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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 5h

A lot of you are scoffing at Meta's claim that $4B in Zuckerberg compensation and a bunch of data center build outs qualify for a "research tax credit", but seeing how far you can push the bullshit before people resort to violence is, legitimately, research... itep.org/metas-outlan...

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Meta’s Outlandish Tax Breaks for AI Data Centers

Meta is claiming the research tax credit – a tax break meant to encourage innovation and experimentation – to pay for the equipment it uses in data centers to power its AI activities. ITEP described h...

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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 6h

If you see this post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

A still from the movie "Let The Right One In", two children lie on a carpeted floor, looking at each other. On the left is Eli, an ancient vampire inhabiting the body of a dark-haired 12 year old girl, looking at Oskar, a blond bullied child.

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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 7h

Discussion in the office about an Anthropic rep pushing the idea of referring to the LLM as a teammate rather than a tool. Which... uh... I think I've identified the "tool".

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 13h

Rounded buttons reduce visual (and sometimes actual) target areas, making them harder to use. Radius-ed corners on windows and panels reduce content areas for no gain. Rounded and radius-ed features are entirely form over function, aesthetics ahead of usability. Let's end this awful 25 year trend.

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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 12h

It's always interesting how "ignoring public comment" actually means "didn't let me dictate". Over and over and over again.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 15h

it’s amazing to me that first apple invented the least lossy user interface ever (multi-touch) — where you interact with software controls *directly* & instantly and now the next “big thing” is writing text instructions, the slowest, most disintermediated and lossy way possible

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.

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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a fantastic resource, and... I know that the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department has paid out over $12.5M in the past decade, and none of that shows up here yet...

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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Many comfortable white people prefer to believe the lie that welfare recipients are just lazy scammers since the alternative is deeply uncomfortable: people are suffering as a result of the same structure that enables their comfort.

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Phildini, since young times @phildini.net · 29/09/2026

California has spent over $400 million in settlements for Law Enforcement misconduct since 2010. I know because I built a site to track it: captainacab.com We're updating every week, and slowly expanding across the country. (boosts welcome)

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Captain ACAB -- CA settlements from law enforcement.

Tracking the hidden costs of law enforcement in the United States. $1,563,000.00 in CA settlements and counting.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Also this is the thread about the woman who told me about murdering her ex when I was pregnant with kid #1. Again, the women are unlikely to move the way you expect if the danger continues to grow.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Let me give you the actual solution to this problem. Universities and colleges have to hire football players as union employees (AFL-CIO, same as the NFL), with no requirement to attend school. They get health and retirement benefits, and are limited to a five year employment contract.

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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Went down to Golden Gate Park today for Forever Grateful, which turned out to be a surprisingly impactful multimedia experience. haightstreetart.org/pages/foreve...

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Forever Grateful

The Ultimate Grateful Dead Exhibition. On view at Haight Street Art Center July 3 to September 20, 2026.

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🇨🇦 Mike O'Doyle 🇨🇦 @thetruemichael.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And not like, driving down the road either. The man and his pet SUV begin their existence as a pixelated glitch, before casually dashing perpendicularly across the path of all the trucks

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Invert this headline: "Pete Hegseth is withholding earned and due pay from soldiers who were discharged, but most Dems say they have other priorities than help those veterans get their last paychecks."

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When you 100% tell on yourself 😂

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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The weird thing about dentistry is what of your general practitioner and plastic surgeon were the same person? Any one got someone they like in Petaluma?

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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The best thing about the Segway was how quickly after the hype and unveiling and discussion about how sophisticated the balancing mechanism was, the Chinese "hoverboards" with barely more than mercury switches for control hit the market.

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Rebecca Blood 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That’s God‘s truth. Rich tech guys said they were going to redesign cities around it. Once it was unveiled, for a minute I thought I must not get it.

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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yowzers, Eric Lucan sure does have the campaign dollars to pay for polling.

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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Got a request to schedule some calling gigs next year, and I realized that... maybe I'm over square dance calling? Maybe it's time to find something else to do with the voice? I have a few dances scheduled, I'll renew CALLERLAB, but pondering what I give this community vs what I get back.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Holy chao, that's perfect. "Cognitive Kessler Syndrome."

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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dear Google: I definitely don't need more "AI" crammed into my phone, but if y'all could spend a little time making your Bluetooth stack more stable and reduce how often I need to reboot, that'd be awesome.

