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An interesting @theatlantic.com panel discussion with Andrew Card and Karl Rove about their experiences the day of 9/11, but it ends with an excellent rant by Rove about the bigots, etc. who are polluting the Republican Party www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2HB...

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A Conversation With Karl Rove and Andrew Card

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's already pretty obvious what Xi thinks of the Orange Chicken here

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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 11/06/2026

tl;dr: A government watchdog investigated what STAT found in its Pulitzer-finalist "Denied by AI" series and found: -health insurance companies' denials for care were overturned 97% of the time when they were appealed -82% of people do not appeal and thus were wrongly denied care for no reason

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Dean Wampler @deanwampler.com · 21/09/2026

Don't forget to comment on this proposed change to the Roadless Rule, which would allow exploitation of the few remaining wilderness areas in the US, destroying their unique character forever. www.regulations.gov/document/FS-...

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Dean Wampler @deanwampler.com · 20/09/2026

This Virginia data center policy seems reasonable, although I don't know all the details. THE CRACKDOWN BEGINS dailyprogress.com/article_589d...

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THE CRACKDOWN BEGINS

DATA CENTERS

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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For real!! Comedian Micky Overman says it like it is. Generally the only people even entertaining the thought of evil AGI are men. Women are too busy fixing the ACTUAL problems of AI, like idk, the way it automates, reproduces and exacerbates misogyny and makes all our lives worse...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 17/09/2026

Two ways we can fight corruption: 💰Rein in dark money in politics 👨‍⚖️Establish enforceable ethics rules at SCOTUS I’ve introduced bills to do both. Glad to see my SCERT and DISCLOSE Acts featured in @democracydefendersaction.org's anti-corruption scorecard.

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Dean Wampler @deanwampler.com · 12/09/2026

Make sure you watch and "thumbs up" Jimmy Kimmel's interview with James Talarico. "What would Jesus do?" is worth asking again... Also, give the finger to the FCC authoritarians who don't want Talarico to win his Senate race. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDE...

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See

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Dean Wampler @deanwampler.com · 03/09/2026

RIP Gloria Steinem. She did so much for the lives of women and made us men better people as a result.

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Dean Wampler @deanwampler.com · 01/09/2026

What an amazing group of morons...

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Dean Wampler @deanwampler.com · 30/08/2026

I switched to Apple Maps a long time ago. It's still showing the real name.

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Dean Wampler @deanwampler.com · 25/08/2026

Sad and surprised to hear of Dolly Parton's passing. She was an amazing, admirable person in so many ways. RIP.

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Dean Wampler @deanwampler.com · 23/08/2026

One of the reasons Pi-Napo pizzeria in Charlottesville, Virginia is so, so good.

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Dean Wampler @deanwampler.com · 19/08/2026

Most people misunderstand the Schrödinger's Cat Paradox. It's not that the cat is neither dead nor alive until it is observed. It's about a cat standing in a doorway and not being able to decide which side of the door it wants to be on, while you are standing there observing it. #physics

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19/08/2026

Julia Curlee was the first CIA officer to transition openly and keep working at the agency. The Trump White House needed her—until her identity became public. She recounts her time in service in The Atlantic’s October issue: theatln.tc/siKCHgiR

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/07/2026

I wasn’t ready for this. ☠️ 😭 Low T Pete will never live this down.

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Dean Wampler @deanwampler.com · 14/07/2026

It could go both ways, I guess?

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Dean Wampler @deanwampler.com · 08/07/2026

Etiquette tips for those of you who send AI note takers to meetings: 1. Don't. 2. If you still do, find a way to turn off *all* the messages they post in the meeting chat. Nobody benefits from that garbage and they obscure messages from real people.

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Dean Wampler @deanwampler.com · 05/07/2026

Many of the best software developers I've known over the years were former music teachers, professional musicians, or passionate amateurs.

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Q McCallum @qethanm.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Welcome to the latest genAI edition of "how it started / how it's going" (This was just seven months, almost to the day...)

