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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight

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Sam Eifling @sameifling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fun fact about me, the dumbass: I interviewed at Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj having come directly from the airport after a cross-country redeye flight. Landed the job! And later got clowned by the executive producers for having shown up to that interview with a muffin that I ate as we talked.

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Phoenix New Times @phoenixnewtimes.com · 24/09/2026

The Phoenix New Times Best of Phoenix 2026 issue is finally here. 🐦‍🔥 Pick up a copy on newsstands now or read it in full at www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts-cultur…

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Really good stuff in this:

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.

Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.

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Sam Eifling @sameifling.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

after giving this a back-read, I chatted our news editor: "there but for the grace of God does any of us go" — mauled by a police dog for the crime of having a stroke behind the wheel bsky.app/profile/phoe...

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

buddy you just described an alt-weekly

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The king says "ah, but I'm creative and can extract revenue that isn't called a tax. And, neat trick, now I can spend it on creating my own personal army that Parliament didn't authorize." This was fought out, 350 years ago. 4/

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026

Here's what I think about when I think back on 9/11. The attack happened on the watch of a Republican president who had been warned, repeatedly & explicitly, that an attack was coming. He dismissed those warnings.

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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New Kafka just dropped

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They tried to warn us and we didn't listen.

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Sam Eifling @sameifling.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day, this is a pithy distillation of why we can't have nice things in America bsky.app/profile/inte...

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DreadwoodGirl @redwoodgirl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Again I'm reminded that fiction is bound by what's plausible but reality is not.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

George Orwell is rolling in his grave right now. Representative Jim Himes

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 31/08/2026

John Roberts issuing a fiery Sotomayor-style dissent in Toothpaste v Tube

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 26/08/2026

Had not seen this, but amazing work @davidjbier.bsky.social www.cato.org/sites/cato.o...

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Sam Eifling @sameifling.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

it's so, so easy to forget that in this country many people dedicate their time to making life more dignified for the working poor bsky.app/profile/tlec...

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Sam Eifling @sameifling.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Etsy about to have its biggest day ever

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Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

You don't call a wildfire-devastated landscape "mainstream forest" just because a few trees are left standing.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

UK transit nerds are next level.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I am *extremely insistently* tapping the sign to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free news how and where you are able to

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/08/2026

Every time someone says "but how will we afford it?" I want to ask them how we are affording it now, and in many cases, the answer is that we aren't.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

regular reminder that most of the millions of projected deaths from USAID's destruction HAVE NOT HAPPENED YET—which means they can still be prevented. but this is only possible if we demand that democrats prioritize it once in power. it is a moral imperative that we actually act on these numbers

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/08/2026

[redacted person who does not know whose mentions they wandered into]: In my city, the cyclists are so entitled, they act like they own the roads. Me: LET THE BIKES OWN THE ROADS. THE BIKES ARE FAR LESS DANGEROUS AND POLLUTING BY ABSOLUTELY EVERY MEASURE. MAKE THE CARS PAY TOLLS TO THE CYCLISTS.

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WOBBLY BLACK CAT 🍉 @eleventimezones.com · 11/08/2026

Go into union organizing instead

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Sam Eifling @sameifling.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

continues to impress me how @csosin.bsky.social gets stories no one else can reach on the Phoenix homeless beat. today's story: a physical altercation between advocates and security guards on a dangerously hot day in the city's notorious Zone (with video) www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/securit...

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Security, EMT, homeless advocates scrap on blazing Phoenix sidewalk

People who came to the aid of a woman slumped on Phoenix's 140-degree pavement clashed over how to help, leading to a physical altercation.

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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.

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Artificial Intelligence, or "A.l.," Is a broad term used to refer to several different kinds of technologies. The kind most relevant to this class are Large Language Models (LLMs), which use mathematics to analyze large amounts of human-produced text and then generate new text that simulates what a human might write in response to prompts or questions. Some examples of LLMs are OpenAl's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini.

Current LLMs can provide a solution to any calculus problem I give you. So why should we work on them, you might ask? Here's the thing: for the most part, the problems were already solved anyway. Calculus as a subject is nearly 400 years old. It has reached into virtually every modern scientific and economic field. And while I would like to believe that I have crafted a few new problems with some small amount of originality tailored to this class, for the most part I have curated a collection of exercises drawn from my years of teaching calculus. Those exercises come from textbooks, workshops, friends, and other fields of study, as well as my own invention.
And they nearly all have known solutions, often with fairly standard approaches.
Before A.I. became widely available, you could find those solutions in another textbook, or from a friend's notes, or through a repository on the internet.

The point of this class is not necessarily to solve problems that have never been solved before. It is for you to develop habits of thinking that are used by mathematicians, scientists, and policymakers-to develop a sort of mental toolbox that can be applied to new problems. If along the way you happen to find a new way of solving one of the class exercises, that's great! I am constantly learning new things from my students. But you will be bereft of discovery if you rely on a LLM for solutions to the calculus problems before you. Here I mean the discovery of having your own realizations, crystallizing your own internal understanding, claiming the knowledge in a way that cannot be taken away from you.
That ownership is what I want for you, and that is what the course is built around.

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optimisticsoap.bsky.social @optimisticsoap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?

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Sam Eifling @sameifling.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I've come to appreciate having listening when older people talked. I see their ways of thinking more as I've aged. "protect your time" is one that resonates more.

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Sam Eifling @sameifling.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Clue has to be peak "they don't make 'em like that anymore" films. a dippy, horny, brainy, madcap murder comedy that worked on every level without taking itself too seriously. the next Knives Out should be half as lucky bsky.app/profile/good...

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Every year at the welfare office they make me do a training where they tell me I can't even accept a bag of tomatoes from a client.

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Alex Parks @parkerbro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

my fav @michaelhobbes.bsky.social hot take that i have now stolen as my own: we need broken windows policing for white collar crime.

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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 03/08/2026

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

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Sam Eifling @sameifling.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's a real "What's the Matter With Kansas?" moment we're in when 20-to-40-somethings are working like hell to get single payer while the 50-to-70 folks keep saying over my dead body

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Sam Eifling @sameifling.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure." bsky.app/profile/pmam...

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Sam Eifling @sameifling.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Shout-out to the crafty bastard in this 2010 h.s. yearbook who leveraged a cat pregnancy for a prom date

A yearbook page asks "How did you ask your date to prom?" A reply by a senior named Ben says, "I had a cat that was really pregnant and was going to have her kittens soon, so I wrote Emily Houck a note telling her if she went to prom with me I would give her one of the new kittens and that her mom already said it was okay."

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 02/08/2026

blog culture is still alive and we can celebrate it

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This guy for Attorney General 2028.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Taking away someone's food and medicine makes you responsible for their death

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We did it lads

LeBron James '
@KingJames
CONGRATULATIONS MEN!!!

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mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

German broadcast. Nailed it

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Sam Eifling @sameifling.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Goal! Now all Spain has to do is what this game was born to do: waste time

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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

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