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Michael Short

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'How can we know the dancer from the dance?' - William Yeats / 'Are we human. Or are we dancer?' - The Killers / 24x81

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Incredible chutzpah from a Congress whose one major legislative act was a budget bill that among other things imposed significant new administrative burdens on Medicaid recipients
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Republican says taxes are profits that the government makes.
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A Madhouse Planet Of The Apes
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 28/09/2026
"Words do not blast stim at the rate we enjoy today. Words are old, older than TikTok. Back then, a human would read, 'Fireworks exploded above two (or more) trad-attractive nudes copulating on a sandy beach,' and the reader would have to imagine that in their mind." buff.ly/oZe8zx4
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How to Read Good or Maybe Great
“First, accept how fun reading isn’t. Words do not blast stim at the rate we enjoy today. Words are old, older than TikTok. Back then, a human would read, ‘F...
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Dave Kearn @davekearnjr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh. Well in that case…
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log̷o, respawned dad @loxophile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My god... the coffee scale is screaming
My right hand pressing into a small coffee scale on a wooden cutting board. The scale's display shows "EEEE"
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed." ~ Mahatma Gandhi @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
Pat Bagley
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Michael Short @torqanvil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WTAF
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Michael Short @torqanvil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every American is complaining about the cost of gas, but sure, let's make cars less fuel efficient. We're the stupidest country. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/c... 🎁
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Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules (Gift Article)
New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
everyone who's ever joined in an online pile on should read this.
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Michael Short @torqanvil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/o... 🎁
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Opinion | The Four TV Shows That Heralded America’s Fall (Gift Article)
Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.
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Paul Szoldra @paulszoldra.com · 26/09/2026
The systems haven't gone rogue. The CEOs of the companies overseeing these systems did not set proper safeguards. They are responsible for what happens in their companies. Humans are held to account, not some random computer that's 'gone rogue.'
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
“You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.” How ChatGPT fueled the violent fantasies of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter, according to our new investigation:
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Our new investigation uncovers the horrifying ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the day of the school massacre.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When I say Butlerian, you say Jihad. Butlerian! Jihad! Butlerian! Jihad!
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Harris, Klobuchar, and Clinton all drew "shes a b****" stories in the New York Times citing anonymous former junior staffers. Nothing ever really came of them. It's a genre staple against every prominent woman senate and presidential candidate.
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Librarian Capital @librariancapital.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
OMG. "F-35 manufacturer Lockheed Martin $LMT manages the program’s overall supply chain and uses commercial shipping providers to transport parts"
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Hill investigates after F-35 parts diverted to Hong Kong
The incident raises the possibility that top secret weapons technology may have been exposed to a foreign adversary — including China.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mother of Renee Good: I voted for Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the US, innocents like our family and the others here, against terrorists. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Total collapse: 70% say his Iran war has hurt the US 75% say he has no plan for the war 76% say the war isn't worth the costs
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Michael Short @torqanvil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Amen
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Michael Short @torqanvil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Recommended read
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Close-up footage of anti-drone protective nets being installed over Russian oil refineries.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
GI Joe Cobra Terror Drome with Firebat toy packaging
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When Donald Trump says our country is in a "golden age," he isn't talking about a golden age for your family. Only for his.
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Joe Neguse @joeneguse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Under Republican control, the House of Representatives has been in session for only 72 days in 2026. 27% of the calendar year.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's fun to imagine what national security uses Trump will claim the military is strongly requesting he use his other vanity projects for. Jets on the golf course? But then you realize the obvious move for his National Garden of American Heroes is to make all 250 statues killer robots.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And this goes for their claims that AI has "escaped."
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Michael Short @torqanvil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Rich Lux Psychic
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
On Nov. 18, Voyager 1 will become the first spacecraft ever to reach one light-day from Earth About 16 billion miles
A grainy, dark image of space with a small, bright dot labeled Earth with an arrow. A white square inset at the top zooms in on the tiny dot.
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
9/19/80: Ordinary People D Robert Redford 🙏 / W Alvin Sargent w/Sutherland, MTM, Hutton, Hirsch More @kphipps3000.bsky.social: thereveal.substack.com/p/the-80s-in... @billsimmons.bsky.social / @seanfennessey.bsky.social: open.spotify.com/episode/4mjG... @rafiews.com: lwlies.com/in-praise-of...
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In praise of Robert Redford’s Ordinary People
Redford’s directorial debut holds its ground as one of cinema’s most moving explorations of loss and guilt.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
T.P. SQUAD They’re cops. And they’re gonna wipe out crime. ABC Thursdays 9pm, this fall!
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
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Anna Kaminski @anna-writes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall and his wife put down roots in Sarasota, hosting fundraising events, obtaining real estate and fishing licenses and filing paperwork from the coastal Florida town while the senator worked in Washington, D.C., and claimed Kansas as home. kansasreflector.com/2026/09/18/u...
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US Sen. Roger Marshall leaves paper trail in Florida while calling Kansas home • Kansas Reflector
U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall established deeper roots than previously disclosed in Sarasota, Florida, where he had a vacation home that he traveled to on official business and said he used for visiting fa...
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Poll Tracker 📊 @polltracker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Kansas Senate (Emerson) 🔵Adam Hamilton: 45% 🔴Roger Marshall: 43% 🟡David Graham: 4% 9/15-16 Link: emersoncollegepolling.com/kansas-2026/
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"A Microsoft exec called the training of artificial intelligence models the 'largest theft of labor in human history,' according to a legal brief filed by the New York Times and unsealed Thursday ... that same executive called it "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.'" wapo.st/4cNqaRV
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Microsoft exec called AI the ‘largest theft of labor’ in history, court records show
The quote headlined an unsealed document in the New York Times’s copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In 2026, you spend a lot of time verifying that you are, in fact, human.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026
Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials. Here's my analysis of today's @ddosecrets.org Flock leak micahflee.com/flock-camera...
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Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials
This morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera. 404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it. I downloa...
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Michael Short @torqanvil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
FFS
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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There are about 13,700 FBI agents. There are over 95,000 polling places in the U.S. Stop letting these goons scare us. Register, validate and update your registration, know your polling place, vote early if you can.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Last day of the Trump Admin is going to be like this. He’s going to blow up anything that hasn’t been named after him.
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Couple Overlooking City Skyline at Night
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Michael Short @torqanvil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
RIP, #BobMackie 😢
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump says the only guardrails AI needs is a strong and smart and high IQ president.
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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"If you love $6 a gallon diesel fuel, you can thank Roger Marshall... This man supported the war. I want to get us out of the war."
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teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social @teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
MUST WATCH: Adam Hamilton’s Closing Statement.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
She adds, "But Republicans have made it a big attack on you," which is a telling statement. Stated simply: We don't find it newsworthy either, but it's our job to use talking points from one side and parrot them back to the other side. If not, we'll be accused of bias. (Also, my boss is Bari Weiss)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
HOLY SHIT - Tapper plays Johnson footage of GOP candidate Brandon Herrera describing moms as "cum trophies," mentions he called Nazi machine guns "the original ghetto blasters," & asks Johnson how he can support him. Mike says "he has run a very effective campaign ... that was his persona online"
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