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André Alessi

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Philosophy PhD student at the University of Waikato (working on how regular people figure out when to trust experts) but I mainly joke about tech and cats. Former telco product manager, data guy and financial crime analyst. https://ko-fi.com/andrealessi

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André Alessi @andrealessi.bsky.social · Mar 17

Onion headline: Guy In Philosophy Class Needs To Shut The Fuck Up

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 5h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 8h

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 7h

Le Creuset is Cheugy 👎

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André Alessi @andrealessi.bsky.social · 7h

Perhaps you shouldn't though, you're too powerful.

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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 9h

Some people get so caught up in online culture war stuff that they seem to forget they are not American. Here is an Aucklander imagining being jailed for speech crimes by an imaginary regime in a country he does not live in.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 14h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 14h

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

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Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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André Alessi @andrealessi.bsky.social · 13h

This is a particular problem in journalism right now, where decisions about who gets to represent certain viewpoints distorts the wider public's understanding.

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André Alessi @andrealessi.bsky.social · 13h

We all belong to communities with differing standards for who we should or shouldn't listen to, but if your understanding of contrary views involves only paying attention to the absolutely fringe-iest people outside your own communities, you're not doing yourself any favours.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

It looks like Khanna has addressed this on Twitter. But even if he stands by what he said, he still shared a video clip with Ian fucking Carroll.

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This was a documentary made by Tommy G who interviewed me. I did not speak to or meet lan Carrol. I stand by my words and should be judged by them.
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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 14h

"the difference in the quality of course discussion where 70 percent of the students have done 50 percent of the readings and one in which 20 percent have done 10 percent of the readings is obvious in the same way that a cold Coke tastes different than lukewarm spit"

dear GOD this is so true

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I think Paul, of blessed posting memory, is entirely right here, and I say this *even though* the young people I know remain highly literate and engaged, because I think his sample is way more representative than mine.

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A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 17h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17h

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

Um holy shit. Did Ro Khanna really sit down for an interview with far-right influencer Ian Carroll and share a video of it?

This is really fucking bad. What the fuck is going on?

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 21h

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 19h

If this ceasefire happens - and I hope it does - Western media will talk about 'peace'. This will be inaccurate. What they will mean is 'quiet', a reversion to the background level of violence that Palestinians have faced for decades. Peace can only come with the end of the occupation and apartheid.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20h

Slow Horses has replaced The Blacklist as the show your gen x coworker has most likely "been getting into". the blacklist held onto the title from 2021 to today. it is the first time an apple tv show has held this honor, and joins ted lasso as the second apple tv show to earn broad coworker approval

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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 20h

Step one: engineer a recession and cancel infrastructure projects. Step two: get mad at people for not having a job

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The Spinoff: In other words, we did it, folks. Joblessness is up. Inflation is down. Mince is admittedly four trillion dollars. But overall, success! Surely our government should be pulling a George W Bush and unfurling a mission accomplished banner above the rusted deck of the HMNZS Canterbury.

Instead, it called a press conference to say, in essence, wtf. Luxon and social development minister Louise Upston gathered reporters on Sunday to announce too many 18- and 19-year-olds were claiming the benefit, and they’ll be cutting them off if their parents earn more than the princely sum of $65,529 combined. Asked where young people should get a job in a recession, which, again, we deliberately engineered, Luxon pointed to kūmara harvesting in Dargaville or seasonal work in orchards. Orchardists promptly responded that they didn’t need more staff right now.

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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 1d

A tearful Kim Robinson reports that God showed her that Charlie Kirk was rewarded with a horse ranch in Heaven and she saw "Charlie riding on a horse, with Jesus."

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spooky tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 21h

Free speech is when I encourage people to send you death threats; hate speech is when you tell me to stop.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

Can you hear the words coming out of your mouth, Megan?

Yes, the guy who received so many threats because of your own actions he had to flee to Europe isn’t the real victim. No. You are, because people called you out.

Megyn Doyle, a student at Rutgers and the treasurer for the Turning Point USA chapter who started the Change.org petition to remove Bray, told Fox News Digital in a statement that Di Filippo's petition is slanderous.
"The petition once again proves that Conservative students are always on the receiving end of hate when speaking about concerning issues," Doyle said.

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 1d

God if the outcome of all this is a discovery that a specific type of black mold makes you a weird bigot I'm gonna have a hearty chuckle then fill my pockets with stones and walk into a lake. We are now living in the mold age. The mildew years. The roaring fungis.

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 1d

Suuuure it's the "molds" fault. Whats next, a very specific strain of mold that turns children's book authors into raging terfs?

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André Alessi @andrealessi.bsky.social · 19h

I imagine they get this sort of thing enough that they have a template (or, more likely, a standard prompt)that they use.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 19h

Don’t sleep on Peacemaker. It’s such a good show.

Vigilante (from an alternate earth where America partnered with the Nazis to win World War II): you must live in, like, a utopia

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Worst Movies Ever @worstmovies.bsky.social · 20h

The Order of the Black Eagle (1987)
TMDB score 39%

A secret agent and his rude baboon foil a madman (William Hicks) out to wake up Hitler and rule the world.

#movies #moviesky #badmovies

Movie poster for The Order of the Black Eagle (1987)

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Ravishing Rick Ruud van Nistelroy @astroscounty.bsky.social · 20h

Drake:

Hi, grandma? can u come pick me up from my rap battle? it’s over. no, i lost. he saw u drop me off & did a pretty devastating rhyme about it

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 20h

Upload your scanned ID they said. It will be fine they said.

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h

Autism antibodies are stored in the foreskin.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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