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Edward Faulkner

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 26/09/2026
"The unwillingness of platforms to accept even paid advertising is sure to raise concerns about free speech and the dwindling number of companies that control many of the platforms in this country — and ironically provide a proof-text for the point the film is coming to make." Sci-fi had warned us.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Maybe the one thing standing between Britain and fascism right now is how geriatric many of the fascists are
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 03/09/2026
JK Rowling needs a password manager like 1Password because she can't handle complex characters
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grant @grantpardee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"Tiny Tim, who DESERVED to die,"
Gonzo in Muppet Christmas Carol delivering the line "And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die"
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Edward Faulkner @eaf4.com · 21/08/2026
They had to lead with that because it’s the only way to justify their trillion-dollar capex. The actually-useful things LLMs can do are all either enhancing (without replacing) experts or replacing extremely low-dollar work, neither of which provide the growth story SV needs to tell investors.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
this is the kind of obstreperousness, don't tell me what to do-ness, i got rightsness that is the sheet anchor of American liberties.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I've had the chance to ask several scientists in relevant fields variants of the "would you have gone to Jurassic Park" question and so far no one has ever said "No"
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Edward Faulkner @eaf4.com · 20/07/2026
Surely a public company that hires an actual fugitive as their chief medical officer is going to get sued by their shareholders for gross negligence, no? www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/20/b...
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One of Rhode Island’s most-wanted fugitives appears to have been secretly working as a biotech executive - The Boston Globe
Ronald Fischer, 70, was arrested last week by federal and Rhode Island authorities after they tracked and boarded a 56-foot sailboat cruising off the coast of New Jersey.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 09/07/2026
I really want to know the thought process that leads to hiring Marc Andreesen as your objective voice on the economic impact of new technology. techhub.social/@Techmeme/1168919726…
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Techmeme (@Techmeme@techhub.social)
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI (Andrew Ackerman/Washington Post) https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/07/09/federal-reserve-enlists-marc-andreessen-advise-ai-under-warsh/ http://www.techmeme.com/260709/p36#a260709p36
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Edward Faulkner @eaf4.com · 03/07/2026
Saw an ad for a consumer product I was actually interested in. But their website prominently features the logos of a bunch of tech and VC brands. Fuck no, I’m not going to buy durable consumer hardware from the guys who can’t focus on one thing for more than a year.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
Charge of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 30/06/2026
The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Me at the A24 board meeting: We’ve got a brand beloved by young hip people and cinefiles, basically synonymous with “good taste” and “artistic vision,” in a time where both are hard to come by. What if we flushed that in the fucking toilet for a bit of money?
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Lee Rosenberg 🇺🇦 @leerosenberg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
If Popehat is permanently banned because of this post, I’m genuinely concerned about the viability of this platform. Hopefully, someone like @masnick.com knows more about what’s happening and whether this is just a temporary suspension
Post from Popehat that violates the Bluesky rules
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It's very revealing of a number of things. 1) Are you the only real person who exists? 2) Can you be moderately inconvenienced for 15 seconds without losing your temper? 3) Does might always make right? If the answer is yes to any of those, whoops, you're a right winger!
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Edward Faulkner @eaf4.com · 12/06/2026
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/11/m...
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Cambridge Bluebike rider swarmed by turkeys had no idea the birds were capable of violence - The Boston Globe
It was quite the Tuesday morning surprise for Emmett Z. McKinney.
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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 05/06/2026
Here are the quotes about slavery, immigrants and the Vietnam War that the National Park Service plans to scrub from an exhibit at Bunker Hill as too "corrosive" for real Muricans, plus 2 quotes about women voting that reduced a MAGA visitor to tears www.universalhub.com/2026/nationa... #Boston
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/06/2026
People will say it's "Tech Week" here in NYC. Well, any event run by Andreessen Horowitz is illegitimate, because the NYC tech community has values, and one of its most fundamental is its humanity. They have forfeited theirs.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 01/06/2026
this really is wild they just asked Meta AI chatbot support for access to high profile accounts and it obliged comes after Google complete broke its search results these are not serious, capable companies deserving of professional respect. they rushed shit product to market.
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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
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Grosdoriane @grosdoriane.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."
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Buck Doyle @buck.aboli.sh · 28/05/2026
I too have canceled a recurring donation to Wikimedia in light of their shameful union-busting
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 25/05/2026
One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf
213. The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”
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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 22/05/2026
Cars are supposed to help us get around but do you know how many adamant car users I've met who only eat at strip mall chains because they don't know how to parallel park? You'd think that folks committed to cars would feel that way because they were actually able to access things they wanted!
