Mark
@inepterudition.bsky.social
He/they. DevOps and 19th Cen History Knower.
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I’m still thinking about Bari Weiss saying that Hasan Piker (extremely popular influencer) is less of a measure of where Americans are than Alan Dershowitz (extremely unpopular Epstein associate, his own neighbors won’t sell him a pierogi)
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I’m still thinking about Bari Weiss saying that Hasan Piker (extremely popular influencer) is less of a measure of where Americans are than Alan Dershowitz (extremely unpopular Epstein associate, his own neighbors won’t sell him a pierogi)
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Happy long weekend to you guys
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Happy long weekend to you guys
Just touched down in NYC and it's been so dry out west I forgot to even consider rain lmao
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Just touched down in NYC and it's been so dry out west I forgot to even consider rain lmao
Dersh is 87 years old
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Dersh is 87 years old
I feel like this take doesn't deal with the fact that SEO optimized slop was already taking over years before the LLMs
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I feel like this take doesn't deal with the fact that SEO optimized slop was already taking over years before the LLMs
I've got to stop reading reddit
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I've got to stop reading reddit
Don't make me tap the sign
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Don't make me tap the sign
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Press-ganging a US Senator so you can toss him in the brig is almost identical to the sort of insane shit that got Charles I beheaded.
This is how you delegitimize yourself and enrage even the most mild opposition members.
This is how you delegitimize yourself and enrage even the most mild opposition members.
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Press-ganging a US Senator so you can toss him in the brig is almost identical to the sort of insane shit that got Charles I beheaded.
This is how you delegitimize yourself and enrage even the most mild opposition members.
This is how you delegitimize yourself and enrage even the most mild opposition members.
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I see the Henry Ford-ization of Musk is continuing apace
Elon continues to prove that no amount of money - not even a trillion dollars - can make you cool
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I see the Henry Ford-ization of Musk is continuing apace
It's cool how the president gets to do death threats online while the rest of out here are writing shit like "unalive"
November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It's cool how the president gets to do death threats online while the rest of out here are writing shit like "unalive"
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I really genuinely and sincerely think that a lot of major problems in america could be greatly improved if everyone who could bought a bike and used cars a lot less
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I really genuinely and sincerely think that a lot of major problems in america could be greatly improved if everyone who could bought a bike and used cars a lot less
The financial crisis took a lot from us man
The counterfactual I come back to is John Tanner's 2009 bill to ban gerrymandering that went nowhere. D's had a trifecta and is the type of thing that probably could've gotten GOP buy in if they pushed it early enough. But nobody around Obama was thinking that way.
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The financial crisis took a lot from us man
I believe the accurate is bronze age armor and you have to understand is that Homeric poetry is very much not about that
Yeah cuz Nolan's cool and has had sex.
November 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I believe the accurate is bronze age armor and you have to understand is that Homeric poetry is very much not about that
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How long must we be forced to endure this national humiliation
August 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
How long must we be forced to endure this national humiliation
.... this implies being a landscaper requires like credentials?
FOX: Here's a viral video of landscapers who were being addressed by a CBP agent. What do you say to people who say that falls outside the purview of getting criminals out?
GREG BOVINO: Martha, do we know the criminal records of those so-called landscapers?
GREG BOVINO: Martha, do we know the criminal records of those so-called landscapers?
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
.... this implies being a landscaper requires like credentials?
I suspect the first woman president will be a Republican
Former first lady Michelle Obama said America is "not ready for a woman" president during a conversation at her New York book event. https://cnn.it/43ApuKZ
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I suspect the first woman president will be a Republican
One thing very different than the first term is how little television news and the like seems to matter now. He feels like the only one who gives a shit anymore
November 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
One thing very different than the first term is how little television news and the like seems to matter now. He feels like the only one who gives a shit anymore
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*rockwell standing guy*
we should abolish the filibuster so we can pass laws again rather than giant clusterfuck omnibus bullshit
we should abolish the filibuster so we can pass laws again rather than giant clusterfuck omnibus bullshit
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
*rockwell standing guy*
we should abolish the filibuster so we can pass laws again rather than giant clusterfuck omnibus bullshit
we should abolish the filibuster so we can pass laws again rather than giant clusterfuck omnibus bullshit
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Ahemhem journalism is a guild that thinks it is a priesthood ahemhem
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Ahemhem journalism is a guild that thinks it is a priesthood ahemhem
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I'm just so sick of both parties being eternally protected from putting their money where their mouth is and enacting their own stated goals. It's diseased antidemocratic nonsense that we go back and forth forever going "shame about this gridlock, we'd fix everything if only we had 60 votes..."
November 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I'm just so sick of both parties being eternally protected from putting their money where their mouth is and enacting their own stated goals. It's diseased antidemocratic nonsense that we go back and forth forever going "shame about this gridlock, we'd fix everything if only we had 60 votes..."
At this point what remains of the affordable care act is basically just the protections for pre-existing conditions. I cannot think of a less popular law than a national abortion ban. Seems like you should make them prove this is what they want
Straightforward confirmation from Angus King that the gang of eight made the deal out of earnest concern for the filibuster. www.pressherald.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
At this point what remains of the affordable care act is basically just the protections for pre-existing conditions. I cannot think of a less popular law than a national abortion ban. Seems like you should make them prove this is what they want
Okay but also a real estate development bubble was absolutely one of the main causes of the depression. (I AM PRO HOUSING)
amusing chart. it turns out New York City built more housing units in the 1920s than in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s put together www.nyc.gov/content/plan...
November 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Okay but also a real estate development bubble was absolutely one of the main causes of the depression. (I AM PRO HOUSING)
Fun tip: Never ask a Medievalist what Feudalism was
November 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Fun tip: Never ask a Medievalist what Feudalism was
exceedingly predictable, now will the likes of Jaime Dimon care?
WHITE HOUSE: FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM MAY HAVE PERMANENTLY BEEN DAMAGED WHITE HOUSE: OCTOBER JOBS REPORTS LIKELY NEVER RELEASED
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
exceedingly predictable, now will the likes of Jaime Dimon care?