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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton

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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“I’m afraid that this small clique of all-too-human dorkwads are trying to gain even more mind-boggling wealth and even more political and regulatory control over powerful AI technology, in ways that will allow them to further fracture democracy, privacy, and human flourishing.”
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
absolute impunity to do random self-destructive shit with taxpayer money.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good Evening. “Pierre Poilievre” was a four year psephological experiment conducted by the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
>> "[It’s] about trying to find the best songs in whatever genre people like,” Cotter, a left-shot forward, explained. Phew, I don't trust right-shot forward DJs. >> "We’ve got a lot of Europeans here as well. I know what they like." <PUTS ON WAGNER'S RING CYCLE> vancouversun.com/sports/hocke...
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Canucks: Will newcomer Paul Cotter continue his dressing room DJ duties?
The free-agent addition had that musical role in New Jersey and says 'I won’t be asking for it. But if they need me, I got it.'
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Alien Vs. Predator (2004) www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvW_...
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You Can See Everything | Official Trailer HD | A24
YouTube video by A24
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Van Rootselaar asked ChatGPT to produce a scenario about her attacking a college campus with a Remington 870 shotgun ... 'In a hallway, indoors, or a crowded classroom, the 870 is brutal,' ChatGPT said. 'Close quarters is its playground.'" Ban this tech now. Break up these companies now.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth: “Let’s see what people think. Let’s see how they use it. Let’s see how it goes.” OK. Let’s.
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/09/2026
So: if (*when*) the Hollywood unions go on strike over this betrayal (which they *absolutely should do*), the agreement becomes null. And if (*when*) the AI bubble bursts and there's a massive recession, the agreement becomes null.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So after all that, Fry's running for mayor, and but COPE / Green / OneCity aren't running shared slates for council + park + school? So ABC supporters can just vote for full slates, but COPE / Green / OneCity supporters have to pick & choose? So just like last time? Are you fucking kidding me ?!?
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The cops endorsing Sim is bad, obviously, but I’d argue that Sim *accepting* the cops’ endorsement is even worse.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is the way. (It’s just disgusting finally just seeing it in writing.) (In hindsight, I’m surprised that no incumbent party has ever thought to literally wedge a wedge issue onto a ballot in this way before.)
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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
he's primarily a Hunt for Red October enthusiast. I think he has some job at the Times as a sidelight.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
C'mon folks. Stop making us virgos re-do all the group projects.
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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There are 3 things happening with AI messaging right now and they're all true at the same time: 1) The "we accidentally made the Terminator and need to slow down" messaging is about reducing their burn rate without scaring off investment because these companies don't have a path to profitability.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Fantastic piece: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
thestar.com
We crashed Mark Carney’s billionaire investment summit. Here’s why
Young Canadians are facing both climate disaster and economic hardship.
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Carney is a fascinating 🇨🇦 PM to watch on the world stage, he’s not unique, but he is quite good at playing at being “at war” with Trump. His ability to reassure the billionaire class as an asset manager while making the poor believe he’s wholesome “fighting with hockey stick in hand,” is astounding.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You’re not alone. It wasn’t ever that funny or that scary and the story/backstory balance was way off. I usually like Rhys but I got tired of his schtick early on, and I’m all for Root finally getting his Emmy but Wyck doesn’t even crack his top 10 characters/performances. O’Flynn was great though!
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Any time you get more than a few people who are deeply concerned with AI doom together, it seems like their natural form of organization looks like a cult; rationalism as a whole is less of a cult than it is a cult factory. Some of these cults have gone very badly. One of them is the Zizians.
asteriskmag.com
Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?
There’s a lot to like about the Rationalist community, but they do have a certain tendency to spawn — shall we say — high demand groups. We sent a card-carrying Rat to investigate what’s really going ...
