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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"I belong to a cult. Someone did some research that undermines the core tenets of my cult and came up with a catchy phrase that makes it harder to recruit more people to my cult. This makes me sad."

Screencap of tweet on X from @jackclarkSF (Jack Clark):

"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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Gio @social-pig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@steveharrell.bsky.social yo prof, i've uncovered a treasure trove of a kind of "ethnic media" content on chinese social media sites made by various Yi communities, both documenting their cultural practices and marketing their minzu-ness at the same time...can i send your way??

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Gio @social-pig.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

“Please do not mention that I work for Anthropic”

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

without a doubt his biggest blind spot. what people who aren’t from here don’t fully understand is the NYPD is the Mob. they run this shit. as mayor you either go to war with them or you are serving at their pleasure

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Ameer @ameerk.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Liberal Zionist Joshua Leifer attempting to wash away IDF’s genocide charge 3 days before B’tselem accuses Israel of it.

Josh Leifer in Haaretz: The scale of the destruction is so immense as to give the impression of a systematic effort, meticulous, premeditated. But the reality is perhaps even grimmer. Gaza also looks the way it does in large part because of the ad hoc, improvised, impulsive and often sadistic discretionary decisions of officers and rank-and-file soldiers who turned the Israeli army into a kind of anarchic force.

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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.eurosky.social · 23/07/2025

Consequences of years of lousy and extractive US social media platforms. People want to leave; they just need somewhere better to go.

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caylen @caylen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

all those online publications you used to love? well the ads didn't work, and the people who make money running the ads can't tell the people paying for the ads that because it means they will stop getting money, so instead they blame the people making the stuff & as a make good make the ads worse

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caylen @caylen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

why everything sucks online: 1) online ads used to pay for everything until companies realized that ads didn't work that well 2) the companies that owned the ad systems need something that makes money since ads are working less 3) the people making stuff still needed the money that ads gave them

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Columbia doesn’t merely fold, it substantially agrees www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Ppl calling Sabrina carpenter an oversexualized trollop is so funny bc to me her whole vibe is “bugs bunny when he’s dressed up like a girl”

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

ALGORITHM: It doesnt count as animal abuse content if the animals are abusing each other ME: Yes thats correct. Thank you for showing me it

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nattie winters @utilitylimb.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

duke nukem is a game about a guy with one big hand for shooting guns and one tiny hand for getting acrylics

cover of the videogame duke nukem. it’s angled so you’re looking up at him like you’re about to blow him (normal straight man desire). he has one big hand holding a pistol and one tiny hand with acrylic nails.

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Matthijs @mccaine.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

"Communism is Soviet power plus electrification" - Donald J Trump

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The intelligence community is spying on student protesters, I reported last year. Today, the Washington Post reports that Homeland Security officials had been "gathering intelligence" on Mahmoud Khalil’s activities www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-intell...

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The Intelligence Community Is Spying on Student Protesters

Congress is pressuring the FBI to infiltrate college protests with informants.

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Gio @social-pig.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

now do charts for homelessness, evictions, child poverty, and overdoses

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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

🎨 An Ottoman Drawing of Aleppo (Syria), 1885 #History #Aleppo #1880s

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Sure, all statistics and basic common sense say that buying a gun is a terrible idea but have you considered that if I had a gun I would become John Wick

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

do you know how hard you have to work to make Doug Ford seem calm and normal?

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

25% tariffs??? Jesus christ. Canadian fentanyl is expensive enough as it is!

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Random but this claim about absolute size of GDP is not true. I was trying to work out if there was some economic rationale for preferring Russia as a trade partner/ally to the UK. I wish Google had not added a feature that randomly lies to you when you search for information. Cooler if they didn't.

a search for "GDP of UK vs Russia" and I get "AI Overview

Can the UK economy outperform Russia? | The Spectator
Russia has a larger GDP than the United Kingdom, and is expected to continue to grow faster in the coming years. "

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yаna @ghola.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

hell yea

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/02/2025

Does anyone else smell toast

The LOTRx The Woobles Collab is finally here!
LORDI: RINGS
WOOBLES
COLLECTOR'S EDITION
لا

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I hadn’t quite realized it until it was front and center in national US politics (my own privilege, naïveté perhaps) but I now see how many men especially on the right see a woman divorcing a man as worse than domestic violence

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/02/2025

Claude Sonnet 3.7 launched today. It nicely solves this simple problem from a circa-1900 math book. But the book has a decimal place error and makes the gold foil much thicker than actually used. As a result, the area covered is very small. But Claude misses this. Look at the final sentence!

Gold weighs 19.362 times as much as water. It is beaten into sheets of gold foil, 0.0575 of an inch in thickness. In this form, how much surface will one ounce of gold cover?

Based on my calculations, one ounce of gold beaten into a foil with a thickness of 0.0575 inches will cover:

1.554 square inches
Or approximately 0.0108 square feet

This shows how remarkably thin gold foil allows a small amount of gold to cover a relatively large area.

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smellsofbikes.bsky.social @smellsofbikes.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

It is not a broad backlash. It is a very narrow backlash funded by some extremely rich people. The whole reason so many people are shocked is precisely because it is such a narrow group of people pushing this.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Presumably part of why this happening now is that the balance of power in tech has shifted toward the bosses, thanks to weaker labor markets and increased use of H-1B indentured labor. Support for the Trump-Musk program is an effort to lock those gains in politically.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This to me is one of the central stories about current US politics. The tech barons who decisively threw their support behind Trump wanted commercial benefits, of course; but even more, they wanted to discipline their own employees. That’s the real content of all the anti-DEI stuff.

Zuckerberg is at the vanguard of a dramatic reversal in attitudes across Silicon Valley, whose traditionally liberal workforces have been shocked by a broad backlash against diversity policies and employee dissent.

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GT 🫪 @granitetide.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

beautiful games:

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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The name’s QINLIANFF. ACCYOD QINLIANFF, British suit, British spy suit two piece, 100% MI6 her majesty’s secret service MACHINE WASHABLE, separates, men’s suit tailor fit two piece classic wedding business sui

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Dance with the Devil, by @LincolnTownley, 2020, 📸 by Bruce Bennett

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Amazon MGM Studios has confirmed that in the next James Bond film Bond will be fully nude in the iconic title sequence. “You will see James Bond’s penis” said a spokesperson. “James Bond will be shooting at you with his penis out”

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