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Tom Bloom @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social · 6h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible

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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 23h

Trans lives are more important than Harry Potter. Read another fucking book, watch another fucking show.

THIS SITE IS HARRY POTTER FREE
Lookin for it? Leave.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16h

remember after citizens united when everyone pretended super pacs wouldn't coordinate with politicians and would be truly independent entities? that was a fun five minutes

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brie skull emoji @brie-skull-emoji.bsky.social · 5h

full solidarity with the student protesters in france 🙏

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

The pundit class's notion of "free speech" is predicated on a division of humanity into those who *participate* in debates and those who are the *topic* of debate, where treating one of the former as if they were one of the latter is seen as the direst of all threats to "free speech".

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 5h

I am struck that the political theory of MAGA in Trump 2.0 is the GOP can win without sound or moral government if everyone throws red meat to the cameras as the occasional bribe. You see it with Trump, Patel, Hegseth, all of them. Anyway, Trump's approval is at, like, -23, so...no luck on that.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Toy Story 5 Woody and Buzz discover that toys are alive because they’re ushabti, holy figurines destined to escort their owners into the afterlife. After Andy dies of old age and his heart is weighed heavier than a feather, the toys reunite to rescue his soul from Ammit

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 5h

did y’all think, perhaps, with religious extremism on the rise globally, hand in hand with authoritarianism, or with religiously-motivated hate crimes increasing everywhere, that y’all might one day need some religionists? or do y’all still think religion is epiphenomenal to culture and politics?

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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 6h

It is not a force multiplier. It is a recipe for cognitive surrender. Look at Trump’s military under AI and all the blunders it is making in Iran. Does that look like a paradigm shifting technology to you? “Open weights” doesn’t do anything to make it better or more sustainable.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 4h

It’s like Skydance is aiming to form the Avengers of shittiness rich men imaginable.

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Linkandy Corn @linkara.bsky.social · 4h

TANIS: You know that guy fucked a horse and an eel, right? SQUIRRELY DAN:

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PSA*̥˚✧ @ps-a.bsky.social · 14h

Doesn't help they are using this to normalize 4chan incel slurs.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 16h

The Malfoid thing has missed me entirely so I took a quick look around and its just the same anime gooner shit that's defined online right wing youth culture for like five years? I don't get why this is noteworthy?

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Boolassa @dalassa.bsky.social · 4h

Here we go again

Gimli and Legolas dying together meme. Gimli is labeled “me remembering the GWOT,” Legolas is labeled “Bill Kristol” with a trans pride flag.
Panel 1: I never thought I’d die fighting along side a war criminal
Panel 2: we shall defend trans people and liberal democracy to our last breath
Panel 3: JFC this is weird

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4h

it's not great, incidentally, that *both* China and America have lost a bunch of their key financial and regulatory talent in the last two years, albeit that the American damage is more wide-ranging and stupider.

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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 4h

I hate this.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4h

legalizing gambling was the single biggest social disaster of the last decade, and that's a high bar to clear.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18h

Is it woke to be horrified by what happened at Cornell--and by the "boys will be boys" excuse-making of so many then and now? If so, perhaps we should all be a little more woke?

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 8h

I'm hardly the first to say this, but if you told high school me about this iteration of Kristol, it would've blown my mind harder than a Dorito would've caused a Medieval peasant to spontaneously detonate.

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gradientdescent @gradientdescent.net · 10h

boycott it so your trans friends don’t get a sick feeling in their stomach when they come over to your house for a party & see a stack of HP merch on your bookshelf, politely excuse themselves a bit early without saying anything, and then go home feeling just a little degraded

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RavenCourse @ravencourse.bsky.social · 4h

ee a devil girl post a devil girl (same girl, different context)

Karlach from BG3 looming over my Tav Miriik, shouting "I didn't come here to make friends. I cam here to fucking cuddle!" In reference to Giganta from My Adventures with Superman.

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Chrystal Williams 🏳️‍⚧️ @chrystalwrox.bsky.social · 3h

Ewww the Trump loving right wing filmmaker who’s ass at what he does is being given another chance to fuck it up again. Can’t wait for the scene where Optimus prime looks at the camera and says “ICE is cool. Also forget about Epstein”

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 4h

You also can’t be pro-choice and vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, simple as ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 4h

Terry Tao @teorth.bsky.social: Indiscriminate brute-force application of AI to mathematics is depleting the field of good questions without renewing this resource or providing commensurate value. OpenAI: We hear you. Here's a .zip file with 377 hasty AI solutions to important open problems.

nytimes.com

OpenAI Releases Findings on 377 Math Problems, Further Roiling Field (Gift Article)

After a previous solution angered mathematicians, the company characterized the new release as being more responsive to concerns about A.I. disrupting research.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3h

they want to enslave it: in every way.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 15h

When Trump posted a video of the Obamas as apes the NYT claimed "it was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware" that he posted it

NYT: "It was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware that the clip had been included in the video before he shared it."

