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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h
since apparently the original article failed to upload:
news.mit.edu
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h
rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived
Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
ALEXANDER: Why wouldn't McConnell's constituents be better served if he stepped down? TILLIS: It's the same Q people ask of Biden A: Biden is no longer POTUS T: But guess what? We're following the bad advice of people who supported him. The difference is Mitch's brain is as strong as it ever was
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 8h
www.theverge.com/2024/9/24/24...
theverge.com
Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops
Even if you’ve got nothing to hide.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 8h
One of the Republican Senators that blocked redistricting in Indiana and was then primaried is endorsing Dem Bayh for Indiana Secretary of State
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 8h
The image is of a four panel comic.
In panel one, we see a crow’s face. It says, “I AM DEATH’S MESSENGER”.
In panel two, we see the same crow’s face. It continues, “YOUR TIME IS NEAR”.
In panel four, we see the crow awkwardly hopping away from a stick figure.
In panel five, we see the grim reaper with the crow perched on his hand. The grim reaper says, “So you should probably fly away dramatically instead.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h
i do think it's worth stopping for a moment to recognize how extraordinary and how fucked up it is that this sentence exists.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 11h
I went the NHS emergency room in London over the weekend, it was free. Free to anyone. I'd have been charged only if I was admitted to the hospital. A cart in the waiting room went by me with some nice sandwiches, and I chose one. Before I could try to pay, the cart moved on. Sandwich also free.
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 11h
The cornerstones of modern reactionary politics are "the world isn't like how it was when I was 16" and "my kids don't talk to me anymore" and it's kind of nice they're just saying all that out loud now
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11h
Black text on white background 
"This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
 
