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John Chu@johnchu.bsky.social |
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The writer who won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. Not the movie director. (He/him/his) Mastodon: @john_chu@wandering.shop
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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It's time to revisit the idea of expanding the Supreme Court, which means it's time to dismiss the misunderstandings about FDR's "Court-packing controversy."
kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/unpacking-...
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Adam Keiper
@adamkeiper.com
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If we're taking about court-packing again, here's my favorite detail from the 1937 controversy: The SCOTUS justices, learning of FDR's scheme at the same time as everybody else, were handed copies *during oral arguments*. Imagine being the lawyer arguing in front of those preoccupied justices!
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SwiftOnSecurity
@swiftonsecurity.com
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Telling children they are living in a dying world is an essential evil we don’t really have terminology for. Children cannot fix your sins through shame and abortion of hope. You are the villain in their story, not their savior - peddling nothing actualizing change, only dred.
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Uncanny Magazine
@uncannymagazine.bsky.social
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When the Uncanny Magazine Year 11: This One Goes to ELEVEN! Kickstarter reaches 525 Backers, we'll post an EXCLUSIVE Mini-Interview with solicited poet Ai Jiang!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lyn...
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Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🦾👻🐉
@aijiang.bsky.social
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👀👀
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John Wiswell
@wiswell.bsky.social
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I'm reading this right now and, y'all, R.S.A. Garcia is such a darned good writer.
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Erin Fogg
@criminalerin.bsky.social
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This headline is dishonest. After being punched in the face by a cop for trying to comfort her father as their family's house burned down, she was also charged with a felony.
www.foxla.com/news/woman-t...
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D.M. Schmeyer
@dmschmeyer.bsky.social
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Nobody is going to earn your vote, folks. You get a voice by having it rewarded, but "support in advance" isn't how the political transaction works in an FTP democracy. Our system reduces to power. I don't like it. It's reality. You won't get further left with the right winning elections.
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D.M. Schmeyer
@dmschmeyer.bsky.social
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The only way to take the party left, BTW, because I know whose saying shit like this, is to retain power, take more, and obtain a greater voice for that wing of the coalition in a government they helped create. There's no universe where a loss takes this party anywhere but to the right.
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John Chu
@johnchu.bsky.social
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Congrats!
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Aliette de Bodard
@aliettedb.bsky.social
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So I mean this is funny but also it's about the importance of the database in machine learning and how algorithms are very good at finding stuff in data you had no idea was there. ML algorithms just do "oh, correlation, let's use that instead of causation" all the time.
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Kameron Hurley
@kameronhurley.bsky.social
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It lets us know the money is 100% there.
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Angie Wang
@okchickadee.bsky.social
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OMG.
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Elizabeth Bear
@matociquala.bsky.social
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It's like scurvy that way.
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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"we're doomed if Biden is the nominee" well, maybe! but you are sure as shit doomed if Biden is the nominee and the story for months on end is "random Democrats call for him to step down one by one"
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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i think the thing that is leading me to check out of the biden conversation as much as possible is the sheer amount of certainty being expressed. i am not at all confident that i really know anything here!
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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What a twist of fortunes that Bernie gives one of the strongest affirmative defenses of Biden while the centrists try to shiv him
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Kelly Barnhill
@kellybarnhill.bsky.social
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Sexual predation is clearly not limited to the arts, and so-called "whisper networks" exist in every profession. And ultimately these networks always, always fail. They don't reach the most vulnerable and they don't ever remove the offender or prevent future harm.
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TKarney
@pecunium.bsky.social
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Might end up voiding her house arrest, and putting her in the pokey for three more months.
lawandcrime.com/high-profile...
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John Warner
@biblioracle.bsky.social
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The venture capitalist enthusiasm for AI in education should make us inherently suspicious. How they talk about education should be a blaring klaxon to do the opposite of what they advocate. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...
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Kate Elliott
@kateelliottsff.bsky.social
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I love this novel! Get your trade paperback now via pre-order!
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John Wiswell
@wiswell.bsky.social
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When you write something deeply personal, you never know how it will land with readers. Thanks for today, everyone. It meant a lot.
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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
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If you see the big news that GOP is trying to block the abortion rights measure in Arkansas: This is in the context of a restrictive new law that makes ballot measures much harder.
Voters rejected the change in 2022, but GOP passed it as a law anyway: boltsmag.org/arkansas-rep...
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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist
@ellethevillain.bsky.social
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This is also why it's so important to live your life not online all the time. There's a certain amount of performance to personality in online social spaces where one may feel compelled to love or loathe or opine or Take Positions because that's how one Engages a platform. But what if you...didn't?
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Danny Lore
@weredawgz.bsky.social
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If you are not ready to give up the work of someone who did bad things You can enjoy it without talking about it You know that right Just keep it to yourself and stop seeking validation for it
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R.B. Lemberg (they/them)
@rblemberg.bsky.social
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YOKE OF STARS (aka my fish communism novella) is releasing on July 16, 2024.
