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Joe Vilas

@jhv.bsky.social
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Geek. @jhvilas on birdsite. @jhv@triangletoot.party. Durham NC. Likes food & drink. Good at sitting on butt & wasting time on the net.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h
Enjoy
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Ellie Dawn 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🥺😏💜 @awkward.gay · 29/09/2026
The pay me in shoiks
The famous "they pay me in woims" Nancy comic but edited.
First panel is Nancy talking to teams femme Sluggo with shoulder length hair with a bow in,  and wearing a she/her badge: "I hear you're working at the Ikea". The bait shop has been edited to have 2 IKEA logos on it.
Second panel: Nancy asking "Do they pay you well?"
Third panel: Sluggo saying "They pay me in Shoiks" and holding up 2 different sized blåhaj shark plushies
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Micah @rincewind.run · 9h
"irreparable harm" is donald trump getting his feelings hurt over being told no and not people being deported to countries they have no ties to with no resources and no support system
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blaw @blaw.bsky.social · 2h
i hope this thing can feel pain tbh
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Ms. Rosenberg @msrosenberg.bsky.social · 2h
Ike is just a tiny little small guy
A large black dog curled into the smallest ball he can manage, in the corner of a sofa
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Jen @jeneye127.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sleepy blep (and teef) 🥰 I was going to take her for a walk before I leave for an appointment, but this is not a dog that is raring for a walk.
A sleepy black dog with a white chest is laying on a couch. One of her paws in the air. She has a little blep and you can see one of her teeth sticking out.
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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 2h
The kids are alright. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 3h
HELL YEAH GET EM
Statement from Mayor Cantelmo on Campus Sexual Violence & Future Community Safety
Late last week, I learned of the heinous and sickening allegations made against the Cornell students who, according to a former undergraduate student identified as Jane Doc, drugged and brutally raped her at the Chi Phi fraternity house. Despite the severity of these crimes, Cornell University administrators and police failed to contact or coordinate any response with the Ithaca Police Department. Furthermore, the University failed to hold the perpetrators to account. This is a miscarriage of justice and continues to pose a significant threat to students and residents who may be victimized at unsafe and under-monitored on- or off-campus student events.
Given this appalling response from university administration, I have no choice but to declare a new policy directive and corresponding Common Council resolution, implementing an immediate moratorium on all student event and special event permits, including, but not limited to Greek life and other student group gatherings, until such time that the University conducts an accounting of its protocols to prevent and prosecute crimes of sexual violence and publicly releases new standards and practices to keep our community safe.
Robert G. Cantelmo
Mayor of Ithaca, NY
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 23h
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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anti-leaf blower account @eboldy.bsky.social · 2h
i’m so fucking angry. i’m fucking angry at every man who’s touched a woman who has said no. i’m fucking angry at every man who’s used drugs or alcohol to bypass a no. i’m fucking angry at every man who’s used violence in any capacity against a woman. god fucking damn it all.
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Ms. Rosenberg @msrosenberg.bsky.social · 1h
I wonder how many people never told a soul about getting SAed at college for fear their parents would force them to come back home
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gorlock @gorlock.bsky.social · 4h
not to dox him but i saw an albino squirrel who smokes cigarettes
an albino squirrel at the base of a tree with a stem in its mouth that kinda looks like a hand-rolled cig
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CapnMarrrrk @capnmarrrrk.bsky.social · 1h
No, fuck off, NO
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Amusing Pseudonym @amusingpseudonym.bsky.social · 5h
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Old Hound @oldhoundderby.bsky.social · 4h
Dem dark money strategist:
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Best In Life - Conan the Barbarian Quote
ALT: Best In Life - Conan the Barbarian Quote
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 4h
there is admittedly lots of material to work with but i don't get the sense D dark money is pulling any punches this year
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10h
Starting to think this is a Deep State op
Can the president unilaterally impose tariffs on foreign countries?

No inherent, unlimited power. The Constitution gives Congress the power to lay duties and regulate commerce with foreign nations. The president may impose tariffs only when a statute authorizes it, and then only within that statute's limits.Who pays tariffs levied on other countries by the United States?

