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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 14m

Also, "we have to live together" is about normal people with bad views, not about billionaires who spend all of their time and money trying to weaponize people with bad views and radicalize more of them.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 14m

Frustrated with the way "we have to live together" gets deployed as cover for self-serving choices, because "we have to live together" *is* a problem we're going to have to figure out, but is something that has to go hand in hand with legal and political protections. Just say you need a new car.

Kayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 48m

Piss off.

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Keira Knightley Was ‘Not Aware’ of J.K. Rowling Boycott Before Joining ‘Harry Potter: The Full Cast Audio Editions’: ‘I Hope That We Can All Find Respect’

Keira Knightley was 'not aware' of the J.K. Rowling boycott before joining 'Harry Potter: The Full Cast Audio Editions'

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I think people here have unrealistic expectations for like jailing all ICE agents and that’s just almost certainly not going to happen even in extremely cool zone scenarios. But they should 100% have to lie for the rest of their lives about their employment history in conversation with everyone

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 13h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 10h

I lived on this website for years.

hongpong @hongpong.bsky.social · 10h

and they say the perfect website doesn't exist. 1995 vintage www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker....

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Rebecca Henely-Weiss @rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social · 11h

[JOHN ADAMS HBO miniseries theme song intensifies]

Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 12h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13h

Ragebaiting people on social media is ironically the exact kind of unproductive, divisive-for-no-reason discourse that Bluesky critics (and critics of the left more generally) claim it engages in

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 18h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15h

I agree with everything @dhnexon.bsky.social says in this post about where we’re at with the American Republic today and where we must go from here:

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...

The State of the Republic is Grim - Lawyers, Guns & Money

If you’re on Bluesky and follow me, you’ve probably seen that I’m writing threads that really should be the basis for posts at LGM. You’ve also likely gotten a bead on where I am these days. Here’s a ...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 19h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 16h

Another day, another leftist round of self-defense when someone takes a swing at Israel and hits every Jew in their orbit.

I really wish non-Jews (Christians & atheists) would comprehend that it's possible both for Israel to do evil things and also for them to have latent antisemitism.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17h

Who cares? God you act like you’re proclaiming how we turn water into wine. So you’re rooting for Bari Weiss. How daring! How bold! Such raw bravery! I bet you wear a hat that says “the NASDAQ” on it

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 18h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 17h

Every JD Vance interview:

REPORTER: The president literally declared war on Democrats to military leaders. Do you agree?

JD VANCE: Umm haha what I DISAGREE with is Chuck Schumer telling the American people they have to give their cars over to immigrants. But you wont report it!

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 23h

LLM plans and documentation are a simulacrum of the form. They superficially read as if they’re going what they intend, and are heavily structured to appear like organized communication, but beneath the facade, they’re a disorganized ramble of things that probabilistically follow each other.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 23h

This really gets at why I find LLM-written plans and documentation so low value and borderline hostile to their goal, as the models are not able to prioritize the goals of writing: to communicate in a way that drives efficient comprehension and to articulate meaning. It’s just words, words, words.

Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 23h

"Human language is motivated by the articulation of thought; machine language is crafted through structure....As a result, the likelihood of finding new arrangements of words through an LLM is determined not by the capacity of AI reason, but to shuffle the expectations of a word's proper position."

Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 1d

I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

As an example: AI doesn't understand "no." Because the statements "no ketchup on my burger" and "ketchup on my burger" are almost identical to a machine that does not and cannot actually reason. It's only a 2 letter difference.

AI doesn't know 'no' – and that's a huge problem for medical bots

Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showin...

www.newscientist.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

What you're getting from an LLM is a statistical approximation of what the answer would be to a statistical approximation of the question.

This is why prompt engineering is fake. The prompt (and any input data) is just a suggestion - and helps fool you into thinking that your question was answered.

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 1d

Just a reminder that Trump accepted a $400M jet from Qatar, now being upgraded for hundreds of millions more by U.S. taxpayers, to eventually be transferred to his presidential library.

Pentagon agrees to host Qatari F-15 fighter jets and pilots at Idaho air base

Pentagon agrees to build Qatari Emiri Air Force facility in Idaho as part of the ongoing U.S.-Qatar partnership, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Friday.

www.foxnews.com

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

“I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic...Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.” futurism.com/future-socie...

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 1d

That’s a sincere question, not rhetorical. I do not know.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 1d

Has there been another moment in American history of this level of conflict between the lower courts and SCOTUS?

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 2d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 1d

There is a long history of adventurous, bold episodes of shows having horrible IMDB scores, for reasons that should be obvious to anyone involved in modern media critique. There isn't a single good reason to reference them, even when you're correct about the overall point.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 1d

The worst-rated episode on IMDB of this season of Rick and Morty is the clear best of the first half I've seen, because IMDB scores are worthless trash.

I do not say this to defend real critiques of the Peacemaker finale. I say it because you should never use IMDB scores for anything.

Paul Tassi @paultassi.bsky.social · 1d

The ‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 Finale Is Its Lowest-Scored Episode By Far

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The ‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 Finale Is Its Lowest-Scored Episode By Far

Peacemaker's season 2 finale has been rated by fans as the worst of the series to date. Does it actually deserve that?

www.forbes.com

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 1d

Is putting the weight of the US government behind the celebration of a man whose greatest historical legacy is jumping into a genocide with both feet, in opposition to the renaming of the day after the victims of that violence, erasure of indigenous people? Who can say?

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