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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 15h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social · 16h

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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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 13h

This isn’t to exonerate agents’ bad choices. We should continue to say, “that’s a [bad] choice.” There is always responsibility to not do bad things. It’s just that the “choice”-frame is a very narrow one for making sense of systemic evil.

aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 13h

An author might confess to feeling compelled to do so. Why? Money? Respect? The sense that if they didn’t, someone else would, or already has? Habit (of, say, lying continuously?)?

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 13h

The internetism “that’s a choice” for when somebody says or publishes something awful is interesting to me. I don’t know. I think the awful choice to say something harmful is in many senses predetermined by many structural forces, including karmic ones.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 1d

All my comics have happy endings!

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 1d

Well played, @theguardian.com
You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

www.theguardian.com

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Lilla. Ryan Lizza. Chris Cilizza.

(The highest evolution of a pokemon.)

Chris Cillizza @chriscillizza.bsky.social · 1d

What if...Donald Trump actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 1d

Can Zohran tik a tok? (yes) Can Donnie deliver a speech? (sometimes) Can Bari write an email? (no)

aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 1d

But I honestly don't know. Can a 20-y.o. Japanese identify the main idea in a paragraph? Can an 18-y.o. Swede read a Knausgard volume, in translation? I'm very much a frog-in-an-Anglophone-well in my observations about reading skills decline.

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 1d

Curious how the "post-literacy" moral panic is going down in other democracies, say, Sweden, India, and Japan. Indian democracy functioned, more or less, before the majority of the electorate was "literate."

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

This is as good and urgent as others have been saying. I don't think it's possible to sustain anything resembling mass democracy in a post-literate society. musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 2d

so the frog is 卖娃青蛙。https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_23101624 it was designed by a mom with the last name Tong in Nanjing, inspired by the toad in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabas.... it is a mascot of 躺平culture (lay-flat, against capitalism)

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

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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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 1d

In my own line of work a few of my colleagues report using "AI" tools to shave off some time here and there in certain key processes, but quantifiable productivity gains I don't know. Certainly teaching has gotten more laborious. And I don't know how this experience scales up.

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 1d

in a double bubble 😅

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 1d

a longue duree histoire of the us conservative magazine "human events"

aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 1d

Am I in a bluesky bubble or is there a fair consensus that the whole "AI" thing is a bubble? Like, everyone "knows," right, at some level?

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 1d

What kind of attempts have been made from the USian far right to _distance_ themselves from "fascism"? Do they ever say things like, "well I can see why critics might think this fascism, but..."? Two modal courses of response seem to be "yeah I guess" and "no you're the fascist, for asking me."

aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 1d

you: you interrupted me. can i finish?
me: I KNOW RIGHT? Anyway...

aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 1d

In the first five chapters: poop, drink, bowels, tripe, birth, monstrosities. Resonates interestingly with today's political talk, esp. in re: the tech fascism. ("slop"; "enshittification"; "carnival')

aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 1d

Justin Bieber's new album SWAG is in essence a promising meditation on "Stuff We All Get": older, sicker, uglier, less talented, more depraved... another round of suffering through the samsaric wheel of life.

If only there were a way out... :-(

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting "conservative voices" never means platforming a Pashtun tribal elder, establishing a column for a withered crone from a Grimms' fairy tale, or hiring a 2,500 y.o. sequoia tree for the endowed chair. It's just "violent white men dominion," which is historically radical and untraditional.

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting [editorial judgement, NY]Times!

aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 1d

Brandon is mayors of Chicago and Baltimore. Brandon is more than a concrete individual. Brandon is destiny. #brandonimmortal #brandonforever #letsgo #votebrandonnomatterhowrandom

a man in a suit and tie is walking on a path

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is walking on a path

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 1d

We’re talking about it now! We must meme and hashtag it into existence! #toooldtobeking

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 1d

It _was_ Biden. It is Bidening again.

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