The U.S. importer pays the tariff to the U.S. government. Foreign governments do not send that check.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 12h
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Concretebotany @concretebotany.bsky.social · 10h
#Petunias shot today in the Fitler Square neighborhood.
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 10h
Hurricane #Polo has made two landfalls in Mexico today, and will spread flooding rains of 2-7" over the next few days into the Southwest and Plains in regions that need 8+ inches of rain to pull them out of long-term drought. @bhensonweather.bsky.social and I have the details:
yaleclimateconnections.org
After two landfalls in Mexico, Hurricane Polo's rainmaking journey has just begun » Yale Climate Connections
Moisture from Polo and ex-hurricane Odalys is helping spawn heavy rain and potential flooding from northwest Mexico into the southwest and central U.S.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h
The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h
Incredible. The 11th Circuit, in a 3-0 opinion (two Obama appointees and one Trump 1.0 appointee), agrees that Trump and his lawyers have failed to rebut the judge's finding that the entire IRS settlement was collusive, highlighting that no other explanation for their conduct was even offered.
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The appellants mount two main attacks on the district
court’s speech-related sanction. First, they argue that the court
lacked a sufficient basis to find that the lawsuit and the settlement
were collusive and that Messrs. Brito and Epstein acted in bad faith.
Second, they contend that the sanction is a broad and impermissible gag order which constitutes a prior restraint and violates the
First Amendment. We conclude that the appellants have not made
a strong showing that they will succeed on either of these grounds.The appellants did not submit or offer any evidence to explain their litigation conduct or demonstrate that the lawsuit and the settlement were not collusive. Given the record before us, the
appellants have not made a strong showing that the district court
committed clear error in its collusion and bad faith findings
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10h
The kicker is you can tell it would never even dawn on this Republican senator or his staff that a man might want to go to a women’s sporting event. But protect women’s sports or something!
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 11h
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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the kid writes @thekidwrites.bsky.social · 10h
“So you made that Heated Rivalry knockoff, right?” “Sure did boss, real focused on the NHL’s rules and regulations and nothing else, just like you asked”
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NomNomNomChomsky @stusherman.bsky.social · 9h
I for one think that Barbie taught us that America hungers for more movies about existing toy IP
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 12h
Buck was on one last night. Talked about how he only wants pitchers with big butts and hitters with brown or green eyes. Truly one of the best/funniest interviews in baseball. You can watch it free below:
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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 16h
Mute, block, & report — that should do it, right? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
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The Verge @theverge.com · 16h
It’s eyeing a $2 trillion valuation, despite disclosing mounting losses, investment costs, and safety concerns. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Anthropic warns of ‘catastrophic’ AI risks in its own IPO filing
Does it want backers or not?
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today, Marist's midnight poll drop is from Ohio: Sherrod Brown leads Sen. Husted 51% to 43%. Amy Acton leads Vivek Ramaswamy 50% to 44%. A key stat: 50% *strongly disapprove* of Trump, in Ohio. maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/midter...
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
texastribune.org
ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My neighbor is selling her "Thor Motor Coach Hurricane." She's in Durham NC. Give her a holler if you're interested. www.facebook.com/share/1JWrrV... #NC #Durham #motorCoach #forSale
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Facebook
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Atmospheric Underworld @atmosphericunderworld.com · 28/09/2026
Signposting was what I named the underlying tension that drove me to the N/OSR. After months of wrestling with it, I think I've nailed down what it is, why GMs rely on it, and how it goes wrong. This post was months in the making; come check it out! atmosphericunderworld.com/signposting-...
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Signposting, Signseeking, and Agency Spirals: Hazards for the Ambitious in Tabletop RPGs
How psycho-social patterns of expected behavior erode the fundamentals of RPG play.
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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026
My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking
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Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
James Medlock tweet: The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules. 

