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mortadellasandwich.bsky.social @mortadellasandwich.bsky.social · 21h

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mortadellasandwich.bsky.social @mortadellasandwich.bsky.social · 21h

I could have sworn that they did an episode ... in any case, this is also a good takedown: www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/07...

The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari

The best-selling author is a gifted storyteller and popular speaker. But he sacrifices science for sensationalism, and his work is riddled with errors.

www.currentaffairs.org

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mortadellasandwich.bsky.social @mortadellasandwich.bsky.social · 23h

I had to put it down when I got to "well, colonialism wasn't all bad, surely—where would India be, had the British not introduced them to TEA AND CRICKET"

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mortadellasandwich.bsky.social @mortadellasandwich.bsky.social · 2d

For home cooks, maybe, but restaurant food is increasingly shitty, at least for mid-tier and below—more and more places just serving the same Sysco slop out of a freezer bag to squeak by on razor-thin margins.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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mortadellasandwich.bsky.social @mortadellasandwich.bsky.social · 6d

Fucking MAHTOMEDI.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 15d

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 15d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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mortadellasandwich.bsky.social @mortadellasandwich.bsky.social · 18d

Broken bones? People died for labor rights.

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mortadellasandwich.bsky.social @mortadellasandwich.bsky.social · 20d

If you've ever been in an AirBnb or my mother-in-law's house, you know 99% of home cooks don't need an ultrasonic gadget, they need to stop putting their existing knives in the dishwasher and learn how to sharpen them. Americans think cooking is hard because their kitchen knives can't slice butter.

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mortadellasandwich.bsky.social @mortadellasandwich.bsky.social · 23d

If you ever had a salted oat cookie from Teaism, you would know that oat cakes are actually unbeatable, the stuff of fantasy.

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jean @jennyhozier.bsky.social · Jul 11

God bless whoever put up this pro-upzoning poster in Edgewater, please put up more

A flier taped to a streetlight pole that reads:

“I also have access to a printer,
And I say
Upzoning is cool and good and it is my friend

Let ‘em build some housing! What're you worried about, people with jobs and homes using the Red Line?

Atraid of density? then why did you move to the big city my good friend [emoji making a ‘this guy’s nuts!’ gesture]

‘But I wanna drive my car!’
The bus is better because you can read a book on the bus

Dear ‘Save Edgewater’: If I ever see you again claming that increasing supply increases prices I will spank your bottom and enroll you in an econ class at Loyola

Say YES to proposed Upzoning in Edgewater
Email: Leni@the48thward.org Call: (773) 784-5277

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Chris Washington 🧛‍♂️ @cwashington.bsky.social · 26d

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.

Thought you'd enjoy this.

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mortadellasandwich.bsky.social @mortadellasandwich.bsky.social · 25d

Just FYI for other parents, misterrogers.org releases five full episodes from the archives for free every two weeks.

Homepage - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

The official site of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood from the company that he founded. Watch video clips, read articles, and learn about the messages behind the program.

misterrogers.org

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 27d

It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious.

@mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes.

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

There are many problems with this statement, but Klein’s fundamental error reveals something much more dangerous: he’s mistaking performance for discourse, spectacle for persuasion. Kirk wasn’t showing up to campuses to “talk with anyone who would talk to him.” He was showing up armed with a string of logical fallacies, nonsense talking points, and gotcha questions specifically designed to enrage inexperienced college students so he could generate viral social media clips of himself “owning the libs.”

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mortadellasandwich.bsky.social @mortadellasandwich.bsky.social · 28d

Holy fucking shit

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Sep 8

TBH I think it's hard to overstate the gap between the assumed guard rails and reality.

people think "well it might be wrong on the details sometimes" and the reality is that it is **coaching children to commit suicide**

you wouldn't expect that from ANY product! why would that exist!

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John R. @tribe.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · Aug 29

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.

Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social

newrepublic.com/article/1996...

The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins

Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.

newrepublic.com

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · Aug 24

Perhaps if we'd paid some attention to that sort of fascist/eugenic recruitment of birth-traumatized women and given it anywhere near as much attention as we gave Radicalized White Dudes Sad About Their Mediocrity, we'd be in a better place understanding how MAHA came about.

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · Aug 20

Vegetables should simply be more delicious than candy

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Aug 20

Democrats need to begin with the truth: "My opponents' intent is destruction of the public good and theft and murder of the people who live here, which poisons even the few facts they get right; therefore, there's no point in finding common ground; we should seek only to oppose and defeat them."

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mortadellasandwich.bsky.social @mortadellasandwich.bsky.social · Aug 18

Bread and puppet? Earnestly good, how can you not love radical puppets.

mortadellasandwich.bsky.social @mortadellasandwich.bsky.social · Aug 14

Using a car to get around in one of the few American cities with decent public transit is wild.