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ndrew.bsky.social
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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peark.es
If we could briefly get this to a new record high and then zero it out for the rest of time I'd be very pleased.
Chart showing the number of news stories in Bloomberg's wires mentioning Larry Summers. November MTD (not included) is at 437
November 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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foone.bsky.social
when I was at google, their class on licenses basically said "we can't use any license that's funny"

so I suggest everyone license their software as funny as possible
crimew.gay maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 1d
finally a normal software license that definitely holds up really well
WOKE SOFTWARE LICENSE Version 1, :3 Do whatever the fuck you want as long as you're woke. Basically the AGPL license but only when you're woke. None of us are free until all of us are free, the same goes for software.
November 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
March 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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writnelson.bsky.social
We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.

Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
royalpratt.bsky.social Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 13d
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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werrrp.bsky.social
they see political talent and are scared and really, really want to pre-emptively snuff it out. they are extremely aggressive about that these days.
beatrix.bsky.social Beatrix @beatrix.bsky.social · 20d
have to admit that I don’t understand the absolute hysteria about Zohran Mamdani from the right. it’s not like we have no precedent for left-wing mayors in America. that NYC somehow feels the need to keep electing cranks instead of normie progressives has always baffled me.
October 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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aelkus.bsky.social
I want “we can engineer the best processor in the world” to be a motivation and for “we’re gonna make an immortal Machine God that will suck you off” to be stigmatized
October 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
It's going to be so amazing being alive in 2026 because the front page will say "BREAKING Mamdani Received Free Cheese Pizza From a Local Vendor, Calls to Resign Mount" and then on page 3 you'll see "Hegseth's Pentagon Rape Dungeon Raises Legal Questions."
October 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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senchrislarson.bsky.social
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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espiers.bsky.social
Also someone needs to explain to, not just Rappoport (who is an idiot), but a lot of other people too, that the premise of democratic socialism is not that everyone is poor but that everyone can have nice things and afford an occasional date night out
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27d
i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife
Michael Rapaport tweets: "How’s a so-called “working class” mayoral candidate like Zohran Mamdani eating at OMEN SUSHI tonight — one of the priciest joints in NYC? 🍣💰 This clown lives in a rent-stabilized apartment in Queens but dines like a diplomat on a Qatar-funded per diem. Who’s paying for that toro, “Zoron the Moron”?" There are two photos of Zohran Mamdani and his wife eating at a restaurant. Michael Rapaport eating outside of a restaurant. There are some white canopy umbrellas around him and a tree in the background. Also the ocean and some fence. Two photos. The first shows the outside of Nobu in Malibu. The second shows the area where Michael sat. There is the same tree, ocean, white canopy umbrellas, and fence. The menu for Nobu in Malibu shows prices around $60. The menu for Omen Sushi in NYC shows prices around $35.
October 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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annpettifor.bsky.social
On the same wavelength: open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...
October 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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neilturkewitz.bsky.social
Everyone needs to see AI for what it is—a project that undermines truth & agency while transferring wealth from individual creators to Silicon Valley companies & VC’s. Rooted in exploitation of humanity & the planet, it’s a tool for the radical right to claim dominion & end representative democracy.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Oct 2
These are profoundly anti social tools that erode the social fabric. Their main purposes are harassment, abuse, demolishing consent and furthering an authoritarian project.

Any uses outside of that are incidental.
October 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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wilwheaton.net
I mean, obviously.

The correct thing to do when DHS or ICE or any of these thugs makes a claim like this one -- the only thing to do, really -- is presume they are lying.

Because they always are.

They are state-sponsored Klan members, and should be treated accordingly.
October 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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chibdm.bsky.social
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it.