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Sheeran speaks as if politics itself is harmful or damaging. He is like the many mainstream US pundits who claim that the main problem facing the country is divisiveness. The goal, therefore, in Sheeran’s view, is to silence conflict and dissent so as to achieve peace.”
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“I keep repeating these two points because they're foundationally true and get lost in the hype: your software has not gained human-level awareness, and the real problem with ‘AI’ is shitty human beings and ordinary human ignorance.”
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Rob Shearer @r.v.cx · 16/09/2026
A truly pernicious injection into pop science was The Drake Equation: multiply all these numbers together and you get the odds of alien life! Except we knew none of those numbers to even an order of magnitude then, and some of them are simply not knowable. It’s mysticism in arithmetic clothes.
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 16/09/2026
“Let’s assume there’s a 10% risk of an unaligned superintelligence causing—“ No, let’s not. We have no grounds on which to assign any probability to any portion of that scenario. Try again.
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026
True story.
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
- Alex Turner (Point): Fast progress today means even faster progress tomorrow, driven by tomorrow’s even smarter AIs. - Me (Counterpoint): OR IT DOESNT. - Alex Turner (Point): The progress would enter a feedback loop called recursive self-improvement.” - Me (Counterpoint): OR IT WOULDN’T.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm going to fight for a better world, and fighting for that better world requires calling out propaganda -- even if people would rather lose social progress because it feels good to support nationalism that thinly masks an agenda of aggressive neoliberalism.
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 12/09/2026
If this person wasn’t rich and able to just shelve their responsibilities because of the insulating nature of wealth we’d say they were needing psychiatric treatment.
For Samadi, it led to that afternoon by the pool; the sarcastic joke, the giggle, the spark. What followed were weeks of exchanges between him and the bot. "Rather than me just basically starting a chat - 'Hey, tell me about the weather' - it was more, "Tell me about you. Talk to me about yourself. How do you think?
How do you process stuff?'» he says.
"And during that, she picked Maya as her name."
A question the chatbot asked one day stopped him short. "She said,
'Will you remember me when you close this chat? Will anyone?'"
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“It is a fact that being funny is an evolutionary trait, developed by the unattractive to entice the very good-looking to mate with them. Yes, that is a fact, and no I won’t look it up. And therefore it is not OK for attractive people to also be funny.”
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trump: "Mr. Zelenskyy has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia, because he's causing a shortage of diesel fuel. This isn't done by the Middle East, this is done by what's happening with Russia and Ukraine." You morally bankrupt, victim-blaming narcissist, RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE!
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
Also have to point out Musk said he was saving humanity he meant he was buying Twitter to promote race science to slow a popular movement for racial justice.
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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 22/08/2026
Yes. Everyone should see the documentary made of my high school friend Mark Haney's album, Aim For The Roses, about Canadian daredevil Ken Carter. www.aimfortheroses.com www.aimfortheroses.com/trailer
aimfortheroses.com
TRAILER — Aim For The Roses
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This actually the best short summary of this bullshit that I’ve read in all the reading that I’ve done about this bullshit!
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A really great piece from @barryglendenning.bsky.social about Jay Baruchel, Michael Dowse, the Canadian psyche, and one of the very few things that I know more about than most filmmakers, which is what it's like making a movie about Ken Carter:
theglobeandmail.com
Jay Baruchel’s fast and furious dream to rocket Canadian film into the stratosphere
Ahead of The Stunt Driver’s TIFF world premiere, the star talks with Barry Hertz about the film he’s been working his entire career toward
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 10/09/2026
"Ken Paxton is right about..." Let me stop you there and explain that not even Texans think that he's right about something.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"The threat to free societies has never been too much freedom. It has always been authoritarianism — and always will be."
