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darwinwoodka.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
Not very often you see a new product that feels like major religions should issue edicts specifically forbidding it
cpaxton.bsky.social Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 17d
Nightmarish idea for a startup tbh
November 14, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
financially entangling myself with isaac chotiner until it becomes unethical for him to interview me
October 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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stevanzetti.bsky.social
I am going to live in a Buddhist monastery

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Zuckerberg's AI Glasses Guy Is Named Rocco Basilico
The guy who's spearheading Meta's AI-powered smart glasses is named Rocco Basilico — which matches a internet theory called Roko's basilisk.
futurism.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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abigaillarson.com
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..." "not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..." "...you're rich. If you have, whatever-" "- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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cteeze-nuts.bsky.social
I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.
Quote text from article: Lawyers said the nature of the claims posed undeniable ethics challenges. "What a travesty," said Bennett L. Gershman, an ethics professor at Pace University. "The ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you don't need a law professor to explain it."
October 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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gremlin.world
I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)
October 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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raxkingisdead.bsky.social
my little brother challenged my perspective this morning with some heterodox thinking. why AM i hitting myself. why AM i hitting myself
October 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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dbrauer.net
Some of you know me as an OG media reporter, but Brian Lambert, who I don’t think is on here, taught me. He had some great thoughts about Kupchella’s landlord ad & “journalism.” Sorry for no alt-text; these excerpts are too long. If you need alt please message me & I’ll shoot you an email or text.
If you're in the news, tough facts and full transparency business, the question, "Who paid for this?" should not come as tough or surprising. Like some of you last night, I watched the documentary, "A Precarious State", noting the presence of former KARE-TV reporter Rick Kupchella, its unusual commercial-free runtime on several ABC stations owned by the Hubbard family and its weighted cast of landlords, "business leaders" and conservatives of varying pedigrees. Being a guy who doesn't get out much, I had no inkling of the production until yesterday morning, when I read an infomercial on the Star Tribune's op-ed page. It was a piece written by Kupchella touting his show. I could have thought, "Cool! The Strib is now running paid promos in its editorial section. Kind of like Budweiser decals on Nascars." I hadn't stopped asking, "What the f*ck is this? before several texts arrived asking if I knew anything about the show." Several of my woke, Marxist, anti-capitalist, eat-the-rich, let's all eat bugs-and-roots cronies were already smelling a new variation of a MAGA-marinated Liz Collin/Mrs. Bob Kroll attack on the faerie lefty nymphs running Minneapolis... or in the case of Kupchella's piece, all of Minnesota. Not knowing anything about what was up, I told them that I only knew Kupchella from back in the day and generally liked his work. As they say in the biz, "He's good TV." Not a raver. Not a ranter. Adept at compiling statistics and delivering the goods with a genial, neighborly vibe. To a couple of my pals I did add, somewhat recklessly, that he was also "a relentless self- promoter", "relentless" probably being a bit much. But the point was the guy, even as a staff reporter for a corporate-owned TV station knew how to market his goods. As a media columnist at the time I always knew when a new Kupchella piece was about to drop. And as I say, they were consistently "above average." Quality visuals. Lots of interviews... and stats. Not that any of that guarantees a… If you missed the show last night, the capsule summary is that Minnesota, Minneapolis in particular, has descended to the levels of depressed, illiterate, crime-ridden hellholes like Louisiana and Mississippi. Everything around us is trending toward disaster. And the main reason is ... wait for it... oh, you already guessed ... radical democratic socialists... who in five short years have emasculated both our prosperity-inducing developers, landlords and cops. But mostly our cops. Now, being an old white guy living in Edina I don't pay as much attention as I should to the daily nitty of the Minneapolis City Council. But even as a delusional, woke, MAGA-resistant scold I can accept that some of the stuff the council's majority yabbers about and proposes is kinda batty. As batshit as Tylenol causing autism? Defunding pediatric cancer research? Or flushing anyone who knows anything about science out of the CDC? No. Not quite that loony and destructive. But counter-productive. IMHO a lot of the current council lacks the realpolitik awareness that any city, especially big cities like Minneapolis, require buy-in from a wider range of influencers than the 40 people who showed up on caucus night and got you on the ballot. Kupchella's film, which plays like it got a script polish by John Hinderaker and Katherine Kersten at the Center for the American Experiment, (another operation from whom I'd love to see a donor list), does make some valid points about the easily-gamed caucus system. But its primary focus is ... crime. Lots of crime. Constant crime. Crime so pervasive "no one" wants to go anywhere downtown. Put simply, the film argues, Minneapolis needs lots more cops. The deep irony there being that the appallingly inadequate vetting and training of cops was what (along with outside agitators) incited the George Floyd riots. But (without new taxes of course) let's quickly put 600 more of those guys out there and hope for the best this time (In the context of "too few cops on the street", I always like to remind readers that in the George Floyd episode, two MPD squad cars and a third, a Park Police squad, carrying a total of six peace officers, turned up to check out the possibility of a fake $20. And were soon bellowing f-bombs, waving guns and murdering the suspect.) Kupchella's statistics team wove in a lot of gloomy numbers about our crime and student achievement. But, odd thing about Google ... five-seconds of tapping turns up other numbers that paint a far ... far ... less grim picture. Like the stuff US News and World report culled from FBI stats showing that The City of Lakes and Free Fire Hellholes was actually dead last in violent crime among the USA's 25 largest metros. Similarly, the state's academic achievement scores, while certainly in need of improvement (whose aren't?) still hold up well in comparison to say, Texas, which Kupchella and crew regard as a beacon of deregulated, low-tax, free enterprise supremacy... never mind the wretched state of its schools, which landlords, developers and can-do entrepreneurs invariably hate paying taxes to support. (Those Democrat unions, y'know.) And on the topic of schools, at one point Kupchella interviews what I guess he regards as an average, representative suburban Minneapolis couple; parents of school age children. Nice looking folks. Tidy house. But, I'm sorry when the dude with the crucifix necklace starts muttering about "indoctrination" in Minnesota's public schools and how "parents need more input" into curriculum, one guesses, I'm out of there. Similarly, in the context of "good TV" we have "exclusive security cam footage of a wild shoot out last year down off Franklin and 19th. It's berserk. Sixty-some bullets fired. Some guy with an Uzi- style machine gun. Bad. No way to coat it. But for, um, dramatic purposes, Kupchella runs that clip ... three times ... and on the last roll intones, that this ... "is the new normal." Also, just asking… But that would have ruined the fun. I could go on ... and on ... but the point is that this, very much like, but with far more mainstream polish than your average Alpha News/Liz Collin rabble rouser, is a film with an agenda. And that's fine. For the next few hours at least it's still a free country. You got something you want to say and you've got somebody willing to write the check to buy an hour of airtime on a half dozen network affiliates around the state, knock yourself out. But if the game here includes the pretense of journalistic integrity you owe it to your viewers to show your work. Like a list of who contributed how much to cover the two years of production and tab for an hour of commercial-free network airtime. After the film aired Kupchella hosted an on-line discussion with several of the key sources/subjects and took questions from viewers. Mine was, "Who provided money to produce this film? Did the Hubbard family donate? Why wasn't Mayor Frey interviewed? Did he deny a request?" Unless I missed it, time expired before they got to those
October 4, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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mags.colvett.online
Billboards aimed at troops ask 'is this what you signed up for?'
The signs went up outside of two North Carolina bases amid the Trump administration’s surge in domestic deployments for law enforcement.
taskandpurpose.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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eliyudin.com
Every establishment dem statement has the energy of a substitute teacher that just got locked out of the classroom by the students
September 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."
adamisacson.com Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · Sep 17
The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today.

