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This is a pseudonym, likely a pun or an anagram, which I occasionally refresh. I’m only trying to be anonymous, not obscure, so I’ll pin the post that explains my current nym […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mas.to/@kmck, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 5h
Recommended www.youtube.com/watch?v=O05arcJjOd0
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 8h
Somehow #nottheonion? noc.social/@todayilearned/117384849…
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Attached: 1 image TIL that in 2014, an elementary school in Oregon nixed its pay-to-pee policy for students after parents complained that students who had to pay "Super Pro" bucks to use the bathroom outside of scheduled breaks were incentivized to 'hold it in' so they could buy trinkets at the school store. https://abcnews.com/blogs/headlines/2014/01/oregon-elementary-school-nixes-pay-to-pee-policy #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1wxrj9b/til_that_in_2014_an_elementary_school_in_oregon/
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17h
The aftermath of the suicide-by-semi of the Haitian immigrant Pierre Damas Bel. Good insights into white psychology to be found here. Some truly bad people — not really bad as in evil, more like bad as in mentally and spiritually bankrupt — and some who are not completely blind to the world […]
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19h
#germanamericanSurname of the day is DOLL, alteration of DOLLE.
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
good stuff here www.jpzanotti.com/Dust #abandoned #photography
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Photography - JP. Zanotti
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Spectral Evolution by Rafael Toral: very melodic ambient. I can’t understand everything written about the album on Bandcamp but it sounds complicated rafaeltoral.bandcamp.com/album/spec…
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Spectral Evolution, by Rafael Toral
2 track album
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Extinction Rebellion could never mastodon.online/@wdjorth/1173772996…
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Bill Jorth (@wdjorth@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image The Lincoln Center, under Trump’s control, is selling off the Steinway pianos and important art works, flaunting the judicial order regarding a halt on the destruction of the center. https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/10/02/my-god-trumps-kennedy-center-mess-takes-another-jaw-dropping-turn/
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
I choose to believe that this fine establishment is named after my namesake Mozi 墨子.
Night shot of the illuminated sign for the MOZ Grill and Chill restaurant
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Fielder’s schtick is: how far can I bend the social situation through sheer commitment to the bit? Which is exactly the same thing that propelled Holmes. Fortunately all he wanted out of it all was to have a show.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Wow man fuck Brett Stephens. From 2022: “Biden has decided the best way to seek partisan advantage is to treat tens of millions of Americans as the enemy within. How can an American president go wrong in identifying threats to democracy? Biden offered a master class. Start with the “MAGA […]
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
It will be a withering look at how senescent narcissism clutches at life with increasingly weakened, increasingly desperate claws while bargaining for power with enablers all around them mastodon.social/@deadline/117365441…
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Cast Confirmed For Woody Allen’s Next Movie As Filming Set To Begin, WestEnd Boards Sales #News #WoodyAllen https://deadline.com/2026/10/woody-allen-cast-confirmed-next-film-madrid-filming-1237144252/
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
I was admiring a photo on Foto.app.co; it was a stark, heavily tinted urban architecture shot, with slightly raised shadows that lessened detail. Kind of overprocessed, I decided after I’d liked it. Then I scrolled to the next photo in my feed, which was a black and white photograph of a […]
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Joining Anduril and Palantir with the Tolkien naming. m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/1173603797107109…
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NPR: A startup wants to build a massive nuclear-powered data center on public land in Utah "...A startup whose founder has vowed to "make nuclear great again" is planning to place hundreds of reactors on federal lands in Utah, according to documents reviewed exclusively by NPR." https://www.npr.org/2026/09/30/nx-s1-5983482/valar-atomic-nuclear-data-center-project-beehive-utah #fascism #nuclearpower #utah
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Pen Jillette's tribute to the recently deceased David Fair, on WAIF's Trash Flow Radio. If you love trash. www.mixcloud.com/WAIF883/trash-flow…
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
recommended ambient EMS radio pairing today: Foreground: Villalobos remixes Ambarchi orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/album/hub… Background: Pittsburgh police/fire/ems. Lots of squelch. The dispatcher sounds busy. Set the volume low enough that you can't quite make out […]
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
”The team discovered that seven companion apps — HondaLink, Lincoln, MyNissan, myCadillac, myChevrolet, myBuick, and myGMC — transmitted sensitive details like vehicle identification numbers (VINs), phone numbers, and precise locations directly to advertising networks.“ […]
