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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4m

"It draws us into an endless ego loop, ultimately leading to an ‘autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas.”

The Expulsion of the Other
Byung-Chul Han

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4m

"Total interconnection and total communication by digital means does not facilitate encounters with Others. Rather, it serves to pass over those who are unfamiliar and other, and instead find those who are the same or like-minded, ensuring that our horizon of experience becomes ever narrower."

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 42m

Having spent a considerable amount of time at a Pentagon-based investment fund, I expect to see men popping off cliché after cliché, vests, dress sneakers, walking/chatting, showing up to work at 1145am, and overflowing, unmonitored inboxes.

You can fix acquisitions by making people do their jobs.

Breaking Defense @breakingdefense.com · 1h

Driscoll vows Silicon Valley model is the future for the Army
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/10/driscoll-vows-silicon-valley-model-is-the-future-for-the-army/

Driscoll vows Silicon Valley model is the future for the Army

At AUSA 2025, Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll took aim at traditional primes, saying the future Army will “break down barriers until we measure acquisitions not in years and billions, but months and thousands."

breakingdefense.com

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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 13h

Anyone at any point can pull out their phone and document what's going on. And people are doing it. So the only way this lie works is if enough of the population consumes media solely through MAGA-aligned systems.

Which just doesn't seem like a solid bet to me. The lie is too flimsy.

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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 13h

One of the things I don't get about the "war zone" lie approach they're taking with portland and chicago is... They're trying to lie about conditions in large population centers. We live in an age where everyone is carrying an international broadcast system in their pockets.

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 19h

The Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale has added these (and more) quotations from various papal teachings about care and concern for immigrants to the windows outside its main meeting room. This is the kind of catechesis we need more of in the U.S. church.

A window pane with this text: "...No one would exchange his country for a foreign land if his own afforded him the means of living a decent and happy life." —Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum (1891), no. 47

"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, living in exile in Egypt to escape the fury of an evil king, are, for all times and all places, the models and protectors of every migrant, alien, and refugee of whatever kind, who, whether compelled by fear of persecution or by want, is forced to leave his native land, his beloved friends and relatives, his close friends, and to seek a foreign soil." —Pope Pius XII, Exsul Familia Nazarethana (1962), Apostolic Constitution

"The poverty and misfortune with which immigrants are stricken are yet another reason for coming generously to their aid... It is necessary to guard against the rise of new forms of racism or xenophobic behavior, which attempt to make these brothers and sisters of ours scapegoats for what may be difficult local situations..." John Paul II, World Migration Day (1996)

"Migrants present a particular challenge for me, since I am the pastor of a church without frontiers, a Church which considers herself a mother to all. For this reason, I exhort all countries to a generous openness which, rather than fearing the loss of local identity, will prove capable of creating new forms of cultural synthesis." Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium (2013)

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/n... The context for this article, I suspect, is that these guys spend all their time in completely closed media environments and private group chats and so they’re expecting Stalin and not a friendly guy who reminds them of their liberal documentary filmmaker nephew.

Mamdani Seeks to Charm New York’s Most Powerful Capitalists

www.nytimes.com

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 18h

She might succeed in transforming CBS News' ideological pose because that's the *easy* part of her job. The rest of it? Not so much

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 18h

(I am betting against Bari Weiss)

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 19h

I don't think people are "betting against Bari Weiss" the concern is that she will succeed in transforming CBS News into regime-aligned propaganda.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 22h

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...

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 19h

I don't think people are "betting against Bari Weiss" the concern is that she will succeed in transforming CBS News into regime-aligned propaganda.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 22h

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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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 19h

I've believed this for years but because the topic is so fraught, I needed the perfect example to illustrate it.

Accusing me of sexism because I don't want a fascist's useful idiot running one of the world's most influential news platforms is, uh, such an example.

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Albert Lee @albertl.bsky.social · 1h

Japanese Twitter until relatively recently (thanks, Indian/Turkish bot campaigns) was fairly insulated from the Anglosphere stuff and so broad takeup has not materialised. Even with artists who are upset over increasingly random shadowbans and their work feeding Grok

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𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 @bheanilla.bsky.social · 1h

It’s funny how well pasokification stuck as a term even though PASOK lived to outgrow Syriza again

Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2h

right wing pasokification is real...

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 2h

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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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h

same with Japan/Korea news

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 8h

What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 1h

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

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 12h

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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kit spooks 👻 @kitsparks.bsky.social · 2h

huh, it’s almost like Canadians intended to inflict reciprocal harm on American exports to put homegrown political pressure on the Trump admin in favour of free trade.

Breen Ouellette (he/him) @breeno.bsky.social · 3h

"This was all about some ugliness that we’re not part of. We’re not in politics. We’re just some guys in Virginia making good whisky. But unfortunately, we’re the victims."

Everyone is "in politics" in a democracy.

Tell these American whisky guys to vote harder or cope harder.

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

underrated part of this is that stoller very clearly has no idea what "the passive voice" is

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 14h

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2h

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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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2h

right wing pasokification is real...

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 3h

New Substack post: the Nobel Prize goes to an economic historian and two economists of growth trying to answer the question, where do new technologies come from?

someunpleasant.substack.com/p/growing-th...

Growing the Field

What is the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics about?

someunpleasant.substack.com

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2h

Americans are psychologically unprepared for China beating us back to the Moon, which is by far the most likely outcome here.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Sean Duffy: "If we go to the south pole of the moon, we can set up a base. We want to put up fission power. We think we can have longterm stays on the south pole of the moon."

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 13h

Why would you fuck with this guy

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 13h

oh things must be bad bad

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

Crazy week.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h

idea unlocked: furry army.

Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 14h

I think I want to go to Portland. I can show up to a cafe and order a lavender vanilla matcha latte while dressed in a brown bear costume.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14h

(I really should have said 'let us accept for argument's sake' rather than 'let us imagine'. I don't read the FP, because I am not an American and between the Journal and the NYT I don't feel a need for another US publication in my subscription diet.)

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