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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

this one actually made it into the @newyorker.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 31/08/2026

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Perhaps it has been his guilty conscience regarding his position at MIT along with a hubristic overestimation of his own capacity for individually grasping the essence of any global matter that led Chomsky to saddle himself with the task of producing counter-propaganda rather than searching for truth; perhaps it was the idea of himself as an American statesman trying to advise policy rather than an international organizer that led him to prioritize a friendship with someone who could provide access to figures like Ehud Barak and Steve Bannon over consideration for his victims. Whatever the case, Chomsky’s lasting legacy will be the impressive feat of having combined the worst aspects of just about every leftist and progressive tendency: anarchists’ lack of economic theory and class analysis, Marxist-Leninists’ defense of state atrocities and insistence on viewing politics as a global chessboard, and liberals’ elitist disdain for the masses’ ability to be trusted with interpreting information.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 26/08/2026

Facebook directly enabled the Rohingya genocide. Every executive involved in running the company today chose to work at a company that directly enabled those deaths. Compared to that, it is _nothing_ for their products to cause your children harm. Billions for a settlement is a pittance.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tremendous “Adult Content” warning here

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Stephen Kane @exocytherean.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Turning a planet into Venus needs consideration of the whole planetary energy history. My new paper with Emma Miles discusses Venus analogs as an evolutionary energy-budget problem: tidal heating + pre-main-sequence irradiation can seal a planet's fate. arxiv.org/abs/2608.18290

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Geoff A. @pseudonymice.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If a sitting Supreme Court Justice is writing that a decision "lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating," I think there may be grounds to freak out a bit, actually. She's a pretty sharp legal analyst, too.

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🤔 I really wish more of the discourse around Cofnas, Yarvin, Musk, Thiel etc and their successful lynching of a Black academic would refer to @quinnslobodian.com's "Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right" tracing Silicon Valley's route from Ayn Rand to 'race science.'

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 23/08/2026

there's a pathology broadly in the engineering discipline (maybe exclusive to the US/west, i can't speak on that) that encourages this kind of transgressive behavior where engineers find space between "anti-social" and "enforceably illegal" and basically fester and metastasize in that space

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

For fucking years, people of every marginalization have yelled that a person is never just one kind of bigot. And now the Cofnas support letter, signed by notorious transphobes and sexual predators and eugenicists, proving their point once again. You'd think at some point people would listen.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Populations, in a genetic sense, are not "races" in the racialist sense, no matter how much the new scientific racists try to elide the two. That's the most important thing to remember when they start in on the topic.

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m@thew @tweetpotato314.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

coworker told me about how when he was a kid he was digging holes in his backyard looking for dinosaur bones but only found part of an old cowboy boot before his mom made him stop she said he was tearing up the yard but it sounds to me like she murdered a cowboy

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

These marathons were one of his defining achievements. And the British media pretended there was no evidence they happened. That it was just something he 'claimed' to have done... Now try and tell me their hounding was about "getting to the truth" RIP Jason 😢 26/26

Jason at the end of his final marathon surrounded by supporters

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Also it is important to highlight the letter leads with the fact Nathan Cofnas is committing academic fraud by instead of working on what he was hired to do, he is working on race science and his revolution.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026

Friends, have you seen the investigation on UK students hiring Kenyans to write their papers & dissertations? I assume it wasn't cross Atlantic news as the media only seems to be interested in laundering eugenics to the mainstream. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students

Highly educated Kenyans working for essay mills ghostwrite academic work that students pass off as their own

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Ann Edahl @ann-edahl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Excel: It’s January 2

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In 2026 alone, there have been at least 35 deaths linked to federal immigration agencies. We consulted multiple lawyers, an immigration group, and the Consulate of Mexico to create a guide we hope you never need. The full story: lataco.com/federal-immi... By @chularadio.bsky.social

An illustration of an ICE agent standing behind lines of yellow police tape.

Headline reads “What to Do If a Federal Immigration Agency Kills Your Loved One”

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026

AI RANT (cont’d) The most troubling thing about this is, Originality AI is apparently used by agents & publishers alike. Dear agents and publishers, PLEASE DO NOT FORGET: AI “detectors” are slop machines same as the slop machines whose output they purport to analyze. 🧵4/5

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Geoff A. @pseudonymice.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One thing that looms large to me in the tragedy surrounding Prof. Arday is the lack of any formal concept akin to "legal standing" for quasi-judicial proceedings run by the private sector. To access a Court, you must first show your own right to contest a wrong. www.law.cornell.edu/wex/Standing

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Standing, or locus standi, is the capacity of a party to bring a lawsuit in court. To have standing, a party must demonstrate a sufficient connection to and harm from the law or action being challenge...

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Because social media is a narcissistic enterprise, I can sense people disengaging on this topic. "I don't fall for the scams, thus it doesn't matter" is the reaction. It does matter. You know why it's hard to get people to care about Trump's corruption? They see Democrats as scammers, too.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The architecture of anti-trans panic is built, in part, by parents who refuse to accept their kids as trans and then become anti-trans pundits. Wrote about this phenomenon via a profile of Renton Sinclair, the trans son of an anti-trans influencer www.huffpost.com/entry/trans-...

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He’s The Trans Son Of An Anti-Trans Influencer. It’s His Turn To Speak.

