What Went Wrong in Tanzania? How the “island of stability” in a turbulent region descended into chaos—and where it goes from here.

if you want to read about the election violence may I suggest

foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/06/t...

by my second-oldest friend! (since we were like six months old)

Clean energy generation exceeded rise in global electricity demand in 2025 Output from solar farms rose by a third while electricity from fossil fuels fell, research from thinktank reveals

"Clean energy is now scaling fast enough to absorb rising global electricity demand, keeping fossil generation flat before its inevitable decline."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I've been pleasantly surprised by the number of people with the AI Hater tag in his replies saying "okay I hate AI too but please address these concerns about factual accuracy"

South Korea is doing quote-post diplomacy President Lee drew a parallel between occupied Korea and Palestine

Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...

Idk he certainly is responsible for some of the popularity of neoreactionaries like Moldbug, and I think it's good to hold his feet to the fire for that, but it's a real stretch to claim that any of them got Trump elected. They just happen to like him (some of them, at least)

I am aware, but that project is at best very tenuously connected to the dismantling of USAID, of which he was a strong critic.

Pretty sure he opposed Trump all three times, right?

heartwarming video of astronaut Christina Koch greeting her dog for the first time after returning from space. the pup can be seen snarling, back arched, before scampering to its word buttons and pressing "IMPOSTOR" repeatedly, then "FALSE. SKIN. FALSE. SKIN." several times

The 175 million billionaires in the US are really distorting our median income statistics

Median - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median

The UK is such a nightmare

seems like the protests emerged in response to Israel's actions in late 2023/early 2024, were successfully crushed, and haven't reemerged because of how thoroughly they were defeated

tbh i think this is basically entirely confirmation bias

one trait that i had previously associated with the far left but seems pretty common among bsky libs is the belief that merely interacting with content from someone evil is dangerous and that acknowledging any points of common ground is betrayal or weakness

you have committed a climate crime by posting on an app that is backed by data centers, I'm calling antifa

At a certain point this is just spiking the football, but “our model can 0day almost every piece of open software on the internet” is not something a stochastic parrot is capable of and also not indicative that capacities are plateauing or have no economic value

uh oh

you all should mute and block more people

Is–ought problem - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%8...

bsky.app/profile/quan...

Bluesky is a site explicitly founded by cryptocurrency libertarians with the idea that it would be a decentralized platform where users would be free to choose the open-source moderation and algorithmic feed tools they wanted, and by accident acquired a power userbase that hates all of those things.

"I've created the torment nexus from the hit novel 'Don't Hateread the Torment Nexus'"

He is anti-democrat of course, that is correct. But consider how the median streamer feels about the Democratic party. Hell, the median American!

Hasan actually makes a lot of effort to call out antisemitic conspiracy theories and separate critiques of Israel from bigotry against diaspora Jews. Even if you still think he's antisemitic (and I don't), I think the argument that he's making the left worse is obviously false

I think this is basically the correct take on Hasan discourse - I think it's pretty obvious that he's much better than the median and has improved the politics of a lot of people. At the same time, he says dumb shit constantly and I hope no one important listens to him

idk i think you are underestimating the scale here. like i bet 95% of moderation attention is focused on trying to ban accounts posting certain types of illegal content, since that is what the law tells them to prioritize and a ton of that happens on any large site.

what makes you think Bluesky's moderation team is aware of the specific people harassing Stancil and are simply choosing not to do anything about it? this is a site with millions of people on it, run by a skeleton crew of <50

like i said, maybe LLMs will change this, and if you want LLMs to perform sentiment analysis at scale and ban everyone they decide is too rude, sure, maybe that's the future of social media. but for a site the size of bluesky, the solution you are imagining is cost-prohibitive

it's the problem i was talking about! and you can see other >1000 follower accounts talking about how they would use Stancil's blocklist to shield themselves, if he chose to make one. the social aspect of social media means whole webs of connected people can protect themselves

this may change with AI-powered moderation (which has its own pitfalls ofc), but the problem is one of scale - the people in charge of moderating a platform cannot do their due-diligence at the scale you are imagining here and still manage to keep up at all. individual users can!