A. Bean
@abeanchi.bsky.social
One-time applicant for Chicago Alderman. Love books, history, movies, & architecture. Sometimes Too Online, but working to never be Terminally Online.
So so so many surrender cobra in the replay of that horrendous interception that Clemson just threw.
September 19, 2026 at 6:05 PM
So so so many surrender cobra in the replay of that horrendous interception that Clemson just threw.
The early games today are dull as dishwater.
September 19, 2026 at 4:51 PM
The early games today are dull as dishwater.
Fees like this might finally be the year where Tottenham gets relegated, huh?
September 19, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Fees like this might finally be the year where Tottenham gets relegated, huh?
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the experience of COVID really drove this home for me. It wans't the apocalypse, life went on, but a million people died and there were enormous social costs, some of which continue to this day and then when it was done most people were like "let's never think about that again"
Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.
September 18, 2026 at 6:12 PM
the experience of COVID really drove this home for me. It wans't the apocalypse, life went on, but a million people died and there were enormous social costs, some of which continue to this day and then when it was done most people were like "let's never think about that again"
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average american voter
September 19, 2026 at 12:05 PM
average american voter
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this is basically kotkin's argument about stalin: he enjoyed tormenting and murdering his comrades, precisely because he had fucked up on an impossible, monumental scale, and he spent the rest of his life torturing anyone who might ever point out that he had done so
oh and he especially enjoyed this after he was mad at them because they thought he might have made some mistakes when he caused the largest manmade famine in history that killed literally tens of millions of people.
September 19, 2026 at 12:10 AM
this is basically kotkin's argument about stalin: he enjoyed tormenting and murdering his comrades, precisely because he had fucked up on an impossible, monumental scale, and he spent the rest of his life torturing anyone who might ever point out that he had done so
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This is my very favorite story of today.
Host Ken Jennings confessed to asking his writers to slip a reference to a beloved viral Jeopardy! joke into Friday's episode.
Jeopardy! hid a deep-cut Bluesky joke about "the slut gnomes of false Berlin" in today's episode
Jeopardy! hid a deep-cut Bluesky joke about "the slut gnomes of false Berlin" in today's episode
www.avclub.com
September 18, 2026 at 11:29 PM
This is my very favorite story of today.
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i support the first amendment but bari deserves this
September 18, 2026 at 8:46 PM
i support the first amendment but bari deserves this
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This was always where this was going to end up
"...And an agreement that simultaneously recognizes the Kingdom’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as the right of the Greenlandic people to self-determination."
It is literally just an updated 1951 agreement @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social
It is literally just an updated 1951 agreement @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social
September 18, 2026 at 10:38 PM
This was always where this was going to end up
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mao was an absolute monster. a total nightmare human being. if he wasn’t evil i dunno what the word means.
Mao was bad. It’s insane that that’s a potentially divisive statement on this website.
September 18, 2026 at 10:40 PM
mao was an absolute monster. a total nightmare human being. if he wasn’t evil i dunno what the word means.
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HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
www.bloomberg.com
September 18, 2026 at 9:24 PM
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Michigan voters when asked about the Trib Editorial Board
September 18, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Michigan voters when asked about the Trib Editorial Board
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None of these people has an ounce of self-respect, never mind how they treat other people www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...
September 18, 2026 at 10:10 PM
None of these people has an ounce of self-respect, never mind how they treat other people www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...
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extremely sad that only about a tenth of the people who see this statement will recognize it as the status quo ante of NATO. this is exactly why NATO exists and most people are going to chalk this in his win column.
Trump: "We will immediately begin the process of developing a large Military presence in the appropriate part of Greenland, of which there are many"
September 18, 2026 at 9:51 PM
extremely sad that only about a tenth of the people who see this statement will recognize it as the status quo ante of NATO. this is exactly why NATO exists and most people are going to chalk this in his win column.
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lmao
yes, Rod Dreher, I too am infuriated that Jamelle Bouie is Black.
September 18, 2026 at 5:37 PM
lmao
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oh, that's bad.
Exclusive: More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the data.
More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 18, 2026 at 6:52 PM
oh, that's bad.
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i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
September 18, 2026 at 6:33 PM
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
Working from home with the window open a crack, a cool breeze coming in, and a blanket over my lap.
Cannot lie, this is some ideal napping conditions.
Cannot lie, this is some ideal napping conditions.
September 18, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Working from home with the window open a crack, a cool breeze coming in, and a blanket over my lap.
Cannot lie, this is some ideal napping conditions.
Cannot lie, this is some ideal napping conditions.
whaaaaaat the fuuuuuuck
An analyst used AI to produce an intel report that was "entirely false" and "almost started a war."
"armed members of the US military were preparing to board the [Chinese] ship. Military planes were in the air."
"armed members of the US military were preparing to board the [Chinese] ship. Military planes were in the air."
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
www.cnn.com
September 18, 2026 at 5:31 PM
whaaaaaat the fuuuuuuck
MGP is just...really dumb, right? Like...really, really dumb?
The surrounding issue- managing the recovery of a threatened species in a way that minimizes impacts on a resource humans use- is tricky.
But “sea lions belong in the sea” as a reason to kill sea lions in adjacent-to-the-sea rivers? My god.
But “sea lions belong in the sea” as a reason to kill sea lions in adjacent-to-the-sea rivers? My god.
September 18, 2026 at 4:52 PM
MGP is just...really dumb, right? Like...really, really dumb?
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I think this is giving a religion that has survived the depiction of its prophets as anthropomorphic vegetables too little credit
September 18, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I think this is giving a religion that has survived the depiction of its prophets as anthropomorphic vegetables too little credit
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Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft.
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
September 17, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft.
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
Dunno if i ever posted this, but it's popped into my head every few days for weeks.
September 17, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Dunno if i ever posted this, but it's popped into my head every few days for weeks.