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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 2h
haha, well, that's something to think about www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Pete Hegseth's 'Warfighter' Crusade Isn't About Killing
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has prioritized eradicating "woke" from the military, and making sure no one questions Trump's orders.
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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 4h
this is the weirdest little news item with a headline I will quote word for word since it seems fully unsupported and thus primed to disappear at any moment: "U.S. distances itself from Quebec election as PQ denies courting Washington" montrealgazette.com/news/u-s-dis...
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U.S. distances itself from Quebec election as PQ denies courting Washington
The U.S. State Department declines to identify which U.S. officials the party had allegedly sought to meet.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 19h
TIL - In Brazil, voting is mandatory for those over 18 years old and optional for those over 70 years old. Young people aged 16 and 17 can also vote, but are not required to go to the polls. g1.globo.com/politica/not...
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Eleições 2026: 158 milhões de brasileiros votam neste domingo | G1
A votação das Eleições 2026 define cargos federais e estaduais em todo o país, com início da divulgação dos resultados oficiais a partir das 17h deste domingo.
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Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"People are calling me all kinds of things: a thief, a murderer, a communist, well I'm here to set the record straight: I've never been a communist."
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 20h
lmao you did it Jane
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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 21h
LRP: Like, figuring out that economics isn't the above average bowlers league and a magazine taking that as its only name is probably going to be dissembling at best is not exactly the most crisp original thought,
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
I suppose in the same way that eugenics was also the "biggest idea"?
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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
lol, lmao
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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liz ten eleven @selectric.space · 02/10/2026
inventing "the failures of british rail privatisation" from first principles, except with the actual GPUs instead of the actual trains
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The saddest girl to ever hold a martini @lifeisterrible.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
high schoolers in france have more grit and bravery than our entire country
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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
like even beyond the betteridge's law implication here, the degree of subsidies proposed, and not just in isolation but after saying this was a project he would only endorse with private sector partners on board which never materialized, are their own answer www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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Opinion: Is it really a good idea for the government to subsidize a pipeline?
Designating the West Coast pipeline as a project of national interest exposes a global reality: Fossil fuels haven’t just lost to clean energy – they’ve already lost
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He just like me FR
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Yooberz 🍤 @yooberz.postes.club · 01/10/2026
this creature has no idea what's happening
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Antonio Bachis @antoniobachis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(I read now the conference is rescheduled for June 2027, guys you do seem to expect A LOT from midterm elections)
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Antonio Bachis @antoniobachis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today I was informed that an worldwide customers conference I had to attend in US this month has been canceled because most of the attendees could not get their visa. Quite difficult for the US company organizing it to show they the right business partner if you are not welcome in their country.
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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"i don't know, we only control both houses, how could we pause the fuel tax? but wait, what's that? i don't know about you but it looks like the taxman is getting very sleepy..." - president grandpa, probably
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I swear to god I want this fucking podcast to be about something other than the American century of humiliation but we have to stop humiliating ourselves for ONE WEEK for that to happen
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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
at best "this isn't specifically coming from the design staff" isn't the "everything is ok" message you nerds seem to think it is. its not a smoking gun either, its just not an "everything is ok" message. have a backup plan hobby-wise is all I'm saying. thats just good advice in today's day and age.
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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LRP x2: and like... talk to any llm chatbot to try to identify a piece of music even the most superficially and they're just absolute dogshit at it, it's like a whole area of human knowledge they are completely cut off from
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
oh, did Claude invent an algorithm to recommend music based on the music you like is it different from what Spotify and Pandora and every other streaming music app has already been doing is it worth the absolutely ludicrous amount of money they spent developing it
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school
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Dan @danielorton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every time Falco is mentioned I just end up thinking about how he has the best grave ever. It has a list of his hits on it! It’s so extra, I love it.
Falco’s amazing grave.
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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LRP x2: It's a bit funny, since the first one to jump out at me besides whatever postmedia outlet is policy options, which is... well where would one say it sits politically
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How a fake AI columnist duped Canadian media outlets. Daniel Robson almost became a budding star in Canadian conservative media. There was just one problem: He doesn't exist, by @ilkersezer.bsky.social www.turkiyetoday.com/world/exclus... via @turkiyetoday.bsky.social @perreaux.bsky.social
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Exclusive—Fake AI columnist dupes Canadian press to target Moroccan dissidents, and a Turkish 'middleman' - Türkiye Today
The phantom writer communicated exclusively via email and rarely phoned Canadian publications, who were oblivious until Türkiye Today unraveled the matter
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Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For those who were wondering « why would someone go to that trouble » in the matter of my unidentified writer. www.turkiyetoday.com/world/exclus...
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Exclusive—Fake AI columnist dupes Canadian press to target Moroccan dissidents, and a Turkish 'middleman' - Türkiye Today
The phantom writer communicated exclusively via email and rarely phoned Canadian publications, who were oblivious until Türkiye Today unraveled the matter
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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LRP: alol. and yet they did it and some institutions work and some do not. huh. and like do people not understand defence in depth? like we objectively don't need doomsday weapons in a way that doesn't apply to, like, municipal water systems
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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I react very poorly when any proposed policy or plan is met with "but what if someone like Trump gets hold of it?? then it would be not good, but very bad" because there really is no law or institution that can work when a population is willing to elect the stupidest, worst asshole alive
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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"It was manly due to the sales of the ps2 since at that it was both cheaper than a dvd player AND you could play games on it " this isn't the first time i've seen such a claim but I never get if it's a troll or some kind of special rube
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Americans now assume that hockey itself possesses its own potent eroticism?
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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LRP x2: this. honestly reading about it second hand my whole life and this weird idea that you have to join some kind of student quasi secret society at a school to have good youth clubs sounds, for lack of a better word, sort of soviet?
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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 30/09/2026
being Canadian and reading about american university experiences is wild because not only did my school not have any greek system, we didn't have a football team and we didn't have any big doins for homecoming.
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Greek life has so many drawbacks, and all of the benefits it offers are things that are already available through joining regular student orgs plus having friends. You can skip all the hazing and Epstein style conspiracy coverups by just renting a janky house off campus w your buddies senior yr
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...
Is this how you want to go out, with a show that gets smaller and smaller until it’s gone?

