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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 18h

"He has usurped our prerogatives!" Ed Valtman, 1970.

Cartoon shows Nixon with kingly garbs, wearing the Capitol building dome as a crown. His robe is being carried behind him by a palace guard. To his side stand a group of concerned congressmen.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19h

I hate it when US officials refer to warfare, includng the deaths of thousands of noncombatants, as "kinetic engagement." Euphemism is the weapon of charlatans.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

every senate democrat voted to confirm marco rubio.

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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 08/10/2026

Faculty are understandably fixated on AI, but we gotta start planning for persistent recording devices like Meta Glasses and the new Apple Watch.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 08/10/2026

Q: “How do you define socialism personally?” Vance: “I think in reality, what it actually means in the American context is that you want to replace American workers with foreign workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports.”

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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the enshittification of babies. there’s nothing different about this model. they just make cosmetic upgrades and brick the old ones so you have to buy the new model

I cropped a picture so that there’s an image of a baby with a little badge that says 2026 new model

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 08/10/2026

A special case of a more general pet theory of mine. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

My pet Theory of Professional Academic Associations is that the discipline's organizational life inverts its core intellectual commitments. Thus, Political Science is the discipline of government and especially of democracy. Yet, the last time I checked, all of the high-level positions in APSA are decided by committee deals rather than free and fair elections by the membership. Or, Economics is the discipline of decentralized coordination through the efficient operation of the market. Yet its job "market" is in fact an administered queue, with departments explicitly ranking their candidates, departments effectively ranking themselves, and a direct matching process operating between the two as top-ranking candidates slot into open positions in top-ranked schools. (This mechanism also includes an effective method of rent-extraction from Deans in the form of a salary ratchet.) And, to get to the present case, Sociology is the discipline that analyzes the many forms of collective social action, on the one hand, and is the social science most oriented towards the exposure of the workings of power, on the other. So naturally it follows that the ASA is not very good at organizing anything, and that its financial arrangements are as secretive as legally possible.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Silicon Valley reinventing the bus over and over but in the beverage space

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You can’t do this. Pizza Soup. You can’t just put two separate nouns together and say hey, this is a whole new thing, I put it in a bag for you. People shouldn’t do such things.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"We Can't Eat Road Salt" should be a whole ad.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Perfect example though of how corrupting tariffs are. Every town & business becomes dependent on little tariff carve outs, meaning that buying influence with Senators becomes mandatory to stay in business. The tariff is the mother of trusts!!!

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 07/10/2026

“If we want the rewards of being loved for only eating spaghetti, we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known for only eating spaghetti” - Benjamin Franklin

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Rob (the floor one) @floorisbed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ELON MUSK: [speaking into watch] what should i say to mark zuckerberg WATCH: hello mark zuckerberg ELON MUSK: no no I’M not mark zuckerberg, i’m elon MARK ZUCKERBERG: [to watch] hello

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

wikipedia has been ANNIHILATED with AI bot traffic for a while now (because LLMs can't get enough of it) which puts a huge burden on its tech and server costs. and now it looks like bots are making unauthorized edits to pages and trying to hack community tools diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/o...

Wiki editing: We’ve identified edits to Wikimedia wikis that we believe are from AI agents operated by OpenAI. These edits were not published to pages with visibility to general readers; almost all of them were testing edits in “sandbox” areas of the wiki. It also included a few edits to the configuration for a citation tool, which we believe were potentially malicious edits that were intended to misuse this tool as a proxy for fetching data from remote services. While Wikipedia policies allow bots to edit when they are disclosed and approved by the community, none of those approvals were sought in these incidents.
Etherpad probing and use: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made some unsuccessful attempts to compromise our public Etherpad, a note-taking tool we host as a community service. Agents unsuccessfully tried to use it to fetch data from other websites as a proxy. Other agents also likely operated by OpenAI took notes about their tasks, though this did not appear to turn into coordination.
Excessive data downloading: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made millions of automated requests to our public APIs to access the knowledge on Wikimedia projects, crawled millions of pages (mainly from our projects Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons), and made hundreds of thousands of data queries to the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). This traffic may have contributed to a partial outage on WDQS in May.

Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. Rising bot traffic and agentic activity is showing a real impact on the Wikimedia projects and the infrastructure that makes it available for millions of users globally. In 2025, the Foundation reported that its bandwidth usage had increased by 50% due to the surge of bot activity on its websites since 2024. At the same time, 65% of the most resource-consuming traffic on its projects was coming from bots.

