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ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1h

I wish more pro-Palestinian activism had to do with Palestine. Like, you want to protest the Pratt and Whitney plant? Fine. They make the engines that power the jets that blow up chunks of Palestine. Clear line of causality. I get it. The fuck do people want Zohran to do, exactly?

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1h

There's a weird number of people who seem to believe that electing a public official means you've got a fellow Wal-Mart Firebomber on the inside now.

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 9h

Is there a mutual enemy is definitely the relevant question

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ArgellaStone @argellastone.bsky.social · 2h

Chuck Schumer's poured thirty million dollars into El-Sayed's campaign, Barack Obama's taken the campaign trail for El-Sayed, and now El-Sayed is desperately trying to distance himself from Piker because he views him as dead weight.

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ArgellaStone @argellastone.bsky.social · 2h

Political cartoons that aged amazingly poorly.

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 2h

Doing this on 10/7, to the pro-Palestine mayor, really just drives home that this movement isn't really about Palestine.

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 7h

Never forget they are intentionally smearing the Democratic Party because they are still mad about Biden beating Bernie: www.vice.com/en/article/a...

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Area Man Regrets Helping Turn Joe Biden Into a Meme

A former 'Onion' editor wishes his publication had gone harder at Diamond Joe.

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 7h

At a certain point, The Onion stopped trying to be funny and instead decided to be the worst DSA shitposter you've ever met.

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 6h

Ironically, the media endlessly talks shit about Democrats. The Onion isn't satirizing media; it's reinforcing it.

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, this generally would be much easier to take in good faith if we couldn't see all the shit "antizionists" post on the internet.

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 4h

This guy is genuinely one of the dumbest people I've ever seen. It's actually an impressive achievement what he's been able to accomplish.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 3h

Again, folks, we *would have gotten to fixing the problems with AI* if terminally online and terminally contrarian people didn't spend their whole existences opposing the idea that Dems could do good governance. Harris had a plan for *all this*!

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 4h

Ya know, it's not often I get to see one of my theories prove itself in realtime.

Veronika Simms @veronikasimms.bsky.social.
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The problem is the anti Al side don't use Al and aren't experienced enough to actually have a conversation about it. It's all what they heard in the media or what they remember from last year when they barely tried Al to do a google search. That's why it's hard to take them seriously
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A lot of people have said this, but if any of the problems are real it shouldn't matter that some people fighting against real problems don't have their facts perfectly straight. Rather than wait for perfect messengers, join the fight to improve people's lives by reigning this stuff in.
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You're really just not listening to the point being made. Does gen Al have serious problems? Of course? Can it be incredibly useful? Also yes. Can we mitigate most of the problems that Al has? Absolutely. So the ideological purity you require out of me, ban Al forever, seems excessive.
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Then get fixing the problems! You won't have to deal with the haters if the problems are fixed. Chop chop.
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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 4h

Like, all of this is true about computers, the Internet, and social media, Evan!

Al has talked kids into suicide, fueled paranoid delusional that led to murder, degraded education quality in both k-12 and higher ed, run roughshod over copyright law, increased spam, fueled spam, fueled fraud, degraded the environment, put people out of work, the list goes
on and on. 4/9

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 4h

Additionally, the anti-AI folks feel the need to lie, which weakens their *entire* argument! I don't understand how they can't see this! Like, this simply isn't true:

Al is making everyone's life worse, both boosters and critics acknowledge that, but nothing is done.
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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 5h

And the reality is that these folks have now escalated from "we need to address resource utilization" and "we need to address privacy/safety/societal wellness concerns" to "IF YOU DON'T IMMOLATE ALL DATACENTERS TOMORROW SO HELP ME GOD".

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 5h

So instead of going "okay, we'll wait until we have control and then institute straightforward solutions to these problems that we all pretty much agree on," they whip themselves into a tizzy thinking, somehow, that if they're *more extreme* then people will *totally listen to them faster*.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 5h

I think this is another example of a time when people are driving themselves completely batty *because the reasonable solutions are so obvious in short order* yet we *can't implement them* because we don't have sufficient control. But some folks can't seem to parse that simple fact!

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 5h

What do the moderates want? Solar panels at the data centers? Sounds fucking great. Water offsets? We will help you push for that. Bans on deepfakes? Awesome we dont like that shit either.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 5h

The luddites got crushed by state violence and Marx explicitely calls them out as reactionary forces who gave the state the excuse they needed to squash them.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 5h

And now your solution you wanna do is become more extreme? Ok good luck we look forward to the moderates you alienate joining our side were more than happy to accomodate them.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 5h

As a trans femme who works with AI the anti ai side isnt taken seriously because the anti ai side lies to peoples faces about basic things that people can see with their face eyes arent true. Maybe stop doing that lol.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 6h

This is how guys like Ross discover that while more people recognize Israel is doing war crimes, those same people would immediately disavow Gaza if the demand was "let's abandon Israel as an ally", and pretend long-timers never said that to them.

