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tante @tante.cc · 03/06/2026
Another banger by Ted Chiang on "AI": "Employing philosophers might endow LLM companies with an air of respectability that slot-machine makers don’t get from the behavioral psychologists they hire, but in both cases the companies are preying on people’s tendency to see something that’s not there."
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious - The Atlantic
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
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Miriam Cosic @miriamcosic.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate
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taylorshaw.bsky.social @taylorshaw.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Giants have the second-best record in baseball!
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taylorshaw.bsky.social @taylorshaw.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
RIP Sunlab blog.cs.brown.edu/2026/02/17/a...
blog.cs.brown.edu
A History Of The Sunlab
The Sunlab is no longer with us. Students who graduated in the past decade or so think of it mainly as a place where they could use desktop computers running Linux and attend TA hours and help sessions. But it started as something different.
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taylorshaw.bsky.social @taylorshaw.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Nothing gets better until evangelical christians are fully removed from government and public life.
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taylorshaw.bsky.social @taylorshaw.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Russia waited until after the Winter Olympics to attack Ukraine. US attacked Iran one week after the Winter Olympics. Maybe the Winter Olympics should just never end.
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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/a-pastors-...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
A Pastor's Warning: We're Not in a Civil War, But a Christian Nationalist Holy War—And They Must Not Win.
I’m not sure Americans really understand what we’re facing right now.
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
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John Drake @johndrake.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA
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Wonder Woman 🐝 Demands Justice @alsowonderwoman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Any account blaming dems for what repubs have done and what voters did should be treated with suspicion. It's a midterm year and they've come here to suppress the vote.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
We have to impeach him.
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SPOOKY ZAIYA 🎃 @saintzaiya.blacksky.app · 01/01/2026
Maybe you should try making music this year.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
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taylorshaw.bsky.social @taylorshaw.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Holy moly this game
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taylorshaw.bsky.social @taylorshaw.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Stupid dodgers
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taylorshaw.bsky.social @taylorshaw.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Love extra innings with no runner starting on second.
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taylorshaw.bsky.social @taylorshaw.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The World Series audio on Fox is terrible. The announcers are all muffled under the crowd noise.
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taylorshaw.bsky.social @taylorshaw.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The Epstein Files are this term’s Mueller Report. There is no magic document that will take him down.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Brown rejected the compact! www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 24/09/2025
ICE has been arresting asylum-seekers in San Francisco for months now—targeting immigration court & sending people to far-flung detention centers. It's a constant stream of news. Readers often tune out. So here's a timeline recapping the most significant events so far.
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19/09/2025
The authoritarianism is here. The red lines have been crossed. If you're going to fight, fight.
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ESSAY: What are you waiting for?
Twenty-first-century American authoritarianism is here. Too many Americans are waiting for irrelevant, outdated red lines
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taylorshaw.bsky.social @taylorshaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Ok Yosemite Sam
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Carolyn Salter MD @salterfortexas.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Never better said than this man’s song.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
This is not unrelated to my essay of today: “Crack-pot science-conspiracy theorists who have grown up in the most peaceful, prosperous, and healthy age in human history [are] undo[ing] some of the most magnanimous things humans have ever done for one another.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/what-we-lo...
doomsdayscenario.co
What We Lost When We Lost the Greatest Generation
It's no coincidence that democracy is backsliding in the US exactly eighty years after the end of World War II.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
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The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.
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taylorshaw.bsky.social @taylorshaw.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Our family was there for Patrick Bailey’s inside-the-park walkoff home-run tonight. Bailey was great but our rally caps also played a part.
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taylorshaw.bsky.social @taylorshaw.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I’ll show you a Massive Ordinance Penetrator
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taylorshaw.bsky.social @taylorshaw.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
What LLMs are really good for is free association to brainstorm ideas and spark your own creativity. Use them as weird little art helpers or randomness generators. That should be as far as they go. The fundamental mistake is believing they produce any truth or understanding of the world.
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taylorshaw.bsky.social @taylorshaw.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
What a boring military parade
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taylorshaw.bsky.social @taylorshaw.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Now we’ve lost Brian Wilson.. a singular genius. No music would be the same without him.
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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taylorshaw.bsky.social @taylorshaw.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Tuba-players of the world: this is a call to action
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Nikki T in NYC @nikkitnyc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
You do NOT have to accept this! Post on the public comments to pressure them to NOT do this! www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
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Regulations.gov
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
You know what else reports a net loss every quarter? Every single police department in the country.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The time has come to see this: with recent studies proving that most students use AI to "cheat" on their assignments, we can't deny that AI has broken the educational system. So what do we do? [a 🧵]
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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
Marisa said she is eft with nothing BUt questions.
"What if I would have been armed," she 2 said. "You're breaking in. What am 1 supposed to think? My initial thought was we were being robbed-that my daughters, being females, were being kidnapped. You have guns pointed in our faces. Can you just reprogram yourself and see us as humans, as women? A little bit of mercy. Care a little bit about your fellow human, about your fellow citizen, fellow resident. We bleed too. We vork. We pleed justlike anybody else bleeds. We're scared. You could see our faces that we were terrified. What makes you so much more worthier of your peace? What makes you so much more worthier of protecting your children? What makes you so much more worthy of your citizenship? What makes you more worthy of safety? Of being given
the ight t that they took from me to protect my daughters?"
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
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taylorshaw.bsky.social @taylorshaw.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...
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Trump ‘Alarmists’ Were Right. We Should Say So.
Commentators who got it wrong wouldn’t listen, won’t learn, and can’t lead.
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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Oddly satisfying read this one. Recommended. defector.com/oh-shut-the-...
defector.com
Oh, Shut The Fuck Up | Defector
Hmm, it appears that the nation’s economy is collapsing at Timberwolves-like speed. That big fat trade war that the U.S. launched a few days ago has quickly proven to have the opposite of its intended...
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taylorshaw.bsky.social @taylorshaw.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
(Future tv ad for geriatric Gen Xers) Thom Yorke voice: Baby’s got Depends, oh no no..
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