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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“longtime aversion” He doesn’t have beliefs in the way that suggests. There is only what benefits him at any given time. If that changes of course his “position” will change, because he never really had one.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Has he tried opening the Strait of Hormuz

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He absolutely was not and it’s absolutely incredible that they are telling this lie now. I mean, Nixon was caught *on tape* conspiring to commit multiple crimes. You can listen to him doing it.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

trump going on an emergency 17 state media tour to support republican candidates before the midterms and he is going with “nobody knows that dumb has a b on the end”

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They were doing the nuclear in the same factory where they were doing the drug. Doing the drug and the nuclear. Or it was a school. Is what they were doing. A drug and nuclear school factory. Whatever. Anyway, I bombed it

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I cannot get my head wrapped around how terrible an idea protecting individual headnotes is. If a headnote is not extremely similar - not just substantially, extremely - to the language it relates to, it is literally worse than useless. Protecting them is utterly bonkers.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That expression you have while witnessing spectacular incompetence.

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Relics of other Orthodox saints, including St. Nicholas, Sts. Peter and Fevronia of Murom, St. Luke of Crimea and St. Matrona of Moscow, have previously been taken to the front….” They drafted St. Nicholas and still aren’t winning? www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/01/r...

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Russian Orthodox Church Denies That Troops Lost Medieval Warrior Prince’s Relics in Ukraine - The Moscow Times

The Russian Orthodox Church has denied reports that Russian troops abandoned fragments of the remains of St.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My new link roundup focusing on courts and the approaching midterm elections, including warrants to seize ballots, last-minute investigations, and a judge's ruling against the use of federal funding holdbacks to pressure states into cooperating with the feds.

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Election Policy Roundup #31: The Courts and the Midterms

Roundup of links on courts and the approaching midterm elections, including warrants to seize ballots, last-minute investigations, and a ruling against using federal funding holdbacks to pressure stat...

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This line of robot cars (and one unfortunate human driver) actually goes around the corner and down the street. All stuck because the bots are too stupid to understand it’ll take forever untill they can turn left here.

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For some reason there’s this assumption that the AI must be so smart we just can’t understand. The simpler and therefore far more likely explanation is that “She just named the synthesis – demurrage plus oral memory equals a valve that can’t be ghosted” is just complete bullshit.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

> @techcrunch.com techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/p...

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Neuroscientist here. I have studied the brain for 40 years. I make serious use of machine learning and AI in my research. Sam Altman is full of shit. These machines are not conscious, any more than a movie of a train coming out of the screen is a train. AI does remarkable things but isn’t real.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/09/2026

“Don’t you dare go inside the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts! It’s much too dangerous,” petridishes.bsky.social writes. “If people can understand one another just by scratching a bow across taut strings—perhaps this is a form of witchcraft.”

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The Kennedy Center Is the Most Terrifying Building in America

This place is much too dangerous.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"I immediately thought of Viktor Orban as soon as I saw this last ad because they were the same type of thing he did before finally losing his last election earlier this year. He spent 235 million euros of Hungarian taxpayer money on propaganda campaign material." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...

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Donald Trump’s latest impeachable offense

Just before noon today, the President of the United States was standing just inches away from the trophy at the Medinah Country Club outside Chicago, wearing an extra-large suit that bulged along his ...

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Look at the lengths to which they have to go to find somebody to prosecute for illegal voting. As if these people conspired to commit crimes in order to very slightly increase someone’s chance to win a local school-board election.

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Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 27/09/2026

We are living in hell

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A constitutional crisis used to be kind of a big deal but now it’s just Thursday

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Other defendants include “Hermes Far Eastern Shining, Infinity - Forms of Yellow Remember, and Fellowship of the Esoteric School of Higher Learning.”

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/09/2026

Yeah, what psychopath would want his name on a building associated with an assassinated President

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They also made him sleep on the floor of a holding cell. With the bullet in his back. And no pain medication. They also failed to provide medical care after they shot him. People need to go to prison for this.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

federal immigration agents beat up a US citizen in Evanston on Sunday morning and left him lying in the street or as Kavanaugh would put it, he experienced as "brief investigative stop" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day

The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 23/09/2026

I don't say this lightly, but Pete Hegseth deserves to be impeached. I understand just how serious a vote to impeach is from experience, and I still believe impeaching him is the right thing to do. The Iran war. The purge of senior ranks. The boat strikes. The case is overwhelming. (Link below)

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/09/2026

JUST IN: In a deeply embarrassing and un-American court filing, the Trump regime is now arguing that CNN, MS NOW, and Politico can be stripped of White House access in the name of “national security.” 1/

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ok, Grandpa. We’ll do that. How about a nice glass of milk?

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

FT asking the big questions here - could Anthropic maintain its growth trajectory if AI destroys humanity? www.ft.com/content/96d0...

Investors are questioning whether
Anthropic can sustain its extraordinary growth as competition, price-sensitive customers and the potential for Al to destroy humanity cloud its blockbuster IPO.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Trump administration's lawless killing spree at sea continues with a lethal strike on four more supposed "narco-terrorists" in the Caribbean. Very real killing in a make-believe war. Outside of war the general term for premeditated killing is murder.

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👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026

i need to know what happened

sign in a restaurant "due to recent events Bigfoot discussions are no longer permitted on the patio"

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mark Carney: “I would now like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function. Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy.”

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“I don’t know that we can’t legally do it,” Patel said, although they can’t legally do it and he absolutely does know that.

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

But one day they will bowl a perfect doosra and humanity will then be truly obsolete

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

But, a quick summary: Mr. Chan has filed a very batshit complaint against Wizards of the Coast. The complaint alleges that Wizards of the Coast stole - in direct contravention, as we shall see, of the laws of causality - his Wereshark creation. Nuts, right? If you are WOTC, what do you do?

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I guess the Trump FBI *does* care about diversity.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Washington Litigation Group, which sued to halt Trump's shuttering of Kennedy Center: "This constant effort to add Trump's name to the Kennedy Ctr facade is the definition of insanity. This is now the 3rd attempt to deface this sacred memorial and turn it into a vanity project for one man's ego"

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yep, that’ll make all the difference

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 14/09/2026

I find it absurd that the em dash is now widely perceived as an indicator of AI use. I have used it since childhood; it is part of my writing style. Sometimes inserting a brief aside within a sentence, at other times emphasizing the conclusion of a thought.

Screenshot of a post on X by Malte Ubl (@cramforce): “AI slop has fundamentally changed how I experience reading.

I now notice the tells everywhere. The short, punchy sentences. The relentless groups of three. The em dashes—the unnecessary little asides.

And once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

The worst part? My brain now flags perfectly innocent human writing as AI slop too. AI hasn’t just made me enjoy bad writing less. It’s made me suspicious of all writing.

That’s a real loss.”

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And there is the even more insidious problem that if working from a prior draft, no matter who or what wrote it, that tends to limit creativity because people hesitate to depart from what they see as the “approved” or “correct” arguments. Especially new lawyers.

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Right. I keep hearing that using AI is supposed to save time, but it could only do that if you accept its output, which in the legal profession you absolutely cannot do. If you have to check everything personally anyway, why didn’t you just do the work to begin with?

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