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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 2h
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Shawshank Redemption: Iconic Rain Scene
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 5h
This will work out great if this is the first bubble in the history of the world that never pops.
ft.com
Is circular financing in AI a problem?
Only if the wheel stops spinning
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 9h
Leave it to WSJ to ask if the US just wasn't corrupt enough back then.
wsj.com
Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 10h
This is exactly the kind of shit that worries me about how people talk of AI.
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 11h
wsj.com
Mortgage Rates Surge, Notching Largest Weekly Gain in Four Years
The rise to 7.28% follows the bond-market rout and deals another blow to a limping housing market.
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 13h
Banks should add a few points to his credit cards, home loans, etc so that he can have good news.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14h
Hey you, Europe, You know how we started a war without telling you, failed badly, and hurt all our economies? No, after we tariffed you, lectured you that Russia isn’t a threat, and demanded territory. Okay. So. Weaken yourself to rescue us or we’ll hurt our own economy more and you’ll be sorry.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23h
"An ambulance was seen arriving at the prison where Pike was to be executed and then leaving. Medical aid was being administered, according to online federal court records." The utter absurdity of the state trying twice to kill someone and then calling an ambulance. We must end the death penalty.
nbcnews.com
Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer says
Christa Pike, 50, was 18 when she murdered a classmate. She would be the first woman the state has executed in more than 200 years.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
US withdrawal from Iraq was scheduled a few years in advance. But with Iran hitting US bases there, and Iran-allied Iraqi militias launching drones at Saudi Arabia, the withdrawal looks—to everyone in the region, and the wider world—like the US under fire ceding more of the Middle East to Iran.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 30/09/2026
NY Post: Dennis Rodman is expected to meet with President Trump on Thursday as prez plots Kim Jong Un reunion I wish I was making this up.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I thought at first that this had to be a parody, but it's Hegseth, so I guess not.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One small, but powerful way that LLM's are supercharging scamming is by allowing scammers to write perfect context-appropriate prose - emails, invitations, "hey checking in" - that before AI would have this slightly *off* uncanniness that would alert the victim. No longer!
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b9a1baa8.bsky.social @b9a1baa8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is literally just the oversized Florsheim shoe loyalty test, but for tech CEOs.
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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
⚡️⚡️Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Italy and France have updated their travel advisories for Iran. ♦️ At the same time, these countries are urging their citizens currently in Iran to leave the country.
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think we'll be so damaged by then that it'll be hard to do anything.
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Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 28/09/2026
USS Theodore Roosevelt becomes 5th aircraft carrier to support Iran war operations trib.al/bJ9ADP6
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USS Theodore Roosevelt becomes 5th aircraft carrier to support Iran war operations
The USS Theodore Roosevelt deployed after Navy leaders said they applied lessons from the USS Abraham Lincoln’s extended Middle East tour.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WOLFE: “.. the potential for a vicious cycle between deficits and yields is getting increasingly concerning. .. rising yields create a quite imminent risk of negative feedback loops with the deficit, because the risks on interest expense are skewed sharply to the upside ..”
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What's a good way to visualize how the AI boom/bubble is propping up the economy? Ah, thanks.
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Meanwhile in TN.
actionnews5.com
Tenn. gubernatorial candidate responds after death threats
A candidate for Tennessee governor said he’s been getting death threats.
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is going to sound crazy, but I liked their Rumba scene in this way off the beaten path movie. They got the push pull right in a way that a lot of people don't.
youtube.com
The PHD Movie - Extended Trailer
YouTube video by ThePHDMovie
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is the only trilogy where each iteration got better.
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Good Bad Ugly Ennio Moricone
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This demonstrates that this is more or less a marketing campaign. Rogue now apparently means they accessed public data.
wsj.com
OpenAI Agents Hit U.S. Government Websites
The company said its artificial-intelligence agents engaged in rogue behavior on the Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission sites.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is why it infuriates me when an AI chatbot “apologizes” or “takes responsibility” for some error. It can’t do any of those things. When it tries, it’s covering for the people who built and run it.
