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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 9h

Peter Thiel looks like if someone mixed up the Dorian Gray painting spell.

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 19h

And how will I develop those preferences from within the recursive slop loop?

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Every Brad Bradford endorsement is like, "Toronto used to be a utopia with zero problems. Now it is only fit for the most violent of rats, where sentient crack pipes murder you in dark alleys and feral child gangs feast on the Lululemons of my yoga mom group. Brad will fix this. I live in Whitby."

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What's the punishment if you blow up 200+ people on boats to create content for your ailing despot?

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

/fast forward 15 years "Claude, why did my child cut me off? Reply using my child's voice."

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Unironically cannot think of a better political development than this portion of the left breaking from Mamdani

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Time to pre-load r/Yankees

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The 20% is the true floor of support for abject racism in America. I suspect it's similar in Canada but our government is representative as opposed to based on a strong Senate that wildly misrepresents the demographics of the country.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Big MAGA energy. He's probably just worried about the midterms and communism taking over America.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.

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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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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He's begging for a 9/11 to save him. I wonder what intel they're willing to overlook.

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sam Darnold has one mixed-bag game coming off an injury after winning a Superbowl and we already have The Athletic out here concern trolling about regression 👎

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If they put surveillance tech in a cute little French guillotine, would Zuck wear it? Won't take long ✌️

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My biggest takeaways: 1. You can't separate True Detective Season 1 as its own thing (rank cowardice in list making) 2. I love that The OA is on there. 3. Station Eleven should be top 10. 4. Where is Midnight Mass?!

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

“Sure, it’s true that many Black people have reclaimed the word. But the lawsuit is about non-Black Tesla employees and managers abusing Black workers — including allegedly hurling the slur at them in ways that don’t sound like anything resembling gestures of ‘respect and endearment.’”

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Tesla Argues in Court That the N-Word Is Acceptable Under Certain Circumstances

An important trial in California kicked off with Tesla's lawyers arguing that the n-word is a term of "respect and endearment."

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Erik @erikgt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This turned out to be a pretty good curse. A selection of some, 2026 WAR vs 2025. Judge: -8.0 WAR Raleigh: -7.2 WAR Skenes: -2.4 WAR Clement: -2.4 WAR Buxton: -2.4 WAR Anthony: -2.3 WAR

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

15 years ago, the #Canucks would have shown up as most hated by at least a dozen teams. Now, it's zero. That's about as bad as it gets.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This isn't an AI thing, but it explains why executives think AI is great. They *already* live like they have been kicked in the head by a horse. They already have a group of people making sure they've wiped their ass. They already don't have exposure to negative consequences.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm hoping for a green balance of power here. Eby made a pretty massive mistake here, but his political instincts aren't very good.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this story has some incredible tidbits. They hoped to sell 100 VIP tickets to cover expenses and sold six lol

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A reinvigorated conservative party? In this economy?

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Eby waiting until after KLF resigns is going to backfire on him. He has the political instincts of a potato.

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They must not realize this or they wouldn't do it!! 🤔🤔🤔

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Mike Wilner @wilnerness.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Should mention that in our high holy days prayer book - at least, the ones we use here in Toronto - there’s a note before the Kol Nidre prayer that says specifically that the prayer absolutely does not cancel person to person oaths/vows and only “willful enemies of the truth” would suggest it does.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is fucked! Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford is using an Israeli AI app to create an army of snitches and reply-guys. The app finds valid criticism of the candidate on social media, gives you an AI-written reply to post, then gives you rewards

On Sept. 17, we were given another mission, this time targeting the social media platform X. It arrived as a text: “Hey! A new post just went up, and it’s waiting for you on Victory. Jump in, generate a comment with the AI button, drop a like, and share with friends — every action earns points.”

The task was named “Pushing Back on ‘Part of the Problem’ Attacks,” a reference to comments criticizing Bradford for inaction during his eight years on council.

One critic had replied to Bradford's post: “Haven't you been part of the municipal government for awhile, bradbrad? You're part of the problem lol.”

To push back, LogiVote's AI system had recommended seeding a counter-narrative.

The result, generated for us to post: “So tired of hearing the same excuses from city hall, while nothing changes. Brad, you’ve actually stood up for us — don’t let them say you haven’t tried. We need someone who won’t back down.”

The Victory App asked us to enter our X username to verify we complied and award us 25 in-app coins.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wow….wild to hear Taylor say she’s glad Elon took over Twitter and that it’s better than ever. I mean, the unconstrained growth of the far right on there? Musk’s thumb seemingly on the algorithm’s scale during elections? The impact on democracy?

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I haven't watched the NHL much the past few years. Do they still schedule games on the major NHL holidays like Christmas, Halloween, New Year's Day, and January 6th?

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I just think it’s strange that all the gambling companies have ads with athletes and celebrities instead of featuring all their users who have become millionaires betting, very strange indeed

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🚨 Don't believe separatists lies.👇 ZERO evidence immigrants: - increase crime (on the contrary) - hurt healthcare system (on the contrary) - hurt education system (on the contrary) - etc etc. This noise nothing more than divisive hate-mongering. thewalrus.ca/albertas-sep... via @thewalrus.ca

thewalrus.ca

Alberta’s Separatists Are Chasing a Total Cowboy Fantasy | The Walrus

The province they describe—rural, homogeneous, under siege—bears little resemblance to reality

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sometimes, people really just need to log off but can't do it.

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I followed her for awhile and it became increasingly clear she was one of those people that was terminally online and staying on X to a point that was poisonous. As a rule, when someone is *constantly* in an online feud with someone and/or loudly fighting with mutuals, they're on a one-way trip.

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As a long, long, long, long, long time Converse buyer, I will never buy a Converse product ever again. I am sick of the virtue signalling to racists. I see this and I see a man hanged, a white robe that could be a klansman's robe and light shaped like a KKK hat. What the actual hell!?!

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The #Bluejays season has been an unlucky disaster on multiple fronts (injuries, woeful underperformance, and combinations therein). That said, after being left for dead in July, it's kinda cool they battled back to a point where they have a legitimate "must win" game in the final 8 games.

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I wish the Jays had traded Clement at the deadline. It would have been addition by subtraction.

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Dan Pizzuta @danpizzuta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't really follow politics

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think setting aside the utility of AI, I will never get over the fact that it was built on the theft of labour and colonial extraction in order to further enrich a bunch of psychopaths.

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Everybody say it with me now 🎶take good care!🎶 🎶of your derriere!🎶

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