Tom Scocca

@tomscocca.bsky.social

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Editor of Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.

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Tom Scocca·Sep 11

No better evidence that "The Cathedral" is fake than allegedly liberal journalists tripping over their dicks to praise, as a champion of free discourse and expression, a guy who made one of his central accomplishments a blacklist of professors

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Tom Scocca·Sep 15

Yeah this has outstripped the post-9/11 frenzy even, especially when you factor in that the entire country was genuinely traumatized by 9/11 while most people didn’t know or care who Charlie Kirk was

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Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Jackpot as a cautionary tale

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Tom Scocca·1d

Would love to hear a Microsoft designer explain how they decided that if you try to follow up on your own email in an email thread in Outlook, it should have you just send that email to yourself

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You're absolutely right—that was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leaders—they were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.

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Tom Scocca·2d

Nothing easier than making online software not exist, it's not like when they had to get all the lawn darts off the store shelves

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Tom Scocca·2d

All these companies are like "We can't just turn these chatbot services off," really, I'm old enough to remember Vine

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Tom Scocca·2d

Don't even have all that many people on my timeline and so, trust me, the guy's arm getting broken has been more than fully shared, it has achieved shared-ness and then some, zero need to keep re-sharing

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Tom Scocca·3d

North Korea and South Korea are coming up on 76 years of being at war

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Saying you'd been at war with a country for 47 years is kind of the opposite of an explanation for why you decided to up and assassinate their leadership right now

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Tom Scocca·5d

Bret Stephens does know that there was once some guy called "the Shah" because he specifically advocated for his kid to take over now

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Tom Scocca·5d

Weird that some random country in the Middle East decided to come over here and pick a fight against us

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