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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/07/2026

"If you start by ignoring everything that we already know, the best you can ever hope for is to accidentally rediscover the already-known." The mantra of our times.

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Over Leveraged

The inside story of Peter Thiel's MKUltra by someone who thinks it was kind of good, actually.

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Dagoth Urlon Musk @maruhkati.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Well, anyone who knows their World Cup history will know all about the controversial missed handball call against Zaire in 1990. Google "Belgium Congo hands" to learn more.

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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The untenable bumps against the structure of the real

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Congratulations to all my US friends on making it to the end of your epic 250 year experiment with democracy! May the subsequent imperial phase be mercifully brief and the aftermath painless.

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Jason Horn @messyepicure.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Instead of hearing about this and thinking “how dare he take 3 months off!” consider thinking that 3 months’ paid leave for inpatient depression treatment could be available for everybody if people like Rep. Tom Kean (R-NJ) chose to pass a law that said so

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

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jambera @jambera.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

“Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?”

Cover of the first Choose Your Own Adventure book, “The Cave of Time”

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

It really might be useful if Dems every once in a while note that to the extent there has been a "war" with Iran for decades, it started in 1953, not 1979.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

*Okay, if you're a wannabe AI-skeptic, and you want pro-AI people to flinch and duck and tremble when you show up, this is some state-of-the-art AI-skepticism here youtu.be/4CIlTOnc6I8?...

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Microsoft accidentally told the truth about AI

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

In the simple model of the prisoner's dilemma, when facing a serial defector, you have to defect for a few rounds in hopes of moving them back to mutual cooperation.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

*This really reads like something that a Pope in a science fiction novel would say

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 31/03/2026

asking for a friend, how do you finish something when you have the exciting combination of perfectionism and imposter syndrome

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Hot take. 2026 does not represent America’s 250th birthday because the USA began in 1789 when the Constitution was ratified. This is America’s 237th year. The Declaration of Independence did not establish a country. It didn’t even end the war for independence.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Men go talk to your friends and tell them to stop sexually assaulting women. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

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‘I Can No Longer Stay Silent,’ Huerta Says in a Statement

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jambera @jambera.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Search your camera roll for “Hell”

Comic strip character Nancy is sitting in bed, hand on her chin, saying ,”Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell”.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2026

i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions

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Richard Miller @richardmiller.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

This rules. I love how delighted they all look!

YOU ARE NOW ENTERING FREE MINNEAPOLIS painted on a wall in the style of the Free Derry Corner.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

NB: "This is not to say that language models are “really” thinking. It is to admit that maybe we don’t have quite as firm a hold on the word “thinking” as we might have thought." I'm highly skeptical about many of the claims made for LLMs, but that seems exactly right.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I’m old enough to remember the crypto industry pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the 2024 campaign to defeat Biden, and I think a lesson — which will not be learned — is that burning down the stable world that gave you riches beyond your wildest dreams is not good for business.

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Crypto Takes a Deep Slide Despite Trump’s Support

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I hate living in the Asshole Cinematic Universe. “So the King of Pedophiles got the 4chan guy to make the Nazi board and that’s why the host of Celebrity Apprentice was made immune to laws by the Tradcath Illuminati. This has something to do with video game journalism, maybe?” Fuck off.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Bonhoeffer on the “reasonable ones” who “want to do justice to all sides”:

The failure of "the reasonable ones"-those who think, with the best of intentions and in their naive misreading of reality, that with a bit of reason they can patch up a structure that has come out of joint-is apparent. With their ability to see impaired, they want to do justice to all sides, only to be crushed by the colliding forces without having accomplished anything at all. Disappointed that the world is so unreasonable, they see themselves condemned to unproductiveness; they withdraw in resignation or helplessly fall victim to the stronger.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

"What should I be if not-a-cyberpunk," well, you have to confront your actual, contemporary, existent cultural problems and make up something modern *Find some interested friends, that's helpful

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

*Probably not enough attention is paid to the "entropic rot" of words and ideas #entanglementtheory #IanHodder *That ideas are not Platonic and static, that instead ideas have to be actively maintained, that they crumble and drift, meme-like

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/01/2026

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

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Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Democrats waiting for polling to tell them whether having a gestapo is good or bad, wonder why everyone hates them

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Folks, Trump has brought the full force of ICE to bear on a mid-sized city and he can't even stop the demonstrations there. He's not going to be able to cancel the midterm elections by fiat or station his goons outside more than a handful of polling places.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

He was very weary; the day had been long, and full of dragons.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

It’s true. We shouldn’t pretend that. Trumpist culture is not the same as American culture and not equal. Trumpist culture is proudly ignorant, defiantly against America’s founding values and subsequently developed values, venomously bigoted, and generally despicable.

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!" 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical... There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness." ― Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 10/11/2025

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/08/2025

"The future offers us little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence.” ~Norbert Wiener, God and Golem (1964)

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

remember this: tyrrany requires constant effort. it breaks. it leaks. authority is brittle. remember this: try.

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Walter MOONdale @dabenner.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

We finally created the Great Gatsby from the classic book, Do Not Emulate the Great Gatsby.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...

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jambera @jambera.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Adam Silver wondering where all these chickens have come from and why they’re roosting in his office

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

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