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Using the "-ai" to tell google AI to STFU.

Her official campaign page is the first hit, and it says, "To trans kids, their parents, and to trans folks everywhere: I see you, I support you, and I will never stop fighting for your right to..."

I didn't copy the whole statement, just Google's summary. Now unless they're TRULY evil and man-in-the-middling the official web page, we're good.

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That's assuming the AI isn't lying to you. I do believe, however, it's probably right this time.

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I'd so show my age if I tried this...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yep... this will not be 1982.

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The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

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Dan McDonald @kebe.com · 27/09/2026

Remembering my 1991-1992 department-chair contrasting Dijkstra and Hoare for us young'uns. So far I've seen two SI-ish units in the field, thank you: Dijkstra -> arrogance, typically nano(?) Lampson -> thought (internal and I/O, can mismatch), typically milli Feels like we're missing some.

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Dan McDonald @kebe.com · 27/09/2026

Thinking about some of my new co-workers, including the one who took one for the team to read this guy's book so nobody else needed to. IYKYK.

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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some book recommendations, tired old feminist edition: 1) Fraternity Gang Rape, by the late cultural anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday. She uses the term to refer to any organized group of men, but that certainly includes actual frats. bookshop.org/p/books/frat...

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Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus

This widely acclaimed and meticulously documented volume illustrates, in painstaking and disturbing detail, the nature of fraternity gang rape. Drawing on interviews with both victims and fraternity m...

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TFW your inner "please don't suck" chants actually work?!?

I remember 2.0/5.0 being a steaming pile. A big question later was was which-version of SunOS-5/Solaris-2 finally-delivered? I personally accepted it was Good Enough with 2.4. Some would argue 2.3, and once 2.6 (and sockfs and VLSM) shipped, people couldn't whine on things as much any more.

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No. See my prior post about "recovering-from-fuckup energy." Yeah it pissed people off, but enough of the internals were needed for the multi-{socket,core} future. Now if they'd thought of sockfs (landed in 2.6) from the start it would've kept a good chunk of those folks from running away, NGL.

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I know you've told me before... but I'll be damned if I can remember WHAT it was.

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I just remembered ONLY NOW that one of the Oxide-retro companies literally BOUGHT another one of them.

Libra-season Eryn @eryn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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My 50 year Little League volunteer dad, who retired as administrator for half of our state, would cry broken-hearted tears at some of these comments In 2001 in our small farm town, he allowed a child named Ash to play on a boys' team & keep their birth certificate private between the parents & Dad

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I still have PTSD from that Ann Selzer Harris +3 IA poll in October

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I found that my response to this merited something longer on what Sun got wrong bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/20/w...

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What Sun got wrong | The Observation Deck

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Dan McDonald @kebe.com · 21/09/2026

That recover-from-fuckups energy made me think Sun had the capacity to transcend the DEC path. Your stories of Cheetah and proto-Joyent show that you can only fuck up so many times. /me side eyes NIH stories from Sun, too...

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Dan McDonald @kebe.com · 21/09/2026

When I joined Sun in 1996, I said to myself and a few choice others from NRL: "Worst case? It'll be the next DEC." Damn... And your HN post talking about Cheetah: I remember over beers hearing a HW platform engineer talking about how awful Viking (SuperSPARC aka sun4m) was, but seeing Sun recover.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026

Yeah, Taylor Lorenz's brain, like many others, has been scattered, smothered, covered at the Nazi bar

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Dan McDonald @kebe.com · 20/09/2026

Multiple values of "that"/"great idea" fit here.

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Dan McDonald @kebe.com · 20/09/2026

I had to look up who Doug Wilson was... man definitely deserves "fuck you" at a bare minimum.

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Has there ever been a team who wins all of their games in the last quarter?

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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 19/09/2026

Any Doctor Who fans in particular have an opinion on choice 3 there?

