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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1h

Fair, albeit raises perhaps even more troubling concerns!

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 1h

while this doesn't reflect well on any of us, the concerned centrist shtick is more of a top-down thing, no?

like weiss is a corporate decision, each new 'quirky free thinkers' outlet gets millions in seed funding, but idk if there's any great popular demand for what they're pushing

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15h

not only is the whole "the left is organizing against us" thing just bullshit for suppressing speech and dissent, its also hilarious because if you've spent 10 seconds on the left you can see there isnt the power to organize a bake sale let alone an antifa plot to take down the govt

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 7h

ICE is literally shooting priests like it's 1905 or some shit

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 9h

Here’s video of the incident

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 11h

Samurai overlapped with early cameras so there’s a good amount of color photos of them

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 11h

been reading about the glorious revolution and it’s funny that this event that looms so large in the history of British parliamentary govt and thus world liberal democracy was straightforwardly the Dutch doing a regime change as part of their geopolitical struggle against France

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1h

omg I'm this guy now

If you haven’t noticed real world differences that result from higher/lower intelligence, idk man. I’ve got a very high IQ and there are times in my life where it feels like I’m a different species. Only taken the one IQ test and I wasn’t even aware I was taking it, as it was state administered and incorporated into standardized testing, and I only found this out because of being notified about my high score. Anyone I’ve ever met who’s in a similar position has countless relatable examples of dumbing down their speech, being confused at others inability, being ostracized by others once they learn you’re probably much smarter, feeling baffled by the asinine conclusions average people draw from whatever info, etc. There’s way more real consequences to high IQ than “being good at IQ tests”.

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rimidar @rimidar.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah but if you work for like, the New York Times and point this out, then you stop getting invited to the cocktail parties, and that’s kinda what the whole point of working in that lane is about to begin with.

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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 19d

A list of active philosophy blogs. (Let us know if we missed yours.)

The Philosophy Blogosphere in 2025 - Daily Nous

What philosophy blogs are active in 2025? Below is a list of philosophy blogs and blog-newsletters, mostly limited to ones that have been updated at least once in the past month. I'm sure I've missed ...

dailynous.com

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 1h

"I'm a middle-aged white guy who thinks MeToo went too far, but MAGA ball caps and AI slop with eagles soaring is ugly and beneath me."

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 1h

My theory is that there's a huge market for rebranding conservatism as centrism (or heyerodoxy or whatever), because there are a lot of people who politically or culturally conservative, but who are put off by a lot of the aesthetics of the modern conservative movement.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1h

Lots of people in fact are fooled, so I'm left with very disdainful attitudes towards many of the people I must share global democratic life with. I suppose with the way things are going I at least won't have to worry about the consequences of this mass idiocy for democratic citizenship much longer!

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1h

A more snobby attitude of mine is how much it bothers me this works. To be frank, Weiss and the Free Press people always seem really obviously to be what they are to me - right wing shills. If anyone is actually fooled by the "I'm just a concerned centrist" schtick they seem incredibly stupid to me.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12h

another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 12h

Weiss very intentionally does not describe herself as a conservative or Republican and wraps her politics in terms like "free press." That makes more useful at advancing Trumpism than explicitly right-wing figures. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12h

another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 12h

Weiss very intentionally does not describe herself as a conservative or Republican and wraps her politics in terms like "free press." That makes more useful at advancing Trumpism than explicitly right-wing figures. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

MAGA Lite: What “Bari Weiss Conservatism” Is, and Why It’s Dangerous

The new CBS executive isn’t exactly MAGA. But her polite Trumpism will still help destroy America as we know it.

newrepublic.com

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 17h

Weird print ad from that insecure period in gaming where being as good/worthy as films was considered an end goal for the medium.

Halo 2 print ad: 'From November 11, movies won't matter anymore.'

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 8h

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 17h

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9h

analytic philosopher, continental philosopher, African Studies theorist

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23h

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1h

Also my experience. Some good uses but, so far, LLMs net effect on my life personally has been negative, due to their detrimental effect on student writing and my broader cultural world. The hate and disdain for LLMs on this website can slip into the absurd... but, like, ground truth is they're bad.

Jan Trnka @jantrnka.bsky.social · 2h

I have to say my experience with LLMs as sources of information is very similar: confident semi-lying, good for quick brainstorming or getting another perspective on something but of little use for any critical application. By @kurzgesagt.org

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

www.youtube.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 8h

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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Andy Claaaaaarrrghhhhk, Nerdling Herder @andycruns.bsky.social · 2h

Look if we really want to make the chuds have a full on aneurism I suggest that we go the whole hog.
Leman Russ returns, during her time away she transitioned.
The Space Wolves have exactly zero issue with this because she's their primarch and can still throw a spear through a tank.

a man with curzon my beloved old friend written on the screen

Alt: a man with curzon my beloved old friend written on the screen

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 5h

On the one hand, civ-mil relations are gonna be nuts for the rest of my life

On the other hand, encouraging that the military isn’t cowed at every level

💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 14h

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 9h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11h

So Trump is now going to try to rule like an early modern king - just avoid calling the estates general or parliament or the diet and so rule by fiat.

Maybe someone in the GOP should turn the page in book and see what happened next...oh, oh dear...oh no...oh dear ohnonono....

George Pearkes @peark.es · 13h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 14h

The most bizarre “yes we want a warrior aristocracy not a professional military” authorship possible

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