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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 12/06/2026

This is a great video by @michaelburns.bsky.social on the Chicago Pope's encyclical broadside against Silicon Valley capitalism. I may end up just reading this thing. Where does one get a papal encyclical, anyway?

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Pope Leo is Right about AI

YouTube video by Michael Burns

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/06/2026

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

looking for leads on indie movie theaters in Chicago and New York that hold between 50-100 humans and would maybe host a screening of a thing i made. if you have a good recommendation i'll buy you beers and give you free tickets if it happens.

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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

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jl, thinking @jzajzajza.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Listening to the Revolutions Podcast, every time Mike Duncan mentions Lafayette, I see a speed rapping Daveed Diggs and get confused why he wasn’t a bigger ally to the Haitians.

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jl, thinking @jzajzajza.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

See! LLMs are making us more productive! 😒

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

i'm hosting a live event showing my first feature length project. it's about how the internet turns us all into crazy people. limited seats available for this one so grab tickets now if you're a real head. there will be a comedian opener and a q&a events.ticketleap.com/tickets/hype...

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LEAVE A COMMENT: Film Screening and Q&A

This is Not a YouTube Video. Michael Burns usually makes YouTube videos. But when he tried to explore the phenomenon of internet psychosis, things quickly got extreme. This film tells the story of tr...

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

if you're an LA culture/film writer and have any interest in coming to the screening of my new project later this month please let me know and I'll grab you a ticket. happy to share more details privately as well.

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

made a movie with my team. premiering May 30th in Los Angeles. discounted tickets currently on sale for Patrons at all levels. burnstheory.com/posts/157662...

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FILM SCREENING MAY 30TH - LOS ANGELES | Michael Burns

FILM SCREENING MAY 30TH - LOS ANGELES by Michael Burns on Patreon. Join Michael Burns's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

NEW VIDEO OUT NOW why culture is dead (and how we bring it back) www.youtube.com/watch?v=evW4...

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culture is dead

YouTube video by Michael Burns

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jl, thinking @jzajzajza.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Such a great breakdown of the durability of universal programming: youtube.com/shorts/gkdov...

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The rich should get free child care

YouTube video by Jacobin

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

hi - this code is live for 3 more hours! join the the BURNS THEORY patreon and get access to visiting guest lectures (like Robert Tally this week), the discord server, ad-free content, and first access to live events. prices going up soon so jump in now and get locked in.

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

screw it, 20% off annual memberships until i raise prices. so get locked in. www.burnstheory.com

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

two days left to get old rates on patreon plus 50% off first month with code HAPPYBIRTHDAY all in time to get ready for this friday's visiting seminar burnstheory.com

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

A lot of people are mad at Merz for saying this, but where’s the lie? It’s really easy to get into a conflict. Getting out cleanly is a whole different animal.

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jl, thinking @jzajzajza.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This move hurt on so many levels in the context of the interstate rivalry

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

if you wanna support me in building something that's about wayyyyy more than "me making more YouTube videos where I talk at you", consider joining Burns Theory. use code HAPPYBIRTHDAY for 50% off first month. burnstheory.com

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Patreon is empowering a new generation of creators. Support and engage with artists and creators as they live out their passions!

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jl, thinking @jzajzajza.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

“If the workers do not control the armed forces, the armed forces will control the workers. The war and the revolution are inseparable.” - Orwell, Homage to Catalonia.

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Lindsey Rachev @lrachev.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

NASA women save stars. 🫶🏻💫

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jl, thinking @jzajzajza.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Conservatism is ideologically upstream from where MAGA is now. It requires some form of social control over the “others” which inevitably leads to prosecution of the “others”. There will always be “others” under conservatism because the way of life being conserved must be under attack for viability.

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Steven Rich @datab.ae · 09/04/2026

i hate when people shame others for mispronouncing a word they’ve only ever read. correct them, fine, but like let’s give grace to readers to talk about what they read.

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jl, thinking @jzajzajza.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This is weirdly the most “celebrated” Easter that I can remember. Not a Federal holiday, so it always seems to just pass by. This year, I’ve received many more unsolicited “he is risen”’s than I care for. I think folks might be buying the apocalypse narrative.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Emanuel Macron: “We can’t fix the situation just through bombings or military operations. Twenty years in Iraq and Afghanistan have shown that such approaches deliver nothing.”

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jl, thinking @jzajzajza.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

You can’t build for the future by using a bad guy that won’t have power in the 2032 election. You need to build an affirmative vision for the future, starting now. Part of that needs to be reshaping a system that got this guy into power twice. Target systems, not people, to stop the pendulum swing.

