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The reason Minneapolis and St. Paul are so close is because of river navigation and changes in economic development. St. Paul is sited at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers and developed out of a French trading post, located for trade with local tribes and territorial control…

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 16h

I wake up with a shot: Aerostats are all lighter than air craft. Dirigibles or airships are aerostats that can be steered and have motive power. A zeppelin is a rigid dirigible, where the lifting envelope has a rigid structure. A blimp has none or almost no supporting structure for its envelope.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 29/09/2026

You won’t believe this marketing DIE-IN!

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 28/09/2026

Will it help you remember your home address?

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 28/09/2026

I love that both Rafaella de Laurentiis and Mel Brooks saw “Eraserhead” and came out of the screening room hell-bent to get Lynch to make their next movie.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 28/09/2026

Almost all of Meta's PR about Muse was about how careful they had been to set it up not to do things like this, how they delayed the launch by months to carefully design it so it could be trusted. And then...

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 27/09/2026

I finished reviewing all eight episodes of Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, which I found lurid, dreamy, and moving.

decider.com

‘Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story’ Episode 8 Recap: 10,000 Maniacs

The show is over.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 27/09/2026

Large swathes of daytime television in the 1980s were sober interviews with police chiefs is small Ohio towns describing the time they broke up a Satanic infant sacrifice.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 26/09/2026

The movie theater I saw INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE in is a Staples—the entire structure was razed a decade or so ago, but the mall still barely exists on the footprint. The theater I was an usher and projectionist at in high school is now a Planet Fitness.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 26/09/2026

This movie is a great check-in for exactly what was going on in Hollywood at the time: its budget was about equal to “The Empire Strikes Back” and a net loss to Columbia, it was John Houston’s final directing credit and notorious for waste and millions of dollars of footage that got broomed.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 26/09/2026

Possibly related reading: Upton Sinclair and the 1934 California governor’s election.

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1934 California gubernatorial election - Wikipedia

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Richard @richardalexy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sarah Paulson, Ella Beatty, Jessie Lee, and Vicky Krieps throw one crazy dance party in Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 25/09/2026

So apparently Bojack Horseman is a better of show, by an order of magnitude, than Stranger Things.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 25/09/2026

Opening for Franz Ferdinand at the Wiltern November 7…

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 24/09/2026

ISTR at least a few senators genuinely believing Kevin Mitnik could launch nuclear weapons by whistling into a phone.

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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 24/09/2026

Did AI increase unemployment among recent college grads this summer? Probably not. Summer of 2026 was pretty normal compared to earlier years. new research from Robert Fairlie and Jane Wu

Line plot of monthly unemployment of recent college graduates, by year.

Figure 2a from https://www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/publications/2026/working-paper/early-impacts-ai-employment-among-recent-college-graduates

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pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

STRAIGHT TIME (1978) Dustin Hoffman gives what is possibly his finest (and most demanding) performance up to this time...Scenes between Hoffman and Harry Dean Stanton (as an ex-convict) and between Hoffman and Gary Busey (as a junkie ex-convict) are performed superlatively.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 24/09/2026

I miss Jaron Lanier what’s that guy up to lately? (Afraid to ask.)

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 23/09/2026

Relativistic Parsec Time-Distance Equivalence in Trans- and Hyperspace Flight Regimes

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 23/09/2026

It’s really true, there’s a ton of stuff going on right now.

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Acey Woofer @acey.dog · 22/09/2026

Just finished watching Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story. Really enjoyed it. Every single series of Monster has been a masterpiece! Captivating from start to finish, and not something i will ever forget watching. If you can handle the subject matter, I cant recommend watching these highly enough.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 22/09/2026

What if your AI assistant was just a guy?

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

44 years ago this week: the premiere of "Shinders to Shinders," a 15-minute film about old Block E in downtown Minneapolis. It screened Sept. 17-19 *on the billboard above the Shinders newsstand* at 7th and Hennepin. Choreographer Patrick Scully, filmmaker Daniel Polsfuss & poet Roy McBride made it.

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Shinders to Shinders

YouTube video by Patrick Scully

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Air to Ground Message: DISPGND CNTL SAYS A CONSTRUCTION CREW WITH AN AUGER ACCIDENTALLY CUT A BUNDLE OF ABOUT 400 ATC CABLES...OOPS. Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA Type: Airbus A321neo A: #a73d46088f6 F: #f65c3225273

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Congress currently has very few reps who have worked union jobs or have any background with the labor movement This election cycle, over 3 dozen candidates for the House and Senate come from the House of Labor www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

theguardian.com

Revenge of the labor movement: Democrats with union backgrounds aim to retake Congress

Meet the candidates with labor ties vying for Senate and House seats in midterm races. Most of the nominees are Democrats as the party looks to rebuild support among working-class voters

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Sh🍙kir! @titansmitt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

'Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story' fucking rips. I didn't give a shit about the show's previous seasons of killers, but this one tells a compelling tale as to why Borden would be driven to brutally murdering her parents. Rebecca Hall and Charlie Hunnam are EATING in this, y'all.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 20/09/2026

Episode 5 of Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story is instructive: doomed patriarch Andrew Borden moves through a world of female archetypes until he runs afoul of the one that winds up destroying him. Brennan and company are not unaware of their own artifice.

decider.com

‘Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story’ Episode 5 recap: Father figure

An episode this focused on Edward Borden, one of Lizzie’s hugely unsympathetic victims, invites some wider musings about the whole Monster project.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 20/09/2026

There’s a movie from 1960 called “12 To The Moon” where all of the characters have space helmets with no face mask at all (for the stage light reflections) so the first guy out of the ship has to say “I’m now activating my x-ray face barrier to protect me from the vacuum of space.”

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 20/09/2026

Dead Internet remains Dead

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele (3rd–1st Century BCE)

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 19/09/2026

The Ford app just added AI. This is the greatest thing ever.

Ford app AI prompt, with the user-entered text "Write a 150-word story about Sailor Moon and Hatsune Miku kissing."

Under the gentle glow of a moonlit Tokyo skyline, Usagi Tsukino stood atop a quiet rooftop terrace, the night breeze catching her golden twin tails. Beside her, Hatsune Miku adjusted her glowing teal ribbons, a soft electronic melody humming faintly from the synth display at her wrist. The vibrant city buzzed far below, but above the streets, the air was peaceful and still.
Turning toward each other, Usagi smiled warmly, her bright eyes reflecting the starlight. Miku stepped closer, her digital glow softly illuminating the space between them. Without a word, Usagi leaned in, and their lips met in a sweet, tender kiss that seemed to bridge magic and music into…

one perfect harmony. As they pulled back, blushing beneath the moonlight, Miku shared a soft, cheerful smile.
Now that the magic and music are in harmony, is there anything I can help you with regarding your Mustang Mach-E
today?

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 19/09/2026

Holy cow each pic is a season of a prestige TV series, they practically pitch themselves.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 18/09/2026

Did OpenAI just send me a junk email solicitation?

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 18/09/2026

I know people with $200/mo+ chatbot subs writing little Pro Tools sidecar apps that save them maybe an hour a month and have annual unit sales in the single digits.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026

This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 18/09/2026

KARR was voiced by (pre-Transformers) Peter Cullen.

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

50 years ago today.

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