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Cars are still bad @jondoesnotexist.bsky.social · 21h

“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno, man... I dunno. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 13h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 13h

I think he just loves to play. He's also a member of The Circling Sun and Princess Chelsea's band, and he has a three-piece playing little bars on midweek nights. Huge talent and, by all accounts, a very sweet young man.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 14h

They had to upsize from Whammy to Neck of the Woods, so lots of people did go!

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 14h

Portland is really having a moment.

Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 20h

It’s tradition that when you see the frogs, you show them respect 🫡

(Someone should do the Creed cut with the footage)

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 14h

It'll be Portland.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 14h

PS: Shout-out to the elder hosts of 95bFM Friday perennial The Gang of Four, who did their first-ever live-to-air show at Verona last night and smashed it. It was quite a party. The Kog Transmissions show a few doors down at Neck of the Woods seemed to be going gangbusters too. Good old K Road.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress over two weeks ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in.

Why the delay?

Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 16h

Joe's playing music from his new album with a three-piece lineup at 2pm outside Flying Out in Pitt Street today, btw. Hopefully it'll stay fine as well as warm.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 17h

And a hot young jazz band playing!

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 17h

202, above Flying Nun. It's called The Apartment, because it's ... Bob's apartment. The old mercantile buildings in that block have interesting interiors. Like, you walk through a door and unexpectedly there's this high-ceilinged space with a staircase down the middle of it.

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 22h

This is awesome.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 18h

And because Joe knows about having a killer cover in your back pocket, they finished the night with 'Funky Town'. Brilliant.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, right, I'd forgotten that. The Magogs got them over specially!

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 18h

Joe Kaptein and Pool Sharks playing on K Road last night. Really felt like I'd seen something special.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 18h

Pt Chev Fine Organic Wines, on Point Chev Road.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, thanks for the tip, I will. I was on part of that tour and it was memorable, not least for witnessing The Dance of the Flaming Arseholes after the show in Napier. Not 25 years, though ... 40 years ago!

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 20h

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 20h

They trained a specialized model on existing bacterial viruses and had it spit out genomes and some of them worked. And they probably could have done the same thing manually.

This was not "put in an English prompt to GPT and get a custom virus out with desired properties" and never will be.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 1d

“In September, scientists at Stanford reported they had used A.I. to design a virus for the first time.”

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

www.nytimes.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

Thoughts and prayers for Donald J Trump

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 1d

It seems like that most days tbh.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

Autism cannot be acquired after birth.

Seems bad that the top people in the US federal government are brain rotted freaks obsessed with children’s genitals.

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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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 1d

I know, right?

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, it's a marked-down ($5) dated beer from the UK. But I could not leave the mighty can behind.

(Tastes fine. I'd say "the hops are gone", but I don't know how many hops were there in the first place.)

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The Press @thepress.co.nz · 1d

The 19-year-old will appear in a Gisborne court next week. Doyle stepped down from Parliament in September, citing the intolerable level of abuse.

Teen charged with making death threats against former Green MP Benjamin Doyle

The 19-year-old will appear in a Gisborne court next week. Doyle stepped down from Parliament in September, citing the intolerable level of abuse.

dlvr.it

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