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Oxahath (He/Him) @oxahath.bsky.social · 32m

Kind of hope he tries. Venezuelan oil is heavy and requires a lot of processing before it can go into our systems. But I bet these guys would dump it in anyway and then be confused when things break.

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 3h

it continues to absolutely boggle my mind how few people realize that refineries in the US Rockies, Plains, Midwest/Great Lakes rely so heavily on millions of barrels of Canadian crude oil *every day* and have since the 1950s

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pietas was, of course, the defining virtue of Rome's legendary ancestor-hero Aeneas. Vergil, meanwhile, gives the the unique arts of Rome as "to crown peace with laws, to spare in war the humble and to war down the proud" in the Aeneid. These guys are ignorant of the culture they claim to idolize.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I feel the need to note that the Romans don't really present 'power' (potentia, vis) as their chief virtue. Instead, the Romans were "always harping on fides ['faith, trust']" (Dioc. Sic. 23.1); Cicero gives the virtue where Rome surpasses others as pietas (piety, Cic. Har. resp. 9.19).

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Oxahath (He/Him) @oxahath.bsky.social · 2h

The problem with this decentralized approach to moderation is that people, by and large, suck at it even if the protocol supports it. Throwing your hands up and going "well, we gave you all the tools. It's up to you now." ignores how most people actually behave.

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Lydz II @lydzmrose.bsky.social · 10h

Saying you can threaten trans people with camps? That’s fine. Telling the hard of trust and safety that there’s been an uptick in this behavior and telling him he’s to blame? Verboten, you’re suspended. Fuck this platform.

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For context here, a user was responding in a thread to other users (unrelated to the original post) when they used the phrase
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Are they threatening trans users directly?
No. Trans folks in the US have been targeted repeatedly. That's awful and you have my sympathy.
Within the context of a single post we wouldn't consider it a direct threat or targeting a protected category. le send trans folks to concentration camps.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

OPERATION: ALBATROSS is off to a roaring start.

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Oxahath (He/Him) @oxahath.bsky.social · 6h

This is a great example of why it's a bad idea for dems to give an inch and accept Republican framing about issues like this. Piker isn't popular and neither are trans people. But the number of people who make voting decisions based on their hatred of either is, statistically, zero.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Weird, it's like all of us who kept saying this was a non-issue and Democrats should just ignore the attacks were ... right?

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 22h

👇🏼!!!!

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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 21h

We have lethal injection because the old ways were too gruesome, required too direct of a confrontation with our societal bloodlust, and were anachronisms in an era where technology abstracts us away from the violence we commit.

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Oxahath (He/Him) @oxahath.bsky.social · 18h

They were 100% trying to spook Smith into making a mistake on camera. It doesn't matter if the accusation is a lie, if it makes the witness embarrass themselves on stand. A reasonable, if shameless strategy, but you need to have someone who isn't a witless, emotional clown to pull it off...

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Oxahath (He/Him) @oxahath.bsky.social · 19h

I wish I loved anything as much as right-wingers love pretending to not know how words work. Also, note the echo of the trope of "I find your choices confusing, so therefore they must be an attack on me, personally or are part of some Machiavellian scheme against 'normal' people."

Comment left by someone pretending to be very confused/amused at my inclusion of my pronouns. Redacted for privacy. The text reads:

"I’m not the one triggered here mr or ms they/them. i am curious though, are you an actual he/him? Or just pretending to be? Sharing your pronouns unprompted makes it so confusing"

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Oxahath (He/Him) @oxahath.bsky.social · 19h

In fairness, the Crusades were marked mostly by self-sabotage, intrigue, and losing wars to Muslims so he's doing a bang-up job so far.

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Oxahath (He/Him) @oxahath.bsky.social · 19h

Oh look, another snake Trans people had dead to rights years ago but were told they were "overreacting" and "purity-testing." Newsflash, assholes. If a candidate is willing to be a bad person for votes they're a bad candidate.

