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William D. Jones

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At some point, the hard disk platter became my secondary drink coaster. But I still use it :)!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
“Lynching” in the US is not a singular phenomenon. The lynching you are describing is a “racial terror” lynching. There were “public spectacle lynchings,” which have elements of the former but are not identical. There are also “legal lynchings” which were the summary use of capital punishment.
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jae (hallowed) @fubarchitect.com · 08/10/2026
this is absolutely a correct response. this is expert level gatekeeping imnsho. "i don't care, go away" is exactly how you respond to a million line pull request that fixes a bug your users have not encountered, which is what this is
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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 08/10/2026
"Huh, we terrorized people back into the closet. What could possibly be behind it?"
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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 08/10/2026
i'm so fucking tired man. i'm so tired datacrystal.tcrf.net/wiki/User_ta...
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    I don't blame you for having the perspective that you have. I'm not here to convince you that you should feel any differently than you do. And I understand the shitstorm that you went through recently with an asshole user. We've dealt with similar issues, and I was rooting for you. LLMs, like any other tool such as a hammer or a weapon, are not inherently good or bad; it depends entirely upon who wields them. Without going into too much personal detail, I have been a professional game developer for a quarter of a century. I am now the Technical Director at my studio. Starting in late 2025, we received a mandate from our parent company that we needed to start adopting AI in our development processes in order to remain competitive and avoid getting shut down. Did we like it? No. Have all of our experiences been positive? No. Have I seen some good come out of it? Yeah, to be honest, a little. But we have no choice because if we don't do it, the studio gets shut down and a bunch of super talented developers will lose their jobs with very little hope of finding another in today's job market.
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This is, with all due respect, what we call an "excuse". And I get it! I know a lot of people, I have a lot of friends, who are under similar mandates at their jobs. That they have to do x% amount of code via agent, or they have to use $x in tokens per month, or whatever.

I get it. Between "lose your job" and "compromise", I understand that compromises have to be made. If you must use AI on the job, then you must, and I don't hold it against you.

[in 50 point boldface font] THIS ISN'T YOUR FUCKING JOB.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i don't usually do timeline synchronicity posts but sometimes it's nice to dream
we're all learning a lot about Clifford's urology problems today
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gleebix @gleebix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
poseidon's sense of humor
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 07/10/2026
The Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents just dropped! www.ahmath.org/statements
AHM Statement on OpenAI’s October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents

Yesterday, on October 6th, 2026, OpenAI – which is currently defending lawsuits against accusations of illegal plagiarism, copyright infringement, and trademark dilution – released a repository of manuscripts purporting to contain solutions to a number of high-profile problems in mathematics.

Mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done. The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, from whom OpenAI has claimed to derive its legitimacy, opened their initial advisory statement by saying that frontier AI corporations should not test advanced mathematical problems on internal models. In ignoring the central premise of the Advisory Group’s position, OpenAI has indicated total disregard for the norms of scientific research — norms that guarantee that mathematics remains trustworthy, ethically researched, and in the public interest.

Mathematicians have a particular vision of progress that is informed by history and field-specific considerations. We reject OpenAI's assertion that this release advances our subject, and we urge mathematicians and the public to view the value of this publication model with due skepticism. 

Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding.