above a graph showing that revenue per audit skyrocketing above $90,000 while cost per audit increases only modestly.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the problems with "breaking the AI safety cartel" is that virtually everyone who wants to do that was saying that AI didn't work six months ago, and that for all their bad policy ideas most of the world's technical knowledge about reinforcement learning is at least in its membership's social circle
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In this Western Massachusetts town, it was a tradition: plate of gluten-free toast, big glass of soy milk, then over to the old lesbian bar for a little N95 time. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.
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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 27/09/2026
I always think "I'll respond to that when my nervous system calms down" but then it never calms down and now I'm a month late RSVPing to your wedding, my bad
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
I am so sorry @poisonivy.bsky.social the very first paragraph basically starts with sexual assault. Wha does it take to take really? How many more need to put themselves out there like this on top of what was done to them???
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
I am now reading @poisonivy.bsky.social's account which starts with "I’ve dropped a few articles about my experiences at Vibecamp, and interactions in the Rationalist / Effective Altruist corner of the TESCREAL diaspora." Because nothing seems to take these people out 😡
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Ivy @poisonivy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
just going to leave this here about pedophilia in rationalist circles
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
they're gonna invade cuba, overthrow the government, bring over the 5 exiles who actually want to live there instead of just sitting in miami and bitching, and they're all gonna get aerosolized by the locals
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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Astonishing really how ADHD-denialism so closely matches early trans-denialism (say, a decade ago, before it went mask-off eliminationist), to the point that it includes the exact same personalities, again vomiting their know-nothing opinions all over the place.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wild. This should create a Streisand effect, which Dem ranking members can enhance by sending the companies document preservation demands. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well, I started an account and logged in but was driven off by nonstop pictures of Alf's penis, then went back to the Artist Formerly Known As Twitter for a bit, then concluded that it was even uglier than Alf's penis and came back in time for us to have a collective psychotic break in November '25.
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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 26/09/2026
The first ‘Copilot’ got coded by a guy at GitHub. Then he got handcuffed by cops for strangling a woman Turns out she wasn’t the first he dated and strangled. Others posted their experience Alex Graveley is his name. He now works at UFO.ai See (1) his face (2) arrest warrant (3) thread on Copilot
Mugshot of Alex (Balabhadra) GraveleyArrest Warrant for Assault Strangulation. 

Here is the graphic description:

Balabhadra pushed [] onto the bed and she stated that she was on her back and Balabhadra got on top of her with his knees holding down her shoulders.
[] said that Balabhadra was squeezing her neck with both of his hands and causing her pain. [] said that the pressured used by Balabhadra was impairing her breathing and she could not breathe for a couple of seconds. [] told officers that she was able to get Balabhadra off of her by hitting and scratching him.

[] stated that after she broke free from Balabhadra they began arguing again in the hallway and Balabhadra grabbed her throat again with both hands and he began squeezing. [] told officers that they were facing each other and the pressure that Balabhadra was applying to her neck was hurting her and making it difficult to breathe. [] was eventually able to break free and she ran into a room downstairs.

When [] went into the downstairs bedroom Balabhadra followed her like before and he used his knees to hold her shoulders down. Balabhadra started to squeeze []’s neck again with both hands, and she was crying. Balabhadra eventually stoped and left the house. 

[] told officers she has pain on her throat, jaw, and shoulders. A thread on YCombinator.com on Alex Graveley’s early work on Copilot. 

My total comp for creating GitHub Copilot
(twitter.com/alexgraveley)

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pleonasticity on June 20, 2023 | 
I work on Copilot now, and I can say this guy is totally full of himself. Just because he contributed to the first prototype does not entitle him to claim creation. He wasn't even the first person inside Microsoft to use LLMs in an IDE completion experience. The work from prototype to product is an order of magnitude more than prototype alone.

orph on June 20, 2023 |
Orilly? We had no PM, EM, or designer: I played all those roles for 1.5 years.
I was one of the first to touch the OAI code model. Me and Albert developed the in-the-wild testing harness still in use today. We pulled all nighters to get GitHub approved for participation in the MSFT-OpenAl deal using those test results.
Existing Microsoft AI teams worked to halt our work, pushing their own small, worse models instead of OpenAl's.
I protoyped and lobbied for creation of the VScode extension. I invented and hacked the ghost text prototype into VScode, I invented the block based termination and implemented all the tree-sitter based logic needed to do it. Then I had to lobby up to Satya to get Scode to implement proper support in less than 6 months.
I named it Copilot.
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