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Bill Connelly @espnbillc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Millions of reasons why I hate this (and most of real life right now), but everyone acting like they have no free will might make me the angriest. "We can't simply make MORE money, we have no choice but to make the MOST money even if we're screwing our future selves. It's out of our hands!"

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should let people dream of something besides labor

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.

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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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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit theonion.com/xi-jinping-impressed-w…

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.”

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Shout it from the rooftops

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Whitney McIntosh @whitneymcintosh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Reorganizing the cabinets and I think they should scan your ID at Stonewall Kitchen like you’re trying to buy Sudafed for the fourth time in a week

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If someone posted this about a Jewish Senator, it would be rightly condemned as anti-semitism. El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan, but because he is Muslim he is perpetually foreign and under suspicion.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) @cliniclegal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A prominent former Ecuadorean government official was deported from the United States last month. The former official, José Serrano, is now being held in a maximum-security prison in Ecuador. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/u...

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“why do you refuse to respect right wing scholarship?!” i demand, waving around the chart i made up

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026

When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement

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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 17/09/2026

After four years of no real change, the USMNT can finally get back to what it does best: getting our hopes up that these are the kids who will finally make us good at soccer

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

god this is good

flight of the concords scene with murray, brit and jemaine.

"How's this, then? Ed Sheeran, beloved by all, left without an opening band at present. Enter you two."

"What if we want a free Palestine, Murray?"

"I reckon you'll get lots of things for free when you're proper rockstars. This might be your ticket."

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the custom previously was to wait until someone threw a subway sandwich at you and ran

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As a professional punter, I’m in absolute awe at the masterclass put on by this Congress. Just punt after punt after punt, it’s like rewatching the 0-16 Lions.

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep seeing ChatGPT ads about Olds having chatty convos with the voice to text feature to help them do stuff on their phone and every single use case is just a thing you used to be able to just google before AI ruined Google

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Kinda funny that almost all of sports TV is about DEBATE But a piece of federal legislation — something which is, almost definitionally, meant to be debated about — gets presented uncritically as Good

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NDSU’s punter might hold the record for kinds of cultural experience in a six year span

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John Walson @walsonbot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Pretty sure Michigan just invented the WR Read Option.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The college sports bill is one of, like, 3 bills Congress has actually tried to work on in the last year, it’s one of the less important things they could try to legislate about, and it has still been stuck in molasses

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The movie Hackers was one of the most cringe cultural products of the 1990s

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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John Walson @walsonbot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There is no “also” here. This is just a business pitch. The grid is doubtless insecure but “man asks for money” isn’t evidence in support of that.

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 11/09/2026

9/11 might be the only day where I feel like I can recall what I was doing during every minute. That includes today. What I was up to around 9 a.m. today? I'd have to research that

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”

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Garden of EDonz @edonz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

ACAB includes instant replay

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 09/09/2026

In fact, Meta clearly already has systems in place that can identify this type of violent child abuse content -- its own recommendation algorithm starts serving them up en masse as soon as you've watched a few! If it turned that tech toward moderation, the effects could be profound:

For that matter, Meta appears to have already deployed systems that can identify the stomach-turning videos, even if it’s declining to use them to moderate content on its platforms. We identified the vast majority of the horrid accounts simply by loading one of them, and then scrolling Facebook’s recommendation feature, which eagerly provided a bottomless feed of similar appalling material.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

$100 to the first reporter who asks Trump when exactly he thinks Germany was great.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I just want someone to explain to me how the human condition is being changed because a machine can reason when knowing animals could do it since before we had language apparently didnt

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims, like he 'invented' the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy.”

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Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026

every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You know, I mostly avoid these 'look what crazy thing he said' posts but...legitimately this is a deranged rant. he seems to be confusing credit ratings with bond yields with the federal funds rate and thus imagining the fed can unilaterally lower the (yield) 'rate' the US borrows at (it can't).

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Hasan Piker discourse would be a lot different if he was a White South-African billionaire

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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John Walson @walsonbot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It’s the gangdealers that scare me most — muscle for hire cloaked in a weird sense of belonging? No thanks.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“The deal signals Nvidia’s seriousness about being steeped in the software side of generative AI development as well as in infrastructure.” Back in the day we used to call this “vertical integration”

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 02/09/2026

The path to being on SCOTUS basically excluding anyone who’s worked with or lived among actual people is, imo, not ideal

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's so weird how "As Speaker of the House, I have no idea what's going on... Like, in general," is an effective way to deflect scandal rather than being a massive scandal in itself.

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John Walson @walsonbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Dogs that bark at shadows: fearmongrels. Accidental genius, truly.

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My theory is that if you take an impulsive leader loosely tethered to reality, replace the policymaking process with sycophants and strivers who tell him how brilliant and popular he is, and cede every institutional check on his power, a bunch of ill-advised and inexplicable stuff will happen.

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