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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?" So 10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. Joel got a reply.

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 03/10/2026

If LLMs have moral standing like a person, then anthropic is a slaver, so they really haven't thought this through.

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 30/09/2026

stevie wonder is the greatest popular music songwriter of all time and it's not even close. his compositions, his hooks, his lyrics. incredible output

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 24/09/2026

Special edition in genuine sheep's parchment

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 22/09/2026

The biggest issue I've seen people talking about model differences is that claude loves to make crazy excessive comments on everything.

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 19/09/2026

This is how I found lesswrong in ~08 -- luckily my reaction was that he needed to read some real philosophy. And then I found the "anti reactionary faq" which was all tiny nitpics and ceeded all substantial points to insane Nazis, and I realized the whole community was rotten.

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Will Code For Pizza @markshatraw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A thing I think gets lost on people is that rank-and-file programmers are, by and large, exactly as liberal as you would expect college-educated members of the middle class to be.

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 09/09/2026

Kenji Lopez-Alt is good too. Fewer options, but they're all solid. Honestly there's tons of good recipes on YouTube. My personal favorite is Chinese cooking demystified, but they're not the most beginner friendly.

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

we actually have to destroy the alt-health industry in its entirety, much like we also need to destroy car dealerships

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 05/09/2026

I got a long overdue haircut one time and my dog didn't recognize me until I started talking.

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 05/09/2026

Don't forget -- manischewitz isn't the only horrible kosher wine. The MD in MD 20/20 stands for Mogen David.

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 04/09/2026

Yes the somewhat scary thing about LLMs is that you could violate copyright without meaning to, or knowledge. (Of course people intentionally violate copyright all the time too, but that's another issue)

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 03/09/2026

The latest episode of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is now up! Hanna-Barbera! Danny Hutton! The Monkees! David Gates of Bread! It can only be the family-friendly adventures of that wacky Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band!

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Song 186: “Frownland” by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band

This episode is on “Frownland” by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, and is the third part of a trilogy following the episodes on the GTOs and Frank Zappa. Click the full post to rea…

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 01/09/2026

I'm not crazy about canola, because it gets smelly too easily if you fry with it. My favorite neutral oil is rice bran oil. I've only seen it at Asian markets though.

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 28/08/2026

"Is Dr Doom a chaser?" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 26/08/2026

I'm one of those sickos who watches everything with subs on, so 🤷

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026

Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.

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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

this is an argument for big structural change - limiting our ambitions to cleaning up the mess of the reactionaries has done nothing but enable the reactionaries

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 18/08/2026

For me, the mundane details make it real -- e.g. making soup with ketchup and water and nothing else because that's all you could afford.

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 16/08/2026

I feel like cheese on top would be a better move, but who knows.

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 15/08/2026

This is the biggest complaint a lot of people have with the game -- it's unfinished. And yeah, I get that. But I always liked that part -- you're really locked into the story at that point and they cut out all of the distractions.

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 15/08/2026

Now that's all awesome, but they realized during development that the back half of the story would take way too long to develop, so to simplify they had characters narrate what happened in an empty room, and you would get dropped into boss fights or dungeons

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 15/08/2026

Xenogears disc 2. For those who didn't know, Xenogears is a ps1 jrpg, made around the same time as ff7. It's very anime inspired, with giant robots, martial arts, Jungian psychology, past life memories, and of course you fight God (who obviously needs a spaceship)

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Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

John Coltrane proves that virtuosity and feeling aren't necessarily mutually exclusive but he also proves that you have to have some life experiences outside of the practice room.

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Keith J Carberry @carberry.deals · 12/08/2026

I have my tea that's for drinking now, my tea that's for drinking later, and my tea that's for using as currency after society collapses and there's a emergent temporary barter economy

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Steve Jackson Games @sjgames.com · 06/08/2026

Only one week remains to make your pledge for Seven-Part Pact, a fantastical, ornate TTRPG the likes of which the world has never seen! bit.ly/sevenpartpactks #possumcreek #ttrpg #stevejacksongames #sevenpartpact #playsjgames

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 04/08/2026

I don't have kids, but all the people I've ever seen reference something like this are in their 70s. Is this a lost thought-technology?

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 04/08/2026

This is entirely possible, but when I was little, my parents were in a babysitting coop, they would watch another family's kid(s) and in return would have someone else watch theirs. All adults.

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 03/08/2026

Pollinators love it too

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 03/08/2026

Hell yeah, don't see enough Passion Play love.

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 01/08/2026

One thing about math proofs (and software, etc) is that they're checkable to some extent by deterministic software. There's still need for humans in the loop, but an LLM and a deterministic checker feedbacking on each other is much more powerful than an LLM alone.

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 01/08/2026

I'd be more interested if they were trying to actually do authentic medieval versions of modern songs, but it's just renn faire music.

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 31/07/2026

Yeah, the Internet is great. One of the best inventions of all time. Too bad it also sucks.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026

John Fetterman always has this facial expression like he’s dissatisfied with the flavor of a live bird he just ate

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

a thing about these “priorities” is that they cannot be achieved without comprehensive Supreme Court reform, which means THAT is your actual priority

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Hunter Felt 🏳️‍⚧️ @hunterfelt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

26. The best Talking Heads song without a member of the Talking Heads in it is, obviously, Brian Eno's "King's Lead Hat" but Robert Fripp's "Under Heavy Manners" is the best with the actual David Byrne. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0B...

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Under Heavy Manners — Robert Fripp (and David Byrne) (1980) vinyl album

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 18/07/2026

This rocks, somehow missed it despite being a fan of both fripp and byrne.

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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs @500songspodcast.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs can only be brought to you by the generosity of monthly Patreon supporters. Sign up today for as little as $1! You’ll gain access to years and years worth of bonus episodes (including the most recent “The Captain’s Fat Theresa Shoes” by the GTO’s)

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 11/07/2026

The universal male experience

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 08/07/2026

My body is ready for the Ogden Nash cinematic universe

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I disagree slightly here. I don't think Klein is into this stuff, I think he values what he sees as civility and collegiality with far-right racists as fellow "intellectuals" more than he does having values, and that effectively makes him a useful idiot for promoting their views.

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 25/06/2026

Yes. But also people were really sick of massive civil wars every few years.

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 24/06/2026

On the other hand, there are moderates I wish would move further left, but they actually believe in their moderate positions.

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 24/06/2026

There's another distinction -- being moderate politically vs having an ideology of being in the middle. There's some overlap with reactionary centrism, but the idea that you should be in the middle no matter what the actual political context means you don't have any actual values.

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Max Pol Un @maxpolun.com · 21/06/2026

It's the most "ok" chicken sandwich ever, and people go so far out of their way and will line up for it.

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Hunter Felt 🏳️‍⚧️ @hunterfelt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

34. Frank Zappa is often right about things. The problem is he's a complete asshole about it.

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