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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

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Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:

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Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI

Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...

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Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Post a horror movie with a one word title! 🖤

A demon emerging from the back of a former human in Bava's movie Demons.

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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If a sentence in your newscast starts with “President Trump says…” you’re failing your audience.

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All Elite Central @allelitecentral.com · 29/09/2026

Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) comments on PAC's passing, referencing his AEW career and sending best wishes to Tony Khan and the AEW locker room. This is how it should be done. Respect. 🤝

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Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amy Klobucher is 5'4", but she dunked on Schmitt so hard she smashed the backboard.

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David BASTARDspan @davidbix.com · 29/09/2026

Since WWE's trying to exploit PAC's death, it's time to talk about this: Remember how PAC suddenly had visa issues when AEW started? That's because, when the AEW trademarks were filed, WWE called USCIS to claim he walked out on his visa. After leaving him alone for a year and giving him his release.

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Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Editor: I need Namor looking like he's traced from an Adrian Pasdar photo. Psylocke needs her entire lower body missing except for her crotch, and look like she's growing out of Namor's tummy. And make Emma's arms merge with her cape, and just fuck up her face. Greg Land: My dream gig!

Uncanny X-Men 517, featuring everything said in the post, as well as Magneto and Cyclops.

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Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes Google fucks up outside their "AI" search. This is the normal summary thing on the right of my search for "The Tell." It conflates Amy Griffin's 2025 planted and hyperproblematic bestseller, a separate book about a Canadian murder in 1997, and a date (1953) with no connection to either.

Tell. Book by Amy Griffin.

Originally published: 1953
A collection of poems partially based on the Reena Virk murder case. Virk was an Asian adolescent whose drowned body was found in the Gorge Waterway in a Victoria, BC suburb, in 1997. Some of the poems use found material from court transcripts. ... Google Books

Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He regrets people finding out.

Jill Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then...

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 27/09/2026

I see we’re doing “beg the question” again. In the 80s it meant ”that prejudges the answer to a question still in play“. Now it means “that makes me want to ask the question…” When I was a kid, the second like throwing apostrophes at carrots. Now the first is shouting at clouds. Language evolves.

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Watched someone double and then triple down on their argument that sex workers are bad people. It seems to be entirely a reaction to Pretty Woman and Sweet Charity being unrealistic, which, duh? The only thing worse than an idiotic argument is someone going full Dunning Kruger defending it.

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Where bad science meets bad journalism.

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 26/09/2026

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I wrote about FURIOUS (which I loved), and what it says about the times we're living in even as it takes its narrative template squarely from late 80s/early 90s films we almost never see anymore, for @foreignpolicy.com.

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‘Furious’ Is an Angry Show for the World of Epstein and Trump

A tumultuous TV thriller delves into damage and revenge.

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Thinking about that absolutely terrible Ella Langley piece by Moss (who's usually really good!) in Rolling Stone, and it felt like the music version of someone saying, "what do you mean, you don't know about TRACKER, the top-rated network show?" We don't have the monoculture of 25 years ago, period.

The only reason this isn't true for me is that they made a joke about the song on SNL.

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Second Katseye SNL performance hit and spouse asked if it was a parody and I'm honestly not sure.

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Phoenix926 @phoenix926.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watching Katseye on SNL, and man, this a good Ashlee Simpson tribute, I guess? Though at least Ashlee was funny when the lip syncing became obvious.

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Getting mom's permission to flip him off back is hilarious. #AEWAllOut

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Really do not like the splitting of the pre-shows for #AEWAllOut. I'm not going to choose to ignore the matches on the Brawl, but I also enjoy the analysis on the Buy-In. Just seems like a really dumb idea to split them this way.

Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Every once in a while, you'd get a notification that you had another invite to give out, and you then had to make sure you brought the right person in. With great power came great responsibility.

Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Did that nine video games that shaped me thing.

Grid of "my nine games that shaped who I am":
Phantasie
Dungeon Master
Micro League Baseball
Pitfall!
Zork
Shadowgate
The Fool's Errand
Crystal Quest
Military Madness

So this is the first that I realized that the "iced coffee to an interview" thing did not originate with Kai's skeet here, and has been going on for a while. As always, Alison's take is worth reading.

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Coming soon to the NYT: A list ranking Lolita, Silent Spring, and Robert Lowell's Life Studies, all of which are clearly comparable.

This is somebody's Joker Moment.

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Another (obvious) problem with the NYT TV list is that TV is a medium, and "TV Shows" is not an actual category within which things can be compared. Planet Earth, The Wire, and Key and Peele are 3 completely different kinds of shows, and the notion that any of them could "outrank" the other is dumb

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026

I've said it before: Ranked "best of" lists are reductive at best, clickbait bullshit at worst. But I am amused at both True Detective and Beef being limited to "Season 1" since there was no way to justify them being on any list otherwise. (Surprised they didn't try that with Lost.)

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Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing

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to wound the autumnal city 🍀 @silverhawthorne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Britt Baker shows up on comms and the first thing she does is mock and mangle the name of a woman of color. On brand. Really hope she disappears permanently soon - she’s making watching Persephone wrestle borderline unwatchable, which I’d previously thought impossible.

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Catching up on last night's #AEWDynamite, and holy shit is Britt's announcing terrible. Like Ricky Starks-level bad. She starts by making fun of Hyan's name while also mispronouncing "Perse'" stumbles over everything, etc. I love a good heel-announcer, but she's the anti-Callis.

Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Saudis are learning what every contractor who's ever worked for Trump knows: He does not honor his deals or pay his bills.

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Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's easy to laugh at Tommy Tuberville - he's objectively the dumbest US senator ever - until you also remember that he's a fucking bigot whose entire life goal is hurting people. The furry stuff is literally just a tangent to his attempting to classify trans people as mentally ill.

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Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Was actually disappointed to see that it's because of grime rap. I totally had pictured Kidd listening to Sex Pistols cover bands.

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Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Free mini donuts being made on the quad this morning! Definitely more fun to watch donuts being made than sausage.

Seven mini-donuts in a torn-open paper bag.

Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Jaxson Dart, one of the Trumpiest football players out there, got injured? Oh no, that's so awful. Giggling? No, why would I be giggling when I say that?

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Biblically Accurate VLC Instance

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Christopher Walsh @awkwardisallowed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In a thread defending the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, one poster made a flippant reference to an art piece of "a pile of candy in a corner." The art in question is "Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)," a piece created by Félix González-Torres as tribute to his late partner, who died of AIDS.