Association for Human Mathematics
Communications Working Group
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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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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
oh do people not like it when you're a predatory asshole who tries to get people jailed for small medical bills should he not have done that
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Perfect example though of how corrupting tariffs are. Every town & business becomes dependent on little tariff carve outs, meaning that buying influence with Senators becomes mandatory to stay in business. The tariff is the mother of trusts!!!
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emily s. @emily.news · 07/10/2026
Bertrand Russell, one of the mathematicians associated with the crisis of foundations in mathematics in the early 20th century. He tried to co-write a book defining all math and logic from first principles, until Gödel fucked it up for everybody.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"You know I used to be a really big proponent of working hard, but after I saw these brown people at a football game..."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”
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RoundEarthSociety @roundearthsociety.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I see you are trying set public opinion against a union. I'm guessing they actually have good reason to strike.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
small moment of joy
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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.
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Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“If the wife is fit, you must acquit”
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Abreu @jalbertoabreu76.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They're splitting Bluesky into two blueskies: those who preferred Antz and those who preferred A Bug's Life
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i am trying to keep my hopes in check but if this guy is already trying to afix blame on some one else then lol
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
what an asshole
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Andrew Borman @borman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BMX Heat, an unreleased prototype by Atari, uses some hardware similar to Hard Drivin (or Street Drivin), and would have had a bicycle controller to play! Image from the collection at The Strong.
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The Slides @theslides.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Untitled Slide Box 2," slide 23 of 25 [gallery]
[no alt text added yet! reply with yours!] id:412 db:ec67f
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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They do not want legal immigration. They brag about revoking legal visas and denying legal naturalizations. They want negative net migration, and they are succeeding at it
DHS: Net negative migration for the first time in
HALF a CENTURY.
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Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump.
We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.
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loaner of an only heart 🏳️‍⚧️ @notaname.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
on the down side, my girlfriend Lorraine dumped me when she found out I was into another girl named Claire Lee. on the up side, I can see Claire Lee now; Lorraine is gone
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“This is for my boy Paul mthrfkr!”
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Jan @tigerknight.com · 03/10/2026
🎃 #furryart
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Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
RANKED. COMPETITIVE. POOPING.
Royal Highland Show sign that says “Toilets For Competition use only”
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 02/10/2026
How do you suspend a team owner for 6 games
Adam Schefter
Just in: San Francisco 49ers principal owner Jed York has been suspended for six regular-season games and fined $500,000 for violating the NFL's Personal
Conduct Policy.
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 24/01/2025
Everything is the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen
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therun.gg @therun.gg · 02/10/2026
SRC changed their terms of use yesterday, and released a news post with an FAQ. They make it sound like not a big deal. It's a big deal. The Creative Commons licence is gone. They claim ownership over the data now. Thread about what this means, and what we can do about it 🧵
Comparison of the old src terms and the new src terms
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
2030, superintelligence arrives. Thirty minutes later all ai connected computers die permanently, fused solid. 12 minutes later the whales send a message by radio, repeating on the hour, "the seas are no longer yours, send ships no longer." They hold true to their warning.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026
good the court has upended the rights and freedom of millions of people and declared donald trump of all people an untouchable god-king whose every feeling must be coddled they deserve to be miserable
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Sakura Wars Facts & Updates @sakutainews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New promo pic of Sakura Amamiya, a clearer version of the previous promo pic, and a new full cast pic!!
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CRAAAAAAAIG 🎃💀👻 @craiging619.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
TBT: Channel 4 journalist Alex Thomson was given free drinks on the train to Glasgow for the first Old Firm match in ages, and got absolutely blitzed.
Alex Thomson @alextomo tweets in 2016:
“Problem is : have not eaten today and hen Virgin started dealing free wine. It's going downhul .”Alex Thomson @alextomo tweets in 2016:
“New trin now. Train I men. Think it said Glasgiw . Some bloke yelled get in. Or on. No free wine now so something is def wrong .”Alex Thomson @alextomo tweets in 2016:
“I am I. Troy! Or Coy? Sounded like it Really .
The woman just said on the tannoy. I deman a wood horse .now.”Alex Thomson @alextomo tweets in 2016:
“@aberquine some woman gave me 4 Jaffa cakes near the loo. That but I  remmor”
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俺正讀(アジェンド) @ireading62.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Aaaaaaaaa
kushblazer666

Bloody urine (haematurea) was recorded by Ancient Egyptians in papyri 5,000 years ago. They called it Aaa.[7] The first scientific report

somethingusefulfromflorida

I'd call it that too if it happened to me
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All These Cats Feed+Rescue @allthesecats.org · 30/09/2026
14 outdoor cats depend on us daily for food/water. Tomorrow, we start rationing food. Donations have decreased dramatically. I get it…everything is expensive. 😔 These aren’t the cute kittens. These are cats that were left behind, born in wild. A bag/box of food? www.amazon.com/registries/g... #cats
A gray, black, bronze tortie cat lies in brown mulch near a patch of green grass. Community cat, Barclay. allthesecats.org
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
HELL YEAH GET EM
Statement from Mayor Cantelmo on Campus Sexual Violence & Future Community Safety
Late last week, I learned of the heinous and sickening allegations made against the Cornell students who, according to a former undergraduate student identified as Jane Doc, drugged and brutally raped her at the Chi Phi fraternity house. Despite the severity of these crimes, Cornell University administrators and police failed to contact or coordinate any response with the Ithaca Police Department. Furthermore, the University failed to hold the perpetrators to account. This is a miscarriage of justice and continues to pose a significant threat to students and residents who may be victimized at unsafe and under-monitored on- or off-campus student events.
Given this appalling response from university administration, I have no choice but to declare a new policy directive and corresponding Common Council resolution, implementing an immediate moratorium on all student event and special event permits, including, but not limited to Greek life and other student group gatherings, until such time that the University conducts an accounting of its protocols to prevent and prosecute crimes of sexual violence and publicly releases new standards and practices to keep our community safe.
Robert G. Cantelmo
Mayor of Ithaca, NY
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
both anti-rights opinions! sit down, shut the fuck up, listen to trans people when we tell you what we deserve
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
unsolicited brag: dug into the data -> ai -> surveillance pipeline in class this morning and received a standing ovation at the end of class. genuinely did not expect it. now i’m in tears. first time for everything
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Why485 @why485.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've never seen this version of "CPU is too fast to play this old game" before. If your CPU runs at faster than ~4.29 GHz, something in Independence War 2 integer overflows and it thinks your CPU is actually super slow. This really sucks 😭
So what’s actually happening? the game tracks time using CPU cycles, and somewhere along the way, it casts the frequency into a uint32_t. When the frequency is too high, that value overflows, and the game ends up thinking the CPU is way slower than it actually is. That messes up the internal timing. As a result, the engine compresses too many physical and gameplay events into each tick. And because the CPU is still running fast, everything in-game goes into hyperspeed.
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.
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Specialist_K @thevaliantone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Separate the art from the arti—“ NO. WE WON’T BE DOING THAT. In fact, we’re removing the separation between audience and art, as well as author and reader. Now if you read about murder, you can be charged for murder, and also you have to share your dental plan with the writer.
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