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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

[guy who has never mentioned anything about universal human rights]: what if my chatbot has intrinsic moral value?

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trump is just generally queeny and I think he’d enjoy being with a man but I doubt he actually fantasizes about it. Rubio’s straight. JD Vance is not 100% cisgender but isn’t into men regardless. Hegseth wants to suck a dick.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I see people putting AI in the same bucket as NFTs (speculative technology that will go away when the bubble pops), but I think the internet is the better comp. Sure there's some early bubble-y activity, but the underlying technology is real it's going to dramatically change things.

Hand-drawn Venn diagram titled "Bubbles," with four overlapping circles: Beanie Babies, AI, NFTs, and Dot-com.

Each alone: "Gamble on plushies!" / "Gamble on LLMs!" / "Gamble on JPEGs!" / "Gamble on HTML!"

Beanie Babies + AI: "The products tend to have cutesy first names."
Beanie Babies + NFTs: "Who will own the rarest fake monkey?"
AI + Dot-com: "Genuinely important underlying technology."
NFTs + Dot-com: "This URL could be worth millions!"

Every bubble but Dot-com: "Mostly in private markets."
Every bubble but NFTs: "Good people got hurt."
Every bubble but AI: "Never threatened life as we know it."
Every bubble but Beanie Babies: "Blame Silicon Valley."

All four: "Somebody got rich, but probably not you."

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The fact that the American Pope is cool as shit is like the only thing holding up my pride in my country right now. That and ranch dressing

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can't remember, does the migrant caravan thing happen every election year, or only election years when Democrats are in office?

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Meta frames its AI project around the idea of satisfying whatever people want, the very thing Buddhists believe is at the root of all suffering

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why does it suddenly feel like the country's most pressing issues involve Mary Peltola's management style, a Mooooooslim running for Senate, and some loony lesbians in a Massachusetts town no one has ever heard of? Oh right, it's six weeks to election day

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"There's no way I can make the crotch big enough for you" - direct quote from my tailor

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Truly a classic film and this scene makes me cry tears of joy

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have lived here for nearly 30 years now and still can't figure out why northern California businesses insist on keeping their doors propped open when it is 50 degrees outside

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I know it's beside the point but G_d I hate that beard. Does he think he's Amish?

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Your regular reminder that the politics of family values has never been only about controlling us but equally because they can't control themselves

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Bless my little town, a PG&E rep held a info session recently and now there are dozens of nonplussed comments on the local Facebook group based on confusing the concept of population with population density and also "algorhythyms"

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When you murder innocent civilians at point blank range that's called terrorism. When you murder innocent civilians from the air-conditioned comfort of a government office building, that's called "systemic failures"

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Public transportation is so sleek and svelte

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Trying to explain to 2012 me which one of these two ended up taking a courageous stand for poor, brown people and which one turned out to be a Hilter aficionado

Macklemore in 2012 with Hitler youth haircut

Ye tours Vidigal favela in Rio de Janeiro

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'd like to feel superior to SF's little tempest in a teapot, but over here in Berkeley we've been fighting over a bike lane for like 5 years. Apparently not building the bike lane means we love climate change but building it means that seniors and people with disabilities will starve.

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Pro-Palestine viewpoints censored once again. If I were Macklemore I would have just switched my political cause to something more to Bob Kraft's liking - I don't know, say, LEGALIZE SEX WORK

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The right vote here is a really easy call once you get past which of these candidates you have an affinity for. Would you rather send Weiner to DC to vote on Israel policy and keep Chan in California to work on housing policy or vice versa?

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Credit where due, he looks good in that color. I think at this point these simpering fascists know that getting publicly booed everywhere they go is just part of the job and they try to dress as sympathetically as possible

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What I wanted to say about this was, people who misuse quotation marks in this way always always ALWAYS have shitty politics. That is a heuristic that never misses. "Service you can trust" oh ok I'm just gonna mark you down as an anti-LGBTQ business, thx

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Lone Progressive Dissenters have the highest batting average of being correct in history, yet that does nothing to change the widespread conviction that today’s Lone Progressive Dissenters must be crazy wackos.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I bought this sign a few years later at the going out of business sale of a locally owned restaurant in, I think, North Haven CT.

metal sign with stick-on lettering reading NO FRENCH PRODUCTS SOLD HERE/"GOD BLESS AMERICA"

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Remember that Marc Andreessen hired that guy who killed a homeless man on the subway and that was the only qualification he needed to work in Silicon Valley. Top to bottom the worst of the worst people.

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

[Neaderthal voice]: All cave on this hillside full. Human find cave on different hillside. No cave for human here.

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Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold @lytagold.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

did a clanker write this

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm not saying I'm above selling out, but you'd have to pay me way more than this

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

none of the people complaining about el-sayed saying this actually think it's a bad message. most Americans have agreed that 9/11 was cynically used to get us into a pointless war that cost untold lives for close to two decades now. what they are actually objecting to is a Muslim talking about 9/11.

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Makes sense, I mean remember that time when ACT UP disbanded in the middle of the AIDS crisis because eh, Glaxo Wellcome was charging too much for AZT so what could you do?

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This country really needs to ratify a new constitutional amendment, just to feel something

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am in strong agreement with the Chupacabra. His slobbery, teeth-gnashing attacks on livestock, draining their blood as succor for the demon heart beating within his reptilian chest, really underscore an important need to manage this great country's goat and cattle herds.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am perfectly open to the idea that some of the data center panic is overblown, what I am telling u is I don’t care

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

At least 32% of the online right-wing obsession with Hasan Piker and Abdul el-Sayed is because they're both handsome and jacked

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This was my reaction exactly! Certainly I must be missing something? Ofc it's bad to use any slur against people, but you're gonna have to get me stupendously high and rewind my age to 14 to before even trying this psycho-philosophical scolding on me. Peter Thiel-but-woke is not a personality, stop!

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Liz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RIP to two of the best to ever do it

dolly parton in the 80s in black lingerie with red trim with garters and stockings

dolly parton again in red lingerie with a garter belt and stockings

tim curry in rocky horror picture show in a sparkly garter belt and lingerie too

tim curry posing with a black jacket and his stockinged legs extended to show off black stilettos

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I would pay money to a) see an interview with that child model's parents and b) read the product reviews (avg ⭐⭐)

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Boston, Massachusetts, Cradle of the American Revolution, taken to its logical conclusion

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Bumper stickers in Berkeley are truly next level

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Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Our new SBA Adminstrator appears to be a robot simulation of a drunk flight attendant

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning

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

I think the “left joe rogan“ thing broke me.

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