Bookmarks Digest — Page 4
1. J.K. Rowling on X: “@legaltweetz Could you whip up a contract for all tedious monogamous people who want to show ourselves as good trans allies?” / X
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2. Jonah Goldberg on X: “@jk_rowling I do love the idea that people should feel free to swipe for height, income, hobbies, partisan affiliation, etc. But genitals? Let yourself be surprised, people! Anyway, I don’t know that this person is persuadable. https://t.co/coPs2JQhWC” / X
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3. J.K. Rowling on X: “Tricky, because I already know what genitals my husband has. Would you accept both of us acting surprised once we’re naked? Or could we just shake hands first and agree that we’ll soldier on even if something’s changed since last time? https://t.co/7mZ3P3FRr4” / X
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4. J.K. Rowling on X: “It’s so unlike trans activists to misrepresent opponents’ arguments! I’m shocked, I tell you. SHOCKED! Since you’ve innocently misunderstood the point, let me spell out the obvious even more clearly. Let’s take as an example a woman with MRKH syndrome, who was born with a https://t.co/JTKd5tP6Gl” / X
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5. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna on X: “There is nothing organic about the rise of socialism in our nation in any way, shape, or form. Devoted communist orgs funded by Neville Roy Singham are directly working with the Democratic SOCIALIST Party to infiltrate our government and destroy this nation. https://t.co/Z7djmEFExI” / X
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6. Vikas Chowdhry on X: “Just anecdotally, it is now taking me at least 2x the time to get anything done using Opus 5. It just constantly misses the context of the problem, overstates things and explains things in this weird way as if a consultant and a politburo member had a love child.” / X
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7. B_M_L on X: “@FareedZakaria Your analysis did not require inaccurate cheap shots at “MAGA” to be relevant and was lessened by them. The majority of racism in recent years has been propagated by progressives & conservative respect for law and borders does not imply lack of appreciation for others’ humanity.” / X
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8. B_M_L (@jml622) / X
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9. Vikas Chowdhry on X: “@FareedZakaria Why does Fareed keep giving gyaan only to liberals?” / X
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10. Phil on X: “@FareedZakaria Tell me you didn’t read Suicidal Empathy without telling me.” / X
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11. Phil on X: “Liberals can’t see the word Suicidal in the title of the book, Suicidal Empathy.” / X
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12. Fareed Zakaria on X: “I went to see “The Odyssey” and have thoughts on what liberals can take away from Christopher Nolan’s film. The moral progress of the West has been one of its greatest achievements. But that does not mean that ambition and heroism must be set aside. My take: https://t.co/kG9yN8vcyq” / X
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13. Gad Saad on X: “I’ll be speaking with @nathancofnas on The Saad Truth this week. Get ready. https://t.co/of9n1eLeMF” / X
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14. MAZE on X: “This is one of my better videos. Bernie for the past 35 years: We are rapidly becoming an oligarchy! 🤣 I’m working on a new Bernie video today. It will be just as funny. He’s been working off a script for the past 40 years. https://t.co/NjUL3TvCWy” / X
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15. Gad Saad on X: “This parasite, @BernieSanders, has scammed the American taxpayers for many decades. He knows nothing; contributes nothing; achieves nothing; says nothing; BUT he believes that you owe him your hard-earned money because it is unfair that @elonmusk has more money than you do.” / X
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16. Viral Montage Revives Scrutiny of Sanders’ Longtime Oligarchy Warnings / X
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17. Trump is winning the Iran war— stay the course
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 23, 2026, 10:20 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 23, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** New York Post
Iranian inflation was already running over 90% amid mass unemployment and other crises, leaving the regime increasingly unable to pay its regular army.
18. I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job I assumed needed a frontier model, and it finished in 30 minutes
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 23, 2026, 10:18 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 22, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** XDA
✍️ **Author Reference:** Adam Conway
Qwen 3.8 27B genuinely shocked me with what it achieved here.
19. How Cursor beat Git
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 23, 2026, 10:15 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 23, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** theregister
✍️ **Author Reference:** Joab Jackson
S3 keeps the source of truth while local NVMe repositories do the latency-sensitive work
20. Prominent NYC rabbi’s daughter accuses Mamdani of fueling antisemitism: ‘I’m sure many have buyer’s remorse’
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 23, 2026, 10:11 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 23, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** New York Post
Karen Schneier Dresbach — the daughter of Rabbi Arthur Schneier of Park East Synagogue — said she believes some Jews who voted for Mayor Zohran Mamdani are having “buyer’s remorse.”
21. Publisher halts sales of disgraced writer Ross Barkan’s book on pal Mamdani amid plagiarism scandal
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 23, 2026, 10:01 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 18, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** New York Post
Penguin Random House has slammed the brakes on sales and promotions for a forthcoming book by disgraced writer Ross Barkan, who was recently fired from New York Magazine over dozens of instances of plagiarism.
22. The Lipid Hypothesis of Money
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 23, 2026, 09:55 PM✍️ **Author Reference:** Handre van Heerden
Before gold, before shells, before salt, the oldest money on earth left no trace… because we ate it.
