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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this is exactly my opinion. there may be a superstrate of extremely difficult and unique safety problems around AI, but the substrate is simply that no one takes basic precautions seriously becasue they imagine (or pretend to imaigne) that it is futile, and basic precautions slow down launches.

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Moot Question @mootquestion.bsky.social · 8h

No joke opposing counsel had a rebuttal economist put a chart like this (including an impossible negative projection) in his report not long ago. He is not going to testify at trial

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Mind Titan 🎃 @porgus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

TECH SOCIOPATHS: toxic empathy is decaying our Grand Works BILLIONS OF BLUEY ENJOYERS: the dogs decree that we be kind

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think a lot about Biden/Garland keeping David Weiss on as US Attorney, because they didn't want to meddle with the Hunter probe. And then Garland elevating Weiss to special counsel so he could convict Hunter. And this having ZERO IMPACT on the GOP certainty that Biden was rigging the DOJ

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Moot Question @mootquestion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh man what a great October news cycle. Trump (who you hate) runs illegal deranged ads about how great he is, using your money, which was supposed to be used for DHS (which you hate)

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up" - C.S. Lewis

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Moot Question @mootquestion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My called shot 8 months ago was +14 but holy hell

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's a good day to google "Foxconn," "Wisconsin," "Trump," "2018," "13,000 jobs" and "didn't happen, didn't even come close"

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Moot Question @mootquestion.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh yes definitely draw more attention to fuel efficiency right now, we will be so owned

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This kind of take made a Rolling Stone writer so mad they wrote a whole piece about it.

At this point, though, if someone contends they've never even heard of
"Choosin' Texas" or Langley, it may say more about the listener than the song.
Or, for that matter, what they want to project to the world. With incessant news coverage alongside chart and playlist presence, it's pretty difficult to still claim total ignorance on this one.
Perhaps there is a deeper reason why people say they haven't heard the song and feel the need to make it known: cultural cachet.

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Moot Question @mootquestion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I quite simply think the polls are underestimating things

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Moot Question @mootquestion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On the one hand, I do absolutely miss my 3.25% rate townhouse. On the other, looks like I sold it at the peak of the market and my 6.25% new mortgage was at multi year trough.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Speaking as a professor of public policy who studies housing policy: Trump take house.

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Moot Question @mootquestion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Amazingly I think there’s a nonzero chance that Israel helps them build it

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

At the end of the day, relatively few of the hundreds of thousands of people who left government were directly fired. Most of them resigned or retired, ostensibly voluntarily, but in reality such resignations felt coerced.

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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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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

President of the American Petroleum Institute says the Diesel Export Ban will only hurt American Consumers

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Moot Question @mootquestion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Probably going to happen. What’s interesting is that that might actually be net benefit for law, assuming we scale up the judiciary to handle the influx

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Moot Question @mootquestion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Now poll building data centers but only in <opposing political faction> places

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Juan (he/she/they). @mrrodriguez89.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

People don’t seem to get that in order to stop fascism you can’t really pick your battles. Like you kinda have to fight all the battles you can.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don’t find the willful ignorance as to why people are upset to be particularly helpful because, again, it is not at the expense of other issues. the people outside the Kennedy Center are not waving banners that read, “well let you build data centers if you give us arts programming”

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

and even if this were not the case, i think it is extremely reasonable for a community to have a sudden reaction to a threat to demolish a major community center, one that has provided free and low-cost programming for decades and which serves as a source of local and national pride

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Moot Question @mootquestion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

First triumphal arch with murder holes is sort of funny at least

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Moot Question @mootquestion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s so the courts will give deference as a “national security” matter

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This point gets made but I think it's not quite right. You can't do any meaningful analysis of what effect the SAVE Act would have because passing it would just brick the whole system, nothing works, it's impossible chaos. It's not a serious piece of legislation designed to be implementable at all.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Assuming Democrats actually do retake power, a lot of the worst damage of the Trump admin will become visible on their watch, and they have to figure out how to communicate clearly and constantly who’s to blame and what it takes to clean up the mess Republican governance made. That will be hard.

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Walter MOONdale @dabenner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Immigration is one of those issues, like crime, where the public will state they demand tough enforcement and their idea of this enforcement is substantially more lenient than what we have. Just as they want to cut the aid budget to 10 times what it is.

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Moot Question @mootquestion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ok but then also we put him on the rack right?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026

There's really no complicated explanation for this, or any kind of grand theory. It's just Econ 101 and he flat out does not understand it because he's an idiot.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Suboptimal that the president is a fucking moron.

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Moot Question @mootquestion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Voting starts in many states as early as this week

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Moot Question @mootquestion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Look, either reality asserts itself or it doesn’t

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.

Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Money that comes into the United States government is government revenue. It is part of the public fisc. There's not "taxpayer money" and then "extra bonus money outside the rules." It's all taxpayer money. And spending *any* of it requires Congressional authorization. 2/

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026

I don't watch the Olympics to see a fair competition. I want to see some kind of super mutant throw a 16-pound hammer into the face of god

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is mostly funny because a million years ago this was Starbucks’ whole deal

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Once again, the epic failure of the Iran war is simply not receiving the same nonstop, breathless treatment in the press that Joe Biden’s not 100% surgically clean implementation of Trump’s totally unplanned rapid withdrawal timeline in 🇦🇫 received in 2021: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Moot Question @mootquestion.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Not that this is a real promise anyway but uh… why wouldn’t he just do it now? He controls all three branches.

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