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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Bryan Rockwood @brocktalksff.fantasynowplus.com · 05/10/2026

Jeremiyah Love in his candid convo with coaches

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I actually laughed out loud when I read the incident that put him into the 18-day-coma, which I would feel bad about in any other context than sociopathic religious grifting.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Job creation numbers: "The blue columns point to Biden’s presidency, while the red columns point to Trump’s..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"my weird thing cannot possibly be bad, as I happen to like it"

Lorenz told Wired this year that “I think caring about screen time is stupid. It's a waste of mental energy.” In the same interview she admitted to screen time of around 17 hours a day. Across platforms like X and Instagram, she regularly celebrates heavy social media use and castigates those who warn about addiction or the risks to young users. Lorenz’s repeated assertion is that content cannot create addicts:

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Damian Ortega @ortegachili.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Firing your officers out of ideological paranoia in the middle of a war. Where have we seen that before?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Hegseth: "Take Iran. Allow me to lay it out simply for the anti-American losers in our media."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Hegseth announces "Fortress America," which will study "survivability"

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hardening installations on American soil helps supply chains for foreign wars, got it.

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Nathan 🎃 @never-say-die.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Three titans of military thought; An 83 year old draft dodger, a ket addict who just makes stuff up to juice stocks and a gamer (derogatory)

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Damian Ortega @ortegachili.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He's a zealot and a wannabe crusader

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“.. While crude flows from Persian Gulf nations (ex Iran) have recovered to 80% of pre-war levels, the same is not true for refined products. Their exports of gasoline, jet-fuel, and diesel, remain at around 50% of pre-war levels.” @javierblas.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cook Political introduces the “Doubly Disenchanted” 👀 @cookpolitical.com www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/nat...

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is what you say minutes before a single gun shot is heard

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 17/09/2026

‘Warsh said that the hike “starts to show we’re serious about this.” If that was only a start to the seriousness, the direct implication is to brace for more.‘ www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Census Bureau's official quarterly financial data came out this week, and companies in the information technology sector broke another investment record amidst the AI boom Net holdings of property, plant, & equipment are up more than $350B over the last year alone

a graph of information tech sector net investment

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Benjamin A. Engel @benjaminaengel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The US is now more unpopular among Koreans than it was in the wake of the Yangju Highway Incident in 2002 when a US armored vehicle accidentally ran over two young Korean girls.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just further enshrining the canonical conservative belief that being called racist is worse than being racist.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 11/09/2026

>the houthis were trying to use claude to build their rocket guidance system just get me off the fucking ride www.anthropic.com/threat-intel...

GTG-87001: Disrupting a Yemen-based guided weapons engineering cell using Claude to develop guidance software
Summary

We identified a cell of threat actors based in northern Yemen running three weapons development programs: a guided rocket that used a commodity phone-class flight computer with final-phase homing guidance; a multi-stage ballistic missile with a stated range goal above 2,000 km; and a multi-variant missile (referred to as the “R2000” set) that included a hypersonic glide vehicle variant.

The actors used Claude Code in place of human software engineers to develop the guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) software that steers and stabilizes a flying vehicle. For example, they used Claude to integrate an open-source autopilot onto a phone-class flight computer, writing the control and position estimation software, tuning the control settings, running a firmware build pipeline, and performing a flight simulation. The actors managed several Claude instances at once, assigning each one a role, much as a lead would delegate work on a small engineering team: the actors tasked one instance with writing the code, another with research, and a third with reviewing the code the first instance produced.

Our safeguards blocked many of their requests, but not all of them. The actors used a variety of tactics to evade our safeguards, including hiding their goals and the products the software was meant for, and they split their work across multiple sessions so no single session revealed their full intent.

These actors carried out a sustained effort to develop guided weapons, including using Claude to design guidance software. We do not have evidence the actors succeeded in fielding an operational device; but they did test-fire a guided rocket. This field test appears to have failed: within hours, the actors returned to Claude to work out why it failed.

We identified this activity as part of our internal investigations into suspected weapons development. We banne…

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domi @domi.zip · 09/09/2026

imagine you are killed while your brain is scanned by beings you cannot comprehend to comprehend and you wake up in a virtual purgatory waving swords around

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Damian Ortega @ortegachili.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Congratulations, Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-NM)! You have won your reelection campaign!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Hi there! I'm the Secretary of Agriculture in a nation where just about every single kind of food has been recalled because it will give you explosive shits and then kill you dead. Well, I'm here to tell you about how government regulation and oversight is baaaaaaaad."

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We need at some point to talk about American Evangelicalism as a heretical movement. We should not indulge the delusion of a bunch or nuts who cherry-pick the Bible to rationalize otherwise indefensible 21st century bigotries that they are representatives of a global faith.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Republicans have no choice but to surrender before the midterms to save themselves the embarrassment

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“.. US diesel now fetching more than $200 per barrel. Highest print of the Hormuz crisis thus far.” (via Commodity Context) ⛽️

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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has canceled a planned phone call with US President Donald Trump, hours after Trump publicly celebrated a regional election win by Germany’s far-right AfD party.

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

NEWS, as they say: @notus.com is no longer; say hello to The Washington Sun! 🌞 Oh, and: We’ve struck a deal to carry daily weather reports from @capitalweather.com! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/b...

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Politics News Site NOTUS Rebrands as The Washington Sun

A trademark dispute scuttled its plans to relaunch as The Washington Star, so the site chose a different name.

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

nintendo said "all y'all other devs are soft as hell, we'll take on the chuds"

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Fun Fact: The supreme commander of Russian forces in the Russo-Japanese War got his position by taking the blame for an incident at a French whorehouse.

a paragraph I'm too lazy to write out in full. The salient passage: The Commander-in-Chief himself, Admiral Alexeev, knew almost nothing about the art of war. Afraid of horses, he had to suffer the indignity of inspecting his cavalry on foot. Alexeev's promotion had been largely due to the patronage of the Grand Duke Alexis, whom he once rescued from the French police after the Grand Duke had been involved in a drunken brawl in a Marseille brothel. Alexeev had offered himself up for arrest, claiming that the maltresse of the brothel had confused his name with that of the Grand Duke."

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

the purpose of these city builders is to try to enact your fantasy for 20 minutes until you accidentally create baltimore, at which point you obviously delete it

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 03/09/2026

WE DID IT 🎉

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Trump issues the order changing the name of the lake and immediately cashes in on it by selling hats for $55.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

He might be a corrupt useless slug, but he tried to help me steal the 2020 election so you probably should vote for him.

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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Francis Fukuyama keeps the winning streak alive.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 01/09/2026

in finance, VP just means a person with a few years of banking experience. it's part vanity title but also needed for even low level signatory functions. this was a mid level employee so uh the replies to this are pretty fucked given that

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

US construction spending has rolled over. 🇺🇸 @cnbc.com