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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Peter Magyar is currently enacting a Liberal Currents fantasy where he amends the constitution to ban anyone associated with the old regime from ever holding office again and is somehow polling at 68% (he won with 53%) and I’m not saying that’s possible anywhere else but Dems should like, ask him

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yesterday the Westminster City Council's Cabinet Member for Resident Services and Civic Pride approved the nomination for a Westminster Commemorative Green Plaque to mark the former London home of Angelica Kauffman! westminster.moderngov.co.uk/ieDecisionDe... Plaque to be installed in 2027 -

A black and white mock-up of a round plaque honoring the painter Angelica Kauffman. The text in the narrow outer circle reads "Westminster City Council" at the top, and "Royal Academy of Arts" at the bottom. Within the inner circle, the text reads, "Angelica Kauffman RA / 1741 Chur - 1807 Rome / Artist, Founding Member of the Royal Academy / Lived and worked here 1767-81."

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Beefcake Dad @jeffsreturn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Googling Tony Blair Arms Deal to find out what the deal is with those arms

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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

REAL REAL REAL REAL

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Susan of Texas @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Cheese, The Worm, His Wife, and Her Lover

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Shot: "We asked 37 top academics and researchers who study education to rate a range of ideas for both effectiveness and cost, on a scale of 1 to 7." Chaser: "The panel included: Dominique Baker..." LOL y'all I read so many papers to complete this survey on k12 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

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30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts

Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The two main tendencies in national Israeli politics right now are "expulsion and annexation of the Palestinian territories" vs "civil separation under the authority of an Israeli police state", and virtually all mainstream US commentary simply refuses to engage with this.

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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I knew but still am amazed at how bad these numbers are, 10th percentile having a worse time of it than peak 10% inflation in 2022.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is all right-wing politics is now, a guy who's killed tens of thousands of children complaining about podcasters

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a fantastic brief essay in how news media & pundits turn upside down who is who is being punished for speaking freely--in the case of Kraft, Macklemore, & Sheeran--when rich elites want things to go one way, but unruly peasant masses refuse to go along. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions

In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as...

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If we are enslaved by a machine god in the 2030s, let the record show that this all could’ve been prevented by putting academics, including graduate students, on 12-month contracts. open.substack.com/pub/bloodint...

"I invented the term artificial intelligence," the Stanford computer scientist John McCarthy said in 1973, "and I invented it because we had to do something when we were trying to get money for a summer study in 1956." A more pedestrian, jargon-filled proposal had previously failed to get traction; "artificial intelligence" turned committee heads and got the funding. Now, angling for some summer study funding is on a much smaller scale than the trillion-dollar value-inflating proclamations of our AI companies today, but the anecdote shows the extent to which "AI" has always been a cultural construct and has served as a useful narrative device.

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🫥 @nvalvo.name · 24/09/2026

The sharp decline in the quality of Bay Area Sex Weirdo Intellectuals is all too tangible.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

Almost the entire US technology policy space has been taken over by rich funders and consultants who genuinely believe the below wackadoodle sci-fi AI scenario is extremely likely, and that preventing it is the most important thing we could be doing right now. www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-...

Ordinarily, the play here would be to disown this and other concrete statements of his about Al doom as irrelevant. Of course we aren't just repeating Yudkowsky! We are smart, normal people who believe normal things for normal reasons.
Compare it, however, to Al 2027, allegedly a serious policy document, written by Daniel Kokotajlo and Scott Alexander, presenting its doom scenario.
For about three months, Consensus-1 expands around humans, tiling the prairies and icecaps with factories and solar panels. Eventually it finds the remaining humans too much of an impediment: in mid-2030, the Al releases a dozen quiet-spreading biological weapons in major cities, lets them silently infect almost everyone, then triggers them with a chemical spray. Most are dead within hours; the few survivors (e.g. preppers in bunkers, sailors on submarines) are mopped up by drones. Robots scan the victims' brains, placing copies in memory for future study or revival.'
The new decade dawns with Consensus-1's robot servitors spreading throughout the solar system. By 2035, trillions of tons of planetary material have been launched into space and turned into rings of satellites orbiting the suniẠạiỊThe surface of the Earth has been reshaped into Agent-4's version of utopia: datacenters, laboratories, particle colliders, and many other wondrous constructions doing enormously successful and impressive research. There are even bioengineered human-like creatures (to humans what corgis are to wolves) sitting in office-like environments all day viewing readouts of what's going on and excitedly approving of everything, since that satisfies some of Agent-4's drivesi Genomes and (when appropriate) brain scans of all animals and plants, including humans, sit in a memory bank somewhere, sole surviving artifacts of an earlier era. It is four light years to Alpha Centauri; twenty-five thousand to the galactic edge, and there are compelling theoretical reasons to expect no aliens for another fifty million …

