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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 15h

I think this is my new favorite illustration of Goodhart's law. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhar...

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

People who say things like"I suffered and I turned out okay, therefore others should suffer the same way I suffered," did not, in fact, turn out okay.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Perhaps the only way AI is slightly less terrible than it seems is people doing dumb stuff with AI would often be doing something else terrible or nothing at all if they couldn't make AI do it badly.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Is it ever worth the energy of trying to convince someone that human rights are not a zero sum game

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For what it's worth she was nominated by Obama and later fired by Trump for refusing to defend the travel ban.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Odd choice to call the Acting Attorney General of the United States a high ranking government official.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026

my friend @juddlegum.bsky.social has put together a cool new tool that allows you to photograph political mail and immediately learn who paid for it. Check it out here:

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Punish the players who engage in price fixing, tax vacant real estate (a lot) more, and incentivize renting to the working poor are all easier and better than getting private equity out of real estate.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

While I agree strategic bombing has a bad track record, I'm curious how you define your terms such that the gulf war and the Japanese surrender in WW2 add up to 0.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Probably not a coincidence that Vermont, the state that had a Congress person convicted of criticizing the government and then reelected while in jail, has among the most expensive voting rights for prisoners. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew...

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Matthew Lyon - Wikipedia

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyone who is willing to perform lethal injection is not qualified to perform lethal injection.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The best time to do it was ~20 years ago, the next best time is today!

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm not familiar with it. I'll take a look. I've soured on HBO originals lately and think they win quite a few more awards than I would expect based on how much I like their shows.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This post explains why the intervention of Sheri Mecklenburg--the prosecutor Chicago US Attorney Andrew Boutros is trying to scapegoat for the Broadview 6 case--in the exonerees bid for sanctions is a mic drop. It puts Boutros in the center of the abuse. emptywheel.net/2026/09/24/s...

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Sheri Mecklenburg's Mic Drop - emptywheel

When Sheri Mecklenburg told Andrew Boutros she wanted to intervene in the Broadview 6 proceedings, which will make it far harder for him to scapegoat her, he threatened to fire her. So she quit. And ...

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bonus points for cultural impact, big minus for not being the best show in the genre or having a bad ending. For example, if I didn't like the Pitt so much, Scrubs or House probably would have made it on the list somewhere.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As it's the topic of the day, I'll take a stab at the top 10 shows starting 2000 or later 1. The Pitt 2. The Wire 3. Andor 4. Avatar, the Last Airbender 5. The great British Baking Show 6. 30 rock 7. The Good Place 8. The Colbert Report 9. The expanse 10. Lucifer

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of the articles reported they said something like, "you aren't allowed in, there's nothing I can do." The reporter apparently tried to produce evidence of the TRO, but that was unhelpful. I'm speculating here, but presumably after the press left in the morning, the higher ups had a meeting.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I probably should have lower expectations, but I'm pretty bummed that LeBron joined the gambling club.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Are you familiar with the saga of Musk buying a diablo 4 account and then live streaming it without really knowing how to play?

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Please let the Democratic nominee for president in 2028 be almost anyone besides Gavin Newsom.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The first sentence is right behind "bicyclists should be required to wear helmets" for me in the top 2 arguments where both sides have some very compelling arguments but sometimes I hate them.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do you consider refrigerators and air conditioners two separate inventions? Or different flavors of the same invention?

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The fact that they don't work is a distant third in my objections to LLMs

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

People who came of age in 2008ish have the special challenge of assuming that most politicians would be decent people who tried to do the right thing. And then having that assumption ground to dust.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He has not commented at all on recent events because he died in 2016.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I believe his comments on Palestine are from 1986.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If he had chosen to stand behind Macklemore and cancel the show, he still would be avoiding getting involved if he can help it. The issue came to him and he had to make a choice. I think he chose poorly.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

By far the best (and maybe also the most confusing) selling point for enabling people to exist without driving is that it would be so much better for all the people with cars if fewer people used them!

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

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"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think Elie Wiesel said it best: "We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's always amusing to see someone who skips the "false" part of the false dichotomy fallacy. It's only a fallacy if more than two options are readily available!

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I have not followed the cases closely, but I know this is not a new issue. See, for example, some recent AZ history: www.aclu.org/news/free-sp...

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Also all the tom Holland spiderman movies are great.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I watched the 4 tom Holland spiderman movies recently. I think Brand New Day is the best movie, but no way home is my favorite and the most spiderman. I'm considering trying to catch up on the MCU movies. I haven't seen many after infinity war pt 2.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In addition to the million and one other problems, even if they could do it, I'm not sure limiting mail in ballots would help Trump's friends win.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Yeah, man. Neo was the bad guy in the matrix. He busted everyone out of the nicest PoW camp ever created.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

WTG MapQuest! ✊

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