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Oof, what if we did good things for people instead? Read a book.

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What the hell do you mean by "eldritch" then??? This is so asinine.

11.03.2026 18:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

An idea that worked fabulously well with vaccines ๐Ÿ™„

11.03.2026 18:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Are you arguing with a chat bot?

Imagine using the term "eldritch" while asserting it is a scientific understanding, and then labeling dissenters as "anti-vax" ๐Ÿ™„

And LLMs are not even fucking stochastic. This "person" has no idea what words mean.

11.03.2026 18:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

WBC is one of my favorite things because it shows how much more fun this can be.

Watching the Dominican Republic and the entire Tokyo pool have so much fun has been the best thing to happen this year.

11.03.2026 17:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, two "targeting mistakes" 40 minutes apart.

The pitchbot was supposed to be a joke guys, not a model follow.

11.03.2026 17:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is straightforward prose sometimes too much for you?

Try my magical FREE product!

It's called "Read It Again!"

With Read It Again, you can turn things you don't understand immediately into things you DO understand!

No magic. Just time.

11.03.2026 17:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Increasingly, AI hype is all about convincing us we can't do things we've always been doing.

11.03.2026 17:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I feel bad for not being able to understand how The Great Gatsby is a "hard" book.

This seems like more of an endurance thing than actually ability.

Mostly, I hate the inherent reductionism, that the broad ideas are what matters more than how we get there. To me, the journey is the important part.

11.03.2026 16:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's innovation for ya

11.03.2026 05:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A totally useless measure that will only give credit to the Republicans.

Sounds about right for Dems.

11.03.2026 05:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Even if I disagree with her, she's doing war the right way ๐Ÿ™„

Why would you even have someone like this on the show?

11.03.2026 04:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

18 Senate Dems just voted to confirm Trump's NSA director:

Baldwin
Coons
Cortez Masto
Fetterman
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hirono
Kelly
King
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
Whitehouse

10.03.2026 20:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 1563 ๐Ÿ” 680 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 471 ๐Ÿ“Œ 992

Maybe you could draw attention to this issue by REFUSING TO VITE FOR ANY OF THE FASCIST'S NOMINEES!

You are enabling everything you complain about. It's all connected., not some game of compartmentalization!

11.03.2026 04:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How much of this could be chalked up to their propensity to not read beyond the first page?

There's probably 50 year old plans that cover all this, but it predates twitter-brain.

11.03.2026 04:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He knows they did it on purpose

10.03.2026 16:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Isn't it against senate rules for a senator to insult another sitting senator?

Seems like anyone asking a senator about another senator should note this.

08.03.2026 03:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How else you gonna let that unprofitable Venezuelan oil profitable?

07.03.2026 16:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In my U.S. Civil Rights Movements class, we spend a lot of time thinking about historical memory. When movements get reduced to a few iconic leaders, the collective labor that made change possible disappears from view. It also obscures an important lesson: collective action is effective & difficult.

07.03.2026 12:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 676 ๐Ÿ” 195 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Shocking that letting venture capital take over an industry pushed out the ones that were there for the tech instead of for the money.

No one could have seen it coming.

07.03.2026 16:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You're asking why a "warning" from the people pushing a slightly less bad version of the same policies, while cozying up to their previous opponents who'd put in place those policies, while abandoning entire groups and offering tiny positive nuggets, wasn't "listened to"?

No one will ever know ๐Ÿ™„

07.03.2026 15:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Serge Zaka: Over the past ten years, the pace of warming has reached about 0.35ยฐC per decade, compared to about 0.2ยฐC per decade between 1970 and 2015. The corrected data show that an acceleration in climate warming is now detectable since 2015, with a statistical certainty greater than 98%.

07.03.2026 14:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 235 ๐Ÿ” 115 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

lol the thing that uncritically parrots what it finds on the web is "showing signs of anxiety"

You don't say.

06.03.2026 16:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The majority of properties they pulled from were cautionary tales. Not surprising, but keeps the streak of media illiteracy alive.

06.03.2026 14:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Even if you accept their framing, an echo chamber of my own making seems significantly better than one made by some billionaire.

05.03.2026 18:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 74 ๐Ÿ” 17 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I really think these accusations are just psychological projection. They have a hard time seeing outside their bubble so they assume the same of others.

Like, it's just not hard to see what the mainstream/centrists/right-wing think. We can literally predict it before they say it.

05.03.2026 18:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/leop...

baudrillard and virilio talked like they were insane in part bc the world that was coming was insane

05.03.2026 12:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 77 ๐Ÿ” 12 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Preview
The Pro-Human AI Declaration The Pro-Human AI Declaration

Hey all, sorry to say this, as I think I have well-intentioned friends who signed, but this "declaration" means nothing. Because Steve Bannon signed it, and he wants my family dead. So if you can sign along side him? At best, you got played. He's the "humanity in control". humanstatement.org

05.03.2026 06:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 522 ๐Ÿ” 139 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19 ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

This doofus has no idea that the constitution vests power to declare war in congress precisely because that means the power is indirectly vested in the 340 million citizens, who are the ones who pay for and die in those wars.

05.03.2026 17:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Is a Nazi antisemite" is a strawman.

I'm sure it's been said, but most people being dumped into the bucket with this label are really just pointing out the long history of bad judgment and ability to ignore things that shouldn't be ignorable.

They're trying to avoid a Fetterman 2.

05.03.2026 17:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

WI was literally the proving ground for the game plan they used nationally.

Koch's spent crazy money to buy the R party, they killed off union opposition and gerrymandered so that Ds could only win a majority of seats by winning 75%+ of the state.

05.03.2026 17:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0