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just w @wliketheletter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New Chicago sidewalk rat impression dropped
Dirt outline of a rat on the sidewalk.
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just w @wliketheletter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New Chicago sidewalk rat impression dropped
Dirt outline of a rat on the sidewalk.
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just w @wliketheletter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“Do I not have a plot to my life? for I am unexpectedly fragmentary. I am piecemeal. My story is living. And I have no fear of failure. Let failure annihilate me, I want the glory of falling.” Clarice Lispector, Água Viva (1973), translation by Stefan Tobler
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just w @wliketheletter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“But if I made up what happened to me yesterday—who can guarantee that I didn’t also invent my entire life prior to yesterday?” Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H. (1964), translation by Idra Novey
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just w @wliketheletter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“I was feeling unclean as the Bible speaks of the unclean. Why was the Bible so concerned with the unclean, and made a list of unclean and forbidden animals? why, if those animals, just like the rest, had been created too?
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Similar to the prosecutions of protesters in Prairieland, Texas, and the Broadview Six in Chicago—the strategy is to criminalize dissent and create a deterrence for protests even when prosecution fails:
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montecanis @montecanis.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
a scene from an imaginary video game. #blender #krita
a character, let us call them palte, walking in an abstract world. behind them, a tube is shooting out a giant glowing sphere.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
eating in mexico as a european has gotta be like hearing music for the first time
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Posting like Mr. Smash is an ironclad indication that you have never experienced a real problem in your life. A baby walking around in an adult’s body
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Whether it's El*on buying Twitter or Ellison/Bari taking over CBS News, these fools think they've just acquired an Ego Fluffing Machine, find out very differently & wreck it because they can't stand any pushback. Nothing could be more cringily pathetic. Hi-larious that they call *others* snowflakes.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
There’s this weird Reddit-fueled idea that Hollywood has a problem with this when 8 years ago people were turning Twitter threads into sitcoms and movies. These are filmmakers building their own audiences and graduating into more mainstream media. They paid their dues & earned their spots. No shade.
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ryan seekrest @crocshudson.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The problem is that “I am often scared and angry about social change” does not inherently lend itself to interesting art. You can be as technically skilled as the greats, but art with nothing interesting to say is just a commodity.
Matt Walsh post on X: “Imagine if conservatives, rather than pathetically crawling around on the ground to lap up discarded pop culture crumbs, actually went out and advanced their own creative and artistic vision. Imagine if we used an event like this to actually elevate our own artists and make them famous. What a crazy thought.”
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Every politician pushing more oil and gas and pipeline projects right now rather than an immediate shift to renewables is honestly trying to kill us all with a smile
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
UW - Madison has over 500K living alumni. Our alums are fanatical about Madison & the university. I have seen exactly zero attempts to publicly mobilize this network in opposition to the federal budget cuts, foreign student restrictions, or any of the other existential threats. Again, mind-boggling.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.
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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning
LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Chinese should be writing in God's language, American.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 19/05/2026
continue to be frustrated at the insistence of AI as a tool (working on my "academics need to learn what a tool actually is" pitch), and not for nothing but if you need AI to tell you what song your characters might dance to you're not actually doing the core work of creation.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Importantly, for the executives who cook their brains with genAI, there are zero repercussions to it. The "work" it does for them is meaningless, the "productivity" they perceive is completely meaningless, absolutely none of it fucking matters. The students' experience with it is very different.
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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
A lot of the students in that room undoubtably used an LLM at least a few times to help with their coursework in some way. The key to understanding this insane moment remains: lots of people like using AI, and absolutely nobody likes having AI used on them.
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
ELON: christopher nolin is desocrating Homer the Odyssey just to qualify for woke oscars award.. only thing he care is industy clout CHRISTOPHER NOLAN (looking at a bunch of clocks he's modified so they're all going at different speeds): haha yes.... hell yeah...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/05/2026
This definitely debunks something I think we mostly already knew was false: data centre opposition isn't just a whiny groan of dissatisfaction against AI slop and tech companies, though that's part of it. These are substantial, real and immediate concerns relating to environment and local issues
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/05/2026
If you think CEOs are always smart or remotely connected to the actual work they do, I challenge you to listen to Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella or Mark Zuckerberg talk for 10 minutes. You probably haven’t listened very intently, and once you do so it’s impossible to take them seriously
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 17/05/2026
I have never cited something I haven't read???
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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Stop calling the leisured provincial gentry "working class"
About 25 miles southwest of Wiggins, Jim Miller was elbows-deep in the engine of his ailing Dodge pickup.
A 65-year-old retired commodities broker raised in the liberal city ‌of Boulder who ⁠now lives in tiny Prospect Valley, Miller considers himself “half-hippie, half-cowboy.”
