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manigarm.bsky.social
I have some bad news. One, if you need to use ChatGPT for your graduate application letter, you are not ready for graduate school.

Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.
planetdr.bsky.social Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 6d
An impressive number of graduate applications this year used the phrase “curiosity-driven approach” 🤔
January 17, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Radical Republicans ca. 1871: We’re going to reconstruct the Southern states to make them more hospitable to multi-racial democracy

Radical Republicans ca. 2026: We’re going to deconstruct the multiracial democracies in the Northern & western states to make them more hospitable to white supremacy
January 17, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
rare thing to read an obituary with a smile on your face, doubly rare for the smile to be because the person was so fuckin cool and not because [signal drops]
January 15, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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warontherocks.bsky.social
For generations, historians have framed the Peloponnesian War as a story of battlefield innovation. Thucydides emphasized something else.
What Thucydides Really Thought About Technology and War
This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Bret C. Devereaux, an ancient military historian and Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of World
warontherocks.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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dtmooreeditor.bsky.social
As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.

Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!

[BIG ASS THREAD]
a man reading a book to a young boy
Alt: a man reading a book to a young boy
media.tenor.com
June 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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atrupar.com
"The 2 men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel did not appear to have radio or other communications devices, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers Thursday"
Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics
The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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susankayequinn.bsky.social
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode Every Windows 11 PC is now an Al PC with Copilot at the center of it all. Here's how to get rid of Copilot completely from your computer (1/3) ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 1/ Settings App > Personalization > Taskbar > Other System Tray Icons > Switch "Microsoft 365 Copilot App" Off This hides Copilot from your taskbar (9) ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 2/ Press Win + R > Type in ‘regedit’ > Navigate to "HKEY _CURRENT_USER\ Software \ Policie s\Microsoft\ Windows" > Right-click on the "Windows" Key > New > Key > Name the new key "WindowsCopilot’ > Right-click on the new key EY > DWORD (32-bit) Value @forgoodcode 3/ > Name the value "TurnOffWindowsCopilot’ > Double-click the name of the value > Set the "Value Data" to 1 > Restart your computer Congrats! Copilot is now completely gone from your computer. Hope this helps
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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dmehro.bsky.social
Legendary work from @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social.

He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth.

The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
motherjones.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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northages.bsky.social
Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury, died #OTD in 690. He split Northumbria into dioceses of Bernicia, Deira and Lindsey, and created a see for the Picts at Abercorn, pictured. He also brokered peace between Northumbria and Mercia after the Battle of the Trent, 679. 📸Kim Traynor #medievalsky
Gravestones dotted around the approach to Abercorn Church.
September 19, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
This a thread about one feature of the Trump Admin's EO regarding the Smithsonian that I haven't seen much explicit discussion of. The stated purpose for reviewing Smithsonian exhibits and collections is to ensure they align with something called "Americanism." That term has a notable genealogy.
August 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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themlg.bsky.social
I think Dems should incentivize billionaires by pledging to faithfully uphold an impartial system of rules and laws that hold all accountable equally and thus provide the safety and security to acquire and keep a billion dollars without being extorted by the president or murdered by the public.
mcuban.bsky.social Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Aug 10
Want to use rich people like me to your advantage? Incent us to help those who need it the most. Lower corp taxes for comps that pay a min of $25 per hour. Lower corp taxes if employees get stock at the same pct as the CEO.

