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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 3d

Socrates was a Luddite who would have hated AI

This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant.”
— Plato, Phaedrus 275

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 3h

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 13h

Nobody cares about this guy’s fucking roof, not even his wife.

Do better, Guardian

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 14h

This is such a stupid reason to suspend a teacher

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 14h

Bryan Andrews has some thoughts to share and i would recommend you listen to them

www.reddit.com/r/popculture...

From the popculturechat community on Reddit: Country artist Bryan Andrews speaks his mind and teases new song.

Explore this post and more from the popculturechat community

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 15h

Congrats mariners, you made Kid Rock sad

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

Your daily reminder that ICE is arresting and detaining American citizens

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

No more Pepe!

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

OMG Canada

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

Perry: "I'm going to issue an oral ruling."

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 2d

Why is the national anthem called “O Canada” and not “Oh Canada”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 2d

I will see that and raise you one Molly Bloom stream-of-consciousness soliloquy

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 2d

Road trip!

The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 2d

There is no single way to resist; only the courage to invent one. 👍

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 2d

She’s always looking for new investors.

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 2d

Dang I have to go reread that now

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 2d

I thought the Dandy Warhols love almost everyone

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

Their outrage always seems to skip the actual predators.

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 3d

Do it!

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LRSH - Education Podcast @lrshedupodcast.bsky.social · 9d

Yup! People who’ve lived a life papering over consequences stagnate at the age they last faced consequences because discomfort is the root of all education growth change and prosocial life skills

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 3d

If you’ve ever thought to yourself “I need to know more about Japanese ambient music from the 1980s,” well I got you covered friends

www.zensounds.de/p/8-perfect-...

8 Perfect Japanese Ambient Albums

An introduction to the best environmental music records

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 3d

Much much harder. It can be hosted anywhere.

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 3d

Your profile says you’re a comedy writer

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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