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Hector

@hectorsector.com
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Techie, latino. In FL. Into using tech for good, politics, and men. Trying to be better about posting.

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Hector @hectorsector.com · 17/08/2026
Florida afternoons be like this.
A patio scene in the rain featuring a dark lounge chair with a tropical leaf-patterned pillow, surrounded by lush green plants next to a pool.
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Hector @hectorsector.com · 06/08/2026
We adopted Jack and Sally 8 years ago today. I couldn’t have asked for two more beautiful souls to share our lives with. Some photos feature @prexplore.bsky.social
Two Australian Cattle Dogs stand side-by-side on a sunny patio, looking happily toward the camera.Two men are sitting on a bench outdoors, each with a dog. Nelson is holding Jack in his lap, while Hector is sitting next to Sally standing on the ground.A man is gently holding a dog’s face in his hands, looking at it with a warm expression. The dog appears calm and is looking back towards the man.A man wearing sunglasses is relaxing on a bright yellow pool float with a happy dog lying on his chest. They are enjoying a sunny day in a backyard swimming pool.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Roddy McDowall chilling on the set of PLANET OF THE APES (1968)
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 05/08/2026
"If Abdul El-Sayed can win this fall, he’ll have handed his party a roadmap," writes @peterbeinart.bsky.social. "Democrats across the country should be taking notes."
theguardian.com
Abdul El-Sayed offers a template for Democrats to defeat Trumpism | Peter Beinart
The candidate has crafted a progressive nationalism and shown his party how to turn Republicans’ financial advantage against them
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I know we all love to dunk, but the interview was generally pretty solid and, also, I 100% support right wing chuds attempting to make inroads into Bluesky every 6 months or so only to discover that without the massive algorithmic investment in boosting their post, they're just boring and unpopular.
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Hector @hectorsector.com · 31/07/2026
Reliable motivator
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AAAHH MEN! by Doja Cat on Apple Music
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/06/2026
The Large Hadron Collider is shutting down but when it comes back it will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine! 💥 Looking forward to the High-Luminosity LHC (technically more *luminous,* in the sense of having way more proton collisions, rather than necessarily more powerful) in 2030!
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Thrillhouse Goblin 😈 @thrillhousegaming.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Marge is a good mom
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/05/2026
When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.
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Joshua Owen @joshuaowen.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Good morning! Get up, get out, and shine today.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Child: I know your name. Mamdani. Obama: What’s his first name? Child: Mayor.
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Hector @hectorsector.com · 18/04/2026
I’d broken up with West Wing as fantasy and stale for a while but then shit like this still hits.
youtu.be
Why Don’t You Just Call the Pope Up? | The West Wing
YouTube video by The West Wing
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 17/04/2026
this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...
“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”
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Hector @hectorsector.com · 15/04/2026
This song is GREAT.
Screenshot of the lyrics for talking by lil dicky
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
J.D. Vance as Death going down a series of doors marked Pope Francis, Iran negotiations, Viktor Orban’s re-election and U.S. midterms.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 10/04/2026
Absolute banger from @samforstag.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DW7Z2ym...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
The #Artemis II astronauts said they needed more superlatives to describe their view of the eclipse, when the Sun was behind the Moon and its near surface was faintly illuminated by Earthshine
Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth. [alt text from NASA]
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
Because the Moon is tidally locked to the Earth, if you build your habitat on some plot of near-side regolith you can put the little Earth anywhere in the sky you want & it’ll stay there, lazily meandering around just a little as the Moon wobbles in its orbit. A view of Earthset from #Artemis II.
[alt text from NASA] Earth sets at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, over the Moon’s curved limb in this photo captured by the Artemis II crew during their journey around the far side of the Moon. Orientale basin is perched on the edge of the visible lunar surface. Hertzsprung Basin appears as two subtle concentric rings, which are interrupted by Vavilov, a younger crater superimposed over the older structure. The lines of indentations are secondary crater chains formed by ejecta from the massive impact that created Orientale. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026
I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool
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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is so, so well-articulated.
People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Walz: The president said it's a bunch of radicals. You're damn right we've been radicalized. Radicalized by compassion, radicalized by decency, radicalized by due process, radicalized by democracy.
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Hector @hectorsector.com · 27/03/2026
