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Josh Levinger

@jlev.online
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Coder who cares about the why of technology Gif connoisseur, itinerant shitposter Built OpenSourceActivism.tech, Spacedog.xyz VT born, 2x MIT.edu, Calif 12 yrs, now Mass again

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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 23h
Why is @massgovernor.bsky.social working with the Trump regime to expand fossil fuel dependence? We need heat pumps and electrification, not new methane gas pipelines! I am continually disappointed in the Mass Dem trifecta’s lack of leadership. We should be pushing forward, not collaborating.
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 02/10/2026
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Good For Her You Go Girl
ALT: Good For Her You Go Girl
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 01/10/2026
Unfortunately their lawyers were very conservative, and the best “prize” they let us give away was a 10% off coupon from Spirit Halloween. I thought they’d get a signed guitar from Bono or something. Elon gave away millions last cycle. The left has to be able to respond when they stretch the rules.
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 01/10/2026
This is a great use of incentives to get people out to vote. I tried to do this with @rockthevote.org all the way back in 2012, when I helped them build a social platform for registering your friends. At the Citizen Engagement Lab we built the tech, and they handled the promotion and prizes.
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 30/09/2026
And there’s basically no difference between any of the companies, so they are marketing as hard as they can to make you think of them whenever you google to renew.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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LonEarth @lonearth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you have any interest in electing a new and more progressive Governor in Vermont, now is the time to show your support for Amanda Janoo. Volunteer, donate, talk to your people, get a yard sign. Do it soon. Janoo is ahead in the polls! Vote #Janoo for #Vermont Governor.
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Poll shows Gov. Phil Scott trailing Democrat Amanda Janoo
Five-time Vermont Gov. Phil Scott’s bid for a sixth term could be in jeopardy, according to a new political poll.
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 23/09/2026
Jamelle Bouie is excellent on TikTok www.tiktok.com/@jamellebouie Andr3w is also quite fun, www.tiktok.com/@andr3wsky And RebMasel is great for legal stuff www.tiktok.com/@rebmasel
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b-boy bouiebaisse's Creator Profile
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 22/09/2026
Sure sounds like we need Medicare for All, so no one needs to navigate this conundrum.
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 22/09/2026
Reverently, *dean scream*
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 22/09/2026
I don’t think it’ll take 20 years. The sci-fi short Slaughterbots came out 8 years ago, and feels like it could come true in the next 5. youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU?...
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Sci-Fi Short Film “Slaughterbots” | DUST
YouTube video by DUST
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 21/09/2026
That was over 40 years ago. I drove all over Nevada in the 2020s, and while there isn’t always car traffic once you’re off I-80 there are always trucks. And even late at night there can be wildlife. Most new cars have the ability to track local speed limits, and should enforce a reasonable maximum.
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 21/09/2026
We really must stop these aeroplanes from taking our neighbors over the sea. It’s starting to feel like Holland in 1945 around here.
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 20/09/2026
Das Racist comeback, but now they’re actually racist!
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026
people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 17/09/2026
Link to the interaction: x.com/sama/status/... The context was lost when I deleted my tweets and X put up the paywall, but I’ve been trying to shitpost about this for awhile…
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 17/09/2026
Sam Altman replied to me on Twitter long ago, “once we invent AGI we can ask it to solve climate change for us.” Bro, we know how: just stop burning fossil fuels. Turn off the machine that runs on plagiarism and methane gas! These are not serious people. Their brains are cooked by money and power.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 15/09/2026
I’m starting to think that orb was cursed
Donald Trump, King Salman of Saudi Arabia and President Sisi of Egypt all touch an ominously glowing orb.