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The rules are simple: no proper names, no topics, nothing particularly targeted. A generic phrase descriptive of the most possible chaos, as complex as you like. High scores so far: "been taken down" "since been removed" "was removed after" 2/2

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@danlyke.bsky.social THE TIME HAS COME FOR FEDERALLY-FUNDED OKRA FOLDING

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Hog of the Future @hogofthefuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's in the name, isn't it?

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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I mean, Apple seems to be working really hard to make any other platform at all seem more attractive than MacOS. They're definitely in the "extract all value from the goodwill and brand" stage of suckitude with respect to the Mac.

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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Huh. Google Maps has an interesting tile mismatch at certain zoom levels over Fairfax right now.... Or there's been a tremendous suburban sprawl event west of town with interesting clipping regions. www.google.com/maps/place/F...

A screenshot of Google Maps showing what should be open space west of Fairfax California, but the satellite view for several tiles shows a suburban street grid, possibly of Petaluma California, with the racetrack in the lower left corner and the airport in the upper right.

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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 23/09/2026

So less than 5 years ago, korean company Kakao bought the serial fiction site Radish for $440 million, Tapas for $510 million. Both were moneymaking sites where a fair number of romance and erotica writers made bank. But they shut down Radish less than a year ago, and now Tapas will close, too. Why?

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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That everybody is forwarding around this Reddit thread on the basis of an AI summary quoting www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c..., and the original quote is languishing with just a few likes, is so on-brand for LLMs.

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WanderWatterson's comment on "I am done with this shit."

Explore this conversation and more from the ClaudeAI community

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Steven Snedker @stevensnedker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself." —Emo Philips tropedia.fandom.com/wiki/Anythin...

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Anything That Moves/Quotes

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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My social feeds say it's bisexual visibility day, so I'm trying to find that quote that ends "...anything that moves, but I never saw a reason to limit myself".

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Robin Riley @riley.pub · 23/09/2026

Happy bi visibility day, my fellow queer folk ❤️💜💙 Latest research backs up what we know: despite all the BS we still face, we are the largest part of the LGBTQIA+ population at nearly 65%! We are everywhere 👻

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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For work, watched a video on using Astra to generate Blender models, and I'm trying to figure out how impressed I should be. I see a bunch of semi-paywalled stuff about using the Blender Python API for architecture, and would love more reasoned views. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsBL...

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I Tested GPT Astra for 3D Modeling - This is Getting Serious

YouTube video by Urban Decoders

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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Another day, another person who apparently thinks it's funny to serve towards a pedestrian in a crosswalk. Whee.

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Nat Gertler, man of easily-solved mystery @nat.gertler.com · 23/09/2026

If you want to know why laws forcing teachers to out trans kids to their parents are a Really Bad Idea, remember parents linke these.

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Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

street signage should be full of concrete. it should act as traffic calming from people not wanting to hit it

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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

After a weekend of events at which people introduced themselves by the number of generations their families have been in Petaluma, I now hear this as "my family wealth came from selling the place to people like you, and we should still control it".

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Weird coincidence that all this is happening the same day as the AI air control rollout. “You’re absolutely right - a forty five degree angle of approach is entirely too steep for landings, and that’s on me. Would you like me to call some local mortuaries?”

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I made a decision to live farther away from work and now it takes longer to get to work! What happened!?" I love how it never occurs to people that the decision they made might have also been made by other people as well.

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel

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Classic Web @classicweb.site · 21/09/2026

researchbuzz in 2000 web.archive.org/web/20000817211825i…

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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Remember conversations with school board members in the late 1990s about how maybe cramming "tech" into every orifice without a curriculum need wasn't a good idea? Public safety doesn't have nearly the inertia of education, and pressure comes from a lot of fronts.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/09/2026

Amtrak didn’t tell us about this exposure, so heads up: if you took an Amtrak train last week through Chicago or anywhere on the Southwest Chief, Coast Starlight, or California Zephyr routes like we did, you may have been exposed to measles! Please let the train people in your life know about this

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Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Message from Eventbrite: "Good news! More great events await. Discover more new to do." and as I tell people "no" because I just want a day to organize my shop, already, I think about how I am not the target demo here....

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I realized this morning that I finished writing INFORMATION TRAPPING about 20 years ago. I would happily write a 2nd edition today. I bet I could include a lot of tools I've made myself (Temporary Obsessions Feed Reader, RSS Gizmos, MiniGladys, a lot of SearchTweaks, etc.)

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sticks and stone may break your bones but words can break your mind.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 08/09/2026

It's like a suicide shot of cognitive biases. Once you assume that it's smart, confirmation bias comes into play; LLMs give you a *ton* of input for your brain to do confirmation bias on, a sort of semantic overload. It's actually not that different from software fuzz testing...

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