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John Rogers

@johnrogers.bsky.social
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TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at buttondown.email/kungfumonkey

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 3h
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3h
this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 3h
They’re making cranky grandpa travel, and he is fucking done.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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Mad Cave Studios @madcavestudios.com · 30/09/2026
Sept 30th is the Canadian National Day for Truth & Reconciliation, dedicated to honoring Residential School Survivors & the communities. You Are on Native Land, our latest charity comic, donates all proceeds to indigenous-led organizations. For more info bit.ly/4cXO5OZ
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 16h
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Voice4Justice @voices4justice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fifty years ago, in his most famous work, the prolific intellectual Carlo Cipolla argued that stupid people, as a group, are “much more powerful than the mafia, or the military industrial complex.” ⚠️ newrepublic.com/article/2157... #DonBeast
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Trump Personifies the Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
How a 50-year-old treatise by an Italian economic historian makes sense of our utterly senseless moment
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 30/09/2026
"This separatist movement is a guerrilla faction of the global far right which is attacking open societies across the world." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: We must call Alberta separation what it is
It is not a movement of grievance politics. Something far more sinister is at work
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just needs alt-text:
How to avoid sexual assault! A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE* 

sexual violence centre cork 

1 DON'T PUT DRUGS IN PEOPLE'S DRINKS 

4 WHEN YOU SEE A WOMAN WALKING BY HERSELF, LEAVE HER ALONE. 

3 WHEN YOU COME ACROSS SOMEONE WHO IS DRUNK OR ASLEEP, THE BEST THING TO DO IS NOT RAPE THEM. 

6 CARRY A WHISTLE. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT RAPE SOMEONE, BLOW THE WHISTLE UNTIL SOMEONE COMES TO STOP YOU.

2 USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! IF YOU CAN'T STOP YOURSELF FROM SEXUALLY ASSAULTING SOMEONE, ASK A TRUSTED FRIEND TO ACCOMPANY YOU AT ALL TIMES TO STOP YOU. 

5 IF YOU ARE IN A LIFT AND SOMEONE STEPS IN, REMEMBER NOT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT THEM.

*for perpetrators.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’ve used the 1st edition to collaboratively build with my group the last two multi-year campaign worlds, and will be snatching this up. Also just great for hanging with creative friends and doing non-rpg creative play.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To quote the late and great MF DOOM: “If yer gonna hate, might as well get yer rumors straight.” Apt words when it comes to your L.A. team and its ownership group. The full guide: lataco.com/fascist-la-s... By @afroxander.bsky.social and Ivan Ehlers
An illustration of arms in red sleeves held straight up while a basketball flies in the space around.

Headline reads "‘How Fascist Is Your L.A. Sports Team?’: A Guide by L.A. TACO"
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look having the entire roster of FBI agents leak isn't a front-page newsworthy security failure meriting front page coverage the same way having some of your emails to Anthony Weiner's wife be discovered on Anthony Weiner's laptop was
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 29/09/2026
'The humanist view of life is progressive and optimistic, in awe of human potential, living without fear of judgement or death, and finding enough purpose and meaning in life , love, and leaving a good legacy.' Humanists UK Vice President Polly Toynbee. Great themes found in any #HumanistBookshelf
‘What matters is not what nature has given us but what we choose to do about it. The humanist view of life is progressive and optimistic, in awe of human potential, living without fear of judgement or death, finding enough purpose and meaning in life, love, and leaving a good legacy.’
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kash Patel should resign in disgrace. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
Ciaran Martin, the former head of Britain’s cyberdefense agency, said the F.B.I. hack likely had “huge impact on the operational capability” of the bureau and could rank as one of the most consequential data breaches in history — graver even than the Office of Personnel Management burglary.

