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NateA

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Hiking, Movies, Philosophy. I teach philosophy, film studies, and the humanities at Eckerd College.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Every so often I teach someone how to spin yarn on a spindle. And I always tell them that the first yarn you make will not be good yarn, and it's not meant to be, because right now you are not making wool into yarn, you're making yourself into a spinner.
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NateA @kurosawafan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This song on repeat in my mind today.
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Falling Slowly
YouTube video by Glen Hansard - Topic
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Election Day is less than 100 days away. Donald Trump is deeply unpopular and the GOP is not acting like a party trying to persuade voters to support its candidates — because it isn’t. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
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The GOP has a plan to undermine free and fair elections. We must stop them
The GOP is not acting like a party trying to persuade voters to support its candidates — because it isn’t.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
At this point, the media should just treat Trump's little "this is how I will retaliate against the civilian population" posts like a running list of war crimes he is confessing to at this point.
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NateA @kurosawafan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Odyssey screenings in my local IMAX theater have been nearly sold out since its release — and are still sold out through the next week. The moral: ignore the trolls. Just make good movies with good actors and people will come.
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NateA @kurosawafan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Literally: everything he touches turns to shit.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Jeff Timmer: Fun Fact: The President of the goddam United States paid nearly $6 million in damages today to a woman he raped. Once upon a time, this would have been the only news you heard.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/06/2026
same guy
Representative Tom Kean Jr. drew intense scrutiny and faced severe backlash from healthcare advocates and New Jersey officials for his role in advancing House Republican budget proposals that slashed nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid.
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Antonio Solano 🦋 🇪🇺 @tonisolmor.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Pete Hegseth is removing or blocking the promotions of all military officers who he has determined would not participate in an illegal pro-Trump self-coup (auto-coup) in 2028. You can believe me now or believe me in 2028. Either way, stop seeing what Hegseth is doing as random.
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jfordemocracy @jfordemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Trump's SAVE act is a voter suppression bill. Do not support it.
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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Have you thought about providing goods and/or services? That's where I'd start.
Anthropic CEO says AI cos need hundred of billions in revenue or they'll go bankrupt
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André Engelhorn @aengelhorn.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026
Da ist was Wahres dran...
"We are deploying
responsibly developed Al to liberate humanity from menial labor and usher in an era of unparalleled creativity and
abundance."

Sam Altman

"You ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation, and without credit, to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people
whose work you consumed. You are not liberating human creativity - you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while
calling the theft 'training data."

