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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 13h

"Middle management" means "anyone who has any institutional knowledge or knows how to do anything around here." They can temporarily save on compensation expense and then wonder why nothing works as well any more.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h

The gaps between job roles, job descriptions, and the work people actually do is pretty vast. I don’t mean the work that the procurement person who hires vendors does. I mean the work that people do across orgs.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h

It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 21h

If only there were an entity - for ease of discussion, let’s call them states - with the means to regulate these activities. Oh well, guess I’ll get back to my bunker and await the inevitable, unstoppable killer software.

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 22h

That subhead…”so we’re gonna actively compound it”

FT headline about the RBA raising interest rates to 15 year high. Subhead read: “RBA governor says Iran war has ‘made people poorer’ as central bank seeks to tackle persistent inflation”

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes I remember how a bunch of strategy superstars established a Monitor consulting and how it went spectacularly bankrupt. And I smile a little. Then I remember that Deloitte bought it for $1 and retained the name because business types still saw value in it. And I get a little sad.

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I ever hit the lottery the first thing I’m doing is endowing a chair of “stable operations studies”. Entrepreneurship gets all the glory. Maintainers keep everything going.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is my favourite Borges story.

The Witness by Borges and translated by ANTHONY KERRIGAN

In a stable lying almost in the shadow of the new stone church, a man with
gray eyes and a gray beard, stretched on the ground amidst the animal
odors, meekly seeks death like someone seeking sleep. The day, faithful to
vast secret laws, continuously displaces and confounds the shadows in the
wretched stable. Outside stretch the tilled fields, a deep ditch filled up with
dead leaves, and the tracks of a wolf in the black mud where the woods
begin. The man sleeps and dreams, forgotten. The bells calling to prayer
awake him. In the kingdoms of England, the sound of the bells is already
one of the customs of the afternoon, but the man, while still a boy, had
seen the face of Woden, had seen holy dread and exultation, had seen the
rude wooden idol weighed down with Roman coins and heavy vestments,
seen the sacrifice of horses, dogs, and prisoners. Before dawn he would be
dead and with him would die, never to return, the last firsthand images of
the pagan rites. The world would be poorer when this Saxon was no more.
We may well be astonished by space-filling acts which come to an end
when someone dies, and yet something, or an infinite number of things,
die in each death—unless there is a universal memory, as the theosophists
have conjectured. There was a day in time when the last eyes to see Christ
were closed forever. The battle of Junín and the love of Helen died with
the death of some one man. What will die with me when I die? What
pathetic or frail form will the world lose? Perhaps the voice of Macedonio
Fernandez, the image of a horse in the vacant space at Serrano and
Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?

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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Such a lovely meditation on government service & community

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 28/09/2026

who do I petition to get someone to launch a Tate Morden, to confuse the tourists

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I get why gatekeeping in its negative sense is bad but also it feels an awful lot like gatekeeping in the positive sense was a load bearing pillar of society.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Politics island is outnumbered by the hostile mainland that oppose our way of life. A nuclear deterrent is necessary.

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m getting pro-data center targeted ads on LinkedIn. Terrified to think what combination of boxes I tick to make it into their target audience.

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compost @0alexander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

showing up to a job interview with… an iced coffee ❌ a big bowl of clam chowder and two spoons ✅✅✅

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John @notheotherjohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Dance like no one is watching. Like no one came to your dance recital. Your dad? He completely forgot. How do you feel? No, don't tell me. Show me.

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Using my Covid booster as an excuse to go to bed at 7pm.

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In the history of call centers has there ever been a period of below average call volume? Or even just average?

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Michael Bench-Capon @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Victor Frankstein like oops sorry everyone my guy has gone rogue

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Areallion @areallion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm going to take this as another victory for the "huge dipshit" theory of history. Average people simply do not matter, the spirit of history manifests only through colossal buffoons, titanic fuck ups and, yes - with terrible inevitability - huge dipshits.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 24/09/2026

Reliable observation: Regions of the country that are doing better vote Democratic. Unhealthy politics, unhealthy country. familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/f...

