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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I suppose Mike Rogers can take solace in the fact he isn’t getting murdered quite as badly as Mike Collins. I guess?

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And then there's Marsha Blackburn.

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David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I mean, quite aside from the barbarism of live-streaming this, I actually can't think of anything more stupid from a counterterrorism perspective. Showing this online - where it will likely be replayed for many years - has no deterrent value and would be useful only as anti-US recruitment tool.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The daughter of Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, works for a US lobbying firm with a $35K-a-month contract to represent Republika Srpska. Here she is with its interior minister, a figure aligned with the pro-Russian government. www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-...

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 08/10/2026

Yeah, so this "leaked" audio is from a radio interview that came out in March of 2026. You know what to do with this account.

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QUICK CLIPS: Tafoya Tells Minnesotans to “Take One Less Trip to Starbucks” and to “Just Try to be Patriots” as Gas Prices Skyrocket - DSCC

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Any one else get emails from high schoolers wanting to chat with you about your research? I find it very odd. I’m not remotely high profile. Are these kids really reading my book? I don’t get it.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

John Urschel has his CV on his MIT professor page and if you scroll past 7 pages of his mathematics achievements and awards and theorems and theses it says, briefly, "former NFL (American) football player" math.mit.edu/~urschel/job...

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The number of authoritarian red flags in Lenin’s “What is to be done?” is really something.

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Leaked audio of Michigan Republican Sen. candidate Mike Rogers mocking Americans struggling with skyrocketing prices: "Oh my gosh, coffee went up. You know, horror!"

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We’re going to need a new Pulitzer category this year for Best Leaked Audio of a GOP Senate Candidate

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

wikipedia has been ANNIHILATED with AI bot traffic for a while now (because LLMs can't get enough of it) which puts a huge burden on its tech and server costs. and now it looks like bots are making unauthorized edits to pages and trying to hack community tools diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/o...

Wiki editing: We’ve identified edits to Wikimedia wikis that we believe are from AI agents operated by OpenAI. These edits were not published to pages with visibility to general readers; almost all of them were testing edits in “sandbox” areas of the wiki. It also included a few edits to the configuration for a citation tool, which we believe were potentially malicious edits that were intended to misuse this tool as a proxy for fetching data from remote services. While Wikipedia policies allow bots to edit when they are disclosed and approved by the community, none of those approvals were sought in these incidents.
Etherpad probing and use: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made some unsuccessful attempts to compromise our public Etherpad, a note-taking tool we host as a community service. Agents unsuccessfully tried to use it to fetch data from other websites as a proxy. Other agents also likely operated by OpenAI took notes about their tasks, though this did not appear to turn into coordination.
Excessive data downloading: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made millions of automated requests to our public APIs to access the knowledge on Wikimedia projects, crawled millions of pages (mainly from our projects Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons), and made hundreds of thousands of data queries to the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). This traffic may have contributed to a partial outage on WDQS in May.

Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. Rising bot traffic and agentic activity is showing a real impact on the Wikimedia projects and the infrastructure that makes it available for millions of users globally. In 2025, the Foundation reported that its bandwidth usage had increased by 50% due to the surge of bot activity on its websites since 2024. At the same time, 65% of the most resource-consuming traffic on its projects was coming from bots.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 06/10/2026

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If the usual late undecideds break against the incumbent party holds … oh my.

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The statement “IceCube won the Nobel Prize in Physics” will confuse a lot of people.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 06/10/2026

It is time again for one of my favorite games: why the College Board cannot figure out how two students can have the same birthdate and address, which makes it nearly impossible for whoever goes second to get their account to work properly and register for AP Classroom.

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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The share of children who died before they were 5 years old in 1950 and 75 years later. Africa: 33% ↘ 6% Asia: 25% ↘ 2.5% Oceania: 9.3% ↘ 2% Latin America: 21% ↘ 1.5% Northern America: 3.8% ↘ 0.6% Europe: 10.5% ↘ 0.4% Globally: 23% ↘ 3.5%

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I see the Bayeaux Tapestry visit to England is leading to people falsely claiming 1066 was the last successful invasion of England. Plantagenet invasion in the Anarchy, Henry VI and Edward IV during the War of the Roses, and The Glorious Revolution all come to mind Henry IV and Henry VII, too.

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Chris Illich is Bruce Norris part 2.