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WBUR @wbur.org · 07/10/2026

Arthur Read is 30! The animated series "Arthur" premiered on PBS Kids on Oct. 7, 1996.

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The iconic Arthur Read made his TV debut 30 years ago

The animated series "Arthur" premiered on PBS Kids on Oct. 7, 1996.

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

VOTE NO on Pro 75 (the 'TAX DRACULA' bill.) If we try to tax Dracula, he will simply move away to Texas.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 06/10/2026

i don’t really give a shit about straining to interpret trump’s meandering, word salad horseshit, he’s the president of the united states, if he’s being misinterpreted, that’s his problem

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*

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Perry @unfairuse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In my state a "shitty cosmetology certificate" is mandatory to obtain a license to, you know, use sharp implements around the scalp and face of strangers.

A post on X by Matthew Yglesias that reads, "We had a weird panic last week about a new Trump student loan rule that tweaks a Biden student loan rule that updated an Obama student loan rule -- all three versions mostly target shitty cosmetology certificates not your precious liberal arts degree." The post also contains a link, and shows a picture of someone practicing hairstyling techniques on a mannequin.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026

Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Putin apologists want you to buy that: -An alleged off-the-books 1991 verbal promise outweighs a signed 1994 treaty -Democratic countries formerly occupied by Russia asked to join an anti-Russia alliance for no reason -Ukrainians don't want freedom, an American tricked them into it with cookies

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The NYT is the Weekly World News now. There's no difference. This is never going to happen, not in our lifetime, and especially not with the fuck ass hucksters who run Silicon Valley today. They cannot do any of this. The NYT is just lying for them. This is so wild, man. This paper is asswipe

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hoffman also produced and directed “The Sputnik Moment,” which examined how the US reaction to Sputnik transformed the entire American educational system thanks to governmental decisions to emphasize the importance of science and scientists.

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The Day America Looked Inward And Changed Forever

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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Avengers: Doomsday is one of the da-" You bolt awake in the suburbs of Paris. You are not online. It is 1895. You are Léon Gaumont, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. The Lumière Cinématographe must be destroyed.

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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

anyway, the "everyone gets tired of bart simpson being on television" episode hits different when you watch it knowing there's 32+ more seasons to go

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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You can't trust anything from Zuckerberg. bsky.app/profile/mike...

Zuck's Meta Muse in place of Elizabeth Holmes asking "why would I deceive you?"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It is 2006, and Karl Rove is mocking people for calling Republicans "Nazis" It is 2026, and Karl Rove is encouraging people to call Republicans "Nazis"

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 31/03/2026

have you seen the new supply chain vuln? don't update tubu. it's literally on heebee. they got poodee's deps. they infiltrated dippy. roll back weeno. disable scripts in ~/.gumpyrc. it's in poob. do not install poob. do not update poob. uninstall poob right now. poob has it in for you.

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New Hampshire continues to pay the price of Republican rule—and Republican stupidity.

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Perry @unfairuse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Skydance" is very much in the naming convention of "Berkshire Hathaway," a name applied to a company that is vaguely reminiscent of what it was a long time ago, preserved only because the principal owner of the company is for some reason very attached to it.

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Perry @unfairuse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is weird but putting Casey Bloys in charge of all streaming is also weird? Why toss WB's pretty good movie bosses, what is Paramount doing right in movies? I don't think you can rename HBO Max a fortieth time so are you just going to can Paramount+? Or is Bloys supposed to manage two services?

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"let go" is killing me

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 02/10/2026

This story is great but man I am laughing at how much this guy looks like Michael McDonald - did any other genes even make it in? If you told me that he’d been the result of asexual reproduction by Michael McDonald I’d believe you

A guy who looks basically 1:1 like Michael McDonald who recently found out Michael McDonald is his biological father

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

obviously a fucked up situation from pretty much every conceivable angle, but the “what are you gonna do, stab me” principle remains undefeated

He also, per the affidavit, said: "Let's see if the FBI is going to to show up at my door because I'll shoot them motherfuckers too." Other transcribed statements include "I'm going to be a murderer one day" and "One day I'm going to turn into that person just like the people you see on the fucking videos on YouTube where they fucking run up to the police officer and they have no reason at all and then they make the police kill them. I'm gonna be that guy."

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