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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

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Bill Tucker @imbilltucker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

RVAKatana Putting the “yes!” In no-dachi rva-katana.com

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Growth for the sake of Growth is the ideology of the cancer cell” Edward Abbey quote poster spotted in Carlton, Victoria

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Bill Tucker @imbilltucker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Last night was fun #clojureconj but it’s time to say goodbye. See you next time!

A functional but horizontal pedestrian signal lies on the sidewalk and partially in the street.

“Despite the abuse I continue to do my best”

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Murderbot, you need to get your act together.

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Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 02/10/2026

our laziness is what allows us as humans to say no, and this helps us push back against complexity @bcantrill.bsky.social #monktoberfest

A slide that says:

The virtue of laziness
• Our need to comprehend and compose systems drives us towards developing simple, powerful abstractions
• This is our drive to cognitive efficiency in a system - what Larry Wall famously called the programmer virtue of laziness
• LLMs lack the virtue of laziness - they are biased to the complex
• Moreover, their limited context makes them tautologically emergent..

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Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 02/10/2026

literally me last week trying to define "simplier" in the context of complexity last week for a specific project @bcantrill.bsky.social in his talk today at #monktoberfest

Photo of a speaker presenting to a seated audience in a bright room. The projected slide, titled "Abstraction and complexity," shows a two-axis chart. The vertical axis runs from "Engineered" (top) to "Emergent" (bottom), and the horizontal axis from "Complex" (left) to "Simple" (right). The quadrants are labeled Constructed, Revolutionary, Accreted, and Rebellious, with "Revolutionary" highlighted in bold. A citation beneath reads "The Complexity of Simplicity (TalosCon 2025)." The speaker, a man in a black t-shirt holding a microphone, gestures toward the slide. A live-captions screen is visible at right.

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Bill Tucker @imbilltucker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We’ve been reading this at #ClojureCamp but this is the first time I’ve seen it in the wild.

A book entitled applied higher ordered functions with the lamb symbol lies on a table

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Bill Tucker @imbilltucker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Orc and grain seem pretty cool. The Jank demo was amazing #clojureconj

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Bill Tucker @imbilltucker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Some one captured this slide by the developer on rocket league:

Chart with c languages vs Clojure

Statically Typed
Imperative
Classes
Mutable
Code as Syntax
Edit-Compile-Run
Dynamically Typed
Functional
Data
Immutable
Code as Data
Interactive

All these attributes are maxed out for clojure.

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Bill Tucker @imbilltucker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here’s the guy who renewed my interest in practicing #clojure Thanks ClojureCamp!

Raf sitting in a camp chair in front of a fake LED fire with a plush green rug that looks like grass

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Kari Coad @pinecone99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Friday, September 25, 1936: Cleaned the upstairs. I didn't paint today because we had a dirt storm. It was awful. Retired at 9:00. #1936diary

Image of diary entry from September 25, 1936. Text is written in black fountain pen ink

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey hey Chicago, @criticalinternet.bsky.social is coming to the University of Chicago to kick off our new public service campaign: “EVERYONE HATES AI” An evening of improv for the phreaks, geeks, and weirdos who love technology, but hate technofascism. Afterwards, let’s hit the karaoke bar.

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Learn more and register at ccct.uchicago.edu
Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology
This event is free and open to the public.
If you need assistance to attend, please contact coct@uchicago.edu
Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 5:00-6:30pm
Swift Lecture Hall, 1025 E. 58th St.
Everyone Hates AI
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Tuesday, October 13, 2026 5:00-6:30pm
Swift Lecture Hall
An evening of improv for the phreaks, geeks, and weirdos who love technology, but hate technofascism.
Audience volunteers will join Joan Donovan and Sam Hinds of the Critical Internet Studies Institute to perform a live theatrical reading of the conversations among OpenAl bots as they hacked into Hugging Face, described recently in The Guardian as "a strange new version of English that reads like a cross between James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and tech bro jargon.'
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Expect brainmaxxing, aura farming, and tin-foil hats, followed by an open discussion on election politics, Al, activism, and the problems of Silicon Valley.

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Bill Tucker @imbilltucker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“ holding grudges is another name for having standards” — Fran Liebowitz “three programmers can maintain a linter if two of them are dead” —Jack Diedrich

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Space irn bru from space scotland

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 18/09/2026

We'd like your help with something. The one hundredth anniversary of Ursula's birth will take place in 2029. This may seem a long time away, but we’re already starting to think about how to celebrate Ursula’s life and art. We’d love to add your ideas to the mix—there's a brief survey here:

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Centenary event planning

Please click the link to complete this form.

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Bill Tucker @imbilltucker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... It’s great to hear an honest authentic programming podcast cognizant of the friction in the world. #clojure

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ed1f0d5f66f6 Joanne Cheng

Podcast Episode · defn · September 18 · 1h 22m · Video

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Next talk at @LDX3NYC - @charity.wtf What hand-crafted servers taught us about hand-coded code Until recently, we were obsessed with code readability and understandability, because good code was rare and expensive. So your ability to understand code gates the change.

