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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3h

I feel like the debate about what parts of AI are good and what parts are bad should wait until we solve the worldwide crisis caused by the fact that almost of all of its evangelists in both tech and govt are morally, intellectually, and ethically unequipped to oversee it, when not downright evil.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What's typical of slopaganda images (and what distinguishes them in part from classic propaganda) is not only the ostensible photorealism, which is not meant to fool anyone, but also the abundance of symbols. These are hyperlegible images, filled to the edges with graffiti, flags, and other signs

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Zak Sitter @telliamed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is the logical conclusion to reach whether you think AI is/can be sentient or that it can't.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 16/09/2026

memento but he's trying to figure out the mystery of the kids daycare activity carpet with the roads all over it

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

we all know this classic way

cover of THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF CANCELLED PLANS GETS ME OFF BECAUSE DEEP DOWN I KINDA DIDN’T WANT TO GO featuring beautiful ladybuck on the right smilin standing in front of a house in the evening with a slight sunset behind and on the left if a good lookin sentient calendar

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Zak Sitter @telliamed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think this is probably both a good analogy & a sign of how deep the divide is between enthusiastic AI adopters & holdouts. A lot of us see our smartphones as both indubitably useful, even miraculous, little gadgets & drains on their attention & overall wellbeing.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

For the morning crowd

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Zak Sitter @telliamed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Excellent dissection of & rebuttal to Harper's article.

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The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 19/08/2026

Andrew Baker was also a “token black professor” at Bates College. But his perspective on the events Tyler Austin Harper recounts in his Atlantic cover story is very different. Read Baker’s side of the story online today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...

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Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story

Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Writing a longer bit on this, but the problem with (let’s be honest: pretextually) teaching the Bible as history is that you have to teach it AS HISTORY. And lots of the bog standard historical consensus on the Bible, routine college intro fodder, would be absolutely incendiary in a middle school.

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Zak Sitter @telliamed.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

What gets me about the framing of this story is the way it's treated as an intrusion into their well-heeled existence; it's the exceptionality that makes it news. We don't see artfully discarded floral arrangements & tense handholding for ICE's many thousands of "typical" victims.

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Mika Fae Queen of Night 🏳️‍⚧️ @msmaxwellmusic.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

this has real "final video log on derelict space freighter" vibes

Kamala Harris Zoom call with the words Be "Ruthless"

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Zak Sitter @telliamed.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Björk - Post Blondie - Plastic Letters Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions Wu-Tang - Triumph Thinking Fellers - Lovelyville Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising The Knife - Deep Cuts

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New: 3 yrs ago I published exposé revealing Richard Hanania used pseudonym to write for Nazi sites Ever since I've watched centrist media rehabilitate him, accepting his ludicrous claim to have left white nationalism behind. My look at what it means, for @marisakabas.bsky.social' The Handbasket

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You don’t have to hand it to Richard Hanania

The so-called "former" white supremacist's work doesn't show accountability—or that he's actually moved on from his earlier views, Christopher Mathias writes.

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Zak Sitter @telliamed.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

There's a disturbing amount of very sensible commentary about academic hiring practices happening on this site!

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you think you were a token in academia, just wait until you figure out why you are on the anti-woke beat at The Atlantic.

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

When talking about finalists for fancy academic jobs, the notion of ‘most qualified’ usually ceases to be well-defined at all

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Got a good job down at the Data Center. I work on the line, and it's hard work but it's honest and the wage is fair; my family and I are grateful for it. I rivet the word "absolutely" onto the little apologies that chatbots do when they misunderstand a prompt.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

VO: He's a peaceful man. He doesn't have a lot of rules. He starts every day with plums for breakfast. You don't want to see him if they go missing. You don't want to know what happened to the last guy who did that. NO FORGIVENESS. [The Rock: "You want something sweet and cold? TASTE THIS!"]

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The "canonical" debut of Bugs Bunny was released on this day in 1940, the Tex Avery short A Wild Hare. There are a couple sorta-Bugs-Bunny cartoons before this one, but it's fair to view this as his first. Happy 86th birthday, Bugs.

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A Wild Hare (1940)

The following essay was originally published on my Strawberry Penguin Substack on April 11, 2025. One only has to look at the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film winners and nominees to noti…

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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

“Without the nuances of Morton’s performance, the Circe scene as written by Nolan is rooted in men’s questionable fear of being accused of violence against women rather than the tragedy of how women navigate that very real threat to our lives.” My latest. www.vulture.com/article/circ...

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The Odyssey’s Circe Is the Best Female Character Nolan Has Ever Written

Nolan’s never been great at writing women, but what doesn’t exist on the page Samantha Morton conjures through a tricksy, powerhouse performance.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.

A graph showing how the edsel and Cybertruck both performed based on their sales target and actual year one and year two sales. The edsel was expected to sell 200k units in its first year. It sold slightly over 50k, and less than 50k the next year

The Cybertruck had a sales.target of 250k in its first year. They sold around 40k, the next year they sold about half as many.

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Zak Sitter @telliamed.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone mention the striking parallels between Spain's two championship games: both won 1-0 on goals in the 2nd period of extra time, both against thuggish opponents who finished with only 10 men. Amazing defenses, too - 2010 Spain gave up no goals in the knockout round!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/07/2026

This is evidence. The ex-wife of ICE officer David Brouillette, who killed Joan Sebastian, says he urged her to stay quiet: “Don’t mention any of the abuse or troubles that we had in our marriage. Right now it’s important to make sure that I look like I have a good character.”

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Zak Sitter @telliamed.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

cool sunset tonight, thanks Canada

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Zak Sitter @telliamed.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Main takeaway from the first half of England/Argentina: whoever wins this will make barely a snack for Spain.

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Zak Sitter @telliamed.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

You do, occasionally, gotta hand it to him

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 04/07/2026

CABO VERDE, THE ONLY TEAM IN FIFA WORLD CUP HISTORY TO BE UNDEFEATED IN REGULATION

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time

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Zak Sitter @telliamed.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This Masha and the Bear freakout is driving me crazy. I think it's very important that children be exposed to as wide an array of thinly veiled national propagandas as possible.

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Oh my GOD the new Messi statue 💀

A statue of footballer Lionel Messi with his legs spread and the World Cup between them.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

the story of Iran is that you don't always have to win. sometimes you just have to have what it takes to deny victory to your opponents, and endure

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

hard disagree but

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I find the discussion around Graham Platner frankly triggering as I am a Black queer who voted for Joe Biden and was fully prepared to do so twice. AND relentlessly say nice things about him!

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 31/05/2026

The key thing to understand about leading visions of the future is that it is a big club and you are not in the club.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

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Zak Sitter @telliamed.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Yeah, I think we're going to need every ounce of political pull we can muster to get even the tiniest bit of the regulatory oversight that industry desperately needs.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

When someone posts something that looks like this. With airspace between every sentence to emphasize profundity. Even in sentence fragments. Because of concision. Which is the most powerful weapon we have. The likelier it is that you are reading some terrible overshared AI-generated crap.

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