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Lisa Melton

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My name is Elizabeth but please call me Lisa. I'm probably best known as the person who started the #Safari and #WebKit projects at #Apple. You may think you […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@lisamelton, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6h
Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims
Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.
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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
America's Biggest Problem By me and @valigarmander.bsky.social Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has four panels. The same bespectacled, bearded man appears in all four.

PANEL 1

The man walks past several masked ICE agents. Two agents are dragging an older man toward the open back of an SUV. Nearby, a distressed woman stands with a small child who is crying. An ICE agent is pointing a gun at the child.

MAN (thought): Hmmm.

PANEL 2

Outside the Supreme Court, several Supreme Court justices in black robes are drinking and celebrating around a bonfire in which the Voting Rights Act is burning. The man walks past in the background, watching them.

MAN (thought): Hmm.

PANEL 3

At a bus stop, a woman is reading a newspaper. The man stands beside her, leaning slightly to read the front page. The newspaper’s main headline says: ANOTHER COMPLETELY UNAUTHORIZED UNNECESSARY WAR

MAN (thought): Mm-hmm.

PANEL 4

We see an open laptop. On its screen, the man is appearing on a TV interview show, grinning as he holds up a copy of his book, Polarization: Both Sides Did It!

MAN: America’s biggest problem is… POLARIZATION!

CHICKEN FAT WATCH
In panel 2, the burning Voting Rights Act is depicted as the “I’m Just a Bill” character from Schoolhouse Rock!

In panel 3, the newspaper is called The Daily Gab. Under the enormous war headline is a much smaller headline: "Study: No one reads smaller headlines or studies." A sub-headline says "'My life is pointless,' says sub-headline writer."

On the wall in panel 3, graffiti includes tags from all eight captains from Star Trek shows (Pike, Kirk, Janeway, Burnham, Freeman, Picard, Sisko, and Archer) plus Taggart from Galaxy Quest. Other graffiti includes “Skitter Lives!” with a spider; a huge "BG," for "background"; and “Never obey! I order U not to obey!” It only occurs to me now, writing this transcript, that I should have made it "not 2 obey." Oh well.

