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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17h
Post and video explaining how Boutros invoked Trump v. US. emptywheel.net/2026/08/05/d... www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwyG...
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DOJ is invoking Trump v. US in an attempt to dodge accountability for the Broadview 6 case
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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 15h
"The withdrawal was highly unusual: Such moves are rarely made so quickly from an allied air base in a peacetime country thousands of miles from a combat zone." U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats (Gift Article)
The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation.
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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 04/10/2026
Lmao arxiv.org/pdf/2404.00732
An Abundance of Katherines*
The Game Theory of Baby Naming
Katy Blumer-Kate Donahue',
Katie Fritz', Kate Ivanovich', Katherine Lee', Katie Luo', Cathy Meng', and Katie Van Koevering
'Cornell University†

Abstract
In this paper, we study the highly competitive arena of baby naming. Through making several Extremely Reasonable Assumptions (namely, that parents are myopic, perfectly knowledgeable agents who pick a name based solely on its "uniqueness"), we create a model which is not only tractable and clean, but also perfectly captures the real world. We then extend our investigation with numerical experiments, as well as analysis of large language model tools. We conclude by discussing avenues for future research.
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David Bonowitz @dbonowitz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
for you are call'd plain Kate, and bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; but Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate, ... from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates. h/t @shakespeare.lol
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
God it’s so good
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is fucking beastly. Collins is from Alabama.
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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
As opposed to the gregarious and ebullient Melania. She's a pistol.
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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
2.2 km/s is 2200 meters per second, or about 5000 mph. Orbital velocity is about 7500-8000 m/s
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
BUT, Wood’s experience helped inspire Working Women United, a public speak-out on workplace harassment, and a new language for identifying a problem women had long experienced but struggled to name. Anyhoo, this is why Women’s and Gender Studies is important. Talking to you, Cornell.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"“To be clear,” Mr. Olah told me, “we don’t know if A.I. models are conscious. I don’t know. I’m genuinely uncertain. The thing that I care about is that we get to the right answer, whatever it is.” In the Trump era, sophistry sells. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them. (Gift Article)
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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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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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Smart, and well earned cynicism, on the weirdos who invented the computers we're all using. Paulina Borsook. www.youtube.com/watch?v=86oz...
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Grace Cathedral Forum | Paulina Borsook and Malcolm Clemens Young
YouTube video by Paulina Borsook
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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@eff.org, @evacide.bsky.social, @aclu.org, I'd love feedback. Also, @aclu.org
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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Shasta County, sigh. "never ascribe to malice what can be explained by stupidity", but this is a wobbler. He was defeated in his election bid last summer, but might still cause mischief this November. www.actionnewsnow.com/news/clint-c...
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Clint Curtis pauses 2024 ballot shredding, seeks guidance from state
Shasta County Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis paused the scheduled destruction of ballots from the November 2024 election Wednesday after he says he discovered voter rolls and other election records
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/10/2026
ngl this looks soooo fun
hoplites riding dolphins on a terracotta psykter
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/10/2026
there are a lot of reasons being a hoplite would suck ass but the dolphin riding is a definite perk
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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"By this [new] definition emergency management has no role in mitigation and recovery and also excludes from response groups like the Red Cross, utility companies, public health, hospital/ university emergency management, etc."
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/10/2026
Okay so I don’t think this is true - historically speaking, mass violence consistently comes from an attempted rejection (rather than a *lack*) of empathetic impulses, which exist whether we want them to or not, and desire to distance oneself from an externalized target.
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/10/2026
Anyways, I say this all the time, but the best Nazi interview book to read is Into That Darkness by Gitta Sereny. You want someone who grapples with what it means to see into a perpetrator and find a person there? Sereny’s your girl
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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sad news for @annabower.bsky.social, America (the Chatbot) doesn't know WITAOD.
America.gov

Menu

Who is the administrator of DOGE?

I'll look up official sources for who currently leads DOGE and any confirmation or
appointment announcements.

What the order created

Executive Order 141587 (January 20, 2025) did not create a cabinet department. It renamed
the U.S. Digital Service as the United States DOGE Service (USDS) in the Executive Office of
the President.

That order created a USDS Administrator who reports to the White House Chief of Staff. The
same person headed a temporary organization that the order said would end on July 4, 2026.
That end date does not cancel the rest of the order.

Who holds the job now

I cannot verify a current official name from White House or Federal Register pages
checked today.

Earlier public statements conflicted:
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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
See you there!
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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Tesla topped the charts with 34 unique [advertising, tracking, or analytics] domains reached by the Model 3 and 23 in the Cybertruck." Not only are they phoning home, they're phoning advertisers and data brokers. Check your owners manual on how to disable this crap.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why don't women report rape? Police dismissed the horrific assault at Cornell because she was conscious. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/n...
Another likely complication was that New York law defines rape narrowly, Ms. Manning said, excluding a person who is subjected to unwanted sex while voluntarily intoxicated unless they are fully unconscious at the time of the assault. The law is one both prosecutors, including Manhattan’s district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, and advocates have called to be amended.

