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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1m

Has anyone asked him what exactly he understands the lesson he's talking about here to have been?:

"This has been a painful lesson about judgment and trust, and I am committed to moving forward with greater care, respect, and accountability in everything I say and do.”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29m

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 12m

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 14m

A little concerned he said "whatever" instead of "whoever" here:

"I will campaign aggressively for whatever the Republican candidate is,” Tarrio said.

TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 1h

Members of the most extreme Proud Boys chapters are on encrypted appa sharing DHS recruiting materials and memes about joining ICE.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

In the New Trump Era, the Proud Boys Are ‘Not Apologizing Anymore’

To hear him tell it, Gavin McInnes’ recent return to the site...

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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 23h

I'm not signing, and neither are my colleagues.

But the work continues.

Danlamothe.30 on Signal.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 21h

Mewsmax:

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

The NYT, Atlantic, WaPo, CNN, Guardian and others have all refused to sign Pete Hegseth new rules on reporting from the Pentagon. As far as I can tell only OAN has signed it. I guess this is Hegseth waving goodbye to their access to the Pentagon and other DOD facilities.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 22h

The Atlantic’s journalists will not sign the Pentagon’s press policy. Statement here from editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg:

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1d

Don't get used to her being like this, because at some point Sam Beckett will put things right and leap again.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1d

On the other hand, at some point you need to contend with the fact this is a guy with a weed store down the block. Not saying your argument isn't magnificently rational, but at a certain point it's walking out of Air Bud saying "NO, THERE WERE OTHER RULES THAT WOULD DISQUALIFY DOGS."

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1d

I know a very good lawyer at DOJ who talks like this, often about weed, and he is in a perpetual existential crisis right now over the growing revelation of just how dependent law really is on the vagaries of human sentiment. If Mangione walks, I think that may be his villain origin story.

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 1d

from an asterix comic: panel 1: Julius Caesar, enraged: "OH STUFF YOUR BRASSICA OLERACEA CAPITATA!". Panel 2, senator leaning over talking to a scribe: "Delete that last culinary expletive of caesar's. It wouldn't go down too well as a classical quotation."

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it may or may not be fake, it kind of depends on whether the grand jury is in "indict a ham sandwich" mode or "no-bill a murderer" mode.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1d

That's literally one of the problems we've been trying to solve for thousands of years in philosophy! Come for the ethics, stay for the ontology and epistemology!

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1d

Well that explains why he was so weird about the Nobel Peace Prize. He must have thought it was some kind of get into heaven free ticket. Not going to lie, kind of nice to see a Christian terrified their theology might be right.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 1d

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

taskandpurpose.com

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1d

And the consequence is that it's very easy for conmen to snow us about how their technology is going to (verb) the (adjective) (noun).

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1d

If we scratch at this just a little it seems like what we're usually imagining is either "nuclear weapons in 1945", "fleeting wartime advantages", or "we miss the asymmetry of wars of imperialism and have forgotten all historical battlefield setbacks." Right now there's no expectation management.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1d

I think one thing we frequently overlook in these debates over technology is explicitly stating what historical cases of military technological innovation we're envisioning and then analyzing exactly what they achieved.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think it's a technological gap, I think it's more of a recording/facilitation gap.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sure one exists for Ferdinand Eberstadt, I've just got to find and read it. I learned about him while researching the National Security Act of 1947. The WH and military are throwing around dumb ideas, then Forrestal asks Eberstadt and all his ideas are awesome.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes philosophy can feel like Sears, where all the best parts of it have gradually been spun off to become their own things. Although in that sense, if there are other departments with better representation, you can probably thank philosophy for creating those disciplines.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 2d

The two best degrees are like the two least valuable. A philosophy degree is like how to understand anything and how to detect all the ways you can misunderstand things. An education degree is how to communicate anything you understand to anyone else and how to detect ways they misunderstand things.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 2d

Speaking as one, there's some side to side motion in the end product.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like the future is mostly lonely guys asking predictive text generators to write pick-up lines for women they don't realize are chatbots.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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