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As a Michigan fan, I guess I can empathize with Eric Schmitt. The Iowa Hawkeyes are exposing a lot of people as gigantic frauds these days.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

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Dan McDonald @kebe.com · 27/09/2026

Thinking about some of my new co-workers, including the one who took one for the team to read this guy's book so nobody else needed to. IYKYK.

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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some book recommendations, tired old feminist edition: 1) Fraternity Gang Rape, by the late cultural anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday. She uses the term to refer to any organized group of men, but that certainly includes actual frats. bookshop.org/p/books/frat...

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Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus

This widely acclaimed and meticulously documented volume illustrates, in painstaking and disturbing detail, the nature of fraternity gang rape. Drawing on interviews with both victims and fraternity m...

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Libra-season Eryn @eryn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My 50 year Little League volunteer dad, who retired as administrator for half of our state, would cry broken-hearted tears at some of these comments In 2001 in our small farm town, he allowed a child named Ash to play on a boys' team & keep their birth certificate private between the parents & Dad

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I still have PTSD from that Ann Selzer Harris +3 IA poll in October

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I found that my response to this merited something longer on what Sun got wrong bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/20/w...

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What Sun got wrong | The Observation Deck

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026

Yeah, Taylor Lorenz's brain, like many others, has been scattered, smothered, covered at the Nazi bar

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Dan McDonald @kebe.com · 20/09/2026

Multiple values of "that"/"great idea" fit here.

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Dan McDonald @kebe.com · 19/09/2026

Any Doctor Who fans in particular have an opinion on choice 3 there?

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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 19/09/2026

Bowdoin helmets going hard this week.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Glaring error in “free speech” rankings is they exclude Dartmouth’s use of state swat team w/ long guns to in some cases violently arrest peaceful Gaza protesters obstructing nothing. But the elephant now is AI, college’s embrace of it, & what I’ve encountered as student dismay & self-censorship.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

In the past year, the Defense Department has rapidly made Maven a cornerstone of the US military apparatus. Several former senior US military officials now work for Palantir, including some with high-level security clearances in Centcom’s Tampa headquarters. Their role is to keep the software functioning inside secure military environments. Some Centcom personnel expected Maven to flag stale information or inconsistencies in the underlying intelligence assembled for potential targets, the officials said. It’s not clear why they had such expectations.

The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

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Ben from New Mexico @bluefiddleguy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Meaning and feeling I can't explain: 2. One word in "Lawyers, Guns and Money" (the Zevon song) "Send Lawyers, guns, and money....DAD, get me out of this." I find the "DAD" hilarious, sad, clever, symbolic...many things. (h/t @cherylrofer.bsky.social 's blog) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT9X...

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Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns & Money [1989]

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

one last thought for the morning. the Singularity cultists theorize the motivations of their demons like "paperclip maximizers" as either unknowable or unalterable. a Freudian would immediately pinpoint the dread of mysterious rigid parental authority as the cause. almost certainly a big part.

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Dan McDonald @kebe.com · 19/09/2026

Feels like an upgrade to me, @edzitron.com .

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New @oxide.computer swag just arrived, and... hot damn

A t-shirt depicting Oxide Computer Company in the style of a famous and defunct computer company

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 18/09/2026

this thread turned out to be much longer than I intended if you have the ability to spend $39 on funding a kick-ass feminist media brand for a year, here's the link, I'm hoping to recruit 9 more new @theflytrapmedia.com subscribers before I zZZzzZZ tonight www.theflytrapmedia.com/no-slop

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lucytraveler.bsky.social @lucytraveler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ironically, we had the best example of democrats not wanting transphobia during this primary season with Moulton vs Markey. The nationalization of politics leads to some weird discussions here

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Disclose the money! Show the receipts! Any "influencer" taking money from a campaign or PAC should have to reveal it. These sleazy shills destroy politics even more. Podcasters etc who fundraiase for candidates or who do their PR should be marked as operatives, not as journalists or creative people.

