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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“Living through a global resurgence of fascism, the difficulty has proved to be not arguing against it, but convincing non-fascists that fascism’s adherents really mean it. That they believe what they are telling us they believe—and they will act accordingly.” www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...

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Fascists Really Believe It

Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 03/10/2026

18 U.S.C. §597

@realDonaldTrump

If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2026 Midterm Elections, I’m going to give all Adult Citizens in the United States of America, $5,000. Thank you for your attention to this matter, and I look forward to signing those checks! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Pope, would you please shut the fuck up..." - this AI guy, but also Henry VIII, circa 1533.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All Trump's people have done is pick up Chekov's loaded gun and start firing it. 'Bush v Gore' placed it on the table, awaiting a character with no loyalty to the republic to enter the scene.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

Here is Eliezer Yudkowsky explaining (like a very normal person who absolutely does not have some kind of acute personality disorder) why, on the basis of his childhood test scores, he is a special genius uniquely qualified to change the world: web.archive.org/web/20010309...

5.2: Do you really think you can change the world?
Well, yes. After all, if I shouldn't believe that I can do it - or at least, that I have enough of a chance to make the effort worthwhile - who should?
That, at any rate, would be the argument I'd use if I were trying to set up a socially acceptable set of emotional bindings under which "I can change the world" sounds like a modest endeavor. "You can assign a suitably humble estimate to my chances of success as an individual, but if nobody tried, we'd be out of luck, wouldn't we?i
That's not what I tell myself.
Algernon's Law says that any simple (45) major intelligence enhancement will turn out to be a net evolutionary disadvantage. (46). The flip side of Algernon's Law is that there are some levels of performance that can't be achieved without the evolutionary disadvantage. If there were any way to duplicate the performance level of a Specialist without the downside, my SAT scores would be as common as mud; those performance levels would be part of the standard human neurology, like symbolic language or three-dimensional vision. I therefore expect that in any of my areas of Specialization - causal analysis, combinatorial design, reflectivity - I will have significantly more raw processing power than anyone except another Specialist.
Just because ten thousand dedicated researchers hit a problem and bounce, it is not a licensable conclusion that a Specialist will bounce off as well. A truly "impossible" problem often takes me a while to solve; I have to slog away at it steadily, whereas my usual rule is that I can see an answer instantly if I can see it at all. Conversely, if my level of processing power is enough to make slow but steady progress on a problem, then I would expect any non-Specialist to hit the problem and bounce. Which, to some extent, explains the travails suffered by Al.

The existence of Specialists expands the range of problems that humanity can solve. And because I don't know of any other Countersphexists operating in the fields of Al, transhumanism, or Singularitarianism (47), or of any other Countersphexists at all (48), then, for an important class of problems, I expand the range of problems that can be solved. In particular, I am referring to the problem of Al.
Oh, don't get me wrong - I'm sure AI would be solved eventually. In about 2020 CRNS (49), the weight of accumulated cognitive science and available computing power would disintegrate the ideological oversimplifications and create enough of a foothold in the problem to last humanity the rest of the way. It would be absurd to claim to represent the difference between a solvable and unsolvable problem in the long run, but one genius can easily spell the difference between cracking the problem of intelligence in five years and cracking it in twenty-five - or to put it another way, the difference between a seed Al created immediately after the invention of nanotechnology, and a seed Al created by the last dozen survivors of the human race huddled in a survival station, or some military installation, after Earth's surface has been reduced to a churning mass of goo.
That's why I matter, and that's why I think my efforts could spell the difference between life and death for most of humanity, or even the difference between a Singularity and a lifeless, sterilized planet. I don't mean to say, of course, that the entire causal load should be attributed to me; if I make it, then Ed Regis or Vernor Vinge, both of whom got me into this, would equally be able to say "My efforts made the difference between Singularity and destruction." The same goes for Brian Atkins, and Eric Drexler, and so on. History is a fragile thing. So are our causal intuitions, where linear chains of dependencies are concerned. Nonetheless, I think that I can save the world, not just because I'm the one who hap…

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 30/09/2026

Right up there with this classic

@LPNational (the national Libertarian Party) asks, “In your words, what do Libertarians believe?”

@WAForeskins quotes with “My girlfriend shouldn’t have to sit in a car seat”

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Tommy Tatertown @senorgreygoose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the best takedowns of the "rationalists" and Libertarians is in Fargo, season 5: Roy: "I want freedom without arbitrary rules.” Lorraine: "So you want freedom without responsibility? Son, there's only one person on Earth who gets that deal." Roy: "The President?" Lorraine: "A baby.”