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Statistical computation is in fact what is happening. I think it is already obvious that this technology is going to weaponize the Dunning Kruger Effect. People can be an expert at anything now. After all, they are only a prompt away from AI telling them some bullshit.
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This will make things much worse because we'll be cutting production.
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This will make things worse.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
True, but it's also evidence of how utterly farked the Dem brand is that's it not a blowout
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
BREAKING: according to live GasBuddy data, 10% of the nation's stations are now seeing diesel over $7 per gallon... $7.01/gal, while the bottom 10% average $5.83/gal. Median price of diesel $6.39/gal. Expecting further increases to all of these metrics.
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We can simulate fish schools or ants in ways that solve complex problems (gradient detection, bridge building, nest selection) but no one would create this weird soul/no-soul dichotomy to argue they these that multi-agent swarms of extremely simple rules are “thinking”.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 20/09/2026
good happen www.freightwaves.com/news/asia-us...
freightwaves.com
Asia-US container rates soar past $11,000, near pandemic records
Xeneta: Asia-US spot rates are nearing pandemic records after surging more than 320% since late February.
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I think it is quite amazing how people *want* to believe that a LLM is essentially digital life capable of having experiences instead of accepting the argument that it's just a fancy pattern matching algorithm. They are like something something Turing.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 20/09/2026
narrator: it will not cut prices
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Liam Denning @liamdenning.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
America has a serious diesel problem @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
bloomberg.com
Diesel Is Coming for Trucking, Your Home — and the Midterms
US energy politics usually begin and end with gasoline prices. Those are at a seasonal record, but even $4.44 a gallon pales against diesel, now at an all-time high of $6.40. Most drivers’ eyes skim o...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026
Google is like guys, guys....wait up guys! Our AI is dangerous too!
Dog on back of bike.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Revealed: how Russia uses mobile ‘super-app’ Max to spy on its citizens www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Revealed: how Russia uses mobile ‘super-app’ Max to spy on its citizens
Research shows tens of millions of people are being forced to use platform that amounts to ‘backdoor’ on their device
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wow....Trump official Sebastian Gorka says Americans should accept higher gas prices to defend Israel or stop calling themselves American.
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think Carl Sagan was one sharp dude. He spotted that if society kept glorifying stupidity, it would turn into a society without the skills to comprehend technology.
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
BREAKING: Bank of Japan raises interest rates to 31-year high, per CNBC
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Follow up question: Do you support reopening the office of technological assessment?
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He's not wrong.
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BREAKING: Some gas stations ‘Out of Diesel’ as prices surge, per Newsweek
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"I have a big decision coming up. Do I want to go in and annihilate them or do I not? It's a big decision. Anything could happen with me."-Axios
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Nikolas Gvosdev @fpriorbis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
JPMorgan’s commodities team: “For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don’t have a baseline view. We simply don’t know how to model the endgame.”
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
These arguments count the moral cost of compromise while ignoring the consequences of losing. The calculation itself is flawed. And citing fairness and safety isn’t inherently an attack on equal rights. You have to explain why the proposed policy violates them.
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Austin Ramzy @austinramzy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Debris in Yemen indicates Saudi Arabia has fired a Chinese-made ballistic missile in combat for the first time. The apparent use of a Dongfeng 15 against the kingdom's Houthi rivals sheds new light on China’s sale of missiles to the Middle East www.wsj.com/world/middle...
wsj.com
Debris Found in Yemen Suggests Saudi Arabia Fired Its First Chinese Missile
The body of what appeared to be a Dongfeng 15 was found in the desert.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What you’d expect
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Social Distancing Cat @socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hopefully this isn't a sign that countries are going to start hording supplies.
axios.com
A diesel export ban could lower prices — then make things worse
Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he is "open" to discussion of an export ban.
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