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Travel hacker, theory and practice. Freequentflyerbook.com for travel hacking and platform work. The last honest man.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1h
ME: And on behalf of my favorite team, the New York Jets, here is a football signed by the Super Bowl champion, Sam Darnold. POPE BOB: He won with the Seahawks. ME: well, your Holiness, I like to think his Jets tenure was an important part of his development process.
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 2h
ICE knew who Vasquez was before they ever put him in their truck. They drove off with him just to fuck with him, because they didn't like him and they could do that shit, before they abandoned him on the side of the road, threw his wallet out of their car, and drove away.
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‘They basically just kidnapped me’: US citizen taken by Border Patrol in Cary • NC Newsline
As Border Patrol agents swept the Triangle area, a construction worker born in the U.S. was among those detained.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 20h
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/10/2026
i know it's one of you | patreon.com/lubchansky
PANEL 1: A GRIZZLED MAN pacing in a grey hallway on a spaceship. He's wearing a boiler suit and holding a knife.
GM: NOW I KNOW ONE OF YOU BASTARDS IS A SECRET "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" SENT HERE TO KILL THE REST OF US.
GM: AND *WE AIN'T LEAVING THIS ROOM* UNTIL WE FIND HIM…AND KILL 'EM!

PANEL 2: Three more CREWMEN respond.
CREWMAN 2: I- I TOLD YOU SIR, I'M A HUMAN! FLESH AND BLOOD!
CREWMAN 3: ME TOO! I SWEAR!
CREWMAN 4: HEY, HOW DO WE KNOW *YOU* AIN'T IT?

PANEL 3: Back on the GRIZZLED MAN, who pricks his arm with knife, dripping a small amount of blood.
GM: PLEASE.
GM: HOW ABOUT THE NEW GUY. YOU'RE AWFULLY QUIET.

PANEL 4: Just to the right of CREWMAN 3, a COMPUTER MONITOR is on the table, with a pixelated emoticon smiley face on it.
COMPUTER: Hello there! It seems like you're looking for who the computer might be – I bet I can help! Let's all take a look at the facts together.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22h
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Hiding in Plane Sight theonion.com/hiding-in-plane-sight
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Hiding in Plane Sight
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Algum dia ele morrerá fazendo o que ama, estando no hospital.
One of those what my friends think I do/what I actually do memes with BOLSONARO written at the top. 
What his friends think he does: a photo of him in the hospital 
What his fans think he does: a different photo of him in the hospital 
What society thinks he does: another different photo of him in the hospital 
What his haters (hi!) thinks he does: guess what it's an entirely different photo of him in a hospital 
What he wants to do: yes be in the hospital 
What he actually does: a final sixth unique photo of fascist pedophile Jair Bolsonaro in the hospital
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Free-quent Flyer @freequentflyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Interview with the Vampire." My older brothers were watching it when I was like 5 or 6 and nobody thought to ask "uh should that little kid be watching this?"
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why are we not allowed to judge the character of the voters who want this?
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mike☺︎ (scary joe armstrong) @m1keonl1ne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"what's today's date?" me: 10/4 good buddy
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Free-quent Flyer @freequentflyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They have to give them away because they suck. I wish I'd just gotten a new pair of Pro 2's, the Pro 3's are driving me insane. They squeak! www.doctorofcredit.com/amazon-walma...
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Staples: Apple Airpods Pro 3 for $169
Amazon and Walmart are offering the newest Apple Airpods Pro 3 for $179. These sell on Apple for $249
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
More fuel for the thesis "coders think AI can do everything because AI can code and they can't imagine anything being more difficult than coding"
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James Urbaniak @jamesurbaniak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Ian rudderbutt @reasonablemustelid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rico Charges @NoChorus

Once at my granny's house my uncle excitedly said a James Bond film was on the tv. My Da said "sure they're all the same, a load of lads shooting at one lad then a mountain blows up." My uncle got really mad at how reductive that was then became furious when the mountain blew up.


Rico Charges @NoChorus • Sep 29, 2021

My Da, of course, knew it was the one where the mountain blows up at the end. This was a foundational lesson which illustrated to me that walking the path of the hater means knowing more about something that people
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Free-quent Flyer @freequentflyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This line of argument seems to completely miss *why* people have soured on college. "Young people should go to college" is the beginning of a sentence that should end answering the question "and do what?"
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 03/10/2026
lol another guy replied to this trying to argue about copyright law and caught a block. for anybody else tempted: i know llms may be deemed legal, but please try to grasp that a) that doesn't make it not theft & b) people who work on this stuff understand it as theft. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
This case is about, as Microsoft's Director of Applied Science put it, "an astonishing theft

of unprecedented proportions"; SF1437, perhaps the "largest theft of labor in human history."

