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Rhys Needham

@rhysneedham.bsky.social

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Je Suis Marxiste, Tendance Harpo (...movie star, movie star...) Mostly Harmless. Panicking optional. Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. Ex-Douglas Bader Meinhof Gang. Yasser (Arafat), I can boogie all night long. Views pilfered from everyone else's

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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 16h

The BBC just can’t stop wasting licence fee payers’ money.

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Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 16h

The new Andrew O'Hagan novel, Caledonian Road.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16h

"Depends on the Narrator."

The "narrator" is supposed to be you, @nytimes.com, narrating the factual truth here, instead of regurgitating a deliberate falsehood as if it was a different legitimate perspective on the truth.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 16h

There's a real chance they make the next Bond film fairly hard to write in terms of making the villain not too obvious or believable only for reality and not fiction.

Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 16h

He ended up an honorary colonel, too.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 23h

What could possibly go wrong

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

Johnny Cash released his cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" in 2002, shortly before he died - it was an enormous hit, it's hilarious that some guy writing for the Wall Street Journal is just now realizing he was cool

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 17h

SO are these two like, cousins?

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arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 1d

it just feels like.

But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?
Ursula K. Le Guin

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Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 17h

Just imagining a Chinese store assistant with a very strong Scottish accent now.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 19h

Some thirteen year old from Arkansas: Mooooooooom, former president of Syria bashar al-assad is making fun of me on Fortnite

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 19h

Some kid is doing the standard “ur mom” voice chat trash talk and they got no idea they’re talking to bashar al assad

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 18h

Stop thinking about hearts of hearts and start focusing on the outputs generated by our organizations, institutions, laws and norms. There are far worse things than insincerity and I think should not be apparent.

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 1d

An instructive structure where people feel compelled to good things for selfish reasons is a good incentive structure.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 1d

An instructive structure where people feel compelled to good things for selfish reasons is a good incentive structure.

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Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 17h

Considering the kinds of schools he went to were actively modelled on the English public school system, weren't they, then made even more vicious?

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 18h

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 17h

Sadat, Rabin, Begin?

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Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

Japan, ostensibly one of the least religious countries in the world, had its political order upended by the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai. That is THE story about Friday's epochal shift in Japanese politics (thread follows):

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 19h

Some kid is doing the standard “ur mom” voice chat trash talk and they got no idea they’re talking to bashar al assad

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Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 18h

Something in common with the Trumps.

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John Avocado 宇杰 @supercroup.com · 18h

You, an idiot: goon bag.

The Chinese, a nation of intellectuals:

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 18h

Remember, this is how much it has cooked people’s brains after like one year. Think of what 10 years of this will do. Think of the brains of kids who will grow up not only unable to spot AI but unable to understand “real” and “AI generated” as two different concepts.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 20h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 18h

Mammary D Overalls

United States, Census, 1930

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Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 18h

Tom Cruise would be almost too dominant for something like the Quiet American?

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 20h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 18h

Does Maduro do elaborate antisemitic conspiracy theories?