Eryan Cobham
@littlelazer.bsky.social
I make internet things sometimes
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from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"
August 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"
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much easier to understand the sheer bloody intensity of the civil war when you have a good grasp on just how terrible slavery was.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
much easier to understand the sheer bloody intensity of the civil war when you have a good grasp on just how terrible slavery was.
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LLM’s have created the concept of “herd vulnerability” in that we’re speed running a test of what proportion of a populous can have their brains pickled before the entire society is completely fucked.
just checking in with one of the most influential philosophers alive today
August 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
LLM’s have created the concept of “herd vulnerability” in that we’re speed running a test of what proportion of a populous can have their brains pickled before the entire society is completely fucked.
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bragging about being a giant pussy is integral to the conservative mindset
August 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
bragging about being a giant pussy is integral to the conservative mindset
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August 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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This man "eric adams really be doing everytjing but his fuckin job" hillarious give home girl a follow on insta
July 24, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This man "eric adams really be doing everytjing but his fuckin job" hillarious give home girl a follow on insta
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Between social media, public-private chat spaces (think ClubHouse, Twitter Spaces), and now LLMs; the billionaires and many other people have nearly perfected the sociotechnology for cooking one’s own brain in a groupthink counter-knowledge stew—which increasingly seems not accidental??
![Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber who no longer works at the company, appeared on All-In to talk with hosts Jason Calacanis and Chamath Palihapitiya about the future of technology. When the topic turned to AI, Kalanick discussed how he uses xAI’s Grok, which went haywire last week, praising Adolf Hitler and advocating for a second Holocaust against Jews.
“I’ll go down this thread with [Chat]GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” Kalanick explained. “And we’re approaching what’s known. And I’m trying to poke and see if there’s breakthroughs to be had. And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qlnirjwff4ibiw3wchmleszo/bafkreiac2szurc5dnw6klquhpjmo7iafg4n6fwmrqyred7jrrph6h6mptq@jpeg)
July 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Between social media, public-private chat spaces (think ClubHouse, Twitter Spaces), and now LLMs; the billionaires and many other people have nearly perfected the sociotechnology for cooking one’s own brain in a groupthink counter-knowledge stew—which increasingly seems not accidental??
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Y'all: we have to welcome Trump voters into the tent!
Me:
Me:
two men are standing next to each other in a living room . one of the men is holding a jacket over his shoulder .
Alt: Uncle Phil saying "We" over and over and cracking himself up
media.tenor.com
June 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Y'all: we have to welcome Trump voters into the tent!
Me:
Me:
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but what do you really think brad lander hellgatenyc.com/brad-lander-...
June 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
but what do you really think brad lander hellgatenyc.com/brad-lander-...
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Every time the Supreme Court dumps a load of decisions right before heading off for vacation, I'm reminded of how Clarence Thomas marked the conclusion of one SCOTUS session by boarding a private jet to Indonesia where he and Ginny island-hopped aboard Harlan Crow's 162-foot superyacht:
Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha...
www.propublica.org
June 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Every time the Supreme Court dumps a load of decisions right before heading off for vacation, I'm reminded of how Clarence Thomas marked the conclusion of one SCOTUS session by boarding a private jet to Indonesia where he and Ginny island-hopped aboard Harlan Crow's 162-foot superyacht:
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i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan
June 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan
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NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital.
CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one
PELOSI: Take the shot
CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one
PELOSI: Take the shot
June 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital.
CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one
PELOSI: Take the shot
CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one
PELOSI: Take the shot
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When reactionaries rail about “crime” or especially “urban crime” what they actually mean is visible poverty (unhoused people) and neoliberal rot (vacant storefronts).
Actual crime might literally be at its lowest point, ever.
Actual crime might literally be at its lowest point, ever.
"The...data from 2024 and the first third of 2025 suggests a strong possibility that the United States will report the lowest murder rate ever recorded, the lowest property rate ever recorded, & the lowest violent crime rate since 1968" - @jeffasher.bsky.social
jasher.substack.com/p/its-not-ju...
jasher.substack.com/p/its-not-ju...