But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 2
MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
October 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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c-anemone-d.bsky.social
When I saw an article about her providing hate speech scripts for Trump and RFK Jr on a substack article I felt the need to share what I remember about her—having avoided her awful writing for many years.
Cora Dean 17 Mar • • Liked by Evan Stern Wrote this as a bubbled over vent in the conversation group... I'm new to Substack. Anyway posting it here too, apologies to anyone reading it twice but l've been keeping this inside a long time. I went to college with her and lived in a shared dorm apartment with her sophomore year. I haven't read any of her recent writing, because I didn't like her then and from the random quotes I see here and there she's gone from her college rage baiting to just utter toxicity. She was in a relationship with Kate McKinnon (of SNL fame) when I knew her, but I guess they broke up and she must have gone down an increasingly right wing path. Too bad the people who rub shoulders with her now would have turned their backs on the person she was when I first met her. I always felt uncomfortable after a late night conversation we had where she explained to me in detail why it was so important to make sure traditional Jewish communities in Africa never were exposed to outside influences because it meant they maintained a more "pure" form of Judaism. She was utterly shocked when I said that I didn't think it would be terrible, if they were interested, to offer young people from any culture where (for example) a cd player is banned, an object from the outside, and that young people should be free to make their own decisions about whether they want to continue living in a traditional way or make other choices. That many people would gladly choose a traditional culture over a modern one, if the values it holds are strong. I grew up in a household where cultural studies and anthropology were big topics, and a major theme of my own studies has been the resilience of traditional cultures in the face of modernism and cultural supremacy/ erasure. I always felt uncomfortable after a late night conversation we had where she explained to me in detail why it was so important to make sure traditional Jewish communities in Africa never were exposed to outside influences because it meant they maintained a more "pure" form of Judaism. She was utterly shocked when I said that I didn't think it would be terrible, if they were interested, to offer young people from any culture where (for example) a cd player is banned an object from the outside, and that young people should be free to make their own decisions about whether they want to continue living in a traditional way or make other choices. That many people would gladly choose a traditional culture over a modern one, if the values it holds are strong. I grew up in a household where cultural studies and anthropology were big topics, and a major theme of my own studies has been the resilience of traditional cultures in the face of modernism and cultural supremacy/ erasure. I just remember how what felt like an honest late night college conversation one second suddenly felt like a bizarre litmus test-the inauthenticity of her deeply shocked reaction to my open responses to her questions. It felt manipulative and weird. I also remember the way she ran into my room to tell me the guy I was dating had a very famous and important mother, as if she was doing me a huge favour instead of just making me incredibly uncomfortable by implying that I should be happy and I could be benefiting from our association or something like that... I knew from the beginning that this was a person who cared very deeply about becoming famous and I can see how she saw a pathway to that through hate speech and racism, and why she has been rampantly and falsely accusing people of anti-Semitism when she is fully aware of how wrong she is. She was deeply unlikeable, even in a relationship with a cool, popular actor in our college and knowing lots of interesting people, and it's clear that she eventually realised that doubling down on her unlikeablility would be her ticket to fame. That's what Trump is right? And Vance and all these guys? That's their ticket-the whole "we want you to hate us, we want you to be repulsed! The people who feel hated and repulsive will eat us up!" She is culpable, for the rest of her life, of having helped write the playbook they're following.
October 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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merriam-webster.com
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement
rfksbrainworm.bsky.social worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · Oct 2
really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today
Pope Leo XIV Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal Austin I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says
October 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
It’s funny because it isn’t 😕 🇺🇸
September 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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nathantankus.bsky.social
ICYMI, I started a three part series connecting the dots between my "conventional wisdom processor" coinage, the contending idea that Markets are "information processors", AI and our current constitutional crisis. You'll wanna read this one. www.crisesnotes.com/what-connect...
What Connects Conventional Wisdom Processors, AI and The Second Trump Administration’s Constitutional Crisis? Part One
This is a premium piece of Notes on the Crises. Become a Paid Subscriber to read this piece and support Notes on the Crises Subscribe & Read This year I coined the phrase conve...
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September 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
It's only autism if it comes from the Tylenol region of France otherwise it's just sparkling persuadoscience
September 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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rachbarnhart.com
“It’s worth underlining: Acetaminophen is the only widely recommended pain reliever considered safe in pregnancy.

Scaring women away from it on shaky evidence isn’t responsible, it’s cruel.”
RFK Jr.’s plan to link autism and Tylenol just piles blame on moms — again
Autism has repeatedly been deployed to indict America’s mothers — and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s coming report is likely to fuel the fear already keeping young women from forming families.…
trib.al
September 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM