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There’s a pastry in the case that’s frosted like a pop tart but without the berry filling. Solid crust, according to the barista. I don’t know what people are thinking

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Very bold of the Democrats of the Oregon state legislature to fail to pass a transportation package

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In light of where we’re finding ourselves, as a culture, it’s worth asking whether we have ever been secular

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Take care to mind where this thread leads you, what it opens up in your thinking and about your thinking

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Let me know if you need an endorsement

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One of my best marinaras tonight

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Someone should print up a parody front page of the NW Examiner in the style of the National Enquirer with a bunch of scandalous claims, big yellow text

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Saw a sign for a store called “JunkFood” that sells … dry goods. I am sincerely heartbroken

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Unless we’re fine with TESCREAL and its products gobbling us up along with everything we love about life and the earth, we’re going to have to start declaring sacred spaces where it’s prohibited. “EA not welcome here”

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“Muscular Christianity” emerged in 19th c England as an antidote to the Enlightened liberalizing of Christianity, with its German philosophy and historical Biblical criticism. It involved athletics and bodybuilding and it gave rise to the YMCA and renewed fervor for the British imperialist project

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Bunch of finches and bees were far too busy chowing down on some nice lavender this morning to mind me watching

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

Alright so yes I’m insane but could twitter lurker Robert Prevost have read my tweets circa 2016-19? Because holy shit: “and how it classifies people and situations. If a system is designed or used in a way that treats some lives as less worthy, or excludes them without the possibility of appeal …”

boundaries of human possibilities. In this process, political responsibility is also lost, not just empathy toward those excluded, which can, after all, be simulated. The exclusion of the vulnerable becomes cloaked in a veneer of neutrality and objectivity, against which it becomes difficult to raise objections. In this way, injustice goes un-noticed, and compassion, mercy and forgiveness—understood not as mere appearances but as real political actions-gradually disappear from view.

104. From this follows a simple but compelling consequence: we cannot consider Al to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. If a system is designed or used in a way that treats some lives as less wor-thy, or excludes them without the possibility of appeal, then it is not merely a tool "to be used well," since it has already introduced criteria that contradict the inalienable dignity of the human person. For this reason, ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes; it must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. (126)

105. For Al to respect human dignity and truly serve the common good, responsibility must be clearly defined at every stage: from those who design and develop these systems to those who use them and rely on them for concrete decisions. In many cases, however, the internal processes leading to a result remain obague making it harder to assign responsibility and correct errors. This is where accountability becomes crucial: the possibility of identifying who must account" for decisions, justify them, monitor them, and, when

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like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.

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Unfortunately for everyone, no person or institution is better equipped to tell that story than Pope Leo XIV

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The Oprah show’s whole deal was lifestyle marketing, like a gospel of the cargo cult, where reading Books is a thing you do to become a person who fills the shape of the type of person who is recognized as a person who reads books

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Get yourself a mayor who hosts Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on their “End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World” book tour

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Town Hall Seattle presents
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor with Mayor Katie
Wilson (SOLD OUT)
End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World
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Date: Thursday, September 24
Time: 7:30 pm PDT

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Way too early in the season for the propane heaters to feel this nice … what is happening to me

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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 26/09/2026

It’s genuinely wonderful to hear this man give voice to the conservatism we’ve all suspected of him. It makes it possible to draw clear political lines, right where they exist, and to dispense with needless hedging and contortionism just in case his views are actually “moderate.” They’re not

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Latest round of hiring is showing me that the tech industry is losing some extraordinarily talented people who are uninspired by its unimaginative visions for the future.

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I used to think the reason interviewing tends to feel so arbitrary and haphazard owes to a lack of guidelines and training and the difficulty of litigating things that take place in private meetings. It’s actually an efficient way to regulate access to resources

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Probably start speaking in my normal unexpected voice, and then start sharing my regular ideas, instead of the ones you’d think would come from somebody who looks like me, although they’re normal, but the discrepancies would probably lead a few other participants to figure I was doing it on purpose

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

Oh shit, that’s so beautiful …

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started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed

“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.”

“What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged”

“on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,”

“movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns

and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.

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we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"somebody" shot the ritualistically abused animal and it's being given a formal end-of-watch procession down sandy to be cremated while the human being (made in god's own image) they shot and killed lies cold on a slab, is that about the long and short of it

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 25/05/2026

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This country really is gonna wimp out on reconstruction like we did the last time

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