SF1652. Defendants repeatedly copied millions of Plaintiffs' copyrighted articles in their entirety

without permission to produce substitutive commercial Al products. OpenAI's Head of ChatGPT

wrote that "[p]ublishers" face an "existential threat" from those products, SF1466, which, he said,

"are largely substitutive, period" and "will get more and more substitutive as they get better."
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
remarkable thing to admit
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Free-quent Flyer @freequentflyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fuck...fuck...more bad apples!
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 02/10/2026
here is the cover of the book on the top of the pile, as a matter of interest
"Pigs Have Wings" by PG Wodehouse, a comic novel about Lord Emsworth and his beloved pig, The Empress of Blandings, pictured
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A little known fact about the CARS universe, is that post-World War 2 many Volkswagens, BMWs and Mercedes fled to Cargentina to avoid the Nuremberg Time Trials
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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Look, I'm not saying you CAN'T lobby The Pope, but you want to be I don't know King Philip II of Spain wanting your daughter's volatile and unproductive first marriage to be annulled or something. Not, you know, THIS bullshit.
According to a bombshell report in the NYT, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious. 

Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisors "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm. 

For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under non-disclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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Free-quent Flyer @freequentflyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everybody hates internet popups but I am being driven increasingly insane by iOS system popups. Under no circumstances would I ever want to allow this but there's apparently no option to just disable this feature across all apps support.apple.com/en-lamr/102229
support.apple.com
If an app would like to connect to devices on your local network - Apple Support
Learn about local network privacy controls on iPhone and iPad.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
DoorDash walked into a buzzsaw of criticism and boycotts in D.C. this summer when it backed a Republican bill that would restrict when city lawmakers can impose new taxes and fees. The delivery company is now walking back that bill: www.washingtonsun.com/metro/doorda...
washingtonsun.com
DoorDash Apologizes for Siding With GOP Bill Targeting D.C.
The company still wants the D.C. Council to make changes to a new delivery fee taking effect Thursday.
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Free-quent Flyer @freequentflyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Profiles in courage
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Free-quent Flyer @freequentflyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I guess someone decided there was a hole in the electric charging infrastructure so Maryland build this parking lot with no services except a single EV charger in the middle of nowhere
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Spoke to a class a Columbia earlier about press freedom and anticipated having to explain what Gawker was but it did not occur to me for even two minutes that I would also have to explain who Hulk Hogan was
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Free-quent Flyer @freequentflyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I would propose a third channel of disapproval: most educated people, and most people who were born or grew up in the United States are fairly educated by global standards, don't think this would be a good idea. It's almost a parody of Friedman's already parodic idea of rational expectations
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Free-quent Flyer @freequentflyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I enjoy saying the world is built around parents but the one area that is adamantly not true is that hotels apparently have no way to communicate front desk late checkout notes to their housekeeping staff so you're in the middle of doing quiet baby stuff and BANG BANG BANG HOUSEKEEPING
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026
Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doing
slate.com
It Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?
How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage.
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LADA Surf @hrothgar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
also without weighing in on the arguments some have been making toward identifying what LLMs do as "thinking" or "understanding" -basically operational arguments- I don't describe these processes in said terms. Much like I don't ask anyone drinking redbull why their wings haven't grown in yet.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 28/09/2026
nathan feilder asks theranos "you're a real PNG right" and she says "Why would I deceive you" and she's on a transparent background but this a JPG, so obviously she's lying
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jonathan Frakes in "Wings"
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Free-quent Flyer @freequentflyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Journalists are the laziest people on earth but that goes double or triple for finance reporters. In this analogy is "water" good or bad? Or is it just fun to use Japanese words when describing the Japanese economy?
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Free-quent Flyer @freequentflyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've never spent this much time (24 hours) in Detroit before and my solemn view so far is: fun, weird city.
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Free-quent Flyer @freequentflyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I thought the Odyssey was basically a complete failure of a movie despite every performance being perfect which is kind of the opposite of my feelings about Dunes 1 and 2 which were perfect movies despite the actors just kinda bouncing around the soundstage having fun
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Free-quent Flyer @freequentflyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A weird thing about Hitler is that he had all these crazy deadlines for everything that weren't actually based on military capacity or even war aims. The Sudetenland must be surrendered by September 1! Well, why? It'll still be there a day or a week or a month or a year later
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Free-quent Flyer @freequentflyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Makes you think
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Free-quent Flyer @freequentflyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's a funny thing: simply because I'm a fencing enthusiast, I've been trying to track down any evidence Mark Zuckerberg fenced *at all*, let alone was "captain of the fencing team" at Phillips Exeter. But because both his Wikipedia page *and* its talk page are "semi-protected" this is impossible
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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
U look like shit big dawg
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you shouldn't take an iced coffee to a job interview because you shouldn't be trying to get a job. you should be digging an enormous pit or a complex system of tunnels
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Secret Panel HERE 🐻 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/on-whim-143945864
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Free-quent Flyer @freequentflyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Brazil called, it's asking for its coffee beans back! [sorry if somebody has already done this one]
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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Carl Weathers and Arnold Schwarzenegger hands clasping meme from Predator. The left arm reads "Nordic Midwestern Protestantism," the right reads "Buddhism," and the clasped hands meme reads "Desire is the Root of Suffering."
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Free-quent Flyer @freequentflyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Woke 1.0 was crazy they wanted a bunch of men to share a changing room
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The plane lands at O'Hare airport in Chicago. I pull a hotdog from my purse and a ketchup packet from my back pocket. Time for the forbidden meal
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Free-quent Flyer @freequentflyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nothing but respect for my General
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