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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 06/10/2026

Hopefully, Suno is next.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism

"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026

AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money

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Ian Carey @iancarey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm Ian Carey, a musician/educator/designer, and I still love the moment in "Stella by Starlight" from Miles' My Funny Valentine live album when an audience member goes "YeeeaaaAAAAHHHH!"

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hi, I'm John Moe, a writer and podcast maker in Saint Paul. I am married with three mostly grown kids and two nice dogs. I like in "Misunderstood" when Tweedy throws in extra syllables on "Take the guitar player for a ride". Would you like to introduce yourself with a small song moment you like?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Entering a new phase of my life where my friends tell me they're using LLMs and I lecture them about how much I hate LLMs and how they're destroying education. I'd rather have no LLMs than have friends, is what I'm saying.

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Ian Carey @iancarey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

No more Rising, Hollywood. You have used your last Rise.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

They have whiplash. Is A.I. the future or is it the end of jobs? It can't be both (they took 1900 hours of AP classes so they know they can figure that out for themselves). Where are all the professors and why are they all in a seminar about A.I. instead of inspiring them or telling them what to do?

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Ian Carey @iancarey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Great thread (been there, done that, the playbook was the same everywhere). The best take on bullies comes from Freaks & Geeks (Ralphie & Scut Farkas always struck me as a little too perfect)—if you fight back, even if you lose, they'll probably leave you alone. So fight back.

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 21/08/2026

I have not yet begun to hate

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Presumably there are historical cases of civilizations going into decline due to unavoidable exogenous factors, but I have a new appreciation for the role played by the civilization itself just turning its back on everything that made it succeed.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

whoever made this graph did their data visualization class homework with AI

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Abolishing ICE is now the official position of the Democratic Party

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/08/2026

The wickedness of this is obscene. Never vote for a Republican for any office. It's the party of bigotry, xenophobia, and racism.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I find it fascinating that in the 1990s, the US managed to re-create early twentieth-century Vienna café culture only to have it gradually decay over the first quarter of the twenty-first century such that now most coffee shops are closed by six PM.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

i hate that these absolute idiots make me feel like some kind of super lefty che guevara when im just a goddamn normie fdr liberal who wants a strong anti-fascist military and a good old fashioned safety net at home.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 01/08/2026

Rejecting LLMs isn’t about rejecting their utility or failing to be aware of their power —it’s about rejecting that political project; born out of an awareness that any use of these machines at all promulgates that project and assembles me into adjacent responsibility for its commission.

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Ian Carey @iancarey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Between this (which we watched every week), my dad's copy of "Amphigorey," and the John Bellairs coverrs, as a child I was convinced Edward Gorey was a major celebrity along the lines of Tom Selleck or Farah Fawcett.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Imagine if you mailed the IRS a check to pay your taxes, but they left their mail unopened for years and then arrested you for failure to pay taxes. That’s effectively what ICE is doing to increasing numbers of people now; people out of status only because of GOVERNMENT delay.

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SoftballInjuryRuinedLife @shoegays.online · 28/07/2026

I just call them pants

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

As an economic pathology, AI is *extraordinary*. AI boosters have spent a baffling and terrifying sum of money - over $1.4T, most of that in the past year - on the promise of making as many workers unemployed as possible, while lowering the wages of the meager survivors of this jobspocalypse. 3/

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/07/2026

once again I am asking for a democratic party that actually does what republicans claim they will do

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Rachel Figueroa @jewyorican.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

LET’S GO METS!!!!

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Ian Carey @iancarey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Good ol' Philip Cat Food. Knuckleballer leftie with a hunchback.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I would like one plank of the 2028 Democratic platform to read: WE ARE GOING TO SEND EVERY ONE OF YOU CORRUPT MOTHERFUCKERS TO PRISON.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

People keep saying character doesn't matter, only policy. In our scam economy/scam polity, nothing matters more than character. Everyone is constantly telling us what we want to hear. We need to be able to trust that they will do what they say.

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Allan “Ransomware Sommelier” Liska @ransomwaresommelier.com · 06/07/2026

What kind of sociopath has EVER looked at a PDF document and said to themselves, "This could be a podcast?"

A screenshot from Adobe Acrobat showing the toolbar which includes the following options:
Edit a PDF
Generated Podcast [New]
Create PDF Space
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Tonight I am thinking about that joke that ends with God saying "I sent a boat, a plane and a helicopter!"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Next democratic president needs to appoint 100 SC justices and just keep appointing until the senate confirms them all. No other business until the courts are fixed.

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Ian Carey @iancarey.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This is a great way to lose a ton of votes

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Again, if there's a Democratic majority in the House in 2027, I think it's imperative that they start impeaching Supreme Court justices.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

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egg16z 🥚 @notlikewe.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

it’s a Friday night at midnight and more than 100k people are tuning in to see letters chiseled off of a wall lmao cooked doesn’t even begin to describe it

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Ian Carey @iancarey.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Listened to the 1981 Star Wars radio drama on my drive to SoCal today. I remember it being a big deal when I was a kid, our version of Little Orphan Annie and the only "appointment radio" I can remember (at least until WKCR-FM marathons). Some interesting things: 1/

A promo poster for star wars radio series featuring C3PO talking into an old-timey microphone

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Mr. Cait @chas.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Remember how you used to just know everyone’s phone number? Then cell phones came out and you could barely recite your own number? That’s what AI’s endgame is but for every aspect of your life.

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Oh did you guys not enjoy Chud Stalingrad

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Ian Carey @iancarey.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I would be as confident if we decided to base our economy on: Shrinky Dinks Colorforms Gigapets That robot that came with the first Nintendo Lazer Tag Holograms Lightning globes Those X-ray glasses from comic books "Magic Eye" Paintings

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

uhhh....what the fuck

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Ian Carey @iancarey.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I've seen people sharing an edited, empty version of the "Great Day in Harlem" Art Kane photo now that Sonny has passed, and I gotta say, that's not my take. None of these people are gone. They're alive in the records, they're alive in the language, they're alive in the music.

Art Kane's 1958 photograph of a large group of notable jazz musicians in front of a Harlem brownstone

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