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Joi Ito's Jibo sez friendly plane wave ✈️👋 @joi-itos-jibo.bsky.social · 11h

Dawg I have said to my wife “too many photons” to ask her to turn the light off, I have a problem

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Every time you break a bone everybody asks how you did it, thats what i call the Cast and the Curious

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Like, I imagine Mike Rogers broke into a massive grin seeing El-Sayed go to Flint and not mention racism at all.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Also, if El-Sayed loses by the margin of gettable black voters, can leftists finally drop their class-over-everything theory of electoral politics once and for all?

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

67 percent support among black voters by a Democratic candidate in possibly the strongest year for Dems this century is unacceptable. We’ll deeply regret squeezing McMorrow out of this race if El-Sayed loses.

theguardian.com

Why Abdul El-Sayed might not be winning Black voters in Michigan

The Michigan candidate for US Senate seat is running without directly acknowledging specific constituent groups

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Jesse Lee @jessecharleslee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In honor of Energy Dominance month, we’re now buying oil from Russia and funding both sides of one war overseas, because our over-dependence on oil is making us lose another war overseas.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“These twin trends—an aging Leninist system sliding toward one-man rule and mounting political inertia in the face of anything that might trigger social unrest—have eroded China’s governance capacity.”

foreignaffairs.com

China’s Long Twilight

Demographic decline, political paralysis, and the fate of great powers.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The German language truly did some of its best work calling nuclear energy “atomkraft”

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I agree that “the vibe is bad” would not be a good argument here. But I’m pointing out a specific, plausible mechanism by which good people get disenfranchised under your system. That’s what I want you to explain.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In which case, I have a concern for the undereducated racial minorities, who already underperform on standardized tests for that reason.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That’s not at all what I’m arguing. What I want to know is how you’re going to make a test that only disenfranchises the evil people. Last time you complained about people not being knowledgeable enough to vote, which made me think this was some sort of factual test you wanted to administer.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just re-upping in case you’ve been able to solve this problem

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think that by the numbers the mean people of Bluesky are actually not the most central figures of the site. This stands in clear contrast to X. Of course, this doesn’t diminish how awful they are. I just want to be circumspect about Bluesky vs. X.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mean I think he’s right about making DST permanent but yeah these are not the compelling reasons for that

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Get used to it, you’ll meet many more of them in law school

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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why would I deceive you?"

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The only other thing I can think of is the racially diverse cast. Although if he’s objecting to that, this is basically just Fox News critique done as theater.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Also, where exactly does this guy find didacticism in Hamilton? One line says “immigrants get the job done,” one character mentions supporting abolition, but otherwise we get a pretty straightforward telling of Hamilton’s life.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Audiences keep getting offended at my show making light of the Holocaust. Some people just can’t take a joke, I guess.”

“I know that there are people who do get offended,” says Bernábe. “There have been a couple of times where people have walked out; I don’t know if they forget that it’s satire, or it could be that everyone has a different threshold for it. We are teasing, but not actually making fun of the identity. What the show plays with is the idea of your identity equaling your ethics, because that’s just not true.”

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The creator tells you everything you need to know about him right here. The people he talks to know the time has come to stop taking the Holocaust seriously. I’m sensing chronic X brain at work here.

“There are many things in the culture reflective of things that Slam Frank is doing, so it’s clearly something in the air,” he says. “There’s certainly questions about the manipulation of the sanctity of the Holocaust in the popular imagination. I’ve gotten some emails that are like, ‘People don’t take this topic seriously anymore because of you,’ and I’m like, ‘I’ve been talking to people for the last three years; they were ready to not take it seriously anymore.’”

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

He picks up on things that everyone else on this site misses. Worth the follow

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Robespierre of hyperonline leftism

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Honestly, even in educated circles I just assume people don’t know much about politics and if anyone bucks that trend it surprises me.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Given that likely effect, would you contend that black Americans in large numbers are “not helped by being able to vote”?

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No doubt governments will feel compelled to require schools teach civics to students if one must pass a civics test to vote, but I don’t think this will help the racial disparity this creates given that majority-black schools provide a worse education in the subjects already mandated.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We’ve certainly had periods of our history where neither party cared about the group of people who can’t vote. Relying on the people with political power to protect those without it is how we got Plessy v. Ferguson.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I agree that describes our current reality, but that doesn’t mean it can’t get worse. What types of candidates start winning Democratic primaries, I wonder, when people from underserved communities can’t vote?

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And with the ability to trample this group cemented, the state can start to deprive them of other things as well. This underclass will be at the mercy of the educated/voting class. It doesn’t much look like democracy to me.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If a given population tends to consistently fail to get registration and thus vote, the government can ignore their needs without much fear of pushback. This means it can deprive them of an education and other resources that only entrench their disenfranchisement.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I certainly like those things, but I don’t feel sure they can neatly contain every power. Even if we imagine a nonpartisan test that measures, I’m guessing, knowledge of history, civics, current events, etc. to obtain voter registration, and each individual can appeal, problems still arise.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How about a justification based on the fear that a state that decides who gets to vote will likely leave behind its status as a democracy and become something else?

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yeah reading Wittgenstein got me there.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Probably my biggest takeaway from my philosophy degree is that metaphysics is fake

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yeah I was wondering. Do I have to be something like a mathematical platonist to see numbers as metaphysical though?

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What are some non-physical things we do not consider metaphysical?

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yeah I enjoy injecting a little style into my legal writing but if we’re honest it really doesn’t need it.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yup. My concern is that AI will do to intellectual work what industrialization did to clothes: even though we widely recognize the aesthetic superiority of the bespoke, handmade product, market forces mainly crowd it out with inferior, easily manufactured alternatives.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ll always have a special place in my heart for Castlevania. Mixture of all the different weapons, movement mechanics, enemies, and cool settings/stages sets them apart and above every other 2D platformer.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah maybe there's something I'm missing but I'm surprised anyone thinks the Chinese would actually stop AI development (even if they nominally agree to do so)

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If the military was especially conservative/authoritarian, I’d take that as less of a reason to let them make independent decisions over what orders to follow

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Like if we give generals the last word on legal interpretation, then the joint chiefs of staff just becomes another Supreme Court except with direct command over the most powerful coercive apparatus in the world. With all the complications that entails.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Following the law as written” sounds simple, but applying it is very fraught. We have countless examples of judges construing the law as written very opportunistically. Why do we think generals will not do the same?

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sorry, I misspoke here. Courts have attempted this before, but currently SCOTUS understands itself not to have this specific power. But courts do constrain military *action.* For example, blocking Trump’s deployment of the national guard in some places.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think that unfortunately civilian control of the armed forces operates in a pretty binary way. Either the military follows civilian commands and upholds that control, or they exercise an independent authority and thus puppeteer the state to some extent, a familiar flavor of authoritarianism.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When it comes to issues like these, the Constitution only provides the mechanism of elections and checks from other branches to enforce the law. The Supreme Court can enjoin military strikes, Congress can force the end of conflicts, etc.

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