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Four variables that say a lot about the USA today (name the scale)

It’s birth rates, women’s labor force participation, education levels, and average incomes.

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fellow Americans abroad, the team at @demsabroad.bsky.social have partnered with the State Department Federal Credit Union to offer access to US banking from abroad. It’s brilliant! Opened an account this morning. Took about 10 mins. Thanks, @demsabroad.bsky.social!!

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People really need to go back to the original Jurassic Park and look at the rather disturbing ways in which InGen's management of it now looks prescient

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Jukka Rintamäki @jugistoteles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have discovered the worst part of LinkedIn: Adam Grant's comment sections.

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The white hot fury of paying my Thames Water bill (just love servicing a public service’s debt) is only mitigated by doing it with a credit card so those mofos are forced to eat a transaction fee.

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 22/09/2026

now to discover what scaling laws apply to humiliation

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Looking forward to the “super intelligence vs sports illustrated” debates raging at the AHA in 2137.

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Honestly, where was this type of financial education when I was a young man exploring my first mortgage backed CDOs?

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Big Iron @big-iron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

*hearing that my post is blowing up on goonsky* Good! Maybe I'll finally get some decent henchmen around here. *after getting an accurate explanation of what goonsky is* Now it is time for my terrible work to begin, with or without underlings. The world must be destroyed.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Craig Walmsley @craigwalmsley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The higher the price of petrol, the more woke the US becomes.

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Restaurant concept: OGIM—Oh God It’s Monday (“in here, it’s always Monday”), where the menu is whatever was in the fridge from the weekend

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A mostly invisible force shaping politics in the Trump era—esp since 2025—is his ability to summon threats of violence & death against his opponents to such a degree it's become a material factor in political actors' decision making. I think a good term for this is "stochastic brownshirtism."

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Daphna Renan @daphnarenan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Those who wrote the Reconstruction Amendments offered us a path. Pass a law that requires a consensus among the justices before the Court can reject acts of Congress said Bingham. Pass a law that designates our most fundamental statutes political questions beyond the reach of courts said Trumbull.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

All this charming Parks and Rec social media posting from Mamdani when he does competent administrative stuff is only going to make it all the more heartbreaking when he imposes Sharia law 😞

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Having an Alexander moment: wondering what to do with no more drawers to clear, wardrobes to thin, or bookshelves to cull.

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It is the year 2028. JD Vance is polling 73 points behind AOC and her running mate, an AI of Karl Marx’s Collected Works. Gasoline costs 95 RMB a litre in New San Francisco. President Trump is live-streaming a bathroom remodel.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/09/2026

Dad Races Outside To Witness Delivery Of Neighbor’s Mulch theonion.com/dad-races-outside-to-w…

Dad Races Outside To Witness Delivery Of Neighbor’s Mulch
‘That’s Gotta Be 40 Or 50 Cubic Feet,’ He Estimates

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Crazy thing I’ve just discovered: maintenance takes a lot less effort than repair.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/09/2026

I don’t believe in Great Man theory of history but I do believe in Great Dipshit theory

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Couldn’t bring myself to read Lessig’s defense of Francesca Gino but now don’t see a need to go beyond this summary.

Screenshot from Substack where Nils Gilman comments on Lawrence Lessing’s defense essay of Francesca Gino.

“This is a wild argument: given that behavioral science is irrelevant to the real world, why should anyone care that it is sloppy?”

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You know what we really need right now? The opinions of two guys who don’t know anything about AI and who have been wrong about many or all of the most consequential events of the past quarter century. NYT: coming right up!

Opinion
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
It's Already Too Late to Stop the A.l.
Threat
7 MIN READ
BRET STEPHENS
Trump Might Not Be Entirely Wrong
About A.l.
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