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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the best video I've seen this week (9 seconds)

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026

NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.

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Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

your daily reminder that the field of religious studies remains relevant. In fact, it is increasingly relevant.

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lol. Yet she's a picture of mental health compared to one of my friend's fave saints, St. Simeon Stylites.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

doing some more scanning tonight, here are a few more photos that i thought were pretty neat

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i love conan. I was watching his thing on the rest is history where he said "all statues of real people should be made of durable soap, they should last a good 60 years and then we decide if we want to remake them or not".........i love that. i love that attitude to historical figures. it's so good

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Well, he was excellent in Charlie's Angels, so, whatever one thinks, that must be part of the calculation.

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yes, but how is that more significant than the fact that 75% still support versus a measly 22%?

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you're cucumber you're at least green, so you're actually grass as well as Green Lantern and you can fly.

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What do you see that I'm not seeing? A ton of them still express approval from within their empty skulls.

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good time to recall the fact that his complicity with Bush resulted in the dismembering of many. Pathetic, Daily Telegraph.

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thank you, this is the information we all needed

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If anyone needs supervision, it's clearly him.

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So stop it you absolute fools

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We say both aluminum foil and tin foil

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A business I used to patronise had "torture music" -- songs that nobody on earth would ever want to listen to, surely to make the caller despair and give up

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ew, that's gross and stupid and we already have grammar that works. I think you should deploy a spray bottle on anyone who talks like that, just as you would treat a naughty cat.

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Great video, thanks for sharing!

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Moist, screenshotted, and mentee me all day long, but don't anyone dare say "tantamount"! Aaaaaaaaaaarrrgggghhhhhhhhhhh!

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What's wrong with his face? It's like a force is pulling it from behind.

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

She is a national treasure.

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Matt Kennedy is perpetually looking for someone to fire at.

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Very sorry to hear that, that must be painful 🙏🙏🙏

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Well a lot of people posted the facts of their absence (which AP, as AP, should know!) & they've done nothing to correct the big error. Neither did they report he fell asleep several times at the Pentagon ceremony yesterday. What's the point of having access if not to tell the truth?

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

No kidding, Luminate?! I could've told you that for *free* 10 years ago... as could have 7 million other people.

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There should be disciplinary consequences and a retraction if this photo was posted with the knowledge of their absence.

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh no. I thought it had to be something like this.

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Okayyyy, please, please continue. What kinds of things? Like praise for the resilience shown by the marginalized?

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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm so glad I left their ecosystem long ago.

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well, hmmm, if they were true he'd have done it already.

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Send him to Belgium. We'll deal with him 🤜

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

He lost his hair and 10 years

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Good luck with that, Bryan. I'm skeptical since he needs to steal his sons plasma to do it. Also because he looks exactly like someone his age, is obviously wearing makeup, obviously dyed his hair, and is clearly starting to go bald. No shame in that, unless you're aspiring to godhood.

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Mark Pertuit @markpert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

He looks 1,000,000 times better

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