Renton Sinclair’s mother is a former Miss Illinois who wants to force trans people out of public life. That’s exactly what makes her a rising star in MAGA World.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Against that background, it is utterly obtuse for anyone who considers themselves even vaguely progressive to continue spending their time dwelling on “woke excesses” in the year of our lord twenty twenty six. This is facile, unserious behaviour, betraying deep naivety, at best 5/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/08/2026

Absolutely vile framing from the @nytimes.com. Why doesn’t this leave behind hard questions for the media that hounded him? Or the global right-wing that gleefully turned a local matter into an international incident?

“Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring”

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Eaton Fire survivors are asking @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and the CA legislature to oppose any bailout of the utilities. These for-profit companies make billions, and don't need protection from the consequences of their neglect and failure. And especially not by taking from survivors. #dearnewsom

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

But journalism seems stuck in a mid-twentieth-century model of Senators as only loosely affiliated with party, mostly going solo. Reinforcing this illusion is, truly, journalistic malpractice in 2026. It's a partisan chamber—with partisan rules. Your audience deserves to understand how it works.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

BREAKING: two of the SF gay bars that were using facial recognition ID checks just issued a statement saying they're going to stop after a major article about our artist boycott campaign. Big win!

“We have heard the concerns regarding the use of PatronScan at Badlands and Toad Hall in San Francisco, and we are listening. Effective immediately, we are pausing the use of PatronScan while we review our ID verification and security practices,” said Brian Aranda, director of operations at both bars. “The safety of our guests and staff remains a priority, as do privacy and trust“Our security teams will continue to thoroughly check IDs manually during this time. We appreciate everyone who has shared their concerns and remain committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for all.”

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 06/08/2026

The Trans Journalist Association has a style guide the @startribune.com can check if they're unsure how to talk about a transgender person: styleguide.transjournalists.org If your journalist isn't competent to handle a trans subject, they need to be trained. It's ridiculous that this is happening.

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Trans Journalists Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide

The Transgender Journalists Association’s Stylebook and Coverage Guide is a tool reporters, editors, and other journalists can use to improve news coverage of trans people and the stories that affect ...

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Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 07/08/2026

Helpful rule of thumb: Good criticism is about how well you did what you were trying to do. Bad criticism is about whether you should be doing what you were trying to do.

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

These scenes worked because everyone knew the story. They recognized features & could 'read it' But we also have art of lost myths This one's famous: Ajax & Achilles playing dice on the beach at Troy. This fun scene shows up hundreds of times. It was popular! But it's not in surviving texts. /10

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I lived through one in Guatemala. The thing about civil war is that it empowers the very WORST dregs of society. They come out of the woodwork once civil rules have broken down. And it means that good people wind up dead in the ditch with their hands zip tied and plastic bags over their heads.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Just because a moral panic is bullshit doesn't mean its consequences aren't real. Trans people are dying. Trans children are dying. People are uprooting their entire lives and moving states, moving countries. This horror is everywhere and it's not stopping. If anything the evil side is winning.

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Christiaan Paauwe @christiaanpaauwe.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Last night showed again #Ukraine ’s growing vulnerability to #ballistic missiles. According to Ukraine's Air Force, only 1 of 27 ballistic missiles was intercepted. The shortage of interceptors is often mentioned, but that's not the only problem. Some observations from my reporting this week:

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

“Let us engage in a thought experiment: what if the US suddenly annexed Greenland and Morocco annexed Ceuta and Melilla simultaneously, mirroring Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea? What would the EU do? 7/

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Just a reminder, after a week full of scoops and general insanity at Seattle City Hall, that my work is funded directly and entirely by reader contributions and subscriptions. LOTS of options here, from newsletter subscriptions to one-time donations to my physical address, for checks!

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ergopraxis @ergopraxis.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

If you issue an apology whenever a rights-infringing organisation, movement or state objects to your research output pointing out their character as a rights-infringing actor, you might as well close up shop, because that's always going to happen, so you'll never be able to oppose any of them!

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Geoff A. @pseudonymice.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I wonder if the guys who sincerely believe they will buy eternal life by jacking hardware into their brains and harvesting organs from their own clones are worried about the condition of the world they're leaving for future generations. 🤔

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

i'm sure you know this but the "freelance isn't free" law applies if the publication is located in NY. you as the writer don't have to be in NY. i believe it is worthwhile to file because i was told that they will watch how many get filed against individual outlets.

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 31/07/2026

this is my new favorite diagram

Brachiosaurus projectile vomiting: forces generated and resulting traces
Assuming 50 kg (110 Ibs) of regurgitant, impact velocity from 14 m (45 ft) height, and hard-packed sand as impact site.
h = 14 m (45 ft)
Impact velocity = V = V 2gh = 16.6 m/s; kinetic energy before impact = 6,860 J
Average impact force = 68,600 N

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

it is very important that we have independent media and I am again tapping the sign for you to find billionaire free, worker run news to support how and when you are able

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 28/07/2026

This really isn’t the app that I use for my fitness hobbies, but there is a major Nazi scandal going on in the powerlifting world right now where one of the beastiest (laudatory) women powerlifters in the world (Sonita Muluh) got robbed of a world record squat (over 700lbs) by a spotter

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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

As polling gets worse, expect more "digital twin" proposals...which essentially cede epistemic power to whoever designs the simulation.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors

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maddie davis @maddiebb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

thanks for joining my livestream

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