The woman in this case was conscious during much of the assault, finally blacking out at around 5:45 a.m., her lawsuit states.
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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Exhausted by the seeming inexhaustible supply of these articles
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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He's probably right, and brings to question whether Anthropic or OprnAI can pull off an IPO.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…
Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey Angie, I have a question. It is about: Lesbians COVID Western Massachusetts Fighting on social media about public health policy … Goddammit, I hate being uniquely qualified for everything rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/a-deep-div...
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A Deep Dive into the Last Ditch by an Expert on COVID and Western Massachusetts Lesbians
I am a bisexual virologist who studies emerging coronaviruses, a Smith College alumna, and a veteran lesbian social critic. Ask me anything about respiratory raw-dogging your next Feeld date
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So is Todd gonna personally present the case to the Ft. Pierce grand jury or….? Because if you can’t even persuade Joe DiGenova or Kurt Olsen to do it….who’s left?
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Alt Boo-reau of Lake-Monster Spook-tistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interesting demographics at the county Democratic Party meeting. Half of the committee are African American; roughly equal gender split. The rest are white women. One boomer, one millennial, the rest Gen X.
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Alt Boo-reau of Lake-Monster Spook-tistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It hardly needs reiterating but the Democratic Party rank and file are basically churchgoing black folks who would like to keep their voting rights, and older women who are ready to have a heated Harper’s Ferry moment over reproductive rights
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is extraordinary, in the best sense of the word.
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s a 9️⃣.5️⃣ from the #WorldBollardAssociation
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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"This outbreak is a perfect storm of disinformation, trauma from the covid pandemic, and the drop in funding.” Bleak, and so incredibly stupid.
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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And a rejoinder explaining why watermarking *text* must degrade its quality: daringfireball.net/2026/08/anth...
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Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anyth...
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 25/09/2026
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OK, so where are all these data centres?
A construction shortfall so big you can’t see it from space
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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Corrosively dissolving the platitudes.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To be clear, Mr. Attorney General, the 1st Cir struck down your policy after full adversary briefing on 9/18. Rather than seek clarification on whether it took effect immediately, you tried to fly still more people to 3d countries so it would be too late for them. On 9/23 it found out & stopped you.
Without even allowing the government a chance to respond, and in the dark of night, a federal appeals court blocked us from conducting all third-country removals of illegal aliens, an entirely legal and invaluable tool to stem the tide of illegal immigration. We will immediately seek relief from the Supreme Court, which previously granted a stay in this very same case.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026
‘This Here Is Probably Our Bestselling Love Seat,’ Says Man Who Would Have Been Powerful, Revered Warrior 4,000 Years Ago theonion.com/this-here-is-probably-…
‘This Here Is Probably Our Bestselling Love Seat,’ Says Man Who Would Have Been Powerful, Revered Warrior 4,000 Years Ago
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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And weighs 5,800 lbs. With this baby, highway bridge abutments won't stand a chance.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nice dive into the electrinics and computers needed for self-driving.
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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm taking my first drawing class, so here we are.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026
Big names in AI and Silicon Valley tech announced yesterday that they're launching a boarding academy for 16 to 22 year olds. (Would you trust the people in this scene with keeping an eye on minors?) theacademysf.com
Thrilled to announce our latest incubation: Horowitz Andreessen Academy.

Horowitz Andreessen Academy will be a two-year residential program in San Francisco for 16 to 22 year olds.

My biggest regret from my college experience is how divorced it was from the real world (both practically but also intellectually)

HAA is the opposite. Students will learn from real-world practitioners and intellectuals; including founders (Sam Altman, Brian Armstrong, Jensen Huang), investors (Elad Gil, Daniel Gross), and professors (Agnes Callard, Tyler Cowen), among hundreds of others. The Academy is the educational experience I wish I had.

In 1984, the educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom published a paper about how the average student who received one-on-one tutoring focused on mastery techniques performed better than 98% of the control group. For generations, this was viewed as unrealistic to implement even if it produced the best outcomes.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is not easy to shock me with the mendacity of EdTech entrepreneurs. But I had to take breaks from these testimonials to what is actually happening inside Alpha Schools.
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FOURTH REPORT: Former Alpha School students speak out
“A science experiment that’s been framed as a school” - “pretty much a concentration camp” - “cool the first few months and then it just becomes shit”
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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
reason.com/2026/09/19/c...
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Customs and Border Protection doesn't deny using facial recognition to target foreign OnlyFans models
The immigration system has a confusing and opaque approach to foreigners who have done sex work.
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 23/09/2026
what does the Penguin Random House website know that I don't
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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hard week for the rationalists. The A.I. Party House Where Networking Has a Dark Side www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...
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The A.I. Party House Where Networking Has a Dark Side (Gift Article)
Group tech houses have proliferated across the San Francisco Bay Area in the artificial intelligence boom. One of the most prominent has also racked up an extensive police record.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 22/09/2026
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puff’d and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede.
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