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JoCat is not fast @jocat.net · 15h

I'm just saying if you wanted to draw a skinny black haired magic user with glasses surrounded by a bunch of women you could have just drawn me instead 😔

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 5h

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 5h

again, really hope working mathematicians put the pieces together and realize the fundamental threat from ai companies has little to do with transforming practices or modes of mentorship. they want a death grip on funding and employment in the discipline. it's what they want with everything

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 5h

i'm not dooming, i certainly don't think they're guaranteed to win. but staging an all out assault on every flow of money to intellectual work is what they've been saying they intend to do, and they're doing it. it is really important to take them seriously

Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman.

The text in the Tweet says:
SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 5h

Surprising to find this intuition in myself (I never would have predicted I thought this), but the major discovery of the AI era for me is there's a huge group of things (art, scholarship, etc) that I literally only care about if a human being makes it

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 3h

As someone who has a literary degree (among other degrees) and who has been teaching research writing courses—for so many years now, including to hundreds of applied and natural science students—this kind of realization perfectly fits with my long-bending pedagogical arc, I'm pleased to say.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 11h

why the FUCK are you playing fantasy football if you don't like playing fantasy football you can just NOT DO THAT, unless it's some sort of "i have to play this because the rest of my sex cult plays this between assaulting women and ruining the world"

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 11h

the tech bro who uses AI to play fantasy football for him is being dragged online. no one has ever been quite so mad frankly.

"but you've automated your hobby"
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no, fantasy football is not my hobby. it's more of a social obligation.
my actual hobbies are gainful and awesome and mostly involve being outside. not fixating on team news and sportsball RNG. i have more time to do them because I use Al for all the boring stuff in my life.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 7h

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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🌱 Jacen @jacenat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What irks me is that there are no consequences to abusing the system. IMHO the entity not filing a suit admits wrongdoing. This needs to be disincentivized. 8deally they should be banned, increasingly longer subsequentially, from using the system. They can ALWAYS use the legal system directly.

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 12h

Hard agree - if a claimant files a takedown/copyright strike on however many hundreds of channels but NEVER files suit, they get their right to claim revoked. End of. If there's a strike system for us the same should apply for claimants as well.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 9h

lmfao Andrew Tate looks like a raccoon that all the other raccoons have exiled to live alone and haunted in a failing açaí place’s recycling bin

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My next book has a whole section on the psychology behind "People becoming successful by simply lying about already being successful then charging other people to learn their 'secrets' about how to become successful". This would make a perfect case study, but I doubt the legal team will go with it.

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Lawvers for Andrew Tate have had to admit in
court that he is not a citizen of Estonia as he
previously claimed.
Much of his wealth and status is fabricated, they
said in attempt to convince the court he and his
brother are not a flight risk if released on bail
That included his claims to seven passports.
"The Tates are engaged in several businesses
teaching men how to earn money. It is in their
interest to portray themselves on social media
as uberwealthy." 1/3

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Tate brothers bail denial has lots of funny evidence. Including them boasting in social media about ignoring court dates and using multiple passports, including forged ones to jump jurisdictions “I'm untouchable because I've spent a decade spreading myself into MANY grids.” Apparently you didn't

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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 9h

So, um... "cult" in this writeup is here doing the euphemistic work for "We all kind of agreed this was garbage since the moment it showed up regardless of the earnings but now that it's been 20 years and GenZ has absorbed ironic secondhand nostalgia for it we're gonna see if THAT translates" - yea?

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Dix @dixonij.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fucking hell. Private Equity style businesses should be illegal. It's insane how their hyperanti-consumer practices run counter to the "hey we need people to consume consume consume" methodologies of Capitalism in exchange for extraction of all value from a body that doesn't know it's dead yet.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10h

it blows my mind that these bizarre AI people think “the commons” is just sitting around for them to strip-mine for free

OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on wikimedia projects. by selena deckelmann 5 october 2026

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 10h

“While OpenAI admits to agents behaving ‘unpredictably’, they must also acknowledge their responsibility to monitor and prevent these risks,” Wikimedia said. “AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm they cause.” arstechnica.com/security/202...

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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic

The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12h

one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h

back in the pre-marriage equality era I once heard a close friend from church earnestly say to someone “I just can’t understand why gay people want to DESTROY my marriage by redefining the meaning of it” I’ll remember the way she said the word “destroy” until the day I die, because she meant it

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