

No fucking shit buddy. This is what we were trying to tell you.

Milo Yiannopoulos: "I didn't really understand the physical reality of how institutionalized the brutality is in America. The manner in which they arrest you, they put you in manacles, everybody is arrested like an MS 13 gang member.
It was physically degrading. It was frightening. I don't think I've ever been frightened like that before. I was weeping like an old woman for an hour. I wouldn't wish it on anyone."

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

this reminds me of how tons of MAGAs were slobbering over how “manly” and “tough” the Russian special forces looked in their propaganda and then months later they got humiliated in the battle of hostomel airport because it turns out competence and logistics matters more than looking tough

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 30/08/2026

In an age of extremism everyone is an extremism scholar

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 31/08/2026

Someone does need to write the history book that ties the 60s counter-culture movement, Discordianism, psychadelic futurism, etc, through the 2000s post-9/11 anti-war disinfo movement and new age millenialism, to MAGA/MAHA/technofascism/etc. There’s a rich vein there. Adam Curtis touches it a bit eg

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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

continuing to work on my project that argues that post-wwii fascism is purely post-modern: in the absence of the material Fascist States to orient ideology and activism, neo-fascism fills the void with "magick": reality-creation machines based on pure symbolism and hatred

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Fernando Rosas @frosas.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

What is information, really? Instead of arguing for a single valid interpretation, we propose a pluralistic view where rigorous alternatives coexist — each with affordances and limits Finally published: “Four faces of information in natural systems” 🧵

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/08/2026

Normalise saying 'fascist propaganda' instead of 'culture wars'

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Welp, there it is. The CDC is now officially manipulating data and their count of measles deaths in 2026 now stands at ZERO. My understanding of reportable diseases is that the CDC would usually use a state health department’s determination as the final say. The new CDC Director is failing us.

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The CDC left two measles-associated Pa. deaths out of its latest count after RFK Jr. sparred with Gov. Shapiro

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused Pennsylvania of not cooperating with the CDC in its handling of a measles outbreak.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 30/08/2026

If you study anything that deals with humans—sociology, law, IR, political science, etc, or, hell, even medicine, biology, and technology—you are either an implicit extremism researcher now, or you are running on auto-pilot studying something based on theories that no longer comport to the world.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2026

What I am really trying to say here is "this is exactly why USAID and the international aid system it once supported, which is now close to collapsing due to its destruction, was Good Actually"

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2026

Which is not to say that online mutual aid is therefore always bad or that it’s bad to participate in it, but we have to be very honest about how it creates a pretty brutal competition.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2026

The reason you want an actual humanitarian aid system and *don’t* want to force everybody to rely on online mutual aid is because online mutual aid *forces people experiencing horrific trauma* to perform on the Internet for survival.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2026

this is absolutely perfectly said

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 28/08/2026

This is a great article and I think it highlights how being Extremely Online is a *way of knowing*, a social epistemology, where constructs and frames that are warranted solely on the make-believe of bouncing ideas in online discourse become the lens through which participants come to know the world

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A far-right ethnonationalist movement turning the machinery of the state against its early activists once they are deemed insufficiently loyal — now I’ve heard everything.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I think one of the under appreciated electoral disasters of the 21st century US was Joe Lieberman winning his Senate seat after losing the primary in 2006

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

imagine an orphan crushing machine. i hate the machine and i hope we can dismantle it. but if the man who helped build the orphan crushing machine falls into it? buddy i’m gonna crack a smile.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/08/2026

hey just making sure everyone knows tom hardy put out a rap album where he does the “"now is the winter of our discontent” monologue from richard III in the bane voice on one of the tracks. okay have a good weekend

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“The majority of Americans are open to living car-free even after decades of car-centric planning, a new survey finds…A stunning 18% of car-owning U.S. residents indicated that they were ‘strongly interested’ in living car-free, and another 40% said that they were ‘open’ to it.” @usa.streetsblog.org

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Survey: Most Americans Are Open To Ditching Their Cars — Streetsblog USA

Automakers have spent a century and countless trillions of dollars making car-dependent living the American norm. But U.S. resident still aren't sold, a new survey suggests.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2026

Microsoft purged the data of over 170,000 nonprofits with little to no warning. Yet another entry in the ledger of “big tech should not be surprised that people hate them now.”

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The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits

When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/08/2026

Looks like we’re using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE’s flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights.

An FR24 map showing N411ZW going from Miami to Gitmo.

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footage seer @douglassfreestate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

hostis humani generis

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Current state of things: there's crop art of Signal at the Minnesota State Fair www.cropart.com

A white hand with Signal-blue painted nails holds a cellphone with a near-dead battery, with the Signal icon the only app on screen. Crop art by Molly Gehrke

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Updated Covid vaccines for the 2026-27 season have been approved by the FDA. Article to come.

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