It's Not Just Murder That's Likely At Historic Lows
The US is on track to record the lowest violent crime rate since 1968 and lowest property crime rate ever.
jasher.substack.com
June 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
When reactionaries rail about “crime” or especially “urban crime” what they actually mean is visible poverty (unhoused people) and neoliberal rot (vacant storefronts).
Actual crime might literally be at its lowest point, ever.
Actual crime might literally be at its lowest point, ever.
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imagine watching a small child struggle to breathe because of a measles infection and then going on your radio show to explain that the “human body was designed to fight measles” with the clear implication that if you die your body just wasn’t good enough.
June 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
imagine watching a small child struggle to breathe because of a measles infection and then going on your radio show to explain that the “human body was designed to fight measles” with the clear implication that if you die your body just wasn’t good enough.
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i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
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You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country
June 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country
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one reason this is important is that it makes so much about the period more emotionally legible. when lafayette is asking washington why he won’t just free his slaves, it isn’t an abstract thing; dude is literally at mount vernon and seeing all of these human beings in bondage!
June 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
one reason this is important is that it makes so much about the period more emotionally legible. when lafayette is asking washington why he won’t just free his slaves, it isn’t an abstract thing; dude is literally at mount vernon and seeing all of these human beings in bondage!
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this is such an important point. i do not think that the typical american understands that for most of their lives, someone like james madison or george washington or thomas jefferson was *surrounded* by black people.
A big point in my Founders in American memory class is that the visual culture of the 19th century whitewashed the era of the revolution out of recognition. I ask students if there were Black soldiers at Yorktown and if anything they describe back the Trumbull painting.
can’t overstate how shoddy the actual work is. “the framers didn’t think black people counted in the constitutional order” falls apart with a single question: “well what did they think about all the free blacks that most of them lived around, encountered, and even hired for work?”
June 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
this is such an important point. i do not think that the typical american understands that for most of their lives, someone like james madison or george washington or thomas jefferson was *surrounded* by black people.
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The Iraq war cost $2 billion dollars a week. A week!
I think we can afford a little Juneteenth.
Always money to increase human suffering, never any money to increase happiness and joy.
I think we can afford a little Juneteenth.
Always money to increase human suffering, never any money to increase happiness and joy.
June 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The Iraq war cost $2 billion dollars a week. A week!
I think we can afford a little Juneteenth.
Always money to increase human suffering, never any money to increase happiness and joy.
I think we can afford a little Juneteenth.
Always money to increase human suffering, never any money to increase happiness and joy.
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Think about what it says to talk about a 67 year old, even leaving aside how awful he is, as “the future” of anything.
Solipsistic octogenarian cowards anointing a Medicare-eligible ex-governor who resigned in disgrace the future captain of the sinking ship. What a party.
Solipsistic octogenarian cowards anointing a Medicare-eligible ex-governor who resigned in disgrace the future captain of the sinking ship. What a party.
That Clyburn thinks Andrew Cuomo is part of the future of the Democratic Party - and points to his character!!! — is the problem with the current Democratic Party leadership in a nutshell.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/n...
June 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Think about what it says to talk about a 67 year old, even leaving aside how awful he is, as “the future” of anything.
Solipsistic octogenarian cowards anointing a Medicare-eligible ex-governor who resigned in disgrace the future captain of the sinking ship. What a party.
Solipsistic octogenarian cowards anointing a Medicare-eligible ex-governor who resigned in disgrace the future captain of the sinking ship. What a party.
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I’m doing history content on YouTube. This is my latest video! Like and subscribe if you want to see more! And what should I tackle next? I am thinking of doing a video on the varieties of antislavery in antebellum America. Maybe also the 3/5ths Compromise?
did a video on jim crow as part of my american history series on youtube youtu.be/FdCf0rQmY-s
Nerd Stuff: What was Jim Crow?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtu.be
June 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I’m doing history content on YouTube. This is my latest video! Like and subscribe if you want to see more! And what should I tackle next? I am thinking of doing a video on the varieties of antislavery in antebellum America. Maybe also the 3/5ths Compromise?
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TY @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social for saying it louder: The subway is not scary open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
June 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
TY @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social for saying it louder: The subway is not scary open.substack.com/pub/howthing...