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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 1m

"Given current AI capabilities, the public already supports automating 30% of occupations. When AI is described as outperforming humans at lower cost, support for automation nearly doubles to 58% of occupations." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Performance or Principle: Resistance to Artificial Intelligence in the U.S. Labor Market

From genetically modified foods to autonomous vehicles, society often resists otherwise beneficial technologies. Resistance can arise from performance-based con

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 22h

Are you a lawyer? Do you enjoy working on small teams tackling big things? We’re hiring a senior counsel.

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Bluesky Jobs

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Jo Walton @bluejo.bsky.social · 33m

Just finished the copyedit for Evertybody's Perfect and am sending it back today, so we're one step closer to the book coming out next June us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Everybody's Perfect

From Hugo award-winning author Jo Walton comes a cozy Venetian fantasy of extraordinary warmth and appeal!The Serenissima is built from mist and belief, a my...

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 13h

They Live is a fantastic film but every time I introduce it to a Gen Z friend I'm reminded that the plot boils down to, "two hobos carry out a series of workplace mass shootings because they believe half the population are aliens wearing human skin"

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 14h

Huh, my comics alma mater is back in existence www.comicsbeat.com/nycc-25-dc-c... (OK I only scripted one graphic novel for them. But still!)

NYCC '25: DC Comics announces 10 new titles for Vertigo revival

DC Comics has announced a list of titles and creators for the revival of the publisher's legendary Vertigo imprint.

www.comicsbeat.com

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 2d

The evolution of Marxism

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 3d

Silver is antimicrobial, and as a bonus people will get to sniff at you "you were born with a silver spork in your mouth"

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 3d

how I am getting around while commercial air travel is affected by the shutdown

A framed painting against a pink wall, by Henry Singleton, depicting Ariel (the spirit from The Tempest) riding a bat through the night sky. The painting is about 205 years old. Seen at the William Blake exhibit at the National Gallery, Budapest. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/singleton-ariel-on-a-bats-back-n01027

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

if you ask the average American to describe what they think a tougher immigration system should look like, they will describe something a degree of magnitude softer and more generous than the current reality.

The lesson here is that people are both better and dumber than they appear.

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 5d

If you've been following my six-month quest to unseal the search warrants for XiaoFeng Wang's homes, huge news:

I won.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 5d

(I should clarify, having posted halfway through watching that video: no one believed in it ... except, as it turns out, the great Kathryn Bigelow.)

Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 5d

I dragged my friends to see it opening night because I had loved RESERVOIR DOGS. They complained ("Are we lining up to watch a _John Travolta_ movie? Jon, what the hell!") but we all walked out thinking it was a masterpiece. Admittedly this too was after the Palme.

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 5d

This is amazing: no one believed in PULP FICTION, including Tarantino, until it won the Palme d'Or. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_i6...

How Tarantino's “big mistake” changed movies forever

YouTube video by Cinedome

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 6d

jeez, this is grim: "Last year, there was less production activity in the Los Angeles area than at any time since at least 1995, save for the pandemic ... thousands of dreams are evaporating ... “It’s not dramatic to say the result has been personal financial ruin,”" archive.is/HeBoD

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 6d

I look at approval ratings to remind myself I live in a liberal bubble. For instance, Trump's approval ratings this year are higher than Biden's last year.

Basically, if the election happened today, Trump likely would win again as he's still more popular now than the Biden administration was then.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 7d

TIL that Hemingway loved Raymond Chandler's work, but that the feeling was very much NOT mutual:

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Hemingway was an ardent admirer of Raymond Chandler. In a 1940 letter to his editor, Max Perkins, Hemingway asked for a copy of Farewell My Lovely. Further, in a 1950 piece he wrote for the New York Herald Tribune Book Review, Hemingway noted that “[i]n the old days, I could read anything. But now I cannot read detective stories any more unless they are written by Raymond Chandler.” Perhaps the feelings weren’t mutual. In the aforementioned thriller Farewell My Lovely, Philip Marlowe is confronted by a cop who, like most cops in Chandler’s books, gets on his nerves. “Listen, Hemingway, don’t repeat everything I say,” Marlowe retorts, and continues to call him Hemingway throughout the scene. When the quite oblivious cop eventually asks Marlowe who this Hemingway person is, Marlowe snidely replies, “A guy that keeps saying the same thing over and over until you begin to believe it must be good.” Hmmm. I did mention that Hemingway liked Chandler, didn’t I?

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 7d

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

The Independent @the-independent.com · 7d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 7d

I've sort of found myself drifting toward the J.S. Mill position on this: There's stuff a free society ought to permit but maybe restrict mass-media commercial advertising for.

John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 7d

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports

Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

www.pewresearch.org

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 7d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch:
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's
In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

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The Irate Gatsby @stevespla.bsky.social · 10d

Some Halloween deals from the 1920s

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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 11d

"Wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?" - the President of the United States of America

www.kgw.com/article/news...

Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

President Trump had said he will send troops to Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he said were "under attack."

www.kgw.com

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 11d

"As the EU has struck deals with more countries, abuses have been pushed farther from European shores. Tunisia’s repressive regime has been accused of dumping thousands of detained migrants in the desert" www.economist.com/internationa...

Europe’s astonishing drop in illegal migration

Europe’s big, invisible wall is slowing boat crossings by migrants

www.economist.com

Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 11d

This is just crazy. Next you'll be telling me that building new housing directly causes rents to fall. Imagine! denverite.com/2025/07/25/d...

Denver rent is back to 2022 prices

With 20,000 new units on the market, prices are down about 3.7 percent.

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 12d

okay, this is AMAZING. apparently there's this abandoned research center on an island off the coast of Russia, and a bunch of polar bears just … decided to move in.

Polar Bears Move Into Houses In Abandoned Research Town In Russia

YouTube video by Inside Edition

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