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anderbill

@band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
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I am not the droid you are looking for. Also an open-access advocate and inveterate punster. #nobots 🌉 bridged from ⁂ hachyderm.io/@band, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 17/10/2026
The model’s consciousness that its actions might become precedent has made it spontaneously Kantian: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
today's notable post from Threads: phoebebawmann 2026-10-13 • • • • The climate crisis is not a test of whether individuals can become sufficiently virtuous consumers. It is a test of whether governments can confront industries powerful enough to resist meaningful regulation. < […]
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/09/2026
My book exposes Peter Thiel because he's a radical extremist with scary beliefs who has attained stunning political power. He created JD Vance...and is now roaming the Earth, preaching about the "Antichrist." Here is Thiel saying evil is "good"...while receiving an award from Politico's owner.
cover of Nerd REich book by gil duran
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
today from the socials: arielmargarita 2026-09-25 - mutual aid work & systems of care include people that YOU DO NOT LIKE. - It includes people that you are ideological at odds with. - It includes people that have done harm. - Applying Moral Rigidity to mutual aid/systems of care is NOT HELPFUL […]
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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Also the most important aspect of git is the "detached head state"
Renee Magritte painting of a man in a bowler hat, the head is detached in the background are mountains, the neck of the man is also mountains, the face is replaced with clouds.
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GhostOnTheHalfShell @ghostonthehalfshell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
RE: esq.social/@SuffolkLITLab/117321467… Sadly, in this area, Bernie Sanders is not informed enough. What we need is antitrust, but even before that we need enforcement of the criminal laws already on the books to stop dead all the bullshit these people get away with all the […]
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
today's Threads gem: “No one is coming to save you” is harmful pro-individualist rhetoric & that line of thinking kills people. Plenty of people have come to save me & I’ve come to save others. Jaded individualism is anti-community & anti-human. - the.honey.ma […]
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
@evan here is a personal ai-agent toolkit that is independent of large corporate interests: peterkaminski.ai/starter-kit
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PKAI Starter Kit — peterkaminski.ai
Build your own personal AI assistant — a persistent, file-based companion you talk to through Claude Code.
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
@trondhjort sent!
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
[US politics] After boosting the New Repubic article on the refusal to seat elected Dems in the next congress, I offer this post by Robert Hubbell that reminds me just how important it is to vote for Dems this year: roberthubbell.substack.com/p/respon…
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Responding to Judge Luttig’s latest article.
September 14, 2026
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Jez 🍞🌹:heart_autistic_pride: @petrichor.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
US administration demonstrating just how easy it is for them to attack organisations they disagree with far outside their borders. Autistici/Inventati is based in Italy and has been running for 20 years, but the plug has been summarily pulled on their Internet presence because their domain name […]
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
“We are on the cusp of the age of agentic policing and the ability to create natural language chatbots to search within massive datasets will soon become the norm.” <https://www.wired.com/story/flock-safety-os-investigate/> 😰
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
"When Thiel, Musk, Zuckerberg and Andreessen mine science fiction for blueprints, they are not finding the only possible futures. They are selecting the futures that justify their power." aeon.co/essays/silicon-valley-has-a…
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 06/08/2026
The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProje…! "On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]
Screenshot of a very simple web page from the first link in the post, titled "World Wide Web", with no images, just black text on white background, and blue, underlined links.

Below the title is a brief description of the World Wide Web project and a few links, that are blue and underlined.

Full transcript of the web page text:

The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.

Everything there is online about W3 is linked directly or indirectly to this document, including an executive summary of the project, Mailing lists , Policy , November's W3 news , Frequently Asked Questions .

What's out there?
Pointers to the world's online information, subjects , W3 servers, etc.

Help
on the browser you are using

Software Products
A list of W3 project components and their current state. (e.g. Line Mode ,X11 Viola , NeXTStep , Servers , Tools , Mail robot , Library )

Technical
Details of protocols, formats, program internals etc

Bibliography
Paper documentation on W3 and references.

People
A list of some people involved in the project.

History
A summary of the history of the project.

How can I help ?
If you would like to support the web..

