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Mike Gruszczynski

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If you need to get a hold of me I'm probably lurking over at r/doner terrapeneornata.com www.terrapeneornata.com

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 19h
@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 28/09/2026
Maybe it's just me but I do find it *a bit* concerning that the companies being run by people who (out loud!) want to create technostates are using AI agents to attack governments.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
KEEP HONKING but consider this... what if I am asleep, and you are part of my dream? If you wake me with your honks, what then would become of you? - Philip K. Dick, "Brain Days at the Honkatorium"
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When you can have a 9 billion dollar loss in one day and not have it impact your daily life at all you have way too much money #abolishbillionaires
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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 25/09/2026
To be fair, his hand will crumble to dust at a touch so
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Dependency is the goal.
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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 24/09/2026
I had to think about whether I am allowed to put a Canadian flag sticker on my water bottle I take to class, but ok
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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 24/09/2026
So pretty much like Sam Altman then, huh?
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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 23/09/2026
Another term for this is poll tax, but where would they have gotten that idea from?
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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 23/09/2026
I mean, kind of makes him a shoe-in nomination for a party that hasn't talked about abortion rights since [checks notes] 10 minutes after Dobbs came down
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
A lot of us have had to take a lot of shit on Bluesky for the crime of being 100% right about guys too early
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 22/09/2026
It really is astonishing that we have this - there are some wonderful, and real, animals that..just exist. Like you can go out and look at them. Same continuum as AI-generated music. There is not enough time in anyone's life to listen to all of the human-created music. Why do we need slop?
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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A fancy provost allegedly using AI to write papers and op-eds is a big problem, but a bigger problem is why we all have no problem believing a fancy provost used AI write papers and op-eds. I should find that hard to believe. I don’t.
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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 21/09/2026
Also, are they really saying "the internet made people less racist"?
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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 21/09/2026
The passive "gets caught" language is so, so tired. Never any agency. I'm old enough to remember when the last guy was covered as if he was personally marking up every item in the grocery store.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026
"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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Sara Sanchez @bcbsara.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I remember listening to Chris Hayes' podcast at the start of Trump II and his guest talking about how the Brazilian movement that defeated Bolsonaro had a saying "We're not letting go of anyone's hands." Way too many people think it's okay to let go of some peoples' hands.
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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 19/09/2026
In case anyone has spaces left on their list of "things to take a sledgehammer to in 2029"
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026
This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026
When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
promise kept
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 16/09/2026
Right on
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Estee @esteeland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Someday, Everyone will Have Been Against This"
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
it rules that the president is a 90s cartoon style eco-villain. just doing a backyard burn of big yellow barrels that say “POLLUTION”. hexxus ass motherfucker
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Guy who can do *computer* will surely be able to make mere potato!" is a load-bearing brick in the "baking the earth for AI is fine, we'll just terraform Mars using computer" delusion
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is genuinely one of the oldest and most fundamental points about legislative authority to constrain would-be absolute kings. The king wants to govern without parliamentary oversight. Parliament says "you need us to authorize taxes and military spending." 3/
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026
I also find it hilarious how universities are justifying these expenditures using the language of 'equity.'"If we don't buy these tools for everyone, then only the rich kids will be able to afford them, and that's unfair." But you don't buy books assigned by profs for anyone? Why not subsidize that!
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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 11/09/2026
Thing about these people is that's all their worth
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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 11/09/2026
I lecture a large (300) section of our intro to media class. On Wednesday I talked about how different the media environment is compared to when I was a freshman in 2001. I was a music major and had gotten out of class in the Fine Arts building at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Third Way politics get you a third place finish.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Neither Trump nor his wife are in attendance at this year’s ceremony, notwithstanding the AP photo editor’s bullshit.
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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 11/09/2026
We could've had this guy. Instead we got a five o'clock shadow who mansplains Catholicism to the Pope.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 10/09/2026
Can't stop thinking about how younger generations seem to create new history for eras they weren't adults for and lack the proper context for. Blogs were quite popular, podcasts were a niche interest, and wiki has always been a useful tool that you still can't directly cite as a source.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/09/2026
never forget except for donald trump, he can forget
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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im nicebat 👼🦇 @nicebart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
evergreen
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“the secretary of health and human services food-shamed the secretary of state by instructing AI to create an image of him spoon-feeding sauerkraut to the vice president and then posting it on X” is now a true sentence you can say before pulling your hair out.
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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 03/09/2026
Today is a coding day for me and you know what? This doesn't affect me at all because my mind isn't tethered to the thievery machines.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
so are we gonna get a bunch of political analysis thumbsucker pieces about the cautionary tale of a promising youngish politico who torpedoed his career by latching on to the biological gender extremists who are attempting to drag the Democratic Party into hugely unpopular political waters or nah
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Absolutely astounding how people will look me in the eye and detail the supremely mundane ways in which they use genAI while professing that “it’s not going anywhere“ as though they have no individual will whatsoever.
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"Ultimately, it should be up to parents to decide whether they want their 6-month-old to get a raccoon bite, an opossum bite, or both at the same time. And don’t skip out on your turtle nips!"
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HHS Replaces Childhood Vaccination Schedule With List Of Recommended Animal Bites
WASHINGTON—Revising the former timetable to reflect its latest public guidelines, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services replaced the childhood vaccination schedule Friday with a list of rec...
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