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Formerly Saysceej @ceejopolis.bsky.social · 6h

Wanted to come back and add that people having a change of heart and coming over to the right side of history is good. But you don’t get to walk into the kitchen and immediately become the executive chef. You need to put in your time, a thing that rich white boys like Ross don’t believe applies.

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Formerly Saysceej @ceejopolis.bsky.social · 19h

Again, this is a man who voted for George W. Bush and John McCain questioning the progressive bonafides of women who had been involved in democratic politics long enough to have positions of some authority locally. Fuck entirely and all the way off Ross.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 5h

Everyone needs to be a team player regardless of when they joined the team, which is why Bill Kristol is welcome on our team but Rahm Emanuel shouldn’t be even though he’s never not been on it

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 6h

I hope we can get over antivaxxerism as a society. mRNA is going to lead to more shots being available for more illnesses. We can have a world where people almost never get sick if we want it enough.

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 7h

The people who are salty about Democratic unity in the Michigan Senate race are wreckers who don’t actually want good things to happen.

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 12h

I’m an English professor and I endorse this message. Students were regularly treating essay assignments as slop before slop, and often for good reason. Just like they often phone in their rote math problem sets. No need to romanticize these things.

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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 8h

the onion article i would've wrote would be to release two identical "DO NOT UPLOAD BEFORE MIDTERMS" internals that have exactly the same takeaway regardless of result

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 14h

Nothing good came of the bloodbath. Nothing good comes of the continued horror now.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 14h

What is there to say on the third anniversary of October 7th, except that it did not have to be this way?

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 06/10/2026

as a 'blue no matter who' person of record marcy fucking kaptur is your free "throw a dem under the bus", it will be actively better for all of us if she loses her job, her district is cursed now post-gerrymander, we need to lose it and get it over with

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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 9h

"this is why talarico is bad 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬" "nooooo she had to give that fascistic rant about a minority group to win you dont get itttttt 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬" you are both going to hell

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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 9h

i think there is in fact a difference between "vagueposting about sports" and "ranting about 'transgender ideology'" and pretending otherwise on either side reveals you (not JC, i'm generally speaking) as an amoral worm who likes using human beings as political gotchas for your factional beefs

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 8h

Who could have predicted the anti data center movement would turn into an antisemetic conspiracy theory? Oh wait we did predict exactly that.

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Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 8h

Bluesky Curious

A colorful illustrated remake of the “We Should Improve Society Somewhat” comic.

Teefa is dressed in patched medieval peasant robes and carrying firewood. Rolling fields and a distant castle fill the background.

Teefa: “We should be wary of selective moral accounting when discussing serious concerns.”

A grinning man emerges from a stone well. He proudly holds up a small copy of the original comic.

Well Guy: “Yet that superficially resembles pointing out hypocrisy. Curious!”

His speech bubble continues: “I am above ethical scrutiny.”

The tiny original comic he holds reads: “We should improve society somewhat.” “Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent.”

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Ed @ed3d.net · 9h

this is going to be very educational when they start learning exactly why Lightroom is the way it is and why Lightroom gets camera support before anyone else it’s not going to be fun for them

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jae (hallowed) @fubarchitect.com · 8h

watching a society learn that basically no one considers what everyone else does all day "real work" is very interesting and also very depressing

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Sisko's Baseball @jnoodles24.bsky.social · 7h

The problem with making everything a joke is that it breeds a kind of cynicism that fascist movements like the Republican Party flourish in.

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Lazear-ly Departed @lazear.bsky.social · 7h

Like that "origins of the name El" bit in this one is Babylon bee levels of humor (ie racist). Old school onion would have made a bunch of decent football and doctor jokes, probably with a clever punch line. New onion is basically "we dont understand how languages work across rhe globe".

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Lazear-ly Departed @lazear.bsky.social · 7h

It says a lot that the onion can still be funny (the horse wants to eat cake bit from earlier this year as a prime example), but collins so clearly views it as a medium to attack his perceived enemies that hes basically forcing it not to be funny.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 11h

Polling is not the thing itself. It is an attempt at modeling the outcome of the thing. It exists on a spectrum & will sometimes hit over & sometimes hit under the thing. Other electoral cycles in the future will be bad, but this cycle is good rn. Stop drowning yourself in the details. Relax.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 12h

I think ppl on this site need to get a hobby besides political stuff bc if youve gone from crashing out about bad polls to crashing out about good polls, that is a huge red flag that whatever you are doing is increasingly unhealthy

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 9h

it's the same joke as this one except people under 40 seem especially bad at realizing it

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chazhoosier.bsky.social @chazhoosier.bsky.social · 9h

First question: ~Something about policy.~ Collins' Answer: "Nevermind policy, he literally has a Nazi tattoo." ~the rest of the debate consists of Platner just defending himself at louder and louder volumes~

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