Getting code
Getting the code by anonymous FTP , etc.
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
what's on my mind? today it is the exclusionary effects of meta-comments in online chat groups (although it does also happen in F2F groups). And maybe this is just about me;-- I end up not able to understand the conversation, and reluctant to ask about it, because, well it is a convo I have not […]
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
hmm ... - Claude Status Elevated errors across all models Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue. Jul 29, 2026 - 19:49 UTC
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026
This article is important for folks involved in software development, as well as for folks (like me) who are also involved in creating and deploying personal ai-agents. I am certain I need to pay attention to the intent and cognitive debt I am accumulating whilst learning how to create and […]
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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026
Remember, kids: In proper scientific terms, an attempt to explain observable phenomena is called a "hypothesis". It is called a "theory" when it fits all the observable facts, and there is no observable evidence to the contrary. We don't call it a "truth" because there's always a chance that […]
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026
I am likely in the "finally got the message" category. Nonetheless, this website looks like a gem: www.openculture.com/2026/07/a-free-…
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A Free Online Archive Lets You Explore 5.8 Million Works of Art Spanning 5,000 Years of History
Though it’s traditionally meant “last in a progression or series,” as Merriam-Webster puts it, the word ultimate has been more often used in recent decades to mean “the best or most extreme of its kind.” The name of a recently launched digital archive performs a rare inversion, labeling as last a creation marked not by finality but extremity. Billed as “the […]
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026
@ia is there a way to show the file path of the file I am currently editing? I think I am missing something basic. thx
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
some humor from Threads:
(%] littlepielady
If Kafka had been a lawyer, his business cards would say "Kafka, Esq.”
@sek
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026
My fellow men: if you want to know what living in a man's world might feel like, I recommend reading Lucy Ellmans' MT in The Paris Review: www.theparisreview.org/fiction/8497… (it is paywalled. If you can, read it all the way through to the end.)
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026
[US politics] today's socials gem: ‪Audrey Farnsworth‬ ‪@audipenny.bsky.social‬ America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital.
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026
JA Westenberg: Turn off your AI notetaker. I'm trying to have a conversation.: > When we record every casual encounter, we’re optimizing for “Information Retrieval” at the expense of “Relationship Formation,” treating our friends // colleagues // loved ones as data sourced to be mined, rather […]
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026
todays' threads gem:

$ mkdir HammerTime
$ chmod 500 HammerTime
$ cd HammerTime/
$ touch this
touch: cannot touch 'this': Permission denie
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026
today's "hachy-ask": please post times for public meetups as UTC.
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Flipboard Science Desk @sciencedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026
In response to Trump's 2025 "Restoring Gold Standard Science" executive order, the NOAA shut down the Climate.gov website. Former staffers have now set up a nonprofit to provide reliable climate information in its stead. Here's more. flip.it/mNCHRu #TrumpAdministration #Climate #Science
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Climate.us launches independent website for trusted climate information
Built by members of the team behind NOAA’s Climate.gov, the new nonprofit resource is supported in part by more than 2,500 small donations from people who want reliable climate science information to remain accessible. Climate.us today launched the full version of its new independent, nonprofit climate information website, creating a public-backed home for trusted climate science at a time when access to federal climate resources has become increasingly vulnerable to disruption.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 20/06/2026
I would rather see government break up monopolies, loosen IP laws, support public options for education, &c
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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026
We're seeing a lot of account takeovers of old, unused accounts. If your account has elevated privileges (eg admin or moderator access) we strongly advise you enable multi-factor authentication. Please boost for visibility. #FediAdmin #FediMods #MastoAdmin
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026
The idea of banning minors from using social media is at its heart an attempt to punish victims instead of going against the perpetrator. If minors are more easily victimized by the predatory practices of large tech corporations it's not their fault. The blame lies squarely on the corporations […]
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/11671972… social engineering always sounds creepy, and not in a good way ....
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
It's 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it's just like Word and it's very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website), you visit your site in your […]
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026
today's literary gem: "The unthinkable is something we carry with us always. It has already happened: we are improbable, we have emerged from a cloud of unbelievable coincidences." - page 33 Solvej Balle, On the calculation of volume. < […]
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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026
"The truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. […] When you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the […]
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026
today's free association: new work: "primitive.ai" - thinking straight from the brainstem (with music from The Velvet Underground)
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Mike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026
The ACM obituary for PGN, by @spaf and Simson Garfinkel, is wonderful: cacm.acm.org/news/in-memoriam-peter…
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 18/05/2026
Not nearly enough reporting about what's happening in Cuba, which the administration is attempting to squeeze, punish, and coerce into submission and violent self destruction. This is so much worse than the embargo. It's hideous. Haiti, Cuba, ongoing boat strike murders: anti-Black foreign policy
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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026
"Trump fires all 24 members of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s governing body." www.science.org/content/article/tru… "U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday fired all 24 members of the National Science Board (#NSB), the body that oversees the National […]
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026
this is a high point, but still ... Latest (2026-04-25) Scripps Mauna Loa Observatory co2 value: 431.64 ppm Latest (2026-04-25) NOAA Mauna Loa Observatory co2 value: 432.20 ppm
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026
@FediTips you can ignore my Q from earlier re hashtags and profiles. And thanks again for providing the tips service.
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026
@FediTips a simple Q (i think) i saw a post saying that by adding a "#noai" hashtag to my profile I could avoid having my posts included in some ingestion service. What I do not know is where in my profile would I put such a hashtag? (this link is provided as a reference, but I still do not know […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026
Anyone can still edit Wikipedia. Without even signing in! Anyone can still "join" the IETF: "There is no membership in the IETF. Anyone can participate by signing up to a working group mailing list (more on that below), or registering for an IETF meeting. All IETF participants are considered […]
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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 01/04/2026
Today, we're introducing three things. The first one is a forum. A real forum - with categories, threads, and actual conversations that don't disappear in a timeline after six minutes. The second is a Fediverse platform. Fully federated, ActivityPub-native. Your posts go out, the world's posts […]
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Sue Smith @sue.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026
"I warn my students: - Yes, AI can generate the code for this assignment. Don’t let it. You have to write the code. I explain that, if they don’t write the code, they will not be able to effectively read the code. The ability to read code is certainly going to be valuable, maybe more valuable […]
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026
Thu Mar 26 12:37:00 UTC 2026 Latest (2026-03-24) Scripps Mauna Loa Observatory co2 value: 431.59 ppm Latest (2026-03-25) NOAA Mauna Loa Observatory co2 value: 431.50 ppm
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026
a bit of raw thought: In the political realm I am examining my own views on socialism, liberal democracy, and trying to understand my own assumptions, that sometimes feel built-in and hard to examine. My take-away, so far, from “Hospicing Modernity” is that there is no repair or modification to […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026
I'm so tired of cautionary films/books that bring together a lot of evidence to show us a challenge humanity is wrestling with, its urgency, explain how people benefiting from the problem are making it worse, maybe go into how it's also tied up in systems we're really all responsible for […]
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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026
Update. It turns out that the National Academies of Science (#NAS) did 𝗻𝗼𝘁 acquiesce in this #censorship of #climate science. In a short statement (March 11) it said “The manual, including the chapter on #climate science, will continue to be available on the Academy’s website.” […]
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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026
today's poetry gem (Richard Wehrman):
HIDDEN
To you, all you
invisible sustainers,
sitting alone in your rooms,
or walking lonely streets
feeling bereft with the wind
of the coming winter
blowing down your collar,
or you, overflowing
in friendships, gifted by
the world and by circumstance
but hollowed by an ache
identified only by
the sharpness of its pain
in your breast—
relax and be soothed
by a warm breath as
by summer.
Know now, with certainty,
you are loved by
a stranger, someone
who passed you on the street,
stood behind you
in line as you shopped,
ate in the booth just
across from you.
Invisible, yet their heart
joined with yours;
they knew you were beautiful,
they gave you their
blessing, and wished for you
what you already have,
hidden within you,
all the joy you thought lost,
all the love in
the world.
- Richard Wehrman (2026)
https://www.richardwehrman.com
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