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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 13h

Salvador Dali could have watched Back to the Future

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h

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

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 13h

Using AI to keep watching videos of a dead person is frankly sinister. Just reveals a culture obsessed iwth never moving forward or looking ahead, just wallowing in increasingly degraded and unnatural rehashes of its own memories

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 13h

Zelda Williams urges fans to stop sending AI videos of her father, Robin Williams:

“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on.”

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 13h

> KAWS

they might as well ask Mr Beast and Tung Tung Sahur to be judges man

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 14h

Instagram unveils Rings, a new award celebrating the most impactful creators worldwide.

A panel of celebrity judges will select the winners, who will receive both a physical ring and a digital version displayed on their Instagram profiles.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 14h

In the US, you can speak truth to power by saying cancel culture in the US stifles free speech for comedians. In Saudi Arabia, you can also speak truth to power, by saying cancel culture in the US stifles free speech for comedians

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 14h

Apparently a third of all Americans tuned into the Seabiscuit versus War Admiral race a hundred years ago. I'm starting to look upon the Rizzler and brainrot more kindly

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 14h

Pushing “market logic” into higher education has made the wealthy schools richer and the poorly resourced schools poorer.

@lookheron.bsky.social builds on his arguments and findings in his recent report for @lpeblog.bsky.social.

lpeproject.org/blog/the-neo...

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 16h

Lmao no way

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 16h

yeah every democracy on earth is falling apart at the same time and the average person has two thirds fewer friends than in 2014. but you can put multiple slurp juices on apes

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 16h

the great filter is silicon valley, every single thing they've invented has *drastically* worsened all facets of society over the last 20 years for a meager 2% TFP boost for five years

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18h

the Great Filter is that only species with a long refractory period survive the invention of the video generation model

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 20h

AGI might be a great filter. LLMs ain't it.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 16h

This guy is such a whiny hack

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, this is just pathetic really.

Dave Chappelle is already extremely rich. He didn't even need Saudi money.

But not only did he do it anyway, he wants to holier-than-thou this shit on top of it?

Just say you're a coward who doesn't care and move on

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 17h

american city dweellers

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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Jordon Nardino @jnardino.bsky.social · 2d

They are called writers

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 19h

A very old-timey antisemitic trope, dressed up in fast fashion, a filter, and the most illiterate emoji-speak ever to exist.

Sailor Haumea ♀ 🟣 🏳️‍⚧️💙💛🔆 @sailorhaumea.bsky.social · 19h

Okay so now people are making "jokes" that Israelis (and Jews outside of Israel) were "promised [thing] 3,000 years ago." There's TikToks of either guys dressed up as stereotypically Jewish people, or just AI videos, in which they steal things and say "it was promised to me 3,000 years ago."

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 18h

People of all political leanings are letting their disgust at gay people come out after a decade

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 22h

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 21h

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 21h

(1) banger
(2) i wish non-economists would realise just how much time each economics paper takes to write (because of our norms about how thorough each paper has to be)

Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 21h

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 18h

Nomrally I don't like these jokes but... gottem

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 6d

After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects

Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 20h

Quinn Slobodian has a book about this

Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 20h

British neoliberalism of the 70s and 80s was obsessed with Singapore, a technocratic autocracy of free trade and deregulation. Of course that would evolve to Dubai, an even more autocratic technocracy with even freer trade and no safety net beyond indentured migrant servants for the very rich

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22h

it's weird to me how much Gulf states seem to dominate the imagination of the UK right at the moment. I assume it's largely about who's giving them money, but I also think "Dubai expat" is a common social type in their circles.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 19h

well if only progressives didn't take such alienating issue positions on gender and race the legal system wouldn't need to say fake "therapy" is actually protected free speech

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 21h

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 19h

I was honestly disappointed by Dan Wang's Breakneck—for a book giving itself the difficult task of understanding the world's largest country, it felt uncomfortably surface-level. I wished it gave space for the details that could do justice to such an important topic
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Joey Politano's review of Breakneck

3/5: I was honestly a bit disappointed by Breakneck—for a book giving itself the difficult task of understanding the world's largest country, it felt uncomfortably overgeneralized and surface-level. ...

www.goodreads.com

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 20h

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 20h

Yet another day of needless cruelty towards queer kids, who are perfect just the way they are. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20h

#goals www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

www.theguardian.com

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 20h

The more people argye about pronouns the less they argue about why David Ellison's dad has 500 billion dollars

Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 20h

a way to understand Bari Weiss’ ascendance is that capital absolutely does not want to “turn down the temperature” on culture war, au contraire they understand culture war to be their most successful media project and want more more more.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 20h

Worth noting that Singapore always relied to some extent on badly paid, unregulated, legally precarious immigrant labor

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