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Jim @jimharvey.bsky.social · Jan 29
"There are a lot of people who get rich from your anger. Starve them."

~ Arnold @Schwarzenegger
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Mamdani is going to impose Cher law. Everyone will have to be fabulous and believe in life after love.
moryan.bsky.social Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1d
Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.
bcdreyer.social Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 1d
Mamdani is going to implement Shari Lewis law.

Everyone will be required to stick their fist up a lamb's a

Excuse me, there's someone at the door.
November 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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zefrank.bsky.social
My father is one of the signatories on this piece. Good read: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are Nobel laureates, scientists, writers and artists. The threat of fascism is back | Open letter
As in 1925, when Mussolini was in power, we must openly defy the brutal imposition of the fascist ideology
www.theguardian.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Out-fucking-standing obit for this ghoul.
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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This is Angel Falls in Venezuela, with its 807-metre sheer plunge - the tallest waterfall on our planet.

Except - it isn't. There's one that's bigger. MUCH bigger. And when I learned about it this week, my mind was fully blown.

OK. Buckle up! (Especially if you don't have a head for heights.)

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Photo of Salto Angel (Angel Falls), official name: Kerepakupai merú - by Rich Childs, via Flickr/Wikipedia.
November 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
jimharvey.bsky.social
'Trump's big, ugly bill made 100% bonus depreciation permanent for robotics and automation equipment while simultaneously gutting healthcare, education, and social safety net programs, suggesting we want to birth robots faster and expedite the death of workers.'
www.profgalloway.com/big-tech-sto...
Big Tech Stock Pick of 2026: Amazon | No Mercy / No Malice
At the end of every year, I pick a Big Tech stock I believe will outperform its peers in the coming year. My 2025 pick was Alphabet: I believed the market had overestimated the threats to Google’s sea...
www.profgalloway.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Man, ChatGPT loves an em dash!
October 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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'Fauxtomaton' (and its implied verb I'm totally stealing, fauxtomation), and:

"But sometimes 'efficiency' is just deflected exploitation."

Brilliant.
thoc.bsky.social 𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 14d
So much of the glam & shine of everything that gets gushed over in T1 Cities - especially by the all-expenses-paid-govt-sponsored-tour Obvious Shills™ - is, one micron below the surface, powered by some of the grimiest, soul-crushing jobs that even Charles Dickens would've blushed at
October 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Rebuilding trust, at home and abroad, by putting power back into Congress, strengthening and following rules, abolishing corruption, and fostering new leadership, from D-CO-6 @crow.house.gov

crow.house.gov/media/press-...
Transcript: Congressman Crow Outlines His New Vision for American Foreign Policy
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jason Crow (D-CO-06), a former Army Ranger and Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and Armed Services Committees, presented his new vision for Ameri...
crow.house.gov
October 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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thmoore.bsky.social
I’ve been thinking about this a lot over the last several months, and Graff nails the thought: “It turns out, in the end, that there’s only one check and balance that actually matters: Good character. Everything else in a constitutional system follows and relies on that simple foundation.”
vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19d
The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...
The only check-and-balance that actually matters
www.doomsdayscenario.co
October 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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One of the indicators of rampant corruption is barefaced ineptitude of leadership while competent professionals are fired
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20d
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
October 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.
October 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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#PhrogsPhorever #LaughterKillsFascism
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Oct 10
PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
October 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Gerf! #surfpunk

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October 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Strong start to Goliath, The 100-Year War Between Monopoly and Power, by @matthewstoller.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute. Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner. I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way. Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose. The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why. Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes. I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic). "To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus
October 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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drdind.bsky.social
🧵Coal in the US was mostly dying because of cheap natural gas beginning in the 2000s. Then cheap renewables began to clobber it in the 2010s. It is a filthy power source and horrible emitter of greenhouse gases. There is zero economic justification for this & it will amount to corporate welfare.
Generation of electricity by source in US, 1950-2015 Coal held steady at about 50% until 2000, with natural gas, cheaper and abundant because of fracking, rose up, passing coal at 2015. Natural gas is cleaner and releases less carbon dioxide per energy output Cost of energy in dollars per megawatt-hour 2015-2023, projected to 2030. As of 2019 wind and solar were cheaper than coal, natural gas, and as of 2023, coal was nearly 2x more expensive.
September 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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nytimes.com
One in eight federal workers, or some 300,000, will have left the government by the end of the year, and it’s possible even more could be pushed out if the government shuts down next week. In interviews, some former federal workers shared what they left behind and what they face next.
Former Federal Workers on the Cost of Trump's Cuts
The New York Times photographed and interviewed two dozen former federal workers from across the country to get a sense of what they left behind and what they face next.
nyti.ms
September 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Just saw Megalopolis at the Henry Ford Museum. That movie was a lot of unexpected things, chief among them the fact that it's a reverse Fountainhead.
September 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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🧵Quick thread about how dense neighborhoods cultivate community (and FUN!)

My fiancée and I switch off planning date nights. But this week we had to improvise since we are both super busy. I saw on TikTok that a band was playing a free concert on the lake, so we biked over on a whim. It was PACKED.
Chicago’s lakefront under a gorgeous sunset with many people gathered to watch a concert
September 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Pre-ordered.

@marketplace.org also has an excellent podcast so you can hear this outstanding interview any time!
September 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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It's seeming likelier and likelier that AI really could eliminate a lot of jobs very soon. Just not in the way boosters have suggested. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be? The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing. By Rogé Karma The capability-reliability gap might explain why generative AI has so far failed to deliver tangible results for businesses that use it. When researchers at MIT recently tracked the results of 300 publicly disclosed AI initiatives, they found that 95 percent of projects failed to deliver any boost to profits. A March report from McKinsey & Company found that 71 percent of companies reported using generative AI, and more than 80 percent of them reported that the technology had no “tangible impact” on earnings. In light of these trends, Gartner, a tech-consulting firm, recently declared that AI has entered the “trough of disillusionment” phase of technological development. By one estimate, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Tesla will by the end of this year have collectively spent $560 billion on AI-related capital expenditures since the beginning of 2024 and have brought in just $35 billion in AI-related revenue. OpenAI and Anthropic are bringing in lots of revenue and are growing fast, but they are still nowhere near profitable. Their valuations—roughly $300 billion and $183 billion, respectively, and rising—are many multiples higher than their current revenues. (OpenAI projects about $13 billion in revenues this year; Anthropic, $2 billion to $4 billion.) Investors are betting heavily on the prospect that all of this spending will soon generate record-breaking profits. If that belief collapses, however, investors might start to sell en masse, causing the market to experience a large and painful correction. The dot-com crash was bad, but it did not trigger a crisis. An AI-bubble crash could be different. AI-related investments have already surpassed the level that telecom hit at the peak of the dot-com boom as a share of the economy. In the first half of this year, business spending on AI added more to GDP growth than all consumer spending combined. Many experts believe that a major reason the U.S. economy has been able to weather tariffs and mass deportations without a recession is because all of this AI spending is acting, in the words of one economist, as a “massive private sector stimulus program.” An AI crash could lead broadly to less spending, fewer jobs, and slower growth, potentially dragging the economy into a recession. The economist Noah Smith argues that it could even lead to a financial crisis if the unregulated “private credit” loans funding much of the industry’s expansion all go bust at once.
September 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Finally! Now do parking lots and every highway below ground level
September 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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On September 2, 2025, the 80th anniversary of Japan's formal surrender, a powerful ceremony honored more than 1,000 US troops who died as prisoners of war—service members who endured unimaginable suffering and sacrifice.
September 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Is it possible that…urbanism is a winning strategy in cities?
August 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM