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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 5h

if you want a guide to "what the para-Rationalist world doesn't believe in," it can be summarized by "any uncertainty about how uncertain to be."

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 7h

Good intentions are not enough. You need to make good policy that actually solves the problem you're trying to address without creating worse second-order effects.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know people instinctively recoil at monocausal explanations and want important trends to have sufficiently weighty causes, but “We built a novel social environment that rewards anger and lurid pessimism and moved 95% of political discourse into it” is a pretty good explanation for a lot of stuff

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 30/09/2026

benderites define your terms challenge (impossible)

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

he wasn't! nader's activism was directed towards replacing legislation and regulation with the plaintiff's bar!

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

White and gold or blue and white? Spotted it in the wild.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank God for Zohran Mamdani and Abdul el-Sayed, who are unbelievably good examples for what principled anti-Zionism rooted in care for human rights and dignity including that of Jews looks like.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

look, if you're worried about being remembered, don't try to pursue immortality or whatever, the smart move is to start selling substandard copper and then make sure anyone who complains deposits a physical copy of that complaint in a site that will later be archaeologically significant

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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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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I just witnessed a murder

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

We really can fix a lot of this by hiring back the dedicated civil servants Trump has purged and telling them "Destroy the people who did this to you. Don't break the law."

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Honestly nice of Hegseth's stupid purge to gift us a bundle of generals with a grudge against the regime. Need someone we can halfway trust to sort out the "the men with guns have spent four years culturally and institutionally influenced by a far-right authoritarian regime" problem.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the republican party will gladly pay you Tuesday for a vote today

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every person who tries to disprove "it's the phones" ends up providing strong evidence for "it's the phones".

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can you tell texas republicans are not used to competitive races bsky.app/profile/head...

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026

“the person who is CEO at the time a company goes public will, until their death, have sole power over company decisions, regardless of how much investment they have taken from the public” was just never how any of this was intended to work and it is a catastrophe for corporate governance

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i don't think that hypothetical academics who denied the existence of hydrocarbons and were focused on the inevitable collapse of the so-called "car" scam would be any more helpful than the heartland institute

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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 28/09/2026

RFK eats steak in antagonism of sustainable/ethical/healthy veganism. Tradwifery is an antagonism of feminism. SV CNC parties an antagonism of the same / #MeToo in particular. Deep down they imagine the liberals their masters they must call evil and vilify to win their freedom.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's so bad that the only translation of the Red Book of Westmarch is garbage. what do you mean you changed Bilba Labingi's name to "Bilbo Baggins." who authorized you to do that

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think RFK Jr.'s colon-destroying steak and sauerkraut diet, tradwife culture, and Silicon Valley CNC parties are the same thing: a desperate attempt among powerful men to convince each other that gluttony, rapaciousness, and raw domination are not just their birthright but their responsibility

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hippie libs 🤝 tax revolt conservatives🤝 nazis 🤝 communists 🤝 moderate democrats “We should all live in a little peasant village where everything costs 1 million dollars”

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unfortunately, it turned out that prison abolition actually was just "Vibes, Papers, and Essays".

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 27/09/2026

There is absolutely NOT some kind of slippery slope from “LGBT inclusion in the workplace” to “Aella’s slutcon is de facto mandatory,” which is underscored by the thing where the AI sex cult scene is considerably less inclusive than mainline tech of sexual orientation minorities

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes, i am saying this. literally this. i am saying that you should not care about water for 16,000 people when "growing alfalfa for export in deserts with approximately zero precipitation" is literally orders of magnitude more water and vastly more pointless.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A simulation of a rain storm will not get you wet. But a simulation of a map can help you find your way.

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affine @refinement.systems · 27/09/2026

tool calling is embodiment

"Freedom of speech" painting with the man replaced by a robot with a smiley face

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I prefer the Democratic strategy for cutting emissions with sound regulations over the Republican strategy for cutting emissions by starting wars in oil exporting regions.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I support this kind of thing even if only to get folks to shut up about intelligence requiring "embodiment".

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A lot of people have started out incrementally rebutting advances in machine intelligence and ended up incrementally rebutting human intelligence as a byproduct

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just block the person who said the Middle East knew a thousand years of peace before the mid twentieth century. You do not need that energy in your life.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

[non-linear narrative movie with Susan Collins trying to reconstruct her past and what she needs to do next through notes to herself and semi-cryptic tattoos about which bill and confirmation vote comes next and is supposed to lead to what]

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just saw someone call Jill Stein an "election year cicada" and I'm wheezing!

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 24/09/2026

I firmly believe that forever-masker people 1) are telling the truth when they say they don’t feel safe around unmasked people but 2) the reasoning is not really medical but rather 3) is about needing to see proof other people will suffer discomfort for hypothetical safety

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People complain about IRB, but it prevents another Stanford Prison Experiment... except as a new Netflix reality show.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

leftism that clings to the Battle of Blair Mountain (1921) more than the Battle of Minneapolis (2026) is leftism that is more concerned with aesthetics than historical consequences.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TRUMP: the election situation has not necessarily developed to the Republican Party's advantage

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I call this "The Basel problem problem" and I still consider an important open math question.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If anyone would like a gauge of where we are in the electoral cycle, Rs—who had been hovering mid air after running off a cliff—looked down this week & are now holding up a sign that says 'yikes!' as the bottom halves of their bodies start to plummet towards the earth, pulling the rest of them w it

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Okay, so I have a plan to get everyone on our side. First, we be absolutely as viscerally unpleasant as possible. Next, we downplay any time we get what we want, say it's the bare minimum and so forth. Finally, if anyone gives up and says we win or apologizes, we belittle them.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Chad “AI is morally bad because it works” vs the Virgin “increasingly desperate and sweaty special pleading for why it doesn’t *actually* work”

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

An ongoing story during the Obama administration was the Big Problem of policy uncertainty.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've experienced this. I think part of what's going on is that for engineers, having all their skills replaced is a regular cyclical feature, so their automatic view is "why can't you just handle it like I do?" But, arts jobs aren't the same in that way.

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.

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sambuchwalter.bsky.social @sambuchwalter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The metric is called RAR - Racist Above Replacement

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