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Jacob Oliver @jsoliver.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This Is Just To Say I have named a private initiative the Department of Government Efficiency It is not a department it is not the government Forgive me it was simpler than respecting the power of the purse

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Jacob Oliver @jsoliver.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

If only someone had written a book that could definitely satisfy each and every one of these questions without sacrificing integrity or inclusivity. OH WAIT, I DID

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Jacob Oliver @jsoliver.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

How strange it is to watch an entire media ecosystem praise a billionaire vanity project for accomplishing something that NASA did in 1961.

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Jacob Oliver @jsoliver.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

We don’t make sense of things all at once. We reason, revise, and test our thinking in real time—with others. Judgment is slow work. But it’s the only kind that lasts. New from De Sensus Communis: Making Sense of Things open.substack.com/pub/jsoliver...

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Making Sense of Things

The Slow, Hard Work of Getting Things Right—Without Getting Lost or Losing Our Minds

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John Hodgman @hodgman.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

It's too bad they couldn't find a single other funny performer who isn't touring right now and might be open to hosting a late night show on broadcast television.

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Jacob Oliver @jsoliver.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Common sense isn’t just what ‘everybody knows’ or thinking for yourself—it’s about judgment, balancing collective wisdom with personal reasoning. Dive into why both extremes fall short and how real common sense is built. #CommonSense #Philosophy #EduSky

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What Common Sense Is Not

Between Common Sense and Sensus Communis

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Jacob Oliver @jsoliver.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

People love saying "everybody knows" to end arguments. But who exactly is "everybody"? What's obvious in a small town can sound crazy in a big city. So, what does "common sense" even mean when nobody agrees on what's common? #CommonSense #Judgment

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Dems should propose a law that immediately requires every fed agency to post on @bsky.app account, every outlay with a detailed description, $, and a link to existing gov sites with in depth details Rather than trying to keep Elon out, pre-empt him so he cant miss characterize spending.

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Jacob Oliver @jsoliver.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

If anyone ever asks why it's important to study literature you can just point them toward the Romeo and Juliet episode of The Andy Griffith Show, in which we see that practice precedes (and then follows) theory in just about every regard that matters. mayberry.fandom.com/wiki/A_Feud_...

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A Feud Is a Feud

Andy hopes to finally bring peace to two of the county's longtime feuding families, the Carters and the Wakefields - by arranging a duel between the two patriarchs of the quarreling clans! When Andy n...

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