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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲

@josh412.com
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Photosynthetic software developer & dog enthusiast from Pittsburgh 🌱 I post flowers photos from walks with my dog Macy 🐕 Also post about Judaism, Pittsburgh, heavy metal and sometimes computer he/ him 🌱 Josh412.com 🌵side project: @skygram.app 🌲

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
separately i think those organizations are clearly not up to this, but one of the reasons they are not up to this is that their belief in AI alignment risks are essentially theological beliefs that are conveyed to them via strong social bonds and emotionally compelling writing
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Doll @dollspace.gay · 09/09/2026
Unfortunately the products work lol
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 08/09/2026
I have no idea if this changes, but if we froze progress here, I’d say the job is far from dead, it just involves a new higher level programming language
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
2026 is wild because you can just say shit like this and everyone will be like "oh yeah, the text elementals, that's a good phrase for what they are" instead of looking at you like jesse what the fuck
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 03/09/2026
Like, if the people making these things weren’t apocalyptic millennialists, they would be ok with accepting the idea that they’ve invented text-based river spirits and not a God. Which is cool and interesting, and we’d be making more progress integrating this into human social life if they could.
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Ross Johnson @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 12/08/2026
Software engineers are plumbers, we always have been.
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olive consumer @machete.gay · 24/09/2023
hello my name is jrr tolkien and i wrote a whole book series about what it would be like if some funny little guys who just like to hang out and eat and have friends were drafted into a nightmarish conflict vastly beyond their understanding and were forever changed by it also wwi was normal for me
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/08/2026
Story time! Six years ago, my first book, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), came out. It was fun to write! I got to share all my cosmology fun facts and dig deep into all the ways the universe might end. I had SO much fun with it, I thought, "maybe I should write another book?" 1/?
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 06/08/2026
One wild thing to me about subagent orchestration that it’s basically Claude saying “I’m not doing this, but I know a guy” and that guy is also Claude.
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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.org · 18/07/2026
The Pattern We Keep Forgetting open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...
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The Pattern We Keep Forgetting
Over the last few months, in conversation after conversation, I keep hearing some version of the same thing: This isn’t normal.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Shabbat Shalom to everyone, and especially to everyone who refuses to compromise on anyone else’s humanity.
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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
"How can you not be romantic about baseball?"
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Main Tenant @main-tenant.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
There is no version one edition.
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 08/05/2026
Hold on, did everyone do so much AI last night that US-east-1 started to melt?
Screenshot of AWS status page that says

