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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 02/10/2026

Stargate Universe started 17 years ago today on Syfy. I liked the concept and characters, and I wish the show could have had a proper ending. It's too bad the new Stargate series project fell through; we could have at least found out how the Destiny's story ended in the course of a conversation.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Very nice explainer, both on the technical aspects of how AI models use tokens and the economics. Read this and you'll learn a lot about what is going on under the hood of an LLM ig.ft.com/ai-tokens/?s...

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AI agents are rewriting the economics of computing

Powerful AI tools are burning through budgets, prompting a rethink of how the technology is priced ahead of frontier lab IPOs

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What's the stupidest joke you most have to fight the urge to tell? Mine is not replying to questions about whether I have any allergies with 'we'll find out together, I guess'.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We made companies legally liable for the products they advertise and sell 50 years ago. If Amazon has become “too big” to effectively regulate the goods and services it markets and sells, it needs to be broken up.

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German court rules Meta liable for fake ads on Instagram, Facebook

A German court has ruled that Meta is liable for fake advertisements posted by third parties on its Instagram and Facebook platforms, and ordered the ‌U.S. tech giant to remove such content and pay d...

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The thing about the florid apocalypticism you sometimes encounter on this site is that a lot of people are less horrified by literal civilizational collapse than by the notion that our descendents are just going to keep muddling through and in less than a century nobody will remember us.

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Monica de la Cruz @monicadlc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I see friends liking and sharing wallowing content on IG and it seems like our generation's version of ipad baby pacifying vids. Unhappy? Watch a front-facing camera video of a guy in his car telling you it's not your fault, community and connection are dead and there's nothing you can do

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You came into power and raised the cost of employing people, especially for entry level jobs and have been non-stop talking about how amazing AI is to boost productivity, which in reality comes through reducing entry level roles, and now have decided the cause of youth unemployment is welfare

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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why would I deceive you?"

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Vimes @ohmydays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reader, it's almost 2027, not march 2020

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Nicholas Payne @kipenyan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s simple. If you’re from inside the country, you need to go back where you came from and stop trying to replace us, we have a proud culture and you people could never understand it, though there may be a few good ones who can assimilate. If you’re from another country uh… I didn’t say all that.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026

I strongly disagree with this take. New York, like any other city, has been a city of transplants, and will continue to be one. Immigration makes us stronger. The only people who are not transplants or descendants of transplants are the Lenape forcibly displaced by English and Dutch colonizers.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

babe are you a home-cook who doesn't know about using all parts of the chicken for stock, because you are throwing neck rn

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026

I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.

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Vimes @ohmydays.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Clinton was a bad candidate, which is why I didn't vote for her and everything bad that happened because of trump winning is the fault of the libs"

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026

"don't you care about fairness in sports?" No actually, I don't. Nobody does

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The wealthy countries seem to have a core of 15-30% of their voting populations who *just fucking hate foreigners*. This section of the electorate are for various reasons disproportionately well represented among the ultra-wealthy and thus are able to secure some favourable media coverage.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

1/ Russia has suffered a "crushing defeat" at Lyman in eastern Ukraine, with multiple regiments routed, heavy losses, and a "collapse of the front." Crippled soldiers are reportedly being sent into battle in a last-ditch effort to prevent disaster. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/tend...

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ruuubs.bsky.social @ruuubs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

They wanted Horst Wessel They got a hurt weasel

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They named their latest album 'You May Offend' & apparently its all about their obsession w anti-woke, anti-cancel culture stuff. It has been fascinating (in the most derogatory way possible) to watch older ppl in particular melt their brains so bad that it becomes the whole of their personalities

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Trump succeeded by stupidity arbitrage. There are a lot of terrible policy ideas that sound like “common sense” to Joe Barstool, but which elected officials with access to policy experts had largely agreed, across party lines, to eschew. The trouble is they still sounded OK to Joe Barstool.

