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You can also just decide what to make, make it, enjoy it, and not have to run it through the committee before you start, right?

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Movies aren't always meant to be seen with strangers, but a lot of the time the people in the room that you don't know help you have a different experience of the movie you're watching together, which was also made by people none of you know.

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I don't know how to express that in a review, but it feels unfair somehow that people who saw it by themselves at their house have equal review weight with people who bought a ticket and sat in the seat at Jacob Burns with the Pleasantville kids.

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Mike Jurney @jurney.bsky.social · 9h

I watched it with my teenager in a local theater on a Friday after-school showing, with several groups of variously aged other teens and several pairs of die hard Sees Every Film types and it made a fine movie - which it is, it's fine - genuinely sing.

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The thing is it's not my job to consider the moral implications of calling you a nazi, it's your job to not do so much nazi shit that I feel compelled to say it

Mike Jurney @jurney.bsky.social · 13h

Just saw someone post "I dilute myself into thinking" and I am FASCINATED by the implications.

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 09/10/2026

If more of them talked like that, more of them would.

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Mike Jurney @jurney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I live in Lawler's district and I can tell you people LOVE him for the SALT cap raise. He runs on it, people put "Mike - Thanks for the SALT!" signs in their yards. It's the one unifying thing people point to as pretty good. If she can puncture that, oh man. She might actually have a chance.

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Mike Jurney @jurney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not all of my guy friends have kids, but to a man the ones that do are great dads and I love that

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff is definitely not listening to Yglesias/Klein/PodSave reactionary centrist crowd, he does not think his marginal voter is a white-supremacist, and that is what makes him such an attractive candidate to the vast majority of US who are not white-supremacists.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This debate performance is really going to help Ossoff stand out in the 2028 pack specifically because "does not eat shit in a debate" is going to be a top qualification for so many Democratic voters

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Mike Jurney @jurney.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I cannot yes-and this hard enough. It's an absolute and total came-changer.

Mike Jurney @jurney.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It is genuinely wild to me how much of the reporting on Hurricane Isaias is focused on the impact it could have on college football. Even when they DO talk about how historically late it is for a first hurricane, and the climate aspect and its implications, the major impacts are all about football.

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Mike Jurney @jurney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles... The finale was terrible, though the whole last season was bad, and it made a lot of choices that invalidated what made some of the main characters interesting in the first seasons. Just a textbook failure to stick the landing.

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Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) - Wikipedia

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Mike Jurney @jurney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Battlestar Galactica remake - The ending ruined so many of the characters that re-watching was pointless.

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I don't think it's possible to get there, for various reasons that include the fact that brains aren't computers, they're meat machines in hormone baths and their essential characteristics are inaccessible to mechanization, but I guess that's the fight we're having right now.

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What's missing is an understanding that it might actually be impossible to make a system that can't show you anything new, only things new to you, truly creative. That's the MUST here - that we get to a place where engineering is an ecosystem service like pollination.

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So when people say "AI HAS TO WORK" I think what they mean is something like "We've already made it good enough to eliminate human opportunity to improve the discipline, so we HAVE to make it so good that human's stop being necessary to improve the discipline".

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Realizing that I'm the most productive I've ever been, not by a little but by a LOT. But in this mode there's never going to be another me - so what has to happen? Where we are right now is that there are no more junior software engineers with a path to forge themselves into senior engineers.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think about this every day at my job where after 30 years of relentless knowledge acquisition and being in the room when things went wrong taught me mountains about how to do my kind of work, often by having not been nearly as good at it as my peers who were, frankly, inventing the discipline.

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One of my favorite YouTube subgenres is "I saw a thing in a very remote area on Google Earth, and then I hiked out to it, and it sure was weird."

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Mike Jurney @jurney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Gently, earnestly, the stigma isn't around veganism, it's around vegans - specifically a type of activist vegan that is so personally and socially obnoxiously off-putting about it that it taints people's perception of the whole concept.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Mike Jurney @jurney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Federalist Society says what..?

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I think "I learned it by watching you" was more memorable to those of us who were kids, but EVERYONE knew "this is your brain on drugs".

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I mean, they clearly are. That's very obviously what they're doing, don't you think? Not being aggressive here except in how hard I'm agreeing with you.

Yes. It will also feed the many, many LLM-backed systems of dominance and control the federal government kicked off building when DOGE stole and aggregated essentially all existing federal data about US citizens. There's a reason they love these tools.

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Huh, look at that. She thought MAGA mainly hated libs, but it turns out they actually like white people more than they hate poor people. Because they're first and foremost racists. Yes, all of them.

Similarly, people treat 9/11 as if it was a natural disaster and not a profound professional failure of the republican government that was in power at the time. Kind people that I like and respect said things like "I didn't vote for bush but I'm glad gore wasn't in office on the day...". Maddening.

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I swear I'm going to lose my mind when the democrats get back some power and refuse to fight for anything that matters because "that would make us as bad as they are." No shit, idiots. Be worse.

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"After having run the table for the last 10 years, massively pulling the entire society in a direction that almost everyone except for the tiny extremist minority I'm a part of hates, we're starting to lose momentum. Now is obviously the time for everyone to focus on compromise."

NYC is a pretty good metaphor for the whole country, honestly. The vast majority of its people are more-or-less focused on living a good life and building a generous society for everyone, but they can't because they have to deal with Staten fucking Island which hates having to be a part of it.

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If you haven't read this, you should

Mike Jurney @jurney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I feel like she'd be ok with having had that specific alley-oop

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Mike Jurney @jurney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It wouldn't be a terrible use of a wish to used it to embody her for just long enough to say "don't get shitty with us just because you don't know ball"

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Mike Jurney @jurney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Brb changing my username to "DCC Frogger Truther"

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Mike Jurney @jurney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A mishap with a WD-40 can and some garden clippers a few weeks ago combined with three days of rain to make these bubbles in my driveway.

Iridescent bubbles on the left, wet asphalt on the right.

Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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The phone is for making posts like "the ass is the father of the legs" whereas the computer is for posts that include words like "inexorably"

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It's the same reason that for years conservatives screamed about being shadow banned if less than 50% of discourse was their ideas, even when polling clearly showed those positions to be broadly unpopular. Being heard isn't enough, they demand attention too and this argument is that dynamic at work.

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Country music is the home of the most repugnant social and political ideology in the American mainstream, so lots of people avoid it actively, but those MAGA people generally can't sit with the discomfort of being told their ideas are trash, and that they're bad people for having them.

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And to be clear at the root of this is the MAGA demand to be liked. This is about people not caring about *country* music, the discussion isn't genre-neutral. The antebellum South insisted not just that they keep slavery, but that the north acknowledge that it was fine and good for them to do so.

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This is a really good point, is the only major genre where engaging with it regularly puts you in direct conversation with MAGA and its people. If you avoid that sort of thing, you're implicitly avoiding contemporary country.

Put as gently as possible, Americans cope poorly with information density. The display on the left might as well be blank for the overwhelming majority of us, even those of us who regularly ride public transit and use displays like these to navigate it.

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Here's the thing though. One of those people thinks the other is incorrect but the other thinks they're *illegitimate*. There isn't parity between "woke" and "right wing", one demands the extinction of the other by violence if necessary.

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Honestly I'm a little curious but I'll be damned if I'm going to go search for it and make myself perceived by the algoverse as potential prey for the merchants of fiddle rock.