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Kendall Koning @kkoning.net · 15/03/2026

Who could have possibly foreseen that a political faction based on shared values of hate, lies, and greed elevating a criminal malignant narcissist would result in concentration camps at home and disastrous wars of aggression abroad?

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Kendall Koning @kkoning.net · 03/10/2025

A great name for a publication about LLMs: Prompt Critical

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Kendall Koning @kkoning.net · 08/07/2025

Two great tastes that taste horrible together. 🤣

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Kendall Koning @kkoning.net · 08/07/2025

I know this was a rhetorical question, but I’m going to answer it anyway…. Yes, it’s bribery.

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...

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Stanley from Yale to Toronto

Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...

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Kendall Koning @kkoning.net · 10/03/2025

The only thing he's made more affordable so far are stocks.

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Kendall Koning @kkoning.net · 07/02/2025

New York should have joined as well. Their absence is notable.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

LGBTQIA minors make up 40% of the endangered minor runaway population. They are 120% more likely to be unhoused. They are also uniquely at risk for exploitation and trafficking. This is breathtakingly evil.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/02/2025

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal theonion.com/think-t...

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Kendall Koning @kkoning.net · 02/02/2025

Well, the ISPs (NCTA) used to be paying him (per the disclaimer in his own 2005 paper). They probably stopped, their lobbying dollars (i.e. bribes) spent more efficiently elsewhere.

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Kendall Koning @kkoning.net · 23/01/2025

I'm thrilled to see all of Wicked's Oscar nominations! Not just for Best Picture and Cynthia Erivo's possible EGOT, but for Ariana Grande, production design, costume design... It's got to be a shoe-in for best score... those songs have been living in my head rent free since opening day.

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Kendall Koning @kkoning.net · 18/01/2025

Too little, too late, @nytimes.com. Those subscription dollars are now going to organizations more deserving (including @glaad.bsky.social and @propublica.org) and they're not coming back.

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Kendall Koning @kkoning.net · 16/01/2025

Exactly. For all of Biden's supposed qualifications and experience, for some of the most important aspects of the job it's like he didn't even understand the assignment. I don't doubt his intentions, but it's also true that sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

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Kendall Koning @kkoning.net · 16/01/2025

"How Civil Wars Start" by Barbara F. Walter. Book. +2 Foresight, -2 Morale. Binds on pickup. Summary: Surprisingly likely in medium term, mechanisms and nature explained, many comparative examples given.

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How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today …

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Kendall Koning @kkoning.net · 16/01/2025

Ooh, a counter-example for Betteridge's law of headlines! Those are rare!

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Kendall Koning @kkoning.net · 15/01/2025

A SecDef who wants holy war against half the country… What could possibly go wrong? 🙄

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Kendall Koning @kkoning.net · 13/01/2025

Whether or not Pixelfed is any good is irrelevant. A huge incumbent social media company blocking links its users post to a competing platform should be an actionable violation of antitrust laws.

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Kendall Koning @kkoning.net · 06/01/2025

All this is true, but much is also beside the point. The opinion's reasoning is, frankly, ridiculous. No informed and reasonable person, blinded to the identities of the specific political and economic interests at stake, would see it as anything other than pretextual. (1/3)

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

The Mump Oligarchy – A Glossary 1/10. Mump regime. Musk plus Trump. Mu...mp. The real centibillionaire and the fake rich person in the proper order.

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Kendall Koning @kkoning.net · 04/12/2024

I just did the BlueSky self-verification by setting my handle to my domain name. It's not perfect verification, but it's (1) accessible, (2) expensive to spoof at scale, and (3) a lot better than nothing! It's simple and quick; ask a friendly techie for help if you need it.

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Kendall Koning @kkoning.net · 25/11/2024

With all this growth and attention, it looks like bots have started to infiltrate Bluesky. A big jump in "coordinated inauthentic behavior" can't be too far behind. 🤞🏻 that Bluesky can eventually have a better defense against the dark arts than its predecessors.

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Kendall Koning @kkoning.net · 19/11/2024

Bluesky's user base taking off is that classic combination of preparation (including early adopters) meeting opportunity. A great example that, while network effects remain difficult to overcome, change is still possible.

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Kendall Koning @kkoning.net · 10/08/2023

Great work by ProPublica, who kept digging and kept finding corruption. Granted, it seems like a target-rich environment, but actually finding evidence is critical. You can't have real accountability without it.

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