On the left, from Forbes (2025/11/23):

> How Ford Is Embracing Al To Drive Innovation In The Automotive Industry (2025)

On the right, from The Independent (2026/06/26)

> Ford hired Al and sacked humans. It backfired badly
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> "We didn't pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers, says automaker

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Dean Wampler @deanwampler.com · 20/06/2026

Very interesting article about the ways new technologies like AI impact jobs, often leading to increased demand for people, not less.

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Dean Wampler @deanwampler.com · 19/06/2026

I'm tired of all this winning!

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Brenny @pissedoffinnh.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Wow.. nerves of steel

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Andrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

You all will be shocked, I'm sure, to learn that the program for monitoring and interdicting NWS spread from South America was part of foreign aid through USAID. Aid which was cut by DOGE because foreign aid is dumb and obviously doesn't do anything to help America.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/06/2026

the single biggest takeaway i have from this interview is that on top of being profoundly incompetent, bari weiss and her flunkies at CBS are genuinely terrible human beings. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

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Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/05/2026

No notes…

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Dean Wampler @deanwampler.com · 24/05/2026

Given the anticipated size of the SpaceX meme stock IPO, it may enter major indices relatively quickly, driven in part by some relaxed rules on inclusion of mega IPOs. Here's an informative Business Insider article for the "concerned". www.businessinsider.com/spacex-ipo-i...

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SpaceX is set to join major indexes after its IPO as inclusion rules evolve to accommodate the mega IPO

SpaceX stock could show up in major indexes and the ETFs that track them soon after the company's IPO. Here's a rundown of what to expect.

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Dean Wampler @deanwampler.com · 21/04/2026

This is evil. Why would anyone ever help us in the future? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

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Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/04/2026

Colorado Overrun With Flamboyant Children After Camp Director Notices Conversion Therapy Device Set To Reverse theonion.com/colorado-overrun-with-…

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 02/04/2026

Bondi fell into the Trump Trap, giving up her integrity to keep her job, and looks like she now will leave with neither.

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ROOST @roost.tools · 29/03/2026

As promised, here are some links from our #ATmosphereConf talk by @cassidyjames.com and @julietshen.bsky.social! First, here are the slides; we ran over time and so didn't get to share the last couple of slides with you all, but they're important. :) docs.google.com/presentation...

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ROOST ATmosphereConf 2026 - Coop

Coop: Open source Trust & Safety infrastructure for all ROOST • ATmosphereConf 2026

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Spaghetti @spaghettibeaver.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

maybe my favorite thing on the internet: neal.fun/deep-sea/

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The Deep Sea

Scroll down the deep sea in this interactive page.

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 21/03/2026

BREAKING: 49 Senate Republicans just VOTED DOWN our simple bill to pay TSA workers. Republicans have now blocked TSA pay SEVEN times. It’s a slap in the face to the men and women who have been working without a paycheck for weeks.

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

At EPFL, Professor Martin Odersky set out to combine functional and object-oriented programming. The result was Scala, now used worldwide. In 2025 he received the Programming Languages Achievement Award. 🔗 Read the full story here : actu.epfl.ch/news/to-crea... #Scala #Epfl #Programming

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Dean Wampler @deanwampler.com · 21/03/2026

A decade ago was the "high-water" mark for functional programming and the languages it inspired. Now everyone is focused on AI, of course. Andrew Oram is writing a retrospective series about FP, then and now. www.lpi.org/blog/2026/03...

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Functional Languages and the Future of Programming (Part 1)

Functional programming explained: history, core concepts, and the influence of languages like Haskell, Erlang, and Scala.

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Dean Wampler @deanwampler.com · 19/03/2026

I would have taken a fraction of the $80B Zuckerberg spent on this effort to tell him years ago that it was doomed from the beginning, but he didn't ask...

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19/03/2026

Raffi Krikorian’s Tesla “was in Full Self-Driving Mode, driving perfectly—until it wasn’t.” He writes about his crash, and whether this technology is training drivers to be complacent: