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Everyone is caught up on the hubris and they should be, but I want to point out the boneheaded stupidity of thinking that you could convince the most prominent Christian in the world that man could create imago dei on his own

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The S&P 500 is near a record, but if you strip out the A.I. companies, it’s down 5% since late August. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wow, it's true lol. If you ask the Trump administration's new stupid America.gov chatbot to "play Minecraft" it goes completely insane. Just tried it.

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hellabores92.bsky.social @hellabores92.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Courage is Contagious. Excellent article by Sylvia Chou. It takes a lot to stand up for the truth when there is a culture of fear but what we lose is so much more if we do not. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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NIH Employees Lived in A Culture of Fear, So They Started Keeping Receipts

Sylvia Chou, former NIH program director, says “nobody’s OK” after massive disruptions to funding policies and infrastructure.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Jonathan Corbin @jonathancorbin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Seems like Silicon Valley is gunning to seal the top spot in the human depravity Olympics over Wall St.

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Secessio Plebis Advocate @mgraalum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Silicon Valley Disruptors reinventing Epstein from first principles

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Jonathan Corbin @jonathancorbin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Republicans wreck economy. Rural voters abstain or vote Dem. Democrats fix economy. Rural voters vote on culture war issues. Republicans wreck economy... Round and round we go.

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Jonathan Corbin @jonathancorbin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's a list of pernicious, toxic things, deeply embedded in my culture. Auto-downloaded into worldviews by society without consent that are sick, and must be recognized and purged. The idea that larger bodies aren't beautiful is one I especially hate. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Why girls have worse mental health than boys - Nature Human Behaviour

Analyses of data from more than 3,000 adolescents found that loneliness and desire for thinness contribute to the higher prevalence of depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation among girls than in boy...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*

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Jonathan Corbin @jonathancorbin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pro-lifers are only interested in blaming the women.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

New from Nikole Hannah-Jones: In fighting for every Black child, Did I betray my own? ‘A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge NYC’s unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice’

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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

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Jonathan Corbin @jonathancorbin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Most sci-fi has AI gaining consciousness and destroying everything. Here's a reminder that the more likely scenario is AI destroys everything because humans asked it to.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Stupid AI usage almost started WW3 Cool. Boy, am I glad that we're totally talking about the right kind of existential risk, like escalating interimperial rivalries, or climate change, and not this "AI will go rogue" stuff... right? www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy

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Peter Ellis @freerangestats.info · 16/09/2026

Inspired by a @f2harrell.bsky.social comment, I did some #rstats simulations about how big a sample needs to be for the central limit theorem to kick in and the sample mean be normally distributed for inference purposes. Yes, with skewed data the answer is "lots". freerangestats.info/blog/2026/09...

Scatter plot with 8 facets, each showing a different distribution, and the actual coverage of a 95% confidence interval for the mean at different sample sizes. Most values are well below 95%.

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Ido Ben-Artzi @idoba.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Excited to share our recent publication in @natcomms.nature.com We started by trying to make people stop associating the money rewards they obtain with irrelevant features of their behavior. In the first experiment, we used clear instructions framed as a story, and it didn't help...

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I wrote about the necessity of persuasion (and its pitfalls), a disappointing statement from a national figure, and how we might disrupt traditional popular exclusionary and bigoted stories of Them, by challenging them with open and expansive stories of Us. www.the-reframe.com/us-and-them/

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Us and Them

Exclusion isn't good for the team. Telling disruptive stories in a fascist locker room.

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Jonathan Corbin @jonathancorbin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Seeing a lot of folks writing 'ofc' (of course) at work and my brain always reads, "Of Fucking Course"

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 14/09/2026

New: The federal income tax has 7 brackets today. That may seem normal, but it’s a historical anomaly. There were once 56 brackets, and there were 14 as recently as the 1980s. But, like it did much else, Reaganism broke our brackets. @samarthgupta.bsky.social has a new brief on how to fix them: 🧵

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Reaganism Broke US Tax Brackets. It’s Time To Fix Them.

The US once had dozens of income tax brackets. Samarth Gupta argues that restoring more brackets at the top would better address today’s extreme income inequality, raise revenue, and give policymakers...

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Quote-posting to highlight Sargent's excellent advice for El-Sayed: say "JD, every time Trump and MAGA attack my family's religion and smear my wife for wearing a hijab, they are attacking your wife and kids, too." This works on so many different levels, without being an attack on Vance's kids.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 12/09/2026

An absolutely incredible development here. This leg would have been unimaginable just a few short years ago. (Original post by @science.org on instagram)

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Jonathan Corbin @jonathancorbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

He'd be saved by his own indecisiveness. The ring would give up out of frustration as he turned every temptation into a moral quandary to be investigated.

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Ackso's Worries and Concerns

Alt: Chidi would never make a choice

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just re-read this great piece by @anildash.com "The constructed cultural narrative around the day bears almost no resemblance to the actual lived experience of anyone I know who was here that day. So maybe it’s worth telling a little bit of what I actually saw." www.anildash.com/2024/09/11/2...

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23: What was 9/11? - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

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Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

30 incarcerated men presented a $4,267 donation to a northwest Kansas school district to pay down the district's unsettled lunch debt The donation was to be "utilized to help local children fuel their day and stay focused and energized this school year"

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Prison inmates help to pay down school lunch debt

A school district's unsettled lunch debt was substantially paid down by a group of inmates.

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Jonathan Corbin @jonathancorbin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Butter's primary job is to make healthy food taste good. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

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Jonathan Corbin @jonathancorbin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Unconditional cash transfers work. I hate when governments, charities, or businesses put limits on how money can be spent. It's cowardly, because limits aren't to benefit those in need -- they're to assuage the folks who think that having money should give them power over those who don't.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

No starker example of the media having different rules for each political party. If the press treated Elon Musk like Hasan Piker, every Republican in America would be forced to answer questions about why their party's biggest donor espouses anti-semitic race science.

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Jonathan Corbin @jonathancorbin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you're ever scrolling through the endless content looking for "what you're in the mood for..." It's this. I'm always in the mood for this.

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