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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 13h

Publichealthguy, his meme reskeeted

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 14h

Its a complaint on par with saying AR15s are bad because the barrel contains trace amounts of radioactive argon

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 14h

If you have a cup of coffee with almond milk, the almonds in the almond milk are 30k chatgpt queries worth of water usage. There are legitimate complaints about AI and we should have them, but water usage is just such a colossally stupid and losing argument

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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 15h

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 19h

"South Korea has already run the experiment. Its law requires the National Assembly to vote on presidential impeachment by anonymous ballot, and that rule has now removed two presidents." [@andycraig.bsky.social]

theunpopulist.net

A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis

Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 18h

A lot of people finding out from this case how conspiracy law works. It's often quite bad! But being held responsible for something you didn't do and weren't present for is a normal feature of it, as is otherwise lawful actions in furtherance of a conspiracy being considered.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 23h

For those keeping score at home, we are now up to *five* different Josh Blackman critical posts in the first few days after Trump's latest 5th Circuit nomination, all making the argument that Someone Else would be a more reliable conservative circuit judge.

reason.com

Comparing the Credentials Of Three Decades of Fifth Circuit Nominees

I think we should just be candid about Todd Butler's nomination to the Fifth Circuit. He has done nothing to…

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's no one weird trick for fighting fascism because 1) a lot of people like fascism and 2) a lot of other people aren't fasicists themselves but are fine with voting for them if they think it advances their material interests.

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this is by far the best "I quit my AI job over safety concerns" essay yet because it is the first one that is able to talk about safety concerns in practical terms and that understands "safety" as a topic with extensive literature in analogous fields www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Two changes are urgently needed. First: AI companies need to rely more on the safety expertise that already exists in other fields. And second, before we create systems significantly more capable than the ones we have today, we need new science to ensure that more capable models (and their successors) will make safe choices when we aren’t looking.

Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster. Right now, AI companies don’t know how—but other people do. In a nuclear-power plant, the technical systems and rules people follow are set up so that, if equipment breaks or someone pushes the wrong button, we still won’t risk a meltdown. OpenAI and other labs are growing and deploying frontier AI with far less redundancy and rigor than this, even though the harm from an irreversible loss of control would be much greater than the harm from any single meltdown. Even short of a full loss of control, we could see autonomous swarms of AI agents that act without human permission. Imagine “rogue” agents that work like teams of hackers (for example, holding hospital computer systems for ransom) but never need to sleep.

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cee @cee.wtf · 02/10/2026

rare X -> bsky crosspost

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

FARGO really gets the reality of crime 99% of the time: criminals are dumb, childish, and self-involved.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In 2008, California admitted 140,000 people to prison. In 2011, it admitted 97,000. In 2019, before Covid, it admitted 34,000. That's a SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT reduction in admissions. Yet we almost never talk about California's remarkable Realignment reforms.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

IMO it’s clear from Richard Hanania’s own words that he believes that rape, both statutory and violent, is the right of a certain kind of man. Elite men It’s appalling that this man is given a drop of ink or a second of interview time in our media. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/richard-hana...

liberalcurrents.com

Richard Hanania Doesn't Even Try to Hide His Male Supremacism

Hanania is a reminder of the dangers of rehabilitating extremist intellectuals.

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Everyone quoting the torment tweet but the thing SciFi authors have warned about more than literally anything else is creating sentient servants and then enslaving and mistreating them! I don't think our AIs are conscious but if anyone is creating the torment nexus its folks dismissing the idea.

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trump does enough bad stuff that we don't need to make up new fake reasons to be mad, this is perfectly normal diplomatic protocol, here's a photo of Biden and Xi on a red carpet by an airplane in the US in 2020: www.axios.com/2020/11/10/c...

axios.com

What China thinks of Biden

Relations aren't likely to be chummy, but Beijing hopes diplomacy between the countries can be restored.