www.wsj.com/world/americ...
Oseguera caught another break from the Trump administration. The president’s campaign to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally has taken federal agents away from drug-traffic interdiction. In Arizona, two Customs and Border Protection checkpoints along a main fentanyl-smuggling corridor from Mexico have been left unstaffed. Officers stationed there were sent to process detained migrants. A senior administration official said the U.S. border is more secure than it has ever been. Colombia is producing records amounts of cocaine, and the volume of the drug arriving in the U.S. is driving down prices, the people familiar with cartel operations said. Cocaine prices have fallen by nearly half to around $60 to $75 a gram compared with five years ago, said Morgan Godvin, a researcher with the community organization Drug Checking Los Angeles. “The price of pure cocaine has plummeted,” Godvin said.
September 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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lookitup.baby
Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths
September 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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naomikritzer.bsky.social
Elections 2025: Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET).

naomikritzer.com/2025/09/09/e...
Elections 2025: Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET)
Do not skip this one! You need to vote, and you need to tell your friends to vote, and you need to tell them how to vote. The tl;dr is that you should vote 1. Eric Harris Bernstein; 2. Steve Brandt…
naomikritzer.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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kleinman.bsky.social
For decades everyone on the list argued they only knew Epstein in a professional capacity while all the notes to him are "I sure love being pedophiles together with you, my friend Jeffrey Epstein"
September 9, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
Cupid & Psyche, by Benjamin West, 1808, 📸 via @V0LofTheWild
September 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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annabookwriter.bsky.social
Oh HELL yes
Screenshot of an announcement from SESAME WORKSHOP. The Sesame Street library is coming to YouTube! Beginning in January 2026, YouTube will have the largest digital library of Sesame Street content, with hundreds of full episodes coming to the Sesame Street channels. Join us as we help children everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder, one episode at a time.
September 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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pjvphotography.bsky.social
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
A pika sits on a mossy rock. Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head. An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye. An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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zachrabiroff.com
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
lisadiedrich.bsky.social Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · Aug 29
I keep thinking about how the COVID vaccine was rolled out for free for all Americans in 2021 by the federal & state governments with support from local health departments & universities. Since, we have seen the privatization of delivery thru commercial pharmacies & the need for insurance coverage.
maggieastor.bsky.social Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · Aug 29
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
August 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM