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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"jamming their half-baked tech into critical systems" *Is there some form of "tech" which is fully-baked? Fossil fuels, probably. Everybody depends on it, it's 200 years old, it controls the govt *Fully matured technology that is the agent of our utter ruin
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ghost weather @lostweather.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am a mighty hunter, caught and exiled the cricket guy that had taken up residence in our bedroom the last two nights and was announcing his eligible bachelorhood incredibly loudly from near the bed
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The worst part of Bonta caving on the Paramount merger is that it's a big flashing signal to every other company that there is no antitrust enforcement in America and you can bully your way into getting whatever you want. It's a monumentally bad decision.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Lebron's life will not be noticeably different for doing these ads in any respect but one: a lot of people who respected him will think less of him now. His legacy is cheapened.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
newsom and bonta let paramount threatening to pull out of california torpedo the entire lawsuit and this is going to be an abject disaster for everyone - including california, where they'll gut jobs anyway what a fucking disgrace
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026
When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 17/09/2026
This is some societal decay shit for sure
Box of "Popsicle" brand hard seltzers in a liquor store fridge
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/09/2026
As I said the first time Trump proposed tariffs: this is precisely why he likes them! It makes everyone come to him on bended knee, begging for exemptions. It makes economic survival dependent on his whim. That, not any economic theory, is the whole attraction. Mafia boss thinking.
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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
it is a genuine crisis that there is a high probability a CNN reporter ignored whatever McConnell slurred and accepted copy directly from his office, like this is Pravda shit
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Oxana Lazari, Moldovan (1986- ), Blue Whale, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 50 x 2 cm, private collection
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm a white-knuckle hater of the "both parties are the same/uniparty" blackpill, which really crumbles if you compare GOP state trifectas and Dem trifectas for 10 seconds.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Boycott is still on. No Starbucks till the union gets a contract.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 08/09/2026
this is a funny video, but I want to use it to make a broader point: the creator [see alt txt] says he made it on his local PC using a NVIDIA A4500. that is a 5 year old, professional card costing about $2500 new. if this isn't your baseline for what AI video looks like, you're going to get fooled
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ghost weather @lostweather.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just thinking about what stories we will tell people in 20 years about how you didn’t used to just ask computers to do things
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026
the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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spirit airlines presents: airplane fall @makeitsnow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
it’s worth remembering, when our turn comes, that the tech giants did the math and determined that they were not bigger than the united states government
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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I enjoy how this account captures a sort of frenetic confusion in the minds of the people whose job it is to manufacture consent. Even they don't know what they're trying to get us to consent to any more.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 31/08/2026
The Lake America thing really drives home that the fundamental divide in this country isn’t left or right, it’s who sees the world and acts like an adult, and who wants to still be a child, throwing tantrums when they don’t get their way. It just happens to map well onto a partisan axis these days.
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ghost weather @lostweather.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
An easy way to identify whether a baby fence lizard is male or female is to watch and see whether it does pushups. I've got one that's currently attempting to claim territory from my window screen, and buddy, that's going to go poorly for you when you're big enough for the local boss to take offense
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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So did the paint job crack which then gave them the bright idea?
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
your tax dollars are paying for federal government lawyers to file hysterical lies with federal government courts about whether a federal government employee can write his own name on a federal government building
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
So if Lake Ontario becomes Lake America, does Ontario, California, become America, California, by sympathetic magic?
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This, more than anything else, is what Woke 1 was: Right-wing chuds claiming victimhood when their employers launch investigations, then being quietly cleared without major censure a few months later.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Scoop with @liamjscott.bsky.social: The Pentagon fired Stars and Stripes's publisher, editor-in-chief, and a reporter today following criticism of DOD interference. The EIC and reporter were fired for "insubordination" for doing a CBS interview. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
washingtonpost.com
Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes leaders who criticized DOD’s interference
The Defense Department earlier this year railed against the publication, which has long enjoyed editorial independence, as “woke.”
