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James Widman

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We could probably do better. he/him or they/them.

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James Widman @jameswidman.bsky.social · 2h
(Aside: there's many "when-will-i-ever-need-to-know" topics essential to understanding the mechanisms & long-term damage of a pandemic. Without that understanding, many people don't see a motive to prevent transmission. So don't assume there's no important concrete answers to that question.)
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James Widman @jameswidman.bsky.social · 3h
related: when a student asks, "when will i ever need to know ${abstract_topic_from_math/science/literature/etc}", one possible answer is, "you might not, but if you make honest efforts in exercises like this, it will improve your ability to detect bullshit, and that's an important survival trait."
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 11h
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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James Widman @jameswidman.bsky.social · 13h
If we don't have a policy of accountability & consequences, then we have a policy of appeasement. Appeasement eventually leads to disaster.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18h
"We don't want to turn into a banana republic, so we won't try to rein in corporations" is the kind of thing you say if you don't know what makes a banana republic a banana republic, and instead want to be a banana republic where the bananas are data centers.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 16h
As a technology it is an absolute blight and the companies that own and control it should be held fully responsible, including criminally responsible, for every single harm.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h
CO-SIGN
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17h
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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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 14h
👩🏽Should Black people get to vote? 🧔🏼‍♂️I'd rather not say! Too political! 👩🏽The Alt-right founder admits that its only purpose is a white nationalist ethnic cleansing campaign. Are you OK with that? 🧔🏼‍♂️I'm neutral! I don't like the discourse! 👩🏽Are ICE raids OK? 🧔🏼‍♂️Maybe? Stop dividing people!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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James Widman @jameswidman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
also, nobody should worry about the fact that the bad man's VP was hand-picked by peter thiel, who is a very very normal person and definitely hasn't been scheming to end democracy for the past few decades
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Restricting wealth does not stifle innovation. What stifles innovation is the hoarding of resources. Well said by @adambecker.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position
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James Widman @jameswidman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
in japan they have this guy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namahage (the article mentions scaring kids for being lazy or for bad behavior in general, but i've also seen him used as a reminder to practice good traffic safety)
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Namahage - Wikipedia
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James Widman @jameswidman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This isn't just a case where we need regulation to make uses of LLMs conform to basic standards of morality. In order to seem more like it might someday become profitable, the LLM industry needs downstream contracts like one Palantir has with DHS. That makes the industry inseparable from fascism.
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James Widman @jameswidman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
another #costOfAI:
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Brain bugs @ciabrainbugs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Alright, I started doing the Waluigificated smash characters on my birthday in 2020 and quit around the time we moved. 6 years later on my birthday again it returns.
If Ganondorf had a Waluigi-like counter part
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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Another feature of fictional bioweapons, and something that appears in a lot of conspiracy theories, is bioweapons being highly contagious host-to-host. But this is something you DON'T want - you don't want it infecting anyone outside the deployment area! That's a good way to kill your own guys!
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James Widman @jameswidman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the words "keep calm and fuck on" rendered as an instance of the "keep calm and carry on" meme
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James Widman @jameswidman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i like the final dissolve to the rock (at about 3:00)
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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James Widman @jameswidman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This sounds satisfying until you realize that there would be cases where people with a 30mph speed lock would, without even thinking about it, turn onto a ramp to get onto a highway and not remember the lock until they need to be doing 60mph. That'll be bad news for non-locked people on the highway.
