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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 12h

Presentational thuggery to impress the president, a man who will never even read this letter

David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 12h

Everything is Content for these chuds. In addition to being appallingly misogynist, I think this letter is designed to be passed around as a "Boom, got em!" artifact. They saw the "Jon Stewart Eviscerates..." roundup videos from 20 years ago and wanted their own, cruder version of that feeling

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In matters of taste there can be no disputes, but I'm still reeling at Ed's description of pastrami as greasy from this week's show. We can't make him like it, but it's essentially smoked brisket with other stuff in the bark!

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think the dinic's roast pork with sharp provolone is maybe one of the top ten sandwiches in the country.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Aw man. I'm so sorry to hear it, dude. I'll keep my ears open. Fingers crossed you get to join somewhere local like the Star

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

so it kind of depends on how much of a team player Andrews is, which is something I'm ignorant of

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I guess it depends on the personality, but there's a certain kind of senator (I'm thinking of Manchin and Sinema in particular) who relishes being the hinge point, even if that entails taking a whole lot of heat. "If you're taking flak, you're over the target!" kind of philosophy

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh my god—she could vote herself into irrelevance that way. that's *so much leverage* until she does away with the filibuster, and thereafter she'd be a total backbencher

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I keep asking if they'll ever do a chocolate-raspberry, but no, they insist—only mint

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I look forward to a post-mortem on some of these sham investigations! I was also so focused on ASU, I didn't even notice UC Davis in this list. A perfectly good school!! A lovely town! A fine institution of higher learning. But not the jewel of the UC system. So what are they after?

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I gotta figure someone in Stephen Miller's orbit was rejected by someone who maybe went on to teach at ASU. Right? What explains this but for personal animus?

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah, but where did his teeth go? Surely he can afford the world's most expensive smile

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Three kinds of fish? What am I, a Rockefeller? A GORTON? (this is a very fun idea, thank you)

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That elided Oxford comma is deliberate; I choose to imagine that some of them have so badly alienated their AI partners that the robots have packed their virtual bags and split

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But! It is weird to peek at The Other Site now and again and see where the elon-tainted khala has taken them: skull-measuring, esoteric fascism, robot girlfriends and ex-wives

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I used to think of Twitter as the protoss Khala from starcraft—a psychic network that pushes its constituents towards consensus. Not to toot our own horns here as like bsky Dark Templar, severed from the Khala, because as OP says, all Twitterlikes share that fundamental timesuck feature...

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That's bonkers! And yet: how much has been forgotten or lost about like 2006? How many blogs have been lost to the void; how many kids are asking now, "Hey, what were malls like?"

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is nothing in the scale of what you're talking about, because it's fictional—but as a kid I used to think it was so silly that everyone had forgotten who jedi were in the Star Wars universe. "What, c'mon! It's only been like 40 years!" And now I think I get it.

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My friend Star, creator of the award-winning game HOLOVISTA, is making a new game with her studio, Aconite! Kickstarter kicks off today! Get in whie the slime is cold! www.kickstarter.com/projects/aco...

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Slime in the Ice Machine: It's Your Inheritance, Kid

Kick open the doors to the greatest bars in the cosmos (and the worst) to unravel surreal mysteries in this PC/Mac/Xbox game.

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You can't just walk onto a lot and buy a Rivian, right? you have to go to a showroom and then order one online?

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Anyway, this is a successful campaign, in that I missed this Yücel piece initially and now I'm reading it. I guess negging works, is the lesson

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

hey that's coked up bluesky muppet SUBSCRIBERS to you, Marshall :shakes fist:

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I can't believe he's a Poirot; it is incumbent upon men who bear such a name to take better care of ze little grey cells

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We did used to joke that Staggerjag's would have, unfortunately, made a pretty good name for a shoreside restaurant.

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Have you ever read David Brin's STARTIDE RISING? One of my favorites: cetaceans go to space alongside human beings. And there's a very sinister orca. I'm gonna say the best kind of whale is the humpback. Love that they sing, love that they have lifelong friendships.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What's the point They won't show up until Katelyn and Frodo are like 90% done with their walk anyway

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I appreciated, too, how straightforwardly he was like "Listen. You're all going to make less money for a while because of the tax hike." Just bracingly forthright that the war will have costs

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The funny part is i feel like qr menus are harder to maintain than paper menus! You can always scribble something out on a menu

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We regret the error; it was that there were more items *after the sides*

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I had a spectacular lunch at a restaurant in seattle today with some colleagues. QR code menu. I was all ready to order but when Charlie picked their lunch, a Japanese curry, I realized the menu kept going AFTER THE DRINKS SECTION

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maybe if I'm clever I can get this ready at the airport and work on this during my flight. No promises, though: I have a few scripts to write about independent and dependent clauses!

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah, autotranscription tools can help you find the timestamps of swear words! I'm traveling today, but i loved this episode and I think your students should hear it. One of us should be able to figure this out!

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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 28/09/2026

Fuck yeah, that’s right

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's a continuing series! I think he just completed the fourth one

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If I meet you halfway, I think that gives us Warhammer's BLOOD BOWL game

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am skeptical of the most florid claims being made about AI's destructive potential, but I do think we need to heavily regulate AI for the sole reason that I would like to hear less about all of these people.

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I feel like that poster does not do Lansbury justice to how much of a smokeshow she and Glynis Johns are in that film!

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Have a good shoot! I'm doing some work travel, followed by a visit home, so I'm bringing my lil rig with me

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is a relief to hear from you in particular, because while I have a miyazaki-level revulsion to genAI moving images, it is in no small part rooted in my fear that such a technology could take my job! So it's a relief to hear you, Ed, a partisan of LLM utility, say it sucks.

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Was it worth it? I got home at 2, woke up at 8 (which is quite late for me!), and so far, I feel just fine.

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On reflection, Haute and Freddy are... like, if Insane Clown Posse are on one end of a clown spectrum, these two are on the ABSOLUTE OPPOSITE TERMINUS of that spectrum

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jillian: "It's like we got a Dresden Dolls do-over, but this time, it's about friendship!"

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David Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jillian, as usual, was right. These people are MASTER POP CRAFTSMEN. Every song was an absolute banger. The banter was extremely cute. The vibe was, in a word, exquisite.

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