I've been off social media because of the state of my health.
If you feel like spreading the word about the book, I'd much appreciate it.
tachyonpublications.com/product/yoke...
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Lincoln Michel
@thelincoln.bsky.social
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"Being a brilliant writer does not elevate one above the common smallness of being a person."
Brandon Taylor on Alice Munro is a must read
blgtylr.substack.com/p/what-im-do...
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Scott Edelman
@scottedelman.bsky.social
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Happy birthday to the amazing @franwilde.bsky.social! Celebrate the date by taking a seat at the table for our lunch on an episode of Eating the Fantastic — where you'll find out why she tries to do at least one thing a month which scares her — and much more. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
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Chris Levesque
@levesque-chris.bsky.social
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This is below minimum wage in Florida.
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hola, mi nombre es francine pants
@robertjbennett.bsky.social
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the fact that Trump is able to run at all either means two bad things, 1. Our legal, political, and media systems have all comprehensively failed us, or 2. People really do like him because more people are wicked shitbags than we thought
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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
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Power outages and dangerous heat advisories almost overlap in Texas right now
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Kate Elliott
@kateelliottsff.bsky.social
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Unless you live on Oahu, in which case there is apparently no covid booster vaccine available on island until the new booster shot is released this fall.
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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Stacey Abrams in AJC: "Ignore the Joe Biden doom loop" Swing voters "are not choosing based on age or infirmity but an alchemy we can’t control or predict. We have to make the case to these voters on the issues that matter to them."
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Dominique Baker
@bakerdphd.bsky.social
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Wow this targeted-to-Black-people 45 ad on a Philly oldies station is insane! Things like "you'll never buy a house now," "biden made high interest rates," and they even have the nerve to call people "illegals." The devil is busy.
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford
@questauthority.bsky.social
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The only issue I have with this truck is that it should just say "Republicans" instead of "Project 2025 Groups."
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Bogi Takács / POWER TO YIELD & OTHER STORIES now out!
@bogiperson.bsky.social
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This is a super cool book! I was one of the first readers and now it's coming out!
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The Washington Post
@washingtonpost.com
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Two Democratic U.S. senators announced Tuesday that they are seeking a criminal investigation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over gifts of travel, a loan for a recreational vehicle and other benefits he received from wealthy benefactors.
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Cathy Gellis
@cathygellis.bsky.social
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I support this move. It is unlikely to succeed, but making the need for it to succeed a political issue to motivate voting is important.
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Naomi Kritzer
@naomikritzer.bsky.social
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OK I looked up the last time there was any uncertainty about a nominee and it was 1984. The last time there was a serious fight was 1976. This is the most uncertainty I can actually remember at a convention, and I'm 51.
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Renay⁷
@renay.bsky.social
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It's almost like we have decades upon decades of data telling us that debates don't matter to the outcome of presidential elections and all the Democrats and progressives panicking for weeks IN PUBLIC were only doing the GOP's work for them. 🤡
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C. L. Polk
@clpolk.com
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Good.
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Shepherd
@neolithicsheep.bsky.social
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Focusing on presidential swing states is good and all but crucial shit is happening all over the nation at the state level and it is nearly impossible to go wrong getting involved anywhere a trans care ban or abortion ban has come down.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"What the report finds is that Biden held on to 94% of the people who said they would support him before the debate. For Trump, 86% of people who said they would support him before the debate said they would do so after the debate."
news.northeastern.edu/2024/07/09/b...
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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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As democracy teeters, a reminder: Jonathan Mitchell, who represented Trump at SCOTUS in the 14th Amendment case, is trying to end the ACA’s preventative care coverage requirements in a case that is aimed at opposition to PrEP coverage, which prevents HIV transmission.
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Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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Reps. Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush and AOC have all put out "Biden is the nominee, support him" statements. The left-most part of the Democratic Party fighting to keep him while the right-most part—centrists, swing district Reps, NeverTrumpers, etc.—push for him to drop out was not on many Bingo cards.
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Stephen Wolf
@stephenwolf.bsky.social
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A reminder that if Trump wins & purges the civil service to replace it with loyalists as planned, all sorts of govt data will become totally untrustworthy. The House GOP is already trying to rig the census to screw Democrats in redistricting after Trump's first-term attempt failed
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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
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It's a ratfucking. I'm saddened that the Democrats are amplifying it.
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Lord Chris Hanrahan (He/Him)
@chrishanrahan.bsky.social
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This is just 2024's version of 'Hillary's emails!' bullshit. It worked once, so here we are again.
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John Scalzi
@scalzi.com
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Fucking Be Decent to People, Goddamn It would be the whole of the law
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Benjamin Dreyer
@bcdreyer.bsky.social
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Distinguishing the art from the artist is always easier when the artist has been dead for forty years, isn’t it.
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