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Extremely common Mesopotamian W. It’s always a fun detail that our extant Akkadian corpus is almost as big as the extant Classical Latin corpus, largely for this reason.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026

if your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

(Shared from various people on FB) RIP Chris Wickham

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

SpaceX isn't a load bearing part of elon's wealth, so the real problem is just getting legal assurances the USG retains ultimate control over the use of the assets the USG is paying to use. There's easy legal ways to do this that don't require the nuclear option of nationalizing it or whatever

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

anduril doesn't make anything that isn't made better by someone else and so terminating the contracts for cause because they suck at what they were contracted to do (objective fact) and letting someone else buy up the bit of real property plant they own will be extremely easy

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

as much as i hate trump voters i'll never achieve the levels of contempt he has for them

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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.

She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor

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Szabla @szabla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

the emperor needs to slow down. we can't keep track of all of the different concubines, especially when they all look alike

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.

Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ET

As the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”

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Autumnal Astrid🍂 @namitomoon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

South Korea is now a democracy and not, let's say, a hybrid authoritarian regime thanks to the blood and efforts of its people. And I'm not only talking about Yoon. 1988, the anti-junta protests and movement. Which is why it pisses me off when tankies reduce the ROK to "fash capitalist dystopia".

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 09/10/2026

all of it. this is what happens under personalist regimes with decrepit and checked-out autocrats. everything becomes DEATH OF STALIN-level consequential *and* petty

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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i hate the "what are we a bunch of asians" meme so much i am in fact not thinking about their ethnicity at all when i make a comparison to the politics of North Korea, but it's good to know what your mind focuses on when you think about the subject!

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

absolutely terrible, stupid framing. DOGE could have *only* been a "missed opportunity" if it had been conceived, planned, & implemented exactly opposite of how it was, by people who did not think like they did, for goals antithetical to their actual goals.

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🚲🕸️𝖘𝖈𝖔𝖔𝖕𝖘🕸️🚲 @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I just can't keep up with all these new politically correct terms. Guys like me are constantly getting cancelled just for using terms that used to be acceptable

Screenshot of a Donald Trump TRUTH: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, "Artificial Intelligence," as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, "Super Intelligence," THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A cop warns on the price of witnessing death.

As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And that price is your peace. Your decency. And the soul of our society.
We don't have to be this way, this fake tough but real ugly way. Stop

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Szabla @szabla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“If you wish to kiss the dictator’s arse, it is the arse you must kiss and not some more attractive part” - Diego Gambetta, I think

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is exactly the logic used to justify genocide in Gaza but with the proper nouns swapped.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 07/10/2026

Also letting two software companies that started as exploiting gambling loopholes become unregulated sportsbooks in hindsight was a horrific idea.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 07/10/2026

Turning your phone into an unlimited two deck chute blackjack table without physical chips and a direct credit line to *your bank account* should not have been allowed, no.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The median voter is not a sapient being

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

more generally this is why I hate when people try to ask trump "so you're not allowed to do this, right?" questions he is literally incapable of admitting he isn't allowed to do something, you're just putting ideas in his head, cut it out

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Trump has moved the ethical line" drives me crazy. It pretends there are no other actors with agency in 🇺🇸 politics or the media. You could have treated this as a nonstop five-alarm scandal & crisis for democracy. You didn't do that. You did for EMAIL & BIDEN OLD. Other choices were right there.

nytimes.com

An Outrage in 2019. No Problem in 2026. Trump Has Moved the Ethical Line.

The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

24 was used as the basis for the Enhanced Interrogation program. Would-be advisors for the ANP watched NCIS in lieu of formal training for the role. Trump-era direct action in Mexico and Latin America is clearly steeped in Sicario, while Yellowstone and Landman shape domestic views.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

If you ask the Islanders - you know, the people who live there - they say no. How much the electorate care about a subject is not - and should never be - the factor that determines the sovereignty of the Falklands against the expressed wishes of the people who live there.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is like being proud of Holocaust denial.

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Szabla @szabla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not that I expect this to work on anyone over the age of eight, but *gestures generally in the direction of Mar-A-Lago*

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Szabla @szabla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Plan for the Ukrainians 1.) wait for downtempo in strikes due to weather, having to restock, or other factors 2.) just before strikes slow, tell Trump “we’ll let up if you supply us with Patriot restocks” 3.) with Patriots in hand, resume strikes

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Amirite? Hades from Disney's Hercules

ALT: Amirite? Hades from Disney's Hercules

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The cornerstones of modern reactionary politics are "the world isn't like how it was when I was 16" and "my kids don't talk to me anymore" and it's kind of nice they're just saying all that out loud now

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bro you should read about laws there’s all sorts of them

He also allegedly told law enforcement during the drive, "I will get you paid if you let me go,"
the arrest report said.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He said this at the time, as did many, and it remains a bald-faced lie. Not a matter of opinion. It's just completely untrue as an objective factual matter. Civil marriage laws don't work like that and never have. Just like the legality of divorce and remarriage doesn't affect the Catholic Church.

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Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book

A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The function of modern media is laundering and reformatting this insane man's statements for the public so they don't have to confront reality. The fact that *this person* holds the world's most powerful office and we allow it to continue raises so many hard questions we just choose to ignore it

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

DO NOT LISTEN TO ANNIE JACOBSEN

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cool, cool, Thom, just checking real quick, but uh, who voted to confirm all of his advisors? And who nominated them for confirmation? Like, classic good tsar, bad boyars nonsense, but c'mon, seriously. You're leaving the Senate anyway, have some damn dignity on the way out.

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Szabla @szabla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

got jumpscared when a long-ago LGM review of one of her books crossed my feed, with the reviewer pointing out where it descended into complete crankery, and then I realized who the book's author was www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2011/06/sund...

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Sunday Book Review: Area 51 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This is a guest post by Jonathan Gitlin of Ars Technica A couple of weeks ago, there was quite a bit of press about a new book, ‘Area 51 – An Uncensored History‘ by Annie Jacobsen. As a self-respectin...

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

its another demonstration of something we've known from the start of his first term: Trump's weakness is actually more threatening to us than his strength

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And yes, there are still semi-regular outbreaks of the plague, including pneumonic plague, worldwide, because there are plenty of animal reservoirs! There are a few cases of it in the US every year, too. It's easily treated if you get medical care immediately after symptoms start.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Because it's buried at the bottom of the article and CNN is presenting it in a misleading way: before people worry, the "unknown" part is how the worker was exposed, the pathogen is good old fashioned Y. pestis which we understand extremely well and can treat just fine if caught early

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 04/10/2026

Europeans are like “oh, I could never live in America, there’s so much racism” which is true of course but then you turn on the news and another European country’s parliament has just been taken over by The Racism Party.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of the main Jewish critiques of Christian notions of forgiveness is that they offer cheap grace to people who have not done the hard work of making material amends. Claims like this are actually reinforcing that very critique, even if Chris Rock thinks he is doing the opposite.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Remember, you are under no obligation to ever side with Tucker Carlson when he makes some anti-Trump comment. He is a fascist apologist who apparently thinks Hitler winning WWII would have been fine. He is, in my humble opinion, a silver spooned bigot who romanticizes white supremacy.

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Szabla @szabla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

maybe I should try to find a copy of 'Fire in the Lake', where the US and RVN players both have divergent goals...

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