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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17/09/2026

People saying "transgender ideology" in 2026 sound like people saying "race-mixing ideology" in 1956, and their kids and grandkids will feel embarrassment at their feckless cowardice.

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 16/09/2026

obligatory restatement of my claims that the 75th anniversary of the NSF will be a future high school history question about the start and end dates of American empire

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Adam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Absolutely crazy OxF yesterday with the @oxide.computer team and @bcantrill.bsky.social. The supply chain is a mess and a critical part for us went from a few bucks to, a few hundred, to unobtainable. What followed was some amazing luck, followed by bad luck, followed by good luck, and on and on...

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Oxide and Friends 9/14/2026 -- For Want of a Resistor

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Dan McDonald @kebe.com · 15/09/2026

Hmmph. iOS 27 needs a 3sec hold on my SE's home button to get Siri, vs a 1.5sec hold before. Not cool Apple...

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Dan McDonald @kebe.com · 14/09/2026

I'll take, "Stochastic Terrorism," for $400, Ken.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Watching Ohio State go up 23-3 in a huge game and then leaving for a thing and then coming home to see they lost 24-23 is *extremely* my shit

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

McCullough gets a lot of grief but his Truman biography is still A+

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Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez @mvgutierrezmd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

COVID PSA: We now have PEP. Ensitrelvir (Xocova) can be taken after a known COVID exposure to reduce the risk of developing COVID. Preventing the infection in the first place also means preventing its potential downstream consequences, including Long COVID. #LongCOVID #COVID19

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Dan McDonald @kebe.com · 13/09/2026

Damn, I almost got caught by Poe's Law. Enough replies suggest we need... Poe's Law & Order (dun dun)

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In many ways, growing up in an abusive religious tradition that taught me to hate my very self made my childhood a bit of a tough sit, but it DID give me built-in antibodies to dooming shit like this.

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Dan McDonald @kebe.com · 10/09/2026

That Oracle would leave Sun engineering alone (along with derivative domain-specific thoughts from there).

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

reading various accounts of AI psychosis and a) the people behind chatgpt 4 should be sued into oblivion, especially for reintroducing it, and b) even for less vulnerable people and non-sycophantic AI there is an enormous danger in AI presenting itself as a frictionless friend.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I know it may be really difficult to understand this but I am unshakably convinced that I am fully equal to a cis person, and that all trans people are.

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Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The entire thread is appalling, but I feel it's worth noting that this in particular is *literally* an attempt to teach children not to react to abuse.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I felt I couldn't ignore the big 9/11 anniversary but the thing I felt most is rage over Islamophobia that gets more extreme and more embedded in our politics and in half-ass news coverage every year GOP turns to Muslim hate because it's all they got My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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Islamophobia: a 9/11 legacy that refuses to die | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, a cowardly response to the U.K.’s masked thugs.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There is nothing redeemable about MAHA. We must fight tooth and nail against this ugly movement led by paranoid ideologues. Enough with the sanitizing, the equivocating, the normalizing. This is not a game. People’s lives are at stake. More here:

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The Assault on Public Health and the Self-Sabotage of a Nation

MAHA channels vague grievances into a radical project. It’s a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right. We must stop it

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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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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 07/09/2026

fucked up that nigel farage is a brexiteer and pro-crypto. makes it hard to criticize him, what with him being eurodivergent and a miner

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Dan McDonald @kebe.com · 04/09/2026

Oh, it's almost 6pm. Almost done with my last day at Edgecast Cloud (neé MNX). I start at @oxide.computer on the 14th.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don’t say any of this to reduce Mamdani’s achievements—I adore the guy—but to point out that he is actually *replicable.* He has existed before, and there is an established playbook, if you’re willing to accept that New York doesn’t invent everything.

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Dan McDonald @kebe.com · 04/09/2026

Nice. Makes me more glad I'm starting there on the 14th.

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Dan McDonald @kebe.com · 03/09/2026

This, and at least some of its replies, provide key answers to anyone who asks, "WTF actually happened to get us here?"

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