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Opinion polls are so bad, Merz is hiding in the attic

Starting to get dangerous ideas, like forking pi and then just making my own harness changes to get exactly the behavior and features I want

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 5h

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2h

Merz taking the call from the attic of a random townhome was...a choice.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2h

Leaving aside the fact that Meloni looks like she's about to disembowel a lackey, her and Macron having the best Zoom setups feels extremely on brand.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 5h

boy, at-will employment is a bear sometimes, huh

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 6h

Europeans need to stop caving

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 8h

kneejerk guess is that deportation is killing construction

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 6h

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 7h

Chiitan loves transgender people 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Even a plain statement like this now brings slander and insults, but I think a society where people can live happily as themselves matters more than silence, so I will keep saying it until the account is gone. love everyone🤍

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 8h

Pretty clean miss with downward revisions but steady job growth (~50k 3m avg sounds weak but it’s well above population growth). Wages soft as you’d expect at a lag to last year’s weakening jobs growth. But LFPR ticked up sharply, u6 lower…both good.

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Change in Nonfarm Payrolls
United States
Period: Sep
Survey:
90k
Actual:
29k
Prior:
162k
Two-Month Payroll Net Revision
United States
Period: Sep
Survey:
--
Actual:
-60k
Prior:
55k
Change in Private Payrolls
United States Period: Sep
Survey:
Actual:
81k
46k
Prior:
127k
Change in Manufact. Payrolls United States Period: Sep
Survey:
10k
Actual:
9k
Prior:
16k
Nonfarm Payrolls 3-Mo Avg Chg
United States Period: Sep
Survey:
Actual:
--
51k
Prior:
71k
Revised:
133k
Revised:
-
Revised:
89k
Revised:
15k
Revised:
51k
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Average Hourly Earnings MoM
United States
Period: Sep
Survey:
0.3%
Actual:
0.1%
Prior:
0.3%
Average Hourly Earnings YoY
United States
Period: Sep
Survey:
3.1%
Actual:
3.0%
Prior:
3.1%
Average Weekly Hours All Employees
United States
Period: Sep
Survey:
34.3
Actual:
34.4
Prior:
34.4
Unemployment Rate
United States
Period: Sep
Survey:
4.1%
Actual:
4.2%
Prior:
4.1%
Labor Force Participation Rate
United States
Period: Sep
Survey:
61.6%
Actual:
61.8%
Prior:
61.6%
Underemployment Rate
United States
Period: Sep
Survey:
Actual:
7.7%
7.6%
Prior:
7.7%
Revised:
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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 8h

2/ We are currently tracking almost exactly on the 80th percentile (optimistic) scenario I laid out at the beginning of the year

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 17h

I saw a screencap somewhere of someone saying Newsom has Gul Dukat energy and I can’t stop thinking about how correct it is

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23h

I don't think they'll ever recreate what it was like to be on twitter in the 2010s. Soap opera stuff happening constantly. Poster you were vaguely aware of involved in federal fentanyl bust. Poster whose jokes you occasionally liked posed as his aunt (or wife?) for 6 years. Pastor who steals jokes

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dame @dame.is · 21h

Please stop anthropomorphizing computers. They can’t “cut”, “copy”, or “paste” anything, because they don’t have scissors and glue.

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My neighbor told me the Middle East keeps eating his carrier groups so I asked how many carrier groups he has he said he just goes to PACOM and gets a new carrier group afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding carrier groups to the Middle East and then Pete Hegseth started crying.

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 23h

Zerohedge, but leftishly.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

i suppose i’m not surprised that it is difficult to make people care about something that is low visibility — the vast majority of people have no idea who piker is — and low salience. i think we’re also going to find, for similar reasons, that the anti-trans messaging isn’t working either.

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Continuing jobless claims are now down 11.7% YoY, and falling at an increasingly rapid rate:

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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Claims: 1/ Initial claims below 200K for the 3rd consecutive week. Layoffs are really low.

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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The claims data just looks really good right now - the best it's looked since May

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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jordan silver 🔵 @silverlyne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This AI shit is so groundbreaking it got google to acknowledge fuchsia again

• Large Scale Codebase Migrations and
Optimizations: Argon agents are working on migrating C/C++ codebases to Rust across Google - scaling from tens of thousands of lines in core libraries like re2, libgav1 up to 800K+ lines for the Fuchsia Zircon kernel. Given the criticality of many of these systems, such large-scale rewrites are undergoing rigorous automated and manual auditing, emulation testing, and review before rolling out to production.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Skipped the Nazis, huh.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bracketing for a moment whether it *works* or whether Meta can be trusted, this does strike as obviously the most appealing and genuinely useful application of the technology for people in their actual lives.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly

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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These fuckers are still terrorizing people ...

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A Russian drone flying very low in #Kyiv, just above residential buildings. It landed on a children's playground. This is the reality of life in Kyiv these days. I think we've had less than an hour total of "All clear" today.

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egg16z 🥚 @notlikewe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

King George III permanently raised my tea prices

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

almost as if they are operating on the assumption that everybody else does what they (openly, on live tv, with signing ceremonies) do

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also their position is that it is not just ok but *constitutionally required* that the president have the authority to rig DoJ if he wants. bsky.app/profile/dave...

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026

this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.

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Ben Carlson @bencarlson007.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

End of February right before the war started: Inflation 2.4% 10 year Treasury 3.9% Mortgage Rates 6% Oil $67 Gas $3.10 Now: Inflation 3.4% 10 year Treasury 5.2% Mortgage Rates 7.6% Oil $90 Gas $4.43

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Some of the wrongest in politics are “popularists,” who say public opinion can’t be changed, so politicians should never try to lead, only follow polls. This meant treating 2024 as permanent, conceding on immigration and other things. But as @gregsargent.bsky.social writes, the opposite’s working.

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Micah Barkley @micahbarkley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a broadcast journalism student at FAMU, I remember noticing that our local ABC station, WTXL, suddenly had no anchors, just package after package from reporters. Turns out, it was Scripps’ first experiment with going anchor-less. Now that model is spreading. Read my recent for @bloomberg.com

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the dumbest scumbags on the left are now attacking zohran for *combatting antisemitism* Zohran derangement syndrome is real and applies to the alt-left just as much as the alt right

Aaron Maté
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I'm not criticizing Zohran for doing this because I understand he has to deal with a very toxic political reality. Politics is a different game.
But to me launching a "Strategy to Combat
Antisemitism" in a time of the Gaza genocide is akin to a
"Strategy to Combat Anti-Whiteness" at the height of South African apartheid. That's not even a fair analogy:
Israel and its apologists do infinitely more to both fabricate and encourage anti-Semitism.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani O
@NYCMayor•9h
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism...

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 30/09/2026

Consider decimation, in the classical sense.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nobody past the age of twenty should be obsessed with what people majored in in college and see it as the single defining choice that entirely shapes someone, deterministically, for all time

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey, check it out, the White Sox are fostering, "bonds of friendship and solidarity among people"

White Sox beating the Astros 5-2 in the top of the 6th

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Spending $850 vibe coding to-do list apps hoping to get rich is just one notch above spending the money on lottery tickets. While execution is now “free” due to vibe coding, it also means every software category will be hyper competitive. Your AI slop app is just more noise to users.

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