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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 2d

I clearly had a lot of thoughts/feelings from reading Terry's blog post, so I wrote one of my own

It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries

benharrap.com/post/2025-10...

#statssky #episky #academicsky

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21h

we are nearing the point where our robots can take your dog for a nice little hike while listening to your favorite playlist, giving you more time on the weekends for the important things like making sales calls

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Malcolm Evison @sinnaluvva.bsky.social · 12h

www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Israel refuses to release abducted Palestinian doctors, will not let foreign medics enter Gaza either

Doctors imprisoned without charge, beaten and starved will remain in 'detention' says Israel as it blocks international access to Gaza

www.thecanary.co

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Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 14h

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Pvnk'd @cynickal.bsky.social · 1d

There Graham Platner. But the DNC will always undercut a liberal to shoe in a geriatric centrist
www.grahamforsenate.com

Graham Platner | Democrat for U.S. Senate

Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, is a Marine and U.S. Army veteran and oyster farmer running to defeat Susan Collins and win back the seat for working Mainers.

www.grahamforsenate.com

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Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 14h

I can't help think of Any Rand in this context though - I feel the pervasive idea in her books that all virtue is actually vice, partly because it's insincere (but I think her books are a bit confused on this point) had some impact on the concept.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21h

I respect @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social as a writer, but I reported this story 3 days ago, the story uses some of my same sources, and it's now at the top of the Post website, with no acknowledgement that @prospect.org already published it.
Read the Prospect, get the news first.

Post story on the Labor Department warning of immigration enforcement threatening the food supply, 10/11/25

Prospect story on the Labor Department warning of immigration enforcement threatening the food supply, 10/8/25

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Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 15h

Accusing people who you disagree with on the merits of "virtue signalling" for espousing the position you disagree with is such a self-own

bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 23h

“Virtue signaling”

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 2d

The relentless quest to gain control of all the money in the world disguised as a quest for intelligence.

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2d

yep. softbank wants to spend $20b of actual dollars, so they can write down $40b of imaginary OpenAI equity value, so Vision Fund 2 is theoretically in the black pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/27/s...

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Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 15h

I don't understand, didn't you just agree the joke uses it this way? Why did you talk about some people using it this way if that usage wasn't relevant to the joke?

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Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 15h

By people who think trans men are women or don't understand that that's the distinction "AFAB" makes, sure. Who else?

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Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 16h

But AFAB isn't a woke euphemism for woman. It refers to a different grouping, that's its point.

Like, interpretations of the joke are whatever, clearly it's being interpreted very differently by different people, but has your question of "where did anyone say trans men were women" been answered?

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Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 19h

Not that one, as it's an AI creation

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Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 19h

It sounds like you agree the joke is about replacing "women" with "the woke term for women" in a non-woke phrase. But AFAB *isn't* a woke euphemism for "woman", and assuming it is *is* saying trans men are female.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 1d

My therapist got me a book called “How to Live with OCD” but the problem is if I read any of the odd pages my mom will die

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Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 20h

That's unless it's an anti-joke, which hadn't occurred to me until I saw a comment suggesting it; that's also possible and masterful bait if so but I think we should have some forbearance for the fish it caught.

Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 20h

It depends whether you think trans men or trans women be shopping. If the joke is that trans men but not trans women be shopping I think it's too counter-intuitive an interpretation to be legible. The more straightforward interpretation is playing on AFAB as a woke euphemism for woman.

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Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 21h

I don't know what to think about this person (never heard of them before) but they did just delete at least. It's not impossible it was a "went offline unawares" situation and the whole thing more carelessness (still culpable imo, that "yes" in particular was egregious) than malice.

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Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 21h

To misread a post on a microblogging site is human, to acknowledge one's error is divine

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Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah this joke feels like the kind of confusion where ppl think "people who menstruate" is a euphemism for "woman" or "men can get pregnant" is a cracked theory about trans women when it's actually about trans men

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Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 21h

Do they be tho

This feels like a socially performed gender thing more than AGAB thing

Sorry for serious reply

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Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 21h

I didn't think to get a screenshot lol, but for posterity the video was this one (well, posterity until it's deleted on Tiktok at least):

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Sam @dragonborn.bsky.social · 1d

Hey this is an AI generated video actually, here’s the TikTok:

www.tiktok.com/@dontbeonlin...

News reporter gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tiktok, #trending, #follow, #followme, #bestvideo, #thisis4u, #featurethis

TikTok video by dontbeonline

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Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 21h

It seems to finally be deleted!

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Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 21h

Yep! In fact I recommend people calling this out do that, like Matt Novak did in their thread, as it not only counters "but it's still true" or "it's all made up" responses but looking at those videos helps us train our brains to tell the real from the AI.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

This is a real video of a journalist in Chicago being arrested.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 21h

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 21h

ELRIC AT THE FORGE OF FOREVER (2019)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 14 ½” x 6 ½”

When I tossed out the old container of paints used to do the cover painting for WORDS OF RADIANCE, it landed upside down in my wastebasket on a piece of paperboard I had been using as a palette for something else. 1/2

Elric stands on an outcrop of rock with skulls at his feet. He wears a black hooded cloak trimmed in gold and jeweled bracers. He cradles Stormbringer as the length of the runesword, glowing purple, extends well above his head. Below him water spills frothy onto the shore but as it stretches back, placid and glassy, it gives way to erupting vents of lava.

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