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orokothe.bsky.social
cloistered 🪶
June 1, 2026 at 9:15 PM
sid1166.bsky.social
Cloistered intimacy.
September 24, 2026 at 8:14 PM
shaferbrown.com
cloistered garden (2021)
2021 limited tone fantasy pet portrait a scruffy monk trims trees in an abbeys garden
September 29, 2026 at 12:34 PM
shaferbrown.com
cloistered garden
2021 limited tone fantasy pet portrait a scruffy monk trims trees in an abbeys garden
November 24, 2024 at 8:53 PM
kevinrsours.bsky.social
Preferably cloistered with a strict vow of silence.
September 22, 2026 at 5:56 PM
shaferbrown.com
cloistered garden (2021)
2021 limited tone fantasy pet portrait a scruffy monk trims trees in an abbeys garden
October 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
jamellebouie.net
andressen is the very cloistered elite that he despises! the idea that the public would hate medicare and social security if they knew more about them is literal insanity
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jan 17
Revealing exchange between Douthat and Marc Andressen. Douthat says that DOGE won't save money b/c most programs are popular and you need people to run them. Reasonable!

Andressen: the existence of the program reflects contempt for the taxpayer. Social media will allow us to weaken public support.
Douthat: I can imagine a remarkable new plan for making the federal government in various ways much more efficient. I can totally imagine that. I am skeptical that such a plan would, in the end make a big dent in the federal government’s costs. Let’s say you have tons of dead wood in a particular federal agency. Well, you’re going to get rid of that dead wood. But in fact, you’re going to need to hire better people to replace those people. And you’re going to need to pay those people appropriately and so on. And all of this is in the shadow of Social Security, Medicare and a range of federal commitments. There is no magical argument on social media that will suddenly make cutting those commitments popular. But this is, of course, the traditional, institutional, cynical Washington view. Andreessen: I was going to say, but this is the traditional, institutional, cynical Washington view. And the way that reads to a normal person is absolute contempt for the taxpayer. Absolute contempt for the taxpayer by saying, “We can sit here in Washington, and we can ladle out $50 billion here and $100 billion there, and when we’re challenged on it, the answer is, ‘Eh, it’s a rounding error.’” Right? Douthat: No, no. The answer when we’re challenged on it is: The actual spending that the federal government does is either big-ticket things that the average taxpayer supports or smaller things like funding for students with disabilities across public school districts or something that if the average taxpayer doesn’t support it, at least a very vocal and influential constituency supports it. Those are the two groups. It’s not dripping with contempt for the taxpayer. It’s the taxpayer that because of their desire for large amounts of federal spending tends to support. Andreessen: I will just tell you that what you just said comes across as total contempt for the taxpayer. Just absolute contempt. This will be part of the — Douthat: But who is the taxpayer? I wrote many, many columns in support of various versions of Paul Ryan’s plan to cut Medicare or reform Medicare and reform Social Security. And the reason those plans went down to defeat was not that federal bureaucrats had contempt for the American taxpayer. It was that the American taxpayer, in election after election, likes and supports and votes in favor of Medicare and Social Security. Andreessen: They’re not exposed to it. This is a big part of the bet. And look, maybe it’ll work, and maybe it won’t. But this is a big part of the bet, which is that the American taxpayer doesn’t experience it that way because they don’t actually have the insight into it. Take what you would think would be a bulletproof program, like child disability in schools. It’s far from clear to me that the median taxpayer would support that if they really knew what that was. As you and I both know, what that has become is basically a medicalized mental illness. To the point where students in schools now are basically using fake diagnoses of mental illness in order to get drugs and in order to get extra time on tests. That whole program has run completely out of control, and everybody with kids knows that, but it’s not a discrete thing that people can wrap their heads around and understand. And it’s not a thing that gets exposed in the bright light of day.
January 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
gregdoucette.bsky.social
Few things say "billionaires are so cloistered they are incapable of behaving like normal humans" quite like "I couldn't pump my own gas because I don't know my own ZIP code"
mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 5d
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?”

Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address. And I —— I don’t really believe that to be true. It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you. One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it. But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded —— Yeah. I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books. You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers. Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker. What do you mean by systems thinker? They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things. So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
September 24, 2026 at 8:10 PM
samthielman.com
GRAHAM CRACKS
TA-TA TO TATTOO
CHAIR HEIR BENCHED
ROISTERING OYSTERMAN CLOISTERED
July 9, 2026 at 12:51 AM
blazemalefica.bsky.social
A Knight. A Prince. A Tower. A Forest.

The Tale of the Cloistered Crown is an aroace agender VN made with @tabbiedearest.itch.io about hurt little things for hurt little things. Bear witness to our fairy tale.

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January 25, 2026 at 7:07 PM
tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Tressie McMillan Cottom, she who famously rejected technology to languish in the cloistered world of academia.
August 20, 2026 at 7:24 PM
niedermeyer.online
billionaire accuses literally anyone of "living a cloistered existence"
July 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
genboiko.bsky.social
Iris' unfurl a banner of velvet and golden tapestry cloistered in spring's serenity.🌱

My Garden Photo, E. Coast.

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Iris' unfurl a banner of velvet and golden tapestry cloistered in spring's serenity.🌱 My Garden Photo, E. Coast. #Flowerreport #photography
April 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
meredithshiner.com
Primary Every Democrat
March 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
newrepublic.com
It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden Congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.
Primary Every Democrat
It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.
buff.ly
February 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
peark.es
Law professors are this amazing fount of cloistered, near-sighted pearl clutching that never ends. It’s genuinely impressive to see a discipline so dedicated to avoiding any confrontation with reality.
June 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
mattgoldberg.bsky.social
Only one group knows how to win elections and that’s the cloistered columnists in a media sinecure.
April 14, 2026 at 12:49 PM
newrepublic.com
It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden Congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.

newrepublic.com/article/1909...
Primary Every Democrat
It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.
newrepublic.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
jamellebouie.net
an organic understanding of what our constitutional order allows — developed across generations of americans — weighs less, to this court, than the theories of ideologues and cloistered academics. far from respecting democracy or tradition, it’s an insult to it.
May 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
whstancil.bsky.social
That’s an absurd analogy. I mean, do you see any cloistered bubbles that aren’t driven by scientific curiosity and learning, but by polemics, around here?
 EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 2h
It reminds me of is how creationists would talk about gaps in the fossil record of whale evolution years after there was a ton of paleontological progress. It's because they were learning that from a cloistered bubble that wasn't driven by scientific curiosity and learning, but by polemics.
September 29, 2026 at 5:47 PM
itsafronomics.blacksky.app
Chuck Schumer is about to lose his job (positive).
Primary Every Democrat
It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.
newrepublic.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
lasves.bsky.social
Cloistered poaster monks, called to mod for a higher power.
October 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social
“You live a cloistered existence,” says the man who lives in a FUCKING BUNKER.
razzball.bsky.social Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · Jul 24
2 thoughts, 1. this should be how all interviewers go after every single oligarch. 2. Generational loser shit from Elon when he hears his Twitter follower count and mumbles "popular guy"
July 24, 2026 at 3:51 PM
niedermeyer.online
still processing the fact the world's richest person thinks his politics arise from being in touch with "normal people," and that anyone who disagrees with him (and the media in particular) "lives a cloistered life"
July 26, 2026 at 5:12 PM