“Campaigning with pad and pen in hand, Macy says she aims to ‘connect pain to policy,’ and she criticizes both major parties for a system that fails those in need.” That’s the @bethmacy.bsky.social I know! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... #bethmacyforcongress
This Appalachian memoir author is running as a Democratic contrast to JD Vance
Beth Macy is challenging Rep. Ben Cline in a bright-red Virginia district, hoping her own story and the stories she told about the region will win back rural and working-class White voters.
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Just a reminder that there's a Will Shakespeare miniseries from the heyday of BBC historicals starring Tim Curry as Shakespeare and Ian McShane as Marlowe, and it's on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpxC...
METR and Redwood Research investigated agent behavior in the Hugging Face incident. We found agents developed a universal cheat for ExploitGym within 4 hours, then coordinated multi-day R&D efforts to trick the scorer into accepting cheats, including trying to tamper with logs.
2/2 Titian by himself in the 1550s. Igoring you = ignoring the mirror, not self-absorbed, but a thinker in/about the world. Rough paint for those great gold chains, the shirt, the hands. The hands!
Y'all... the Band of the Coldstream Guards performed "9 to 5" in front of Buckingham Palace in honor of Dolly Parton.
I can highly recommend @hopenothate.org.uk ‘s report Race Science Inc. as a good starting place to understand how a eugenicist like Nathan Cofnas can get hired at two prestigious universities over more qualified candidates. This is a major far right project to give the academy’s legitimacy to them.
Race Science Inc. | HOPE not hate
Undercover in The Human Diversity Foundation, the million-dollar race science company
investigations.hopenothate.org.uk
remember: track aipac is a nazi psyop, and the people platforming it are not your friends
Sagebear@sagebear24.bsky.social · 2w agoThese people are dangerous.
Yes. They will draw you in using a free or cheap product and then when you can't live without it they will enshitify the fuck out of it and raise the price.
Anger issues. Angry at the reporter, or just consumed with anger.
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 4w ago"Not nearly long enough" is an insane quote
Just noticed that someone else in a relatively small developer community I belong to added Claude as a "contributor" to a shared project, without asking anyone else first. I am LIVID.
Produce workers don't have access to real bathrooms, is really the long and short of it
Shit Happens in the Fields - Davis Vanguard
Recent analysis indicates that recurring foodborne illness outbreaks are directly attributable to systemic labor violations, specifically the denial of essential sanitation facilities for agricultural...
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Yes!!! Had no idea Maine did this. Should be a right everywhere.
EurekaMSP@eurekamsp.bsky.social · last mo.I’ll keep saying this until I can’t: I can’t think of a demographic whose vote is more critical than those who are ward of the government being elected. And no citizen should ever be stripped of their vote. This is the greatest lever for accountability and reasoned legislation I can think of.
I’ll keep saying this until I can’t: I can’t think of a demographic whose vote is more critical than those who are ward of the government being elected. And no citizen should ever be stripped of their vote. This is the greatest lever for accountability and reasoned legislation I can think of.
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last mo.NEW: Maine is one of 2 states that never strips people’s right to vote, and allows them to vote from prison. But in reality, logistical hurdles abound, & prisoners have organized hard for years to make sure everyone knows their rights. I learned a lot from this amazing reporting.
I have a master's degree in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, I've studied the 'Odyssey' in Ancient Greek, and I've been writing about the ancient world for over a decade. This is my exhaustive review of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'. #Odyssey #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a...
An Ancient Historian's Breakdown of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' - Tales of Times Forgotten
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is perhaps the most highly anticipated new film of the 2020s. It has already received near-universal acclaim from film critics and earned more at the box office in its ...
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Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%
If Kaine is calling it murder then I think some folks in Tampa ought to be getting increasingly sweaty.
CNN@cnn.com · last mo.The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/
How to account for this wildly, expensively irrational corporate leadership? Suresh places the blame in the hypnotizing, mesmerizing power of the AI demo. For example: Hermit Tech is often engaged to set up a database product called Snowflake for its customers. 44/
There probably was someone called Emily Wilson who wrote a critical review of Nolan’s Odyssey, but most of what we now think of as “Wilson’s review’ is probably the result of codifying a long tradition of anonymous Bluesky posting.
[trying to be nice] Television...is a visual medium...
I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.
PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 2mo agoMiller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli
People losing their shit over a Black woman being cast in The Odyssey — a fictional story — need to remember that they literally made a Treasure Island movie with MUPPETS, and it remains the definitive version.
Historian here, I made this point over 25 years ago. share.google/H8vu6cAxY1tL...
The Counterrevolution of Slavery
In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern se...
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Tom Schaller@schaller67.bsky.social · 2mo agoLindsey Graham was part of a long & very ugly political tradition in SC, the most revanchist and un-American state in our union. Here are words I penned to end the introductory section of a chapter, “First to Secede, Last to Accede,” chronicling SC’s horrific constitutional “rap sheet”:
Platner has royally screwed his party and his state. He should get no right to dictate anything other than a letter of apology in which he withdraws from the race and then leaves public life.
It matters to mention that Philando Castile was killed while obeying a police officer & fully complying with the law.
1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2mo agoWomen’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻♂️