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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

we used to be a proper country.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 24/09/2026

Oh no we told the computer to do a hack and it did it is it god

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Actually, the Democratic mayor of NYC meeting with the Republican President of the United States is *not* remotely comparable to the Democratic House Minority Leader meeting with the unelected, unappointed, unofficial grifting son-in-law of the president.

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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just got a text from Talarico fundraisers telling me that donations have mysteriously slowed down at a critical time and they need help. Lol. Lmao even.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Times will now presumably bully itself to suicide since that's what they deem an appropriate punishment for alleged plagiarism

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kokujin-kun—ICE Delenda Est🆓️ @kokujinkun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

When has Woke 2 actually started? Serious question.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Incredible subtlety here from NYT.

Optimus robots with text “Unlike humans, they would never take a lunch break, join a union or require health insurance.”

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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry

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kokujin-kun—ICE Delenda Est🆓️ @kokujinkun.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Politics aside, does anyone think food shelves are a good POLICY idea? I mean, free food, amirite? That's never a good idea.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 12/07/2026

"I just talked to my good friend Mitch McConnell..." -Lindsay Graham in hell

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kokujin-kun—ICE Delenda Est🆓️ @kokujinkun.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Let me get this straight: you won't open up replies? What are you afraid of?

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Scrying the only word for that activity. And it’s easy to spell and pronounce. What she’s really asking for is to never be introduced to a new concept.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Transphobe Nancy Mace coming in 5th in the SC Gubernatorial primary could have only been better and more poetic if she had tied for 5th instead.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

And yet, New Yorkers mainly didn’t give a shit and still booed :)

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Xythar @xythar.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

spent several minutes scrolling through the youtube "preferred languages" list and checking every single box in the hope that maybe this will get across the message that i don't want to hear their fucking auto dub voice ever

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kokujin-kun—ICE Delenda Est🆓️ @kokujinkun.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hell, you can see how it plays out in the Virgina redistricting fight. The Ds there could easily ram through a new map over the objections of the Rs, but the Ds chose to ask permission from a referendum, then quickly folded when rightwing judges invalidated the map with a horseshit ruling.

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kokujin-kun—ICE Delenda Est🆓️ @kokujinkun.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Reminder that the trumpanzee doesn't drink beer, so no need to get sucked into this pissing match.

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kokujin-kun—ICE Delenda Est🆓️ @kokujinkun.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Jesus christ, what is wrong with democrats? What you're supposed to do is ignore the state supreme court ruling, like Ohio did, and DARE the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn both states.

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良子(よしこ@紅楼夢Y-14a @yskoo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

May 10 さんでー

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

just explained what a tsundere was to Ben and he went “oh like the home alone shovel guy”

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 06/05/2026

We actually have two strong Republican parties.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Okay this is pretty wild. It really is all just content-farming for likes, isn't it? Throwing stuff at the wall until something blows up (surprise! it's the ragebait version that always blows up!)

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Scott was running for reelection

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PolitiColorado @politicolorado.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Retirement would have probably been a better time for you the last 15 years, no? If they won’t retire, they end up clinging to power with ideas from 3-4 decades ago, funneling money to the people who keep him there. Mother Nature did it for you David 🪦 Part of being a leader, knowing when to quit

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

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kokujin-kun—ICE Delenda Est🆓️ @kokujinkun.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

In the latest Stancil crashout news, he's now berating someone who can't afford beef

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social:

I mean what are we supposed to say here? No prices will ever go up ever again? There will never be supply chain issues, or crop diseases, or bird flu? Since I'm not running for office I can say it: GROW UP. You're not going to starve if hamburgers cost 20% more for a year. Just eat some chicken.

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I very clearly remember being able to afford beef a few years ago and now I can't. You simply cannot gaslight me into thinking everything's all right in our economy and trying will win you neither friends nor elections

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

He knew exactly what he was doing. Don’t get shy now, man, you bought the cake; eat every slice.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

[shocked pikachu.jpeg]

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Sarah (BUY MY BOOK!) Moon @prettytranslator.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

cosigned. whenever you love a line of dialogue or narration in a manga or novel I translated, it's 95% me (or my editor), not the original author. a translated work is like a cover of a song or a movie adaptation of a book. it's its own thing.

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kokujin-kun—ICE Delenda Est🆓️ @kokujinkun.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

What happens when Sam Altman turns the dial on his clanker back to AI sycophancy.

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kokujin-kun—ICE Delenda Est🆓️ @kokujinkun.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Weird moral panic grifters: Teen pregnancies are baaad. Don't have teen pregnancies, young teenagers. Teenagers: Aight, bet. Weird moral panic grifters: No! No! NOOO! Not like that! You're killing our precious replacement rate fertilityyy!

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kokujin-kun—ICE Delenda Est🆓️ @kokujinkun.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Not exactly ::crickets::, but @olivia-reingold.bsky.social was starting to say "I-I just feel you just want to relitigate..." before she got cut off.

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kokujin-kun—ICE Delenda Est🆓️ @kokujinkun.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Man, so fascinating how everybody's got heat for Hasan Piker, but can't back up their smoke

Rabbit Cohen‬
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I like Katelyn Burns, and I think she generally does great work. I think her Hasan Piker piece is extremely bad.

Rabbit Cohen
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"Yes, he called some Orthodox Jews inbred. But he also calls Republican voters in the south inbred. This is a nothingburger." I don't know, Katelyn, do you think maybe there's a difference between a marginalised religious group and the people who voted this authoritarian administration into power?
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Do you condemn Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef? Or do you agree that black people are monkeys?

Because it was him and his followers Piker was calling inbred in his clip.

(Two pics: one of Hasan Piker calling Yosef and his followers "inbreds" for threatening to leave shitrael if conscripted into the army. Another pic showing an article describing how Yosef called black people "monkeys"

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

this is what happens when democrats stupidly elevate "never trump" republicans into the movement when these are the people who built trumpism and are just mad he says what they believe out loud. you donated to the bulwark and you got what you deserve.

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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 06/04/2026

A screenshot of a tweet:

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Two things can be true:

1) Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza

2) Those crimes do not include genocide
7:51 AM • Jan 12, 2024 • 1.3M Views

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

[50 years of neoliberalism leads to the collapse of the middle class and the rise of neo-fascism] Democrats: A tax cut can fix this.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Fox News was just talking about Soleimani’s niece and grand niece getting arrested by ICE: “Both were granted asylum in 2019 under the Biden administration.” The question of who was actually president from Jan. 2017- Jan. 2021 continues to perplex Trump supporters.

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kokujin-kun—ICE Delenda Est🆓️ @kokujinkun.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I got put on a wypipo block list? And nobody bothered to check my profile? Lol, block lists on this site are fucking useless, bruh

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

the best way to not get hit in a fight is not to fight

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phylan @phylan.website · 30/03/2026

I can't stop reading the Claude subreddit where Claude Code users are furious about hitting their token limits and not being able to generate any code for 4 days b/c it is a tasty lil preview of where all the fuckers who keep telling me my career is going away will be when the bubble finally bursts

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