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It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 12h

Hey @colorado.gov, you proud of your legacy here? What a fucking disgrace.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

Who could’ve have foreseen Kim Guilfoyle would go on a grifting and crime spree after Trump named her as Ambassador to Greece to get her out of the country after Junior hooked up with a younger woman?

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

10 years ago today GOP Sen. Mike Lee: “If anyone spoke to my wife, or my daughter…the way Mr Trump has spoken to women, I wouldn’t hire that person, wouldn’t want to be associated with that person, and I certainly don’t think I’d be comfortable hiring that person to be the leader of the free world”

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22h

What a healthy democracy we have.

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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just Tom DeLonge soaking it in as all of Petco Park loudly sings along to one of his songs

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Jacob Wolf Lefton @watermosaic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Art SOOTHES PAIN! Art is for KITCHENS! ART IS LIKE GOOD BREAD! ART IS CHEAP!

the why cheap art? manifesto
People have been thinking too long that art is a privilege of the museums & the rich. Art is not a business!
It does not belong to banks & fancy investors
Art is food. You can't eat it but it feeds you. Art has to be cheap & available to everybody. It needs to be everywhere because it is inside of the world.
Art soothes pain!
Art wakes up sleepers!
Art fights against war & stupidity!
Art sings halleluja!
Art is for kitchens!
Art is like good bread!
Art is like green trees!
Art is like white clouds in blue sky!
Art is cheap!
Hurrah!
Bread & Puppet Glover, Vermont 1984

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/10/2026

no....no!!!!!

lowly worm is now driving the trolley problem trolley :(

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Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

there were signs

It’s actually pronounced ephebophilia, Chris Rock, Public Masturbator

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Me when my parents rented DEEP IMPACT from Blockbuster

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh brother.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The funding imbalance in American politics is just astounding. Running a homeless shelter? Sorry, your last 50k grant just ran out and now your lights are off. Want to start a podcast for racists who eat paint? Here's $50 million, no strings, go have fun.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 02/10/2026

Still the absolute funniest "trailer remix" ever made -- as well as one of the very first of its kind, debuting in 2005 Every shot is perfectly chosen God I could watch this all day

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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gonna be really, really honest here tonight: the men should take a beat and sit out the Cornell conversation for a couple of days. Yes, even the good guys. Because I'm seeing well-meaning but terrible takes about it.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos"

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you're wondering why schools like Cornell sweep this shit under the rug it's because they are afraid of opening up the rape and sexual assault can of worms at a place where the faculty itself is often packed with pedos and perverts

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why does he look like a racist marionette

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

CLAYFACE (2026)

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's hard to believe that this is real.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Catherine Herridge, everybody.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On February 3, 2024, Special Counsel Jack Smith watched Caitlin Clark drop 38 points, 12 assists, and 6 boards in College Park, MD. The Republicans in the U.S. Senate seem to think this happened in Atlanta, GA (which also has a suburb called College Park). Rookies. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies.

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026

If you're not from Western Mass, you will completely miss the dynamic that the Greater Boston area has been exploiting the western part of the state since literally the founding of the country. The Globe writes these stories about WM and the Pioneer Valley on a regular basis.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Vivek Ramaswamy: When was the last time that Amy Acton gave you an opportunity to do what we're doing today? Reporters: Yesterday

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tommy Tuberville: Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. It's terrifying.

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Susan of Texas @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Let’s ask his sister.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026

Big names in AI and Silicon Valley tech announced yesterday that they're launching a boarding academy for 16 to 22 year olds. (Would you trust the people in this scene with keeping an eye on minors?) theacademysf.com

Thrilled to announce our latest incubation: Horowitz Andreessen Academy.

Horowitz Andreessen Academy will be a two-year residential program in San Francisco for 16 to 22 year olds.

My biggest regret from my college experience is how divorced it was from the real world (both practically but also intellectually)

HAA is the opposite. Students will learn from real-world practitioners and intellectuals; including founders (Sam Altman, Brian Armstrong, Jensen Huang), investors (Elad Gil, Daniel Gross), and professors (Agnes Callard, Tyler Cowen), among hundreds of others. The Academy is the educational experience I wish I had.

In 1984, the educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom published a paper about how the average student who received one-on-one tutoring focused on mastery techniques performed better than 98% of the control group. For generations, this was viewed as unrealistic to implement even if it produced the best outcomes.

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Rob Pilkington @robpilk.com · 22/09/2026

weird day to be worried about state-run tv, gavin!

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They should do an animated version of Moana.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/09/2026

Well, *fuck*. California AG Rob Bonta just surrendered to the Trump-aligned billionaires who want to take over and destroy Warners, merging it with the chudded-out husk of Paramount, leaving these two corrupt assholes to control Warners, Paramount *and* Tiktok: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

The Warner Brothers tower. It has been tinted orange and is leaning at a 30-40' angle. It is surmounted by Trump's hair. The tower is wavering. The background is ominous, red-tinged clouds, through which peek a marching army of banner-waving demons.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

President Trump is 0-2 against pools.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Gonna put all the scary shit in one thread here so we can connect the dots as to how they're gonna use Mechahitler which has all of our data. Here's Eric Schmidt testing military AI drones in Silicon Valley

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Eric Schmidt Hires from Apple, SpaceX and Google For Drone Project

After founding the secretive military drone company White Stork last year, the former Google CEO has also begun testing prototypes with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2026

Ed Elson says the government should subpoena OpenAI and Anthropic and demand the evidence behind their alarming claims: “You’ve just said something very, very serious… Show us the evidence.” Full episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ole Miss fans went with a variety of chants for Lane Kiffin.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

remembering again when Jake Tapper loudly stuck up for Fox News when the Obama administration moved their chair in the briefing room to the second row

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