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One obvious problem with this is that by statute the Medal of Honor can only be awarded to service members? It's a military decoration?

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think the real finding here is that Americans don't know what "living paycheck to paycheck" means.

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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“‘Choosin’ Texas’? Ha, no pardner, I’m Choosin’ TAXES. Howdy, I’m Big Jim Medlock and I’m here to tell you how the social democratic welf

James Medlock (really Karl Polyani) wearing a cowboy hat

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gf got a Kalshi ad on Instagram and like 90% of the comments are some variation of "the Jews did this". Bleak on so many levels.

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Moser makes a pretty watch

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Marvel's Wolverine is cool because there's a boss fight in a small arena where you can just fall into lava, die, and have to restart the fight over. Good game design (this game sucks).

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I didn't expect Will to be physicalism-pilled but I'm glad he is.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.

According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We out in the woods on some Blair Witch shit

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm not sure why everyone is reading this as "this WAS the guy you wanted during the election"? Seems very plausible that he means "this guy is doing what you want politicians to do NOW", which, rightly or wrongly, is a very different thing.

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is all true, but I just want to note that you don't have to tax capital income if the state owns the capital...

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I just learned that Inspectah Deck and Method Man have a track with...Tom Hardy?

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Tankies are obviously unserious people but let's try to have a little perspective. There are like a half dozen guys in the Maoist group you're dunking on. They are not "the left".

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Talmud or analytic philosophy

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's maddening that the Auschwitz plaque thing still makes the rounds. The Soviets vastly overestimated the Auschwitz death toll and deemphasized its predominately Jewish character. It does nothing to revise the ~6 million number of total dead down because western historians never took it seriously!

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Current social media ranking. BlueSky ➡️ X ➡️ Facebook ➡️ Serbian Facebook

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is just reminding me how smart and interesting and resonate Star Wars could be in the right hands. Imagine a Tony Gilroy type doing a show set in the post-imperial period where this kind of revisionism is everywhere. But no, we get "somehow, Palpatine has returned" instead.

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's unfortunate that he supports a bunch of slopulist policy trash, but he's better than Neal on net. Can't hate a guy who grew up in Belchertown, where I grew up, and spent a bunch of time at Lord Jeff (where my friend was arrested for underage drinking the day before going into the Navy).

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is the most @keithfrankish.com joke I have ever seen.

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Today we rockin the IWC Mark XVIII.

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Otsuka Lotec No. 8 is really cool and probably the most expensive watch to run a Miyota movement.

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The company I work for recently got a huge order (six figures) from someone we have good reason to believe is using them for AI pre-training. We contacted the publisher (a big company you've heard of) who didn't give a shit. We don't care because we got rid of a ton of garbage inventory.

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I mean, this is not exactly true. Some theories (eg interactionist dualism) have straight-forward empirical implications.

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Fun short-form documentary about the cover of the Deftones album Around the Fur. As someone who grew up listening to that album, skating and reading Big Brother magazine, this hit every nostalgia button: youtu.be/HRSJWM7Q8l8?...

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Tracking Down the Girl on the Deftones’ Album 28 Years Later

YouTube video by jenkemmag

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Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Socialism stands against all imperialism, not just America’s imperialism. We stand against all genocides, all apartheid, all conquest, all exploitation. Foreign policy that rewards peace and punished war will create more peace and less war.

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I think the implication of the "56% of violence against women happens in the home" is that we can solve domestic violence by sleeping outside. Seems implausible, but what do I know.

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Everettians don't emphasize this enough. We should!

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A left that isn't clear-eyed about what its policies entail is either not going to get them at all or watch them crash and burn when the implementation is dogshit.

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Hugh Everett's wife Nancy was the daughter of UMass's first basketball head coach. Did not know that.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

TERFs will claim to be anti-fascist and then be like “oh yeah well SAMUEL ALITO agrees with me so there”

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Was listening to the latest Mindscape AMA on my run and was pleased to hear @seanmcarroll.bsky.social give a fully Lewis-pilled answer about "can relative to what set of facts". Proud of him. Onward to total Lewisian compatibilist victory.

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I can represent how Bluesky users post each day with 45 million points in two dimension space. Or, I can represent it as a single point in a 90 million dimensional space. But it would be a mistake to infer that posting has anything physically to do with a single entity operating in high dimensions.

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Maybe it's just how much distance we have from the worst of the conflict, but there's a real asymmetry in how crazy this seems now. Like, what do you mean a sitting member of congress was fundraising for the fucking IRA?

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Most of these responses are making me question the moral reasoning ability of the typical Bluesky user. The correct answer here is these guys.

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is what living under fascism looks like.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 29/07/2026

Look I don’t mind a bit of Glonzo on data centers but I want to make one thing clear: anyone campaigning against transmission is a climate denialist and/or a wrecker.

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Functional isomorph of Spider-Man made out of spiders is a fun one for the philosophy of mind literature.

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The stuff about Craig and morality is so weird to me because Craig's metaethics are basically Robert Adam's, and Adam is basically doing a supernaturalistic version of Cornell Realism. So like, a non-theistic way to get objective morality is right there!

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Notice how she runs away and wants nothing to do with any of it. Kiara is a physicalist confirmed?

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"people have deep knowledge of what happens in countries that say they are democratic socialist ... for example this non-socialist dictatorship"

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If you read the full quote from the Politico story, the "ogre" here is explicitly Fetterman, not Haley.

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This is right as a general moral principle: you shouldn't lose your rights when you act collectively. The problem is that "corporate personhood" is tied up in a lot of things that are arguably not rights in a moral sense, or not protected under some plausible reading of the constitution.

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This bit from Loewenstein's paper seems obviously wrong to me. I think what intuitive appeal it has is because the description invites readers to smuggle in the very broad set of facts Lewis talks about, but even so, success makes perfect sense relative to a narrow set.

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Sean @quasirealism.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This paper, "The Paradoxes of Time Travel", is my favorite thing David Lewis wrote. I literally think about it once a week or so. Primarily about time travel but applicable to so much more. philpapers.org/archive/LEWT...

philpapers.org

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