Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 2hY'all denied her tenure 111584328
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialJon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 1hThe three pillars of contemporary American society are oligarchy, bigotry, and gambling 1152
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialRowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 18hwell our CTO just issued a directive for everyone to install an open source security tool on their workstations without consulting IT or the security team so if anyone needs me I will be face down in 30 miller lites in the only smoking bar in my city 12684
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 13hOssoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru... 212031467
curtlarock.bsky.social @curtlarock.bsky.social · 16hCutting weekend/off peak service, just as high gas prices are encouraging people who don’t commute on transit to ride, is extremely shortsighted. 041
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialAlex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI... 981517676
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialDr. Katie I. @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 18hThis is a conceptualized drawing of what we *think* is going on at the eastern Juan de Fuca ridge flank, Dorado, and potentially many other places in the deep sea where bare rock pokes up above the sediment. 2132
curtlarock.bsky.social @curtlarock.bsky.social · 19hThe problem with raising the income cap is the ultra rich will shift their income from wages to capital gains and interest, which aren’t included, and are taxed at a lower rate. We also need to increase taxes on unearned income. 110
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.social🤷♂️ @rosc.co · 23hBetween stuff like this and the Covid response, I’m amazed at how much of our society runs on people with power hating their wife and kids 011
curtlarock.bsky.social @curtlarock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“Digger” is what you’d get if Hideaki Anno and Wes Anderson did a mind meld. Definitely worth seeing in a theater just for the background sounds. 021
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The fake debate was ‘are people blank slates?’ and the real debate was ‘i don’t want non-whites to go to college’, and the existence of unanswered questions in the fake debate doesn’t mean you have to pretend they’re asking them in good faith. 123920
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialJillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026ok one note for the discourse and it is that you should take note when quoted experts are emeriti! sometimes it’s bc they’re the esteemed experts in their fields. but sometimes they will use outdated frameworks. sometimes the writer cherry-picked a perspective they could only find in retirees 23210
curtlarock.bsky.social @curtlarock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The purpose of reviewing PRs isn’t just to check the quality of the code being merged, but to make other devs aware of the changes being made to the code base. Even a good AI review process bypasses this. A lot of this is motivated by CI/CD release metrics becoming the new SLOC. 000
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialAidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It appears that the US government pressured the Canadian and Lithuanian governments (as well as the EEAS) to pull their support and representives from the @disinfo.eu conference in Vilnius. This decision happened at the absolute last minute. 4179102
curtlarock.bsky.social @curtlarock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026There are a lot of housing reforms that would trim building costs, but lack the gimmicky appeal of 3D printing and the like. 000
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots 372083577
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialAngry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Fuck yeah, Turnverein ruled “Hey you wanna lift heavy weights and discuss liberalism and human rights?” “Hell yeah brother” Turners formed some of the very first and oldest gyms in the US when they arrived after the Revolutions of 1848. That’s right, gym culture belongs to intellectual lefties 618235
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialRosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My part of NSF has been destroyed effectively. I don’t trust future congresses to understand and restore it given they misunderstand knowledge creation and reduce science to technology. And that’s across the ideological spectrum. 38236
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 06/10/2026Reupping my usual Prime Day advice: the real killer deals are on everyday consumables like laundry detergent and trash bags and dishwasher pods. You’re going to be buying them anyway, might as well get them for 30% off 68414
curtlarock.bsky.social @curtlarock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Some of this is because Chevy dealers hate selling cars, whether ICE or EV, rather than the high-margin trucks that make up most of their sales. 050
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask? 8436861438
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialAram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Every news article about business leaders and/or social strife should mention that a cabal of billionaires and their trillionaire buddy are currently and explicitly trying to accelerate social collapse so they can be neofeudal kings in digital paradise forever. I dunno, seems like important context 011937
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 25797423030
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialAndrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat... 9042001687
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialCrits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 05/10/2026Our dear dear friend Haley at @friendsofbear.bsky.social has a very sick, sweet geriatric kitty who is in the hospital dealing with some stuff. She posted on her IG that all she’d like for her birthday today is some donations for his care: linktr.ee/friendsofbear 12646285
