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Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 5h

Strange seeing the same people who denounce Wikipedia believe generative-AI that's half plagiarized from that encyclopedia and half from dubious sources. Almost like complaints about Wikipedia were ultimately about how reality didn't conform to their ignorance

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Xero Reynolds @artificerind.bsky.social · 18h

Shou Tucker has endorsed Andrew Cuomo, and his little dog, too.

Shou Tucker from Full Metal Alchemist; a Caucasian man with short brown hair wearing glasses, a black t+shirt, and an olive collared over shirt.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18h

We are being ruled by absolute losers

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Otohiko @otohiko.bsky.social · 18h

A comic panel of an agitated man's face, saying
"I don't care about the REST of the human race!
THEY'RE not important!"
"But I'm too RICH to die!"

Otohiko @otohiko.bsky.social · 3d

(And no, it doesn't "go both ways" - the moment someone has forefeited their human rights, they are fair game and taking them out is not "sinking to their level" at all. Fascism is not, in fact, a two-way street.)

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Otohiko @otohiko.bsky.social · 3d

I've always framed it in purely humanitarian terms: as soon as someone denies the human rights of others, they forefeit their own. With all prospective consequences.

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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 5d

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Otohiko @otohiko.bsky.social · 6d

The only acceptable "billionaire bracket" should be a type of device used for executions.

For everyone else, I fully support the notion of maximum income. You go above that, 100% tax. Anyone making a million a year shouldn't be, and billionaires can be shot on sight.

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Otohiko @otohiko.bsky.social · 7d

youtu.be/Z4ayRtaJdMs?...

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Otohiko @otohiko.bsky.social · 7d

Tired of the hand-wringing. Capital punishment is an absolutely valid way to deal with Nazis. No need to treat them with kid gloves - those who deny the human rights of others must immediately forefeit their own.

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 7d

Sarkozy is going to jail but he’s not the first one. In our new dataset we track modern leaders who have been prosecuted by their own states. There are 215 of them. Turns out leader prosecution is a common & healthy practice in democracies. Full access link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d...

Prosecuting the Powerful

Historical data shows putting leaders on trial is a healthy democratic practice.

foreignpolicy.com

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 7d

Chotiner: So you decided you were going to make a joke post—

Me: —in the form of a Chotiner interview. That’s correct.

Chotiner: And you thought it was funny?

Me: I mean, I didn’t think it wasn’t funny.

Chotiner: Sure.

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Otohiko @otohiko.bsky.social · 7d

I think we all should aspire to a head of state with basic pathfinding and collision avoidance, at minimum.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 8d

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All

I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

www.wired.com

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Otohiko @otohiko.bsky.social · 7d

Between that and the "routine" MRI...

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