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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist @jim-stewartson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As a long-time technologist who has built many software products: If your software does something you can’t control, you are a shitty software engineer. You have not birthed an alien intelligence.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We're currently moving fast towards 2C. It would be good idea* to slow down. *World changing

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Animals that look like they’re about to drop an album: #Timeline #Cleanser

A Llama, a sheep, a chicken, a bull and a goat, looking very stylish, in a autumn field:-)

Five very tough looking pigeons, looking directly at camera, definitely a hard core group:-)

Five(ish) Scottish highland cattle, aka Fluffy cows, on snowy hill, looking so sweet I got diabetes from this album cover

Three black and white puppies, might be Siberian huskies, I really don’t know, but their death metal album probably is as tough as them:-)

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Once the shares go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department says Wernher von Braun.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

For @aftermath.site, I reviewed the Steam Machine. It costs $1049 base. It is beautifully designed. It might be one of the most important computers ever made, launched at the worst time imaginable. aftermath.site/steam-machin...

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The Steam Machine Is An Iconoclastic Computer Born In Unforgiving Times

Valve has released a tiny, silent, entry level PC that does important work bringing PCs gaming to the living room and desktop Linux to the masses. The timing could not be worse.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 06/06/2026

I would like to now scream until I shit myself to death and/or become the joker

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

"That link is not there yet, right?" he said. think maybe implicitly there is more that is getting shipped, but it's very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and, 'Okay, now we're actually producing 25% more useful consumer features."
He said that the trade-off costs from Al are harder to justify because he can't draw a direct link. Earlier this month, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an earnings call that Uber was slowing hiring to counter its investments in AI.

The comment led to what he described as a
"head-exploding moment," sparking discussions about AI token consumption within the company and the trade-offs it creates, such as on head count.
He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The UK government: We're with Ukraine for as long as it takes. The "it" in this sentence apparently being "realising we're actually more worried about people having their holidays cancelled".

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19/05/2026

Today’s newsletter reveals the unrestrained and wasteful token burn inside one publicly-traded company (Zillow) and breaks down the cold, hard truth that AI is - for hyperscalers, for AI labs, and for customers - simply too expensive to ever pay off. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-expensive/

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AI Is Too Expensive

If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, in...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/05/2026

For generations, the American empire was the most powerful force on earth, and so we tended to assume that it was the most *durable* force on earth - surely anything so powerful *must* also be *eternal*? 1/

A detail from Dore's engraving depicting the drowning of the Leviathan - a great sea-serpent thrashing in a chaotic dark sea. The image has been altered: it has been hand-tinted. The sea serpent is wearing a MAGA hat. Drowning nearby are a beleagured Uncle Sam, an Android robot, and the Statue of Liberty.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

American Kestrels have super head stabilization skills [📹 Paige Bucalo / pythonpaige] Original post

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

America's ability to innovate

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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/05/2026

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

"I am a member of the morel majority. Every spring, I wait for the surface of the world to shred and the last pure truth to show."

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Bring back court jesters! If you're dressed in motley and act like a fool it'll be safer to speak truth to our mad billionaire kings.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Now this is a goddamn manifesto. He has a clear voice, has thought out and laid out his rationale, it’s of a decent length, it’s coherent. We’re so back (ON A PURELY LITERARY LEVEL, DON’T TRY TO KILL THE PRESIDENT)

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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Next time, if you want to fool anybody other than your idiot supporters, move the clouds.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

exchange on X

Christoffer Bjelke @chribjel
We hired a junior developer to write the simple code, so we don't have to spend a ton of money on tokens for those basic/primitive tasks

Sameer goel @sameer_goel
Great, so now we're optimizing LLM costs by inventing employees again.
Full circle innovation.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This is an incredible tweet.

Tweet from Reverend Jordan Wells: "Why So Many Protestants Are Done with the Modern Papacy

I respect Catholicism deeply, but this is exactly why so many Protestants have major issues with the current direction of the Vatican.

The Pope’s clear liberal political bent is impossible to defend."

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try." Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

My UMN colleague Rob Warren just published a groundbreaking paper in @pnas.org. Flouride in drinking water during childhood has no effect on cognition and brain function in later life. www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...

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Fluoride in drinking water has no effect on IQ or brain function, long-term study shows

The new research is the first to measure community water fluoridation exposure during childhood and any potential impact on cognition up to age 80.

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David F. Sandberg @ponysmasher.social · 14/04/2026

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

Headline on Hollywood Reporter that reads ”Paddington 4, Escape From New York' Reboot in the Works”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/04/2026

I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy: There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/04/2026

It’s the soundtrack that did me in ☠️

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This is one of the worst things I have ever read and I study frontier genocide as a profession.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

It is wild to me that “pro-Israel” figures and the government in that country will just never grapple with the obvious reality that the scale of collapsing popular support for them in the US is solely their fault

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Bob Wehadababyitsaboy @followers4algernon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Melania: I never cut child in half with sword. I never do this. The entire USA: what? Melania: not me.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This is so well done. 👌

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I think people should respond this way any time they are asked this question bsky.app/profile/dipl...

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Oman and Iran seeing Trump somehow agreed to let them collect their entire GDPs in taxes on shipping

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 07/04/2026

Did you hear the story of the one man $1.8 billion business built by AI as portrayed in the @nytimes.com? Turns out basically every aspect of that story is bullshit and the story should be retracted.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

So it seems that Iran is now the new Denmark (but without the bacon...)

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 07/04/2026

Man, it really bugs me that everyone's yelling about nukes when Trump's already laid out what he's threatening to do - attack civilian infrastructure

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

1/ Why is atmospheric CO₂ accelerating faster than fossil fuel emissions are growing? The answer is buried in the data, and it's more worrying than most people realise. A thread. 🧵👇

Line chart showing atmospheric CO₂ concentration at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1958 to 2024. A light blue sawtooth line shows raw monthly values, reflecting the seasonal cycle of plant growth. A dark blue smooth line shows the seasonally adjusted record, rising from 315 ppm in 1958 to over 426 ppm in 2024.

A dashed red curve shows the super-exponential fit, with the instantaneous growth rate rising from 0.27%/yr in 1960 to 0.64%/yr in 2024, more than doubling over the period of the record.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The Knesset passed a bill today mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror - but not for Jews. There is a word for a legal system where different legal standards apply to different categories of people. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Israel passes bill mandating death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror

The Bill's Wording Creates a Distinction Designating It Almost Exclusively for Palestinian Terror, While the Ideological Burden of Proof It Sets Is Expected to Make Its Application to Jewish Nationali...

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I wonder how much time will pass until the other Gulf states with US bases will notice this. If US withdrew on a more permanent basis Israel would probably feel less inclined to be as aggressive as it is now. Trump can always claim the US saves money by not having as many bases in the region.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 25/03/2026

I recognize that this will not be a popular opinion, but I think it's true. And I hope people will read the whole thing before they start yelling at me based on the headline.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Ok, so hear me out. It really suck that America has become what it's become, but we should face the reality that not just are we alone in Europe (Nato is dead) but we need to close American military bases in Europe to limit their ability to harm not just the world, but themselves.

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