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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h
This is shameful. It speaks to a character that enjoys turning power into violence. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
Cannot emphasize enough that the morass we find ourselves in everywhere is a result of this commitment to white supremacy. The eugenic health policy, the belief and desire for US autarky, meddling & murder in Latin America, the half-cocked belief that the US could bully Iran- it really is.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
It's bad that actively deceiving the voters by waiting until they don’t have a say is seen as more savvy than unprincipled and undemocratic in DC.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
it is also incredibly frustrating to watch a child experience learning as a struggle to get an app to work or a device to connect, long before anything that would ever be worth knowing comes up, if it ever does
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AI or no, schools that make tablets and apps essential to class- and homework prevent parents and children from establishing norms around tech and ensure that parent-child interactions at home centre on managing Google or Apple accounts it's not relevant or exciting, it's just invasive and shitty
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
True not just in publishing/writing. Look at how this new Meta Muse basically jumps into the user's shit, mixes it around, gets it everywhere. Shares their address. Lies to their contacts. Sells their stuff at a low price. Do not let the vampire in. Hang garlic. Sharpen stakes.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 01/10/2026
Canada, we can still do better. Drive it down to the depth of hell.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 30/09/2026
The National Post is using language that seems wildly irresponsible and dangerous here Citing ancient “Jewish law,” it labels Avi Lewis as a “rodef” The ultranationalist extremist who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin rationalized his killing on the same basis: www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o...
None of this applies, however, when a Jewish person presents a clear and present danger to the Jewish community. When that happens, Jewish thought is much more forceful: you must prevent the perpetrator from
causing harm.

Jewish law developed two character sketches to describe such scenarios. The first is known as a "mosar" — a Jewish person who informs to oppressive
authorities, potentially leading to the imprisonment, torture or death of community members. The second, called a "rodef," refers to a Jew who is actively pursuing another with the intent to harm or kill them. In both scenarios, the law is clear that a Jew is duty-bound to step in. Protecting the community and its members is the most important thing.It was around then that Yigal Amir, an earnest law student, made up his mind to kill the prime minister. Later he would insist he was not swayed by extremist rabbis; he had reached his own decision that Rabin - through his willingness to cede territory and to allow the creation of a Palestinian Authority, with its own armed police force - was a rodef and therefore a legitimate target. He got a weapon easily enough. With his brother, Amir was working on the creation of an anti-Palestinian militia. Nor was access difficult; on at least three occasions before the rally, Amir attended public events where Rabin was present. He was waiting for the right moment: he didn't want to shoot and miss.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On Tuesday the BC Supreme Court vacated the convictions of the co-founders of DULF, which bought and sold clean illegal drugs on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and struck down a part of Canada's drug laws. None of it was ideal, but in this crisis, it was to the good. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Bruce Arthur: B.C. court right to absolve founders of Drug User Liberation Front
The B.C. Supreme Court concluded that DULF kept people alive and did no public harm, Bruce Arthur writes.
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"AI has not rescued the humanities. What it has done is reveal, with unusual clarity, what happens when societies allow the institutions that cultivate judgement to erode."
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AI just made the case for philosophy majors; the humanities should not waste it - Oxford University Press
Sophie Goldsworthy, Global Academic Publisher, explores how AI companies hiring philosophers may have made a compelling case for the study of humanities disciplines.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are so lucky that ChatGPT did not exist in 2020 or we'd all be dead
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Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Awful news coming from Tsawwassen right now:
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Tsawwassen First Nation ends Truth and Reconciliation event early due to 'critical incident' | CBC
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Incredibly good stuff here: defector.com/resident-evi...
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Accept The Expanding Ball Of Infected Corpses You Cannot Change | Defector
“Here are the main things you need to know about the Resident Evil games,” I explained to my friend Liz over the nonsense of the Digger trailer. “There’s a big outbreak of some kind of mutagenic virus...
