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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/10/2026

You cannot convince me that frat brothers organically walked into separate police interviews using the same word, “consensual,” and that it wasn’t coordinated. Especially after a witness told police there was allegedly a fraternity meeting to get everyone “on the same page”.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 17h

Maybe the most culturally connected I feel to Mayor Mamdani is that every single progressive Jew has also been called both a Zionist stooge and a Hamas stooge by people on opposite sides.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 16h

Tonight we read the heartrending words of those who lost Israeli loved ones on Oct 7th — and Palestinian loved ones in the three years since. We said kaddish for all of them. We refused to compromise on anyone’s humanity. No amount of shouting stopped us. May their memory be for a blessing.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 20h

This is the issue with saying AI will cure diseases too. Getting data is the limitation. Saying AI can cure all diseases without needing scientists is like saying AI can make a world-champion basketball team by replacing the coaches. You still need athletes who can make great plays and decisions.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.

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VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(I jest. She went by 'ass driver' ...

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Help, I can't breathe 😆🥊

LADY BOXERS. Lady boxers are not new. A challenge to fight and an acceptance between lady boxers appeared in ‘‘The Daily Post' as far back as 1728. The advertisements are too long to quote in full, but the challenge was issued by ‘‘Ann Field, of Stroke-Newington, ass-driver,” to Mrs ‘Stokes, styled the English Championess, “to a trial of the best skill in boxing, for 10 pounds, fair rise or fall.”” Mrs Stokes acoepted the challenge, none too politely, it must be said. She referred to ‘‘the famous Stoke-Newington ass-woman,”’ and went on to say ‘‘the blows which I will present her will be more difficult to digest than she ever gave her ass." Perhaps some sporting enthusiast will be able to tell us result of this encounter.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

There’s a very simple test for “is this person concerned about Palestinians or an anti-Semite using Palestine as an excuse” and it’s what they were posting on October 7-8.

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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It may be broken and look unremarkable, but this is a rather unique cuneiform tablet, one of a handful written in the Akkadian language, but using the Ugaritic (consonantal) script, instead of logosyllabic signs. The tablets, from Ugarit, were produced around 1250 BCE, likely by the same scribe.

Fragment of clay tablet with 12 lines of Akkadian-language text written in consonantal (Ugaritic) script

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My Judaica publisher told me rabbis keep filling his Talmud margins so I asked how many margins he has and he said he just goes to print and adds wider margins afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding whitespace to rabbis and then his printer started crying.

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Or an English Green Party member who speaks English natively?

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jewish and LGBT people have been warning that British leftists are not trustworthy allies for years. I genuinely don't understand the cause, but purely from observation it's kinda hard to ignore. (this is also why I doubt the Dems will take UK Labor's anti-trans turn)

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is why imperial collapses can often seem extraordinarily sudden: They come as the culmination of decades of undermining the institutions, relationships, and structures that keep states functioning. A jenga tower can stand with missing blocks until it's given a tiny push.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

legalizing gambling was the single biggest social disaster of the last decade, and that's a high bar to clear.

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Coming from a poli sci background, it's wild that other fields are like "we had That Guy commit terrorism once and we're forever horribly embarassed." Poli sci '05 was "when overthrowing a government, here's how to minimize the collateral damage and number of mass graves". Yes, my field is crazy.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hideo Kojima should make a Leisure Suit Larry game

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Y'know, if you extended each of them by a foot in each direction, they'd be perfect for a cuneiform keyboard. I'm not sure how it would hook up to the older-style iTablet, though.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 06/10/2026

Apple Adjustable Keyboard III.

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Others have explained the reasoning (like renumbering in BASIC), but this thread is also a meta-example of the problem of people from outside of a field assuming that they know how technology will interact with that field. Most people in most fields are already familiar with tech.

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The comments under this are unintentionally very funny and also an excellent example of why people outside of a field often dramatically overestimate the value of new technologies to said field. Legal paragraphs are like line numbers in BASIC code, and renumbering has similar ill effects.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the thing I keep saying about the four D.C.s. 1. Cynical: the shorthand for dirty politics, see also “Beltway” 2. Hopeful/Poignant: Sorkin’s D.C., sometimes Capra’s 3. Postcard: The source of much of the nation’s iconography (memorials, White House, Mall) 4. City where people live/work

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Whenever I visit, always struck by the disjunction between "Washington" the synecdoche for US empire and "Washington" the beautiful city for the people, just packed with public good and beauty, a promise to be something better. It's good to be upset about the latter's destruction.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How did this happen? Officially, proposals went through the same process as before: peer review, program officer recommendation, section head approval. Unofficially, the choice was taken out of SBE's hands, going above the directorate head, Christina Freyman and to NSF leadership.

In the past, panels of independent scientists vetted proposals; program officers recommended those found worthy, and section heads approved them. But a new, unofficial process has removed decision-making power from all directorate staff and leadership. Only a few proposals in administration priority areas, such as cognitive science and AI, were allowed to move ahead, according to the former staffers. Program officers sent them to Freyman, who met with Simon Malcomber, NSF’s chief science officer. “Then he would come back with some decision,” a former staffer explains. “So it wasn’t his decision-making. He was in consult with others.” If Malcomber said a proposal was acceptable, a program officer was given the green light to officially recommend it. “They were very, very careful in terms of never putting anything in writing about what the process was,” the former staffer says. NSF did not respond to questions about the process.

