Luke Kaven
@lukekaven.bsky.social
Researcher/educator. Former: PLATO Project, CUNY faculty, CABM; Cornell Realism, biological philosophy as an aid to scientific discovery. Dewey on education.
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How long before interactions devolve from "Billy graduated from sixth grade today!" into "you bitch, you never stood up for me when dad abused me...I'm blocking you from interacting with my kids so you can never poison them."
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 AM
How long before interactions devolve from "Billy graduated from sixth grade today!" into "you bitch, you never stood up for me when dad abused me...I'm blocking you from interacting with my kids so you can never poison them."
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Pay attention -- what he means is allowing Democrats to win a free and fair election.
Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."
October 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Pay attention -- what he means is allowing Democrats to win a free and fair election.
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Why isn’t every large account warning about the “network state” movement? In August, “network state” leader Balaji Srinivassan—a close ally of Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen—wrote that, “When Bitcoin wins,” it “ends the Fed,” the “battle begins,” & “it's time to build”. 1/
October 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Why isn’t every large account warning about the “network state” movement? In August, “network state” leader Balaji Srinivassan—a close ally of Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen—wrote that, “When Bitcoin wins,” it “ends the Fed,” the “battle begins,” & “it's time to build”. 1/
Judge April Perry's written opinion in Trump v. Illinois, granting a TRO to Illinois over the deployment of the National Guard, supplies an important legal framework for challenging the use of The National Guard in domestic "law enforcement" operations:
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October 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Judge April Perry's written opinion in Trump v. Illinois, granting a TRO to Illinois over the deployment of the National Guard, supplies an important legal framework for challenging the use of The National Guard in domestic "law enforcement" operations:
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RFKjr's program is *eliminative eugenics*. It's not that he "wants to be right." He might be ignorant about everything but the one thing he intends to do: let disease burn through the population, and whoever survives is considered "fit" to carry on the species.
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September 2, 2025 at 1:46 AM
RFKjr's program is *eliminative eugenics*. It's not that he "wants to be right." He might be ignorant about everything but the one thing he intends to do: let disease burn through the population, and whoever survives is considered "fit" to carry on the species.
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We must learn the game they’re playing when they say ‘waste, fraud, and abuse.’
It’s just Trump saying he’s going to dismantle an agency so he can take it private, profit off of it, and create an inefficient bureaucracy.
Rinse and repeat.
It’s just Trump saying he’s going to dismantle an agency so he can take it private, profit off of it, and create an inefficient bureaucracy.
Rinse and repeat.
August 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
We must learn the game they’re playing when they say ‘waste, fraud, and abuse.’
It’s just Trump saying he’s going to dismantle an agency so he can take it private, profit off of it, and create an inefficient bureaucracy.
Rinse and repeat.
It’s just Trump saying he’s going to dismantle an agency so he can take it private, profit off of it, and create an inefficient bureaucracy.
Rinse and repeat.
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1. CBS sells itself to Trump's billionaire allies for $8 billion.
2. Trump manages to exort CBS for $16 million just for fun, leveraging some fake investigations at the FCC.
3. CBS fuses with Bari Weiss' bullshit machine to create another massive new right wing propaganda outlet.
Easy peasy.
2. Trump manages to exort CBS for $16 million just for fun, leveraging some fake investigations at the FCC.
3. CBS fuses with Bari Weiss' bullshit machine to create another massive new right wing propaganda outlet.
Easy peasy.
Skydance reportedly in talks to buy Bari Weiss’ The Free Press — is CBS News role in her future?
Sources speculate that Weiss could play a major role in reshaping CBS News, which has been plagued by criticism of a left-wing bias.
nypost.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
1. CBS sells itself to Trump's billionaire allies for $8 billion.
2. Trump manages to exort CBS for $16 million just for fun, leveraging some fake investigations at the FCC.
3. CBS fuses with Bari Weiss' bullshit machine to create another massive new right wing propaganda outlet.
Easy peasy.
2. Trump manages to exort CBS for $16 million just for fun, leveraging some fake investigations at the FCC.
3. CBS fuses with Bari Weiss' bullshit machine to create another massive new right wing propaganda outlet.
Easy peasy.
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“It was as visceral and overwhelming and biologically real” as falling in love with a person.
@sam-apple.bsky.social found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.
@sam-apple.bsky.social found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.
My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them
I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.
www.wired.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
“It was as visceral and overwhelming and biologically real” as falling in love with a person.
@sam-apple.bsky.social found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.
@sam-apple.bsky.social found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.
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Tesla's Supervised Robotaxi launch was a pathetic flop.
Tesla's Supervised Robotaxi launched yesterday to much acclaim from the Tesla Cult. Since nobody who was at the event has properly summarized the first day, we thought we would do it.
