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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 6h

Was waiting to see how Olivia Reingold (who Oliver's piece destroyed almost as much as Bari Weiss) would respond, and you can see the tweet below which also shows she either did not watch his piece, or just didn't understand it, since he actually addresses this point directly.

Olivia Reingold quote tweeting Variety.

The Variety tweet is about John Oliver's piece on Bari Weiss leading CBS News, saying:

John Oliver slams Bari Weiss' takeover of CBS News:

"I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happened to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News. But it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading."

Reingold then quotes it saying:

Why does this sound like John Oliver commenting on……John Oliver

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Darrell Owens @idothethinking.bsky.social · 8h

There's no evidence that the MacArthur BART TOD project drove out low income or minority groups. The median household income at MacArthur station is lower than all the neighborhoods around it that gentrified with little or no development.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 8h

You could perhaps say that the cruelty... is the point

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h

I used to think people just didn’t understand what Columbus did but now I think some are really attached to him (as opposed to other worthy italians to celebrate) because their whole thing is not only getting away with doing horrible things but forcing everyone to praise them for being horrible

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h

I used to think people just didn’t understand what Columbus did but now I think some are really attached to him (as opposed to other worthy italians to celebrate) because their whole thing is not only getting away with doing horrible things but forcing everyone to praise them for being horrible

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 8h

"everyone i don't like is the antichrist" peter thiel's guide to political debate

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

Multi billionaire conducts months of historical and theological research into the Antichrist. Discovers, shockingly, that one thing the Antichrist would definitely do is tax billionaires. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, Al and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: "It's become quite difficult to hide one's money."

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 3d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 12h

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 16h

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah but it's still funny

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 13h

economists complaining that people who don't know anything about economics criticize the field based on extremely shallow knowledge, bad faith political accusations, and terrible statistics

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13h

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Why did Joan Didion abandon her book about the Manson murders?

Didion’s recently opened archives contain extensive notes about the project, which was based on her access to Manson Family member and star witness Linda Kasabian

www.washingtonpost.com

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 13h

Apparently Phillippe Aghion's mom founded and ran Chloé, the high fashion brand that employed Karl Lagerfeld and Phoebe Philo. Talk about creative destruction...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 13h

Congratulations to Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University; Philippe Aghion of @college-de-france.fr, INSEAD, and LSE; and Peter Howitt of Brown University on winning the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences! #econsky www.aeaweb.org/news/nobel-p...

Congratulations to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt on being awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt lauded for showing how new technology can drive sustained growth.

www.aeaweb.org

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 13h

I always like how stupid and insane it is when the Nobel Prize is split between two people who get a quarter and one that gets half

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1d

The problem with this discourse is that it reveals something that nobody with a stake in their own academic or professional discipline wants to own up to, which is there is no particular educational paradigm that automatically makes you a good person

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 14h

well there needed to be a center that cannot hold for things to fall apart

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 15h

I believe in Christianity, a religion for woke cucks and Jewish wimps, but in like a STRONK and MANLY way

Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 15h

they've invented a kind of guy who accepts Nietzsche's critique of Christianity while still insisting they're Christian

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

there's genuinely quite a lot of 'christianity is a religion for losers' stuff on the new right and well yes! that is the point! it was a faith of slaves and women, as the romans sneered.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 15h

they've invented a kind of guy who accepts Nietzsche's critique of Christianity while still insisting they're Christian

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

there's genuinely quite a lot of 'christianity is a religion for losers' stuff on the new right and well yes! that is the point! it was a faith of slaves and women, as the romans sneered.

Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 1d

Donald- So I just admit that I was wrong and I get to go into heaven?

Jesus- Yes my child. I paid the price for your sins when I died on the cross

Donald- But I have to admit I was wrong?

Jesus- Yes my child.

Donald- I like messiahs who weren't crucified.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 15h

right wing pasokification is real...

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 16h

Scholars & pundits have focussed a lot on the electoral demise of center left, but in doing so we paid to little attention to the electoral problems of the center right.

Case-in-points here not only British conservatives or center right in France, but increasingly also the center right in Spain.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 15h

tron ares is not an unusual movie in the realm of being bad (endless info dumps, 0 subtlety or nuance, shiny visuals and DEAFENINGLY loud music) but i think it breaks new ground anyways because it's clearly made to be watched at home while using your phone. grim stuff for the future of movies

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 19h

I find this stuff (the museum director's take, not op's, obviously) so goddamn annoying. Were Lithuanians supposed to keep Lenin statues up? Were Iranians meant to not topple statues of the Shah?

historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 21h

'I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to deny history. I think it’s always really important to face your own history honestly ...'

Toppling statues is an act of protest. It's about contesting a collective memory. NEVER about denying history.
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I don’t think it’s ever a good idea t...

The British Museum director on toppling statues, the Parthenon marbles and hosting London’s new star-studded answer to the Met Gala

observer.co.uk

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 15h

www.programmablemutter.com/p/what-the-l...

What the left can learn from evangelical churches

The lessons of Hahrie Han's Undivided

www.programmablemutter.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15h

Epidurals are rare in Japan, where some believe that women who endure childbirth without pain-relief enjoy closer bonds with their children. Hoping to nudge up the number of babies being born, Tokyo govt has begun rolling out subsidies to help women pay for epidurals and chip away at that stigma

To Tackle a Baby Shortage, Tokyo Tries Easing the Pain of Childbirth

The Japanese capital is rolling out subsidies for epidurals in a country where cost is a barrier and women are often encouraged to endure the pain of delivery.

www.wsj.com

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 15h

wow, so it wasn't about reasonable concerns regarding the evidentiary standards in child endocrinology?

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 20h

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

An organization that fought abortion rights in the United States is now a conduit between MAGA Republicans and Reform UK

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 15h

i like how altman's vision of the future is one where every single person who isn't some form of physical laborer develops apps for a living after ai takes every white collar job on the planet

Futurism @futurism.com · 18h

So that's where we're at.

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

there's genuinely quite a lot of 'christianity is a religion for losers' stuff on the new right and well yes! that is the point! it was a faith of slaves and women, as the romans sneered.

Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 1d

Donald- So I just admit that I was wrong and I get to go into heaven?

Jesus- Yes my child. I paid the price for your sins when I died on the cross

Donald- But I have to admit I was wrong?

Jesus- Yes my child.

Donald- I like messiahs who weren't crucified.

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