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
 
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
 
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity."
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 14h
Susan Collins is showing just how out of touch she is. “I spent a whole year without health insurance…in ‘94” That was 3 decades ago, Susan, when insurance was $1500 annually… Thanks to Susan’s vote that helped pass Trump’s murderous budget bill, premiums are $1500 a month now for some folks.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sure www.michigandaily.com/news/governm...
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Conservative PAC offering College Republicans $200 to heckle at Abdul El-Sayed rally, group chat messages seem to show
Students affiliated with the College Republicans at the University of Michigan are being offered $200 each to travel to an Abdul El-Sayed town hall in Flint Saturday and target the Democratic U.S. Sen...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
"Gov. Greg Abbott is blaming a scheduling conflict and says he's not gonna be attending the rally in San Antonio today where the president is going to be. He's not taking time for the president."
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Gyms for our brains," you say?
Don Draper meme showing him presenting with the words "Hear me out...We call it 'The University'."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump and his gigantic wagon greets Ravens players Tyler Loop, Ryan Eckley, Nicholas Moore, and Marlon Humphrey (Win McNamee/Getty)
pic of Trump shaking hands with players at his event
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
MEMPHIS: “PUNCHES THROWN… CHAOS…” Wild scenes as the city council DELAYS a vote on a data centers moratorium🤔— leading to chants of “BOUGHT AND SOLD!” and “SELL OUTS!” More: www.actionnews5.com/2026/10/06/d...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin
Elon Musk, douchy and doughy and pale
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My man looks like he owns a restaurant called Serf and TERF
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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 06/10/2026
The LAPD union is spending millions to defeat a half cent sales tax that would fund firefighters www.latimes.com/california/s...
The Los Angeles Police Department's officer union said Tuesday it will oppose Measure FD, the half-cent sales tax measure on the Nov. 3 ballot pushed by the city firefighters' union - setting up a bitter and expensive clash between two of the city's most powerful unions.
The Police Protective League said it plans to spend several million dollars on broadcast and digital advertising as well as mailers to oppose Measure FD, which if approved by voters would direct hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the Fire Department to build new stations, hire firefighters and upgrade
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
Troy Jackson on the Iran War: "Sen. Collins voted for it 5 times before she started voting against it. By that time, we're already into it and we're in another forever war that you just heard her say, it's not thought out, we don't know what we're doing, but she made sure that it happened."
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 23h
Abolish ICE.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 07/10/2026
Hey how about 722 advanced math papers dumped on everyone’s head. Don’t worry, there’s a forty page catalog summarizing all the claimed results. github.com/openai/math
github.com
GitHub - openai/math
Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23h
ICE has ordered 6,650 pairs—and says it'll ignore any bans.
motherjones.com
Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22h
Man, what does SCOTUS brain do to you? RBG and Alito were both like "I alone have discovered the secret to immortality and my political party shall rule forever." There's gotta be something in the water supply or their brains got mercury poisoned like those ancient Chinese emperors or whatever.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h
(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 22h
I am struck that the political theory of MAGA in Trump 2.0 is the GOP can win without sound or moral government if everyone throws red meat to the cameras as the occasional bribe. You see it with Trump, Patel, Hegseth, all of them. Anyway, Trump's approval is at, like, -23, so...no luck on that.
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Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social · 22h
Bolsheviks in July of 1917
bro, you’re fine. you just need an impossible sequence of events to play out in perfect order against all odds and you’ll be fine
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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thank you to everyone sharing in this moment! I’m so grateful to all my trainees & collaborators… dlab.stanford.edu/group-members (pic: Peter and I together in 2017) Reading for all those asking: for technical details: dlab.stanford.edu for everyone: deisseroth.org/projections
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Stephanie @forest-elf.com · 06/10/2026
I am 56 years old. I've literally never been as worried for my country since I hid under my desk for nuclear drills. Not from an outside bomb...but from destruction from within'.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Alarming — 🇺🇸 Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social denied access to military facilities in the Middle East: “Unprecedented. Hegseth is trying to cover up the extent of the damage from a war spiraling out of control. This should be unacceptable to everybody, Republican or Democrat.”
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 06/10/2026
That’s my mayor 🫡 gaycitynews.com/nyc-9-millio...
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NYC to allocate $9 million to non-profits for youth gender-affirming care as private hospitals retreat
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is planning to steer nearly $9 million to non-profit health providers to deliver gender-affirming
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There it is
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 06/10/2026
kinda breathtaking to watch the U.S. media establishment lose its shit about one maybe-plague death in a Russian backwater town with 3,887 confirmed measles cases reported in the United States, SO FAR, in 2026
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The president should never joke about American cities getting bombed. Don’t normalize his constant pathetic, insane, and completely unhinged behavior.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m loving the “well akshually he didn’t REALLY mean let Iran take out Los Angeles and San Diego” excuses today. Cool. Explain the assholes in the crowd who thought it was fucking hilarious. Deplorables wasn’t strong enough.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 06/10/2026
'That's the neat part, you don't' meme
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026
One thing about Copenhagen is that there's tons of dense housing but you *never* find it fronting a busy road with cars racing past, which describes about 90% of the apartments in the US. They manage to make it feel tucked away, private, cozy. (These are all from Sluseholmen, my dream neighborhood.)
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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The fascist monopolization of US media, intent on ending what's left of democracy on behalf of billionaire mobsters, was finalized by a Democratic-appointed SCOTUS justice.
Deadline&
@DEADLINE
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied a last minute
effort to halt Paramount's merger with Warner Bros.
Discovery, a transaction that is scheduled to close on
Tuesday.
See more details here: deadline.com/2026/10/paramo..
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 06/10/2026
as longtime readers know i am a longtime hegseth hater, but i think bouie is right here to note that hegseth's remark that "trannies" are out of the military is, by itself, an impeachable offense obviously much else besides, but i want to dwell on this
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Pete Hegseth: Bully, Bigot and the Biggest Loser Imaginable
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 06/10/2026
Trump spends “a ton” of time worrying about future efforts by Democrats to tear down Trump-branded public properties. @swin24.bsky.social & @andrewperez.bsky.social explain how Trump's forcing officials to brainstorm legal arguments for institutionalizing his cult forever: zeteo.com/p/de-trumpif...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.
nytimes.com
Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Yeah, sorry your kid died or whatever. What do you think about my chandeliers?"
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We didn’t learn anything from Covid. People are already confidently calling the plague a nothingburger. Sure, we have cipro and doxycycline. The obvious concern here is that this strain was modified to be antibiotic resistant or spread more easily. We simply don’t know yet.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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