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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"chatGPT thinks I am a genuis" is just the modern version of "I think this stripper is in love with me"

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think if you have a code, you need to stick with it, and one of my codified beliefs is that I don’t mock people for their physical appearance. To have exceptions is to say it’s okay to do so, and I view this as a deontological matter, so I don’t do this to my enemies or rivals either.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My job *as a Jewish leader* is to call out/in the people from my tradition, community, who are causing harm, rather than pretending that they have nothing to do with me, that this genocide not my fault or issue -- *AND it's not the job of every Jew to answer for the so-called Jewish state OK*

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Given that markets emerge everywhere, we should ask some careful questions: On what terms does that happen? Who may benefit? To what degree? How do we fix things when market behavior hurts bystanders? How do we keep it from setting up unhealthy concentrations of power? Those are useful questions.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Straight men are perfectly capable of keeping their hands to themselves, even when presented with women who are vulnerable, impaired, or engaging in social touch with them. The ones who commitment assault are making a choice to do so.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The politicization of gender affirming care, where medical evidence became subordinate to ideology, set a terrible precedent. While some stood up for science a LOT of people treated it as too confusing, too political, and none of their concern.

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have waited years to be able to use this (beary real) photo!

a juvenile delinquent black bear in the Blue Ridge Mountains is trying and failing to break in through a kitchen window, photo taken from inside, through the window. The bear looks sketchy, like he's casing the establishment for a burglary

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New @nberpubs: "Avoiding Regulation: Evidence from Nursing Homes" www.nber.org/papers/w3584... "higher staffing above the threshold is nearly entirely due to selection, with low-staffing facilities manipulating their size to avoid the regulation" 😲

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It just occurred to me that Originalism seems to be most popular among Catholic judges. It's really hard to explain how ironic this is from a Jewish perspective...

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It only just now occurred to me that Originalism, as a judicial philosophy, is most popular among Catholic judges. If you think about this for a moment, that is completely meshugganeh. The Bible can be amended more easily than the Constitution?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/10/2026

Just got back to my hotel room and it's almost unimaginable how much Google Gemini sucks.

Google query: Are there any mlb games still going on?

AI overview: No, there are no live MLB games currently playing right now (Monday October 5, 2026 at 10:47 EDT)

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have observed that with both socialism and zionism, the intensity and certainty of many people's views seems to be inversely correlated to their familiarity with Marx or Herzl, respectively. So as a White American, lemme explain Shintaoism...(1/ERR_MAX_INTEGER)

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have a pretty dim view of men as a category, because *waves hands around at literally everything* but I am begging older men who aren’t fucking rapists to get involved young men make each other worse start fucking mentoring, coaching, ANYTHING, to counter what they’re teaching each other

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm sure there's still one Elton John fan out there wondering why he never met a nice young woman and settled down...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Amnesty International UK chair Sandy Ruthven has left the Green Party following the party's adoption of its 'Zionism is racism' motion at its conference over the weekend. (Sky News)

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Sandy Ruthven has resigned his membership of the Green Party after its conference adopted a 'Zionism is racism' motion

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Given the Green Party of England and Wales* turns towards antisemitism (I would have had to leave my childhood synagogue under their new policy), we can set the 10-year timer for their turn to transphobia. Just like Labor before them. *Scotland was also not on board in 1290, not coincidentally.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026

this isn't some abstract argument either: all of our decades of experience with large, complex safety-critical systems shows that building a safety culture is the only way to manage and mitigate risk responsibly... and that's impossible to reconcile with a longtermist utilitarian perspective

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026

when emerging technologies are guided by long-termist utilitarianism, the public gets the deaths and doesn't get the benefits, while the Musks and Kalanicks get vast wealth... the current LLM/AI space is different in many ways, but utilitarian arguments should still be a massive, screaming red flag

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

An underappreciated fact about far-right populists is that they are terrible at governing, especially in the longer run. Trump is a case in point every single day, but systematic studies shows that this is the case more generally. As this study shows, after 15 years they lower GDP per capita with

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Which is all a long-winded way of saying: These debates about Zionism and anti-Zionism are mostly unhelpful right now, and I wish everyone could just drop these terms unless speaking historically and talk about their political vision for the future in other terms.

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Grant's first posting as a quartermaster or some similar job in charge of supplies in the Mexican War may have been one of the most consequential military postings since Washington accompanied Braddock. Reading that part of his Memoirs prepared me for his repeated observations about supply trains.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

AI really doesn’t offer nearly the benefit it needs to to get people to pay for it, and I think there’s a lot of denial from people over-invested (financially and emotionally) in it.

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pffft, clearly if you haven't used a slot machine in the past month or two you have no business discussing slot machines! Pulling a lever is so last month, now it's so much easier, first you fire up a dozen agents for each of the three slot windows... (1/387)

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Sarah Følina | clikkiesky goes to ØH @subtlefire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

LRS: I can't believe I didn't put it together until now. we're not getting "left behind" in any professional or creative sense. we're going to miss the AI rapture and suffer the tribulation of... whatever they think people still capable of doing things themselves will suffer

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I mean, if anything the exeriors of Newport Beach make Monaco look a bit old and stuffy and stale...

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