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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 15h
Ballots are out, and election day (November 3rd) is coming soon! There are a number of ballot measures this year that affect our ability to consistently and sensibly fund transit capital and operations, so we created a statewide voter guide. calelectricrail.org/2026-califor...
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2026 Californians for Electric Rail Voter Guide – Californians for Electric Rail
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giulio rospigliosi @clementix.bsky.social · 18h
Art.
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giulio rospigliosi @clementix.bsky.social · 22h
our culture is so sick that it's convinced most of us that we're the sick ones no shade to the valiant efforts of those trying to keep up but as a society we can do better
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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mads Mikkelson is a constant delight
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giulio rospigliosi @clementix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
haven’t seen it, just like the title
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
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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giulio rospigliosi @clementix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Sisters Brothers
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Jeremy @floregonian.com · 07/10/2026
I’m sorry but I might not recover from this
In 1903, a young soldier wrote to the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, consumed by doubts about his future...
Rilke wrote back:July 16, 1903
You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, that cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Yours,
Rainer Maria Rilke
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giulio rospigliosi @clementix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
fetishizing the instrument of the crime is itself propaganda, under any name "...sentenced to prison for gasoline-assisted arson", eg, is just ridiculous
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is the basic trick of Roko's Basilisk. Like many supposed thought experiments noodled over by guys who thought Heath Ledger's Joker was the most important moral philosopher of the 21st century, it dresses up as an ethical conundrum what is in truth a deeply evil enticement to abandon the concept of human intention altogether.
Decision-making truly cannot get more animal and reactionary than to extend fixed conclusions about what humanity is like out into the imagined indefinite future, conceived as boundary walls defining the path that future can take, and react to that future before it has even had a chance to
arrive. It makes the future into the past. It is inherently regressive, fascist.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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giulio rospigliosi @clementix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Catch Me If You Can
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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AiredOnTVToday @airedontvtoday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
35 years ago on September 28, 1991, TV show 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' aired episode "Darmok"
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giulio rospigliosi @clementix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
what's happening isn't exotic or exceptional -- it's run-of-the-mill, boring, traditional, autocracy that has been around for millennia, the days of the pharaohs at least
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giulio rospigliosi @clementix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"the viziers are fighting" -- yes, but, have you considered why you're using an Arab/Ottoman term rather than one of the many European equivalents, including in England, such as "courtiers"?
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giulio rospigliosi @clementix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Masquerade
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giulio rospigliosi @clementix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the first rule of white supremacy is you do not talk about white supremacy
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind
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giulio rospigliosi @clementix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hitler complained often about "the lying press"
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giulio rospigliosi @clementix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Exactly. Since the '80s, every 10 years or so we start calling something else in the field "AI".
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
“Once you understand that the broligarchs are eugenicists who care more about hypothetical, future AI-enhanced lives than about today’s population…a lot of things start making sense.”
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What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI
Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.
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giulio rospigliosi @clementix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
it's a classic for a certain era of nerds
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giulio rospigliosi @clementix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
well, telling people it would get them laid off wasn't working!
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.
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Keith M. Judge @optimist-press.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sociopaths who pretend to have earned billions of dollars are not worried about a potential extinction event. They're worried we're going to destroy and bury everything that has given them a measure of power that no one person should ever possess, and that we will do so with zero concern for them.
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giulio rospigliosi @clementix.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Road to Perdition
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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 09/09/2026
This just showed up in my inbox, and well … all my posts in the Barenaked Ladies newsgroup in 1999 and 2000 are still there. This is one of the most in-depth revivals of Usenet archives I’ve seen. It’s actually kind of scary how much this resurfaces. www.usenet-rewind.com
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Usenet-Rewind
Search Usenet news text-message archives from 1981 to present across hundreds of thousands of newsgroups.
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Simple instructions for migrating away from 1Password to Proton Pass, Nord Pass, Apple Passwords, and more, free, and all in one spot ⬇️
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giulio rospigliosi @clementix.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Wild Bunch
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. Says Skeletor urging you to use your power to change the future before there’s no future left.
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Autihub.org @autihub.org · 01/09/2026
Launching the Autistic Scholars Project on AutiHub: a free public database of academic publications authored/co-authored by autistic people. 354 autistic authors, 1,799 publications — with daily monitoring for new publications by included authors. autihub.org/en/autistic-...
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Autistic Scholars Project
The Autistic Scholars Project is a public, freely accessible database that indexes academic publications authored or co-authored by at least one autistic …
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giulio rospigliosi @clementix.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
in California, flaking is a way of life
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giulio rospigliosi @clementix.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
don't worry, they'll (ineptly) try to hide it for a day or two so they can cash in on the (prediction and stock) markets - the big reveal will be right before nyse open
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
55% of companies that laid off workers citing AI now regret it, per Forrester.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Gong but not forgotten. Rest In Peace, Jaye P. Morgan. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j...
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Jaye P. Morgan, Singer and Bawdy ‘Gong Show’ Panelist, Dies at 94
A lover of double entendres, she got fired from the Chuck Barris game show after showing her breasts during a Gene Gene Dancing Machine routine.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/08/2026
In case you wanted about 3,700 words on the problems with today's "settlement" that gives Meta way more power over how the internet works than it should have.
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giulio rospigliosi @clementix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Take This Job And Shove It
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Right Turn on Red was one of the biggest mistakes America ever made.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A man says "I see you started wearing a chef's hat." The man in the toque blanche says "yeah, I'm working on a new bit called 'The Chef.' The first man asks "what's the chef's whole deal?" The Chef answers "mainly, he's confident in a way I'm not. The Chef points to two guys passing by and says "hey! you guys feel good about yourselves." The two guys say "yes, chef." One of the guys says "man, I love the Chef." The other one says "yeah, he's always cookin'."
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A man pulls off his jacket to reveal a black suit underneath and says "I have to confess... I'm really a Fed." The man he's talking to also pulls off his jacket and says "no way... I'm a Fed too!" They embrace and fall in love. 60 years later, one of the Feds is on his deathbed. He says "I've been lying this whole time. I just said I was a Fed to impress you." The other man leans in, smiling and says "I know. I'm a Fed." Tears of melancholic joy stream down their faces.
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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 19/08/2026
New zine: pulling together quotes and recommended readings on the importance of thinking critically about AI, especially for people newer to this conversation. This link shares all the quotes/sources, plus a downloadable PDF for anyone who wants to print/share their own copies: guante.info/aizine
A photo of the cover of a zine: "Less A, More I: A zine on the importance of thinking critically about AI" available at guante.info/aizine
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Amidala talking to Anakin meme. 
1st panel, Anakin asks 'do you like plums?'
2nd panel, Amidala says 'yeah, I'm actually saving some for breakfast'
3rd panel, Anakin stares
4th panel, Amidala looks horrified
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.
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