Bottom up incentives work. Dems never innovate. They bitch
August 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Really worth a read:
ryanlcooper.com ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Aug 1
I think Orwell put it best www.orwell.ru/library/essa...
It is not that anyone imagines the law to be just. Everyone knows that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone takes it for granted that the law, such as it is, will be respected, and feels a sense of outrage when it is not. Remarks like ‘They can't run me in; I haven't done anything wrong’, or ‘They can't do that; it's against the law’, are part of the atmosphere of England. The professed enemies of society have this feeling as strongly as anyone else. One sees it in prison-books like Wilfred Macartney's Walls Have Mouths or Jim Phelan's Jail Journey, in the solemn idiocies that take place at the trials of conscientious objectors, in letters to the papers from eminent Marxist professors, pointing out that this or that is a ‘miscarriage of British justice’. Everyone believes in his heart that the law can be, ought to be, and, on the whole, will be impartially administered. The totalitarian idea that there is no such thing as law, there is only power, has never taken root. Even the intelligentsia have only accepted it in theory. An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face. The familiar arguments to the effect that democracy is ‘just the same as’ or ‘just as bad as’ totalitarianism never take account of this fact. All such arguments boil down to saying that half a loaf is the same as no bread. In England such concepts as justice, liberty and objective truth are still believed in. They may be illusions, but they are very powerful illusions. The belief in them influences conduct, national life is different because of them. In proof of which, look about you. Where are the rubber truncheons, where is the castor oil? The sword is still in the scabbard, and while it stays there corruption cannot go beyond a certain point. The English electoral system, for instance, is an all but open fraud. In a dozen obvious ways it is gerrymandered in the interest of the moneyed class. But until some deep change has occurred in the public mind, it cannot become completely corrupt. You do not arrive at the polling booth to find men with revolvers telling you which way to vote, nor are the votes miscounted, nor is there any direct bribery. Even hypocrisy is a powerful safeguard. The hanging judge, that evil old man in scarlet robe and horse-hair wig, whom nothing short of dynamite will ever teach what century he is living in, but who will at any rate interpret the law according to the books and will in no circumstances take a money bribe, is one of the symbolic figures of England. He is a symbol of the strange mixture of reality and illusion, democracy and privilege, humbug and decency, the subtle network of compromises, by which the nation keeps itself in its familiar shape.
August 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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soundersfc.com
Cinema. 🎥
August 1, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.
July 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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parkermolloy.com
My "favorite" Kessler "fact check" was when he called Bernie Sanders a liar for correctly noting that "Three people in this country own more wealth than the bottom half of America." Kessler's argument was that it doesn't count because "people in the bottom half have essentially no wealth."
Claim:“Three people in this country own more wealth than the bottom half of America” 
—Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
 Fact check: This snappy talking point is based on numbers that add up, but it’s also a question of comparing apples to oranges. Sanders is drawing on a 2017 report from the left-leaning Institute for Policy Studies, which said that three billionaires — Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos (who owns The Washington Post) and Warren Buffett — had total wealth of $248.5 billion, compared to $245 billion for the bottom 160 million of the United States. The wealth of the three men has gone up even more since then.
But people in the bottom half have essentially no wealth, as debts cancel out whatever assets they might have. So the comparison is not especially meaningful. We once gave Sanders Three Pinocchios when he asserted that the six wealthiest people had more wealth than the half of the world’s population. That was an even more problematic comparison, and we said at the time it was better to focus on inequality within a country.
July 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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edzitron.com
When the AI bubble pops people will try and do the “how could we have known?” And the answer is “if you thought about the economics of generative AI or actually talked to people using it.” Everything I report is public. I am a dumbass. I have listened to the same metal song 8 times in a row tonight.
July 9, 2025 at 5:10 AM
brokejumper.bsky.social
So glad to see that Frei is back home and apparently doing well. Also glad to see the response and care he was given by the Sounders medical staff.
stefan24frei.bsky.social Stefan Frei @stefan24frei.bsky.social · Jul 7
Still trying to figure out what happened at the end of the game 😜
but I’m incredibly grateful to all the staff that looked after me and happy to be back home resting now.

What resonates is all the messages, calls, and love I’ve received from so many of you.
July 7, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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jenjennings.bsky.social
Best AI hype allegory to date via @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

“every time someone asks me, “What about A.I.?” with the breathless anticipation of a boy who thinks this is the summer he finally gets to touch a boob”
Opinion | Actually, A.I. Is Pretty Mid
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
brokejumper.bsky.social
Christian Roldan hammers the post with a crunching tackle.

Goal post bravely continues on. #Sounders
March 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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joshmanning.bsky.social
Former intelligence analyst with the U.S. Army then as a civilian inside the Defense Intelligence Agency … I wouldn’t even have time to resign if it was me in this chat. I would fully expect to be locked up and in a federal lockup by mid morning and given many decades in prison. Deservedly so.
March 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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donachaidh.bsky.social
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A couple days ago I was talking to one TPM Reader who was very upset about Schumer and asked if I thought Schumer would be ready to draw some new red lines and stick to them. I told him I thought red lines were irrelevant. We're way downstream of every red line I can think of. A red line is just marking some new set of actions that if Trump does them Democrats are going to something in return. As I told this reader, the way I see this the White House has us on our own thirty yard line. Structurally the Democrats are on defense, both in my analogy and in reality. There's no point denying that. They have the executive power. They control the Congress. But in football you can go on offense on the defensive plays. I don't want wait until they're in the red zone let alone the end zone. I want to take some risks to get some sacks now. I want to get aggressive and force some turnovers. Quite simply, I don't want to react.
March 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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bretdevereaux.bsky.social
Sigh. Having a viral moment over on The Bad Place and so much of it is folks who are infuriated at the idea of historical expertise because it doesn't flatter their notions that history is about Great Men and the Greatest Man, invariably either Donald Trump or Elon Musk.
A tweet, reading, "Ah, great man theory. There's a reason most remotely competent historians abandon this model of reasoning by the end of their first year of graduate study." responding to another tweet, reading: "Like how can you be a remotely competent historian without recognizing that major events in human history are shaped by high IQ, high-agency people who are bad and/or flawed and/or dangerous."
February 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
Trumps comment simply drives home his alienness. Standing against his degeneracy is standing with America. We don’t have masters. We don’t bow to tyrants. Americas civic tradition is complex, democratic, libertarian, raucous, conflicted. It abhors tyrants.
February 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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sharonawrites.bsky.social
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January 21, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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sndrnvia.bsky.social
If all the Sounders fans follow each other we can be extra insufferable and take this place over. I’ll follow anyone who RTs this and I hope you’ll do so too
November 26, 2024 at 6:39 PM