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Bill Tucker @imbilltucker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Went to a talk by @brjavaman.bsky.social last night. AI is for things you don’t want to do. The big enemy is “cognitive surrender” where you just give up thinking about the problems and accept whatever the AI does. What a great discussion about the future and managing one’s career.

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The danger of AI advancement is not some mega brain taking over the world and annihilating us, it's putting vast hacking farms in the form of LLMs in the hands of idiots to trash infrastructure, banks, and public systems. Someone still needs to put it in motion.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'll be at Flights of Foundry! Come hang out and talk about fountain pens on Friday, or watch my panel on Saturday in Infrastructure as Worldbuilding! It's free, and online!

A handwritten note surrounded by four fountain pens of varying colors and types. The note reads:

Flights of Foundry Schedule
Friday 9/18, 4:00 pm PT: Fountain Pen Meetup

Saturday 9/19, 10:00 am PT: Infrastructure as Worldbuilding

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Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences @mateosfo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We functionally pay violent drivers over $1 trillion per year in subsidies so they can kill and horrifically maim millions of Americans per year. That's the medical/loss of life/disability cost *paid by victims and society* for letting drivers drive violently. All so they can have cheap insurance.

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026

I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.

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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.

Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/09/2026

Google Maps Introduces Crawling Directions For Cyclists Hit By Truck theonion.com/google-maps-introduces…

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

No fucking shit buddy. This is what we were trying to tell you.

Milo Yiannopoulos: "I didn't really understand the physical reality of how institutionalized the brutality is in America. The manner in which they arrest you, they put you in manacles, everybody is arrested like an MS 13 gang member.
It was physically degrading. It was frightening. I don't think I've ever been frightened like that before. I was weeping like an old woman for an hour. I wouldn't wish it on anyone."

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I dont usually make book recommendations, but I loved THE DUNGEON BOOK by @mytholder.bsky.social enough that I actually said “I sure as f**k did!” to an empty car when the audiobook finished with “Audible hopes you enjoyed this program.”

The cover of Gareth Hanrahan’s THE DUNGEON BOOK looks like a sepia dungeon map with a fire breathing dragon at the bottom.

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Feeling this has equal substance here in Canada. We to over streets in my #EastEnd neighboruhood yesterday evening to protest against government actions that would remove protected cycling infrastructure in Toronto. B/c the unfortunate truth is driver injure & kill vulnerable road users. #BikeTO

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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 28/08/2026

Again, check your community in this NHS map. I don't know if the GOP wants to just ban new bikelanes (more likely), or force removal of existing. Either way, this sucks. hepgis-usdot.hub.arcgis.com/pages/nation... Then click thru to contact your reps. action.bikeleague.org/page/101946/...

action.bikeleague.org

Urgent: Save Safe Streets and Roads for All Funding

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Jonathan Tweet @jonathantweet.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yes, the Dying Earth Humble Bundle is exciting, but you can also get this hardback from my personal collection. This great game and lots of other sweet stuff from my basement is now on eBay. Take a look! www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_...

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hahaha yeah fuck off Mars. Your atmosphere and magnetic field are dogshit too.

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Wow. The fascists sided with the fascists?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/08/2026

Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being…

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Ye olde victim blaming.

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: i'm jussst here to sset the record sstraight Rowling: becaussse there'sss been a lot of sslander about me in the yellow presssss lately Barker: i thought you owned the press Rowling: i mean, effectively

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Luke @lukepatrick.dev · 20/08/2026

Are you going to #ExploreDDD? Then come to DevOpsDays Denver #devopsdays #devopsdaysrox devopsdays.org/events/2026-... Are you going to #devopsdaysrox? go to #ExploreDDD afterwards Hopefully everyone could co-mingle at the same happy hour event that week.

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Devopsdays Denver 2026

devopsdays Denver 2026

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#ResistanceRoots Margaret “Mardy” Murie was born on this day in 1902 in Seattle. Known as the Grandmother of the Conservation Movement, she dedicated her life to protecting America’s wilderness, playing a key role in passing landmark environmental laws and establishing protected areas in Alaska. /1

Mardy Murie at her home near the Grand Tetons, 1953. Murie’s journey to becoming a conservation icon began in the gold rush settlements of frontier Alaska. Her path was shaped by a childhood on the edge of the wilderness and a chance meeting with a young field biologist. By trading a comfortable life with running water for a tent on the tundra, she transformed into a formidable naturalist and a leading voice for conservation legislation. Her legacy is physically stamped onto the U.S. map: millions of acres of protected wilderness that remain untamed because she chose to speak up for them. Photo credit: Edith English / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service / NCTC Archives/Museum.

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“This Chelsea bun reeks of sin.” “But it is delicious.” #MerryshireDetectiveClub #quoteOfGame

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Jasper J. Jaspers @jaspers47.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Dunwich Hor-reo

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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Great sign caught it well This button

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