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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 12h

looks like the organizers overestimated the remaining appetite to watch Messi play there now that his club team swings through annually?

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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 13h

still enjoying this BTW, also delighted at the very positive cite for the work of a local academic of my unfortunately brief acquaintance

tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 3d

I'm reading Ada Palmer's INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE and there's an early section about how the War of the League of Cambrai just so utterly broke his expectations that Machiavelli had to reinvent political thought to account for it

all of which is to say I wonder if we aren't in a similar era today

tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 14h

it'll at least be a distraction from social media!

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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 15h

CK3: All Under Heaven, Football Manager 26, and Europa Universalis 5 all dropping within a week of each other is a conspiracy of sabotage against me, personally

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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 20h

my one remaining professional ambition is to make enough money to not blink at the cost of a Financial Times subscription

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 21h

Does Canada have serious racism problems? Yes. Does Canada do a better job of building a society that integrates non-white immigrants than France does? Also yes.

Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 22h

Anglo "live & let live" integration is demonstrably more successful than French style "aggressive assimilationism" at producing integrated societies, and has been proven to do so in multiple Anglo jurisdictions in (literally) multiple hemispheres! But these people want the thing with worse outcomes!

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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 1d

this is the skeleton key for so much annoyance I'm currently feeling with so many people I would otherwise agree with

Ben Cates @bencates.bsky.social · 1d

That means that in order to durably expand your empathy in any real way you have to put up some internal roadblocks against indulging in cruelty *even when that cruelty is objectively harmless*. You kind of have to be a bit of a joyless scold here because that's one of only two stable equilibria.

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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 1d

as a lawyer, I disagree

orange flags are included in "at least a yellow flag", you're not disagreeing with Kai

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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 1d

we barely even got the cool parts of Mankind Divided, we just jumped straight to the bigotry

I am, despite myself, in awe

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 1d

“bionic limb users are pretty uncommon so it’s okay to use slurs against them” oh ok got it, so we just live in deus fucking ex now

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Ben Cates @bencates.bsky.social · 1d

Something that got almost universally elided from Woke v1 is that being cruel is viscerally rewarding. It feels really good in a pre-rational sort of way. And, paired with the hedonic treadmill, the natural tendency is for any "safe" outlet for cruelty to erode whatever borders we place around it.

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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 1d

it probably won't be the actual amount, I'm assuming the Messi discount is pulling him in for less than a 4m offer from Iran

still: lol, and further, lmao

I hope they never change

tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 1d

the "presumably" and "probably" clauses in the quoted image are just Natural Intelligence hallucinations and I refuse to give them any more respect than their artificial equivalents

🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · 1d

This is one of my favorite takes. I’m sure people would love a 30-day delay on having their images posted so they can be reviewed by hand and also it’s Good Actually to make humans look at some of the most heinous images in existence all day

The Bluesky Head of Trust & Safety admitting that all posted images are processed through an Al autolabeller that presumably employees have no access to or control over? (And probably steals every image to be used in an Al "art" generator, who knows?)
Seriously, this is outrageously irresponsible.

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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 1d

look I am entirely happy for Miami to be even worse defensively next year, so maybe I should shut up

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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 1d

while correct, I've watched enough Spurs to suspect that Reguilon is Not The Answer there either

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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 1d

well this makes them signing Reguilon for next year make way more sense, though as much as I love him I'm not sure he's much better as a defensive LB than 2025 Alba. There's a reason nobody has signed him in three months as a free agent!

meanwhile Suarez endures, the soccer gods are unjust

Paul Tenorio @paultenorio.bsky.social · 1d

Inter Miami's Jordi Alba surprisingly announces he will retire at the end of the season.

Miami finalizing deal with Sergio Reguilon, who won't be eligible to play until 2026.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/668...

Inter Miami’s Jordi Alba announces retirement, team close to signing Sergio Reguilon

Alba had signed a contract extension until 2027 in May, while Reguilon is a free agent following his summer exit from Tottenham Hotspur.

www.nytimes.com

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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 1d

As soon as we find out what a market appropriate amount of money for them (and us) to make actually is then I'm right there with you

but the professional cartels have fingers on the scale and I'm not prepared to ignore them

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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 1d

as a bonus, if US doctors somehow stopped making as much money the financial pressures involved in staffing Canadian health care systems would massively decrease

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 2d

Scottish doctors make about half as much as US doctors, and until someone figures out how to get from here to there calling it a right isn't going to help.

Indeed showing an average base salary of 74,037 pounds per year for a physician salary in Scotland

Indeed showing an average base salary of 217,122 dollars per year for a physician salary in United States

PPP of the 74037 pounds being roughly 108,978.59 dollars in the US

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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 1d

well, maybe the tankies

But 100k is still a decent average salary from what I can tell, surely that doesn't count as immiseration?

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 2d

We got too caught up in critiquing the failures and pointing out the wrinkles in liberal pluralism that we forgot to keep watering the plant we were pruning.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, the world is more complicated than "diversity is so cool! All the colors are great, be nice to each other :)" but as a starting point is basically unimpeachable.

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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 2d

If you cannot make the emotional, social ,or technical adaptations required to cope with large scale social platforms, you should probably not be on large social platforms

Indeed, many people are not! You will live! I promise!

But you cannot turn a forest into a garden without destroying it

tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · Dec 18

I am feeling more and more the tension between "the larger a social platform grows, the less control can be exerted and the less safe it can possibly be" and "network effects draw people to larger social platforms that then grow even larger"

even the best patrolled forest is still a forest

Grizwald @grizwald.bsky.social · Dec 18

As I suggested to Propter upthread, I think Bluesky regulars are probably reacting to the frustrating flipside of its sudden recent growth spurt: you cannot control the culture the same way, and you cannot moderate (formally or informally) the same way. Gardeners become game wardens.

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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 2d

"and I want ONE such places with everybody I want to talk to or yell at on it or reachable from it, because opening multiple apps is annoying

but it needs to be moderated strictly according to my specific ideological/emotional needs or I'll get very upset"

PLEASE just stick to group chats

Microsoft Visual Kei @joebaldwin.me.uk · 2d

"Everyone is twelve" theory also includes "I want a magic special place where I can publicly say whatever I want about whoever I want in as edgy a way as I want and never get banned but all the bad people I don't like are banned on sight and also I don't have to pay for it or trade anything for it"

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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 2d

Proportional could, perhaps, work out

The problem is that the scaling seems closer to exponential, or proportional to interactions rather than to users

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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 2d

Properly understanding "we need a strong <insert centre-right party here>" is my baseline test for "are your political observations worth taking seriously?" and so many people seem determined to publicly fail it for clout or, in the specific American case, because of unresolved mother wounds

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think this has aged badly at all given that the utter collapse of the Republican Party and its model of governance in the face of Trump's nihilistic death cult has been catastrophic for this country.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

this feels like forty years ago but it was 2023

www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi...

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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 2d

a brief meditation on what we have lost in the Supreme Court of Canada's recent robe change

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 2d

My favorite thing about the robes on the left is they look like Santa robes, and my second favorite thing about the robes on the left is *the justices and their clerks also called them "Santa robes"*