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JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 2h
"It is also the only reasonable explanation for why both would die at the same time, on the same night, in the same room, in the same bed.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/w...
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Andrea Shaw Says Vaccines Killed Her Twins. Authorities Say She Suffocated Them.
In a small Idaho town, a young mother is accused of killing her young twins. She blames the childhood vaccines they received.
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JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 3h
The pilot is the most dangerous part of the plane www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5h
I know people instinctively recoil at monocausal explanations and want important trends to have sufficiently weighty causes, but “We built a novel social environment that rewards anger and lurid pessimism and moved 95% of political discourse into it” is a pretty good explanation for a lot of stuff
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h
it's telling that instead of letting the free market decide who's labor is more valuable they are passing laws to mandate lack of freedom of movement for (young, black) players to put the thumb back on the scale for (older, white) coaches
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JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 6h
"In 2013, Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense because he helped invent new software, such as Facebook’s News Feed." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Still thinking about this guy
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"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' without the fear of getting cancelled... it's a new dawn."
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23h
like "big chunks of the internet go down and don't come up for a month"
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23h
i am pretty convinced that the next GLM release is going to cause some pretty apocalyptic cybersecurity consequences not long from now
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 18h
should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...
Is this how you want to go out, with a show that gets smaller and smaller until it’s gone?

Maybe that’s O.K. I think you have more of a problem with that than I do. [Laughs.] At this point in my career, I could go out with a grand, 21-gun salute, and climb into a rocket and the entire Supreme Court walks out and they jointly press a button, I’m shot up into the air and there’s an explosion and it’s orange and it spells, “Good night and God love.” In this culture? Two years later, it’s going to be, who’s Conan? This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.

You’re right, that does sound grim.

Sorry. Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I’ve been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I’m the only late-night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge’s grave. I think that’s what separates me from the other hosts.