In panel 4, behind the laptop, a large orange cat is sleeping. Curled up asleep on the cat’s tail is a tiny mouse wearing a sleeping cap.
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DW Innovation @dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h
"A data-driven analysis of global energy trends suggests many developing countries are moving directly from traditional biomass to electricity, avoiding the long fossil fuel pathway taken by Western economies." 📺 #DDJ #video report by Kira Schacht […]
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 15h
OpenAI’s unlawful incidents are piling up. I’m not talking about the models; I’m talking about what its executives are accused of doing to obtain the data to create the models. AI is following its master down a road of deceit. And we don't have the will to hold those responsible accountable.
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Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American Prospect
OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.
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Servelan @servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h
New White House Chatbot Is Powered By Musk's Grok - Joe.My.God. www.joemygod.com/2026/09/new-white-…
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New White House Chatbot Is Powered By Musk's Grok - Joe.My.God.
CNBC reports: The Trump administration’s new chatbot aimed at helping Americans navigate official government websites is powered by artificial intelligence from Google’s Gemini and Elon Musk’s Grok, U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia said Tuesday. “We have great partners behind the scenes,” Gebbia told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” A Google spokesperson referred CNBC to a company …
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 9h
“ICE preparing for another hiring surge to support Trump’s deportation campaign, goal of bringing on 5,000 new employees by end of year.. The hiring would expand the agency’s work force by around 17% and draw on substantial new funding provided by Congress.”
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ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive
A similar surge last year resulted in undervetted officers initially being let in and then removed as the agency skipped basic checks for new recruits.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h
I think people REALLY can't appreciate how badly the far right wants to prove that Fani Willis and Jack Smith coordinated. So they were not going to let the truth get in the way of their most sincerely held belief.
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 9h
#SCOTUS lets quick #deportations to third countries resume for now while it weighs #Trump policy #law #immigration #ExtraordinaryRendition #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt […]
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. HAHAHAHAHAH. Eric Schmitt just accused Jack Smith of lying about going to an Atlanta Hawk's basketball game. Smith went to see the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10h
I just had a second to tune into the MAHA shitshow. They have a bunch of techbros talking about longevity and how AI and tech will allow people to live longer. Of course they utterly ignore access to healthcare, income, and all other social determinants of health that actually dictate lifespan.
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Oregon Pacifist :pixelpumpkin: @oregon-pacifist.retro-gaiden.com.ap.brid.gy · 10h
Anytime you feel stupid, just remember there are people out there who think the Earth is flat. :odysee_flatearth:
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 19h
No one is coming to save us. There isn't a big single hero. That's a good thing. Following, trusting in singular persons is part of the problem. Keep your heroes at an arms distance. The durable way out is the one where we have to save ourselves.
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Servelan @servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h
Trump quietly caves on $5.6M payout as E. Jean Carroll case ends: 'A first' - Raw Story www.rawstory.com/trump-caves-e-jean…
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Trump quietly caves on $5.6M payout as E. Jean Carroll case ends: 'A first'
President Donald Trump dropped his final challenge to the $5.6 million payout to writer E. Jean Carroll, ending the case she won against him in 2023.Trump agreed to dismiss his appeal "with prejudice," meaning he can never bring it again, according to a Sept. 25 order from the U.S. Court of Appeals ...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11h
In response to a slew of anti-trans Democrats pushing hate during the 2026 midterms, Governor Andy Beshear provided principled criticism to the idea that red-state Dems need to adopt anti-trans views to win: "We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus," he said. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”
The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h
I drove by the new RM Sherwood data centre on my way in to work this morning. I almost puked. I can't believe how fast it's going, and how stupendously much money is being dumped into this one data centre. No wonder it blew past any possible approval hurdles, there's no regulation in the world […]
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 13h
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
I really like baby wombats
A baby wombat being cradled by a caretaker
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Patioboater @patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Benny doing his impersonation of his favorite literary character: The Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar. September 28, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan. #photography #dog #dogs #beagle
Photograph of a beagle looking up at the photographer and attempting to convey a desperate need for snackums.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
I just started writing up complaints about several different things. And it's all just so far beyond what I can even complain about. So please enjoy these cats while keep writing about the terrible shit that's happening in orbit until my brain switches off for the night.
2 grey cats snuggled close together and looking directly at the camera with their green eyes, the stripey one is hugging the darker grey one
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/09/2026
Yet another Democrat has released an ad decrying "boys in girls sports." This Democrat is NY-21's Democratic candidate for congress, Blake Gendebien. You can watch his full ad in our latest story. He joins several other Democrats releasing similar ads this cycle.
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NY-21 Dem Congressional Candidate Blake Gendebien Releases Ad Decrying “Boys In Girls Sports”
This corresponds with a modest, but growing, trend: Democrats are capitalizing on anti-trans hysteria, or otherwise leaning into Republican narratives on so-called culture war issues.
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Imperative reading. ‘For every arrest that breaks through into public view, countless others happen quickly, before anyone can notice. “The detentions are happening in a flash – we’re talking, like, 90 seconds from the time ICE shows up to that person being driven away,” Willis said. “And often […]
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
The "AI changes everything" people rhyme remarkably well with the "blockchain changes everything" people.
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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
OK, let’s try this: FB24976658: My Apple Account is locked every day Any help from any Apple folks to get this seen by the right people would be greatly appreciated! 🙏
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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Secret Ingredient - Gator Days
Secret Ingredient - Gator Days
 
Characters
 
Hannah - Goat - Daryl and Seth's Daughter

Daryl - Bear - Hannah's Papa
 
Seth - Otter - Hannah's Dad
 
Panel 1
 
Setting - The dinner table of the Hardy-Softbell house.
 
Hannah's family is having dinner.
 
Hannah: WOW! Dinner is extra good.
 
Daryl: Thank you. I tried a new secret ingredient.
 
Panel 2
 
Seth puts on a cute happy face. The backgrounds shifts to a pink color with hearts floating all around them.
 
Seth: Is it LOVE?
 
Daryl's face remains emotionless.
 
Panel  3
 
Daryl looks at Seth and responds.
 
Daryl: Toasted sesame oil.
 
Seth: Oh...
 
Daryl: Love isn't a secret ingredient. I put love in everything.
 
Seth: Oh...
 
Panel 4
 
Daryl looks away.
 
Daryl: I used so much love and you never noticed.
 
Seth: I DID!
  
Daryl: From now on I'm putting sarcasm in yours.
 
Seth: NO!
 
Daryl: Yes.

Hannah is ignoring this and just browsing on her phone.
 
