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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 6h

I, uh, I can't help but notice you left out the slaver's rebellion or the Nazis on the list of people to go fight. Funny, that.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 9h

There are two academic disciplines, computer science and sociology. Biology? Computer science. Physics? Computer science. Economics? Computer science. Computer Science? Actually, Sociology.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18h

It is ironic that AI took off at the same time as Trump just because there's no shortage of screenshots like this floating around: USER: Can stupid thing happen? AI: No. Stupid thing cannot happen. That would be stupid. USER: Are you sure? Because it just happened. AI: Fuck.

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 19h

you have to read the epstein files with the knowledge that this is not the only bubble of powerful men talking about how they abuse women and then in the next wmail whining about how they get unfairly accused of abusing women, it’s just the one that we can publicly read.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A thing that was very clear at the time is that while it’s true that the United States has a lot of leverage, Israel is a sovereign nation with its own politics, and Netanyahu was, in addition to leading a coalition of aspiring genocidaires, literally going to go prison if the war stopped

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Nied [5'7"] @nied.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Biden literally did the mythical One Phone Call that would stop Israel in it's tracks, &... it didn't stop Israel in it's tracks.

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a bowl of petunias @ohnonotagain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is, hands down, the best thing to ever come out of the Trump Administration. 🫡

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lanae Erickson at Third Way said “practice saying ‘I trust parents in my district to make decisions for their kids more than politicians.’ Practice saying, ‘sure, we need rules but politicians aren’t the right ones to make it.’” This is basically how Democrats talk about abortion rights post Dobbs

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026

In my weekly newsletter, I recreated that terrific testosterone chart from @goodauth.bsky.social and tested some other possible correlates to Trump support. link.ctinsider.com/view/6650ab5...

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

from this:

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4th year med student reporting in.
Had a rotation with a pediatrician where we ended up in the classic encounter with an anti-vaccination parent.

This lady was a conspiracy theory magnet. She casually mentioned everything from 9/11 to chemtrails. Of course she loved the idea of the vaccine conspiracy as well, opting to not protect her one year old to stick it to big pharma.
I relayed all of this to my attending after my exam (I would see the patient first, gather history and do my exam to present to my attending physician). He got this sort of lazy smirk on his face that screamed "watch this".

We go back into the exam room and we cover all of the important bits of a well-child encounter. Growth charts, behavioral milestones, nutrition, sleep...
And then we get to vaccines. She lists approximately 15 reasons why vaccines are more dangerous than the disease they protect against (lol) in addition to the various evils of the pharmaceutical industry.

My attending listens quietly until she's done with her soapbox (about one eternity later), and then interjects with:
"Have you considered the possibility that anti-vaccine propaganda could be an attempt by the Russians or the Chinese to weaken the health of the United States population?"

In a moment of catastrophic cognitive dissonance, I swear I heard a strange popping noise as her brain misfired. It actually broke her. The allure of the increasingly ridiculous conspiracy theory was just too strong.

She ended up agreeing to a modified vaccine schedule. I was flabbergasted. My attending just grinned at me in response. To this day I'm not sure the medical ethics of the situation are totally palatable, but goddamn the result was amazing.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026

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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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The fundamental problem with "superintelligence" in the "especially smart AI insta-conquers the world" sense is that there is no 'superintelligence' exception to computational complexity theory and even polynomial time is a colossal pain in the ass when n gets large enough.

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a success story of vulgar YIMBYism and an indictment of places that are spending profligately on "affordable housing" for people who could, in the long run, easily be served by the market.

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Portland Real Estate Is Such a Mess That All Housing Is Affordable Housing

Rarely has the Oregon city seen such a narrow price gap between market-rate and affordable units.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a very cute clip, but I love it for reasons that the episode doesn't really explore: *All networked technology comes down to chat* Talking to each other is either the foundation of all new networked technology or becomes inexorably tied up with it-- since the early days of the Internet 1/

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

Please read this article on the massive weirdos who are largely running the massively powerful and big-money AI industry in the U.S. today.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 24/09/2026

"What astonishes me in the public treatment of Hanania is how little attention is paid to his inveterate male supremacism. On this front, he has not attempted even a quick costume change. Instead, Hanania is quite simply a rape apologist." www.liberalcurrents.com/richard-hana...

Richard Hanania Doesn't Even Try to Hide His Male Supremacism

Hanania is a reminder of the dangers of rehabilitating extremist intellectuals.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

a huge chunk of the top talent IN AMERICA is first- or second-generation and from china. the only reason china doesn't completely dominate us here is that american immigration policy is very good at stealing their best research staff. it's a good thing nobody's changing that!

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The queer bar story and the bad art friend story and any number of other "toxic person in a small community" stories succeed because they're inherently compelling narratives about people who transgress boundaries in ways we can recognize from our own lives. (FOR FUCK'S SAKE CONTINUED KEEP READING.)

