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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

I asked my French publisher why they are so completist publishing all of an author's work, even novels less likely to sell. She said she sees part of her role as like monasteries in medieval times, to preserve knowledge through the dark ages. I was struck in the gut a bit by this, felt emotional.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 2d

For me personally, it’s the only good holiday. The only one that’s actually fun and enjoyable to engage with.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 3d

I made some #halloween treats as a tribute to Phineas Gage--the most important lesion patient in neuroscience

Gage survived an accident in which an iron rod shot through his frontal lobe that damaged his social capacities

If you want to make these treats www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/why-people...

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 8d

A lot of people are focused on the euphemism but I don't even buy the logic. Unlike Robert Moses demolitions, it's not in anyone else's neighborhood, he's the only one that would have to live with the empty hole every day (possible metaphor?). Why should this pressure anyone else

By tearing down the East Wing before starting the review process for a new ballroom, President Donald Trump forced the issue. It's a strategy known as "stake-driving," made famous by New York mega-developer Robert Moses, according to Neil Flanagan, a DC architect and the author of the forthcoming history, The Birth of a Capital.
"If you tear down the building, people don't want to look at an empty hole, so you have the opportunity to leverage, to go to the next step," Flanagan says. "It only makes sense to accept the change."

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 8d

It seems like someone applying a tactic they have only superficial knowledge of, putting no thought into the practicality of it, and perhaps not caring. Like a low-effort class assignment.

Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 9d

Sounds like editing an anthology would be worth it for those sorts of interactions alone.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 12d

I’ve come across those in an American BBQ place. Actually worked out quite nicely.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 14d

this tweet also remains the truest thing written about how the underlying architecture of the internet works

Telecommunications as a whole, which also encompasses The Internet, is in a constant state of failure and just in time fixes and functionally all modern communication would collapse if about 50 people, most of which are furries, decided to turn their pager off for a day.

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 13d

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 15d

Camping is such a perfect way to remind yourself why we invented houses

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 15d

I suspect without them, the unpopularity of TSA might boil over enough for change to happen. As it stands, people in positions of influence tend to be insulated from the unnecessary misery of TSA.

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 17d

Yoshitaka Amano (b. 1952), “Circé” (1986), acrylic, colored ink, 56.6 x 76 cm.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 16d

if you're going to a protest today I wish you luck. The only specific thing I will beg of you is this: don't use milk to wash out tear gas or mace. if you see a street medic with milk, yell at them until they throw it out. do not continue to spread lies about emergency medicine.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18d

This single story is worth the cost of my year's subscription to
@wired.com

What do you like about the truck? What I love about the truck is just how it's so polarizing. The shape of it, the body of it, the manufacturing technique with the body panels and everything. I just love that it's completely outside of the box. And are you married? I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle. In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it? Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 20d

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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ceej @ceej.online · Jul 14

my favorite thing about events is how they’re all completely knowable in a framework of cause-and-effect with clear motivations and outcomes that confirm my expectations of an ordered reality

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 24d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 21d

The pharmacy employee that checked me in said she “doesn’t like” vaccines. It also took a good 25 minutes past my reservation time.

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 23d

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 27d

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 28d

This is how my first time playing Undertale went.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 28d

oh don't like wasps? here's your moment of calm if you like nutria 2/3

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · Oct 4

The Vanishing is the film for you.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Oct 3

"The scope of information contractors are expected to collect is broad...public posts, photos, and messages on platforms from Facebook to Reddit to TikTok...[and] commercial databases...which knit together property records, phone bills, utilities, vehicle registrations, and other personal details"

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · Oct 3

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · Oct 3

Forgot Monster, which absolutely belongs up there. Look Back, also. And Perfect Days, Beau Is Afraid, The People’s Joker, Hundreds of Beavers, Tar, Mad God, Petite Maman, Marcell the Shell. Just a great decade for movies, really.

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