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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
why would you cite a survey of parents and not children to uncover the behavior of the children
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Gyms for our brains," you say?
Don Draper meme showing him presenting with the words "Hear me out...We call it 'The University'."
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh brother.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ignoring advice to secure and monitor your sandboxes during testing then blaming it on your AI being so smart that it’s a threat to humanity is nasty work
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every one of these guys is thinking the same thing: how much money can I extract from giving Defense contracts to the tech industry? Even the govt officials are calculating when to make the jump over to the vendors they are nominally going to be buying from.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rewriting history is what despots do.
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Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org · 30/09/2026
My car went rogue when i forgot to set the parking brake, left in drive, and exited it.
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zack @zjaggers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Climate change denial as fashion statement
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Isn’t that what the us has always done? What are people objecting to here? That she and others in this admin are just gauche enough to say it out loud?
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yes, because it helps you avoid being a mark and to place accountability in people making these tools. Hope that helps.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
wow, you're telling me a ton of senators and congressmen have been funneling bribes into their personal pacs for years? it's almost like the dissenting opinion in citizens united was right, and that opening the door to super pacs has undermined the integrity of elections! Post: InteractInk.com
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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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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/09/2026
This is a real tweet. They're so cooked.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Lol -- over on X Nate Silver is apparently holding me up as an example of how "the Left" is anti-AI regulation, and proving his point by posting screen caps of ch 7 of The AI Con, where @alexhanna.bsky.social and I outline some proposals for what to do about the harms done in the name of "AI". >>
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you accept that Fox News is not a journalistic organization but a right-wing entertainment universe, then you must accept that a Fox News character going up against MAGA is not a win for journalism, just a plot twist
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WRMS Traffic & Weather Reporter on the 2’s @carnegro.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
I missed FAMU honoring Dolly Parton at Miami Friday night.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 02/09/2026
The bar for progressive policies is: "did this unilaterally solve the entire gigantic systemic issue without making a single person sad?" The bar for conservative policies is: "did the people pushing this yell out the name of a real problem before doing something unrelated, cruel and ineffective?"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026
re: everyone yelling about Google Maps - Maps just ingests the official data source for each country, which is GNIS in this case, and most other online maps will follow for American users nobody at Google is making an active decision to go in and change names in Maps directly
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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Linguist: What even is a cup, exactly
image from labov's 1973ish study of cups and bowls and semantic boundaries, a bunch of weird cuppy thing are illustrated including a mug with a loooong fluted stem and a triangle mugneat bar graph of cuppiness and bowliness
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zack @zjaggers.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
New syntactic bracketing exercise just dropped @gretchenmcculloch.com
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zack @zjaggers.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Every year, Seattle Center hosts a ceremony celebrating people who have gained US citizenship. It made me cry seeing it this year. Especially hearing the names of countries people hailed from, that the white supremacists marching in DC this 4th of July would cringe at.
A stage with dozens of people seated at and in front of it, surrounded by trees and grass to the left, and a concrete building with American flags on it to the right. And dozens more onlookers standing around the area of the ceremony.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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zack @zjaggers.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is the way. The only way I want more of them in my life is news that they’ll be less in my life www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Trump, Vance won’t attend U.S. World Cup match in Seattle, county spokesperson says
"We've been told that neither the president nor the vice president will be attending" Monday's U.S.-Belgium World Cup match, a King County spokesperson said.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
a Very Special Episode of "to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.
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Katherine Argent @katherineargent.com · 01/05/2026
Ah, I don’t know why I didn’t think about posting my earlier 17-post thread as a screenshot of my tweet at the other place. Thanks, @rj-palmer.com!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
the best part of post-tenure academia has been having the career space to slow down. the damage done by the contraction of tenure track positions + poor security/working conditions of non tenure track faculty + quantification of academic contributions is incalculable
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
welp unfortunately it looks like the world actually is a complicated place that requires us to put smart people in charge, hate to say it but sometimes shit matters and its not all a troll
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This is the NSF program that funds all of linguistics (and which funded my graduate study). Because of course knowing about how language works is woke nonsense that couldn't possible be in anyone's national interest 🫠
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zack @zjaggers.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
There’s no such thing as speaking “without an accent”.
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MillennialMike @mikemillennial.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Trump ran on energy independence now we’re sending ground troops to take over an oil theocracy.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 28/03/2026
I don’t love being in a society where you can sell enough pillows to do meaningful damage to democracy or sell enough children’s books to do a genocide or sell enough chicken sandwiches to abolish gay marriage That all seems like a ridiculous way to do society to me
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/03/2026
Lieu: "I want the White House to send Kevin Hassett to every single TV channel and to every single swing House district where he can tell the voters of America that hurting consumers is 'the last of our concerns.'"
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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
marc andreesen saying that basically people are bugs should be a big clue as to what these guys plans are for mass unemployment
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this:
A screenshot of Rachel Dratch from SNL. She's a white woman with short dark hair and blue eyes, and she's making an awkward expression that implies, "Sorry I have to tell you this and ruin your good time. But also I'm kind of not sorry about it." I've added a subtitle that reads, "That's AI."
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The left is not "missing out" on AI. It's winning the argument. Americans worry about AI and dislike tech CEOs. They're mobilizing against data centers. They support regulation, even refusal. Calls for the left to embrace AI are an effort to change the terms of the debate in Silicon Valley's favor.
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Actually, the left is winning the AI debate
But it does need to get organized.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/02/2026
They’re now literally declaring that their ultimate hope, their actual goal, is to build a God in their own image.
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
A beautiful moment in the socialist republic of New York
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