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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is pretty extraordinary. Definitely the first time I’ve seen an AI video conversation where the AI looked and sounded real. Usually there’s too much delay in responses and their tone is too flat. (It’s a bit flat here too, but it comes across more as “deadpan” than “fake”)

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In fact, ALL peas are exactly pea-sized! Glad I could help

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Read this to my daughter last week!

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

WOW, RCP polling average has Trump less popular than he was right after Jan 6 (which, to be clear, was *extremely* unpopular)

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pretty cool! The free space in Claude bingo should’ve been the em dash 😆

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Remember in the 90s when computers got great at chess and the goalposts for “real AI” instantly moved? 4 years ago AI could hardly render an image. Now it does photorealistic video. Bluesky and AI detractors have buried their heads in the sand, and will continue to do so to their own detriment.

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The replies here are variations on “OpenAI hacked them on purpose” and “AI isn’t smart enough to do this on its own”. No and no. OpenAI is too dumb to properly constrain their very smart AI. And yes, “smart”, broadly defined, is accurate. Conscious, no. But incredibly adaptable and capable.

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sesame Street and Barney. I have several songs from both of them memorized to this day, and one will get stuck in my head at random

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Printing something is one of the most depressing things you can do at 6AM

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

At least Nancy’s teacher will be impressed with her in-depth report on the Q3 numbers!

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don’t know who these two people are but I will assume Hee and Haw

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Gus adjusted his tie before he collapsed, he was way more put together

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Mark Allen Jr. @markallenjr.com · 15/09/2026

Imagine the job security of being gone for 3 months without communication to your boss or any indication that you'll be returning any time soon & still having a job. I say imagine because literally no job would let you get away with this. The people of Kentucky should fire him.

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

…why is that a thing people kept track of 😂

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Man, if I had a nickel for every time Egg Fu the oriental mastermind had a robot twin behind the bamboo curtain who bakes the unique metal men in a concoction of catastrophe

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was gonna say “world peace” but I’m not sure we want any of the current players trying to tackle that problem

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Man I wish you hadn’t done that

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i don't agree with their contemptible geography policy, but i do agree with their whatever-is-going-on-here policy

is that fucking cheeto still breathing?

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’m just caught up on the fact that they had to specify “one” pair of sunglasses I’d be much more intrigued at “Tom Cruise Defies All Reason in Four Pairs of Aviator Sunglasses”

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I mostly agree! My point is just that it would be awfully strange if a big bundle o’ neurons were the only way to get to consciousness. It seems possible, in principle, to make those same connections in other ways.

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We’ve all had days like this

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I agree. I do think there are a lot of people on this site who, due to negative effects of LLMs, have been polarized into believing that no AI/machine could ever be conscious.

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I don’t think current models will trigger true doomsday scenarios, but this is a good illustration of how advanced AIs will take a poorly specified goal and run wild with it. It’s terrifying, and OpenAI is basically just bragging about it, probably with zero repercussions or real lessons learned.

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

And then there’s another letter that’s supposed to be DOUBLE that?? Pssh yeah sure guys, I’m sure it’s right next to the triple-Q

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

reply to this post with a time you tried to use a button and it didn't work

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

10 new math discoveries from OpenAI. LLMs are often dismissed as “stochastic parrots.” And yeah, that’s sorta how they work? But with results like this, you have to conclude that a sufficiently advanced stochastic parrot somehow gains some emergent, completely unexpected abilities.

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

An English scientist talking about an English playwright is stretching the bounds of “pop culture USA” a bit 😆

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Omg I had this when signing up for physical therapy. I enjoyed Esperanto, Middle Dutch and Ancient Egyptian

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Eh. It’s silly enough to think these AI detector tools are remotely accurate. Now they’re also claiming they can distinguish “AI assisted” writing?

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Really really enjoyed this interview with Mamdani - as always, a masterclass in communication. His answer on creating a big tent party is both excellent and low key savage. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/m...

There are moderates in the Democratic Party who've called to expel the D.S.A. from the Democratic coalition. And I want to flip that around. Is there room in the party you want to create for moderate Democrats?
Yes. Full stop. I'm not interested in expelling people from parties. I think that's what you do when you can't win the debate within the party.
Even if they work with AIPAC? If they are Democrats and they run as Democrats and they win as Democrats, then they should be a part of the Democratic Party. There are people with whom I have vehement disagreements with on any number of topics. But if we can find a place of agreement, that's what I'm going to focus that relationship on. If you're just looking for people who you agree with on everything, then you might as well just stay home and look at a mirror.

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Yeah, I’ve had it before in other contexts… not so good as an Oreo it turns out 😆

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I got some Oreos from an Asian market and one kind was like grape peach and the other was red bean paste? Both deeply weird. The creme on the grape peach is like a medicinal grape liqueur, but with just normal Oreo on the outside The bean paste one is sort of… slightly floral and musty

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

In “Going Postal” by Terry Pratchett, at a certain point there’s so much smog that it’s a “fug”: “you could have cut cubes out of the air and sold it for cheap building material”

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Gotta love a mythical half animal half plant creature just showing up to say hi on your trailcam

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Wow and also wow your alt text is just really good writing

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Ah yes, an old southern white man with shitty views who’s been a Senator for decades finally went and died, just as we’d all expe— *puts finger to earpiece*

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Ah yes, an old southern white man with shitty views who’s been a Senator for decades finally went and died, just as we’d all expecte— *puts finger to earpiece*

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Another wild AI math result. Here's the prompt, which interestingly is mostly about method and probably would work pretty well for a human organization: cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4...

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Theoretically, you could maybe codify the other requirements in such a way that it guarantees the thing is good. But a lot of those are pretty abstract and would need orders of magnitude more description.

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Because the rules are (generally) necessary but not sufficient conditions for the thing to be good.

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Tim @teejaykay.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Sounds like it should’ve been called A Farewell to Legs

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