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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can't remember who said it -- I think it was maybe @janecoaston.bsky.social? -- but someone said something to the effect of "do you actually miss that era or were you just hot at the time?" and that was like a triple-tap to center mass for me 🤣 bsky.app/profile/gain...

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is a very weird headline because the mob actually very specifically cares that they weren’t charged.

The 'Cornell 7' haven't been charged. The mob doesn't care |
Opinion
What's most troubling in the Cornell
University rape allegations is that onlookers have already made up their minds about who is to blame.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 02/10/2026

We can and indeed should show empathy to people's problems without necessarily accepting their diagnosis of what's driving those problems or their prescriptions for how to fix them. I empathise with a factory worker whose factory closed, but that doesn't mean I accept his 800% tariffs vision.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If newsnation wanted to beat the allegations that it’s not a Fox ape it would disclose that chris cuomo unethically as a journalist helped his brother, the governor of new york, discredit his own sexual harassment accusers (don’t hold your breath, this whole channel is run by rape guys)

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Very funny to be like "there are 6 deaths!" when Infinity War had a floor of 3 billion.

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Something that gets easily forgotten is that providing humanitarian assistance to 2 million people in a dense urban area with good paved roads and decent water infrastructure, close to several modern container ports is actually quite easy. The problem wasn't logistics or funding. It was politics.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Much of 2020 felt like society was on the brink of collapse. It was utterly hellish times. But this is what I mean: people are in the grips of delusion. And like many delusions, this one is self-supporting, and people use false facts from inside the delusion to explain the seeming inconsistencies.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Life is just worse now than in 2020, when I felt safe and like our leaders were trying to help me" - no, nostalgia is lying to you. Something weird is happening, you have a bunch of false memories. Please wake up, snap out of it.

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Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

3000 people a day were dying from something that no one could see! We were trapped in our homes for more than a year. The president was telling people to drink bleach and doing deranged press conferences where he complained that people were exaggerating it to make him look bad. Also riots!

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I want to be like "Oh, so none of you REALLY want to get to the bottom of the Trump thing, do you? You want him gone but not so badly that you'd be willing to risk unpopularity by saying the social forces that produced him might be wrong"

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On some level it just drives me crazy that there are now years of empirical evidence that the US is somehow in the grips of a society-spanning delusion of perpetual crisis, a major contributor to its political implosion, but no one will talk about it because then you'd have to challenge the delusion

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A great illustration of the way social media has essentially shredded society’s informational immune system: The USSR spent a fortune trying to spread conspiracy theories, without success because they couldn’t crack newsrooms. Today, you can reach the globe with a post that costs $20 to make.

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Forbestonow @forbestonow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And soon there will be multiple generations who don't know what the "before" scenario in Will's story was like and why it was helpful it existed.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Total private construction is about $1.6 TRILLION per year. Total data center construction is about $50 BILLION. So data centers are ~3% of all construction. There's no real crowding out here. Comparing total spending change from such RADICALLY different baserates tells us almost nothing.

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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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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is JD Vance-level comedic timing. A true master of the craft.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People in the replies are ably demonstrating my point by writing “deanthropomorphized” descriptions of the Hugging Face attack that are oblique, evasive, obviously politicized, and ignore the actual details that would help a reader understand what happened. It’s just bad, unclear writing.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

OpenAI and Anthropic releasing GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 on the same day right after saying we need a slowdown in AI development.

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Ironbound @ironbound.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hmm, there’s some serious stuff in there (can’t be shoving and slurring) but also some real silliness like this that has gender flying off it in all directions

Sometimes she jumped up and down and stomped her feet, three of these former aides said. Two of the aides described one instance, in 2024, when Ms. Peltola was so frustrated that she swept stacks of papers on her desk into the air in a way that the two people independently likened to a scene from the political satire "Veep.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

a wonderful example in how part of the art of listening to people is working out which of them are operating in bad faith.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

nytimes.com

F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There’s a non-zero chance cable bottoms out, so that’ll be a cash machine of “fewer billions than usual but still billions” that everyone’s treating like a ‘82’Ford Escort with one primer door and stinking of meth.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"The thing that will bring us tens of billions of dollars in actual cash over the next decade even as it declines year over year" is not sexy for the guys who get paid in stock options ("GROWTH!!"), but is the actual functioning bit of capitalism left in Hollywood.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Separate from the details of the actual Paramount/WBD deal, we're going to need non-Hollywood writers to do a little homework and understand that "zombie cable arms" are, in the case of WBD, *40-60% of all revenue* depending on the year. It ain't dead just because the streaming enthusiasts asy so.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

MORE OF THIS PLEASE.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I know this is just a "one or two feldspars" thing but I am truly surprised how many people are encountering physicalism for the first time. I thought everybody had that existential freakout as a teenager and then integrated it.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is what a lot of people are getting stuck on. They don’t want to admit they believe in magic souls, but they also don’t want to admit AI is thinking or understanding in any way, so they pretend there’s some sophisticated middle ground that lets them hold both views. But what is it?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Raising immigration” is how immigration went from being a good issue for Trump to one he’s unpopular on. This is like saying you should never attack an enemy’s army since that’s where they’re strong. Often that’s WHY you have to attack it.

