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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

smart piece from @ryanlcooper.com on ‘dual class’ shares, why we should get rid of them, and how we can prospect.org/2026/09/30/h...

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Here’s a Way to Stop Silicon Valley Megalomania - The American Prospect

‘Dual class’ shares are a fraud on the public market.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 23h

If that had happened to me, I would have assumed I was being carjacked.

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

there is a deep moral and social rot in rural and red state america and people pointing it out are not the cause of it

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ceej @ceej.online · 05/10/2026

we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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laura - yscmab out now on steam!! @freezydorito.lol · 03/10/2026

movie about a time traveler going back to 1999 to convince everybody working in y2k prevention to just let the computers die

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David @dchandler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I worked in a small town computer store circa 2003, we called this stuff "malware," and most of our customers paid us to get it off their machines. They just remade BonzaiBuddy while telling us it's good now.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

every racist bigot ever

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

everyone doing the “are the robots alive?” discourse should have their computers taken away and be locked in a buffalo wild wings until they can learn to be normal

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.

Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ET

As the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"It's mind-boggling" is actually fully delusional.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI will never be able to make art. Thanks.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 01/10/2026

it kind of feels worth pointing out that Yud and Yarvin are the exact same archetype of insufferable nerd in this regard. the game is stacking esotericism until the only people that can understand it have the sunk cost of trying to understand it. most sane people will peace out before then.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026

"Dual-class shares should be banned outright, or even better, heavily taxed in proportion to their control over the company." prospect.org/2026/09/30/h...

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Here’s a Way to Stop Silicon Valley Megalomania - The American Prospect

‘Dual class’ shares are a fraud on the public market.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this

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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What I picture when people say escrow

The cool S design people used to draw in school with crow wings

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What if every mayor and member of every city council was a Mamdani type? Every governor and member of every state legislature? Every member of Congress? Every president? Like just think about that for a minute. Every elected official just doing stuff people want instead of being crappy.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026

I think this is entirely correct.

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 27/09/2026

Apropos of nothing, but I see via LinkedIn that the same people who were my counterparts / antagonists at Meta who were there to pay lip service to ethics while trying to prevent the company being held accountable for genocide are now at the Frontier Labs.

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ceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026

the tech titan backlash to “woke dei hr ladies” makes a lot more sense now huh

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Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stop trying to make Rahm happen.

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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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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

These guys are *so fucking cooked* by their wealth that they literally forget that important life skills exist. Not a goddamn one of them could safely make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Honestly, the small but steady stream of "some company committed a crime against you, again, here's your $7.42" is one of the most weird and unexpected aspects of living in America for me.

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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 24/09/2026

Using AI to do a crime does not absolve you of criminality. AI is just a computer program. It's already illegal to use computers to do crimes. Even other people's computers. Furthermore, AI is unnecessarily unsafe; using it to "accidentally" commit a crime should add charges of criminal negligence.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

going insane because you traveled interdimensionally or met aliens or met god is understandable. but going insane because you used a computer chat program is just embarrassing

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

But I cannot stress enough: we have spent decades de-prioritizing and defunding the humanities broadly in secondary and post-secondary education and then we're all surprised-Pikachu-face when we are suffering from systematic leadership failures in exactly those skills and knowledge domains.

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spooky cannoli @boner.ink · 23/09/2026

is every ad gambling now, like do other companies even advertise anymore or has the economy completed its transformation into casino

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.

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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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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They used to throw the long review process back at us all the time. "It has taken 472 days for this project to get approval since we first submitted it." Yeah, and how many of those days were us sending it back to you because you fucked up the application?

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A work of art, including the finer points of (a) 60 Minutes, which was mutilated by conservative Republicans and (b) the cowboy hat, which for 50+ years has symbolized faux-self-reliance subsidized by an intricate web of government policies.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable

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R.S.Knight @rsgreen30.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So much of the normie American left and media has no idea how in love Evangelicals are with the end of the world. How much they want it to happen

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When you hear a fantastical story about AI, you should ask yourself, "How does this serve the political project of AI?" Because, as others have pointed out, that's what AI really amounts to: a political project.

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's strange how Democratic Socialists - who are being denounced by both parties - turned major deficits into balanced budgets in both New York and Seattle.

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Scott 𐚁 🦇 Cave 🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

it is an empowering political thought technology to acknowledge that federal land is *our* land, but really the whole federal apparatus is ours

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone.

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