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William A Owen@williamaowen.bsky.social |
13 followers 209 following 15 posts
Writer. Energy Policist. Former Book Publishingizer. Former Brooklynonian. Sort of an all around, everyday kind of entity trying to acclimate to the suburbs, be a dad and a hubbo, and find a little pie now and then. Books, comics, MTG, science, pie. He/Him
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Iron Spike
@ironspike.bsky.social
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RIGHT??? We talk about Kendrick's "Meet the Grahams," but when *your own ex-bandmate* writes your kid a song apologizing about what a shithead you are...
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Martin John
@martinjohn.bsky.social
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This is how the techbros see us-as the guy that should be pushing a cart in a stock room after inventing one of the greatest characters in modern history. Fuck that. Creators rights. Pay us for our art.
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Jay Edidin
@edidin.bsky.social
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Hey so this is a thing I put together, and it is happening a week from today. Registration link:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Dr. Holly Walters
@manigarm.bsky.social
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He's 3 years older than Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the government, fell asleep at his own criminal trial, and can't make a coherent sentence to save his life. Please. Spare me. We're voting for an administration. Not just a single person.
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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This one from today exemplifies something I often see, and why I discourage arguing w/ dismissives on social media: it's the dehumanizing anonymity of the internet that allows people to say things like this. They never say this to my face, because then they'd have to acknowledge I'm a fellow human.
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Zoe Tunnell
@zoewithasword.bsky.social
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It is not Pessimistic or Unrealistic or anything to say that if the Republicans win in November the chances of HRT being outlawed for trans people entirely across the country is basically guaranteed And even it they lose, if nothing is done about The Supreme Court then it's still on the table
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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"Politics would be interesting again" Oh, jeez, I'm sorry that SCOTUS Team 6 waterboarding democracy to pave the way for a felon-messiah-king who's vowing to use the presidency to deport millions and imprison his foes for treason hasn't been INTERESTING enough for you. Let me jangle some car keys.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)
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William A Owen
@williamaowen.bsky.social
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This is objectively the most accurate take ever posted on the internet.
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Twitter's Bobby Big Wheel
@kleinman.bsky.social
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Orange Man Bad explains far more than many comparative politics PhDs care to admit
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James Goodwin
@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
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Early indication of how conservatives intend to respond to the Supreme Court's presidential immunity decision? This is objectively scary stuff. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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Ashton Pittman
@ashtonpittman.bsky.social
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In 2016, Hillary Clinton gave a speech in Wisconsin about the importance of the Supreme Court.
She warned that 2016 was "make or break" for the court—and the country.
National media—focused on her emails and Trump's antics—barely covered the speech.
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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"CNN Defends Decision to Not Do a Journalism"
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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A starter pack of sharp people whom I frequently see posting about practical things we can do now to make things better in this harrowing year. go.bsky.app/9H3C9Ty
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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A starter pack of news sources/journalists/experts I trust. Lots of independent journalists here. go.bsky.app/GYyBdRm
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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Hooray for the New York Public Library! It's going to be open 7 days a week, thanks to the budget passed by the City Council today—and all the organizers who pushed to make this happen
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?
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William A Owen
@williamaowen.bsky.social
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My guess is most don’t, and the ones who do know think it’ll never happen to them.
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Chuck Wendig
@chuckwendig.bsky.social
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Time to re-up my Inquirer subscription.
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William A Owen
@williamaowen.bsky.social
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Presidential Election = Hiring a head coach. Biden is Jackson, and he can land a dozen Michael Jordans. Orange Jello’s bench is your racist aunt, Ronny Jackson, Rick Perry and this guy
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Some reduce the 2024 campaign to a contest between two old men, but it's a choice of two slates of federal appointees who'll impact your life in a million ways. Biden has staffed executive agencies with excellent choices who are doing good work. Trump will empower an army of Stephen Millers.
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Assistant to the Professor
@darinself.bsky.social
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Donald Trump was president. It ended horribly in several ways! He botched the pandemic response and 100's of thousands died because of it. He attempted a coup to overthrow our democracy. He praised neo-nazis. He installed justices that overturned Roe. That's just the top of mind list.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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If you're trying to win people over to your cause by vandalizing a library, or Stonehenge, or an oil painting, you are not remotely helping your cause. "It raises awareness!" Yes, awareness that you're a fucking idiot. Nothing good.
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Nick Harkaway
@harkaway.bsky.social
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Seriously, could we just not do this? Consumer AI is like fast fashion for phones. Could we just use it for drug discovery and gene editing, maybe elephant translation, and call that enough?