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DEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 04/10/2026
not to go all omnicause on you but the terror campaign of the auto driver is an expression of police violence. the police kill people directly with their guns and they gaily refuse to constrain others who kill people with their cars. the end of traffic enforcement is a deliberate police action.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fun fact: When I went to speak at Broadview while I was still under federal indictment, 3 VERY obvious Feds kept following me, trying to copy these people. They had riot shields that said “WE PROTECT US” and asked me conspiratorially if I “knew about the plan” which was totally real. Bro. (1/4)
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 04/10/2026
Chris Rock already knows that I'm speaking the truth: that Black men get falsely accused of crimes all the time. But he says that "Woke 1 went too far🤡" while not sparing less than 1/10th of 1% of his wealth, to get his best friend's innocent brother out of jail.🤷🏿‍♂️
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 04/10/2026
70% of the US jail population is people in jail pretrial. All of them are "considered innocent," but a large percentage of them are also 100% innocent, and intentionally and callously falsely accused like this. Innocent Black men are falsely accused and held in jail pretrial for up to a year.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 04/10/2026
There is enormous pressure on these men to plead guilty to crimes they did not commit during that year. Their lives outside of jail fall apart. Their credit is ruined. They lose their jobs. They lose their housing. They can lose custody of their children. They go from provider, to financial burden.
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James Widman @jameswidman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
times when we *don't* hear "violence is never the answer" from the rich/famous: -when the police murder another Black person; -when trump murders civilians in the Gulf of Mexico, or in elementary schools in Iran; times when we did hear it: -when Will Smith made Chris Rock's cheek a little warmer
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There are SO many ways for siblings & heads of family to set real boundaries on what is acceptable behavior. A whole lot of people just opted for "sweep it under the rug" instead. And then we act surprised that the rug is now lumpy as hell & approximately at eye level.
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DEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 04/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/mrda... claims to be a trucker, can’t see where roads go
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James Widman @jameswidman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
update: bsky.app/profile/esqu...
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mcc @dryad.technology · 03/10/2026
Skydance, Omarchy, "X". For everything else, there's AI. The conservative goal is control of cultural production
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The US Democrats need to look at their next Presidency as an endless sprint to obliterate MAGA, every day for years. Until the cancer is gone then there should be no time wasted on MAGA tears or conciliation. Only endless justice and rebuilding the democracy. Govern like every day is the last day.
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Magyar government understands if they let up then Fidesz and Orban will regroup like the Brasilian Far Right did and can come right back in. So they have to move with intense endless purpose to cut out the cancer of Orban. Because five years is not much time to reverse it all & clock’s ticking.
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think Greg is correct, but Americans need to be aware that Magyar’s Tisza government is aggressively going after every Fidesz official, removing them, using every lever of the state to yank them out of power. This is far more aggressive and rapid than anything proposed in the US so far.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 03/10/2026
Cisgender people, particularly in the UK, please read this growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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James Widman @jameswidman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i appreciate that Wamus's screw-attack logo is rotated in the same way that Waluigi's 'L' is rotated
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Brain bugs @ciabrainbugs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You think I wouldn't do my main? Please
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wank
Like Waluigi Link
Wank
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James Widman @jameswidman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
has anyone rendered Samus Wahran
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ok remember that local Board of Elections lady who the GOP here is trying to fire? Because she's good at her job? I made a video. For sharing with people in your life who do video youtu.be/CyCacqkeTE4
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Fundraiser: Keep Irene On Our Board Of Elections!
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Some morning musings on AI. We need to stop talking about this as technology issue. It's an ethics & law enforcement issue. Thread:
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mcc @dryad.technology · 02/10/2026
Like never mind "deepfakes" these are the shallowest fakes around and they look just like the real thing
A post on "X" by Pope Leo XIV, reading "It is easy to edit any web page you have open using developer tools. Also, the Holy Trinity is an intellectually incoherent idea. We have been screwing with you about this for millenia and the only reason why is we got carried away in the year 400 over some dumb debate with a gnostic about the nature of the "substance of Christ"
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One week out, and this is where “I’ll do it later” starts costing people. If somebody in your family keeps saying they’ll get around to it, call them. If your coworker just moved and has been meaning to update everything, remind them.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
still messin' with erik (synth prototype). random technical thread, so i'll open with a vid: as an experiment, all code runs once per '4 samples', at 16khz; the only data type is a float4 ie 4 samples in a row, or a single note: pitch, gate, sequence and sample no (think: tracker cell)
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Morally against taking an AI ad
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