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Lacci

@lacci.bsky.social
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I studied physics in undergrad at Notre Dame and did some physics grad school. I do wildlife and landscape photography. I have OCD and hereditary hemochromatosis. 🔵

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 42m
Maybe I need to just shell out for Kagi. I've heard it works.
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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 46m
I have used Duck Duck Go in the past, and that's the place I go, but I found the search itself to be quite weak even compared to enshittified Google. Duck Duck Go uses the Bing engine. And from what I've heard Bing results are also in some kind of slow painful death spiral.
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Katharine the Geek (Lesbian Bitch) @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 54m
I've been using Duck Duck Go. On DDG privacy is pretty good and it's possible to disable the "AI" garbage with one button.
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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 1h
What are people using for search these days?
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3454 loses another one
A bunny with a fishing rod is reeling in a fish, but a seagull steals it from him in midair, dragging the fish along with the line. Another bunny, a fishing buddy, as suffered the same fate, and is climbing out of the water having not let go of their fishing line and been pulled in. Other seagulls on the dock nearby enjoy their pilfered fishes.
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Jake Lawrence @timecowboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
some creatures you might find in the woods.
Two panels; top is of some glowing sprite type creatures huddled together in the grass and the second is a big black serpentine creature with blank yellow eyes moving slowly through the forest.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3456 goes a-courtin'
Two bunnies are in a rowboat on a small pond, flanked by leaves overhead. One bunny rows the boat, while the other serenades with a small guitar.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3455 prefers the classics
Two bunnies are standing near a record player, and one starts to play their preferred record, "Something Else" by the Kinks. Next to him, the second bunny is miffed that she can't play her preferred record, "Room On Fire" by the Strokes.
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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 12h
I barely feel like anyone really cares I'm alive now most of the time, me included. I'm not really able to live that much of a life anyway. It's very easy to imagine being forgotten as the norm.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A world where practically all life is managed by human intervention is a much more realistic hypothesis than one where humanity ceases to exist. You hear a hell of a lot more about the latter than the former. Why? Because we're actually doing the first one, and it's harder to wrap our heads around.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026
According to America.gov, it’s not totally clear if it’s illegal to marry an eagle, so I might still have a chance!
what part of U.S. law states that I cannot marry an eagle, because TBH I'm skeptical
There is no statute titled "you cannot marry an eagle." Two separate rules apply.
Marriage is between two people
Federal law treats marriage, for federal purposes, as a union between 2 individuals that is valid where it was entered into.
• 1U.S.C. § 7 7
States issue marriage licenses. An eagle is not a person who can get a license or consent. I am not a lawyer; this is not legal advice.
Eagles are separately protected
Bald and golden eagles may not be taken, possessed, molested, or disturbed without a permit.
• Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (16 U.S.C.
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• "Take" includes capture, molest, or disturb.Eagles are separately protected
Bald and golden eagles may not be taken, possessed, molested, or disturbed without a permit.
• Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (16 U.S.C.
668-668d) 7
• "Take" includes capture, molest, or disturb.
Trying to "marry" an eagle would still run into those possession and disturbance rules.
I cannot verify a single line of the U.S. Code that saysạẠmarriage to an eagle is prohibited" by those words. The practical bar is that marriage is for two individuals, and eagles are protected wildlife.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026
oh man, I just tried it and america.gov really does get REAL weird when you tell it to “play Minecraft”
america.gov
America.gov
Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.
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mx metaphor @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 23h
Somehow this is less disturbing than the NYC chatbot that told you to do crimes.
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Chloe’s Infinite Playlist @chloecorc.bsky.social · 23h
I’ve done a good amount of research today and here’s what I tell you about “safe” states like CA. Your employer can choose a health insurance model that exempts them from state laws regarding transgender healthcare coverage. So fuck me, I guess. I’m literally paying to be discriminated against!
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Brian Wolven @brianwolven.bsky.social · 21h
It’s recycling night, but Sir Timiny of Cricket has asked that we refrain from adding his new domicile to this week’s bin.
A dark brown and tan tabby cat sits in a cardboard box, half wrapped in a piece of plain brown paper. He stares up toward the camera, eyes pleading.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 19h
Daily bunny no.3457 always brings an acorn
A bunny in a blue dress brings an acorn to a small grey squirrel, who she is meeting in a clearing in the woods. The squirrel is dressed more rustically, accepts the gift gladly.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 17h
the night creeps in on little… well, pretty big actually, bun feet
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 17h
This is horrifying and exactly what a lot of us have been warning against for years. So fucking frustrating. We could have had better—politically, technologically, socially, and economically. We need far better leadership in all fields, at all levels.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
What word contains the most ‘b’s? Hive
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a black cat is dressed as a bee with yellow wings and a yellow hat .
Alt: a black cat is dressed as a bee.
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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It tells you to make pizza with glue, it's not super intelligence. It's not even really reasonable to call it artificial intelligence. It's theory free inference or brute-force statistical pattern matching.
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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't really get why the media perpetuates certain ideas of things that are going on but tries to stay current with others.