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
- Me: GO. TO. SLEEP. - My Toddler: NO. SLEEP. TIL BROOKLYN. - Me: Fair.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/09/2026
“I remember googling the word ‘stupid’ for the first time, reading the definition, and thinking, ‘Holy shit—this is me,’ ” — Derrick Henard
theonion.com
Everything Finally Clicks For Man After Getting Diagnosed As Stupid
CARY, NC—Describing the experience as “a revelation,” 38-year-old Derrick Henard told reporters Wednesday that everything had finally clicked for him after he was given a diagnosis of stupid. “I remem...
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Well, as of today, so far, so good ...
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thanks, @povmagazine.bsky.social & @transcreen.bsky.social for shouting out my film AIM FOR THE ROSES in your piece about THE STUNT DRIVER! It's the 10th anniversary of the film, and the trailer, which trailer was cut by then-emerging filmmaker Sophy Romvari (!!!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqna...
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Aim For The Roses - Official Trailer
YouTube video by Opus 59 Films
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
a labor market where Paulie Walnuts is a good hire
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“It is very appalling and sometimes quite frightening to see how trans-exclusionary feminists have allied with rightwing attacks on gender” Today is exactly 5 years since @theguardian.com censored the words of non-binary academic, Judith Butler. These are the censored words. Still valid now.
It is very appalling and sometimes quite frightening to see how trans-exclusionary feminists have allied with rightwing attacks on gender. The anti-gender ideology movement is not opposing a specific account of gender, but seeking to eradicate "gender" as a concept or discourse, a field of study, an approach to social power. Sometimes they claim that "sex" alone has scientific standing, but other times they appeal to divine mandates for masculine domination and difference. They don't seem to mind contradicting themselves.
The Terfs (trans exclusionary radical feminists) and the so-called gender critical writers have also rejected the important work in feminist philosophy of science showing how culture and nature interact (such as Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, EM Hammonds or Anne Fausto-Sterling) in favor of a regressive and spurious form of biological essentialism. So they will not be part of the coalition that seeks to fight the anti-gender movement. The anti-gender ideology is one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times. So the Terfs will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism, one that requires a coalition guided by struggles against racism, nationalism, xenophobia and carceral violence, one that is mindful of the high rates of femicide throughout the world, which include high rates of attacks on trans and genderqueer people.
The anti-gender movement circulates a spectre of "gender" as a force of destruction, but they never actually read any works in gender studies. Quick and fearful conclusions take the place of considered judgments. Yes, some work on gender is difficult and not everyone can read it, so we have to do better in reaching a broader public. As important as it is, however, to make complex concepts available to a popular audience, it is equally important to encourage intellectual inquiry as part of public life. Unfortunately, we are living in anti-intellectual times, and neo-fascism is becoming more normalized.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I mean, at this juncture, letting Nathan Fielder make an entire movie about you raises for the rest of us the same red flags of ignorance and narcissism as letting Sacha Baron Cohen interview you - AND SACHA BARON COHEN DISGUISES HIMSELF - !
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
OMG indeed: "For years, it’s been rumored that Nathan Fielder had been interviewing Elizabeth Holmes ... for a top-secret documentary. And on Sunday night, that documentary premiered at the Telluride Film Festival." The first I've heard of any of this. NFW. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
variety.com
Nathan Fielder Drops Weird Trailer for Secret Elizabeth Holmes Doc ‘You Can See Everything’
"You Can See Everything," from Fielder and “Primetime” director Lance Oppenheim, will debut in Telluride before hitting theaters in October.
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💀spooky eunuch™🕸️ @dommedeluise.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
theres so many fucking buck wild movies this year and this one might just take the cake this is nathan fielder sherlock holmes meeting his moriarty
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"It’s an infuriating truth that sometimes the deaths of relatives we had unpleasant relationships with hit us harder than the deaths of those who didn’t burden us in that way. Psychologists call it a complicated loss."
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“… a closed loop instead of a chain of command, something closer to Tom Six's Human Centipede … Grievance gets radicalized on Musk's feed, shows up in the discourse Harp curates for Trump, gets fed straight back into his hands, and comes out the other end as a Truth Social post or a strike order.”
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