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Regime snatched $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation in 2026, which they plan to use “to invest in agency priorities that are aligned with broader administration initiatives.” In other words, to force a political agenda through by repurposing funds for bullshit like chemtrails.aip.orgTHE WEEK OF OCT 5, 2026- NSF leaves $1 bil unspent - AI bills pile up ahead of midterms - Second judge blocks H-1B fee 616660
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/10/2026no....no!!!!! 4974351465
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026Pedophile politician arrives in Hell, may he be the first of many to imminently follow www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...nytimes.comDennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sex Scandal, Dies (Gift Article)The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84. 591265166
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:little-flying-robots.ghost.ioWhy We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AIImagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation... 271053311
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialzenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup. 271841447
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It would likely solve a non-trivial number of problems with the kid of person who opts to run for Congress to pay them $500k in exchange for stricter financial disclosure and be a rounding error in the federal budget. We’ll never do it because of THOSE FATCAT POLITICIANS!!!!, a bipartisan brain-worm 719918
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap 152108342343
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialCatherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The easiest, least risky path to friendship is “oh you liked that, so did I!” Make that impossible, and few will be able to form enough non-familial connections to rise up against so much as our own ennui, let alone The Regime. 09727
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.social🦥🎃 lex (they/she) 👻 (luddite arc) @just-slothlike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026it is extremely understated how much of nazi philosophy and aesthetics came from the united states of america, and now that mirror is reflecting. 1386
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026people who got angry about those buddha statues should be even angrier about this 16875286
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Slander is spoken; libel is written. But this isn't either of those. It's detailed reporting from a respected outlet with damning evidence. And "most consequential Commerce Secretary in modern history" is as impressive as "shortest NBA player from Luxembourg" 28740491713
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialAnil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT. 511552292
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026We are here because believers in an apocalyptic vision of computer progress have used their enormous wealth to push the technology on us. They never have justified their actions beyond their religious beliefs. 310233
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026As we enter the final month before the midterms, don't get cocky. If anything, it's time to ramp up the work and pour it on. Check your registration. Vote early. Push your friends and family too. Look for local places to help out. Phone bank and write postcards. Volunteer for Election Day. 18760238
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard. 582242582
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialTodd Dorman @tdorman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Iowa agriculture secretary race is a referendum on dirty water www.thegazette.com/opinion/iowa...thegazette.comIowa agriculture secretary race is a referendum on dirty waterMike Naig, a Republican, is up for reelection this fall. He is being challenged by Democrat Chris Jones, a scientist and evangelist for clean water. But his plan is not 0125
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialOlivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off 81580676
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialAnil Dash @anildash.com · 27/09/2026The imagined influence of the algorithm controls all language, which is the same thing as controlling thought, ultimately. And the generation that’s grown up saying “unalive” doesn’t even know they’ve been muzzled all along. 421333
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 03/10/2026The trees are turning colors and there are gloriously crunchy new apples and there are migrating geese flying through the air. The Earth is beautiful and every one of us are a part of it 812412
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t. 17058751199
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I will never forgive or forget a single Republican Senator who voted yes on RFK Jr.’s confirmation as HHS Secretary. But as you know I hold especial contempt for Bill Cassidy (R, Invertebrate) for greasing the skids for RFK Jr. and for the destruction of U.S. public health. 32920166
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialMark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis. 151451529
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 03/10/2026the NEH is a ghost of an organization. the NEA's budget is $29 million. I'm not saying this to be pissy, but simply to say that when we rebuild - and we will rebuild - I expect solidarity from my STEM colleagues as we robustly expand research in the arts and humanities as well. 215042
Reposted by @curtlarock.bsky.socialKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Please please please stop making a big deal out of the G7 reserves release. Yes, it’s 100 million barrels over 4 months. We - the planet - use 100 million barrels of crude every…single…day. Almost literally a drop in the bucket. 401426287