Below are our findings. 🧵
Tesla's Supervised Robotaxi launched yesterday to much acclaim from the Tesla Cult. Since nobody who was at the event has properly summarized the first day, we thought we would do it.
Below are our findings. 🧵
June 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Tesla's Supervised Robotaxi launch was a pathetic flop.
Tesla's Supervised Robotaxi launched yesterday to much acclaim from the Tesla Cult. Since nobody who was at the event has properly summarized the first day, we thought we would do it.
Below are our findings. 🧵
Tesla's Supervised Robotaxi launched yesterday to much acclaim from the Tesla Cult. Since nobody who was at the event has properly summarized the first day, we thought we would do it.
Below are our findings. 🧵
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Trump pardoned the violent J6 insurrectionist freaks and they walk among us, thirsting for revenge. One of them, Zach Alam, did a home invasion the other day.
May 19, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Trump pardoned the violent J6 insurrectionist freaks and they walk among us, thirsting for revenge. One of them, Zach Alam, did a home invasion the other day.
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This line is going to stick with me for a very long time.
“One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”
“One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”
Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana
The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.
wapo.st
April 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This line is going to stick with me for a very long time.
“One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”
“One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”
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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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Today in weird statistical coincidences
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Today in weird statistical coincidences
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“We are currently clean on OPSEC” I declare to my group chat as I disclose operational details of an in progress airstrike to a group chat on unsecured devices that includes a journalist.
Just the absolute stupidest, lowest quality soldier imaginable.
Just the absolute stupidest, lowest quality soldier imaginable.
March 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“We are currently clean on OPSEC” I declare to my group chat as I disclose operational details of an in progress airstrike to a group chat on unsecured devices that includes a journalist.
Just the absolute stupidest, lowest quality soldier imaginable.
Just the absolute stupidest, lowest quality soldier imaginable.
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Streisand this book!
March 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Streisand this book!
This organization is doing important work, and well worth following. Listen to their interview on WNYC "On Point."
www.wnyc.org/story/what-h...
www.wnyc.org/story/what-h...
March 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This organization is doing important work, and well worth following. Listen to their interview on WNYC "On Point."
www.wnyc.org/story/what-h...
www.wnyc.org/story/what-h...
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NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two.
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
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March 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two.
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
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Trump’s “crypto strategic reserve” may be nothing but a blatant insider trading scam to make his billionaire crypto czar richer — funded by taxpayer money.
Trump’s New Crypto Reserve Is Open Corruption
Trump’s “crypto strategic reserve” is about to make one of the worst people richer.
newrepublic.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Trump’s “crypto strategic reserve” may be nothing but a blatant insider trading scam to make his billionaire crypto czar richer — funded by taxpayer money.
Is RFKjr a pharma pharma pharma pharma pharma chameleon?
March 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Is RFKjr a pharma pharma pharma pharma pharma chameleon?
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Republicans don’t give a shit about deficits. It’s a cudgel they use when Democrats are in power. That’s it. Period.
These “principles,” including small government, liberty, social conservatism, they’re all cudgels. The quicker people understand that the better.
These “principles,” including small government, liberty, social conservatism, they’re all cudgels. The quicker people understand that the better.
February 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Republicans don’t give a shit about deficits. It’s a cudgel they use when Democrats are in power. That’s it. Period.
These “principles,” including small government, liberty, social conservatism, they’re all cudgels. The quicker people understand that the better.
These “principles,” including small government, liberty, social conservatism, they’re all cudgels. The quicker people understand that the better.
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Steve Bannon Nazi Salute @ CPAC - 2/20/25
YouTube video by Kenneth Brown
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February 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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"AP sets the standard for political reporting. Support independent, fact-based journalism."
"Paid for by Super Saving Online"
"Social Secuuriritty Administration"
"Paid for by Super Saving Online"
"Social Secuuriritty Administration"
February 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM
"AP sets the standard for political reporting. Support independent, fact-based journalism."
"Paid for by Super Saving Online"
"Social Secuuriritty Administration"
"Paid for by Super Saving Online"
"Social Secuuriritty Administration"
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The United States is under attack. Is there a single Republican Senator patriotic enough to stand up to this madness?
DOGE-affiliated employee expected to seek access to IRS system with sensitive taxpayer information
The Integrated Data Retrieval System allows IRS employees to access taxpayer information.
www.nbcnews.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
The United States is under attack. Is there a single Republican Senator patriotic enough to stand up to this madness?
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He's not necessarily referring to himself here.
"Stand back and stand by"
"Stand back and stand by"
February 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
He's not necessarily referring to himself here.
"Stand back and stand by"
"Stand back and stand by"