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MyPowerGrows

@mypowergrows.bsky.social
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Dad in flyover country. Formerly London by way of Atlanta. Lore Knower Scribbling at mypowergrows.substack.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11h
My god, SCOTUS acted within hours to clear the way for this execution and Tennessee completely botched it and tortured her. She's still alive. This barbaric practice needs to end. www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...
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Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates
Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 18h
This interview with @georgesaunders.skystack.xyz is him being repeatedly asked, "so how does AI help your life," and him responding. "I hate AI. I think it sucks. Keep it as far away from me as possible. For nearly 4000 words! on.substack.com/p/model-beha...
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Model Behavior: George Saunders
“Of course, if AI can cure cancer, bravo. I’m all for it. But even with cancer cured, death will still arrive somehow.”
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every morning, I wake up and the Dems are further ahead on the generic ballot and I think It's Over. It's never been more over.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Saw Princess Mononoke in theaters tonight. I hadn't seen it since I was in college (about twenty years). What a film. I'm jealous of anyone who saw it in the 90s as their introduction to anime
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not really dodging the plagiarism machine accusations with this one www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
During COVID, I taught my one year old to cough whenever someone said coronavirus. My greatest parenting accomplishment thus far.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A funny thing about living in London was our American (women) friends coming and all leaving with what my wife and I called "a bruv coat," which look like this
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm reading The Hobbit to my daughter and she's convinced Smaug is going to be cute and cuddly and it's all a misunderstanding. What kind of pro-dragon indoctrination are they teaching kids these days!
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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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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is like the time I ended my lease by emailing my rental liaison, who as far as I could tell never checked his email. I got an email from someone else several months later asking why I was in arrears. He's just like me frfr.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
To count our chickens before they hatch, a Dem Senate isn't going to stop the Trump administration. We still have two more years of this. Can his approval rating go below 25%?
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump 2 is on its way to being the first truly failed presidency of my lifetime. He's going to leave office with some tax cuts and the decimation of the civil service as his only policy accomplishments. It doesn't look like he'll even get a Supreme Court justice.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In honor of Resident Evil, I wrote about why Cregger's Weapons is a failure. mypowergrows.substack.com/p/weapons-is...
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Weapons Is a Movie About Nothing
Literally Nothing, Not Even A Scary Witch
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hell yeah, it's early voting season.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's my belief that bon mots are fake news, and a well-crafted quip can be safely considered a lie
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
hey remember that shoe company that pivoted to AI
the 6 month stock price for shoe company Allbirds (now Smartbird), which very briefly shot up 700% after announcing it was becoming an AI company, and is now lower than it started
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Between Weapons, Bugonia, and Stranger Things, film makers really think Atlanta looks like small town America. (it looks like Atlanta)
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What is going to be an easier user experience for me? Logging into Netflix, which I pay for, for the first time on a laptop to watch a movie I'm pretty sure but not entirely sure is on there (because Netflix lies and has web results for movies not in their library). Or sailing the high seas?
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Meant to finish watching Weapons tonight, but instead I hung out with my mom while she waited to see if 10mg of my wife's thc tequila would get her high (it didn't)
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Idk who needs to hear this, but my wife left a complaint on a janky online form for our daughter's pediatrician office. We didn't expect anyone to even read it, but she got a call from the head pediatrician a few days later thanking her for contacting them. You never know!
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Finally felt good enough about my query package to query my dream agent. Oh Boy.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@cnm.bsky.social I see you flying close to the sun
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When an academic's pfp is a conveys a certain kind of deliberate thirst-induction, I basically assume they date undergrads. (talking about men... afaik)
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Difference between my wife and I: Daughter: "What's the most important Chinese Zodiac?" Me: "[her sign]" Wife: Dragon (not her sign)
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This afternoon I was fall asleep on the floor while my daughter plays on my unconscious body with her toys years old
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@natecohn.bsky.social where are your articles? where are your polls? Your reader mailbag was low effort garbage. The people demand POLLS.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Who is writing these headlines? Because of the periods, I assume you shoved 2 full sentences in here on purpose, but one of them is a fragment?
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
@cookpolitical.com Please tell Amy Walter to publish more podcast episodes.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
When I was 25 I self-pubbed a near future dystopia novel where the central conceit was a US that devolved into a corporate dictatorship following a Supreme Court ruling that found an insurance company liable for a rogue AI terrorist attack that killed everybody in Chicago
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The hill people in Los Angeles have a (corporate) raiding culture, the flat ground people have complex societies built on bearaucracy
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Me editing my book for the umpteenth time: is this story boring? Or am I just bored with it? No way to tell!
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The pre-AI equivalent of slop isn't podcasts. It's disposable plastic crap your kid gets sent home with after a birthday party.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Is this answer more persuasive than that the media is simply Islamophobic? I'm not convinced. And also:
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38 Influential Posters @bsky38.com · 04/09/2026
Who are the 38 most influential Bluesky posters of 2026? You get 10 votes, anyone with a Bluesky account can be voted for. The 38 with the most votes make the list. 🗳️ Voting ends the 21st night of September. 🌎 🌬️🔥 Cast your ballot: bsky38.com
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38 Most Influential Bluesky Posters of 2026
Vote for the 38 most influential Bluesky posters of 2026.
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The government assault on higher education and equity continues. (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm ambivalent about this specific tiff, but there may be no more worthy recipient of the "fell for it again award" than Zach Graves, CEO of FAI.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I hate these new Google search AI-generated blurbs with their inane bullet points. Just go back to ripping off Wikipedia!
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Hoff Crab is neither a crab nor is it David Hasselhoff. It is a Yeti Crab, which is neither a Yeti nor a Crab but a sub-group of Squat Lobsters, which are not lobsters, they're Anomurans, like Mole Crabs, which are neither moles, nor crabs.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We lived in London for 3 years and my daughter developed a pretty strong London accent. We've been back in the US for a year and it's 98% gone. It's been interesting watching how strong social influences come on—or fade
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I'm coming around to the belief that the primary use of philosophy--and especially political philosophy--is to fill blank space in opinion writing.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
So here's a weird rabbit hole. First, why is Katy Perry the president of Madrid? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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The president and the penthouse: how Madrid’s government spent €6.3m on a temporary ‘office’
Saga surrounding purchase for outspoken rightwing regional leader Isabel Díaz Ayuso refuses to go away
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is the kind of thing Matty could never bring himself to say about someone, despite thinking supporting Dems is an existential imperative.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Most people won't ever be called to act decisively in a life-or-death situation, but if you are it's important not to fuck around or look to authority for instruction. www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...
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Teacher saved 1,643 children from Nepal flash floods
Rajendra Dadabi says the pupils were terrified but fear gave them the energy to flee the rising waters close to the border with Tibet
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Claude told my wife to go to bed
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Saw Coyote v Acme with my wife, daughter, and grandparents. My dad liked it the best by far, and laughed in a way I've never heard him laugh before (like a child). My daughter said it was, "interesting," but was very vocal during the screening.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
BREAKING via TMZ Milo Yiannopolous has been apprehended by ICE and is currently in a detention center.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Downgrade a movie: The Mid Budapest Motel
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The first thing I remember seeing Tim Curry in was the short-lived sci-fi series Earth 2, where he plays a Gaius Baltar type for a colony ship that crashed on an alien planet SMAC-style. I think. I watched this with my mom when I was like 7.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Look at some of these shitheads defending the visa pause over at Hacker News. At least they're generally being down voted
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is extremely damning and if the relevant decision makers in the Democratic Party had an ounce of foresight they would recognize that incubating these kinds of scams is only going to undermine attempts to rebuild a functioning mass party in the future.
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