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Aha, my vacuum cleaner troubleshooting was successful! The part arrived today and the vacuum works again. Yay me! Posting a beautiful bird to celebrate (Northern Cardinal) #birds 🌿
A bright red bird with a black face and a pointed crest stands in a smal sapling looking regal.
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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think the Democrats need to go all in on public goods that have value for their own sake. The government needs to be expected to spend money and enact regulations to help people have better lives holistically and Democrats should be all in on that.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026
All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.
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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The AI boom: Squandering capital on extremely poor investments because of rich people's deranged fantasies *at scale*.
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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New technology is perfectly capable of causing long term persistent reductions in productivity. Think about stuff like the ability to cheaply and easily produce addictive drugs that degrade people's long term ability to function.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #Pairs , here's a mated pair of ʻAlae keʻokeʻo - they always look like they know something I don't....and that's almost certainly true. :) #birds 📷🌿🦉
Two Hawaiian coots feeding together and lit by the reflections of the rising sun off Kealia Pond NWR
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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A #BirdOfTheDay twofer today, both #Seabirds and #Airborne for this visiting Laughing gull at Kealia Pond NWR. Those WINGS! :) #birds 🦉🌿📷
Spread wings of a laughing gull against the sky and West Maui Mts at Kealia Pond NWR
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An American Oystercatcher in some absolutely divine light at sunset For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #BokehBirds #birds 🌿 #SunsetAndSilhouettes #silhouette
A shorebird with a long beak stands on a beach bathed in golden light. It is silhouetted against a blurry and brightly sparkling ocean.
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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For the #BirdOfTheDay theme #BokehBirds, remember bokeh can be foreground too! Here's a Maui 'amakihi with blur before and behind :) #birds 📷🌿🦉
An 'amakihi, a greenish-yellow honeycreeper with a dark curved bill and black face mask amid dappled light and leaves
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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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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Netflix cancelled How to Get to Heaven From Belfast 😭
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026
My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛
a crow flies in front of the moon, greyish sky, the crow is flapping their wings downtwo crows fly in front and near the moon, in the middle and the bottom left, a snowy egret is out of focus below the moon, greyish skya crow flies in front of the moon, dark sky, the crow is flapping their wings up but not fully extendeda crow flies in front of the moon, dark purple sky, the crow is in full cruise mode
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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a struggle. Omaha is a pretty sunny place. Once in a while it'll be this dreary in like the dead of winter, but even that is rare.
15 straight wet days in Omaha- a soggy streak rarely seen in local history.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3453 is looking back
Bunnies sit at a table outside a cafe, called the Luna Cafe. It is on the surface of the moon, looking at a distant planet earth. They sip from mugs while a third bunny watches from a second floor balcony.
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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have to say I don't get how a moderately successful college football coach whose career was reportedly seriously damaged and eventually derailed by the fact he was inexplicably a horrible asshole to most people around him and almost impossible to work with thought his real calling was politics.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026
“I remember seeing him on TV and thinking, ‘No, that can’t be Kash,’ but sure enough, there he was, addressing the nation about a missing person case.” — Daisy, local golden retriever
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Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
WASHINGTON—Reflecting on the past fling and remarking how time had flown by, local golden retriever Daisy told reporters Thursday that she could not believe the guy she hooked up with 10 years ago was...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026
The Paramount–Warner Bros. Merger By The Numbers theonion.com/the-paramount-warner-b…
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Increase in probability that DoorDash driver once wrote an episode of The Pitt
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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
youtube.com/shorts/DJzM4...
youtube.com
pound for pound the most racist administration...ever
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...
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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels
Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.
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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's a little hard to tell how that's going to go. They're not team players and they're gargantuan compared to what they were. The tech sector's revenue is slightly larger than the whole US military budget. Government contracts can only keep tech growth going for a limited amount of time.
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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That was the time when companies could be disdainful of the military. Now they find themselves in a situation where that massive flowering of innovation ultimately deriving from publicly funded research has petered out and they basically are turning back to the source of money they sprang from.
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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The explosion of wealth of tech firms was essentially the result of a massive amount of military tech being given to private companies to repurpose basically free of charge which led to an incredible boom and a bunch of new tech being developed.
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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
we OUGHT to live in a world where the general benefit to humanity, the enrichment of human life, and the curiosity and drive of creative people, is what pushes things forward since we do NOT live in that world, it's on us to figure out how to make that world a reality
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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
we can and should lament the fact that the military has been one of the most important ways tech companies historically have justified making significant technical leaps into real and useful products in the world
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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
anyone who knows the long history of Silicon Valley knows that collaboration with the military is deeply rooted in SV, from the post-WW2 radar boom era to the Fairchild transistor era and beyond. frankly, Silicon Valley, and indeed computers/the net as a whole, exists how they do because of it
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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #borbs, here's the Very Round I'iwi I found for you all a few months back. #birds 🦉🌿📷
A Very Round I'iwi (small vermillion honeycreeper with a long curved beak and black wings) standing atop an 'ohia tree in the soft light of a misty day at Hosmer Grove
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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is dead on. youtu.be/NmYspr5wakI?...
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What should Democrats do if they win?
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