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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The more I learn about why some people support arresting and deporting undocumented immigrants, the more I realize that all too many people are incapable of unconditional love of humanity.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Exhibit A for why I am on BSky *a lot* less:

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's late September in Southern California and life is good

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The belief that a thriving culture requires a sovereign state or demographic dominance is false. 3000+ years of diverse and thriving Jewish culture demonstrates that such beliefs are built on Imperial nation state concepts that led to both world wars.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We have an ancient solution for people that think that the final solution was well executed

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Declaration of Independence has been flagged as machine-written by AI "detection" programs. What we need is a reader intelligence detector.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think there is a real opportunity to create an alliance between normie Liberals and Conservatives around the idea that accountability and standards do not in fact just spontaneously manifest in human societies in the way that Libertarians have claimed; government is in fact absolutely necessary.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I live long enough, I am going to open a bookstore with a café and an extensive, nay, massive inventory of vinyl records. There will chairs and couches and a large fireplace and a small stage.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Serious people do not give a shit if the tech sector is led by weirdos that have weird sex and believe idiotic things. What we care about is the creation of a functional administrative state staffed by a representative body of citizen domain experts that have the power to regulate the private sector

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What about all the world class American academics, scholars, scientists, civil servants, lawyers and workers in every field whose work is poisoned by the lack of standards and independent oversight; at what point will they have had enough of incompetent bullies and demand structural reforms?

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The snarling beast that lunges whenever its position at the top of the hierarchical status pyramid is challenged, sits right under the facade of civility. "How dare anyone confront me with my arrogance, incessant demand for attention, incoherence and ignorance!"

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don't understand how college degrees are granted when so many college grads are observably incoherent? Is it that specialization and quantitative domains have replaced knowing how to think?

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Still thinking about this story, sorry, but I think part of the problem is that even reporters don't really know how depressing things are at schools where the kids are really struggling. The Title I school I taught at wasn't even the worst and we still had to take a day or 2 to process gun deaths

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Knowledge and mobility have increased but the Western academy has utterly failed to update its preindustrial assumptions. Students should have no access to technology until about 9th grade. Those years should repeat gradually more complex lessons in knowing how to know and learning how to learn.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fascism is the marriage of state and corporation. Democratic Party leaders have completely failed to meet the moment, and as a result inequality is worse than it was a hundred years ago and ordinary people have no bargaining power. Kick the cowards out.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Books are still widely available and your children will rule the world

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nothing better than laying on the couch talking with my wife

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fiscal Federalism is a crime

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In the past, mobility was limited and beliefs were rarely challenged by new knowledge. So why, when mobility and knowledge have increased tremendously over the past 150 years, has assumptions barely budged?

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

FIRE is not an independent government agency staffed by apolitical civil servants. Private non-profits are fundamentally market and donor actors. FIRE is as non-partisan as the money that keeps it alive. There is no such thing as a private organization that is apolitical and objective. 1/2

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Have you seen this from @juliaazari.bsky.social? Covers a lot of ground but this stands out: "both parties are responding to where the power lies in society, and their responses are actually the same–to gravitate to cc goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/what-if-we...

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What if we’re wrong about party asymmetry?

Join me on this journey of speculation

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Influencers do not want answers. It's all about keeping the mystery and uncertainty going in the name of attention harvesting for personal gain. Sooo why don't we fund the Press directly like they do in functional democracies? Serious investigative journalism will crowd out the noise merchants.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

History is full of instances of "a handful of scholars tried to legitimate an ahistorical argument". Why is that?

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I love how Sophie Bridgers has brought back hyper detailed interior and exterior observation song writing. Like the best of Bob Dylan and Jonie Mitchell but her own thing.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The world does not need a liberal noise merchant any more than it needs the other species.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For 50+ years Conservatives have done their very best to destroy the American Administrative state in the delusional belief that capital markets are self-organizing systems. The idiots were in the Temple long before Trump hijacked the Republican Party.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The tax curve is for maximization of revenue. Redistribution is for maximization of equal opportunity. The debate about progressive versus regressive curves is the equivalent of debating if heading West is better than East.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Market outcomes are products of market structure, and market structure follows from law. The fundamental flaw in American Capitalism; we allow business owners who succeed to use their money and influence to write the laws that decide who is allowed to compete with them.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

From the anthropological perspective it is fascinating to meet rich Westerners with college degrees that insist on telling me in the course of casual conversation that transwomen are men, that borders make us safe, that ivermectin cures covid and that global warming is a hoax.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Financial Press is as useful as the celebrity gossip and conspiracy press

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

No. What functional political parties have always done is to marginalize and ostracize anti-social factions. Democratic Party leaders are completely out of touch. Throw them all out.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The intelligence gap between the media and ordinary people is widening

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is the America I love and let's roll dammit!

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you work for a media company that has relentlessly promoted one version or another of Margaret Thatcher's unscientific "there's no such thing as society" it's unlikely that you will be allowed to confront corporate talking heads with knowledge that undermines shareholder confidence.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ok let me be more direct. Anthropic releases a model with a silly 44tn in the top line. They pick the economists to solicit and then publish their criticisms. Then Anthropic give interviews about how open it all is. Just blatant manipulation of the broken education and media structures in the West.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I have two words for the Financial Times, the financial media in general and the AI industry; motivated reasoning. The Financial media and the AI industry routinely publish opinions framed as knowledge work. Real knowledge workers are not going anywhere.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Parents' rights" laws and policies in the US, is the leading cause of sexual abuse and other forms of child abuse.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is how intelligent people build institutional trust; transparency and accountability.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Binational Zionism has always been there. Americans should learn about it before Israel drag us all into a greater tragedy.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Intelligence is what you can do at low cost because of what you invested in with foresight. It is smart to let our theories die instead of us.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

American media behavior explains why a far-right party won 32% of the American vote in 2024 despite very low unemployment. The American Press is rotten to the core.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Absolutely fantastic, intelligent exploration of how fashion has historically been used by violent patrimonial groups to control women and signal dominance. The sadistic erotization of power is the hallmark of deviant religious and political movements. www.vanityfair.com/story/maga-s...

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Radical Chic: How the MAGA Movement Is Hijacking Style

As President Donald J. Trump puts his stamp all over Washington, Robin Givhan takes a look at the look of MAGA, from Melania Trump to Pete Hegseth.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Wherever I go I find the same underlying cause of political fragmentation and conflicts; some portion of the population just cannot deal with multiculturalism. From Afghanistan to China and from the US to Scandinavia and Europe I experience the same angry ignorance about other cultures.

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