23. Handre on X: “Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow. No Roman senator stood up and https://t.co/IrmELdEmjF” / X
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24. Commentary - Sowell Economics on X: “Victor Davis Hanson on why Sowell is finally winning: He was treated unfairly for decades by the intellectual class. Condescending, leftist reviews. Caricatures. Isolation. He never wrote a long rebuttal. He just kept writing — blunt, clear, Anglo-Saxon English. No fluff. https://t.co/XHRlSWHNBk” / X
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25. Gad Saad on X: “Give Thomas Sowell the Presidential Medal of Freedom now! @POTUS” / X
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26. Victor Davis Hanson: Why The Left Finally Cut Swalwell Loose
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 23, 2026, 05:41 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
Pre-order “The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement” NOW: With a monthly gift of $28 or more, The Daily Signal will sen…
27. Dario Defends Himself, Datacenter Panic, AI Doomer Trap, Senate Toss-Up
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 23, 2026, 04:42 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
(0:00) Besties are back!(0:13) Dario’s two-part essay: regulatory capture, doomerism, and the data center backlash(10:25) FINRA for AI vs. MPAA for AI: SROs,…
28. Are DSA Wins Signaling The End of Old School Democrats? I Victor Davis Hanson
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 23, 2026, 04:40 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
Victor Davis Hanson joins the show to breakdown the latest in the world of politics.———————https://www.seanspicer.com subscribe for an ad free …
29. Jared Kushner has negotiated with adversaries like Iran as Trump’s envoy. Now he’s talking with the House Democratic leader ahead of midterms | Fortune
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 23, 2026, 04:39 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Fortune
✍️ **Author Reference:** Lisa Mascaro
It’s a signal that the White House is seeking ways to work with Democrats if they wrest majority control from Republicans in the midterm elections.
30. Gad Saad on X: “See! There is no leftist bias amongst professors at elite American universities. My own alma mater @Cornell tolerates 5% of the evil @GOP professors. https://t.co/PlPlftN8R6” / X
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31. J.K. Rowling on X: “Attention, cult members: no matter what the OP says, I’m pretty sure you should be giving me money, not the other way round. Now go hence and force social detransition. The cultist who racks up the most desisters this week will go to heaven and/or get a slightly fancier kaftan. https://t.co/lXRrX1c1di” / X
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32. J.K. Rowling Fires Back at Cult Funding Accusations on X / X
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33. Anthropic Is Reportedly Being Upfront With Would-Be Investors About AI Backlash
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 23, 2026, 03:16 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 22, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Gizmodo
✍️ **Author Reference:** Mike Pearl
Its IPO prospectus will dwell on the topic, CNBC claims.
34. Album - Echoes from the Deep
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 23, 2026, 02:44 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube Music
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35. Analytic Philosophy Is the Ideology of the Status Quo
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 23, 2026, 02:39 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Psychology Today
Does philosophy only defend what people already believe?
36. Fifth Line
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Question-driven limericks. Ask what can happen, or ask reversal. The last line is never in the seed.
37. Chroma Drift
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A stereo spectrogram player for every audio tag — pitch-colored notes drifting through time.
38. American academic who accused late Cambridge professor Jason Arday of plagiarism suspended from his university
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 23, 2026, 12:21 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 21, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** New York Post
An American academic who accused former Cambridge professor Jason Arday of plagiarizing his thesis before the educator quit his job and was later found dead has been suspended from his role at a Belgian university.
39. Oxytocin has opposite effects on men’s generosity depending on a their childhood experiences
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 23, 2026, 12:20 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 21, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** PsyPost - Psychology News
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://www.facebook.com/PsyPost
Childhood adversity might alter how the brain responds to social hormones. A study in Translational Psychiatry suggests oxytocin temporarily increases altruism in adults with difficult childhoods, but decreases generosity in those with fewer adverse early experiences.
40. Scientists Reveal The Strange Neurological Reason Your Pupils Dilate When You’re Surprised
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 23, 2026, 12:17 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 23, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** ScienceAlert
✍️ **Author Reference:** Russell McLendon
Your pupils quickly dilate when you enter a dark room, letting in more light to help you see.
41. Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal Is Still a Fraud: Eight Reasons Why | National Review
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42. Bill Barr: Democrats Are in Denial About Campus Antisemitism
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 23, 2026, 12:10 PM✍️ **Author Reference:** William P. Barr
Last week, Rep. Jamie Raskin called civil-rights investigations of universities a ‘sham.’ His account completely rewrites history.
43. This Is Probably Not the AI-Generated Version of “The Odyssey” That Elon Musk Was Imagining
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 23, 2026, 12:08 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 22, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Futurism
✍️ **Author Reference:** Frank Landymore
Someone created a bizarre AI version of the Odyssey parodying JD Vance and other Trump world figures.
44. Harry and Meghan Returning to Britain: Will They Change the Culture of Their New Home? | National Review
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