Hannah is ignoring all this and has pulled out her phone.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
I think the terrifyingly huge SpaceX Starship launch that's happening right now is the one that's planning to deploy a bunch of the new Starlinks that are not actually approved by the FCC yet because SpaceX knows that the FCC will eventually approve them because they approve literally everything […]
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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
So let me get this right... SpaceX's "successful" orbital launch of Starship lost an engine in flight, was cut from a planned six orbits to two (and SpaceX isn't saying why), neither part is reusable, and the top part blew up on splashdown.
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
The District Attorney intends to bring the Cornell frat guys accused of gang rape before a grand jury. It’s a start. abcnews.com/US/district-attorney-re…
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The Funny Pages @thefunnypages.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
New Comic Strip Found: Doonesbury - 2026-09-27 www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2026/09… #comicstrip #doonesbury
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Again, one thing that's not making much of the coverage on DOJ's move to intervene in Elon Musk's lawsuit against the EU is that it puts DOJ on the side of Elon's ONGOING Blue Check fraud. emptywheel.net/2026/09/27/d...
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DOJ Intervenes in EU to Help Elon Musk Defraud Users - emptywheel
DOJ is now colluding with Elon Musk in fraud, all to export far right extremism into the EU.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/09/2026
The worst part about twitter is there are a number of people who think they have to be active there who are left-leaning but have had their brains absolutely cooked by the site. You can't inundate yourself in exposure to that stuff without it having an impact on you.
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Election experts have warned Donald Trump’s administration could use the crucial hours and days after November’s midterm elections to disrupt the results after struggling to enforce a crackdown on voting. With less than six weeks remaining until polls close, and control of US Congress in the […]
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Outrageous. #Trump administration considers building baseball #stadium in #GrandTetonNationalPark Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a #NationalPark, & an agency official scouted #GrandTeton this week as a possible location. #law #EnvironmentalLaw […]
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
you know, a nice little thing that's quietly gotten better is how many video games a) present character genders as styles to pick from rather than an inalienable trait of you, the player and b) reassure you that you can change it later
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Author Simulator 

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto  a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
 Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. Nothing could be further from the truth. Young people don't like the slop, the most tech people have the harshest words. The […]
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Glyph @glyph.im · 26/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@mcc/11733802244698… the way I am coping with my own version of this, of creeping corruption all the way up and down the stack, rather than starting at the bottom of the stack with like-minded folks and building all of modern computing up from first principles, is […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
I don't want to talk about satellites and genAI (though I appreciate all the comments in my mentions. I just need a little break) I want to talk about goats and squash! Positive things I can directly affect! (Well, goats are you know, goats. So there are some limits to directly affecting them.)
A view looking down into the bed of a large pickup truck, completely full of squash.  There is a bin of yellow and green gourds, multiple bins of acorn squash, a giant pile of spaghetti squash, semi-green baking pumpkins, white carving pumpkins, delicious warty pumpkins and big orange baking pumpkins.Me, standing in the middle of a mostly-empty squash field, holding a very large pumpkin (maybe 30 lbs?).  I'm wearing a sun hat and a black hoodie and looking very proud of this giant orange pumpkin in my arms.  It's sunny and the sky is blue.A whole bunch of goats happily eating weeds with a small lake and some trees in the background, with a bright blue sky above a pretty flat horizon.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
RE: mastodon.gamedev.place/@antimundo/1… always the ones you most expect
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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Thinking about how for years teenagers and curious nerds were prosecuted and thrown in jail because poking at a web site was a clear sign of being a ☠️ CR1MIN4L H4CK3R ☠️ Now it's all like oh no! the computer did an oopsie! no one is to blame, nothing can be done! ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
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Sarah Perez 💙 @sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/automatti…
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Arthur Zork (They/CyberNinja) @arthurzork.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
'Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the lead Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, described the White House action as “theft from the American people, plain and simple.” “These are funds Congress has delivered on a bipartisan basis and should be helping people—not cut off by a […]
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
#Trump is canceling nearly $1 billion in spending already approved by #Congress, the White House announced on Friday, using a rare & “contested” power to axe #funding for #immigrant services & #diversity focused initiatives. Trump’s Office of Management & Budget [ #OMB aka #RussVought aka […]
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump just now, via @atrupar.com: "I love women..." Nope. Dominate, assault, insult, disrespect, hurt, but "love"... Nope.
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
#Trump rejects #Iran proposal to reopen the #StraitOfHormuz Trump spoke to reporters Saturday outside the White House before leaving for a football game. Iran offered this week to reopen the strait & resume talks on its #nuclear program in 7 days if the #US lifts its naval #blockade of Iranian […]
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🤦🏻‍♀️ "US & Russian diplomats...removed provisions to safeguard use of AI in weapons..stripped..requiring syst's to operate in “predictable” & “reliable” manner..removed clause mandating ethical considrt'ns..when using AI weaponry..+requiring humans review milit targets developed by AI before strike"
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
AI coding's actual use case is enterprise software proceeding with vastly greater velocity from dumb idea to unshiftable tech debt waste dump the stuff was always terrible and barely worked, but we can churn it so much faster now
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Pay attention to Cornell’s complicity in gang rape on its campus. www.wonkette.com/p/is-writing-an-es…
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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Custom captions: 
Hackers’s in the 1980s:
- full humanmade color games for atari 2600 with only 128 bytes of RAM
- knows every x86 instruction by hand
- c so high level it is basically considered english

Verses, techbros today:
- my electron app uses 3gb of vram
- the datacenter i help build depleted an entire lake
- i cant afford the tokens to patch my vibecoding project

template sprites: buff doge vs crying cheems
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