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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Freight Cars, Gloucester - 1928 botfrens.com/collections/173/conten…

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Hunter College @huntercollege.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Huge news for Hunter STEM! 🔬 CUNY Distinguished Professor Dr. Jill Bargonetti has been named the new Anne Welsh McNulty Chair of Science Innovation and Leadership. Watch her feature interview & read the full announcement: www.hunter.cuny.edu/news/new-mcn... @mcnultyfoundation.bsky.social @cuny.edu

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

May anyone who judges me be more forgiving then Bluesky posters. Yikes.

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I may need to gain weight so that I can add fatty to my cv to go along with beardo and weirdo.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

October is Sleepy Hollow’s raison d’être. It’s weird when the town you think of as a pleasant, if very staid, suburb on the other side of the county becomes the center of NE US haunting for a month.

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Your regular reminder that Michigan hasn’t had the death penalty since 1846–the first English-speaking jurisdiction in the world to ban it. This is a huge source of pride for me in my home state. You’ll also note, Michigan has been just fine without it. www.michbar.org/programs/mil...

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Michigan Legal Milestones: 41. First to Abolish the Death Penalty

The State Bar of Michigan shall aid in promoting improvements in the administration of justice and advancements in jurisprudence, in improving relations between the legal profession and the public, an...

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My wife and I finished watching the Doll and were surprised the ending wasn’t dark. It had felt like the fatalism and people getting in their own way that seemed very 19th century Polish. (Also fit with some great uncles and great grandparents). And yup, they changed the ending from the book.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In econ terms: nominal wages are up. Real wages are down.⁣ ⁣ In normal terms: congrats on the raise, sorry about the pay cut. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0f8dsDt0o4

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m uncomfortable with the new Bluesky conclusion that being evil and being physically unattractive (or at least looking old for one’s age) are correlated.

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was reading about clever Egyptian tactics in a late Bronze Age battle against Libyans last night. I don’t think we should conclude Hegseth would do better in the past as a general. Maybe as a squad leader …

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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goodman-jonathan.bsky.social @goodman-jonathan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

West Point and Annapolis are, among other things, colleges with big engineering components. They have faculty who teach calculus, mechanics, civil engineering, etc. As a stem academic, I personally know they have good people. Without tenure, that will end.

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As an international relations professor in NYC, let me say that regular interaction btw civilian academics and the US Army is routine. Civilians teaching at West Point. Active duty officers getting graduate education in civilian universities. Retiring officers getting PhDs so they can teach at WP.

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Unlike certain Senators from Missouri …

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026

Here's footage of Jack Smith at the Iowa vs. Maryland game on February 3rd, 2024 btw

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The main difference btw Bluesky and the UMich Diag circa 1997 is more Stalinist Tankies, fewer Trotskyists and religious heretics, and the Maoists go with USians as opposed to United $nakes of America. (The Trotskyite vs. Maoist pamphleteering was something, and mostly a Boomer vs. Gen X thing).

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

May the Motor City Kitties vs. G-Men in late December be a meaningful game for both teams.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Optimizing one’s time on Capitol Hill for internet content rather than for lawmaking has been a net negative for the country

“Freedom of speech” / guy in a town hall meme

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 29/09/2026

Or, alternately, since he was born in 1975, perhaps this Gen X reference is more appropriate:

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 29/09/2026

Someone should send this to Sen. Schmitt.

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ve been impressed with El Sayed’s campaign. His ads don’t pull punches and also feel very Michigan / Midwestern. I thought mobilizing the left would be a strength, but these ads should hit well with a normie independent in Ingham County.

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wish Klobuchar had asked Grassley to weigh in on if the Hawks and Hawkeyes are different teams. Really nicely done by her.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think on rebutting mysoginistic jokes that it heavily falls on young men. Older men have sussed out which men they can tell those jokes in front of and which they can’t. I almost never hear those jokes anymore—or maybe I’ve sorted who to be friends with.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Of course I agree with Kevin as we limp along at CUNY hobbled by decades of under-funding. It hasn't been costless. I am not feeling sanguine given the Dems even in blue states have decided public higher ed = vocational training. But will I stop pushing the Dems on it? No.

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Would the triple world play be worth the instant smiting if one drove a Chevy El Camino to Santiago de Compostela while wearing a Mandalorian outfit?

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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is Trump showing up just for the red zone offenses?

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