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New Orleans beverage merchant and government enthusiast. Currently drinking coffee that is about 15% too light for my taste. Canalify the French Quarter

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 1h
The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 9h
in an older, more innocent time, we had skibidi toilet. now all we have are skibidi taxes. skibidi midterms. skibidi open enrollment period for skibidi health insurance.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026
“sorry, honey, I didn’t think the people obsessed with the weird harry potter fanfic were going to end up running the world, that’s on me”
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 28/09/2026
AI is cursed by its poor offering to portmanteaus, too easily misread as the short version of Alfred, too vowelly to produce a satisfying new sound.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026
You Can Be Anything You Want, Says Fictional Character theonion.com/you-can-be-anything-yo…
You Can Be Anything You Want, Says Fictional Character
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I work at the newspaper and just wrote The Great Awokening is over, I’m both 79 and 12 years old and make 260,000 dollars a year from a man who sent Katy Perry into space on a rocket ship. As you can see, everyone else is the problem.
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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 26/09/2026
It's really comin down out there (civilization)
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why would you bother with being in the EU or NATO when you could be in a free trade and mutual defense pact with 47 other instances of your country in the Quantum France Union (UIQFDMLEQ)under the Traité de Superposition?
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If the AI era has taught us anything, it’s this: it’s fine to judge people based on their aesthetic preferences
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I looked and there is not a single culture on earth that does not have some version of hot sauce that they put on fish, Lynda.
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sam @samthielman.com · 16/03/2026
If I was Barack Obama I would regularly call Donald Trump and say the craziest shit I could think of and then forcefully deny ever having spoken to him
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 18/08/2026
pardon me mis, but is there a mr communication?
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/09/2026
"The central lesson of this cycle is not that Charlie Brown should stop trusting Lucy. It is that Charlie Brown must do a better job explaining why trusting Lucy remains the responsible choice." buff.ly/X2RjqP5
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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party
“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
saying you’re using AI to get out of just remembering this stuff is not a good way to sell it imo like i get that yall think of the working class as an anonymous pile of lumpy brawling illiterates but few of em are as eager to convert to brainlessness as you think they are
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The thing about all these genAI fuckwits like Jensen Huang constantly announcing in public that they don't know basic life skills, is that they are billionaires. They have outsourced *every single* hassle in life. They then attribute their soft babylike life to genAI and not their wealth.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 24/09/2026
Looking at another clipart CD and there is a staggering amount of clipart of "x thing enjoying a beer." Why
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
all these people sound like this:
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DJ @robe-wearer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kinda feels like the judiciary has empowered itself in order to empower Trump (and vice versa obviously), so I’m curious to see how this plays out
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 24/09/2026
Always interesting to make a note of when all the rules for writing headlines are flown out of window following editor-involved-incident regarding how words were to be ordered
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/09/2026
How many Watergates did we have today. Feels like the average is three
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Computer crimes are already illegal. I do not think “we knowingly deployed software we can’t control” is a legitimate defense against break those laws.
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DJ @robe-wearer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Citing a piece entitled “The Vibes Are Very Bad in Texas” as evidence Politico endangered our national security gets a 10/10 from me. Excellent material from the people running the show as usual.
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Andrew Cuomo, through tears : this is marxism
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Mamdani Delivers $131 Million Settlement For DoorDash Drivers
The Mamdani administration said the settlement is the largest labor enforcement action in the city’s history.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026
I for one am tired of the “all of human existence should be quantified into spreadsheets, and things that cannot be quantified should be viewed as irrelevant and useless” faction running everything
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
“Hey you know how you enjoy learning about your kid’s interests and reading to them at night? What if you treated that like a business?”
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is no such thing as art without a human on one end of the line and a human on the other end. In communication with each other.
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There is no such thing as art without a human on one end of the line and a human on the other end. In communication with each other. Like a closed electric circuit (?) I could explain that better but I spent my life appreciating art. There are pieces of writing that stand on their own without any supplementary information but there's a reason that when we read a classic poem or short story we usually soon after want to know when and where and under which conditions it was written. Same with music. You can hear a song you like and appreciate it knowing little but the first question people often ask when you play them something by a new band is where are they from? It’s funny that you should ask because they are from a city that exists. Art is a conversation where the particulars of the world are made universal and the universal is made particular. Think about how powerful an engine of imagination it is for a young person hearing a band and learning that they are from some far off place – Tokyo or New York or even somewhere gross like the UK. It is a time portal. It is magic. It even works if the artist dead. So too with a painting. The little information plaque in the museum is an extraordinarily powerful tool. What if it said no one painted this nowhere? Well then you’d be looking at nothing. And now what would you be?
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have been turning this quote over and over in my head and still can't quite wrap my head around the idea
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...
A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.
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Skip, the Online Raccoon @badposter.lol · 19/09/2026
guys i’m starting to think the american government isn’t always honest with us, in fact, they may even be hiding some things from us
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Going from claiming your company is working on technology that might destroy humanity to leaking you’re on track to generate $100 billion in sales this year, just in time for the IPO. Makes it hard to defend the claims that this hasn’t all been a cynical form of marketing and regulatory capture.
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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.
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DJ @robe-wearer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Average Serious Eats review (complimentary):
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@RossWBermanIV

