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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3h

“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

liberalcurrents.com

We Have No Supreme Court

The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 1h

Doing a community ed event today, & upon checking in, the woman was like (referring to my first + last name) she could not tell which name was the “front end or the back end” or if I was a boy or a girl. No self-awareness! Maybe I will think of how best to handle in the future, I just let it slide.

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🌷🧿 khthoniaa 🧿🌷 @khthoniaa.bsky.social · 16h

CW /// I am Jane Doe. When I was 19, I was sexually assaulted by a 36 year old man that I met online. Afterwards, he wrote a short story about what he did to me and how he'd do it again and kill me if I ever told anyone. Over 30,000 people read it, and 17,000 shared it within 24 hours of posting.

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes!!! Never thought I would be so delighted by the Counting Crows! Never was a fan, but now I'm becoming fonder.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 02/10/2026

The Religion of Technology, by David Noble

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I rewatched the first one before watching the second one. Still prefer the first, but definitely appreciate the second.

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is on my list to watch very soon!

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was not prepared for it to be so hilarious. There were so many parts I felt so deeply, even if I could not wholly relate. It was close enough. And it was indeed perfect.

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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My daughter, 24, put ‘educated before AI’ on her CV. The kids already know this.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.

Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ET

As the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 02/10/2026

This is like I was saying the other day how it is a norm in the VC world to hire college dropouts (and encourage people to dropout) so that tech workers are easily malleable and not curious or knowledgable of the harms they are participating in.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/10/2026

They have erased the history of the tech industry and tech innovation so that their workers don’t ask what happened to prior generations of innovators and innovations. It’s a very intentional strategy.

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Searingly Aaron @searinglyaaron.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sharp rise in deportation orders for Somalis in Minnesota - The Minnesota Star Tribune The name may have changed, the evil of kidnapping ordinary people continues. apple.news/AanXHZdosRku...

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Sharp rise in deportation orders for Somalis in Minnesota — The Minnesota Star Tribune

More than 500 Somalis in Minnesota have been ordered deported this year as the Trump administration speeds up asylum hearings and narrows paths to legal protection.

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

finally, a superhero movie worth watching. Care Bears will win.

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

oh you know, it's a Friday morning, newly October, and I just am sitting with the realization that both my exes (and the last best friend I had, who I was in love with) all share the same life path number wtf i have not even had coffee yet

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i'm existentially torn between 3 & 4

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wasn't planning on it, but now I am!

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My go-tos are Gathering Moss (Kimmerer) and Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (Hughes). I love when authors narrate their own books and do it well.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

personally i think things are starting to shift @erikahall.bsky.social posted a few days ago about how istock now advertises "no ai photos!" on its homepage where before it advertised ai. and suno now uses only licensed music

techcrunch.com

Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up | TechCrunch

As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous versions of the AI model.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of the best questions we can all ask these days is, “How?” It’s simple and smart and a non-answer tells you as much as an answer. Skynet is going to kill is? How? We are moving to the moon? How? Build a big net around earth? How??

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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 01/10/2026

Please help us get camera gear, pay airport parking fees, and take care of infrastructure costs for the volunteers documenting ICE Air across the country. We're fortunate to be well-equipped here in Minnesota; we need to help out our neighbors in other states. If able: ottergoose.net/ice

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Mags Visaggio 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 01/10/2026

I'm looking for steady work! If anyone know anywhere looking for a good comms person, let me know please :)

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh shit. It *is* October! Come, cooler weather!

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chad @chadomalley.com · 08/09/2026

There is literally no one cooler on the Internet today. Vic’s ability to instantly take over whatever the topic is and steer it into an entirely unhinged direction is masterful. At any point of the day, regardless if I am in a giant sales pitch, I am still thinking about their ‘pretzel pizza’ bit.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can understand why the features of a supposed AI assistant are compelling. I kinda wanna try it too. But I know too much about how these things work. Do not give a cloud-based agent access to your shit. Especially one from the big tech companies.

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ICE has learned to go to where people are less likely to resist. WY. TX. FL. AZ. Infuriating.

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am dying at Vic Michaelis's Pretzel Pizza but even more so RAMEN CHIPS youtu.be/PuG7aa2JecM

youtu.be

Does Vic Michaelis Know What Food Is?

YouTube video by Mythical Kitchen

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

I regret to inform you all that Bernie Sanders is in fact taking meetings with noted rationalist wacko Eliezer Yudkowsky over what AI regulations should look like. x.com/SenSanders/s...

Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders
Will Al become smarter than humans?
If so, is humanity in danger?
I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading Al experts that question.
Here's what they had to say:
ERNIE ANDERS
02:19
The Als are much, much, much more powerful.
4:02 PM • Mar 4, 2026 • 1.3M Views
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
@ESYudkowsky • Mar 4
My thanks to Senator Sanders; as to other legislators on all sides of any political aisle, and to any human being on Earth who now stands

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Rachel Bean, still sick but less @colocharachel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What if we raised some funds for Ashley while she’s in the hospital? Between the house stuff and the ambulance ride, I know some financial support could go a long way for Ashley and her family. Let’s put a 👑 in the memo and I can forward funds to Ashley: V: colocha_rachel $: ColochaRachel

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Utterly mad how most of society just bumbles along, ignoring the monstrous future realities being locked in place, day in day out.

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am done with the first episode! I knew it was going to be wonderful having Nigella (having loved her for over two decades) but I swear... snagging Nigella is the best thing GBBO's done – besides airing the season simultaneously in the UK & US! Nigella loves the gays 🥹

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That really warms my heart. Thank you!

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can’t wait to watch it, I have loved her work for years! I love her unabashed joy of food.

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

this is the funniest thing i have heard in a really long time.

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Jake @tonymagoni.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Your body is a Doggerland

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

tangent thought: the 80s taught us wrong. quicksand is never the danger, PEAT BOGS are (respect to the peat bogs 💀🖤)

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

it just occurred to me that's probably why he's held onto his job for so long. you put 2+2 together and show you know the answer and you lose your job. sigh.

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

- i don't know what my brain is good for, but i'm trying, and that's all i can ask for

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

it was for my Latin Literature in Translation class on how the Bablyon Lottery is an ideological state apparatus. I asked to write it because the original assignment was boring and this was more interesting. Wonder if it was at all good in any way. Got an A but I don't think the TA even read it lol

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

- someone smarter than me could explain how AI intersects/relates to repressive state & ideological apparati (Althusser) - Borges' Bablyon Lottery keeps popping up in my head because of how many gambling commercials Tubi airs and it makes me think about a paper i wrote in college...

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haunted moss @mosscloud.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

woke up this morning and chose violence (watching #folkhorror The Moor) random thoughts: - AI is just another method of divination, no different than dowsing, geomancy, scrying, etc. - yes these assholes in power are laughable but laughter detracts from real world outcomes, all of which are bad

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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Harvest Moon is the name of the full moon that is closest to the autumn equinox and this year it occurs today, September 26th. Traditionally this was a time for gathering crops. The Harvest Moon rises around sunset for several nights in a row, providing farmers with 🎨 Hannah Willow

Painting depicting a field of grains on a full moon night. There is a hare in the foreground.

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