May 08 3:54 AM PDT We continue to make progress towards resolving the impaired EC2 instances and degraded EBS volumes in a single Availability Zone (use1-az4) in the US-EAST-1 Region. At this time, we wanted to provide some more details on the issue. Beginning on May 7 at 4:20 PM PDT, we began experiencing an increase in instance impairments within the affected zone due to the loss of power during a thermal event. Engineers were automatically engaged within minutes and immediately began investigating multiple mitigations. By 9:12 PM PDT, we restored power to a subset of the affected infrastructure and observed some signs of recovery, which have remained stable.   We continue working to bring additional cooling system capacity online, which will enable us to recover the remaining affected hardware in the impacted zone in a controlled and safe manner
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 07/05/2026
Writing code for work is basically just overseeing a bunch of coding agents. Like a video game where you have to trick all the MPCs into doing your quests.
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 04/05/2026
To date, @blackskyweb.xyz’s focus has been on building tools to provide a safer online space for members of the Black Twitter community to move to... With Acorn, Blacksky is providing access to these same tools to other communities that want to build their own spaces on the open social web.
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As X shuts down Communities, Acorn debuts an alternative that puts creators in control | TechCrunch
Acorn lets organizations build and run their own online communities using decentralized tech, with custom feeds, moderation, and analytics tools.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/05/2026
NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)
Crescent Earth and some delicious lens flareCrescent Earth seen beyond the MoonCrescent Earth behind the MoonThe Moon eclipsing the Sun, with the corona and zodiacal light forming a diffuse glow behind the satellite
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Today in social justice toolkit: A dilemma action is a strategic action that forces your opponent into a lose-lose situation. You've given them only bad options. I give some examples & then we talk about how to design them. This one's pretty important. Read and share, please?
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Force the Oppressor to make a Lose/Lose Choice
Social Change Toolkit: Dilemma Actions
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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 14/04/2026
SWEs with a higher SAT verbal than math score right now:
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Brianna Privett @russetpomme.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The NYPL Digital Collections API is being quietly sunsetted in August. The only announcement I can find is behind the dev login for API access. When I look for more info, all that's returned is articles from 2012-2016 announcing this leap forward in public info access. Anyone know anything?
A screenshot of the top of the api.repo.nypl.org page showing the announcement: "The Repo API is being deprecated and will no longer be available starting August 1st, 2026. No public API replacement is planned at this time. If you have any questions or concerns, contact us digitaldam@nypl.org."
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026
NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.
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Doll @dollspace.gay · 02/04/2026
The machines the Luddites smashed were literally the machines that let women work.
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 19/03/2026
This is so me now.
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arcadus @birdapp.rip · 05/03/2026
they should invent a weekend that struggles against the week for dominance, often coming out ahead and being longer than the week
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I’m thinking more about how we’re all millions of flawed sense-making units having millions of different lived experiences of our current, utterly chaotic situation and (for the most part, the exceptions hopefully are obvious) all trying to see each other through.
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Gregory @gregoryrl.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Is there a Vietnamese spot in Pittsburgh called "Danh Tanh Banh" because there should be. If you steal this just like, give me a free banh mi sometime idk
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sara m. b. simon @sarambsimon.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
excuse me
black cat's white paw stepping on a printed out text
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
ME: How's it look? MECHANIC LOOKING UNDER MY IMAGINATION'S HOOD: *wiping hands on a rag* I see your problem. You've been filling this thing up with despair when it's supposed to run on joy.
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Standard.site @standard.site · 02/01/2026
Hello atmosphere ! Over the last few weeks, a bunch of us have been collaborating on a new set of lexicons for publishing, indexing, and building out social features across long-form reading and writing apps ! 🧵1/7
standard.site
Standard.site - One schema. Every platform.
Standard.site provides shared lexicons for long-form publishing on AT Protocol. Making content easier to discover, index, and move across the ATmosphere.
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Voe, the Gecko @cravat-king.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places but still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater." - Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkien #photography #nature #love #jrrtolkien #books #hopecore #hope
A photo of a river from the shore. There are rocks covered in moss along the shoreline and a tree hanging overhead to shade the water. In the distance homes can be seen on the other side of the bank.
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 23/12/2025
Good morning 🌱🍂🌸
Zinnia flower, totally browned and wilted but still all toghether
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 22/12/2025
Good morning 🌱❄️🍂🪾
Trees with no leaves, in a snowy field that has many foot prints in it
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 21/12/2025
Good morning 🌱🌼🌸
Two white orchid flowers, kinda perpendicular to each other. Very close up white orchid flowers with another crossing i,  perpendicular at top . Very close up
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 19/12/2025
Good morning 🌱❄️🍂
A wooden one way sign, in between two trees in the snow, at Beachwood and Frick Park Environmental center, Pittsburgh A stone gate house at entrance to Pittsburgh Frick Park in the snow
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 17/12/2025
Good morning 🌱🌸🌼
White orchids, from the side
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 16/12/2025
Good morning 🌱🌼🦋
Close up of two white orchid flowers with wide wings. One is facing forward, other is facing sideways
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 15/12/2025
Good morning 🌱🌹🐩
Golden doodle dog in snow, covered in snowBig white rose, way open in a small vase
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
There’s a whole thing in Hanukah about how you’re supposed to “publicize the miracle” except that there are all sorts of exceptions in times of danger. Because the times that the Jews have lived under have not always been safe. May the souls of the murdered in Australia be for a blessing.
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 13/12/2025
Good morning 🌱🦖🌹
Big white rose, I a little vase with a white dinosaur and gray Elephant salt and pepper shakers guarding it
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 12/12/2025
Good morning 🌱🌹🏵️
Yellow roses in front of an orchid
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
3. Here's a page you should bookmark: It's the directory of nonprofit newsrooms that belong to the Institute for Nonprofit News. You can look for locality covered, including national newsrooms. It's so rich: explore! Find your niche! findyournews.org/explore/
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 11/12/2025
Good morning 🌱🌹🏵️
White rose, with yellower center, in a vase. Red roses around it
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 10/12/2025
Good morning 🌱🕊️🌸
White orchids, backlit. There is old clock behind it, clock has a bird on it
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 09/12/2025
Good morning 🌱❄️🍂
Red and yellow leaves on a bush, snow on ground
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 08/12/2025
Good morning 🌱💛🌼
White and yellow orchid flowers sticking up in front of a dark green painting
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 07/12/2025
Good morning to this part of a tree that kind of looks like face or something 🌱🌲🙄
Trunk of tree where it kind of looks like a face
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 06/12/2025
Good morning 🌱🍂💧
Red leaf, with big water droplets on it, laying on concrete
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 05/12/2025
Good morning 🌱🌸🍁
Pink flower, falling apart Pink flower, wilting
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