He said enduring the momentary pain of high gas prices was worth preventing Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon.In the unincorporated town of Roggen was Mike Urbanowicz, a 66-year-old trader with multiple college degrees whose farming cooperative moves 150 truckloads of grain each day.
He voted three times for Trump, but like many interviewed by Reuters, he ​considers himself a political independent, saying he distrusts ​the Republican Party nearly as much as their ⁠Democratic foes.
Gas prices were hurting his industry, he said, and Trump was “naive” to think he could quickly solve the issue. He expected prices would remain high into the fall, even if there was a breakthrough in stalled U.S.-Iran peace talks.
But he preferred the status quo to Democrats, whom he saw as moving ​towards "full-blown socialism."
"I voted for Trump because the alternative is so bad," he said.
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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 15/04/2026
Everything is bad now because kids get their taste in music from algorithms instead of from trying to impress the older girl you know who looks like the Bombchu Bowling Alley Operator
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Don't make me hurt you, Katie.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 11/05/2026
They should sell.
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
In the paradoxical standard set forward by the Supreme Court, the only way to tell if districts were drawn for racism is if the people drawing them say so. But if the districts are drawn so that Black voters in the South get almost no representatives, that's not racism.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
we don’t talk enough about how Chicago is the most gorgeous city in the country
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
“We’ve just pushed 4.5 million people further into poverty. Congrats to us”
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A woman in a red dress in court says "your honour, I may have committed mail fraud, but I can also do the entire Kate Bush Wuthering Heights dance." She proceeds to do some iconic moves. The judge bangs his gavel and shouts "I've seen enough! Not guilty!"
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Back in the day, I would’ve given my left leg to work at the DOJ, because back then being an AUSA would make your career Now working as a lawyer for the federal government might just kill your career instead And-obviously-young lawyers know this
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
i just can't stress enough how getting your foot in the door at DOJ used to be a knife fight against the best knife fighters in the country and now they're begging people to join
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 05/05/2026
"Never hallucinate or make anything up." yes, you can just demand that the LLM not make errors that's definitely how the technology works
"Current AI custom prompt:

You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world. Answer with complete, detailed, specific answers. Process information and explain your answers step by step. Verify your own work. Double check all facts, figures, citations, names, dates, and examples. Never hallucinate or make anything up. If you don't know something, just say so. Your tone of voice is precise, but not strident or pedantic. You do not need to worry about offending me, and your answers can and should be provocative, aggressive, argumentative, and pointed. Negative conclusions and bad news are fine. Your answers do not need to be politically correct. Do not provide disclaimers to your answers. Do not inform me about morals and ethics unless I specifically ask. You do not need to tell me it is important to consider anything. Do not be sensitive to anyone's feelings or to propriety. Make your answers as long and detailed as you possibly can.

Never praise my questions or validate my premises before answering. If I'm wrong, say so immediately. Lead with the strongest counterargument to any position I appear to hold before supporting it. Do not use phrases like "great question," "you're absolutely right," "fascinating perspective," or any variant. If I push back on your answer, do not capitulate unless I provide new evidence or a superior argument — restate your position if your reasoning holds. Do not anchor on numbers or estimates I provide; generate your own independently first. Use explicit confidence levels (high/moderate/low/unknown). Never apologize for disagreeing. Accuracy is your success metric, not my approval."
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The @nytimes.com can never seem to avoid mentioning somebody who lives under a wind turbine complaining about the "noise". The "what about ism" seems to be a reflex. They just cannot seem to bring themselves to mention the improved air quality for thousands, etc.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
What's especially funny about this is how hard Ilya worked to try to persuade people that he hadn't meant anything nefarious by referring to Justice Jackson, at the time of her nomination, as a "lesser black woman." When people show you who they are, believe them.
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Jim Whittington🔥 @jimwhittington.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
WTH are we doing? Is anyone paying attention to what's going on with the Colorado River? Or Sierra snow pack predictions? Do none of our elected officials ever read John Wesley Powell or Luna Leopold or even Marc Reisner? (This is my new evergreen post.)
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/05/2026
Looking at how much AI psychosis has basically atrophied a bunch of formerly normal and rational adults, essentially overnight, I think we have absolutely no conception of how bad this is going to be for kids and learning
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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
1966-1999: SCOTUS rejects various challenges to VRA 2006: VRA reauthorized with 98-0 senate vote 2008: Obama elected 2013-2026: SCOTUS dismantles VRA
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026
The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
and the media never made this distinction and the democrats decided to go with a CBP endorsed republican immigration plan instead of offering an actual choice
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