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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 22h

A creature's health is a measure of its capacity to withstand physical punishment. A creature with weak health succumbs easily to disease or injury, while a creature with exceptional health can endure and survive deadly diseases and injuries.

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But they do not care of,, shein's pain

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

oh i see everyone has to listen to ella 'langley' now 👁️ what, was jessica fort meade too busy to make it to the studio that week or something

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Walt Kuhn, Apples in the Hay, 1932 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

"I do think there is justification for saying this is an empire on suicide watch: the leadership at the center is actively undermining the very foundations of American power." Schwartz interview is really really good phenomenalworld.org/interviews/e...

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Empire Suicide Watch | Herman Mark Schwartz

Examining the anatomy of US power

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Replies to this predictably mad but I feel like using AI for... uh... AI... seems particularly inoffensive?

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's kind of nice that we're getting an object lesson in digital sovereignty - "oh shit our entire country runs on American digital infrastructure and standards" - through something with no real stakes

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Same as everywhere else: undeclared police strike that began in 2020. This trend is visible in every city in North America

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My fellow Québécois - only the OQLF stands between us and madness. You don't have to like it, but it is the only bulwark against chaos

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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The nix-hound is a medium-sized, aggressive pack predator. The meat of the nix-hound is sweet and tender, and has modest magical properties.

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Libération @liberation.fr · 19/08/2026

⚫ L’auteur américain des fabuleux «Kra» et de «Petit, grand ou le Parlement des fées» est mort le 8 août à 83 ans

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John Crowley, dans un autre des mondes

L’auteur américain des fabuleux «Kra» et de «Petit, grand ou le Parlement des fées» est mort le 8 août à 83 ans.

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In the spirit of making people on bluesky mad, here's a really interesting argument on the scale of displacement of book purchases by library loans and a potential fix shush.substack.com/p/the-buck-a...

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The Buck-a-Book solution

Following up on the Authors Guild study

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Guy who has spent two months reading nothing but stuff about the first world war and Russian Revolution: getting big June Offensive vibes from this. Getting big Brest-Litovsk vibes from this. Getting bi-

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

love to read about south american history. A guy called Anaxagoras Chármander was Temporary Consul for 46 years. He believed the moon did not exist and punished so-called 'lunistas' very harshly. He is still widely considered the father of his country

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

These are so great. Actually I need to get around to reading Endless Things

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Perhaps intemperate but it seems quite fitting that director of rail construction in Ottawa is called "dick holder"

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Hit 2 million metres on my trusty rowing machine. Kind of a bittersweet milestone in that the first million took me about a year and the second about 3. But it's nice to have done

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The Odyssey is a really good movie about the end of the post-Cold War political order and its debilitating impact on older men (genuinely laudatory)

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

putting a statement out there for people to tell me i'm wrong - brazil and spain have the two most politically and economically successful left-of-centre democratic governments in the world right now

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

david teece ate and served with this fr

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

that no one gives a shit where you did your undergrad is one of the best things about Canada

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Really, really useful and clarifying paper from @brhaley.bsky.social published by the Centre for Industrial Policy - and I'm not *only* saying that because it cites At The Trough :) centreforindustrialpolicy.ca/brief/why-do...

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Why does Canada develop megaprojects instead of innovation systems? - Centre For Industrial Policy

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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

DeboraGlonch: sitting on tarmac for hour and 20 minutes now unbelievable!! NotTarmac: You’re likely sitting on asphalt! As tarmac is rarely used on modern taxiways Biffdog: believe you are “sitting” on a plane ;) DeboraGlonch: making changes vis a vis weapons and impulses previously controlled

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Pictured: A solution for the delivery of massed, attritable effectors with modular mission payloads against a wide target set, beyond visual range. Easily integrated with a variety of C2 and ISR systems. Munitions are rugged, cost-effective and designed to be produced at scale.

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Ottawa's most pointless piece of infrastructure just got more pointless!

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Odyssey trailer really makes me think there's no way the movie itself can be that bad. Interesting reverse psychology effect

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

No one has been brave enough to point out that the Québécois have a rare gene that makes us all look like political cartoons

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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

New post: Why Labour's current disarray is ultimately the consequence of Osborne’s austerity mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/05/why-... The media's belief that 2010 austerity was necessary led to Corbyn's victory, which then led to Starmer's Blue Labour and their subsequent polling disaster.

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Why Labour

I want to expand on a footnote to last week’s post. As I said there , we now have clear evidence that austerity from 2010 onwards helped...

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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

There is no more you need know about this right now.

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 06/05/2026

"If persistent surplus countries are under-consuming, persistent deficit countries are likely to be over-consuming. And what the biggest deficit country in the world is consuming at a massive scale is healthcare." as.ft.com/r/a307296b-3...

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American healthcare costs drive global imbalances

Dark matter revealed?

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

i don't understand how Old Spice's marketing team landed on this ad for their Super Mario Galaxy Movie tie-in where an astronaut smells a stick of deodorant, thinks about Mario, and then kills himself. i don't understand how that's not a joke, it's exactly what happens in the ad

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Ding ding ding. Even American Democrats have a super patronizing tone about this that boils down to "our country is the only one that is allowed to behave irrationally"

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Oh yeah, how are they doing? I haven't seen them in ages! aren't they ... uh [trying to remember the woke word for poly] ethnically Mongolian now?

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Your email finds me better, I grant, than you had feared, but worse, alas, than you had hoped

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Sam Hammond wrote an endorsement of Trump based on the idea that Kamala Harris would be a disaster for medical innovation

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Super interesting thread on TTRPGs and AI

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

5. There are criticisms of LLMs that are much more plausible. They are built on a large scale expropriation of the intellectual commons. Demonstrably true! They involve a radical and extremely worrying derangement of power relations in favor of a tiny number of men with weird beliefs. Also true imo.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

4. I think that it is important that critics of LLMs get this. The 'LLMs are useless which is terrible and everyone is using them which is also terrible' shtick contained contradictions even in the beginning, which took a lot of work to maintain . Now it contradicts people's lived experiences.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

3. Insisting that this is not true, and demanding that anyone who says it is true be blocked and cast out into the outer darkness, where there shall be much wailing and gnashing of teeth, is a fantastic way of convincing others that you do not know what you are talking about.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

2. I believe that this style of thinking and interaction is both stupid and doomed. It doesn't accurately describe what LLMs are capable of these days, and it demands that people ignore the evidence before their eyes. If you are a programmer, you know Claude can code, and sometimes it can code well.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The position of mr middle powers over here is that it's fine for superpowers to engage in bad faith diplomatic negotiation while preparing for an unprovoked regime change war www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

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Mark Carney backs U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, calls for civilians to be protected

"Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon," the prime minister said in a statement Saturday.

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Laurent Carbonneau @laurentdcar.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

In a worrying sign of accelerating media ownership concentration, Larry Ellison has announced his interest in acquiring the Haqqani Network

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