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
like, no, I am not surprised that wannabe Goebbels is doing Nazi shit. Conor shouldn't be either.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you know one thing about Rufo, the thing you should know is that he's a racist liar. I did not know specifically that Rufo had jumped on anti Haitian racism, but I am not suprised, because Rufo, as everyone knows, is a racist liar.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Conor claims the problem is that he didn't know about this particular case in which Rufo was a racist liar, but the issue is in fact that Rufo has shown over and over that he is a racist liar, and has even said explicitly that he is a racist liar.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 28/09/2026
Yglesian "popularism" doesn't just require bigotry, it requires unanimous support of it
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is all true. Tremendous work here
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/09/2026
The lie that privatization will reduce wait times is already being exposed, but that won’t stop political leaders from continuing to try to destroy our public healthcare system.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
“i woke up every morning and name searched myself on twitter. i am normal by the way”
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Literally happening right now www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
everyone who's ever joined in an online pile on should read this.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
Damn. With the alt text:
The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': 
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whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship.
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When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 24/09/2026
The way people like Huang and Andreessen publicly engage in performances of their own ignorance is very much in line with how the people pushing LLMs most heavily on the public don't perceive cognitive surrender and deskilling to be a problem as much as something they are proud participants in.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Like what the fuck are we doing that this isn't being brought up at every meeting. Chat gpt is responsible for one of the worst shootings in Canadian history. I want this banned immediately
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It is hard to build new government products, it is easy to build websites or add an AI function. The DOGE people pushed out the people doing the former, and now they are only doing the latter.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
So this is a historically evidenced example that everyone of voting age lived through that demonstrates exactly what ‘protecting women & girls in sports’ is a precursor to, which of course, is a complete elimination from public life.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
‘My kid coulda been Caitlin Clark but a trans person existed’ was tested in a lab called ‘I can’t go to the school I deserved to go to because a Black person has my spot’
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
Repurposing of Abigail Fisher’s argument against Affirmative Action, which she lost, but got all the way up to Supreme Court & made an entirely imagined delusion a radicalizing national wedge issue that led to the empowerment of actors whose life mission is to destroy restorative justice everywhere.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This story is a perfect example of how broken reporting of the mobs roaming Britain's streets now is - and the political response. What would have been the appropriate response if this hadn't been a sports team? Trash the hotel? Force them out into the street? What about other people staying there?
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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants
Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
this is how the AI industry chooses to describe itself and so this is the rubric i will use to judge them
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Ruby Bridges, age 6Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her schoolNorman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine. Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The past is also, genuinely, not the past.
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The operative word in "Protect our women!" is not "women" but "our".
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 08/09/2026
Humans are like birds, in that we mimic the sounds of things we hear frequently, and like a lyrebird making the sound of construction sites, there’s going to be some LLM that gets caught up in the process when you spend all day doing what you think of as talking to and listening to the computer.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 08/09/2026
I don’t think that AI is revolutionizing how humanity sees its self, but I do think that there are people who are letting it affect their own sense of self in the same way that you start talking like the hosts of the podcast you listen to all the time
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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
NEW: Nate Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign in 2023 after promoting a video with the Sonnenrad, a Nazi symbol embraced by white supremacists. He now works in Rubio's State Department, as deputy director of policy planning and chief speechwriter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...
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For Fired DeSantis Campaign Staff Member, a Second Chance at State Dept. (Gift Article)
The hiring of Nate Hochman, who lost his job amid an uproar over a video containing a Nazi symbol, underscores the administration’s willingness to overlook past transgressions.
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 06/09/2026
You, yes, you, have more rushing yards than Clemson
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I speak often about the moral weight of disgust. In this instance of censorship, the president of the university offers no rationale for his decision beyond his revulsion at the story in question. Adults who act this way cannot be permitted to participate in guiding society.
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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 03/09/2026
I am curious what the free speech purists who claim to be all about viewpoint diversity have to say about this one www.persuasion.community/p/i-taught-a...
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I Taught a Short Story. My College Fired Me For It.
Academic censorship is very real.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The primary impact of AI is to enable fraud on a massive scale. apnews.com/article/scam...
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Scams in the US are at a record high. Yet most victims get no help and some end up losing even more
Virtually every American has been targeted by scammers in some way, exclusive new polling data shows.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I think a lot about how many states keep loosening oversight of homeschooling while other people get this kind of punishment for their kids just being outside
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