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Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nice big October discount, 30% off, to subscribe to Magic + Loss. Politics and tech for English majors. Read & discuss Melania, Steven Pinker, the AI apocalypse, Andrew Tate. And some good things too. virginiaheffernan.substack.com/subscribe?co...

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

MacDonald was on the first wave that minimized campus rape cultures. She’s one of the most disgusting people given a national platform and an exemplar of why Manhattan Institute is a scourge

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Loola 📷🎵 @theomarques.com.br · 28/09/2026

a Anna Boca começou uma série espetacular sobre a filosofia por trás do nascimento do vale do silício (spoiler: nazismo)

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The Secret History of Big Tech (It's darker than you think)

YouTube video by Anna Bocca

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Casey Kitchel @kctownck.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Anna Bocca - How the Super Rich Got So Rich www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAV0...

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How the Super Rich Got So Rich

YouTube video by Anna Bocca

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey- Boys & Girls👋! Can you guess his SECRET WORD? (Could it be: Ballroom, Helipad, Fake, News, Giant, Arch, Tremendous, Communist, Quiet, Piggy, Rigged, Putin, Illegal, Alien, Tariffs, Yuge, Natalie, Far, Left, Lunatic, Barack, Hussein, Obama, Sleepy, Joe, Crooked, Hillary, Pinky, Herman?)

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's as if he is TRYING to lose the midterms. With historically low approval ratings, it would be wise to avoid the press altogether. Instead, he gives TIME magazine this bonkers, unhinged & l-e-n-g-t-h-y stream-of consciousness interview, pathologically lying throughout. shorturl.at/PMvVB

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Major Kong to Ground Control @bigstape.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh. She was born here. What's different about her?

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Feminist Proper Gander @dappergander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"If I rank my wife's holes by how much I care what comes out of them, let me tell you, folks, her mouth is dead last"

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MrsDrJim @mrsdrjim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Hahaha, I don't even respect my wife's boundaries!" #usPoli

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026

Want to learn about the history of our city? Well you’re in luck. This month, we’re hosting a massive scavenger hunt across the city — all about the history of organizing in NYC. Sign up at organize.nyc.gov and come see the city through the eyes of the people who built it.

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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This, on the #BrokenTimes, is very good. I'm more polemical because I see urgency. The Times, as the winner-takes-most survivor, has a near monopoly on newsroom resources and public-discourse attention. As @perrybaconjr.bsky.social says, we need radical leadership for post-Trump 🙏 Reconstruction.

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Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As if the diesel class needed more reason to turn on Trump, he's now praising China at the expense of CANADA. Idiocy. I spoke to @gregsargent.bsky.social for TNR's Daily Blast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Trump’s Fury at Canada Takes Darker Turn as GOPers Quietly Sound Alarm

Podcast Episode · THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent · September 30 · 21m

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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“A hearing to satisfy Trump’s desire for retribution against perceived enemies is the last thing voters want Congress focused on weeks before an election dominated by economic pain.” www.signorile.com/p/the-jack-s...

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The Jack Smith hearing was already a disaster for the GOP before Schmitt’s embarrassing misfire

A hearing to satisfy Trump’s desire for retribution against perceived enemies is the last thing voters want Congress focused on weeks before an election dominated by economic pain.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A free press is an important tool against a government entity trying to consolidate power. And it's a tool that scales, from local sheriffs to presidents.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These people are utter garbage.

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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Steven Pinker recommending Bill Maher is a matryoshka doll of bullshit

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

if you’re at all curious about the petition incident referred to early on in the piece, some of the witnesses to that debacle wrote up what happened. he leveraged his anti-woke network to facilitate a full-bore attack against the signatories journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/...

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The Open Letter: Responses and recommendations | Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The not-so-subtly veiled animosity is mostly just holdover from the academic feud of which Pinker was an active participant. The guy is totally lost in the culture was now (e.g.)but imo the seeds were always there since he was part of the Science Wars v. 1

Steven Pinker • @sapink • Dec 7, 2025
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EO Wilson, as Peggy Sastre writes, was Patient Zero in academic cancel culture, the campaign to discredit scholars with heterodox beliefs by smearing them with fanciful nefarious political motives. Back in 1975, after one of the first modern challenges to the doctrine of the blank slate, he was the target of a petition preposterously accusing him of justifying slavery and genocide. Not even death was an escape: a historian trawled through his correspondence and got him re-canceled for a sympathetic personal letter to an even more reviled professor. quillette.com/2025/12/06/soc...

