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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22h

Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.

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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Did not see Slutcon breaking containment via The Economist, but here we are.

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Some rationalists fear their association with AI safety may end up harming the cause. “I think it really does damage the credibility of a movement with 60-year-old voters in Ohio when it’s hosting Slutcon and asking questions about sex with dead cows on its application forms,” Scott Alexander, an influential blogger, has written on X. Slutcon is a conference set up by Aella, a rationalist, sex researcher and prostitute, where participants pay up to $18,000 to attend sessions on topics including “flirting for the submissive man” and “vaginal gymnastics”.

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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the past sucked, it's just that you were a child

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But ice cream shops can’t give a free cone to someone with an “I voted” sticker

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 02/10/2026

Taking people's chairs away doubles their heart disease risk.🤷🏿‍♂️ Yes, sitting too much causes health problems. But the solution isn't "Then always stand!🤡" Because human bodies are meant to move. Stand. Sit. Change positions. Move around.

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Standing too much at work can double your risk of heart disease: U of T expert

There's been a lot of interest in the harmful effects of prolonged sitting at work, from academics and the public alike. The attention being paid to sitting – or rather, not sitting – while on the job...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also, and I cannot stress this enough, you can do both. The sheer ability of people to hear "Voting matters" & interpret that as "I just personally ordered you to never volunteer or donate to a cause ever again. And the only way to break the spell is complain" It's a monument to human ingenuity.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gosh, why wouldn't people want to visit the country that's disappearing and trafficking human beings every day

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 29/09/2026

Trivia! The top high school student in the USA applies to U of Texas and Stanford, and gets into both. He commits to go to UT, because they promise him a free entry-level laptop. But a Stanford prof says, "If you come here, I'll give you a $4000 high end laptop!" The kid says OK. Is this illegal?

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I do think a lot of people do need to recalibrate their reality around the fact that people born in 2008 will be voting in this election.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

given that "a military coup" is at 59% here I think that number seems a little low honestly

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/09/2026

Don't fuck your staff, folks

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

ngl I was stunned by this article's cite to a study showing that 5.4 million children & teens in the US have family caregiving responsibilities @jessicacalarco.com has done lotsa interesting work on how the US uses women in lieu of a social safety net but I had no idea how much labor falls on..kids

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

like, the actual physical White House is not the most important thing the federal government does by a long shot but it really is one of the most visible, it belonged to all of us, and he fucking wrecked it

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith

It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but apart from making you feel warmer, it wouldn’t do any good. You could say it was unfair, and that was true, but the universe didn’t care because it didn’t know what “fair” meant. That was the big problem about being a witch. It was up to you. It was always up to you.

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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Was on LinkedIn and saw hockey stick diagram where the y-axis was number of employees. Leaders were high giving and talking about how they reached that target even faster. 😬🫣

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i think the closest analogy to 'what is going on at AI companies' is 'what was going on at JPL in the 1950s,' where communists, Satanists, swingers and adherents of a bizarre Russian Orthodox-adjacent techno-optimist microsect ended up doing a tremendous amount of important rocket science

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Amtrak Cascades @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov · 17/09/2026

NEW AMTRAK CASCADES TRAINS START SEPTEMBER 30. You can experience the new Amtrak Cascades trains beginning September 30. Four daily trains will be operating as new trainsets. Trains 503, 508, [SEA-EUG] 516 and 519 [SEA-VAC]. See the schedule at AmtrakCascades.com. Read more at: media.amtrak.com/

A new Amtrak Cascades train cruises up the tracks in style south of Tukwila with Mt. Rainier rising majestically in the background under a light blue sky with trees fringing the photo. The new train sports evergreen, mocha and cream colors with gold nugget accents. There are two headlights on below the windshield of the train.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 17/09/2026

It's hilarious that "the initial work and underlying philosophy of this massive defense-linked American industry came from a small group of sorta racist californians who were super into esoteric sex cultism" is not enough to pin down what industry you're talking about

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 17/09/2026

this why I laugh any time people ask me "won't slop be insecure" my sibling in christ, where do you think they learned to code insecurely from

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

funny to think that Seattle basically never loses anymore, everyones like they do it with a bunch of very good but not all time players and the one guy on that team who might be the greatest to ever play his position is the punter

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I was just at a store I go to a lot and I'm feeling good today so I stopped the manager and told her how impressed I am with how hard they work to keep it looking nice. i thought she was going to straight up cry. like 5 minutes later I heard her telling everyone else over the radio 🥺

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026

PATEL: The previous regulation automatically disqualified any individual who participated in either side of it KENNEDY: Either side of beastiality? So you disqualified the animal? P: Well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them K: I'm trying to understand why you did this.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lukewarm take: I feel a lot of pessimism about the present is built on not realizing just how bad the past was. Like if you just read a book about poverty in a first-world country in the 1950s it's staggeringly worse than now.

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polytoken dot dev @polytoken.dev · 15/09/2026

nobody else has the steel moral core to tell you the truth in release notes

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.

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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 13/09/2026

Hot take: If @flysea.bsky.social wants to run a golf cart along the only pedestrian connection to the light rail they should just drive it at walking speed instead of taking half the space and honking at people.

Photo of a sign in the pedestrian walkway to Link at SEA that reads: "Pedestrians Stay to the RIGHT; Shuttle in use."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

IMO, the solution should not be to browbeat people into an old standard, but rather allow people to wear whatever they want. If someone can wear ducky pajamas in public, you can wear tailoring in any cut, color, and material. As options open up, dress can then be a source of pleasure.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

In Beijing, a think tank at Renmin University recently published an assessment titled
"Thank Trump," which wryly hailed his efforts to hasten the "twilight of an empire," by undermining America's alliances, civil service, scientific institutions, and democratic credibility. In the past two years, the international approval rating of the U.S. has dropped nearly forty points, according to a worldwide survey by the Alliance of Democracies; in multiple polls, China now rates higher than the U.S.

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eb99 @eb99.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

After three years, today is my last day at Anthropic. They found me hiding in their bathroom's ceiling and kicked me out.

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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I get the feeling Lewis doesn't know the book and movie are different, much less check the wiki page for the book or author.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

AI chatbots have democratized billionaire brain worms by allowing everyone—not just the very rich—to experience total insanity-inducing sycophancy

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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Honestly a solid summary of Ryanair's customer service philosophy for those unfamiliar with the airline.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

real friendships involve the other person pushing back against you, having needs, being busy, not being able to devote themselves to you. we know from the experience of the powerful that having somebody at your literal beck and call is a factor in driving people mad.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Anybody know what to do with FIVE POUNDS of hen of the woods

The poster posing with the rewards of the hunt (a big juicy cluster of hen of the woods mushroom- like a big peach-colored rosette)

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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

During early COVID people didn't realize that a 1-2% chance of death was about the same risk as base jumping or deep cave diving 10% is adjacent to "combat parachute drop," and I have no idea why it would be a talking point for anyone contemplating a future at all

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

the problem with this is that peter thiel has a degree in philosophy from stanford

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