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Suhail Manzoor

@suhails.bsky.social

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Struggling coder, serial midlife crisis actor, culture war refugee, star gazer, an autopoet.

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Suhail Manzoor @suhails.bsky.social · 23h

Never seen an article an executive order can’t make disappear in the dead of night.

Suhail Manzoor @suhails.bsky.social · 23h

It would seem the country is being run by a bunch of reactionaries. I don’t think they are conservative at all.

Suhail Manzoor @suhails.bsky.social · 23h

Think the music stop playing late ‘26 or early ‘27.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 1d

Well-worth watching. ⬇️

Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 1d

Earlier this year, after receiving emails from people in the throes of AI psychosis, I stayed in touch with one man as he journeyed to recovery.

I'm grateful to James that he was willing to go on record. He wanted people to know: humanlike chatbots are dangerous.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkGk...

He Lost His Mind Using ChatGPT. Then It Told Him to Contact Me.

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Suhail Manzoor @suhails.bsky.social · 23h

I am an old time coder. As I have aged, I have watched my own ‘context window’ getting smaller. Ai has given me a new lease of life. I can see again.

Suhail Manzoor @suhails.bsky.social · 2d

Come over to the Linux pond.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3d

Playing Stray now!! Come hang out 😸😸😸

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Francis Fukuyama @frankfukuyama.bsky.social · 3d

Your regular invitation to subscribe to my Frankly Fukuyama YouTube channel: youtu.be/VbejG8_-B_4

The Case Against the Unitary Executive

YouTube video by Frankly Fukuyama

Suhail Manzoor @suhails.bsky.social · 3d

Isn’t it really about consensus? Wouldn’t that make it about a culture? I haven’t heard anyone talk about being empirically sound in the east.

Suhail Manzoor @suhails.bsky.social · 3d

What I’d like to know is what he received in return.

Suhail Manzoor @suhails.bsky.social · 3d

Not seeing anything out of the India media. If Lahore was attacked, there’d be fireworks being set off here.

Suhail Manzoor @suhails.bsky.social · 3d

multiple double-blind, peer-reviewed clinical trials to validate a drug comes to mind.

Suhail Manzoor @suhails.bsky.social · 3d

Trump talking about his hopes for life after death is pathetic. I am trying to imagine what it will be like when he finally finds peace.

Suhail Manzoor @suhails.bsky.social · 3d

Better if we don’t have to say it ten years from now. There is a time for everything.

Suhail Manzoor @suhails.bsky.social · 3d

Isn’t he a billionaire?

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 4d

Opening Night
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Beyond The West End

A while ago I found I had a copy of Floral Street (1986) by Simon Burt. I must have bought it cheaply second hand and left it in a pile and forgotten about it. I would have bought it as I would hav…

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Suhail Manzoor @suhails.bsky.social · 4d

Aren’t you a nation of second chances? So if you can forgive Trump and elect him again, surely you can afford Comey a plea deal for what he did in 2016.

Suhail Manzoor @suhails.bsky.social · 4d

Don’t hate, listen to Yoda while you still have time. I generally use the verb curse on him and everyone and everything around him. I also spit on the ground and cross myself after I have cursed him and everyone around him.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 4d

a remarkable thing abt Bari Weiss is how often the prominent people who say nice things abt her confess they know and like her personally.

i’m really sure she’s delightful, charming, personable and helpful to those who know her! John Roberts is too. Clarence Thomas asks after everyone’s grandkids.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 4d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

Suhail Manzoor @suhails.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry for being Old Testament today but so was the snake in the Garden of Eden.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 4d

kafkaesque as aspirational (from a political movement that uses orwell as an instruction manual)

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 4d

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

Suhail Manzoor @suhails.bsky.social · 4d

At some point the very fact of our being will be in their eyes an act of resistance. They cannot abide by facts. Then they will go places where even Satan will weep.

Suhail Manzoor @suhails.bsky.social · 4d

This is deep Cold War levels of subversion. Nobel literature incoming!

Suhail Manzoor @suhails.bsky.social · 4d

I blame PowerPoint for their propensity to BS and lie.