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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 2h

I'll offer 10-to-1 odds that she feeds these memos into an LLM and asks it for a summary.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4h

Here's the full memo.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 2h

Ah come on, Ed.

Flagship public universities like UNC won't still be around in 3-5 years...

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 3h

Stanford professor Adrian Daub critiques Peter Thiel's lectures on the antichrist:

"The picture of Thiel that emerges is someone desperate to disidentify from their own power."

"More often than not, Thiel ends up with something that reads like Dan Brown."

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

www.theguardian.com

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 3h

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Micah Sifry ❌👑 @msifry.bsky.social · 2d

40+ years ago, a peace initiative from Egypt triggered a sea change inside Israel, led by the Peace Now movement. My new book recalls that history and offers some lessons for today’s fraught conflict in Israel-Palestine. Details here: open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

Image shows the cover of a new book: When Doves Try: israel's Peace Now Movement 1978-1983--With an Epilogue for the Post-October 7 World. Learn more at micahsifry.com/whendovestry

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 4h

Etch it in tungsten.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 5h

My wife and I are going to see Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in Waiting for Godot this weekend.

I’ve never seen the show before. Which one of them plays Godot?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8h

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 15h

The Administration

- raised taxes on clean energy with one big beautiful bill

- is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built

- is raising prices on materials with tariffs

- all while AI is spiking electricity demand

They are stopping supply while demand goes up

It’s a crisis

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 15h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18h

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cootie cavanagh @katie.hipopener.com · 19h

the plastic straw at this regal theater came wrapped in plastic and my husband just said “It’s the Laura Palmer of straws” and i just

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 19h

What.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 19h

Wait sorry whatthefuck?

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 20h

"Chris Cillizza: what if Jim Cramer, but for politics."

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 20h

If anyone else offered up a take this bad, I would tell them to quit Cillizza'ing.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 20h

It's a real failure of Blueskyism that Chris Cillizza was never bullied off of this site.

Chris Cillizza, Chris Cillizza'ing all over the place.

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John Sundman @jsundman.bsky.social · 1d

At the In Formation website, the 1st printing is sold out. It's now on sale at Barnes & Noble but several stores have sold out. I'm expecting a 2nd printing to be announced, but can't say for sure. I have a few copies left for sale. I don't expect them to last long. buymeacoffee.com/johnsundman/...

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 1d

You can relax everyone, they're out, now we can just enjoy baseball!

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

When the Yankees get eliminated

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 1d

Deal!

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