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but further, the kind of things Flanagan wants to see ICE's replacement have--"due process" etc.--ICE is already supposed to have. we've already done this. people are mad because Flanagan is not merely hedging here, she is proposing nothing policy is made of words, and the choice of words matters

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the "replace" frame entails that ICE serves a necessary function: an armed wing of the state to ensure paperwork compliance. that's all it is, and quite frankly, I don't think we need that

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Lund is making the case that this is just a rhetorical hedge, a choice of words, to appeal to a midwestern base. But we've seen what happened before with these hedges: "abolish the police" became "defund the police" became "give the police more funds to become accountable" to "nothing changes"

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4h

while the dynamics of social media make these kinds of rows unproductive, he's making an abstraction here any reasonable person would agree with while avoiding actually stating what is being argued the debate here: instead of Flanagan saying "abolish ICE," she said "ICE should be replaced with..."

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found an NYC Teamster whose tiktoks are just skate tricks he dedicates to other unions.

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Political attacks on me will escalate dramatically in the coming months, on account of my bad posts and terrible attitude

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The social ideology of the motorcar - Uneven Earth

" In countries that do not have a transportation industry, people travel at exactly this speed on foot, with the added advantage that they can go wherever they want and aren’t restricted to asphalt roads.” unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-...

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by André Gorz The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and natur...

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"gas, tires, tolls, insurance, tickets, and taxes .Thus it takes this American 1500 hours to go 6000 miles (in the course of a year). Three and a half miles take him (or her) one hour...

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 18h

“The typical American devotes more than 1500 hours a year (which is 30 hours a week, or 4 hours a day, including Sundays) to his [or her] car. This includes the time spent behind the wheel, both in motion and stopped, the hours of work to pay for it and to pay for ...

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we're due for another round of Prisencolinensinainciusol discourse

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 23h

I know philosophers irl and this shit pisses them off more than it pisses off the rest of us

Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 23h

I wish I could have talked these companies into paying me seven-figures to say "no," would have saved them so much money

public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

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all of us just watched these university admins wield enormous power against palestinian student orgs, including unaffiliated ones, so these excuses land flatter than ever

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Archaeologists working off the coast of Turkey have found a shipwreck dating back around 4,700 years....Clay analyses indicate that the amphorae were likely produced in workshops in the Jordan Valley.... 🤯

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World’s oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey | CNN

Archaeologists working off the coast of Turkey have found a shipwreck dating back around 4,700 years, making it the oldest in the world.

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but the future refused to change @alicedyeforme.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

yeah, so should people rotting their minds with those newfangled things they call novels, amirite this literally was the argument at the time the problem with video games sn't the medium but the incentives of capital

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This is not the end. In fact, I see a beginning.

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Especially the autonomous car version—Waymo’s clogging the streets waiting for fares, trucks with ads on the sides but no driver, circling for days on end.

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it just leads to a world where things you are currently able to do online get shut down and turned into exclusively in-person only services, because they won't be able to cope. the "everyone is a concert ticket scalper" society.

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“When war breaks out, people say: ‘it won’t last, it’s too stupid.’ And war is certainly too stupid, but that doesn’t prevent it from lasting.” - Albert Camus

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Luis Bustos @luisbustos.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Lagrimones pero de risa.

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Unfortunate but typical and by design

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404 Media @404media.co · 14/10/2026

Men find yet another way to film and harass women without consent, this time, using a remote controlled robot to push against a "16-year-old girl's buttocks", and this is how the most well-resourced news agencies cover it: Read *our* piece here: www.404media.co/theres-nothi...

The English coverage by even well-resourced outlets like CNN, CBC, and the BBC have almost no information beyond the police press release, which is lazy and stupid, because it is possible to figure out everything that happened here with three seconds of clicking around the internet. The Associated Press wrote that the entire phenomenon is "new territory" for the police, which, I'm sorry to say, men using tech to harass women on livestreams in 2026 is not "unusual" or "new territory" and hasn't been for many years.

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Well, I feel vindicated bsky.app/profile/carl...

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Jersey boy in 'Straya @rogersherman.com · 14/10/2026

I don't think it's discussed enough, how trump is the only person that can't sit on a white couch without a towel underneath him.

trump sits on a black towel on a white couch on a tv interview show.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/10/2026

By then the benchmarks and metrics and numbers were already clear. It was because people didn't like the explanation of well I can't mathematically describe the properties of my models but NUMBERS GO BIG ON BENCHMARK.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

City workers usually move fast to dismantle a guerrilla crosswalk or bench, often arriving in a matter of hours. IMO that's part of the activists' power: They show that government *can* quickly change streets—even if it seldom does.

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What if making your neighborhood safer means breaking the rules?

Neighborhood vigilantes are making their own crosswalks, bus stop benches, and DIY bike lanes. Not everyone’s happy about it.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This thread illustrates, in horrifying detail, that when the media uncritically reports statements of the Trump administration, it's not just failing in its job, it's actively contributing to the evils the administration propagates.

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Sounds like this news should hurt nVidia stock. If your toaster can run Claude or is running it, what would you need a ZTX 36000 for

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 13/10/2026

one of the key factors in the souring of Silicon Valley culture is the whole "acceptance of failure" element... it's one thing to not let the failure of some enterprise SaaS startup hold you back, but when your startup causes children to self-harm at scale maybe that failure should stick with you

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Why AI won’t kill the editorial class: used right, AI can unleash opinions and not destroy them.” Do you see how ridiculous this looks

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

On Monday, I will present this poster on critically analyzing mass surveillance datasets. I empirically show here that collecting CCTV style images is nonsense idea and does not even improve the model performance. #AIES2026

Poster titled “Training on Mass Surveillance Datasets Provides No Empirical Benefits”, by A Pranav and Anne Lauscher, with University of Hamburg and Trustworthy AI Hamburg logos and a black-and-white illustration of a surveillance camera labeled 1086. At top right, three sample image strips from the Market-1501, CUHK03 and CUHK-SYSU datasets show pedestrians, each with one query crop outlined in red and two matches outlined in green. Beneath them the text reads “Re-identification datasets are built from non-consensual surveillance footage.” A horizontal bar chart of pooled tracking IDF1 (%) shows Pretrained at 28.1 and Finetuned at 28.5, both inside a shaded band from -2 to +2 around the pretrained value. The closing text reads “Finetuning on re-identification datasets does not improve downstream tracking.”

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A 19th Century Japanese Depiction of an American

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Agreed. Especially in the winter, it feels like suiting up for space travel. At least, it would be nice to have places to leave them to dry.