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Skeets McGee @emmreef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reminds me of Kingpin

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A fun thing about President Business is that he fucking sucks at business worse than anyone else ever has This is an explicit promise to blow up the national debt in a way that would make Hugo Chávez look like a tight-fisted number-crunching white-shirt fiscal conservative *for an election stunt*

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lauren Boebert and Clarisse Navarro had a knock-down-drag-out fight at the Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar in Aspen, CO, the bar co-owned by the guy who felt up Boebert at that Beetlejuice show. That guy was flirting with Boebert and Navarro did not like that! This led to a physical fight.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026

eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

👇👇👇👇

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Autumnal Astrid🍂 @namitomoon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's all gender. It always was. It will always be. Your mom telling you to eat vegan: annoying, what does she think, I'll eat even more beef fuck youuuu Your dad telling you to eat vegan: damn very good financial advice, maybe veganism is good and if not I have to do as he says or else

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A decade ago, if you aimed to predict Supreme Court decisions, which has proven a better heuristic? 1) Follow legal text and precedent according to a logically consistent judicial philosophy 2) Ignore or distort law to maximize GOP/right-wing power while mitigating risks of future court expansion

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am driven to distraction by how *not angry* so many of my electeds seem. When they sit around and blab about policy this and policy that and blah blah blah, what I hear is "This is an interesting intellectual exercise for me." You should be barely able to contain yourself in public.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13/09/2026

Ossoff: "Americans aren't a race. We're a people, united not by ethnicity but by shared convictions. That is what makes us exceptional and a beacon to the world. This is what small men like Donald Trump and Mike Collins will never understand."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026

the way to understand a piece like this from schmitz is that he lives in an urban, cosmopolitan millieu and the popularity of country music is a novelty to him. and so to explain it, he has to fit it into his volkish conception of america, whether or not that makes any actual sense.

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Against stereotypes: Blue states and cities much safer than red ones "Crime" stories spike right before elections California lower overall effective taxes than Texas for 99% of people: Bracket Texas California Tax Rate 0-20% 13% 10.5% 20-40% 10.9% 9.4% 40-60% 9.7% 8.3% While subsidizing South:

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So the GOP is celebrating a guy who created a darknet marketplace for heroin and meth, and put out multiple muder-for-hire contacts to conceal his crimes.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

it used to be that conspiring to commit election fraud was a crime.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026

Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My narrow and specific issue with these sorts of pieces is that I wish they partook of the wisdom of the slave who knows when to patiently endure, when to steal away in the depth of the night, and when to take any weapons you can, kill any slavers you can, and make for the Union army camp.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’m back this week with some thoughts on violence, civil conflict, revolutions, and, yes, Luigi Mangione www.liberalcurrents.com/you-wont-win...

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You Won’t Win the Revolution

The descent of stable societies into ones of endemic violence rarely produces anything but new forms of tyranny and terror.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/09/2026

"With the possible exception of the cyclospora outbreak, I fear people haven’t really seen the consequences of the worst things that can result from a government run by and for the trolls." — @ninajankowicz.com

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Nina Jankowicz on the golden age of disinformation

“Memory-holing is core to all of the narrative coups Republicans are achieving right now.”

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If Barack Obama had done this, every Sunday show would have talked about nothing else.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sure. It's four and a half Benghazis, but think of the greater good of giving Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Media coverage of Trump’s armed robbery of Venezuela's oil shows “a news industry that has been laundered of a basic sense of right and wrong. Shockingly few people in the media are asking: Do we really want to be a country that blows people up and steals from them?” My Stop the Presses newsletter.

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Trump’s armed robbery in Venezuela draws values-free coverage

A “might is right” mentality consumes our government and infects the media

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Today in “Juan Linz was right”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/08/2026

"It’s bad enough being a failing empire. Let’s not also be a delusional failing empire. Let’s at least have some dignity about our situation."

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The American Age Is Over

Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 29/08/2026

This is a tough read, but well done

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

More on this from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. "Every time a right winger points and laughs at a socialist who was born rich, it should be understood as a desperate attempt to justify their own moral failure to themselves." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/never-apol...

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Never Apologize For Being a Class Traitor

All rich kids should be socialists.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A really weird irony about the "authenticity" debate wrt rural volk vs cosmopolitan elites is that the actual culture of rural red state America in the 2020s is not actually authentic in any meaningful way?

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 23/08/2026

remember when there was that train accident in east palestine ohio and the right wing talked endlessly about how biden & co didn't care about the middle of the country? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...

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Desperation Mounts as Thousands in Indiana Endure 10 Days Without Power

Floods from powerful thunderstorms devastated Gary, where a third of residents live below the poverty line and full restoration isn’t expected until next week.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Every day you read two headlines, one like "Trump orders U.S. Aircraft Carrier to get him Chik-fil-a" and one like "Hakeem Jeffries: We Must Be Very Cautious in the Way We Consider Speaking About Methods of Bringing About Incremental Change to U.S. Tax Code"

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LaMeep @lameep.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

When the Big Beautiful Obituary happens and there's party across the land, the GOP will try to shame us. Talk to the hand. ✋

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Compound bow First developed in the Ancient World Can't be drawn by just a random guy Tensile strength to make bronze arrows fly

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 30/07/2026

While you were partying, I studied the budget. While you were having premarital sex, I studied impoundment. While you were at the gym I cultivated turbo-racism. Now, with the world on fire and the democrats at the gate, you come to me for help?

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