C Baker
@ccbeta.bsky.social
junior Gen-Xer. scientist.
in favor of: books, soccer, plants, every dog I meet, any halfway decent milk chocolate, the rule of law, Warriors, 49ers (especially George and Fred)
in favor of: books, soccer, plants, every dog I meet, any halfway decent milk chocolate, the rule of law, Warriors, 49ers (especially George and Fred)
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C Baker
@ccbeta.bsky.social
· Jan 14
The sidewalk under the telephone wire
Looked like a painting of Jackson Pollock’s.
Under the artists, a man stopped to text.
His dome a fresh canvas, soon hit - “Bollocks!”
Looked like a painting of Jackson Pollock’s.
Under the artists, a man stopped to text.
His dome a fresh canvas, soon hit - “Bollocks!”
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Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
Hegseth: "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top."
September 30, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Most TV is just this now.
September 30, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Most TV is just this now.
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"...the boom's next phase" is sure an interesting way to say bust.
September 28, 2026 at 1:10 PM
"...the boom's next phase" is sure an interesting way to say bust.
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Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) — The Hollywood Reporter
The Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing.
apple.news
September 25, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.
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Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today
Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists!
Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists!
Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today
Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists!
Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists!
Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Bijan Robinson showing love to the guys that block for him ❤️
September 25, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Bijan Robinson showing love to the guys that block for him ❤️
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Lord of the Fly-ers.
September 23, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Lord of the Fly-ers.
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Portland anarchist scene getting a massive infusion of members upon this flight's return
September 23, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Portland anarchist scene getting a massive infusion of members upon this flight's return
This whole thread is extremely entertaining (and much more fun to read about than to experience directly)
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
September 23, 2026 at 7:46 PM
This whole thread is extremely entertaining (and much more fun to read about than to experience directly)
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About 30,000 Canadians studying at American colleges and universities each year; all the nurses on TN visas crossing the Detroit-Windsor border; the hydroelectricity exports; as well as stuff like Christmas trees, lumber, aluminum, music, and Heated Rivalry season 2.
September 21, 2026 at 4:17 PM
About 30,000 Canadians studying at American colleges and universities each year; all the nurses on TN visas crossing the Detroit-Windsor border; the hydroelectricity exports; as well as stuff like Christmas trees, lumber, aluminum, music, and Heated Rivalry season 2.
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This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal.
Something like a third of all people in ICE custody.
apnews.com/article/ice-...
Something like a third of all people in ICE custody.
apnews.com/article/ice-...
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
apnews.com
September 21, 2026 at 5:06 PM
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal.
Something like a third of all people in ICE custody.
apnews.com/article/ice-...
Something like a third of all people in ICE custody.
apnews.com/article/ice-...
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The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
![Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreieocoa2jelvyioyspfyjhchhj6lqvjgxf6vm73l4mamvtls72tzmq)
September 21, 2026 at 6:19 PM
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
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It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
September 20, 2026 at 9:14 PM
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
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You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path.
Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
September 20, 2026 at 10:47 PM
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path.
Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
Only someone like Russell Vought can make Jay B look the reasonably guy in the room...
September 21, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Only someone like Russell Vought can make Jay B look the reasonably guy in the room...
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Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.
September 18, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.
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Couldn’t invite the Police Cat: we all know what would have happen there.
September 18, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Couldn’t invite the Police Cat: we all know what would have happen there.
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Police said they've got nothing to go on.
September 18, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Police said they've got nothing to go on.
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cops doing the drug bust photo op with a bunch of rolls of toilet paper is incredible, no notes
they've even got the K9 unit in the picture, give that dog a roll to play with
they've even got the K9 unit in the picture, give that dog a roll to play with
Police in Illinois recover 650 rolls of toilet paper amid rise in homecoming week vandalism | Click on the image to read the full story
Police in Illinois recover 650 rolls of toilet paper amid rise in homecoming week vandalism
Sifting through hundreds of rolls of toilet paper, one Illinois police department has issued a warning following a recent uptick in pre-homecoming week vandalism.
www.wcvb.com
September 18, 2026 at 6:06 PM
cops doing the drug bust photo op with a bunch of rolls of toilet paper is incredible, no notes
they've even got the K9 unit in the picture, give that dog a roll to play with
they've even got the K9 unit in the picture, give that dog a roll to play with
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NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms
What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News
futurism.com/artificial-i...
What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News
futurism.com/artificial-i...
How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
futurism.com
September 17, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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so on friday I delivered an in-person lecture on eurasian nomads. It was not recorded, no livestream. I used printed visual aids, no powerpoint. I mentioned "pazyryk" once. Today several of my audience members are getting Instagram reels about the pazyryk.
September 13, 2026 at 10:18 PM
so on friday I delivered an in-person lecture on eurasian nomads. It was not recorded, no livestream. I used printed visual aids, no powerpoint. I mentioned "pazyryk" once. Today several of my audience members are getting Instagram reels about the pazyryk.
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No one I know in real life, and almost no one I know online, is talking about the profound generational evil of flying people to torture prisons in countries they've never had a connection to and where they have no protections from the monsters who do this kind of thing.
The people ICE abandoned on Malabo are being disappeared, DHS copy-pastes the same statement they sent me two days ago, meanwhile a new ICE jet flies overhead and expels more third-country nationals a couple hundred miles away in Cameroon. It’s too much, man.
September 11, 2026 at 7:15 PM
No one I know in real life, and almost no one I know online, is talking about the profound generational evil of flying people to torture prisons in countries they've never had a connection to and where they have no protections from the monsters who do this kind of thing.