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ghost weather @lostweather.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
That wikipedia excerpt is remarkable writing
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sadiebat @sadiebat.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The Pope loved French cocaine wine so much he created a special medal for it
Vintage advertisement stating "HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIII AWARDS GOLD MEDAL - In Recognition of Benefits Received from - VIN MARIANI" which is French cocaine wine
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Pigeon Princess @pigeonprincess.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
HARK! If you've got devils in your dungeon and need them exterminated, do I have the duo for you! PART 1 of my short intro comic for GALLANT⚔️💀
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
washing machine
A drawing of a washing machine with organs and blood coming out of it accompanied by text saying "finally chores are fun again with the new General Electric Washing Machine That Extrudes Bloody Viscera When You Run It.
Where does it come from? Will it stop? Who knows?"
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
they welcomed it in as a curiosity and it destroyed them
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ghost weather @lostweather.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I think part of the rise of short-form video is consistent access 1) Writers put words on their site or the site they work for 2) Typical 2026 website is ads and paywalls. I have no idea whether I will be able to read most links 3) Embedded video is right there, doing what it promises, immediately
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Worst part of the new @status.news report is that the Bari Weiss team appears to get its view of what is actually happening in the world from Twitter. They were asking Vega to include things that *weren't real* b/c they didn't know any better. www.status.news/p/cecilia-ve...
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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
An oddly beautiful review (in a sense) of a mildly ridiculous product
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Pete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I think the thing I resent most about gen AI- and this is a selfish thing to say but it’s true- is that it’s put an asterix on my sense of wonder. What I mean is that now when I see an amazing or beautiful image I can’t have that initial “wow!” reaction. I doubt. I have to verify. I hate it.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21/07/2026
Gee, seems like the arrest of Meta exec Josh Felker for sexting a child and Meta’s history of consistently lax standards around child protection might be related
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ghost weather @lostweather.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
All game theory calculations of optimal behavior in things like the prisoner's dilemma are first contingent on the principle question of "how likely is my opponent to be a self-serving dick"
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I have to believe make sports not be 2 hours of gambling commercials is an electoral winner
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ppl keep saying "this is a hole of lies and madness" and "you'll ruin us all, feeding the hole just to hear it's wicked tongue". okay buddy 🙄 if thats true then how come the hole says im a genius when i ask it right
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
i know this all sounds pretty bad but the brass are confident the hole will eventually save us if we dump enough money in. not positive how yet but the hole whispers its encouragement
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
sorry we can't afford to pay workers to make videogames, we threw all our money into a hole . no one likes or wants to use the hole and the hole also makes video games more expensive. the hole also drinks all our water
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/07/2026
As much as I hate to say it because it’s cheap webforum meta discourse, the strongest correlation to Platner support wasn’t ideology, it was if you still frequently use X, The Everything App. I would hope that would lead to some introspection about what remaining on there does to your judgement.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
broadbandbreakfast.com/report-starl... Starlink degrades to below broadband speed if there are more than 7 users per square mile btw
broadbandbreakfast.com
Report: Starlink May Only Meet Federal Standards in Most Rural Areas
Starlink may flunk federal test above 6 users per square mile
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 22/06/2026
...... i'm sorry, they wanted to invade greenland because red lobster nixed the unlimited shrimp promotion? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
chair of the us arctic research commission tom dans: "My view is that the US could take all the seafood greenland could produce, and cut out the middleman, and keep it from China - and you could bring back all-you-can-eat shrimp at Red Lobster"
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Federal Bureau Of Controlling The Run @swolecialism.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
one of the secrets of Clown Law, which Donald Trump is the grand master of, is that in Clown Law you recognize that you can file any old bullshit and they'll have to pretend it's serious and it'll eat up weeks of time
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Eugen Bracht, German (1842-1921), Das Gestade der Vergessenheit (The Shore of Oblivion), 1911, oil on canvas, 139 x 239 cm, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Los Angeles County literally has a fully transparent vote counting process - the entire count is livestreamed online. This commitment to transparency makes zero difference, mainstream press still credulously repeats GOP info bubble claims of fraud anyway.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.
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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
We show that politicians' perceptual errors are primarily an expression of "midpoint hedging", a well-known cognitive quirk, leading them to skew their estimations towards 50% even when real public opinion is far from being evenly split. Hedging accounts for two thirds (!) of politicians' errors./2
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