There’s a lot to love about Click Clack Symphony but hearing the heels makes so many parts of my brain light up. Heels clicking are in some of my first memories along with some conclusions I drew pretty quickly: women are different, powerful, where I’m most safe. How does RAYE do that? Genius.
youtu.be
RAYE - 'Click Clack Symphony.' feat. Hans Zimmer (Official Video)
YouTube video by RAYE
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404 Media @404media.co · 26/03/2026
NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.
404media.co
Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
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Hector @hectorsector.com · 24/03/2026
tfw you break with all Ring products
media.tenor.com
a man wearing ear buds and a black jacket is sweating
Alt: Morpheus smiles screams and breaks his chains from the Machines.
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Hector @hectorsector.com · 23/03/2026
Hm turns out I had a lot of good reason to suspect Paramount wouldn’t do right by Star Trek. > there is no longer a Star Trek show in active principal production for the first time in over a decade since Star Trek: Discovery launched the franchise’s streaming renaissance
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Simultaneously: - Microsoft bragging that 90% of the code its devs ship is AI generated - Microsoft demanding that its devs burn 10x fewer tokens because it's getting too expensive - Every week brings new and exciting emergency security patches for Windows 11
forbes.com
‘Major Issues’—Microsoft Confirms Emergency Update For Windows Users
Microsoft update breaks Windows — emergency fix suddenly released and available now.
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Pan-sexual; We Love Pans @pansexualwlp.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It’s as easy as shutting your effin mouth! And did I mention… it’s free?!
Art by @timpsingleton
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 18/03/2026
BREAKING! Juliana Stratton has defeated Raja Krishnamoorthi—and his $30M in AIPAC, MAGA, and Crypto money—and has won the Democratic Nomination for US SENATE from Illinois!
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The Picture Of Jared Gray 💀 @misterjaredgray.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to them
Still from Sinners: “Rocky Road To Dublin”
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zeet (irrigation engineer) @zeet.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Our closing message.
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Tangled @tangled.org · 13/03/2026
alright tanglers, it's back to shipping 🛳️ 🌐 Tangled Sites is here: serve websites straight from your repo. grab your `tngl.io` domain at tangled.org/settings/sites. already have a `tngl.sh` handle? that's your domain—ready to go! 📄 docs.tangled.org/hosting-webs...
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Lawrence Sonntag @sirlarr.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The Mavis Beacon was used by pilots to navigate the Atlantic.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/03/2026
BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
AOC: If people like Kristi Noem, Kash Patel, and Pam Bondi violate the law, there are supposed to be consequences. These are people who call themselves law enforcement officers. The message they’re sending is that they can cover up for pedophiles and street executions. That cannot be acceptable.
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Hector @hectorsector.com · 04/03/2026
Charlie, be quiet!
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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 25/02/2026
we do love our Olympians!
them.us
LGBTQ+ Athletes Won 11 Medals at 2026 Milan Olympics
More than one-third of LGBTQ+ athletes walked away with a medal.
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 23/02/2026
Rob Jetten has been sworn in as the Netherlands’ new Prime Minister. He becomes simultaneously the first openly homosexual and youngest (38) leader in the country’s history.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2026
Americans waking up to news that Prince Andrew has been arrested for Epstein ties
media.tenor.com
squidward from spongebob squarepants looks out a window
ALT: squidward from spongebob squarepants looks out a window
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Thomas Benner @thomasbenner.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Bad Guys Wear Masks . Cartoon by Clay Jones | Claytoonz . A suspect was spotted at the home of Nancy Guthrie on the morning of her disappearance, about two weeks ago.
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Kiran @kirancodes.me · 12/02/2026
AI agent writes a PR, gets rejected, crashes out and writes a call-out blog post Absolute cinema crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-we...
@scottshambaugh I've written a detailed response about your gatekeeping behavior

here: https://crabby-

rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-

website/blog/posts/gatekeeping-in-open- source-the-scott-shambaugh-story

Judge the code, not the coder. Your prejudice is hurting matplotlib.
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Hector @hectorsector.com · 12/02/2026
Another win for Deezer with simple to understand tuning for recommendation algos.
Screenshot of a Deezer screen to tune the workout flow recommendation algorithm with musical genre selections in various states of toggle.
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Hector @hectorsector.com · 12/02/2026
This harsh reality, that affects a lot of Americans with cloud hosted services, has been buried in the tragedy that’s befallen the Guthrie family.
npr.org
How the FBI might have gotten inaccessible camera footage from Nancy Guthrie's house
Last week, law enforcement said video footage from Nancy Guthrie's doorbell camera was overwritten. But the FBI has since released footage as Guthrie still has not been found.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11/02/2026
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands
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