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Israeli company responsible for those recent high profile AI containment escapes. They were just testing the products! You know, for science […]
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Got schooled by Siri twice today on how to pronounce musician’s names: - “ok, now playing Oren Ambarchi” (hard ch) - “ok, now playing Hailu Mergia” (hard g) Since on reflection I know the former to be correct I’m going to blindly trust AI on the latter…
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
the computers I currently administer are named like, Graphics 1, Graphics 2, Graphics 3, all the way up into the high teens. but because I mostly administer these machines through systems that are doing alphabetic sort, I wind up thinking of them as being Graphics 1, Graphics 11, Graphics 12 […]
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
I did this up as a linkedin post (spent most of my years in the brading industry) but I came to my senses and deleted it, please clap for me exhibiting some self-control
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Why does Oren Ambarchi's music just sound so damn good. I like the skittering electric guitar sounds, but the overall groove is what keeps me coming back orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/album/coo…
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Cooked, by Oren Ambarchi
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Thought I would delete Polytopia so as to avoid wasting time playing it on my phone everyday (even though it’s a great game (Elon Musk considers it much deeper than chess (I’m not kidding (it’s not)))). But I quickly found myself downloading a different game. Well this one isn’t as good so […]
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Sooner than anticipated , at best tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/117333486…
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Florida counties declare emergency over ‘wildly unusual’ dengue outbreak https://wapo.st/4iPxzUx
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
This seems like a very important movie but I’m not sure I will be able to stand it jewishcurrents.org/naza-will-change…
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NAZA Will Change How Americans Think About Israel
A news desk conversation about the film detailing the killing of civilians in Gaza.
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
US bomb-industrial complex placing an embargo on Ukraine leaking how cheaply and efficiently they are able to make them www.cnn.com/2026/09/25/europe/trump…
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
WW 1 anecdotes from Sapolsky 1: the Christmas truce. 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪 officers agreed that on this day fighting would cease and enemies would celebrate together. At the end of the day the soldiers wanted to extend the truce, but the officers forced them to start killing each other again. He considers […]
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Comparing agricultural societies and nomadic ones, Sapolsky sees higher levels of violence in the nomads, who are herders who must protect their flocks. following on from this, they are also more likely to enslave other, which is a categorical extension of hurting, perhaps. And then, in the end […]
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Important: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173249567…
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I'll need to evaluate this but I don't think this is a responsible disclosure moment, its just like meta hooked up a VPS and let me tar the root directory in it
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Impressing Xi with the glorious panoply of American denture-havers’ cuisine fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/prof…
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
I'm psyched for this boingboing.net/2026/09/23/full-trai…
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Full trailer for "You Can See Everything" with Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes
You Can See Everything, a documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim profiling Theranos fraud Elizabeth Holmes, was revealed two weeks ago. The very idea of Fielder interviewing Holmes was enough to capture the internet's attention, and the teaser clip sent it into a frenzy. Now the full trailer is out, embedded below. The film finds Holmes in the rustic mom character she rolled after the Steve Jobs one used for Theranos became unplayable¹. She is unrepentant and her fiancé is a dope. The appeal of all this is Fielder unraveling the act, in the most discomfiting way, _at her invitation._ > Thirty-four days before she's sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss. From boundary-pushing directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim comes _You Can See Everything_. Previously: ¹. The final scene of The Dropout, starring Amanda Siefried, eerily dramatizes the moment of transformation in its final scene.
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
At one point in the 2000s there was a campaign running in Singapore urging everyone to smile more. "Sometimes, unhappiness may be a precondition for achievement" […]
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
It’s nice that so many typographic studios are showing up on Mastodon, that’s one of the communities I missed from Twitter. Almost as much of my feed now as trans coders and engineers are, still not as commonplace as anarchists.
