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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4m

Also a reminder these weren’t “Kids”! Some of these “Young Republicans,” which includes ages up to 40, were elected officials or government appointees.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 42m

Vance on public outrage over the "I love Hitler" group chat: "Grow up! Focus on the real issues. Don't focus on what kids say in group chats... The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys — they tell edgy, offensive jokes. That's what kids do."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17m

Sowing in the modern attention economy? Hell yeah.

Reaping in the modern attention economy? Fuck. What the fuck.

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

the entire conservative project these days is built off of making it illegal to dislike them or say rude things about them even in private

it is not enough to be in charge, or even feared, they must be adored

or else

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 2h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 2h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3h

maybe reporters should take another look at some of the people the vice president of the united states follows on twitter and the things they say in public

just saying

Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 3h

The leaked chats between Young Republican leaders were obviously disgusting.

JD Vance’s efforts to downplay the scandal and complain about “pearl clutching” made an awful story worse. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

JD Vance tries to downplay leak of disgusting Young Republican chats

For the vice president to suggest it’s “pearl clutching” to condemn those who were part of a racist group chat says a great deal about his judgment.

www.msnbc.com

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 3h

cancel culture was a desperate rearguard action in defense of shared norms whose obsolescence was revealed via the backlash to cancel culture.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4h

in hindsight it makes sense to see cancel culture as a harbinger of the end of shame rather than an excess of it. "shame" presupposes stable social norms and a sense of what one did wrong and how it could have been avoided. not suddenly a thunderbolt from zeus thrown at random people

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Tyler Britten @tyler.britten.us · 3h

Same. I think he wants it, I don't think PSU is that crazy/stupid to pull that lever on the slot machine

Tyler Britten @tyler.britten.us · 3h

He's not near the top of mine, but wouldn't Meyer or someone not currently coaching be the highest floor for 26 because they could start early? (Meyer is also not high on my list)

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3h

I think one of the biggest cleavages in our society that no one talks about is the division between those that think powerful people must be held to a higher standard than non-powerful people and those who think powerful people should be flattered and sucked up to.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4h

read: Vance is also saying Nazi shit in group chats bsky.app/profile/radl...

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 5h

Having sex with some weird person you took a liking to is your business. Having sex with a source for a story and not disclosing it to your editor is something else entirely.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 5h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6h

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 14h

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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Tyler Britten @tyler.britten.us · 5h

actual lol

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 23h

How many customers are they driving away by making them run the gauntlet of chatbots that cannot solve their problems?

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 23h

Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a year by using AI tools in its customer service operations (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Tyler Britten @tyler.britten.us · 1d

This is exactly what I was very wary of the "no, Mills in the primary is good! Competition is good!" stuff

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

I had planned to stay out of the Maine Senate race for a while and respectfully consider the competing visions of both major candidates.

But I can’t do that now.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

I had planned to stay out of the Maine Senate race for a while and respectfully consider the competing visions of both major candidates.

But I can’t do that now.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

It is wildly inappropriate for the DSCC to jump into a competitive primary in such a brazen and shameless way, eight months before voters go to the polls.

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jaker @jaker.fightins.online · 1d

talking shop with the fellas

187k images of ANYTHING is absurd
a two hour movie shot at 24fps is
172.8k frames
he has more images of robot porn than Interstellar has single frames

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Tyler Britten @tyler.britten.us · 1d

I'd go the Jimbo Fisher route and just go fishing and shit haha. I've seen reporting that there is a duty to mitigate in the contract but the sources aren't super reliable.

Tyler Britten @tyler.britten.us · 1d

I’d personally be shocked if he’s not coaching a team by 27 at the absolute latest.

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Tyler Britten @tyler.britten.us · 1d

Afaik it’s any employment

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

If you gotta tell the lie machine not to lie, maybe there are more fundamental issues

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

Style
Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 2d

It wasn't a perfect system but we had money in politics reasonably under control before Citizen's United.

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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