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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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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 01/10/2026

if you are a republican vp and you’re pulling the fire alarm about fucking idaho before the first day of october, you are in very, very bad shape

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Oxahath (He/Him) @oxahath.bsky.social · 22h

I don't miss the office or socializing in a professional context. But I do miss not being able to explore the neighborhood a bit at lunch. My last physical office was in Uptown in the Twin Cities and there were so many good restaurants within a quick walk.

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Oxahath (He/Him) @oxahath.bsky.social · 22h

So, I don't think the programming industry is doomed. But I do think we're about to go through Some Shit. And I'm not even talking about AI. I think video games are the first signal that the "software mega-corp" is an unsustainable business model.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This would come across a lot better if he hadn’t just lost a war.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/10/2026

Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble

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Clear Spies 🪬 @clearspies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh my GOD. THIS IS AWFUL.

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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I had a few comments to make.

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Oxahath (He/Him) @oxahath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My favorite thing about AI boosters os that they will enumerate all the reasons betting on AI is a stupid decision no one likes and then go spend approximately infinity dollars doing it anyway.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

a lot of dodge charger repossessions in the coming months

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23/09/2026

Fidelity’s Director of Global Macro saying that the AI trade has been “dead money” for three months, and that it’s inflationary, meaning (as I’ve discussed multiple times) that the more debt they raise the more expensive debt becomes and the more they build data centers the more expensive it gets

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On the Al front, the trade has been dead money for more than 3 months now. The metrics I am following (token expenditures and GPU lease rates) are all flat to down. The price of memory (DRAM) seems to be the only thing that is still going up.
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Oxahath (He/Him) @oxahath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Microsoft is maybe one of the best examples of the cancer killing American corporations large and small: the modern managerial class is wholly divorced from what their products *are*, why people pay for them, and the physical realities of production of making them in the first place.

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Oxahath (He/Him) @oxahath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Newsom is never going to be President and everyone can see that but him, apparently. In an election cycle where Dem voters are out for blood his instincts say "surrender" instead. Just an all-time nothing of a candidate.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Co-founder of Anthropic accidentally argues the only people with sufficient brainpower to "think through the response to the situation" are AI haters. 😂 And he's just wrong: if you want to understand "the situation" with LLMs, "stochastic parrots" will point you the right way. "AGI" won't. /1

Jack Clark
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"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow

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Oxahath (He/Him) @oxahath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I assume this just means the actors will be speaking the Early Modern form of English the plays are written in with the original pronunciation and not the millennia-dead Anglic dialect which people typically mean by "Old English."

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O @omagus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Like @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social said, Mamdani just pushed the button.

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Oxahath (He/Him) @oxahath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wished I loved anything as much as American corporations love finding money-printing factories and then burning them to the ground because they decided they weren't printing quite enough money.

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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Jordan Kay and Will Stancil proving here that no AI boosters actually understand how LLMs work.

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Oxahath (He/Him) @oxahath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Do you want guillotines? Because this is how you get guillotines.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Isn’t it funny that Dolly Parton, the singer and actress, will be known and remembered as a huge champion for improving the literacy of children, and JKR, the author of children’s books, will be known as a transphobe.

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Oxahath (He/Him) @oxahath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

So, the Dems are once again accepting and amplifying the bad-faith Republican framing of an issue. In this case, Hasan Piker. However, much to the dismay of both his fans and his haters, I strongly doubt anyone can make the normies know or care about the drama of a fucking Twitch streamer.

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Oxahath (He/Him) @oxahath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

They say celebrity deaths come in threes. I can think of a third 80-year-old celebrity who's also been in visibly poor health lately...

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Jake Lang continues to be Having A Bad Time. I think that's nice.

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Erika is still using women's toilets 🖕(she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erristarling.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

WE FUCKING TOLD YOU that them coming after trans people in sports was a step towards getting rid of women's sports They're fucking telling you thats their goal and we still get called crazy for saying it

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She didn't spend a dime on a dick-shaped rocket to space or yet another fancy building at Harvard and her legacy will long outlive anyone who blew their cash on those.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/08/2026

Man standing in front of big neon sign that says “is that good?” As the crowd chants the same. Art by Mattie lubchansky

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Oxahath (He/Him) @oxahath.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The only viable response to this is "Okay, go ahead then."

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