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rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 21/09/2026

Look, a lot of people are turning their brains off with AI and that's bad. But I consider this an evil ideology — I think automating drudgery is an essential part of human liberation

The Al bros would like us to believe that much of what we spend our time on is busywork/ drudgery/tedium and we would be so much better off if that could be delegated.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i'm not against abstention campaigns to pressure dems because i'm ok with centrist apeasers i'm against them because they empower those apeasers at a time when they're actually *losing* the intra-party debate

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

it's worth separating 3 things: 1. i couldn't personally vote for a dem who "moderated" on trans rights 2. i want to persuade other social media users to oppose dems going this 3. i want to pressure party leadership not to "moderate" through a strategy of mass abstention

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I do not remember anybody 'screaming' this at cis women, because it didn't happen; in fact one of the *repeated* points of the Clinton 2016 campaign was that the supreme court was at stake. Joe Biden's personal views also had exactly nothing to do with Roe being repealed.

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026

I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.

transiticsnews.com

I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.

Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

the entire theory of change was that Americans would protest their own government for what happened. bsky.app/profile/jane...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 08/09/2026

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to
take turns Imao

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Like so many conspiracy theories, it fails the "explain why they would want to do this" test. It makes no sense, but people just desperately want to believe a) McConnell is dead and b) there's some nefarious plot. He's 84 and frail. That's the story.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Unlike SCOTUS, I'm pretty tightly bound by the record in front of me." 👀

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Sean @solive.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Seeing a whole lotta this recently

thyfleshc0nsumed from tumblr posted:

No you don't get it, I'm a Good Person. You don't understand. I'm a Good Person which makes it okay for me to think violently about the Enemy, who is Bad Person. I'm commenting "you should be violently murdered" because I'm Good Person and you're Bad Person. You think saying that to someone is fucked up?? You should be violently murdered, you're probably Bad Person anyway

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Everyone getting mad about Google doing this is really mad the US is being treated just like every country with idiot leaders, and not a special, unique, chosen protagonist of the world.

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Extremely annoying that the show Furious, which I'd been enjoying, has hinged the entire conclusion of its plot on a wild misreading of the search incident to arrest exception to the warrant requirement.

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the fool @agnoster.net · 20/08/2026

I don’t think the suggestion is “if the left doesn’t use AI we’ll get left behind” It’s “if we embrace know-nothing misinfo-based Luddism it’ll poison us like the tea party et al. did the right wing”

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

fucken uh still suitin desert style walking without rhythm? Fucken worm riding in the deep desert…maybe..maybe become god? i’m thinkin me, kwisatz haderach, you my stilgar? i need you on this tho baby bro may thy knife chip and shatter

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

the 'C' in "USB-C" stands for "cloaca" because it's one hole that does just about everything

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

There really is a perverse sort of humor in watching ppl whose main activities are working an email job, getting things delivered to them, & looking at their phones too much bc like "god, people during X Time Period probably had it way easier than we do rn"

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

oh god we're doing it again aren't we

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Internet: I just want to see Dems *try*, even if they fail I’ll give them credit for the attempt Dems: *try, fail* Internet: The fact that they failed is actually evidence that the attempt was fake and they never wanted to succeed in the first place

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

This book sounds like homework but reads like The Hunger Games.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Thanks! The way I’ve described it, at times, is that it’s not about what it would be like to have superheroes in the real world, but what it’d be like to live in a superhero world, which isn’t quite the same thing.

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it's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 02/05/2026

ISAAC CHOTINER: So, the food bowl. It's empty, you say? CAT: That's right. IC: And has it ever not been empty? C: Not that I can recall, no, it has not. IC: Fascinating. And this bit of food caught in your whiskers, where would you say that's- C: Now hold on, this is about the bowl, not

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This has 1.4K RTs and 3.7K Likes, but the only thing here that bears any resemblance at all to the JCPOA is No. 6. 1, 4 & 5 were not addressed, and 2 & 3 were permitted. I doubt Iran will agree, which is why Obama focused on getting the most favorable terms on 2, 3 & 6. But this is just wrong.

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Not how non-violence works. People went onto that bridge in Selma expecting to get seriously hurt; the spectacle of police brutalizing innocent people for doing nothing wrong was supposed to reach and radicalize the public. As it is doing now, in fact.

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