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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An irritating thing that judges will do in gerrymandering court cases is do a whole “no I’m a simple country lawyer who don’t understand no fancy statistics” posturing. Fuck you! You should! It’s your goddamn job!

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There will be revenue collection of the like you can’t even imagine, some guy at City Hall surge pricing a bridge during rush hour with 3 hour’s notice because they modeled it will reduce congestion 1.8% and nobody will even notice because their cars just auto-optimize everything in the background

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Self driving cars are amazing pieces of technology because 1. They will rapidly disintermediate nearly all other modes of car ownership and use, and 2. Urban municipalities will have a truly exquisite ability to tax their externalities to a ludicrously precise degree without anybody complaining

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jensen is probably the most Jobs-like CEO left in the industry, in that he has a completely monomaniacal focus on producing and selling more GPUs no matter what. Things which are not relevant to that goal, such as knowing where you live, are discarded to fit more GPU sales ideas in his brain.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I assume the Anthropic IPO will be one zillion jillion times oversubscribed, pop 50-100% on day 1, bleed out down 50-75% over the next eight months, and finally rally back from the dead, aka the exact same pattern every IPO has had for the past five years

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 03/10/2026

(sighs) So, oil is assessed on two key metrics

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The reason I don't like the "just human beings" quote is because it naturalizes nationalism as some kind of basic human error... but why? Genocidal nationalism is a horrible pattern produced by a particular moment in history, not "we're just human beings". But otherwise, much to agree with here.

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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nationalism has a very short and bloody history. It's neither human nature nor original sin. It has a historical beginning, so it can have end.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i dislike this thing where people on the left keep saying that people are only ugly because they are evil. michael tracey is ugly because he is apparently trying to grow combover mullet dreadlocks

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It drives me insane to see apparent progressives and leftists conflating ugliness and evil both because it’s wrong and because it’s nazi shit! That is one of their famous things! Stop it!!

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Everyone in my town: build more housing Half the people when someone builds an apartment complex: ugh not another giant ugly apartment complex Half the people when someone builds a single family home development: ugh not another cookie-cutter neighborhood

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

Cannot be emphasised enough that Trump II will plausibly cause the kind of death count we associate with the worst dictatorships of the last century. Unspeakably bad that he came to be president of the world's most powerful nation.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

kneejerk guess is that deportation is killing construction

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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com · 02/10/2026

Global grain prices are surging • Intensifying fighting in Black Sea, disruptions to fertiliser shipments through Hormuz and extreme weather fuel prices • India just registered weakest monsoon season in a decade, threatening harvests and raising food-price risks www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you need to just pack the supreme court, man. they don't care about what arguments you make, the legal movement formed with an explicit objective of making Watergate legal isn't going to make Watergate illegal.

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the thing about the contortionist moral history of the american new right is that they want to claim western modernity as their intellectual property but do not like the moral philisophy of western christianity. they also cant claim enlightenment secularism, which they associate with liberalism

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One day I hope to convince conservatives that we should enforce the rule of law, reduce the deficit, and not carelessly tear down the institutions prior generations built, but today is not that day.

First tweet:
Harry Heymann @harryh · 16h
The GOP literally cut funding to IRS enforcement so more people could commit tax fraud.
2 replies, 5 reposts, 545 likes, 13K views

Reply tweet:
Austen Allred @Austen
It cut funding to IRS because the assumption that the way to catch tax fraud is to hire tens of thousands of auditors to look through paper tax returns by hand is insane
7:18 PM · Sep 26, 2026 · 196.2K Views

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Joe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(some of this is composition but for all the hay about declining wages in 2022 ish, the trends are pretty striking. there's been like two periods of sustained wage growth in the past fourty years, and we're living in one of them)

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Always funny when ostensible liberals are like "You see, this postcolonial conflict is actually very nuanced and complex, because what makes it so very unique is that the majority ethnic group doesn't want to share power with the minority ethnic groups." Oh wow, I didn't know that, that's wild man.

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's a truth to this, but I think collapsing it to "Bossism" is wrong. It's just really hard to understand illegible tasks and tacit knowledge in general - that's what those adjectives *mean*.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

sorry but putting romance novelists out of business is far far less of a loss to the human condition than losing weavers or textile artisans or bookkeepers

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A while ago I got pushback from some other urbanists on here for arguing that the Manhattan Institute’s main function is to mainstream racism. But the idea that their work on fairly technical urban policy matters is as politically significant as what Rufo is doing just doesn’t pass the smell test.

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

look, i think these people should just be honest and say that their kids are too dumb and lazy for their socioeconomic status to self replicate so they want to shrink the talent pool, (which wont work because it will also shrink the demand for talent)

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Elon Musk has broken up with baby mommy 9/10/12/14, announced via Twitter unfollow alert post sponsored by Kalshi

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

i have been laughing at this for 5 minutes straight

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

dawg Thailand's GDP per capita is $8,000. people are moving there because there are remote jobs in the US that pay you that once a month

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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

GTX mentioned 😮‍💨🥳

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there's something of the Russian 'the peasants love me, their master' in this, but it's also because of the unusually powerful status of Black culture in America. the closest (and not all that close) European equivalent might be the simultaneous romanticization and denigration of Roma?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Two peoples, divided by a shared history, is the norm in a lot of places.

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How do I unread this

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026

America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

one thing about "the ick" is that it's my first exposure to INSANE reactionary gender politics by women

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the American Revolution was not a Revolution in the Marxist sense, come on. it was a colonial rebellion.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it is genuinely obscene that prior to this point it was considered good for american democracy that nixon and reagan were never prosecuted

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I was suggesting we adopt diacritics. I was suggesting we add more specific consonant clusters. I was suggesting we send kids to Chinese classes

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You fundamentally just cannot fight and win a war like this. There isn’t a military on earth that could effectively operate when your leadership is waffling back and forth on decisions on a daily basis for months on end. It’s not sustainable. None of this is sustainable.

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Eustis Bell @eustisbellusaf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

He lives!!!!

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23/09/2026

this feels like the week where the panic is starting to *really* set in for republicans. you’ve got reps left and right pulling trump endorsements off their websites and collateral, senators tentatively sort of nodding at the idea that they may need to start taking some shots at trump flunkies

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So, just a few weeks ago a significant part of the frontline troops of the Nigerien army rebelled and were very close to succeeding in their Niamey storm. The cause? Islamic State rampage and catastrophic casualties. Massive arrests and purges followed and are still ongoing.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NEW BLOG POST! Today we're looking at Alexander Ariʻipaea Vehiaitipare Salmon Jr., the scion of a Jewish-Tahitian dynasty who ruled Easter Island as his own private fiefdom for a decade---and what that tells us about the multifaceted world of 19th century imperialism.

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The Jewish King of Easter Island

The Salmon family of Tahiti, c. 1880. From left to right, top: Tati, Ariipaea, and Narii Salmon. From left to right, bottom: Arii Taimai, Moetia, Marau and Manihinihi. “Therefore, such as it …

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Riverboat Chris @riverboatchris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's really funny to say "we are likely to receive a resounding election defeat largely driven by this war and once the election is over and there is a mandate to end it, I am tripling down."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Trump makes big promises while his incompetence delivers misery. bsky.app/profile/ronf...

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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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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

LETS GO NYC ✊

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NEW: The big story is not Chinese EVs everywhere —but Chinese EV factories everywhere. And its not just Chinese firms going out. Our CM-FDI database tracks every foreign Solar, Wind, EV and battery manufacturing plant built in 21st century. cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 25/09/2026

some day, in the distant future, i will understand why people like breaking bad

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