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Sam L

@laroarmay.bsky.social
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Still setting things up here! Technical writer, big goofy nerd, wildly unprofessional (all opinions my own, etc. etc.) He/him

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 2h
‘If AI doesn’t deliver on its promise then we face a double blow to growth: because AI didn’t expand our productive capacity as hoped, and because other investments which might have didn’t take place.’ www.ft.com/content/bf40...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 3h
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h
The AI backlash is completely the fault of the dishonest hype merchants whose only talent is innovating new ways of lying. You pissed people off, now everyone hates you (justified) and your tech (less justified, but again, your fault)
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 7h
the more Musk spends on the midterm elections, the more ubiquitous this image needs to be
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aLec robBins @alecrobbins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
looked up mine and this is killing me lmao
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Hatok @hatok.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Corporate profits and tax revenues grew together until the Trump tax cuts. Now corporate profits are at an all-time high while tax receipts are at their lowest since 2021.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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WIRED @wired.com · 07/10/2026
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
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A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
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nicole🎃🕸️ @renaryuugu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare for All. Americans are done with a healthcare system that puts profits before people. Medicare for All can save 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year—turns out, progressive policies can be good politics AND good policy.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don't think the Republican Party can "go back to normal" but if it did, that just means being a vehicle for undermining government and concentrating wealth, enveloped in a bunch of dishonest obfuscatory slop. Why yearn for something to return to the exact thing that fostered it
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Bran 9 From Outer Space @bransonreese.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
God, that sucks for him. Difficult decisions? Goddamn. The poor guy.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I want lying to have consequences again.
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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Journalists keep wanting the story to be "normal working class centrist has questions," not "our country is currently dominated by stupid people in a right wing echo chamber."
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I do not like this speedrun we did from "that's not technically illegal so it's OK" to "laws don't matter anyway"
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pinball machines used to be outlawed because they looked too much like gambling.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.
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paradox @cha0sparadox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
pomni..
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Worcanna - Audio Attack Spider w/Halloween mask on. @worcanna.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fat people being considered fucking adult content will FOREVER be why i am not shy about what i say about my body, or things to that. I am FUCKING TIRED of this shit. FUCK OFF.
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Witchy Annie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔞 @possmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"JK Rowling is already a billionaire and everyone already knows about Harry Potter, what's the point of boycotting?" Nobody thinks boycotting will bankrupt her. We know she's gonna die rich. We're just asking you to show a shred of solidarity with trans folk. Absolute low bar bare minimum shit.
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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Greatest myth in modern political discourse is that partisan division is a result of ideological bubbles. This isn’t the case! Conservatives have dominated every aspect of our society for 40+ years. We know exactly what they believe because we live with the consequences bsky.app/profile/gaiu...
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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I feel like more people should be talking about this part
Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta
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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”
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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Saw Cleese live the other week, the work that the moderator was doing to try and keep him on track (basic anecdotes about filming Python and the Holy Grail) and not off track (SEND THE BUGGERS BACK!) was really admirable.
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tipHAGgard @tiphaggard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@bransonreese.bsky.social trying to be funny in the family group chat, I accidentally sent a noel text
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Finally a president who solved our age old problem of being a country where people wanted to be
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 01/10/2026
California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people
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California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people
The California state bill would have penalized people who secretly recorded people in public with wearables equipped with cameras and microphones.
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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The problem that we need to solve isn't rogue AI, it's that companies increasingly think they can just price crime into the business model and get away with it
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Sam L @laroarmay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can we call them fascists yet
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SCOOP A Pentagon influencer called liberal women a "pestilence" who will end western civilization. He's also: • Praised dictators like Franco and Pinochet • Said people without kids should not be allowed vote • Called immigrants "semihuman savages" www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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