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/06/2026
They're saying the quiet part out loud now. Jenny Maxwell, head of education for Grammarly/Superhuman: “We’re doing a huge pedagogical upheaval in education,” she said, calling it a “burn it down moment. We’re just in the early stages.” Burn down higher ed without any plan to rebuilt. Gift link.
nytimes.com
Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era
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Dr. Jonathan Schroden @jjschroden.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Who could have seen this com— Wait, I’m being told we all saw this coming 😑 www.nbcnews.com/business/cor...
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SpaceX stock tumbles 23% from its high, as average investor sees gains wiped out
Just 10 days after the company’s blockbuster IPO, buyers of its initial public shares are in the red.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.
 ALTMAN: "WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.
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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com · 24/05/2026
Donald Trump is now responsible for 28% of the US national debt. That's $11 trillion. In 250 years of American history, no president has added more. That's not an opinion. It's math.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
We live in a country now where the president uses his power to censor media figures who criticize him and then brags about it.
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Iris (Fleur-de-less) @irishofle.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I love visuals that show what's actually happening. I wish our military would save us, but I'm starting to think that won't happen.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Two things should be true in a democracy: 1. Being rich should not help you get elected. 2. Getting elected should not help you get rich. How’s your country doing on these criteria?
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NateA @kurosawafan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
An excellent piece — that obviously extends to “Politician said a thing!” journalism.
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NateA @kurosawafan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Maxim for teachers in troubled times: “It is the duty of a good man to teach others the good that you could not work because of the malignity of the times and of fortune, so that when many are capable of it, someone of them more loved by heaven may be able to work it” -Machiavelli, Discourse on Livy
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
if you teach any subject other than AI and you want students to do their own work, then the solution to the challenge posed by generative AI is neither to embrace generative AI in the classroom nor to spend class time exploring the limits of generative AI in the classroom it is to teach the subject
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
"If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation... Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life."
nytimes.com
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 25/05/2025
So do search engines. So does social media. The point being: the problem here is capitalism, not any individual technology. Pretending there is *any* benign tech under capitalism, which won’t be used as a tool of control, is where we go wrong. The 👏 problem 👏 is 👏 capitalism 👏
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Here we go again.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/05/2025
Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to a consulate in Istanbul to get a document he needed to get married. Instead, he was murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now a close pal of Donald Trump.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 12/05/2025
Employees who use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini at work face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from colleagues and managers, according to a new study.
arstechnica.com
AI use damages professional reputation, study suggests
New Duke study says workers judge others for AI use—and hide its use, fearing stigma.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.
fortune.com
As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver
Just 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promise—but CEOs just can’t resist the technology.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
AI in education is the answer to a critical question: how do we provide bullshit education that will prepare students for the bullshit jobs they will do when they graduate?
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Dead McCoy 💀🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
And nobody laments the loss of thinking. It's just on me to invent ever more creative ways to trick them into critical thinking to evade using the machine.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 06/05/2025
We should understand this for what it is: an effort to build public consent for the president to ignore the Supreme Court. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jus...
abcnews.go.com
Justice Department investigating 2022 Abrego Garcia traffic stop: Sources
DOJ has been investigating a 2022 Tennessee traffic stop involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ABC News has learned.
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?
A list of bad-news headlines wrapped up with an Atlantic article headlined “Why are young people everywhere so unhappy?”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal. Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration. See how this works?
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant. They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear. They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings. The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore. kfor.com/news/local/w...
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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Max Weber on “living in interesting times” — and what those times demand from political leaders. From “The Politician’s Vocation”.
There is only one thing we can say. We may be living in exciting times, and it may seem that this is not “sterile excitement” (although excitement is in no way necessarily the same thing as genuine passion); in such times, large numbers of politicians of personal conviction may suddenly start running around claiming, “The world is ignorant and evil, I’m not;All this holds little interest for me personally, and certainly doesn’t move me. What does move me, immensely, is when a mature human being—whether old or young in years—takes real responsibility, with his whole soul, for the consequences of his actions and, following an ethics of responsibility, stops at some point and says: “Here I stand. I can do no other.”64 That is something authentically human and genuinely moving. Because every one of us, if we are not dead inside, may find ourselves in such a situation at some point. To that extent, the ethics of personal conviction and the ethics of responsibility are not absolutely opposed: they complement each other, and only in conjunction do they define the true human being who is capable of doing the true “work of politics.”
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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
“You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.” ― Octavia E. Butler #WritingSky
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NateA @kurosawafan.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode”…)
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a man with a bald head is standing in a field of grass
ALT: a man with a bald head is standing in a field of grass
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
No degenerate art
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I'm sorry I know there's a lot going on but how are we not screaming about Ron DeSantis stealing $10 million from Medicaid and the money ending up with pro-DeSantis superPACs, funneled through a charity run by his wife? HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS? www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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The $10M steered to Hope Florida by the state was Medicaid money, document shows
A draft agreement of a $67 million settlement between the DeSantis administration and a Medicaid contractor that had overbilled the state sheds new light on how $10 million of that amount was diverted...
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death
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Brandi Bennett @bbennettesq.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." Dune. Frank Herbert.
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 22/04/2025
This is obvious, but if people broadly rely on a black box to give them answers that help them understand the world, whoever controls the black box controls those answers and therefore the understanding that comes from them. Openness is safety.
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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.
26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a) PROMIsITION
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.
(b) REPORTING REQUIREmeNT
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

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(d) PENALTY
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.
(e) APPLICABLE PERSON
For purposes of this section, the term "applicable person" means—
(1) the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2) any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.
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NateA @kurosawafan.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
“The desires of free peoples are rarely pernicious to freedom because they arise either from being oppressed or from suspicion of being oppressed” — Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Remember, Paris wasn’t “always this way.” Not that many years ago, Paris was choking in car traffic. And it wasn’t a safe place to ride a bike for transportation, so not many people tried. This is new. This is a result of deliberate vision, and bold leadership. Cities are a result of choices.
Central Paris bike-lane filled with people riding bikes.
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
incredible scenes when you have a president who hasn't achieved object permanence
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
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