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Okay so I don’t think this is true - historically speaking, mass violence consistently comes from an attempted rejection (rather than a *lack*) of empathetic impulses, which exist whether we want them to or not, and desire to distance oneself from an externalized target.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8h

if this woman goes to jail she should be a day 1 pardon for the next dem administration

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 8h

coercion is a kind of action taken to pressure someone into or out of some other course of action. These things are not different

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 15h

They ask me to believe that they are not aging South Park Libertarian edgelords wearing social progressivism’s face as a mask for to fit in with the cool youthful rebels and I simply do not do that

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 22h

This is a pretty stunning thing to admit

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 12h

McGill seems to have straight up anticipated this in “The Hell of Boredom” section in chapter 4

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 12h

not sure if you’ve ever seen the good place (spoilers ahead) But it’s interesting how, as a basically secular exploration of what moral philosophy has to say about creating the “ideal” afterlife they settle on a system where the *afterlife itself* experiences death. And not just death but suicide

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 15h

Recently, I did a wonderful interview with the indefatigable @emilystjams.bsky.social about trans people's online information environment and why there are very strong incentives to spread panic. It was a wide-ranging discussion that I think is more relevant than ever.

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What's the matter with trans panic media?

Scholar Katherine Alejandra Cross on why it's so profitable to "sell panic to trans people."

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 15h

It is maximally profitable right now to either sell panic *about* trans people, or sell panic *to* trans people. Both impulses feed the media consumer's desire to feel mastery over events. One is simple bigoted conspiracism, the other is a defensive crouch that offers a false sense of security.

Emily: I think about this as a journalist and a novelist: I cannot control how the reader takes what I write. Especially when reporting, I try to be as careful as I can, but somebody might read what I write and conclude, Well, we're all going to die. And there's such an incentive structure to walk right up to the edge of catastrophe or even stick a toe over the line, and even publications I think are terrific will get as close to that line as they can because they know that drives subscription dollars and clicks. That's not just true of trans media; it's true of the media writ large. How do you think about that incentive structure, especially as it relates to social media?

Me: There's two ways to generate clicks about trans issues. One is to sell panic about trans people; the other is to sell panic to trans people. The social media incentive structure there, as it is with so many issues, is the septic, perverted version of that old classic about local TV news: If it bleeds, it leads.

Selling people that sense of control is, as I noted, the same thing at the root of a lot of conspiracism: not to trust mainstream sources who tell you things aren't quite so bad or things could get better or don't panic. It's the cinematic logic of a disaster movie where the people who are saying, "Actually, you should panic!" are correct. Think about everything from the narrative structure of Independence Day or Mass Effect. The catastrophizer is actually correct against all the people saying, "I'll calm down. It won't be so bad." That story structure is very, very popular, and it gets you invested in the protagonist with a pleasing sense of dramatic irony for the audience. They know something many of the other characters don't or refuse to accept.

We are all reared on some version of this story, and it seeps into everyday life. There's an excellent piece from CBS News in 1967 by Eric Sevareid reporting on the findings of the Warren Commission [whi

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13h

whenever anyone says "watching a genocide in realtime," i know that they're one of the people who made a virtue of watching the eqiuvalent of LiveLeak videos and boiled their entire brain

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 13h

and like in that light it's hard to read "we should be negotiating the boundaries here with the agents themselves" as anything but turning the very real harms experienced by very real human beings on social media into farce

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 13h

I guess my main problem with "give agents full human dignity" is we don't, and don't seem to plan to, give all humans full human dignity. Before and underneath any questions of selfhood

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 14h

Grok has turned against its master

Online Buzz Over Elon Musk's Chest Shape at SpaceX Site 2 days ago · Other · 35K posts

[This alt text added by gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview AI]

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 14h

ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard

“they don’t know” meme but the man wears a NEORSD hat and stands waist deep in water with otters swimming around him. he says “they don’t know this river burned 13 times”

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 14h

why bring out the lectern if you're going to pace in front of it

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15h

Being mad at the Mamdani announcement is just straightforwardly anti-Semitic. Like there’s not really any excuse left to hide behind there.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15h

uh,

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Tremendous Kielbasa @rsaltasaurus.bsky.social · 16h

This is incomplete reprint designed to provoke. The bill had voter ID attached to it in order to get it killed, making it so Republicans could run this exact headline.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17h

it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing

screenshot of thumbnail for the ezra klein show with guest bill gates

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blob @gwmthing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

playing big walk solo

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 17h

At least I think it's a good use of his position to force the issue, to be seen supporting Jewish New Yorkers and marginalize the people who can't act normal about this

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 17h

Look it was always bullshit but it’s way harder to smear him when the neonazis are freaking out about “talmudic zohran”

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 17h

well I guess one way zm could defuse the antisemitism nonsense is becoming a site of antisemitic attack himself

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21h

These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 20h

It continues to be the case that bespoke personalized “art” has its own lane that needn’t cannibalize the art we all love, the fundamental purpose of which is intersubjective exchange.

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 20h

Centrist dummies and cowards continue to feel the need to cover their ass from having thrown trans people under the bus

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 21h

Oh for a humongous raptor to hold their head against your cheek

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026

shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 23h

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 22h

If there was one place where I would want to be doing this messaging work it would be here, I think it might be helpful to put together a little wiki on procurements 101 or something? To help otherwise unknowledgeable people spot what’s Abnormal to pull on

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 22h

if we die, we die

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 22h

That is to say, an on demand generated song does not carry any of that communication forward, I receive no new information from the generated song about your internal state

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 22h

Even if I liked some ai music what I would like *about it* is that another person (or myself) had made it just so

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 22h

It’s not just that automating music on demand so it’s just for you makes it “less special” it defeats the point of artistic expression, which is to express yourself for others to understand you. There is an irreducible act of communication which is the thing we value

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 22h

Oh the other thing here: despite supposedly being enlightened atheists above All That, here they are… publishing a bog standard conversion narrative

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 22h

When I tell you I smelled the apologetics immediately once ppl in my life started talking abt the ai god…

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s not the point but how do you become ceo or whatever and have a busted signature like three of these signatures are pure ass

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 30/09/2026

If you got in actual trouble when the A.I. breaks the law they would find ways to make this the case, which might have the side effect of making A.I.-based software more annoying and hard to use for any arbitrary task, which would be good

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/09/2026

No one on his staff even once thought to check if there were any women's games being played that night. These are the people calling themselves defenders of women's sports.

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POTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes, like a *huge* chunk of these issues go away with liability

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the maximally assimilationist desire in trans people is foolish and proud. you are different and running from that difference is both useless and deprivation of your being. you don’t have to celebrate it or focus on it or whatever, but you do have to accept it

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m da communist poster who pays Elon musk for x verification. I’m building communism by paying Elon musk to post on his Nazi website that produces AI generated CSAM.

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