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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 04/10/2026

Am I missing something or is this far more existentially threatening than AI?

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/10/2026

Every time I think I’ve hit the bottom of my outrage, they find a new pocket…

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/09/2026

If we apply a consent regime (not a property regime) to privacy rights, then the entire commercial surveillance industry would cease to exist.

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 28/09/2026

Sure beats 8 billion people trying to think of something original to say in their mandatory peer reviews

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 28/09/2026

And made up on the two issues that many Democrats could have done much more about (reproductive and trans rights). Some blue legislatures have indeed codified reproductive rights, but much it has been by voters, including Republicans. Trump himself admits the Republican view here is unpopular.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 24/09/2026

This belongs in the Smithsonian.

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 11/09/2026

I guess I'm more than a little tired of hearing about why one thing or another won't work, as we confront a swelling existential emergency. Unless you have the magic solution, how about we just shut up and let them try it.

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 30/08/2026

I'm baffled by this too. Is she assuming that AI is going to transform society so thoroughly in ten years that marriage will be unrecognizable? Ten years ago I thought something similar of self-driving cars, but here we are.

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 06/08/2026

It doesn't make it more ethical, but since the merchants pay the card companies through a percentage of their sales, *they* are the customers. And that makes us, the cardholders, their product. They don't care about being fair to you any more than Land o' Lakes cares about being fair to a cow.

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 29/07/2026

"... birds living in cages tend to be more efficient." What a multitude of evils are glossed over by that one word: efficient. The wrong conclusion is being implied in this article. It's not one or the other, it's neither. Why choose the lesser of two evils when you can choose none at all?

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 25/07/2026

That would make as much sense as demanding the fox stay out of the hen house. It's up to you to put up a strong fence. Foxes can't be hectored or shamed.

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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

@johnquiggin.bsky.social on how the EU can thrive in the absence of, and despite, the US. Not easy, but a better future than the US has, even in its best case scenario. open.substack.com/pub/johnquig...

Europeans and their allies are in an unenviable position. But still better than that of Americans for whom precarious and unequally distributed material prosperity has come at the price of freedom.

John Quiggin, Substack

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/07/2026

Here's a sentence that stopped me in my tracks last week: "The statement that 'the cemeteries are full of indispensable people' is just as true of nations, and in particular the US": crookedtimber.org/2026/07/16/5... 1/

A vintage world map. The US has been obscured by a roiling black cloud from which squirm many questing tentacles. A large area around the US has been discolored.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If you’re a Democrat and plan to vote this fall, please acquaint yourself now with what looks to me to be a highly skilled extrapolation of where that’s headed. Which is by definition not merely a best guess.

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 20/06/2026

It shouldn't trouble you if you see a diversity of opinion in the media, even (and especially) from one outlet. It's a sign of a free press.

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 06/05/2026

It's a party that supports a good cause. The people who attend are not like you and me. Maybe we let them party the way they want, and you party (and give to charities) the way you want. It's only grotesque if you press your nose up against the glass. Don't pay any attention and it's not grotesque.

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Roookii @roookii.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A deputy in Spain said something like: How fortunate for the USA that when it looks for Democracy in other countries, it finds oil.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17/03/2026

well that went way deeper than I was expecting

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 04/03/2026

They should just read the news

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 18/02/2026

Not sure I follow you. No evangelical is going to vote for Talarico after watching this interview. He says it's a political movement, not really christian at all. That's not, to say the least, how evangelicals see themselves.

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026

Wow, I had been running out of patience with Yegge’s uncritical #GenAI boosterism, but this is epic: “The AI Vampire.” As usual with Yegge, it could have been edited down to half its size, but go read it anyhow. I’m going to adopt that “AI Vampire” phrase and start using it, a lot […]

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 14/02/2026

I'm not sure I understand what this would accomplish. Americans are already less likely than the citizens of other developed countries to have a passport. But I would assume the ones that do would be disproportionately coastal, i.e. more likely to be Democrats. What am I missing?

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 07/02/2026

Carlos Lozada writing in the NYT about the norms of democratic society remarks that "Guardrails are particularly valuable when something is slamming into them." Ain't that the truth. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 24/01/2026

Obviously generative AI makes copyright violation extremely easy, but I couldn't agree more that AI training is fair use. People want to blame the tool for abuse and not the wielder.

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 20/01/2026

Actually, about a year and a half ago was the time to admit it, but go on.

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 20/01/2026

Well, they had a pretty good run

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 20/01/2026

Those "congressional invertebrates" who are not actually criminally benefiting from the situation are oblivious behind the one-way mirror that most Americans are happy to live within. They think nothing outside the country can affect them. Maybe there was once some truth to that.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 18/01/2026

This is literally what I've been writing and podcasting about for years. I was planning to do an essay on this, but here's a 🧵. The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 25/12/2025

American exceptionalism is not an excuse. It's not even a real thing, except superficially. I'm so tired of Americans smugly declaring they're different from everybody else. The United States needs to learn from other countries.

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 25/12/2025

It may not have been easy 75 years ago, but it's a well trodden path now. You can follow our lead.

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 25/12/2025

Are there PEAS in the mac and cheese?

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 25/12/2025

Interesting and fun article. But was it impossible to take a proper picture of its subject, @economist.com? (And a paragraph on Jainism seems like an obvious addition, since you remark on just how obscure it is amongst world religions)

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 23/12/2025

Other humane alternatives include chick peas. Mushrooms. Seitan. Kidney beans. Tofu. Walnuts...

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 22/12/2025

"a new Constitution... could drastically roll back presidential authority and return [the country the article is about] to a full-fledged parliamentary system... parliamentarians would have to embrace coalition politics.. Alliances and compromises, rather than the impulses of the head of state"

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 22/12/2025

"Nearly two and a half centuries into one of the longest-running democratic experiments... The far right is rising, and backlash to immigrants is growing. Public services and the social safety net are under threat... Trust in the political class is plummeting... " Sorry, we're talking about France?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Share and tell CBS to air this! Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who reported a segment about migrants sent to the El Salvadoran torture prison CECOT, just sent a blistering letter to colleagues, sounding the alarm that Bari Weiss spiked the story for political reasons.

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 21/12/2025

Turkeys are intelligent, loyal and perceptive creatures raised to be slaughtered when barely full grown. Anyway, wasn't it a Christmas goose in the Dickens story?

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 15/12/2025

Yes, yes, yes, sure, whatever; but I NEED this!

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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14/12/2025

The optimum outcome is for neither of these takeovers to happen. There are already too few players in Hollywood. It does nothing for the health of the industry to allow either merger. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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The state of streaming is... bad. It’s very bad. The first step in wanting to watch anything is a web search: “Where can I stream X?” Then you have to scroll past an AI summary with no answers, and

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 03/12/2025

I love this so much. To anyone who says what's the point of the arts (or public funding): art digests thought and feeling, feeding it back and allowing us to see from new angles, enriching our own experience of the world and every now and then that fresh perspective will trigger a precious insight.

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 30/10/2025

So... we should try to appease the dictator? Historically, not a great strategy.

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 21/10/2025

Am I too late to say it's "All right", and "alright" is not a word. Gonna go down swinging on that one.

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 16/10/2025

Informing the public is not bullying, although the less tactful may come across as shaming - but vegan advocates face strong headwinds of sneers, ridicule, and endlessly repeated bogus arguments in support of the carnivores. Truly, they're the ones being bullied. 2/2

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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 16/10/2025

Interesting choice of words. I don't know how you would "bully" anyone into changing their diet. But you acknowledge that there are many good, objective reasons to go vegan if it can be accomplished in significant numbers. 1/2

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