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William A Owen
@williamaowen.bsky.social
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The last bit is especially important. Until it can conceive of answers outside the scope of what it knows, the scope of its capabilities is absolutely bounded.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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If they win control, based on a campaign demonizing the elites
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John Rogers
@johnrogers.bsky.social
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I was giving an actor friend some advice on writing and I spent 15 minutes explain how I’d just fucked up a script, rewrote, stalled, then finally got it. They had this idea that it was hard because they weren’t good. No, *the process is the art* . We need to share that relentlessly.
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William A Owen
@williamaowen.bsky.social
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Part 3:
www.techradar.com/computing/ar...
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David Veloz
@3daydog.bsky.social
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There is no demand for AI. It’s being shoved down our throats, and it’s an ecological nightmare.
“US slows plans to retire coal plants as power demand from AI surges”
on.ft.com/3yGcvuD
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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A new attribution report out today finds that climate change was responsible for an average of 26 more days of extreme heat over the last 12 months, with 76 extreme heat waves in 9⃣0⃣different countries and over 6 billion at risk. Read more:
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Django Wexler
@djangowexler.bsky.social
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Look. I care about climate change a lot. I'm close to a single-issue voter on the subject! But we have GOT to stop worrying about what are, in the scheme of things, rounding errors. I hate, hate, hate this kind of personal-responsibility climate stuff, it's deeply counterproductive.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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If you see John Roberts out in public, ask him what it feels like to be the new Roger Taney (“Tawny”) as that is both an accurate description and one sure to make him cry.
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Oliver Willis
@owillis.bsky.social
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pls share/RT
Democrats Can Win Elections... But They're Lousy At Politics www.oliverexplains.com/p/democrats-...
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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There’s a growing trend of replacing shuttered coal plants with solar, batteries, or other forms of clean energy. The ground is already cleared and the hookup to the electrical power grid is already there, so it makes all the sense in the world! More of this please 😊🌎 Here’s Nevada USA…
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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To effect systemic change, as individuals, we have the ability — and, we would add, the duty — to influence, shape and inform through advocacy, activism and informed dialogue.
More on how to accelerate climate action from @michaelemann.bsky.social and I here:
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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I believe adults can and should be capable of conversing in a civil and constructive manner on social media. That includes refraining from strawmanning, sealioning, misrepresentation, insults, and mansplaining. If they aren’t, I block. Life is short and my social media feed isn’t a democracy 😊
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Peter Sagal
@petersagal.bsky.social
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I’ve read just a couple of these stories — I wonder if there are more cases that don’t make the news — but so far, the apostates to the right have all been women.
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Tracy O’Connell Novick
@tracynovick.bsky.social
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"after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find.
The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist."
www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/t...
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Steve Horton
@stevehorton.bsky.social
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All set up at Muncie Comic Con! Already sold a book!
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PJ Holden
@pauljholden.bsky.social
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Cor don’t think I’ve ever been nominated for a prize before. But cool! (I do not expect to win, esp given the unstoppable heart stopper is in our category) www.thebookseller.com/news/shortli... (and hello @jamiesmart.bsky.social !)
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Chuck Wendig
@chuckwendig.bsky.social
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Oh, dip! BLACK RIVER ORCHARD is up for one of the best horror novels of 2024 at Locus? That’s a huge thrill and in such swoonworthy company. Heck, across the board in the other categories — if you wanna boost your reading list, click on. Anyway! A huge honor! locusmag.com/2024/05/2024...
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Bryan Klausmeyer
@bryan.is
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“The campus” is one of the most mystified places in American culture, a massive fantasy-complex whose projection surface would otherwise be disturbed by actually visiting one
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Perry Bacon
@perrybaconjr.bsky.social
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"An independent non-profit that tracks political violence and political protests around the world found that 97% of campus demonstrations over the war in Gaza that have taken place in the US since mid-April have been peaceful." www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
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Aidan O'Brien
@aidanobrien.bsky.social
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Students at Trinity College Dublin have ended a five-day encampment after the university pledged to cut ties with Israeli companies which gave activities in the occupied territories or on the UN blacklist.
No cops. No arrests. No violence. Protest Works.
#Ireland
#Speirgorm
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A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
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I know there are no actual laws and nothing means anything anymore, but Jesus Christ.
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Colson Whitehead
@colson.bsky.social
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I sent this message to the UMass administration yesterday: "I was looking forward to speaking next week at UMass Amherst. I visited two years ago and everyone was awesome. My nephew graduated from there and got a great education. But calling the cops on peaceful protesters is a shameful act...” 1/2
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Colson Whitehead
@colson.bsky.social
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“...I have to withdraw as your commencement speaker. I give all my best wishes and congratulations to the class of '24 and pray for the safety of the Palestinian people, the return of the hostages, and an end to this terrible war.” 2/2
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