I’m a REAL MAN:

I’m SCARED OF CITIES

I’m MAD at the LITTLE MERMAID

My truck is TALL and I have to crawl into it like a BABY

Do not get me STARTED on women’s sports
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 19/09/2026
Nobody believes anything about this stuff because it's been an unbroken stream of acrid bullshit for over five years. NFTs and memecoins and now chatbots marketed as acting talent, all from the same internet addled gang of greedy carnies.
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Nathan Bulmer @natemorebikes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18/09/2026
the standard press scrum for this white house consists of admin officials lying to or insulting reporters who ask serious questions to get laughs out of the unserious ones, what value does this provide to the public, to whom both groups are theoretically accountable
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 18/09/2026
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol makes 1,700x more than the average barista. That same CEO claims a $9 coffee is affordable and commutes to work in a private jet. Meanwhile, many baristas struggle to afford getting to work. We're joining sbworkersunited.org in a Starbucks boycott.
Boycott Starbucks No Contract? No coffee. Period. Boycottstarbucks.net
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I was recently wondering what this election season would be like if Biden or Obama supporters had stormed the Capitol try to prevent the transfer of power. There would likely be ads just showing the footage on a loop, no?
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Christina Hayford @lvebakfietsmama.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lakeview (Chicago) now has ✨six✨ weekly bike buses to the K-8 schools, and had *at least* 100 kids bike to school today between the Burley and Nettelhorst Bike Buses (& prob 75-100 more adults with them). That’s pretty rad!
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play by post @playbypost.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Back in the forums day when I would hear this complaint, my first response would be to ask why Palestinians aren't allowed to manage Israelis as of the two populations, they're far more likely to be killed by Israelis than the reverse and it broke a lot of brains when I'd ask lol.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Another day when automated systems (and the data centers powering them) are denying people access to health care, inducing them to self harm, and poisoning communities, and yet the dominant stories are all about the delusions of a bunch of weirdos who fantasize that their tech is achieving sentience
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026
Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."
This is precisely why Nick Beckstead, a noted EA, argued in 2013 that, given the "overwhelming" moral importance of the far future - "millions, billions, and trillions" of years from now - we should prioritize saving the lives of people in rich countries over those in poor countries, other things being equal. The reason is that people in rich countries are better positioned to influence the far future.

To take another example, saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects

than saving and improving lives in rich countries. Why? Richer countries have substantially more

innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive. By ordinary standards at

least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards saving and improving lives in rich countries

is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are

improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life

in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things
being equal.
Screenshot from Beckstead's 2013 PhD dissertation, regarded as one of the founding documents of longtermism, one of the main cause areas of EA.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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