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Bowdoin helmets going hard this week.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Glaring error in “free speech” rankings is they exclude Dartmouth’s use of state swat team w/ long guns to in some cases violently arrest peaceful Gaza protesters obstructing nothing. But the elephant now is AI, college’s embrace of it, & what I’ve encountered as student dismay & self-censorship.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

In the past year, the Defense Department has rapidly made Maven a cornerstone of the US military apparatus. Several former senior US military officials now work for Palantir, including some with high-level security clearances in Centcom’s Tampa headquarters. Their role is to keep the software functioning inside secure military environments. Some Centcom personnel expected Maven to flag stale information or inconsistencies in the underlying intelligence assembled for potential targets, the officials said. It’s not clear why they had such expectations.

The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

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Ben from New Mexico @bluefiddleguy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Meaning and feeling I can't explain: 2. One word in "Lawyers, Guns and Money" (the Zevon song) "Send Lawyers, guns, and money....DAD, get me out of this." I find the "DAD" hilarious, sad, clever, symbolic...many things. (h/t @cherylrofer.bsky.social 's blog) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT9X...

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Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns & Money [1989]

YouTube video by What's for afters?

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Shoot, no MA, but you mention more dates later so 🤞 for MA!

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one last thought for the morning. the Singularity cultists theorize the motivations of their demons like "paperclip maximizers" as either unknowable or unalterable. a Freudian would immediately pinpoint the dread of mysterious rigid parental authority as the cause. almost certainly a big part.

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Replied to this on fedi thinking it was new. I'll say it again, however, HOLY HALLUCINATION BATMAN!

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Do we new employees get one? Please?!?

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Feels like an upgrade to me, @edzitron.com .

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New @oxide.computer swag just arrived, and... hot damn

A t-shirt depicting Oxide Computer Company in the style of a famous and defunct computer company

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Socialism for white people

Hi, cishet white guy here (non-MAGA but whatever). Please don't forget cishet white women too. As for each genders' (no fluidity there) direct benefit from MAGA vs. false-perceptions? I have no idea but would appreciate an expert opinion. They want: www.politicalorphans.com/socialism-fo...

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Election 2016 has prompted a wave of head-scratching on the left. Why would economically struggling blue collar voters reject a party that offers to expand public safety net programs? The answer is…

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So cool the earth after a period of warming, huh? I shudder to think what the US East Coast looks like...

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 18/09/2026

They're cowards. Eeesh, I'm flying my first domestic flight since 2019 this weekend. It's only my second flight at all since then. I'm already seeing post-pandemic things (ordering your on-plane food in advance?!?), but I really hope the service isn't like what you just said.

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this thread turned out to be much longer than I intended if you have the ability to spend $39 on funding a kick-ass feminist media brand for a year, here's the link, I'm hoping to recruit 9 more new @theflytrapmedia.com subscribers before I zZZzzZZ tonight www.theflytrapmedia.com/no-slop

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Larry isn't planning on kicking any buckets. You *do* know the only charity he funds is life-extension research... HIS OWN LIFE.

lucytraveler.bsky.social @lucytraveler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Ironically, we had the best example of democrats not wanting transphobia during this primary season with Moulton vs Markey. The nationalization of politics leads to some weird discussions here

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Disclose the money! Show the receipts! Any "influencer" taking money from a campaign or PAC should have to reveal it. These sleazy shills destroy politics even more. Podcasters etc who fundraiase for candidates or who do their PR should be marked as operatives, not as journalists or creative people.

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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17/09/2026

People saying "transgender ideology" in 2026 sound like people saying "race-mixing ideology" in 1956, and their kids and grandkids will feel embarrassment at their feckless cowardice.

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 16/09/2026

obligatory restatement of my claims that the 75th anniversary of the NSF will be a future high school history question about the start and end dates of American empire

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Dan McDonald @kebe.com · 16/09/2026

I suppose the Apple employees who can afford SV real estate with a lawn can also afford a mowing service as that's noise compared with property tax payments.