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
TIL that the Minions from "Despicable Me" are hard-wired to serve the most evil person on Earth, and also thousands of years old, so when the movie became a franchise, the writers had to strand them in an ice cave right after the Napoleonic Wars until 1968 so they wouldn't have to be literal Nazis.
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Sam Morey @pensandlighters.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This shit drives me crazy as a Jew. The more people hear that “it’s antisemitic to criticize foreign rape prisons” the larger a segment of the population will think, “Huh, I guess I hate Jews then.”
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
"how might we transform X into an interactive experience" is the first post-it note shat out of the mind of a midwit executive in every Innovation Workshop. The group is supposed to smile and move past it. Sad to see that Google no longer has the process rigor to filter out this kind of brain fart.
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Ally Whelan @amwhelan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Pfizer and Valneva's Lyme disease vaccine shows 73.2% efficacy in phase 3 trials, increasing the potential for it to become the first approved vaccine for human use. The vaccine targets Borrelia bacteria, offering significant preventive potential against Lyme disease.
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Pfizer and Valneva Announce Lyme Disease Vaccine Candidate Demonstrates Strong Efficacy in Phase 3 VALOR Trial | Pfizer
Vaccine candidate PF-07307405 (LB6V) demonstrated more than 70% efficacy in preventing Lyme disease in individuals aged five years and above The investigational vaccine candidate was well tolerated wi...
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Edward Faulkner @eaf4.com · 15/05/2026
No love for Meta but where else but FB marketplace could I get a deal on a disco elephant.
Nearly life-size sculpture of an elephant covered in tiny mirrors like a disco ball.
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Christopher Schmidt @crschmidt.net · 14/05/2026
At the nearest school to me in Somerville, MA, this is what the drop-off area looked like last Friday. This is the effect of having neighborhood schools in walkable neighborhoods with streets that are safe to walk, ride, and roll on. Your school drop-off could look like this too.
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McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This is a pretty well-documented phenomenon and it’s one reason people die when a building catches on fire.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
cognitive reframing: I am putting ice cream in my coffee -> I am out of milk because I am disorganized -> negative affect I am putting ice cream in my coffee -> I am making affogato, a sophisticated italian dessert -> positive affect
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Some evidence coming out that major Saudi oil facilities were hit and perhaps badly damaged by Iranian missiles. Really hard to quantify this but we could be looking at a historically significant strike here. All from a country whose offensive capability was wiped out days ago.
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Wet And Loud™ @ BLFC @dinosaucy.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Bsky devs: ‘HEH ignorant users, it’s not ai causing this it’s a backbone outage’ Dev at the backbone: ‘fuck I’m out of Claude tokens fuck fuck’
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Tin @tin.zone · 06/04/2026
looked up a cheat code on gamefaqs only to find out that I had posted it to the site myself 17 years ago
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
imagine if i happened to be a trillionaire and bought twitter and 80% of the stuff on the site was just about big pants. you couldn't escape it. just an endless deluge of big pants propaganda
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StreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 25/03/2026
Hell of a time for a big city mayor to cancel a shovel-ready, federally-funded transit project:
Chart titled "Massachusetts weekly average retail gas prices per gallon" with the y axis spanning $0 to $4 and the x axis spanning from early January to March 25. A blue line charts prices, which are steady around $2.99 to $3.02 until March, then then line rises steadily to $3.07 on March 1, $3.47 on March 8, $3.65 on March 15, and $3.84 on March 22.
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series of gj tubes @ozarkhowling.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
just gonna once again repeat my (least) favorite statistic: us wheelchair users are 36% MORE LIKELY TO DIE BY CAR than other pedestrians gumc.georgetown.edu/news-release...
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Majority of Car-Pedestrian Deaths Happen to Those in Wheelchairs, Often at Intersections - Georgetown University Medical Center
WASHINGTON — An investigation into how often wheelchair users are killed in car-pedestrian crashes finds they are a third more likely to die than non-wheelchair users; more than half of those deaths o...
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Edward Faulkner @eaf4.com · 23/03/2026
A significant fraction of LLM-coding discourse is people telling on themselves for having always misunderstood development. "Now that we have LLMs, the important thing is being able to state your requirements clearly"... oh my god, did you just admit out loud that you didn't know that all along?
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Edward Faulkner @eaf4.com · 23/03/2026
At what point do the pilot unions and ATC unions strike over the dangerous understaffing?
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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
We live in the weirdest fucking timeline where the Catholic Church is significantly to the left of the vast majority of world governments
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
You're absolutely right—that was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leaders—they were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 24/02/2026
This is a really key thing that people are just not getting: "VC" is simply *not venture capital* anymore. There is ZERO risk for A16Z and peers. They do not resemble the thing that regulators described when creating the category of venture capital. A cartel of ~4 firms runs the whole industry.
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