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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 6h

More like Sterling Hayden. The whole Purity of Essence thing is very Trump 2.0.

Sterling Hayden as General Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove, improbably firing a 30-pound machine gun from the hip through an office window as he chomps on a very Freudian cigar.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end

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Jennifer @jenwith1n.bsky.social · 17h

A few years ago, within his gubernatorial term, I was working in Utah and someone said all the universities were busy taking references to “Jews and homosexuality” off of their websites because of a new state law. He doesn’t get to tell me not to be mad about that.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 17h

Too many contemporary applications to even try

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 13h

First they refused to sell Alan Dershowitz a pierogi and I laughed...

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026

i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 16h

In watching this I'm caught between appreciating the beauty of this creature and the phobia I acquired growing up in SoCal, where aggressive Yellowjackets abound.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19h

You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 01/10/2026

As long as we're talking about Revolutionary War things that violate hypermasculine warrior mythology, I have to mention the origin of "Yanke Doodle Dandy."

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 30/09/2026

Important question if you're wondering whether AIs have souls.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 30/09/2026

I'm told this is mostly because of all the investment in AI. Which makes me nervous about what happens when investors discover they're not getting their money back.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 30/09/2026

Is there even enough gravity to attract a skier toward the ring plane?

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 30/09/2026

"Ice Towers of Saturns Rings" are a thing sadly missing from the space opera I've read in the last 60 years.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 30/09/2026

This is the real reason they cancelled SST travel: too much risk of crossing the dimensional barrier!

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 30/09/2026

Since we're talking a *very* patriarchal culture, I think we can overlook having a non-English mother. Otherwise I think we'd have to go back to Hengist and Hortha! Not that anybody should take this issue seriously!

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 30/09/2026

Harold, as the name indicates, was of Scandanavian heritage.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 30/09/2026

Gotta get rid of the fucking Qualified Immunity thing first.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 30/09/2026

Once saw a Bald Eagle close up. "Magnificent" is indeed the word that comes to mind. And I expect that applies to all eagles.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s particularly cruel to do this to Garbo, who protected her privacy and peace but it’s not surprising she was chosen. After all, she told the world “no” and AI pushers love to run roughshod over consenf www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

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SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future

Swedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 30/09/2026

Oh, I absolutely agree. Worth remembering what this is really about: disqualifying people of color as "English."

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 30/09/2026

Oops, I post the above before reading your article. Though I don't think Edward being *part* Norman disqualifies him.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 30/09/2026

I once read a bio of Richard III, where the author said we should be less mean to him because he was the last English King of England. But now it occurs to me that he doesn't qualify, being Norman. So the last English King of England was Edward the Confessor.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 30/09/2026

Current guess at who will control the Senate?

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 30/09/2026

Does Rhea Seahorn count as a character actor?

Final scene from Season 1 of Pluribus. Carol Sturka (Rhea Seahorn), visibly depressed, is walking past the shipping contain that a helicopter has just dropped onto her driveway. Behind her, Manousos Oviedo (Carlos Manuel Vesga) gestures to it and asks "What is this?" She answers, wearily, "Atom bomb."

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 29/09/2026

This is *agentic* AI. It won't tell you to kill yourself. It will just put poison in your food.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 29/09/2026

A *little* overblown? It's utter bullshit. Don't get me started on why. A cyberattack makes a bit more sense. But I'm very irritated with people who are panicmongering over high-tech threats to grid when the fucking thing is dying due to simple neglect

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 29/09/2026

It's a little disturbing to discover that we're all dependent on hand-built transformers manufactured by a process that hasn't changed in 140 years. All the effort we've put into developing new ways to *use* electricity while doing nothing to upgrade the way we distribute it.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 29/09/2026

"Recently discovered"? I've been seeing this kind of scam for years. The real story here is that the scam was propagated by the Google ad network. Why wasn't *that* the headline?

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 29/09/2026

Wikipedia says that Mulhouse was a free imperial city before it became a republic. Is that wrong? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi...

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Republic of Mulhouse - Wikipedia

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You there boy! What day is it? Today? Why it’s The 28th of September sir! Wait what?

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Muppet from Muppets Christmas Carol in Snow

ALT: Muppet from Muppets Christmas Carol in Snow

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 29/09/2026

That's the central problem with using AI to find things out. It's right often enough so that people trust it mroe than they should.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 29/09/2026

He talked about obscure legal stuff that he'd found out through AI that he'd found helpful. But he simply didn't want to hear about the risks he was taking. Not even from his AI.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 29/09/2026

I once encountered a dude on Reddit who swore by using AI to draw up contracts and do legal research. Rather than argue with him, I suggested that he ask his AI what risks he was taking by doing this. He got mad and told me all the reasons he thought doing legal stuff with AI was great.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 29/09/2026

If you're a cheap phone person, like me they never actually left. Of course, I'm also a cheap bluetooth earbuds person...

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 29/09/2026

This is an interesting thread with a bit of history and a problem that isn't actually all that niche, so I'm sure the Bluesky hive mind will solve it. And now I need to follow this person to find how people respond to thorse recordings. And what happens to that church.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 29/09/2026

And they're fucking painful to look at.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 28/09/2026

I'm not an absolute AI hater. But I think anybody who willingly uses agentic AI is inviting disaster.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 28/09/2026

In your place, I would have just dumped all my old photos onto a thumb drive and tossed it in a drawer. The in a couple hundred years some cyber-archaeology grad student would have found it and done their masters thesis on the Life and Times of the Hobo Lawyer.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 28/09/2026

Reliability isn't "something they need to work on." It's been an issue with Starship from day 1. There have been 14 Starship launches so far, and only 3 of them have happened without an engine failing. Until they prove they can build a reliable engine, the capability of the vehicle is meaningless.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 28/09/2026

Because there was enough redundancy for this particular mission. If they want NASA to certify this vehicle for manned flight, *all* the engines have to work, *all* the time. Same goes for starmind. You can't do 3 to 9 launches a day if 1 in 6 engines fail.

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