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 14/09/2026
Macklemore has always had it
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Macklemore's Thrift Shop Dance
Alt: Macklemore wears an overisized fur coat in the Thrift Shop music video
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 14/09/2026
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The Big Lebowski Coen Brothers
ALT: The Big Lebowski Coen Brothers
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
TBH the whole “AI is going to kill us all and must be slowed to save humanity” thing feels hella manufactured to me as an attempt to convince everyone AI is actually more then just a useless answer-bot that lies and steals stuff so they can stop the bubble popping and putting them out of business
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 14/09/2026
What, it’s pronounced “doubt”? I always thought it was “doo-that”
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 14/09/2026
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Dire Straits Money For Nothing
ALT: Dire Straits Money For Nothing
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 11/09/2026
Iron Sky was not meant to be an instruction manual… youtu.be/Py_IndUbcxc?...
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Iron Sky Official Theatrical Trailer [HD]
YouTube video by energiaproductions
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 06/09/2026
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Starship Troopers Its Afraid
Alt: NPH in Starship Troopers mind melds with a big, and says “Its Afraid”
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 06/09/2026
What did they think this sign meant?
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 06/09/2026
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Adam Driver Winks in Megalopolis
Alt: Adam Driver Winks in Megalopolis
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 06/09/2026
BosWash
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 04/09/2026
History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 02/09/2026
Everywhere he went, Ed Markey's biggest applause line was about protecting trans people. The Massholes yearn for trans liberation.
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 02/09/2026
I thought it was better to be a pirate than to join the navy? Steve would never have done this. Either one of them.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/08/2026
Normalise saying 'fascist propaganda' instead of 'culture wars'
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 31/08/2026
Downsides are international coverage in rural areas, and POI location accuracy. But for most of the time I prefer the UX over google’s, and I try to default to a non-surveillance platform when possible.
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 31/08/2026
The base date is pretty equivalent in the US. And the user experience is better, because it’s not an ad platform like Google. Some examples: the lane guidance when connected to CarPlay accurate, even in Boston. And the transit updates are actually reviewed by humans for accuracy and readability.
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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Millions of people rely on the information they obtain via a search engine corporation which just proved it would alter digital reality if instructed to do so by those in political power. That’s some crazy shit, Google.
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 31/08/2026
I got tickets to see Prince in Oakland CA in March 2014 at a “secret show.” Was excited to go, until I saw how much people were paying scalpers online. So I sold my pair and took my wife to a really nice dinner. Then he died two years later, and I never saw the revolution live.
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 30/08/2026
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Jonah Jameson Laughing Ha Ha Ha
ALT: Jonah Jameson Laughing Ha Ha Ha
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 29/08/2026
Even better, Katra is a female dog. So he’ll be doing all that “data collection” just for fun.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026
Genuinely abundant, cheap, accessible energy has vastly more liberatory potential than AI, for vastly more people -- especially more poor people. Which, I guess, is your answer.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Just as world leaders decide to ignore climate change, everything climate scientists predicted is coming true.
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The devastating forces behind the deadly Himalayan flood
Torrent that tore through settlements near Nepal’s border with China comes as scientists warn climate change is increasing risks
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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Parton ("9 to 5," 1980) provides a more trenchant critique of capital than does Marx ("Das Kapital," 1867) because as a researcher, Parton correctly frames the problem of capital as exacerbating but not supplanting other pre-existing human dynamics such as gender roles. In this essay, I will
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 26/08/2026
Jesus, I forgot about Mitch McConnell. He should be a gimme. bsky.app/profile/coac...
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton in 24 hours?! Someone kick the claw machine to reshuffle it.
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TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Neutral in the culture war"
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/08/2026
how odd that our gilded age would also see a dramatic rise in racism and eugenics, what a strange coincidence
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
They didn't like Aaron Swartz's goals (making scientific knowledge more accessible to the public) and they do like the LLM companies' goals (permanently crushing the labor market for knowledge workers)
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 19/08/2026
Don’t cite the deep magic at me, I was there when it was written!
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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 19/08/2026
We’re gonna need a new ELF
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Will Ferrell as Buddy the Elf: Yay!
Alt: Buddy the Elf is excited
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