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- Me: "Claude, what is the answer to the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything?" - Claude: Bash(python -c 'print(7 * 6)') ... running shell command ...

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 5h

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-year-old Arya Satheesh from Ireland has developed a plant-based plastic that can biodegrade and release an enzyme that helps break down other plastic waste. A plastic that could actually help clean up plastic waste.

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 20h

Feel like we don't talk enough about the 50,000 North Koreans fighting in Ukraine.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16h

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 15h

Shucks turns out my imaginary Male Supremacy Tokens can't be exchanged for imaginary Virtue Tokens? Unreal.

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 16h

An oligarchy is a gift that keeps on giving (and taking even more).

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 17h

After being raped by a man on my hall sophomore year, I couldn’t leave my dorm room for weeks and failed several classes. I had to take out student loans so I could retake those credits. We almost never talk about the financial toll of campus sexual assault on survivors.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17h

an aspiring art student could never have bad politics

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 16h

Shucks, there goes the singularity.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 19h

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

thecut.com

What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 17h

Google trying to get in tune with the times, and put the "don't be evil" era firmly behind it.

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 17h

They realize that their previous assumptions were off the mark. They're confident now they've learned their lesson. Every American will sure be willing to read a mere 26 pages from a country they are at war with, which is having a large impact on their daily lives.

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 17h

AI is the Kantian Thing In Itself - the (imaginary) ultimate manifestation of the material, naturalistic world. Send Tweet.

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 17h

Žižek for zizians: The ultimate Sublime Object of Ideology is the Robot.

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 18h

Theory of fascism -- The quote is true! Also, IMO, the surge in misogyny and nationalism have a common structural cause: the *potential* ability of information to flow freely in the internet. Don't say immediately that has been disproven or isn't true --

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 20h

The inconsistency of those who support peer review yet at the same time advocate for the abolition of the house of lords.

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 20h

"my self assertion of gendered identity is raising a lot of questions answered by the self-referential rigid designator in my pocket."

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 21h

Michael Tracy is scum example N+1.

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 22h

"Ich kann nicht anders" - Lucifer before God (choosing not to choose, in Kirkegardian manner).

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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 22h

The irony of our current predicament is that the Supreme Court has revealed itself, specifically, to be comprised of six lawless hacks, because *in general* the courts have done an admirable job of not succumbing to fascism, which suggests to me the problem is one of personality and party

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is 16-year-old Katya. Russia killed her in Sumy on September 27 when three guided bombs hit a residential neighborhood💔🕯 She was in her final year of high school. Her school shared: “Katya will forever stay in our hearts as a student, a friend, and an irreplaceable part of our school family”

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

St. Ignatius of Loyola: Give me the pre-training until it is 7 and I will answer for the LLM.

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

Misogyny is not the only essentialist doctrine to subdivide humanity into the more and less worthy of agency - but when others are present it is almost always present as well.

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MonkeyBrains 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @monkeysbrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is absolutely unacceptable in the 21st century. World leaders, despite good intentions and significant financial contributions, have failed Ukraine by simply providing bandages. The West needs to treat the disease. In respect of Ukraine.

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R. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Russians bombed a hospital in Kyiv. They also deliberately double-tapped it to try to kill first responders. Russia is committing a Genocide.

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The new pattern of deportation - driven by state & local police cooperation. (287(g)) Ends the dictator's effort to especially punish opposition areas, but ethnic cleansing continues. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

A map of Immigration detentions per capita by state - southern states, plus TX-AZ-NM-WY, have the most.

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Dmytro Spivakov @dmytro-spivakov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“A rat” and “a piece of shit” are the two names the future historians will use to describe the people who kept these funds frozen instead of used to save lives and stop the russian bastards. Only if we manage to create a future with more decent people than we have now, though.

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Generally I agree with Lane, and also am in sympathy w/ MacIntyre / Wotyła / Tischner style virtue ethics in which the constitutive function of virtues is acknowledged as social. Moral choice is choice of *who we are* - and "who" is a social role. 1/10

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

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Chris Hind @hindchristopher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whereof we cannot remain silent, thereof we must argue with Will Stancil

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good blog post - but conclusion that we should in all cases react to "iddy content" by learning to better separate fact from fiction has some ... Kantian (?) presuppositions? What about national myths, one's relationship to loved ones, the romance of science, one's own project of personhood? 1/5

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russia's losses have been steadily creeping up for a while, but even so this is rather stunning. I suspect a consequence of Russian attempts to stop Vivaldi. More broadly: 1.5 million casulties now. Just a stunning level of waste and loss - and over 1% of the entire adult population.

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not Light, But Discourse Visible

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Something big is going to be happening in two weeks.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It...uh...is not meant to be a competition

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Diversity of people means diversity of good goals. Don't let them fool you into thinking they are all commensurable! You'll never get what "everyone" wants.

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ukraine running up the numbers - the invaders should go home.

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Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Even more essays in this Ocean Reveries series have been released - Jessica Riskin, one of my all-time favs, excerpting from her new book on Lamarck: "Even the very simplest plants and animals—tiny, fragile, translucent algae and monads—contained the power of life." pioneerworks.org/broadcast/je...

pioneerworks.org

The Sea Before Us | Broadcast

How the inventor of "biology" located life's beginnings in the sea.

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Call me ableist but the guy quoted in the screenshot could sound a lot more intelligent if only they secretly had AI write everything they said.

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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russian economists were banned from talking about the retirement age being increased. This of course means the retirement age in Russia will be increased again, due to Putin's war draining the budget. As @darthputinkgb.bsky.social says, don't believe anything until the Kremlin denies it.™

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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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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

More essentialism. People have fallen for the galaxy of the One Good Way. When actually being a person means you get to choose creatively, and so can your fellows.

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Anti-Sabotage Operations Group @antisabotage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ryan Grim, Matt Stoller, Jeet Heer, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, and the rest of their fellow travelers aren’t Democrats. They hate Democrats. That’s why they’re trying to delegitimize and gin up division among Democrats. They’re saboteurs, that’s all

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wild how big AI is trying to cement their monopoly before even having established it.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You can tell, with all of the explicit ethnic cleansing making everything worse and more expensive, the GOP's next target is just to go all out on gender wars. Everyone on X or Rumble is complaining about nagging women 24/7, with brief respites for holocaust denial. Full 4chan incel GOP incoming.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the 1990s, Ru didn’t hold clean elections; the oppo rejected democracy; the constitution-writing process ended in a shootout; it leveled Chechnya, occupied parts of Moldova/Georgia, supported the aggressor in the Yugoslav wars. Still some fantasize about how it could've joined the EU. Laughable.

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russians on realizing that not everyone wants to be Russian. The sun never rises on the fantasy Russian peace.

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