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Vimes @ohmydays.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Oh fucking grow a fucking spine for fuck sake you bunch of useless jellyfish

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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

People don’t want to hear diseases just happen. It scares them to death. They need it to be because of malign actors or because they didn’t take the right thing. The fact that it could happen to anyone, anytime, just because is terrifying because you can’t control it. Whether autism/covid it’s fear.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Voters were so angry about inflation & high prices that they ignored numerous red flags to put Trump back in office bc 2019 seemed fine" is the truth of what happened in 2024 &—bc it doesnt indicate total knowledge & control from voters—its been rejected by a range of ppl in favor of their priors

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I plead with people not to propagate their "it won't make a difference; his supporters love him" gloom. Actually, Farage is on the ropes and he didn't get there by himself. He's there because people continue to believe resistance does make a difference. It's also wrong on the facts. 1/3

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So at first glance this Channel 4 Reform investigation dropping at the start of their party conference seems like very bad news for them

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/09/2026

There's a lot here to be sickened by, but for some reason the "do you understand what's happening?" really got me. What's happening, Zia? Explain it to us. Use your words. Say it out loud. No no, not "wink wink, nudge nudge, you know..." Why is it a problem she's nominated? Say it, coward.

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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“It makes sense that as institutions have collapsed, narcissists have thrived.” — Jon Ronson, THE CASTLE

The cover of Jon Ronson’s THE CASTLE — Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I was actually already working on a piece about how the violent breakdown of society is both morally bad and situation that only produces losers. People are convinced that somehow they will be the one to “win” it, like they’re John Wick or something. But this is wrong.

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

All the academic freedom pearl clutchers from the other week seem oddly silent on this

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I see arguments like this a bunch. There's two important reasons this is wrong. The big one first: It's not good to have a president who doesn't obey the rules about to get his agenda done. That's one of the reasons the kids went with "No Kings" instead of "New Kings."

This sort of discourse is over. It's done. It's obsolete. Trump (and to a lesser extent others) have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that if an elected official actually wants something to get done, it will get done. The only question that matters is will they use that power for good or not.

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Vimes @ohmydays.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

How do you fuck up soup this bad?

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Vimes @ohmydays.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"vassal state" Didn't even have to clock through this dumbass' profile to know he's some for DSA moron

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Everything gets easier when you realise that the Soviet Empire is an emotional support aesthetic for certain left-wingers the same way the British Empire is an emotional support aesthetic for certain right-wingers

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There is somehow a prevailing school of thought amongst both tankies and really serious think tank guys that China and Russia being geographically large is a fundamental law of the universe and any deviation from that risks consensus reality as a whole

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My fear is that it's going to happen in the middle of the night and there will be several hours when I'm sleeping and have no idea it's happened already

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Vimes @ohmydays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ratko Mladik died. Rest in piss

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dolly Parton lived with a gay man for years. She was a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ folks and a philanthropic champion of childhood literacy and education, vaccines, and the black people in her community. "We don't know what her politics were"? Please. She lived them. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/a...

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Dolly Parton’s Cautious Politics Resulted in Widespread Affection

Bipartisan tributes demonstrated the success of the singer’s long-running effort to stay out of party politics in a sharply divided country.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 26/08/2026

Just saw Facebook antivaxxers speculating that 80-year-old Dolly Parton’s death was hastened by the COVID vaccine she helped fund the development of and received—half a decade ago—and am thinking about how the past decade spent catering to these people has been nothing but a waste of time.

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Vimes @ohmydays.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

God (if you exist), I haven't asked for much in my life. Please let me have this one!

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Guys. Where are the posts reminding us not to speak ill of the dead? I'm not seeing them for some reason.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 24/08/2026

i do think a lot of mainstreamers have missed the ball on how musk has moved past "rich guy with funny opinions on race science" and into "literally just a nazi"

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It’s a truly absurd feature of the human heart that it can be so broken over the passing of someone we’ve never met. But here I am, mired in the absurd. 💔

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