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latest @matt-levine.bsky.social column mentions opacity in the pokémon card market at his kid’s school. someone should make some kind of exchange web site to rationalize this market, i’m sure nothing bad will happen later

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oooh a different take by the FT on what I like to call the Sports Car Theory of LLM Adoption (mine is about mid-life crises; there's is about upselling) buttondown.com/justenoughin...

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The Sports Car Theory of LLM Adoption

If LLMs make decision makers feel stupid, maybe they'll stop using them?

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s fucking me up that the word elevate predates the invention of the elevator but the invention of the escalator predates the word escalate. It’s complete madness

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 27/09/2026

El uso continuado de X como canal de comunicación “público” por parte de cargos electos es un problema de seguridad nacional. Es complicado hablar de ello y que alguien se lo tome en serio porque los mayores responsables son, casi sin excepción, unos adictos a esa misma red social.

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

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Diego Casado @esmadriz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Manifestación contra los desahucios absolutamente masiva en Madrid. La cabecera supera a las 19.50 el Ayuntamiento y hay todavía gente saliendo de Sol. www.eldiario.es/madrid/somos...

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Berto @berto.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

Alguén escoitou moitas veces o de que os bávaros son os cataláns de Alemaña e tivo esta idea. Visto no Aldi.

Paquete coa etiqueta " OKTOBER FUETS " nun supermercado

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 23/09/2026

Bad news, gang :((((

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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pins @pinssss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

that particular strip was made in 2019, i'm glad things have improved since

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Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 21/09/2026

"Let’s recreate that using, you know, an actual Y-axis:" 💀💀💀

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 21/09/2026

apart from the known standard model of novels, novellas, and novellettes, we are yet to find evidence of the hypothesized novelino, noveletto, noveluccio, noveluzzo, or noveluolo. a great deal of work remains to be done

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Male loneliness crisis is a fake problem. Just go up to a guy who has a Brompton and ask, is that a Brompton

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Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 18/09/2026

i think it is good and right for there to be harry potter fanfic sex cult weirdos. but not these ones

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"

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haunted girlfriend @sliceofwife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'll die on any old hill it doesn't really make a difference to me

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Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 18/09/2026

“special operations command analysts” use llms to do the analysis and write the reports for the command chain. holy hell

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war.

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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

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Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 17/09/2026

a good article but also what a deep cut in the title, i have not thought of sarah mclachlan in decades

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 16/09/2026

Concern and anxiety about AI is very different in different parts of the world. A lot of it comes down to "How badly would the government let billionaires mistreat the poorest among us?" My optimism comes from the core belief that democracy and governments should be more powerful than individuals.

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The way Annie Dillard reframed the idea of the role of “discipline” in writing really shaped my understanding of the job — work, she wrote, “does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline.” I cannot recommend The Writing Life highly enough. RIP to the best. bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor
with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order
—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living. Each day is the same, so you remember the series afterward as a blurred and powerful pattern.

There's a common notion that self-discipline is a freakish peculiarity of writers—that writers differ from other people by possessing enormous and equal portions of talent and willpower. They grit their powerful teeth and go into their little rooms. I think that's a bad misunderstanding of what impels the writer. What impels the writer is a deep love for and respect for language, for literary forms, for books. It's a privilege to muck about in sentences all morning. It's a challenge to bring off a powerful effect, or to tell the truth about something. You don't do it from willpower; you do it from an abiding passion for the field.

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Jens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Couldnt be more timely! In @jeppjournal.bsky.social (open access), a detailed post mortem of the 2022 inflation shock, and suggestions how to do better this time.

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Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 15/09/2026

$5851 per year lets one buy some pretty nice bicycles

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brianloveswords @brianloveswords.com · 14/09/2026

i'm always saying this

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Luis Villa @lu.is · 13/09/2026

Good thread on the carbon problems with beef. I’m not quite beef-free myself but pretty close (basically I have a steak a handful of times a year), and you should be too.

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Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Un billet de blog pour parler de la destruction en cours des mathématiques par les boîtes d'IA et leurs petites mains: www.madore.org/~david/weblo...

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Sur la destruction des maths par les boîtes d'IA

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

move over inverse square root, there's a new cowboy in town www.benjoffe.com/fast-time-of...

a code listing, that reads:

u32 tmin = (u64) time * 71582789 >> 32 // = time / 60; "Total Minutes"
u32 hour = (u64) time * 1193047 >> 32 // = time / 3600
u32 second = (time + 4 * tmin) % 64;
u32 minute = (tmin + 4 * hour) % 64;

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NEW WRITERS' ROOM COURSE Starts Oct 18th You don't have to be a professional writer, or even want to be one. Just curious about how writing, story, jokes and character all work, in whatever medium. It's about human beings making each other laugh. It'll be grand! x

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Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

the communigrater. THE COMMUNIGRATER 🚨 🚨 🚨 www.lecreuset.fr/fr_FR/p/communi%E2…

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Underappreciated, I think, that limestone is just another fossil from ancient sea life that we exploit.

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Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 08/09/2026

when i was a kid you had to go down by the reservoir if you wanted to do some token

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

For anyone not following the drama, there's been apparently a big development in ai math, along with some accusations of very bad behavior by OpenAI. But we don't have details yet. If I understand it, Buckmaster and Levent Alpoge made a big discovery on Navier-Stokes. Events go something like this:

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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There's a lot of nuance to owning but EZ Band's norteño cover of Killing in the Name in a quinceañera hall definitely also owns www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2pT...

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Killing In the Name - EZ Band (Rage Against The Machine Cover)

YouTube video by EZ BAND

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The king's adviser is actually a nice guy:

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Feminist theory remains undefeated in explaining the weirdest parts of the Trump administration. I'm just going to keep posting this skeleton-key-to-MAGA passage, written over 40 years ago, until everyone gets it.

"To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The first article i ever published was on the Roman Vestal Virgins Why did i start there (not a very academic reason i fear) and why are they so interesting ?? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

podcasts.apple.com

The Vestal Virgins - just how virginal were they?

Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 3 September · 54min

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you want 1.5C, 1.8C, 2C, overshoot, no-overshoot, etc, then they all require the same thing: rapid short-term emission reductions reaching net zero CO2 emissions as soon as possible. This has been clear from the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C, which depicts "overshoot" on its cover! 1/

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am perfectly open to the idea that some of the data center panic is overblown, what I am telling u is I don’t care

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 01/09/2026

eating a single theorized dark matter particle would fix me

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0x19.co @0x19.co · 31/08/2026

it's not tylenol giving the kids autism it's actually me

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 31/08/2026

I think the key thing is that “making up a guy to send to the gulag” isn’t the novel thing about our situation. It’s the part where we’ve introduced a machine of frictionless scale for identifying guys and making things up about them.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 31/08/2026

I keep noting the combo of fascism w/ AI-driven surveillance and LLM-driven identity profiling will be terrible for everyone because it literally doesn’t matter if its correct or not—if someone wants to make a high-resolution profile of you that fits their fantasy of you as a target they will.

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Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 28/08/2026

many parts of the world above the arctic circle and yet only sweden has produced “midnight sun”. alaska has work to do

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𝕭𝖊𝖒𝖎𝖑𝖞 @skeeterpond.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

hey so me and the other crabs noticed you were climbing out of the bucket and that's actually not okay :/

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