“Losing the data on 20 million federal employees to the Chinese was bad,” Mr. Martin said. “But you knew the Chinese weren’t going to sell or publish it.”
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
God I hate being right.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026
An Oklahoma family was forced to abandon their home after it filled with slick, black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite ample evidence of oil and gas pollution, state regulators say they cannot help. (Published May)
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Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help.
The Merediths were forced to abandon their house after it filled with black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite evidence of oil and gas pollution, the state “wanted to act li...
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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
WHAT THE FUCK??
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is extremely encouraging to know the Youngs understand Bookshop Girl is an erotic icon. Some things *are* eternal.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s going to be pretty fucked up when this baby yeti starts telling people to kill themselves.
Subway display ad for meta’s muse ai product billed as “ai that gets it done.” The mascot is a little smiling fuzzy white puppet guy.
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 28/09/2026
When I set out to fact check “The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs” which argues that harm reduction may increase overdoses, I expected some cherry picking and misdirection. But not to find basic math errors and debunked right wing talking points asserted as fact in the Atlantic’s print edition.
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Atlantic's anti-harm reduction screed riddled with errors
A close read of "The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs" found errors in basic arithmetic as well as more deliberately misleading elements
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths in states with abortion bans is nearly double that in states where abortion is legal.” That stat should shame every anti abortionist in the world.
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a valuable tutorial on why LLMs run into a fundamental problem of not being useful to tell us true things. And it gives some great use cases on what they *are* good for. Great for users, students, and teachers. Read the whole series!
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every thriller and scifi writer in America: "Um, am I in trouble for having this in my Notes for like ten years?"
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Since WWII ended, one of the primary goals of the American advocates for a fascistic, blood and soil, white Christian nationalist version of American citizenship has been to make their position seem like "the other side of the debate that (((they))) are trying to silence." bsky.app/profile/seth...
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Me, totally safe, after spending four delightful hours in Jurassic Park's passenger pigeon and dodo sanctuary: "Fuck happened out here"
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
you could avoid the atlantic and read my essay about the right's attack on empathy instead, if you wanted. therevealer.org/what-we-can-...
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What We Can Learn from the Right’s Attack On “Toxic Empathy” — The Revealer
Why are prominent right-wing figures and conservative Christians claiming empathy is bad?
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm getting myself a high powered microwave drone killer and going shopping! Who's with me?
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I grew up expecting that 2026 would be grimdark cyberpunk, but I never had the audacity to imagine that the future would be this stupid: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...
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It’s Raining Boxes: Amazon Drones Overwhelm a Texas Suburb
In Richardson, a fleet of drones has started to deliver goods quickly. But the noise is drowning out life for some residents: ‘We can’t live like this.’
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 16/09/2026
lady: our data center flexes demand to protect the grid and ratepayers!

guy: how

lady: we use AI to shift load!

guy: how

lady: we run diesel generators when prices spike

guy: thank you
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Having written a TV show built on "deep dives on one bad rich guy per week" with one version 2008-2012 and another 2021-2025, I'll say that the OG evil rich guys were evil greedy assholes, and the new rich guys are mentally disordered perverts, and so do evil. And not the good kind of perverts.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026
reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since Elon Musk seems to hate this documentary about him from one of my favorite non-fiction filmmakers, Alex Gibney, figured it was my duty to spread a link to the trailer so you can see it for yourself. ENJOY: loom.ly/oA2_-p8
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
Musk
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Meme: "I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards"
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“It’s not pervert glasses, it’s a tiny fuzzy pervert you wear around your neck because you trapped him in a tiny pervert cage. It’s not weird. He likes the cage, if you know what I mean. Now come over here and let him have a good look at you.”
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Ladz ❄️🖤🩸 @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
REMEDY BOOK RECS Who else is trapped in a Hiss-warped version of Manhattan this weekend now that CONTROL RESONANT is officially out? I've collected some reading materials to hold you over between sessions Check them out 👇
Books for fans of Alan Wake, Control, Alan Wake II, and Control Resonant
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It's Chaos, Be Kind @atomicovermind.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New missive from the Department of Forseeable Consequences.
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The Barbarienne @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
now with alt-text
The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.social
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
sammatey.substack.com
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 25/09/2026
Never underestimate American racism.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
I am now reading @poisonivy.bsky.social's account which starts with "I’ve dropped a few articles about my experiences at Vibecamp, and interactions in the Rationalist / Effective Altruist corner of the TESCREAL diaspora." Because nothing seems to take these people out 😡
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You should read this piece about Jim Crow theobros. It says a lot about the racial underpinnings that I talk about in my book White Evangelical Racism; The Politics of Morality in America. religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If many Kansas voters weren't completely deranged, this would be the final nail in Marshall's career's coffin as a senator and as a doctor.
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