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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2h

these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1h

what in the actual everloving fuck

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 1h

So the president is inciting a pogram, the Army is live-streaming an execution, and we’re considering bringing back ships for human trafficking. Have I missed anything today while I was busy? No? Okay cool great

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14h

This is simply true: in the 2000s you could very vociferously denounce the wars and still be considered well within the mainstream. Now, the entire political/media class is *fucking terrified* of any minor public figure that says “Bullshit” too loudly, and they move as one to kick fuck out of them.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 15h

*"Adversarial poetry malware." Yeah: it's infected poetry. Evil poetry that powns machines and mines crypto. I'm pretty jaded when it comes to malware hijinks, but that's plenty weird www.theregister.com/security/202...

theregister.com

Poetry is the new AI security threat as PoeLLM malware infects 3K+ servers

Quoth the LLM, 'More and more'

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jawanaka.bsky.social @jawanaka.bsky.social · 14h

Tired: Militant Wahhabism Wired: Militant IslamoTateism

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Bob @psychobob4q2.bsky.social · 22h

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15h

'In response to the era of artificial intelligence, and the questions it raises about culture, copyright and corporate power, the academics behind the Stuart Hall Archive Project have barred AI bots from accessing the data.'

theguardian.com

Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online

Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14h

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.com

EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure

The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 14h

last afghan monarch: let me just give you universal suffrage and extend womens rights. oh you overthrew me while i was on vacation, good job! anyway you clearly prefer a republic so ill be playing chess for the next 30 years last iranian monarch: thats my emotional support chemical weapon stockpile

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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 22h

The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.

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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm on principle opposed to the idea of Canadians being able to pay out of pocket for a better version of the national public broadcaster. Ie. a two-tier CBC. $5.99 is affordable - but you're paying ~$3 a month in taxes for Gem too. I'd rather we all pay $4 a month instead and remove ads for all.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 17h

Again, I don't think anything shows the absolute moral cowardice at the heart of the Western political establishment than the fact that nobody can point out how close this guy is to American government power because we can't risk upsetting the Americans.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 22h

are you fucking kidding me

$Curtis Yarvin • @curtis_yarvin • 1h What if OpenAl solves the Jewish problem ... roon @tszzl • 23h Replying to @tszzl unified field theory / quantum gravity within the next 12 months? 25 {7 16 • 258 ıll 9K$

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 16h

That was how it came across, yes. Like, you guys have been plotting this for decades, and you decided to TBD… the whole issue… of indigenous sovereignty? That can’t be right!

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 18h

It's kind of incredible how "reads a transcript of what a world leader says and takes it seriously" is a bar that most reporters and analysts just cannot clear these days

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 17h

This is obscene. Destroying something so precious for shitty memes? Just sickening.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 17h

Today is a rare day where Twitter has more useful information than this website on a very important issue, so let's collate some of the ongoing discussions. 🧵 Here are the words straight from the mouth of a student organizer who went from interning for Mamdani to protesting him on the streets:

Wow. A student organizer leading protests against Zohran Mamdani tonight reveals that she previously interned for him.

Now she’s leading chants against the very politician she once worked for, accusing him of prioritizing his own political advancement over the people and movements that helped bring him to power.

She delivers an ultimatum: The protests can stop when Mamdani stops the sale of stolen Palestinian land in NYC and abolishes the CUNY Board of Trustees, which advances Israel’s interests within the nation’s largest urban public university system.

But she makes clear that she doesn’t expect him to deliver. In her view, Mamdani has become just another politician who makes promises to movements and then fails to meet their demands once in office.

What makes her testimony particularly significant is that she isn’t someone who opposed Mamdani from the beginning. She worked for him. She believed enough in his political project to participate in it. Now she’s publicly confronting him.

Her speech speaks to a broader frustration among people who placed their hopes in electoral politics as a vehicle for advancing Palestinian liberation. For some, the experience hasn’t strengthened their faith in political institutions. It has deepened their distrust.

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 17h

I interviewed Jacques Parizeau a year after the referendum (he was doing a campus speaking tour). I was amazed at how blithely he waved off the prospect of a First Nation declaring sovereignty in a sovereign Quebec.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 18h

I might have once felt a twinge of pity for such a pathetic, hollow shell of a human being. But the intellectual giants of the right have told us to reject empathy. So instead I’ll just point and laugh.

static.klipy.com

Nelson Muntz's Iconic 'Ha Ha!' Laugh

ALT: Nelson Muntz's Iconic 'Ha Ha!' Laugh

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

Stuart Hall notebook: NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA (Orange notebook, "Summit Students Pad")

Stuart Hall notebook page with headline: "Problems for a Marxist Theory of the Media" and a series of bulletpoints. Lined notebook paper with black handwriting.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"I can do whatever I want, if I want." Today is the 10th anniversary of the public revelation of Trump's 'Access Hollywood' comments.

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

These sellers would be running a car dealership today.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is a thing confirmed by research, to an extent. It’s also why ensuring content shows up in retrieval and in training data is the new battleground.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the late phase of the project “burning everything to the ground to protect the Thatcherite consensus and the people and organisations that impose it”. There’s a fair bit left to burn yet, and everything I’ve seen suggests we will gladly set all that on fire also.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.

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Nick Schwellenbach @schwellenbach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks @gillianbrockell.com! Give her a follow if you haven't yet. Her dogged, in-depth reporting on ICE flights, the people impacted, and the companies involved has been indispensable.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

i just want to note that as soon as i posted this i did think "oh yeah, this is just fukuyama's last man"

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 05/10/2026

In which the author disagrees with Mr Wolfers and discusses what it *really* looks like when you sit down and have a conversation with your ideological opponents. When you do not have the protections of the ivory tower it turns out to be a much darker experience than he imagines it to be.

blog.djnavarro.net

Dining with wolves – Notes from a data witch

Polite discussion over lunch is not a reasonable option when you are on the menu

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The US will never, ever get to put its military outposts back where it is pulling out, which is a win/win for everyone except a handful of the worst fucking people who have ever lived.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 16/09/2026

ANGIE NIXON DID NOT COME TO PLAY. LETS GOOOOO! Click below and donate to her campaign for us senate❤️✊🏽 secure.actblue.com/donate/frien...

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sitting down with someone different than you for a meal is a great idea—so long as you’re not on the menu.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s SUPERB intelligence, dummies. Super intelligence is dum.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Listening to the racist podcast about the “Indian Question” and wow mediocre 2026 white guys jealous of an Indian with a tech job is very much the new mediocre Central Valley white guys in 1941 jealous of Japanese with a thriving farm.

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Scholars of the future: it was all pretty obvious what happened between 2015-2030. The only part that was complicated about it was the lies people told to avoid acknowledging what was right in front of them.

chatgpt.com

Check out this image

View the full image in ChatGPT.

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The “we distracted the President with a laser pointer and then jangled some keys when we needed him to refocus” theory is going to be a load-bearing when it comes to making sense of the last decade. Agnotology Studies is going to be the new trend in academia.

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

brian and i spent a long car ride recently discussing trump's motives for invading venezuela and various theories about who might have influenced him and why. and we're both pretty cynical paranoid people. but never did we dream it was something as stupid as grok

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So Eby called a snap election and the NDP isn’t even running a full slate of candidates?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't really know what to do with these pieces, because: 1. They refuse to used "illegal" & "unconstitutional" & "corruption" in the heds, deks, ledes, or body text 2. They disappear from the front page/headlines within 36 hours & never become THE NARRATIVE, contra EMAILS & BIDEN IS OLD, etc.

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