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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 22h

ah, of course the entire thing is a lie

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026

this is the rudest ad I’ve ever seen in my life and I love it so much

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The rabbi telling Anthropic that he thinks what they’re doing is fine, because Claude is just a machine to him, but if they’re right (and it is conscious), then they’re world historic monsters, is really interesting.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 03/10/2026

offline is the new outdoors.

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Carey @careylikemariah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There was an awesome and HILARIOUS development in the Brooklyn Democratic Party legal fight yesterday. This update requires quite a fair bit of context, but stick with me here, because the payoff is soooo delicious! 🧵

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026

Checking in on how things are going over at the Chronicle Against Higher Education:

Screenshot of Chronicle of Higher Education website showing featured articles: "Anthropology Has a Truth Problem"; "The Social Sciences Have a Politics Problem"; "Could AI Be Better at Peer Review Than Humans?"; "Colleges Should Take Linda McMahon's Call to Action Seriously."

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Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Scoop: In a sworn deposition Monday, Rep. Max Miller repeatedly declined to answer questions about whether he pushed a girl down the stairs in high school. motherjones.com/politics/2026/…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Feels like skipping past the Civil War and World War II are sorta big tells here? I wonder why he doesn't want to talk about the times the US military waged war against white supremacists. Probably a totally innocent explanation, right? Right?

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 01/10/2026

It’s also worth noting that it’s mathematically impossible to pay off a $3,600 balance at $50/month if you’re being charged 18% interest. Your interest the first month alone would be $54, which means you’d have to pay at least $55/mo to ever pay it off (it would take 22 1/2 years at $55/mo).

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For many couples this could make a vas deferens

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

2025 numbers from Anthropic’s IPO prospectus: • Revenue: $4.6B, up 12x • Total operating expenses: $12.65B • Operating loss: $8.06B • Cash + investments: $20.28B • Future cloud obligations: $518B 🤯 • Nearly 25% of revenue came from just 2 customers Anthropic is targeting a valuation above $2T.

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EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows sweeping AI vision, surging costs

Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters. The ...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins

Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR

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Skeets McGee @emmreef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It feels like Ken Paxton is just LEROY JENKINS-ing his campaign right now. #uspol #texas

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The new Axis of Evil. It's just Canada.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026

Trump fucked up the *American* renewable transition but he might have had the largest positive effect on the global transition of any president ever

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Big topic in Brazil right now: Lula is banning online sports betting

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This optimism is important political work.

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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

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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joeypancakes.bsky.social @joeypancakes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I had my AI take my vacation for me!

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

All through my career in Washington, I gave the same lecture to the interns. I told them: pay attention when rulers change the language. Pay attention to who wants the change, and to what the change implies. Not everything is Orwell, but some things sure are.

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

a lightbulb went on for me when @gelliottmorris.com (I think) pointed out that the problem for consultants with broad structural explanations of electoral outcomes is that you can’t control those factors so there’s not much for a consultant to do

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I feel the rest of the world (Americans included) have no idea of how aggressively the US is pushing to make Latin America into a giant colony. Every day we get news about political interference, increase in military presence, absurd trade demands, online propaganda, Venezuela being pillaged, etc

Headline from one of Brazil's biggest newspapers that reads:
Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) warns the government and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) about the 'critical' level of escalating US pressure against Brazil in the elections.
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/monicabergamo/

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Maxine Kaplan @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

College journalists bay-beeeeeee!

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fjhuggies.bsky.social @fjhuggies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Pilot: Mayday Mayday AI: May 1 is observed in many countries as a day recognizing workers, labor rights, and the labor movement

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NYT - DraftKings uses AI to target gamblers likeliest to lose. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/bu...

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nobody has ever met a werewolf. If you meet a werewolf then it is a therewolf.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A very big crowd at the Kennedy Center singing "Bella Ciao!"

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026

I'll to come right out and say it: statistical extrapolation is *fine*. One of the most useful ways to understand the present and anticipate the future is measuring the things that happened in the past, find the correlations among them, and extrapolate likely future outcomes from those correlations.

A series of high-magnification views of a seemingly smooth human heart valve, revealing the rough texture under extreme close-up.

Image:
Zhaoxing Wang, Kunpeng Wang & Yan Xu (modified)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-56485-5

CC BY 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

John C. Calhoun wasn't a conservative; he was a radical. Stephen Miller isn't a conservative; he's a radical. "Tradition" isn't a real thing that once existed and we can go back to, or something worth conserving, but an imaginary place that they'll destroy the current world to create.

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

From the party that came to power through people who use beef tallow as an all purpose cooking oil, soap, shampoo, and body lotion

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Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finally made the panopticon described in Foucault's great work Don't Make the Panopticon

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Millie K., Roleplay Mouse @hungrymilliek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

something something something stoneface vimes

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Jeff Moen @jeffmoen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not sure this is the debait Republicans want to have right now

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NC DSA crushing it

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 07/09/2026

Yep; the best framings of it I’ve seen have treated MAHA as a hostile wellness-industry takeover of the health sector. Any strategic response that fails to take on wellness firms’ economic power will founder.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Covid in 98% of airport air samples. A reminder that you can wear an n95 when you travel, even if you don’t wear one all the time, and why wouldn’t you want to avoid getting sick while you’re on a trip?

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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