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Matt Attaway @mataway.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We meaning Oakland/East Bay peeps. Realized I had not been very clear about that. 😀

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Matt Attaway @mataway.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We have a team called the Ballers who are in the Pioneer League. We call them the B’s.

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Matt Attaway @mataway.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He prefers the phrase “super surgery”

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can you imagine being a Northerner at the start of the civil war. All the fancy lad West Point military guys are Southerners. Your president is a backwoods yokel one term congressman and your generals are some guys we found at a 7-Eleven. It's over for our ass...unless all those guys are geniuses

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Matt Attaway @mataway.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That should be an iOS 27 feature in the accessibility section. They have support for deaf folks to alert on certain sounds. Go to accessibility > hearing> sound & name recognition. Turn it on then tap it to set the sounds you want to be alerted on. Then any baby monitor should work.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Matt Attaway @mataway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You get swole. I routinely carry 14-20 lbs of groceries between gallons of milks and such.

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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Knock, knock" "Who's there?" "Deez" *rolling eyes, sighing* "Deez who?" "Deez are the voyages of the starship Enterprise"

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

being in animation, its not from AI. the streaming bubble bursting cuz everyone hopped on the grain cuz it undermined unions, less regulations and more mergers are what lead to the loss. AI is just what people think but it started way before that

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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

Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 29/09/2026

I will forever maintain that that left must not let the right claim patriotism as their own and dope things like this are a big part of why

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Matt Attaway @mataway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you're in Alameda, there is an Emergency Preparedness event on October 17th! First 200 folks get a free emergency kit and lunch. goplanitpro.com/events/D32026

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Matt Attaway @mataway.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They're ok? The one I had didn't hold all that much, but it was fun for what it was. Cleaning it wasn't my favorite though, and you need a really good vent for your stove (at least for the type I had) What are they hoping to smoke?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Incredible things are happening in the SNAP policy analyst group chats today

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O @omagus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Like @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social said, Mamdani just pushed the button.

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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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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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Otto von Biz Markie @donachaidh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Lol my buddy just sent me another angle and it's somehow even more ridiculous

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Matt Attaway @mataway.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you're involved with scouting, there are some pretty sweet discounts available for gear, even if you're just a volunteer. www.scouting.org/trail-to-adv...

scouting.org

The Guide to Pro Deals for Volunteers and Camp Staff

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Note that it's not just 1Password that is supporting DHH. A good writeup here, with lots of receipts brennan.day/normalized-f...

There are twelve "Founding Patrons" pledging a million dollars apiece:

Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify
Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe
Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies
Jack Dorsey, Block Head and Chairman of Block
Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare
Brendan Iribe, Cofounder of Sesame and Oculus
Jason Fried, CEO of 37signals
Drew Houston, cofounder and co-CEO of Dropbox
Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw
Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase
Yunjie Dai, cofounder of TapTap
DHH himself.

And these corporations are each contributing $100,000 a year for three years:

1Password
37signals

A dozen of the most powerful executives in tech looked at a man who wrote that a British march calling for the deportation of non-white citizens was "heartwarming," and decided he was the person they wanted to hand a multimillion-dollar foundation to.

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Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Things that make me happy:

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Matt Attaway @mataway.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Oh yeah for sure. Too many people with purchasing power would rather pay a service so that it is managed by a contract and they have neck to wring than to build a team and manage people, even if the latter is cheaper and better.

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Matt Attaway @mataway.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’m sorry frustrated you so much. I think over a beer this could have been a fun chat; the internet makes things more confrontational than they need be. I suspect we’re probably in violent agreement in many ways. Thanks for making me rethink my position.

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Matt Attaway @mataway.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

You’re right. It is not strictly required, although at some point in that system you’d probably involve the internet to hit pagerduty or some VOIP or SMS service to wake someone. But you are right; it’s not strictly necessary.

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Matt Attaway @mataway.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Easier absolutely into play when businesses pick tools and tech? Could they build something from scratch with only “what’s needed”? Sure. Will they? Probably not. Does it have to be this way? Obviously not. In general are companies going to buy off the shelf solutions? Yeah.

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Matt Attaway @mataway.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Maybe? I think it’s more work in practice, but that could be true. But it’s still easier to pay one of the cold chain tech providers.

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Matt Attaway @mataway.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Again, no culinary company is paying for that. Their threat model is not the same as the military’s; they need something reasonably priced that a chef can operate because many companies, even large ones, don’t have the IT staff for that. Have to be on the internet? No. Will be on the internet, yes.

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Matt Attaway @mataway.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

You do at 2 in the morning. We had our head chefs on-call, and they were woken up more than once. Plus these systems monitor and manage your cold chain data for auditing purposes. They do record while offline, but rhat won’t help with saving $50k in sous vide chicken.

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Matt Attaway @mataway.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yes. As I said, I’d like to think they’d would have done better, but Greg ask why’d you even want to connect your freezer to the internet, which was what I was answering.

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Matt Attaway @mataway.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I mean yeah? For military installations I’d like to think they’d not just use off the shelf commercial solutions, but most kitchens aren’t putting out the money for that.

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Matt Attaway @mataway.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Alerts when a freezer fails. I’ve seen those systems save tens thousands of dollars in food loss. Those freezers fail all the damn time; it’s crazy for how much they cost.

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 25/08/2026

Today I woke up and felt like doing something a little crazy. Here it is; Kenney Game Assets All-in-1 is 75% off and just $4.99 for a limited time only ✨ Download everything I've made in a single package! kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-...

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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 29/08/2026

This is where I get jealous of artists... so simple, so beautiful and captures the essence perfectly. Where I need to work for a year to express my "quick thought" - and clearly, just so much skill expressed here.

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Christie BOO! Mwahahaha! @ceburke.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Y’all. This is CROCHETED

Handcrafted human skeleton with removable internal organs

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Bay Area friends: A friend found these small kittens behind a gas station and we've been trying to find them a home for almost two months. For now, they live in a small bathroom. Would you consider adopting? They are vaxxed, neutered, and incredibly affectionate. Please help!

Photo of three kittens. Two are orange; one is black.

Photo of two orange cats, one black, and one dark gray.

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Tyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.

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