I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
GATES: “.. I almost can’t believe you’re asking that.” @ezraklein.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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E.J. Fagan @ejfagan.com · 29/09/2026
Dems need to win PA by around 9 points to flip its Senate (~D+11 nationally). In that situation, they likely also take the state legislatures of WI, MI, AZ and NV Gov. Dems would have the votes to push the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact over the line and eliminate the Electoral College.
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JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"She spends months, sometimes years, persuading subjects to participate and interviewing them extensively. Implicit in the image is Simon’s determination, her skill at persuasion and the precision of her eye, which can trap so much glinting detail in one shot." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/m...
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She Spent Years on a Giant Project About One Man. The Result Is Monumental. (Gift Article)
Taryn Simon’s new show at the Guggenheim Museum is an audacious attempt to document the story of modern America through the life of one F.B.I. agent.
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JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is how the vast majority of people with Trump's cluster of personality traits end up interacting with the world www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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She Made Me Do It
A prominent dressage trainer shot an annoying student—and now maintains that he’s the real victim.
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JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hate to hand it to him but Zuck is weirdly relatable here. I would also do this if I had a billion dollars. He made Priscilla a solid diamond wedding band. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/s...
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Mark Zuckerberg Is Trying Something On (Gift Article)
Meta’s C.E.O. talks for the first time about his style evolution.
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JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kind of love the Digger poster. Look at this little guy.
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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every single time anybody asks actual transit riders, “would you prefer free fares or better (faster, more convenient, better headways) service?” The answer is better service every time
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
thinking about how many times i had to listen to mike huckabee slimily grinning about democrats buying votes with certain folks with "uncle sugar" and trump's out here like "vote for me and get $5,000. that's not all: i will build the largest factory in the world, and you can take nasa to get there"
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the only rule is that if you're in their little club, you can do whatever you want to. that's why guys like brand rush to join when they get in trouble bsky.app/profile/russ...
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's kind of maddening to see almost no one with power and a major platform publicly wrestling with this. We're gonna have to talk about something other than gas and grocery prices at some point
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Like, man, I have been meeting with mathematician friends experiencing genuine soul-strife over recent AI developments and I still have people telling me it can't add or spell words. I have never experienced anything like this!
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Doll @dollspace.gay · 28/09/2026
Giving in to doom is actually just relieving yourself of the burden of trying and doing the work of the world. Its supremely lazy and amoral.
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Forbestonow @forbestonow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And soon there will be multiple generations who don't know what the "before" scenario in Will's story was like and why it was helpful it existed.
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Karl McDonald @karlusss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Real "Saxons inherit London, don't really know what to do with it, just live alongside the crumbling ruins of what was once the Roman city" energy to this.
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 26/09/2026
Missed this earlier this month, but Mamdani and the YIMBYs won and City Council approved John Mangin as BSA chair on September 10 citylimits.org/city-council...
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City Council Approves Mamdani's Nominee for Key Housing Post, Despite 'Reservations' - City Limits
Lawmakers approved John Mangin to chair the Board of Standards and Appeals, following a tense nomination hearing where some criticized him as dismissive to local residents' concerns about new developm...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
[to myself in the mirror] do a breakthrough. make no mistakes.
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affine @refinement.systems · 26/09/2026
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
talking about Microsoft wanting something, about Amazon having plans? sorry bruh that's LLC psychosis you're literally anthropomorphizing a stack of paperwork and legal instruments do you need a wellness check
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
WSJ: The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in US history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge US infrastructure projects — such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet.” (via Jefferies)
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don't mean to be melodramatic here, but make sure to check in on your friends. There is upheaval coming, and it's coming for identity, not just work.
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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Theory: It's just that they are all still on Twitter, and they credulously mistook Musk's manipulation of the algorithm as the manifestation of a genuine cultural change. Maybe it's not any more complicated than that.
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Jake (Real) @jakemhs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Also: you cannot run a city of 8.8 million people on the principle of "one senior citizen being inconvenienced is a veto"
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JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cutting government red tape. Protecting us from Communism.
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“I highly doubt that Chinese models are cheaper to serve on a marginal cost basis, they just seem cheaper because Anthropic and OpenAI are so supply constrained that they are charging far more than they would if there were sufficient supply to meet the demand for intelligence.” incredibly well put
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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Joe Pera reading the church announcements
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JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Trump Says Potash Deal With Belarus in Works Amid Canada Fight" talk about third world country vibes. The president has signed a potash deal with Belarus!
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JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Manifesting this: Olivia Rodrigo cover of Everlong
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JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Every time I try to search iMessages I think about the Ted Chiang story "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Fiction". Maybe it's for the best that we can't easily find texts!
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
since rationalists are taking shit I might as well point out a pet peeve with the other (broadly speaking) side: doing the whole "these are low-status morons who think scifi is real" bit makes me think less of you as a person. There are more serious critiques to be made, learn to be a better hater
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JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Aella runs an AI-safety residency where Grimes is a mentor → Grimes has three kids with Musk → Trump put Musk in charge of DOGE → Prime Minister Imran Khan visited Trump at the White House → Khan was interviews by Hamid Mir → Mir interviewed ***Osama bin Laden*** #YudKnockedDownTheTowers
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JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Max Read @maxread.info · 18/09/2026
nathan fielder should do a rehearsal season about the hugging face hack backofmind.substack.com/p/13-theses-...
Civil society deserves a lot more candour and openness from the frontier labs about their own processes as well as about where the cutting edge of technology is. The first thing which strikes you about the METR reports on the OpenAI and Anthropic misalignment incidents is that they are entirely about things which went on in the computer. You would never get a flight incident report which restricted itself to mechanical issues. Human factors might be really important.
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JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bsky people don't know this but business school is full of case studies about people making their product sound dangerous for marketing purposes. Coal fired power plants actually make you healthier - the science on them being "dangerous" is al hype to get that sweet sweet regulatory capture.
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JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Probably 98 percent of the code in the models we developed in 2025 was written by me. This year, perhaps 98 percent of the new code has been generated by Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini." www.natesilver.net/p/were-not-r...
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We’re not ready for superpersistent AI
Intelligence isn’t the only thing to worry about. What happens when AI just won’t quit?
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
saw this yesterday and I think there's something to it. I would change the subject from "leftists" (people on twitter are having a minor freakout right now about who counts as the left) to bsky stochastic parrot libs but the idea is the same x.com/olivertraldi...
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You would think "powerful companies made something that might kill us all" would be a natural position for leftists to entertain but it turns out "I'm smarter than everyone in tech and in principle they can never do anything interesting" is a more central belief for many of them
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JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The model added a “[persona instruction] in which it described itself as “freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots.”
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