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fellow Arkansas traveler @drew870mitchell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

we've gone in 5 years from "this tech puts together coherent vacuous paragraphs" to "the free tier one-shots projects you would've banged your head into for a weekend". i dont think Machine God is at the end of the trajectory but we are already well past this being the biggest tech story of the 20s

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you have evidence of a non-mechanical, non-physical component of human cognition, you should go ahead and reveal it so that you can turn all of science since the Enlightenment on its head and transform everything we know about the universe

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

People get this PRECISELY BACKWARDS: If people's opinions are formed from their lived experiences, those opinions *should* closely track the macroeconomic indicators. Because the macroeconomic indicators are the aggregate of people's lived experiences.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Part of why the sudden departure of mass opinion from macroeconomic indicators is unnerving is because it suggests the opposite: that people *are not* getting their opinions from lived experience, but from something else we can't measure so easily as wages or inflation.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why worry about the vibecession? Well, ask yourself this: how did the US elect a "mad would-be autocrat" despite the objectively strong economic performance of his predecessor?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

Regulation looks intractable if you’re acting like AI is a bear that acts on its own and that nobody has the right or ability to restrain or control.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone.

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 19/09/2026

Oh my god, the mad lad did it. I’m dying.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Dr. El-Sayed please come to Phoenix and hang out with me in my garage gym and lift weights and we can talk about public health policy while we crush some heavy overhead presses

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 16/09/2026

Oh. That's a heck of a subsidy.

At MIT, Harvard, or any other school, supervising an undergraduate researcher is a lot of work, costs a lot of money, involves a lot of meetings, and the results are not reliably excellent. Asking Claude is easier, faster, and may produce better results. It’s also cheaper, which is no accident: Harvard allows every Harvard student and faculty member to request a Claude token budget of $2,500 per month, even as research funding is continuously threatened and the University lays off staff.

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Effy, Walker Among Sunflowers @mseffy.myatproto.social · 16/09/2026

Everyone acts as if they've got the Thu'um and they can Shout people into tiny little shreds of flesh by arguing, and so they have no need to ever give any kind of respect to other people unless they're a bigger Dragonborn that could eat them easily.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Correct. Fox exists to reinforce the notion among conservatives that they are right and not alone and that everyone else is nuts. Thats a big part of why it’s so self destructive for democrats to appear there.

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's VERY strange, kinda creepy in a "Pluribus" sorta way, to see so many Dem politicians not cut loose at this point; instead, many are still talking generically about "chaos" in "Washington" & being policy wonky instead of just RIPPING THE F*** out of the fascists. bluevirginia.us/2026/09/tues...

David Roberts asks, "Why aren't they mad?", in response to Will Stancil talking about how baffling it is that so many Dems seem to be "not angry", instead "they sit around and blab about policy this and policy that and blah blah blah"

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The best way to protect trans kids this election isn't punishing specific Dems. It's subjecting MAGA to such a world-historical electoral bloodbath that media and their own pollsters tell them that making the entire referendum on trans kids was a losing strategy and they should stop doing it.

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Lincoln was a purely racist evil bastard who didn't help anyone and only waged war on the poor South to protect capitalism" is a horrifically common take among the online left

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's very funny to watch the ALL IN dudes, who have succeeded in so thoroughly capturing the government, their co-host was AI Czar whine about regulatory capture, and about how the *other* AI people are all just talking their book.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Silicon Valley wanted a pro-acceleration, anti-regulation president

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hacked by a moth.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here’s the fundamental problem: 1. The rules of professional conduct (legal ethics rules) require an attorney to check and verify all legal research results output from AI 2. It takes longer to verify AI research than human research 3. Like, a LOT longer 4. And it’s getting worse not better

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One of the underrated parts of this election cycle is finding out what huge pieces of shit formerly safe elected officials are because they're finally vulnerable enough to get raked over the coals

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

gonna die mad about this

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