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lilya @lolifer.bsky.social · 20h
>looking for for some documentation >ask my coworker if it’s actual documentation or slop Claude made >he doesnt understand >I pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is documentation and what is slop >he laughs and says “it’s good documentation” >open the file >its slop
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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calvin @calvinallegedly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The loss of Schmidt is an indictment of Portland.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If Netflix really wanted its own Heated Rivalry, it would be making a lesbian romance about two WNBA players.
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𐇔 BeeVine𐇱𐇳 @succulentubus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WE SHOULD IMPROVE DEMOCRATS SOMEWHAT.

Yet you are trans. Curious.

Enjoy the camps
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things
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julia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
sites just have to hire more non-men. It’s unforgivable how few women and nonbinary people are staff writers and editors at major sites, across the board. not just in games but games in particular has a serious problem.
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i know because i've curated my feed quite well that i may be preaching to the choir, but i hope in your rush to condemn the decline of femmes in the games journalism space you also take a moment to uplift the work of the femmes still here.
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calvin @calvinallegedly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No one asked me, but if you're a man, your job is to conduct yourself in such a way that bad men are afraid to be themselves, at least around you.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I think AI has already exceeded the intelligence of the type of person that believes AGI is imminent, which is why they believe AGI is imminent.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 28/09/2026
Meme of the two guys in a bus, one looking at a rock upset, the other looking at a landscape, with the text “mean nonbinary barista”
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
Justice for CSS: in defense of the girliest programming language. Calling CSS easy or unserious should be tired by now. It can build holographic Pokémon cards and 3D-rendering engines, yet it’s still dismissed as decorative. www.wired.com/story/justic...
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Justice for CSS
In defense of the girliest programming language.
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
tech ceos are openly salivating about the idea of kids losing basic literacy and numeracy. this tells you pretty much all you need to know
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BlizzardCS @support.blizzard.com · 25/09/2026
Happy Friday, friends!😊 Hope your coffee is strong and your path to the weekend is short. Mrrglrlrl! We're around if you've got any support questions!
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lilya @lolifer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lots of valid reasons to dislike Stalin but one was that he messed with da opera
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026
started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed
“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.”

“What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged”“on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,”

“movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big gunsand clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.
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calvin @calvinallegedly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New reason to live just dropped.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We don't talk enough about the additional costs of homeownership.
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yeah, that's a problem www.chronicle.com/article/high... #academicsky #edusky
A line graph demonstrating the nonacademic spending has outpaced academic spending, from 2010 to 2024. The note indicates this is for 146 R1 institutions. Source: NCES, Created with Datawrapper
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calvin @calvinallegedly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Was gonna become a crystal girlie and then the crystal store didn't have anything to increase my VDOT just "psychic protection" and "inner calm". How is that gonna help me get under 40 min in the 10k. Seems like I'm better off buying bicarb.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21/09/2026
there's some through line I'm not equipped to articulate from what google was publishing as SEO best practices between like 2017-2022 and what we now call AI and someone who can explain that evolution in plain language will probably be doing all of us a big favor
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Notably, one reason her daughter's pre-K and elementary school was so fucked up is that the Nice White Parents all noped out at the first sign of trouble, meaning only one ideologically committed affluent Black parent was left to try to fix the problems by herself.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
this is something I've been wondering too. while I have no evidence of coordination, it's definitely suspicious that so many Dem candidates not only waited until after the primaries to come out with anti-trans positions, but all did so within a week of each other
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
every year this person tells some made up story about how DEI/affirmative action/international students ”stole” a college space from her children or their friends or whoever
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calvin @calvinallegedly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
James Talarico's position is probably actually a bit worse than that, because beyond dangerous rhetoric his actions suggest he would rather lose a winnable seat than support human rights.
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Jenna Stoeber @thejenna.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
As the summer wanes it is imperative that you acquire the most delicate and perishable seasonal fruit and have a delicious meal like a redwall mouse would eat. Fortify yourself for autumn.
Beautiful meal with slices of cheddar, heirloom tomatoes on a slab of sourdough, american persimmons and micro basil sprouts sprinkled over chunks of cantaloupe.
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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 12/09/2026
Whether intentional or not, what @lillywachowski.bsky.social has said is *precisely* what needs to be said, at *precisely* the time it needs to be said. This puts Rowling on her back foot at the worst possible time for the HBO series. Brava, Lilly!
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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...
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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’
‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026
and the pod racing sequence is legitimately great
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calvin @calvinallegedly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
its time for Games Are Art Autumn. Rebleet if you thinkGames Are Art
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Beating a dead horse here but metoo is why Silicon Valley/ a handful of vcs and management turned against dems
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calvin @calvinallegedly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
11 September. www.marxists.org/archive/alle...
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Salvador Allende: Last speech
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 09/09/2026
communiqué from bitdizzy
screenshot of texts reading:

back of the napkin openai spending 20 million on compute to solve the navier stokes problem in 3 days would have bought 26,000 postdocs time to work on it. do you think 26,000 people could steal the proof from the guys who got close enough to finish it?
these ai people are really, really repulsive
enjoy your heat engine civilization ig you holocaust hylics

with caption “i need to post so bad”
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calvin @calvinallegedly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's true that the rising tide of fascism threatens to sweep away decades if not centuries of human progress but the adidas Terrex Agravic SL is a killer trail shoe so it's impossible to say if 2026 is good or not.
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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
literally me and who
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julia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
neat-o, someone did science on this papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Relative to otherwise similar cisgender women, applicants receive 4.1 percentage points (pp) fewer positive responses (9%) when they disclose a name change but pass and 4.6 pp fewer (10%) when they do not disclose but do not pass. Applicants with both signals receive 15.2 pp fewer responses (32%), significantly larger than the sum of individual penalties. The non-passing penalty is larger in postings with a male contact person and in customer-facing occupations; discrimination overall is larger when employers face less competition for workers.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
two panel animated meme with left panel showing a character dialing on a phone (meme edit has added "Gender Studies" to the above the number pad) and right panel showing a stone faced animated character with their phone to their ear
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Evil Con Fettie @spacebeer.net · 02/09/2026
news
US map with a Skeleton burning in hell overlayed on it. NYC is marked with a puppy and a rainbow
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hampshire College started with a grand promise: to serve as "a vehicle for the realization of self in society." This fall, the school will close its doors. I talked to some of its founders, faculty, students, administrators, and board members about what its loss means thebaffler.com/latest/class...
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Class Dismissed | Hannah Gais
Private liberal arts schools were never going to kickstart the revolution. But the closure of Hampshire College further narrows the political imaginary.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 31/08/2026
I can no longer in good faith recommend anyone to study in the US, or stay stateside for work and further education after completing degree programs they had started during the Biden era. US higher ed is unrecognizable even compared to a year ago when ICE was kidnapping students from their homes
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calvin @calvinallegedly.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
appears i may have become important at work
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Game Of Thrones: Sam & Night's Watch End
ALT: Game Of Thrones: Sam & Night's Watch End
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Life hack: When writers suck, do not read them. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-can-ig...
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You Can Ignore the Bad Pundits
One easy trick to make yourself smarter.
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calvin @calvinallegedly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My course webpages are fully online for this term. AI 101, which culminates in building a Markov generator and entertains questions about the ethics of AI and tech companies. Requires no background. cd-public.github.io/ai101/
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AI 101
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Flock-o'-Lantern @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
pulled the video so you don't have to go to X we stan a towering queen who does not care for the antics of mediocre men
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Carli Brosseau @carlibrosseau.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"A Harvard University committee rang the alarm about A’s being given out too easily way back in 1894. But the problem has been called a myth for nearly as long." www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...
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A Is for Average
The median college GPA has been rising at many schools across the state. It's not clear what's causing grade inflation—or if it matters.
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