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
The U variant of the Marburg bioweapon is named after Dr. Nikolai Ustinov, who created it by inadvertently sticking himself with a needle laden with an ordinary strain of the virus. It mutated to become even deadlier inside him. He took lab notes on his own subsequent liquefaction. Today Variant […]
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
the residents of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon were like, but of course they would choose our islands for a parlez lancasteronline.com/news/world/carn…
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Carney and Macron deepen ties as Canada turns toward Europe and away from US dependence
French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney are meeting to deepen economic and security ties on the North Atlantic archipelago of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. Macron arrived in the French
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
I never change the time in my car for daylight savings, so I have decided I’m just going to set it to GMT year round and say it’s always correct.
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
And so it came to be that the Supreme Court finally added more justices, though not by the last Democratic president of the United States fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/prof…
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
I look around the house we’ve lived in for a quarter century and think to myself, we’re not very mobile anymore. But maybe soon might have to be. Maybe I should make preparations. But then the preparations I imagine taking center on thinking about how many books I can bring with along, and then […]
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
RAM is the new OIL is the new RAM
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Lotta governmental gold moving around these days: now Venezuela, $4Bn, Bank of Wngland to US Federal Reserve stocks.apple.com/AGS0Tb37NSq6J_mcVi…
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Venezuela nears deal to move $4bn gold reserve to New York — The Times and The Sunday Times
Government of Delcy Rodríguez would gain legal control over the assets, which are currently being stored in the Bank of England
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
RE: mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/11729… We went from `we will use all your water` to `we will not use but forever pollute all your water` in a heartbeat.
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
Take a look at this apparently successful nationwide franchise. Surely people have tried to offer a correction to the spelling? Or is “bobble” an accepted alternate spelling in Am. Eng. now? bobblesandlace.com
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Bobbles & Lace
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
David Sylvian and Holger Czukay's *Plight & Premonition* album is IMO one of the best ambient releases ever, as its improvisatory tape-splicing nature beats laptop music by a mile. I've owned it in every format over the years. But I could never listen to Sylvian's solo stuff as I just don't like […]
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
Gas prices don’t seem to have affected the driving behavior of Ford F150 drivers.
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
“Tesla self-certified its autonomous robotaxi as compliant with all vehicle safety standards, which assume a human driver behind the wheel. But given the lack of any physical driver controls, the NHTSA unsurprisingly has its doubts…” What do you mean, “self-certified?” Is that how this shit […]
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
They need to give Mitch a prop to make it look like he’s engaged. Maybe he could clutch an ebony sceptre with bony fingers that close around the infernal instrument with a deadened, stony grip. While he laboriously takes a breath that sounds like wind rushing through a catacomb . Or something […]
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
I do feel like Twitter and its descendants kind ruined the very short poem as seen standing on its own printed in a book. See Simic, etc. Especially sly absurdity seems like it should just be a toot now. In addition to seeing to be more humble by just showing up on your screen instead of […]
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
With all this shit, this arch, The Kennedy Center, the East Wing, I’m just like: good. I hope the ruins are still visible when the aliens finally discover our dead planet in some age to come. And in the meantime: don’t let anybody pretend we should have official […] [Original post on mas.to]
Screenshot of Washington post headline: 
“Trump's arch will harm historic sites but must proceed, federal officials say”, subhead: “While acknowledging the project's "adverse effects" on dozens of sites, the administration is asking local preservationists to sign on to an agreement by Monday.”
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
Great interview from 2011 with Miles Whittaker of Demdike Stare. Bookmarking for his remark about how an artist can sometimes profit from living in an ugly place, if it's the right kind of ugly. "I really don’t like where I live, but the music wouldn’t sound exactly like it does if I lived in […]
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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
Sapolsky tells us that reptiles have much less developed limbic systems than mammals do, and that this means they don't have much of an emotional life. From this I venture that perhaps it is more ethical to eat lizard meat than steaks, on the idea that while the lizard experienced pain when it […]
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