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Ironically, the attackers, most prominently Stephen Jay Gould & Richard Lewontin, were Marxists, & in the latter case, a Maoist, praising the man whose harebrained theories led to the worst man-made famine in history. In Not In Our Genes, Lewontin et al. wrote, "Against this economic reduction as the explanatory principle underlying all human behavior, we could counterpose the ... revolutionary practitioners and theorists like Mao Tse-tung on the power of human consciousness in both interpreting and changing the world."

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Vincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have uncovered a highly cursed interaction.

An interaction about AI x-risk between Steven Pinker, Scott Alexander, and Gary Marcus. It has a "debate me bro" vibe.

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Gumba Masta @gumbamasta.newgrounds.com · 22/09/2026

Steven Pinker Oh yea I know who that guy is. And who his friends with.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

why did i agree to read this fuckin thing im so annoyed pinker says both sides have extreme unverifiable beliefs:

easily verified beliefs.4 A prominent coali-tion-signaling belief among the American right is that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. Prominent belief signals among the young educated left are that being a man or a woman has nothing to do with biology and that America is saturated with racism.

Steven pinker book: when everyone knows that everyone knows…

COMMON KNOWLEDGE
AND THE MYSTERIES OF MONEY, POWER, AND EVERYDAY LIFE

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"A group of pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere... to preach and sell white supremacy, antisemitism and patriarchy to angry young men..." religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...

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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros

(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza. May peace be our future.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Try to live the kind of life that will make war criminals hate you.

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NGMcClernan @nmcclernan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

He called Stancil a centrist. That's not the same as a reactionary. Sorry but your argument is not convincing without any evidence.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trump says he's also looking at banning the Washington Post, calling it a "crummy paper" and "disgusting." Anyway, good job, Jeff Bezos! It obviously was worth losing all those scubsribers and turning your opinion section into MAGA-lite, only for the president to continue to call you "fake news."

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The fact that Jeff Bezos ruined the Washington Post for nothing is just peak 2026

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NGMcClernan @nmcclernan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Are you saying a pocket calculator has as much understanding as a dog?

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NGMcClernan @nmcclernan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A pocket calculator provides verifiable empirical results.

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NGMcClernan @nmcclernan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Don't you think mathematics involves pattern-spotting? The difference as far as I can see, is that AI, built on centuries of human-generated data, speeds up the pattern-spotting process with hyper-scaled compute, which gives the illusion of consciousness even more convincing than primitive ELIZA.

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NGMcClernan @nmcclernan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How people perceive the models is exactly the issue at hand - it's causing claims of "comprehensive understanding" that we've witnessed on this thread. And I already stated that current models are a billion times more powerful than ELIZA. What part of that is not registering?

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NGMcClernan @nmcclernan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Some people were convinced that ELIZA, introduced in 1966, was conscious. It should be no surprise that some believe the same about chatbots, which are billions of times more powerful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTpp...

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There Is No AI, Really (It’s Just People), with Jaron Lanier

YouTube video by StarTalk

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NGMcClernan @nmcclernan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Who's calling him a reactionary?

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NGMcClernan @nmcclernan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is what I was referring to. A single claim, unsupported by data. Try to pay attention. bsky.app/profile/jcar...

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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Standing ovation to best-in-biz @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for calling out fellow media reporter @dylanbyers.bsky.social for his nonstop obsequious toadying to Bari Weiss & CBS/Paramount (as a Paramount investor looks to take over Puck). www.status.news/p/puck-cbs-n...

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Bari’s Byers

Puck's lead media reporter has gone to unusual lengths to defend Bari Weiss’ disastrous CBS News overhaul—all as the outlet pursues a lucrative deal with one of Paramount’s top investors.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

While millions of Americans struggle with the rising cost of groceries, gasoline & paying rent, a certain someone has far different priorities:

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NGMcClernan @nmcclernan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In English: Kid: My girlfriend broke up with me. AI: Sorry. Would you like a joke to cheer you up? Kid: Yes. AI: Knock knock. Kid: who's there? AI: Not your girlfriend!

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NGMcClernan @nmcclernan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You have 100K followers and some percentage are disagreeing with you on this issue. Where is the "groupthink" here? That some of your followers do not agree with you and are trying to debate you? Would it be less groupthink if everybody agreed with you?

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