Lmao, you couldn’t wash Jon’s socks

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The People Who Think Introspection Is Dumb For some of America’s tech oligarchs, looking inward seems to be a waste of time better spent moving fast and breaking things.

Some of America's most powerful tech oligarchs seem pathologically unreflective—yet these are the people who most need to understand themselves, @chatterton.bsky.social argues:

Ah, thanks I hadn’t see this

The People Who Think Introspection Is Dumb For some of America’s tech oligarchs, looking inward seems to be a waste of time better spent moving fast and breaking things.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“The people who seem least interested in introspection are also those whose work is most profoundly shaping our collective reality.“

Kind of impressive--if also very disturbing--how Trump can completely contradict himself in a single paragraph.

I thought this was the “better” place?

Honestly hard to believe how common this kind of comment is on Bluesky. Just the casual tacit approval of lethal violence against political foes draped in a sense of moral superiority. Of course this is how the other side sees things too.

The Homicide Upending French Politics A recent killing of a neo-Nazi activist could bring France’s far-right party closer to power than it’s ever been.

My latest on the reassessment of what constitutes the extreme in French politics after left-wing activists stomped a man to death in Lyon last month: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This is astounding

Wait, what? I don’t know where I said he is responsible for the pathologies of “the left.” But I am saying that he participates in and amplifies some of this particular website’s nastiest tendencies, which recently, momentarily, turned on him.

But I wouldn’t hold my breath

if b-boy bouiebaisse were to introspect he might draw productive conclusions

Why MAGA Wants You to Think Slavery Wasn’t That Bad Both the left and the right try to co-opt it, but the real story of American slavery doesn’t serve any one faction.

“The truest understanding of slavery doesn’t serve any political faction,” @chatterton.bsky.social argues—“rather, it acknowledges the horrors of racial oppression while still allowing us to see beyond them.”

“Sanitizing slavery has become a core objective of the reactionary right—a malignant response to progressives’ oversimplification of American history. But the truest understanding of slavery acknowledges the horrors of racial oppression while still allowing us to see beyond them.”

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‘Looksmaxxing’ Reveals the Depth of the Crisis Facing Young Men The most narcissistic corner of the internet is having a moment.

Perhaps more than any other group, looksmaxxers reveal the depth of the moral crisis that confronts young men today. @chatterton.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Very much appreciate this, and I agree. Probably can’t happen as long as Trump is running the show.

Jerome Powell Won’t Be Intimidated. The Institution He Leads Might Not Be So Lucky. The Federal Reserve has been served with a grand jury subpoena tied to Chair Jerome Powell’s testimony. Powell says he will not be intimidated—but with his term nearing its end.

Subpoenaing the Fed chair in the middle of a political fight over interest rates is not normal. It’s intimidation. Jerome Powell says he won’t bend—but this sets a dangerous precedent for the independence that keeps inflation in check.
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No, it’s actually not. I’m always up for respectful disagreement. Most people whose views I share don’t even bother coming here. I never restrict comments on twitter or IG. This place just becomes a silly dogpile, which, whatever, I accept that’s the way it works, but I don’t have to facilitate it.

Lmao it’s only because this place is still weighted toward really strange people such as yourself. You’ll have earned your block tho

The Bluesky moral high ground yikes

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Bluesky is such a sealed epistemic vacuum in many corners not a single person points out that just this past September Charlie Kirk literally got his neck blown open in public *by his ideological opponent.*

Which is obvious in context, but your gimmick is to erase that for your Bluesky silo

Are you thick? I was referring to people like Megyn and her followers having bloodlust.

I tend to agree with you, except for the last point about Mangione.

Diminishing returns here, I don’t know you from a can of paint. You can get blocked tho if you really want to

Trying to follow your logic, because Megyn would be the most elite person in this thread by far in terms of fame, money and access, and she’s the one I’m in open disagreement with

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Anyone without a strange axe to grind (even that journeyman @jodyrosen.bsky.social) knows there’s nothing remotely objectionable about advocating for basic decency in a country where Good’s murder is welcomed and Luigi Mangione is lionized.