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jl, thinking @jzajzajza.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The reaction is rational. Clearly RFK Jr is influencing things for the worst, but you have to fight the reflex to focus on the man and orient your sights on system that got him into the position he’s in. He won’t be in power after 2028, but if the system stays the same, who knows for 2032?

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jl, thinking @jzajzajza.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Building a free platform to connect CT farms with buyers and each other. It’s called CommonTilth and I need people to break it before I onboard real producers. 20-30 min of poking around. common-tilth.org — DM me if you’re game.

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 24/03/2026

True cosmic horror isn’t that the universe is hostile. It’s that the universe is indifferent. This holds true at the human level. We imagine monsters with malevolent aggression toward us—but in reality, the greatest horror on earth is other humans indifferent to suffering.

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jl, thinking @jzajzajza.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I realize that my online me isn’t that fun. I’m thinking I’m a bit too serious. I’m only slightly more fun IRL because I’m more of a listener there. I’m my most fun self when hanging with my girls. Every other context is me just fluctuating between varying levels of seriousness or mental exhaustion.

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jl, thinking @jzajzajza.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

It’s hilarious how often I overhear older folks saying people don’t want to work today. Please shut up. Your retirement investments go up with every corrupt move this administration makes. You are incentivized to distort reality so you can die at peace. Meaningful work just isn’t there right now.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 23/03/2026

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

here is a new video for you to watch this weekend that's about how it's maybe un-chill to do holy wars. youtu.be/dBUFkkUQ5jM

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Doing a War to Bring Jesus Back

YouTube video by Michael Burns

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 19/03/2026

We shouldn’t have to dust off history books to find Democrats leading with courage & ambition. Universal child care would reshape our economy, give families breathing room & opportunity, and prove that government can work for working people.  @warren.senate.gov and I are fighting to make it happen.

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Mayor Mamdani, Sen. Warren: Everyone benefits from universal childcare

Affordable childcare means parents aren't forced to choose between raising their kids and keeping their jobs. It means better outcomes for all of us.

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jl, thinking @jzajzajza.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

How many times am I going to see this news with a new time stamp? This isn’t news anymore. The next article published on the topic should be the evidence she provides at the actual deposition.

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jl, thinking @jzajzajza.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

There’s a lot to not like about Mullin, but I don’t think shitting on the guy for being a tradesmen is the right answer. More working class representation isn’t the end of the world. He is bad in particular for so many reasons. The UK just elected a plumber to Parliament and it was awesome news.

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jl, thinking @jzajzajza.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Saw this from a million miles away. Bullying just invalidates legitimacy. Punching down just creates viral resentment. “With great power comes great responsibility” and “Power doesn’t panic” are two of my favorite pop culture power quotes. Power means strength looks like calm restraint.

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jl, thinking @jzajzajza.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It really didn’t take a study to figure this out. Centralized algorithms will always skew toward the belief systems of the ones that control them.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Let’s talk Iranian drones and California. Do I think it’s likely? Probably not, but some of you are suffering from a severe failure of imagination. I’ve seen a lot of “lol it’s 7,500 miles from Iran to Cali, drones would never make it”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/03/2026

Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

(🚨) Epstein was deeply involved in 2016 Russian election interference. It appears Trump owes his political career to him. I'm working as hard as I can to put this all together for Book 5 of PROOF OF DEVILRY. The first 4 books—870 pp.—are available now. This book solves the Epstein mystery. Go here:

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Proof | Seth Abramson | Substack

Know Better. Click to read Proof, by Seth Abramson, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Cheap Labor: How Companies Make Record Profits Paying Slave Wages

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 07/03/2026

Pope Leo XIV: “War is never holy!”

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jl, thinking @jzajzajza.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Couldn’t we have just avoided all of this if we just leaned hard into green technology? All the money we’ve wasted on ICE and this war could have funded so many solar and wind jobs. We could have forced technological advancement with this level of investment.

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jl, thinking @jzajzajza.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"Not everyone needs college" was supposed to mean get a trade. A lot of young men heard: you don't have to do anything. Sports betting fills that void, designed to feel like skill & feel lucrative. It's not. This pipeline predates this presidency. We keep ignoring it. youtube.com/shorts/B3Uds...

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Everyone is Gambling

YouTube video by Kyla Scanlon

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jl, thinking @jzajzajza.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The echo chamber thing is just a narrative propagated by bad actors with a vested interest in keeping users stuck on centrally controlled algorithms.

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