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stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social · 18h

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 19h

We call this "synergy"

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 19h

As a proud pedant, I've determined there's a boundary of pedantry that you don't want to cross in polite society and the way you know you've gone too far is if you care about people misusing "beg the question."

Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 19h

I'm not much interested in defending Sean Duffy, but language evolves. If you want to get mad at people for "misusing" the phrase "beg the question" perhaps start with the person who translated the phrase into English so poorly that the common understanding of the phrase was essentially inevitable 🤷‍♂️

Screenshot from Miriam Webster Dot com that reads

Origin of Beg the Question
Beg the question is a phrase from formal logic. We have Aristotle to thank for it—or, actually, an anonymous 16th century translator who took Aristotle's phrase petitio principii and rendered it in English as "beg the question." A better translation would have been "assume the conclusion," as linguist Mark Liberman at Language Log explains; petitio principii is used to name the logical fallacy in which an argument assumes the very thing it's trying to prove. Here's an example:

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 1d

If I click on an Instagram ad for an article of clothing, and I am taken just to your main website and not the actual page of the specific item, someone on your web development team should have to buy me an ice cream or something (and also you just failed to make some money).

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 1d

Especially given all the streamers attempts to push auto-play at every opportunity. You’d imagine they would just have something going in a corner the second you opened it up.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2d

A rare “who was President in 2021?” instead of the usual “who was President in 2020?”

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2d

I think it’s quite possible more living people have seen the Godfather than have seen all of Woody Allen’s oeuvre put together, so let me assure you she is definitely not best known for Annie Hall.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Breaking news: Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton has died at age 79.

Keaton may be best known for her 1977 starring role in the rom-com classic “Annie Hall,” directed by and costarring Woody Allen. She won her first Academy Award for the performance. https://wapo.st/4nIx6D7

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2d

This is not doomerism, it’s that if you want to avoid this outcome something other than the status quo must interrupt it.

Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2d

This will happen. They’ll gleefully cite the Fauci, Cheney, and Miley pardons. It will be written in a sloppy way that legal scholars will say means it isn’t enforceable and then it will be upheld on the shadow docket two minutes after it’s first ruled on. We all know this, right?

Joel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 2d

I think we need to be prepared for Trump doing a blanket pardon of all acts undertaken by all members of the administration. Sometimes I think we should be quiet about who we intend to prosecute or think about civil actions we intend to take in this scenario.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 2d

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

I know, mostly because it implies at least one (but probably several) other people exist who don’t know that everyone thinks Johnny Cash is cool.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

What’s his VO2max?

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 3d

President Donald Trump's newly released physical results from the White House sing the praises of his health and physical fitness, and claim that he, in fact, has the heart of a man in his mid-60s, rather than late 70s.

White House says Trump's heart tested 14 years younger than his 'chronological age'

President Donald Trump's newly released physical results from the White House sing the praises of his health and physical fitness, and claim that he, in fact, has the heart of a man in his mid-60s, rather than late 70s."President Donald J. Trump successfully completed a scheduled follow-up evaluatio...

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

Oh I saw

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

Not quite an overlap but a thing that will twist your sense of historical time is that Anne Frank, MLK Jr., and Barbara Walters were all born the same year.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 6d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 3d

He got the shots that his own HHS is telling you are not necessary

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 3d

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

How long are my guy’s telomeres?

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

Wonder if there will now be Dreamforce protests

Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

Spectacular

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

No kings, Chris.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

Kids saying 6-7 is so annoying that schools are banning it: www.fastcompany.com/91419371/6-7...

Heard kids saying '6-7'? It's so annoying that schools are banning it

The obvious reason why the latest brain rot phrase is driving non-Gen Alphas up the wall.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

This piece is great and disturbingly true though I would question the idea here of declaring a settled end state. It is just as likely to evolve into something even worse and more insidious. www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

Casually tweeted this proposal once and reaped one of the biggest Twitter pile-ons I ever received.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah

Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

Similar to how the Google AI summaries are going to destroy the production of the content they are summarizing!

John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 3d

implied agentic ai pitch: we will lure users with unrealistic promises, and in the process turn them into spammers that destroy the entire existing marketplace. then... profit?

The bet by investors like Y Combinator, in other words, is on a broadly familiar form of disruption but with a couple of twists.
Generative AI may expose some incumbent firms to outpricing, outselling, and outmaneuvering by start-ups that embrace it, while more and more people acclimate to strange, new, chatcentric modes of computing. In the meantime, it may also help glut, jam, and temporarily destroy the entire markets in which they're operating. It's a version of creative destruction in which the destruction is preemptive, indiscriminate, and maybe looks a bit like sabotage — with a little bit of help from all of us, of course.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4d

What do you mean "possible rise," dude is at the top of the pack. He is the literal pope

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 5d

More and more people are saying "who was president in 2020" and I wrote about why.

“Who was president in 2020?” is more than a viral meme

GOP politicians and other officials keep making statements that imply the events of 2020 occurred under President Biden. X and Bluesky users are trying not to let them get away with it.

www.fastcompany.com

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