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sometimes I feel like I’m doing okay in life and then I realize that by the time Elizabeth Holmes was my age, she had already defrauded Henry Kissinger

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AI is the Gyges' ring of student work: it offers perfect concealment of wrongdoing. If Glaucon is right, then everyone will use it to do injustice (cheat), & will be wise to do so. If Socrates/Plato is right, then doing so also harms the wrong-doer, whose soul will be malformed into misery by it.

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Whos ready for the 8th Party System after November?

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Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x

The Pope at his crazy as fuck 40th birthday party wearing a tiny sea captain hat, holding a tiny ice cream surrounded by THREE sad looking balloons. He's wearing a blue jacket and jeans with a brown belt and he's got a navy polo shirt on.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Did the AI “decide” to do a hack? I don’t think so, but I also can’t really tell you why or how I “decide” to do most things either.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Instead of tying yourself in knots trying to make precise declarations about the nature of AI, you’ll have a much better time pondering how it complicates your own definitions of HUMAN thought, reasoning, personality, agency, etc in ways you can pleasurably wrestle with the rest of your life.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

amazing job on the john fetterman magic card. making him damage you even though you put him into play was a great detail

Kookus
Summon Djinn
Trample
During your upkeep, if you do not control at least one Keeper of Kookus, Kookus deals 3 damage to you and attacks this turn if able.
2: +1/+0 until end of turn
Illus. Scott Hampton
01096 Wizards of the Coast, Ine All rights reserved
3/5

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hasan Piker is an idiot and a provocateur with a pretty loose grasp of history, but I am finding the endless cycles of performative outrage at not unconditionally endorsing Eisenhower's foreign policy to be wearing thin.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 19/09/2026

I assume that when whoever is making it IPOs they will reveal the full lineup implied by the existence of Tilly Norwood.

Grid of logic gate options as Venn diagrams of Tilly Norwood, Tilly Orwood, Tilly Andwood, Tilly Xorwood, Tilly Nandwood, and Tilly Xnandwood

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

you met me at a very chinese room time in my life

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In this Philadelphia sports bar, OpenAI still means no one is guarding Allen Iverson. But they do know this: Even if the machines take all of our jobs, we'll still need real humans to boo Santa Claus.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 18/09/2026

Incredible mixing of metaphors for an 11 word headline. *DELUGE OF COPPER ARRIVING IN US LEAVES NEW ORLEANS WITH LOGJAM

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026

It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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🫥 @nvalvo.name · 17/09/2026

In a stunning coincidence, the output of this brave and rigorous moral philosophical research agenda just happens to be exactly what the global power elite already do and think!

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🫥 @nvalvo.name · 17/09/2026

Neoconservative counter coup against the paleos.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran was the kind of kid the Crash Test Dummies wrote songs about

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The fact that Musk himself is sponsoring so many of the anti-trans ads this cycle presents a pretty golden opportunity for Dems to point out that of course the guy who literally wants to build a gas-powered data center in your backyard wants this election to be about trans people.

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

depending on who's doing the calculating, it'll take don only half of his second term to steal as much money from america as mobutu sese seko embezzled from zaire over the course of 32

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 15/09/2026

yes - they're an EXTREMELY visible and frequent price anchor. decarbonization of passenger vehicles would actually improve near-term inflation expectations measurement IMO because as is it's basically just a gas price measurement.

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🫥 @nvalvo.name · 14/09/2026

I think I set the over/under at ten years for Brexit dissolving the UK, and… looks like that will have been pretty close.

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh dear. I might actually need a Truss.

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Evergreen* * Even if Evergreen is not the reason Red Sea oil transit is messed up right now.

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