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Ken @kenner7.bsky.social · 1h
Meatheads & Guidos
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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 21h
Stories are one of the most effective technologies for connecting one mind to another.
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Harry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 06/10/2026
This is a really good explanation from the perspective of someone who’s been part of the story of how consumer electronics are manufactured for 60 years, my friend Phil Baker. www.fastcompany.com/91617670/why...
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Why America can't build the iPhone
A veteran product designer and Apple alumnus explains how Asia earned the world's electronics manufacturing business—a shift he helped catalyze.
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Ken @kenner7.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Where the value is
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Airplane! (1980) @airplane1980.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.
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E. J. Swift @catamaroon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When There Are Wolves Again is on the UK Kindle Daily Deal today (5 October) for 99p. Bargainous! 😊🐺 amzn.eu/d/0en8hTOd
Cover of When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift displayed on a kindle, with a 0.99 price tag
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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) @peeweebigadventure.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I know you are...but what am I?
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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In this week’s newsletter, we go behind the scenes for the making of the cover of Brandon Sanderson’s OATHBRINGER—a massive feature with 25 preliminary concepts, sketches and studies leading up to the final painting! theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/knight-rad...
A dark haired, tan skinned woman hovers in the air in front of a wall made of uneven stone. White steps materialize beneath her feet in a tight spiral arch. Her left hand reaches out for a Shardblade. The pearlescent sword is longer than she is tall. It has an asymmetrical guard with one quillon curving up and the other down. Midway down the slender blade, the sword ripples as it is taking shape. Projecting from her right hand is a line of golden metal flowing like liquid to fill a massive breach in the wall. Through the gap beyond, a Thunderclast—a giant made of stone—can be seen in the distance. The figure is so large it's head and shoulders extend out of frame.
DEFENDING THAYLEN CITY, wide preliminary concept for OATHBRINGER featuring Jasnah floating with arms out in Y backed by a still standing segment of wall. A gleaming shardblade with cutlass style blade and basket hilt levitates above her. Through the U-shaped gap in the wall a powerful thunderclast with wolf-like head twists its body, one heavy-fisted hand swinging forward.
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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026
This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*It's a tough choice. One offers acid-free seawater but the other ticket's got a trillion dollars
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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Oxford Ministry For The Future will present A History Of Utopia with Kim Stanley Robinson and Brian Eno on November 23, 2026 www.schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk/whats-on/a-h...
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Dr. Bucky Isotope, PhD, BOFA @buckyisotope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ME: AI can never replace me AI: *starts making terrible posts* ME: well fuck
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Ken @kenner7.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am unaccustomed
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Ken @kenner7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Now you can eat the sandwhich
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Interesting substack by venture investor David Cheng on his recent China trip. earnedintuition.substack.com/p/involution...
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Involution Without Export Is Wasted Effort
A week in Beijing and Shanghai with the people building AI in China
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tolkien: I shall come up with entire languages, I shall sift through medieval norse texts to find just the right name, I shall think carefully about every syllable of every name! Also Tolkien: oh and I'll call those two Nob and Bob
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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bluesky as a university dormitory: you wander the halls overhearing snippets of ridiculous conversations, some folks are studying, some watching sports, tankies are tanking, foodies are fooding. People up past their bedtimes. Sometimes, you overhear a truly great joke. Everyone is procrastinating.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago
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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A lab outside of the golden circle producing careful, correct, genuinely novel work will be filtered out at the first pass, not because the work is worse but because nobody has the attention budget to check.
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Airplane! (1980) @airplane1980.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We have clearance, Clarence.
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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You can currently get a digital copy of *Empty Lots* for less than a cup of Saturday morning coffee, almost as cheap as the free flotsam texts one can sometimes find in an actual empty lot. But what you really want is a beautiful hardcover from your nearest indie shop: www.amazon.com/Natural-Hist...
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A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places - Kindle edition by Brown, Christopher. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
wednesday has a lot of work to do
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Ken @kenner7.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Then & now
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Ken @kenner7.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Price the funeral
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Equity investors sell the dream; bond investors price the funeral. Here’s what they’re charging those undertaking the now debt-financed DataCenter Rush: **Debt & DataCenters: CHART OF THE DAY** FaceBook bankrupt in one scenario in fifteen in five years? SpaceX & Oracle one in six? That... 1/
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Debt & DataCenters: CHART OF THE DAY
FaceBook bankrupt in one scenario in fifteen in five years? SpaceX & Oracle one in six? That appears to be what those willing to lend to FaceBook right now are thinking...
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nice photo but pretty easy to scroll past until you realize it was taken on Mars.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 14/09/2026
The year the author Cormac McCarthy turned 40, he announced that it was time for a change, and he started driving west. The journey would transform his writing and American literature, Michael O’Donnell argues.
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Cormac McCarthy’s Midlife Crisis
Heading west at 40 transformed his writing—and American literature.
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
*Mexican narco cartel crypto farms. Interesting that they simply steal the electrical power www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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Mexican cartel crypto farm seized in mountain raid — 300 GPUs, satellite links, and industrial transformers tapped hydroelectric power
Police raided a facility in Puebla's mountains and found 300 GPUs, electrical infrastructure, and satellite equipment.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 10/09/2026
AI this, AI that A, I’m walkin’ here
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Dana Milbank @danamilbank.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Launching tomorrow! Here comes “The Sun.” The Washington Sun, that is. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/b...
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Politics News Site NOTUS Rebrands as The Washington Sun
A trademark dispute scuttled its plans to relaunch as The Washington Star, so the site chose a different name.
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Ken @kenner7.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Its almost jean jacket season. The jean jacket is a unifying force. It brings us together. The workin man, the rockers, the punks, the girlies, the baddies, and lets not forget, good old fashioned sluts god bless em
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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
ODYSSEUS: I used ChatGPT to plan my voyage home and [attacked by Laestrygonians]
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
There are about as many trees in Canada as stars in the milky way
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Ken @kenner7.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Big Jar bs
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Sylwia Vargas @sylwia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Adding "you know, it's my birthday today" to every conversation, request, or email for the joy of it. Because, you know, it's my birthday today 🥳
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Ken @kenner7.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The restaurant that saved my life
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
*It's true that the tech scene in this decade has taken a dismaying turn for the worse *But so has everything else *Even if you're a demure and innocent Spanish olive tree, getting drowned and fried in an Exxon-Mobil mass-extinction event isn't high on your to-do list
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Ken @kenner7.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Built entire cities no one will go to
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
*You can easily imagine an AI-cyberwar argument where, for the sake of national security, we have to datamine anything that anybody ever says or writes, on a phone, a computer, or really any medium at all, spoken words, gestures, anything mulchable *"What if the Chinese do it first"
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026
There's even a kind of twisted honour in committing yourself to drinking Wayne Gretzky's shitty rye in preference to delicious American bourbon, a way to affirm your love of country with each astringent, metallic swallow. 13/
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
*A guy who totally gets it about the beatnik roots of cyberpunk: Prof Rudy Rucker. *Rudy's a teacher, but nobody ever teaches his cyberpunk novels in high schools. "Today, class, 'Space-Time Donuts' and next week 'The Sex Sphere'" *The only cyberpunk science-fiction writer who is a scientist
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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 01/09/2026
The best cure for a crush is to simply get to know the person
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity
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