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The full trailer for You Can See Everything is out today. And my first thought is that it should be required that Nathan Fielder film for 48 hrs at every tech CEO’s home.

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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

my testosterone prescription just got approved! so now I’m going to be slapping estrogel and testostogel on in carefully measured amounts, thusly:

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I saw a FASCINATING Instagram post about the nuance of getting social media right which used as an example — stick with me — Julia Stiles on this season of “Dancing With the Stars”

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 21/09/2026

There's been a lot of understandable anger from the trans community at Talarico's comments. There's also been pushback along the lines of "it's like Obama and gay marriage, Paxton is worse." @radtranslib.bsky.social understands the stakes better than anyone and knows we need Talarico to win.

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Talarico (D) Is Just a Letter to Me Now

After folding on trans rights, James Talarico does not have my respect. Honestly, fuck him. And yet, Ken Paxton (R) must lose.

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

LLMs aren't made of neurology except in the most handwavey sense. They're made of narrative. That's why I started calling them text elementals: they're not human, they're most-likely-text generators we bent into living stories in a prose format centering the characters User and Assistant

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Legally Jen ("what, like it's hard?") 🩵🩷👻🩷🩵 @transducer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

new 🧵, bc I want to talk to those who feel like I felt in 2023, 2020, 2018… 1997. I want to help you understand something I wish I’d really understood: It does NOT have to be an all-or-nothing binary switch. People may see it as “you were 🚹, now you 🚺.” You don’t have to experience it that way.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Notably that the AI-written novel that French critics were praising (without knowing it was AI) is by a Haitian writer, since the other instances we have of AI fiction being praised are from the Commonwealth Prize. i think the gassy, inflated metaphors of AI tend to be perceived as authentic by ...

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a bowl of petunias @ohnonotagain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m reminded of something that @nmamatas.bsky.social said on LJ many years ago: “agitprop” has both an “agit” component, motivating thugs to commit violence for a cause, and a “prop” component, providing intellectual justification to those who merely tolerate thugs in their midst.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026

I'm of two minds about this information

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Evelyn Normielib is officially the median Democrat

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In traditional Ashkenazi practice the day after Yom Kippur is called Gott’s Nomen Tag, a day for celebrating the achievements and work of shliḥei tsibur on the yamim noraim.

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

okay, pre-Yom Kippur story time. 🧵 In 1927, the great Hebrew poet and scholar Ḥaim Naḥman Bialik was walking on the Tel Aviv beach with his friend and publisher Yehoshua Ravnitzky. The two of them, both native Yiddish speakers, were having a passionate conversation in their native tongue.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.

Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.

Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

1) Every damn things he's built without Congressional authorization gets demolished on the first day. 2) Christ, he's like a 7-year old. "Oh yeah? Well MY arch is going to be a FORTRESS with GUNS and DRONES and LASERS, you'll be able to CONTROL THE WHOLE CITY from there."

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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

It frustrates me so deeply that cis people simply cannot concieve of transphobia as something serious.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ok gonna get Sincere(TM) here for a second There's a lot of doomerism about how "We're all cooked" because "The GOP is trying to steal our votes." So here's the true story of how the GOP tried to steal our votes here in NC and FAILED. TWICE. Ballot fraud isn't final. It gets stopped all the time.

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Check if you're registered to vote at http://voterresource.org/saraht

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 17/09/2026

dudes rock

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Praise and shade Benjamin Franklin wrote this to Arthur Lee on 3 April 1778, but apparently never sent.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i think the closest analogy to 'what is going on at AI companies' is 'what was going on at JPL in the 1950s,' where communists, Satanists, swingers and adherents of a bizarre Russian Orthodox-adjacent techno-optimist microsect ended up doing a tremendous amount of important rocket science

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

there is so much here to unpack. first and foremost, the absurd idea that it is the fault of people like me that there are nazis in the republican party. rod dreher is from LOUISIANA. he lived there when DAVID DUKE was running for president.

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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I truly believe most Dem voters want a strong defense of trans rights from the party. *They hedge when their leaders hedge,* and begin coming up with rationalizations for why maybe it is better to partition trans rights as a result.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026

Humaning.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The youngest daughter is going into her brutal era it seems. "Age is nothing but a number. And your number is ... Old"

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We need to think "on the spectrum", not "Friend/Enemy" news.chanda.science/archive/the-...

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The Spectrum of Allies is Better than Pessimistic Binaries

A theory and tool that can help you rethink the work ahead

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1. they didn’t secure the sandbox 2. they didn’t monitor the llms 3. in every way possible, they set it up for this to happen 4. an llm did not go “rogue” 5. an llm especially did not “escape” (move itself - the executable - to another computer) 6. automated hacking tools already existed

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