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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 3h

Jacksonville represent! DUUUUVAL, etc.

David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve turned off autocorrect, but there’s still typing assistance from “swyping”—like why capitalize rogue but not dragon*con? I’m still salty that autocorrect got dumb enough that I had to turn it off.

David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 5h

No, the capitalization was a typo. The guest’s name was Christian Hubicki of Survivor fame.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger

The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/10/2026

to ensure that something that seems right is (see things like: apophenia, specification from compsci, Weizenbaum's critique of original chatbots, Clever Hans, etc) is to have the specification. Without it you can never rule out that your cognition is picking out what's right and ignoring what's not.

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 19h

This this this. The SGU let their guest Rogue at dragon*con get away with saying the stochastic parrot is an epithet and claimed these products “reason”.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mea culpa: I posted a factoid about Games Workshop’s total economic value relative to the fishing industry and the UK economy that was incorrect. Games Workshop’s total revenue in the last fiscal year was a little over half of the entire fishing industry, not larger. Check your sources, Patrick!!!

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Right after I posted this I see this related @doctorow.pluralistic.net essay: bsky.app/profile/doct...

Fuck yes. Tax billionaires out of existence. This is @johnrogers.bsky.social loose-nuke theory of politics.

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Imagine believing Just World Theory lol. Couldn’t be me.

Being a gen X nerd in open source made us all copyright lawyers thanks to Lessig and SCO and LGPL and copyleft and napster and and and. These fucking billionaires know better. They. Just. Dont. Care. Tax them out of existence.

If it makes you sad that the public domain is 100 years old you should've voted better or destroyed the constitution or capitalism.

Christy S @aniline.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Claiming Fair Use, doesnt mean using something fairly, it’s a pleading that affirms infringement in a copyright lawsuit. When you say your use is fair use you are agreeing your use is infringing the copyright of an author. If you want non-infringing use you should use public domain material.

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I do not like this.

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Fleet @fleetadmiralj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

leftists: how dare party democrats not endorse our candidates also leftists: how dare party democrats endorse our candidates

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT 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...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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You just gotta say Republicans like it when Americans die. The GOP is like one big death cult. Just infatuated.

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isn’t it funny at the president thinks it’s cool to murder Americans? like that’s a legit sociopath?

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes. Start with prosecuting the crimes first and work your way backward if that makes you more comfortable. But we cannot live in a country with this level of elite impunity.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

@andrewti.bsky.social you made a withering joke about denny hastert once upon a time. What’s funny is I don’t remember what you said just the feeling! wanted to make sure you heard that guy was dead.

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what an asshole

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

some assistive devices are normalized (glasses) while some aren’t (wheelchairs). Yet we will all be disabled…

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Another “fun” one is that disability is socially constructed.

Das Doak @dasdoak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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And all of this is *before* you have tech bros start gaming systems for an advantage and trying to act as an intermediate broker. The dark future is ticket scalpers, but for *everything* you do online.

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, this. All these weirdos could just fuck off to Galt’s Gulch, but they won’t do it.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026

"No conservative who longs for an earlier age suggests cutting themselves off from the modern world in an intentional community, as the Amish have—because that would mean accepting an inferior place in the hierarchy of power."

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The Illiberal's Dilemma

In January of this year, media personality Matt Walsh tweeted “Singapore is able to have nice things in part because they execute drug dealers by hanging and arrest even petty vandals and thieves and ...

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Elon, whose genAI is the world's largest distributor of CSAM, has essentially infinite money to throw at evading any kind of consequences for producing and distributing more CSAM than any human in history.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Even if you earned a salary of $1 MILLION DOLLARS AN HOUR… it would still take you a year and a half of working full-time to earn the money this guy could afford to just give away. People forget how big a billion is, even compared to a million. And a million is something most of us will never see.

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Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Of all the work I’ve done in comics, my one Godzilla issue is the thing I see in the wild the most. Written by Brandon Seifert, Colors by Marissa Louise.

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Perfect way to spell that sound. 😊😊😊☺️

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If/when you start playing world of warcraft forever, read every quest. Read every word! It’s wild that reading is under attack, but that’s a tiny way you can push back. Lots of games are just full of words and you can read them!

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing

screenshot of thumbnail for the ezra klein show with guest bill gates

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What’s “cool” about america is that for some families the cost of childcare makes it economical for one parent to stay at home. (…because they can’t afford what it would cost to stay employed.) Maybe he recommends UBI?

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh Conor's being dumb about Rufo again. Glad I logged on today.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

yes! you can remap the buttons! (it'll be backwards for the wind waker wand, but it's a necessary sacrifice lol) bsky.app/profile/runw...

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is who and what they are.

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I guess we’ll be across the ocean— troll shaman just like my first ever character from before zg.

Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Actually OpenAI— the company of human people who work there responsible for this technology— leaked these images.

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is one of those things that grinds my gears because literacy is *actually* liberatory and that’s why these chuckle fucks are trying to destroy it!