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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 5h

The Lowdown was likely the best show on TV last year (I mean, according to me, not some kind of scientific process), and I am deeply wildly pleased we're getting more of it.

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David R. Brockman, Ph.D. @drdrbrockman.bsky.social · 8h

Update: The America.gov chatbot now refuses to answer "political" questions or offer "judgments about past elections" 🤔

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Douglas S. Bursch @fairlyspiritual.bsky.social · 6h

I like McLuhan's work on this. Every tool is an extension of human capacity. The car extends our ability to walk. However, every tool weakens the human capacity it extends. So we can travel farther than ever but grow tired walking short distances.

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🍊Citrus Mode🍊 @citrusmode.bsky.social · 10h

every AI update news be like "we released a new magical update in our tool that reminds our users they are breathing manually"

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 8h

“Trump’s agenda—the masked ICE thugs snatching grandmas and children, the killings of U.S. citizens, the overt white nationalism in official government communications—has opened the door to creating a new pro-immigrant consensus, even in a place Trump won overwhelmingly.” @gregsargent.bsky.social

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Please read this piece from @lyz.bsky.social.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The thing about the florid apocalypticism you sometimes encounter on this site is that a lot of people are less horrified by literal civilizational collapse than by the notion that our descendents are just going to keep muddling through and in less than a century nobody will remember us.

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Melico @melico.bsky.social · 17h

Scoring 9 runs was great, but I'm happier that the Yankees didn't make any errors or dumbass base running gaffes

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 18h

Men, it’s never too late to leave your fraternity. Membership is lifelong. And these segregationist institutions use your name to uphold the power they abuse. This is what your fellow alums are doing. Do you really want to be associated with that?

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The SCOTUS ruling in favor of resuming deportations of migrants to unknown countries is an abomination. As Pope Francis often said: “Migrants are not pawns of the chessboard of humanity; they are people with stories who deserve our love and care.”

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 20h

I can’t recall who posted a week or two ago that RFK Jr. looks like “an entrail” but I want you to know I’ve had spontaneous bouts of laughter about this ever since. Please reveal yourself so I can thank you personally.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”

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Melico @melico.bsky.social · 20h

I thought HBO planning "The Pitt", but with cops was wrongheaded but this is next level.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 20h

Nothing but super intelligence all around at the White House.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 20h

Three! Osborn, Cooper and Talarico ads (or aligned PACs) are going all-in on pedocon theory.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 21h

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Melico @melico.bsky.social · 21h

So how long until they pull down the US Gov chatbot because too many people are asking it if Trump is a rapist

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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 22h

This is connected to the Schmitt debacle from earlier - the Republican Party now talks only to itself using language that only they employ, everyone else is expected to follow along or have the power of the state come down on them

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 22h

criticizing taylor is not necessarily misogyny but a segment of people use criticizing taylor as a way to launder misogyny a model that applies to many things!

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 22h

people on ecks dot com were praising Todd Rundgren because the headline of the article focused on him shitting on taylor swift when if you actually read the article it is very literally an old man complaining about women succeeding and how music should be for men

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liberalvixen phd @liberalvixen.bsky.social · 22h

LOL and AGAIN had a female Senator screwed up sports like this, she’d be done.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 22h

A fuckup so dumb even NYT homepage/headline writers have no choice but to describe it accurately

As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator’s Accusation of Perjury Falters

A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can’t do student loan relief. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can’t help home owners. Can commit human rights abuses.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22h

oh man, I just tried it and america.gov really does get REAL weird when you tell it to “play Minecraft”

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America.gov

Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22h

Someone on IG found video of Smith in the stands at the Maryland game. This guy is cooked.

Igor Bobic ( @igorbobic
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Eric Schmitt not backing down after that Jack Smith exchange:

"I asked him if he was in Atlanta. He said he was not in Atlanta. Jack Smith has lied before. He tried to jail the president of the United States. I have no sympathy for Jack Smith. He's a total dirtbag"

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22h

Even America.gov agrees: Donald Trump drove up your gas prices.

In one Word, did Donald Trump's war in Iran drive up gas and diesel prices for Americans?

America.gov: yes

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.

Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

Oh my God, this just keeps getting better.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The byline left up there like a head on a spike outside a castle

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026

DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/09/2026

Oh bsky.app/profile/ecmc...

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article

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WIRED @wired.com · 29/09/2026

One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

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Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI

One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?

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Darth Kriss @insanityreport.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Lmao. At this point this has to be the best episode of Punk’d ever. Cause ain’t no way any sane investor believes this is a real company

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People are really mad at me being a big snob about liberal arts education but this was really a desperate plea for engineers to stop thinking every other field but theirs is for dumb babies.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have literally seen dudes tailspin because of a super-casual "Pretty rapey/racist/weird/etc., dude." from a friend. Fuck some girl/brown person and their dumb opinions, they don't care about us. But they are 100% not prepared to hear it coming from you.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jesus fucking Christ

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