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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 2d

Great, thanks!

Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 2d

Yep, it’s real! It’s a viewpoint at ETH.

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 2d

Hello Zürich. Delighted to be spending my sabbatical at @ethz.ch. In related news, this feed will be featuring Swiss landscape photos for the next eight months. 🏔️

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Kurt Taylor Gaubatz @kurttg.bsky.social · 8d

Russia's hybrid attacks on NATO would seem the obvious test case for this fearsome new strategic doctrine.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "Should our enemies choose foolishly to challenge us, they will be crushed by the violence, precision, and ferocity of the War Department. To our enemies, FAFO."

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 9d

Splish, splash… 🪶

A yellowish bird with wings spread over bubbling water.

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 10d

This is the kind of thing you only used to say out loud in your secret volcanic lair while stroking a cat. When did it become acceptable to openly brag about this vision for the world?

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

fortune.com

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 10d

Yes, that’s Pepper. She’s spicy.

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 10d

#caturday

A tortoise shell cat on a slate stone step

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 10d

This is hilarious and a testament to how much meaning can be conveyed by subtle facial expressions.

youtu.be/TRREsyFgO6w?...

“A bad escalator and a bad teleprompter” — Trump implies UN sabotaged him, while he saved millions.

YouTube video by Diaper Diplomacy

youtu.be

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 11d

Inviting pundits to give "talks" is just not what professors/departments do. Some schools have "institutes of politics" that do this, like @gupolitics.bsky.social at Georgetown, which invites conservatives regularly. Departments invite scholars for talks, and I rarely know their personal politics.

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 11d

More than anything, they want to be patted on the head and told they're a good boy by the liberal elites

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 11d

Esp this one:🙄

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 11d

Holding aside the issue of money, there's a lot of blurring of "association" and "causation" here by two well-trained scientists who certainly know the difference.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 14d

Harvard Dean Was Paid $150,000 as an Expert Witness in Tylenol Lawsuits

www.nytimes.com

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 12d

Mr. President, we must not allow a kitchen cabinet gap!

(They’re very unsightly)

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 12d

Who knew that having robust bathroom vanity production capabilities is crucial to national security?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 12d

Trump: ‘We will be imposing a 50% Tariff on all Kitchen Cabinets, Bathroom Vanities, and associated products, starting October 1st, 2025. Additionally, we will be charging a 30% Tariff on Upholstered Furniture. The reason for this is the large scale “FLOODING” of these products

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 13d

CHOTINER: So you were something of a big shot?
OZYMANDIAS: Oh, yeah. King of kings.
C: Bet you were pretty intimidating.
O: Sure, had it all. Frown, wrinkled lip, sneer of cold command.
C: Uh huh.
O: Look on my Works and despair!
C: All I see is two vast and trunkless legs of stone…
O: Well, yeah.

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Dennis Goris @dennisgoris.bsky.social · 15d

#RFKjr

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 15d

Even making the generous assumption that the goal was to spread the aid burden more evenly, there were ways to make the transition less deadly. Instead, they took a sledgehammer to USAID, canceled previously awarded contracts, and cut the rug out from under NGOs without warning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

STEPHANOPOULOS: Are you standing by your comment that no one has died because of the aid cuts? Are all those aid organizations lying?

RUBIO: They died because England didn't give enough money or Canada didn't give more or China didn't. Let's blame the other countries that don't do any foreign aid.

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 15d

"Ha ha, my LLM hallucinated some gibberish. No, wait..."

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 15d

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 15d

Because of their complete capitulation to Trump, today's Republicans have become the party of slandering a multinational corporation with anti-science lies when that company has, in fact, helped millions of people. That was a choice by Republicans to do that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump: "With Tylenol -- don't take it. Don't take it!"

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 16d

I stand corrected!

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 16d

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin

Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16d

An open endorsement of hate - precisely what you do not want the President to do after an assassination when messages from leaders disavowing violence are especially important www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 16d

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️

archive.org/details/walt...

Walt Disney Testifies at HUAC (1947) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Walt Disney Testifies at HUAC

archive.org

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 16d

Things that are fundamentally unknowable:
1. The precise location and velocity of a quantum particle
2. When and where life first emerged on earth
3. What is beyond the cosmological event horizon
4. Who was the US president in 2020

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