Maybe that’s O.K. I think you have more of a problem with that than I do. [Laughs.] At this point in my career, I could go out with a grand, 21-gun salute, and climb into a rocket and the entire Supreme Court walks out and they jointly press a button, I’m shot up into the air and there’s an explosion and it’s orange and it spells, “Good night and God love.” In this culture? Two years later, it’s going to be, who’s Conan? This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.

You’re right, that does sound grim.

Sorry. Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I’ve been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I’m the only late-night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge’s grave. I think that’s what separates me from the other hosts.

I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.
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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
questions are being raised by con artists at these two-bit newspapers
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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is true; but let's say anybody of sufficiently good character hit the road long time ago
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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
how should i put this: in the perpetual discussion about civility or not being a jerk or whatever you want to call it, context matters; there is a difference between somebody running for mayor in a major city and some random "online leftist"
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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
LRP: that's a good one for the "no, my advice is only intended for other people to follow, i never take it myself" types going off about the alternative right now
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 27/09/2026
Wow!!
In the current moment of rising extremism, not all polarization is equivalent nor undesirable. Historical experience underscores this asymmetry. Normative appeals to civility and harmony, when applied indiscriminately, can obscure the moral distinction between domination and resistance—condemning confrontational opposition even in contexts where democratic survival or basic human dignity is at stake. Under conditions of systematic persecution, conflict is not a pathology of democracy but one of the few remaining mechanisms through which injustice can be resisted.
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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
LRP: Honestly I've had "an llc can never be held accountable, therefore an llc must never make a business decision" rattling around in my brain for a while
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
LRP: But to the point of that specific repost, which is about this sort of social media site: the individual post gets slammed in somebody's face, with the context literally buried, and people are going to respond how they respond
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 26/09/2026
this is so real and anyone with more than 5k followers on this website can attest to it
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Bengineering @bengineeringtv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I never could have imagined both my children would have to battle
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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just in general, context is a two-way street. If you're reading a "comment", did the person who wrote it literally frame it as a reply, or is it just something they typed into a box present at all times with a placeholder like "what are your thoughts?"
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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Those amazon things are what I call not even bad UX: if they figure they're going to get users to surreptitiously generate product summaries, they've got the right UX for that,
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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Those Amazon review things don't make clear that they're going to post it for others; it's pretty bad UX. I suspect most people just assume it's like the satisfaction surveys you get at the grocery store -- just gonna be numbers that get aggregated, not taking your response and posting it verbatim.
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