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Aaron Segal

@theaaronsegal.bsky.social

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Topics: Judaism (#Jewsky), Tabletop roleplaying games (#ttrpg) especially Pathfinder 2e, privacy and cryptography, maybe politics. Bi millennial he/him

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Tom Scocca's avatar Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social
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Clarence Thomas unquestionably committed tax fraud on his motorcoach deal and the president has the power to put him in handcuffs this afternoon, in his official capacity in charge of the IRS and federal law enforcement

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Kelsey Atherton's avatar Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social
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"Expand the court" has gone from radical solution to the most exceptionally moderate option on the table.

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Aaron Segal's avatar Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.bsky.social
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Shame on you. How can you live with yourself posting this?

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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there's nothing wrong with having feelings of despair and futility, but i think it's most responsible to avoid airing all that out in public to the greatest extent possible right now. we need to cultivate a vengeance-driven, enraged espirit de corps right now, because we need people to fight

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Aaron Segal's avatar Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.bsky.social
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Homestar Runner, right about now Homestar Runner, check it out now

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Carissa Véliz's avatar Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social
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Many people will think low-cost automated content is a "cornucopian gift," Frank Pasquale said, "until it becomes clear that AI itself is dependent on ongoing input of human-generated works in order to improve and remain relevant"
#AIEthics

www.businessinsider.com/ai-new-dark-...

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Aaron Segal's avatar Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.bsky.social
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The claim that she "thanked Jesus for a victory" is misinfo. She thanked her husband, Jesús.

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Aaron Segal's avatar Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.bsky.social
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Democrats should call on him to drop out. Not that he'll do it, but that conversation should be out there.

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Aaron Segal's avatar Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.bsky.social
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Most of his "decent enough ideas" were just copied from the Torah anyway

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Aaron Segal's avatar Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.bsky.social
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He started with some remarks about Trump's conviction at the start of the Middle East speech he's giving right at this moment. It was basically "This was a fair trial, it's disgraceful to call it rigged, respect the rule of law. Now let's talk Israel/Palestine."

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amanjo's avatar amanjo @amanjo.bsky.social
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It finally feels real. I got the email last week stating that my loans would be forgiven. It has literally changed my life.

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH's avatar Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.bsky.social
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Harris Poll: 56% of Americans wrongly believe US is in recession--and most blame Biden: 49% believe the S&P 500 stock market index is down for the year (up ~24% in 2023 & >12% this yr) 49% believe unemployment at a 50-yr high (it's been under 4%, a near 50-yr low). 📈sociology polisky

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Aaron Segal's avatar Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.bsky.social
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My wife wrote a poem for me and I keep it pinned to the top of my Gmail

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Will Stancil's avatar Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social
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It IS sort of funny we invented the perfect suck-up yes-man machine and bosses absolutely cannot get enough of it

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Aaron Segal's avatar Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.bsky.social
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GIF or image of a movie you're sure you've seen more than 10 times

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Indiscreet Function's avatar Indiscreet Function @homotopic.bsky.social
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Not quite your point, but related: speaking as a 32-year-old Jew, one thing I think about a lot is that the Second Intifada was a very big deal when I was a kid (and drove my family to the right on Israel/Palestine) and college kids today have no memory of it.

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Aaron Segal's avatar Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.bsky.social
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I think about this a lot too. It's really hard to contextualize what's going on there without having been through at least SOME of that history.

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Lux Alptraum לקס אלפטראום's avatar Lux Alptraum לקס אלפטראום @luxalptraum.com
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I don’t know why it’s hard for so many people to believe that Columbia’s Jewish students (and esp visibly Jewish/pro-Israel students) could be experiencing harassment at the same time that pro-Palestinian protesters are experiencing harassment but… I believe many people can be simultaneously harmed!

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Aaron Segal's avatar Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.bsky.social
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I think the real lesson here is that war… war never changes.

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Frovo's avatar Frovo @frovo.bsky.social
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the only constantinople is changeinople

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Aaron Segal's avatar Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.bsky.social
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It's the difference between "We're trying not to kill any civilians," and "We're not trying to kill civilians."

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Aaron Segal's avatar Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.bsky.social
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The religion we now call "Catholicism" was founded in 1965. Everything before that is a different religion. I mean, just following this kind of logic to its inevitable conclusion.

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Aaron Segal's avatar Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.bsky.social
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If you make a billion dollars, you should get a trophy that says "You won capitalism!" and then not be allowed to earn any more money.

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Brian Beutler's avatar Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social
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I can’t believe we’re here again: Republicans caught dead to rights in an insane corruption scandal with most Dems are content to move on and most media, thus, uninterested in chasing the story. www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-...

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Aaron Segal's avatar Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.bsky.social
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"Can you explain this gap in your resume?" "Some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth."

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Michael Hobbes's avatar Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Cannot stop thinking about this. If political pundits aren't going to do the work of understanding policy issues, the least they could do is make an effort to convey basic facts about political process and messaging, the one fucking thing they're allegedly good at.

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Seth Masket's avatar Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social
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Every quintile is doing substantially better under Biden, especially the poorest, with the exception of the wealthiest. Guess who complains the loudest and has the easiest access to the media and elected officials. (Via @delong.bsky.social)

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Aaron Segal's avatar Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.bsky.social
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Gradwife: honey I just got my PhD Plaidwife: honey I got a Scottish tartan Comradewife: honey I am going to overthrow the capitalist system Galahadwife: honey I need to find the Holy Grail

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Aaron Segal's avatar Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.bsky.social
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

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Tom Nichols's avatar Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social
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This should be the story tomorrow, and every day:

The leader of one of America’s two major political parties has just signaled to the Kremlin that if elected, he would not only refuse to defend Europe in World War III, but he would gladly support Vladimir Putin.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Senator Ron Wyden's avatar Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov
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The thing about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce is that last week the NSA confirmed to me that the agency is buying up Americans' internet browsing data from shady data brokers without a warrant.

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Yair Rosenberg's avatar Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social
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If you read it closely, this executive order from Biden is by far the most expansive anti-settler extremism act taken by an American president, and I don't think it's close:

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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tech hype is a constant cycle of rediscovering that someone would, in fact, go on the internet and tell lies

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Molly White's avatar Molly White @molly.wiki
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need to start keeping a list of all the times some big supposed display of bleeding edge technology turns out to just be A Guy

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