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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 5h

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

The last couple of decades have demonstrated that the right were of course only pretending to oppose the Soviet Union authoritarian failings; what they hated was the prospect that communism could succeed at its egalitarian aims < thread >

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Gert Sønderby @gertthenerd.bsky.social · 21h

A good QA has the imagination of a child and the deviousness of a spy, combined with lots of experience of how things break. They are invaluable.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 8h

This ethical clarity is why I was both happier and more effective doing UXD as a consultant

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It is actually interesting to see a real life early modern Mecantalist monarch, to see someone who actually just sincerely believes that worldview. Bit odd that he graduated from one of the most prestigious business schools in the world tbh.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 9h

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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Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 9h

Nobody with ethics will participate in this study which means nobody can trust whatever result they claim to find. There is simply no ignoring the ethics part bsky.app/profile/eliz...

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 9h

It’s almost impossible to exaggerate how degraded the quality of our political discourse is

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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:

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Oz The Mediocre @ozthemid.bsky.social · 18h

The Topher Grace Star Wars cut of X-Men comics. A perfect retirement project. You can nail it onto the doors of Marvel Comics HQ like you are Martin Luther

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 15h

If you are arguing that there is no innocent [person of any nationality whatsoever] then you are making the case for genocide

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 17h

Indian sub-Imperialism was probably the most interesting part of my undergradute studies and it's the part of Empire I find most people are quite uncomfortable with

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 17h

You probably think this is a touch of hyperbole. If you do, that just tells me not only are you not paying attention, you are actively ignoring all the trans people this has happened to. This is life in the UK as a trans person in 2026.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 15h

I need to assemble a list of Dems whose forthcoming primary challengers I will donate to so I remember this guy

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't know how but we have to teach people to be better at detecting bullshit. Instead we have this ersatz skepticism where people are suspicious about the wrong things and find their way to conclusions that are worse than if they just blindly accepted conventional wisdom

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 15h

Hamilton's software managed to land the Lunar Module and bring the crew back safely on 2K of RAM and 36K of ROM (programmed by hand wrapping wires around magnetic cores). An amazing feat of engineering.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 15h

❝ Dignity is the kryptonite of the Trump world. The dignity wraiths who have bowed down to Trump and given him their all instinctively look to destroy anyone who hasn’t. ❞

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The Fury of the Wraiths

It would be entirely normal for someone like Mitt Romney, who had...

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 15h

The piece one step upthread responds at length to this piece. I am just a hair more sympathetic to it, reading it as a cri de coeur about feeling the disorientation I feel … but I did not share it earlier because I don’t think that is the thing The Discourse should focus on at this moment.

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What Do We Do With Jacob Geller? - Epilogue Gaming

Earlier this week, a friend noticed Jacob Geller’s book, How A Game Lives, sitting amongst my living room shelves. Under almost any other circumstances, this would have been an exciting invitation for...

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 15h

I remain disoriented about what we in the ordinary public should do (does the penny he gets if I watch one of his video essays matter?) or what he should do (I have no idea) but this piece is the best I have seen on The Discourse not taking the wrong we know about sufficiently seriously

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What the fuck are we doing with Jacob Geller? | Lola Sebastian

On September 30, 2026, just days after the 2024 Cornell University rape controversy dominated the news cycle, it was substantiated that vide

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 16h

Witty. That said, I wonder about the potential for “vibecoding” things like this.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 16h

No amount of modeling can make up for an entire category of voters not responding to polls. There's also some interesting things going on when pollsters re-weight for respondents 2024 vote in that people do mis-remember their vote.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 16h

I’m thinking of a term from political science

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

seeing the loser white boy you have a crush on for some reason pulling some neo-noir bullshit again

Angela Bassett (impossibly beautiful) casting a melancholy glance over one shoulder in strange Days

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 08/10/2026

We have invented the mythical man month from classic software engineering book Don’t Invent the Mythical Man Month.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That is my thinking. When I read the first HP book, back when, I thought “that was nice enough but I read a thousand books like it when I was a kid”. Only people who had not experienced that became FANS.

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

knowing things is an endorsement. the only way to show you don't love something is to remain completely ignorant. do not read a book!! it's not worth the risk!

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

me: well, jaws from the olden times, surely, it will not be scary me, 40 seconds in: I'M SCARED

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Authoritarian politics is abuse dynamics at scale

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 03/10/2026

U.S. police kill civilians at a rate nearly incomparable to other wealthy democracies. It's not just "a few bad apples."

Graph showing that U.S. police kill civilians at a much higher rate (33.5 per 10 million) than Canada (9.8), Australia (8.5), The Netherlands (2.3), New Zealand (2.0), Germany (1.3), England & Wales (0.5), Japan (0.2), Iceland(0.0), and Norway (0.0).

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I blame society. Not kidding at all.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My February 1968 Fortune magazine just arrived from an eBay seller (5 stars) and now I want to destroy the internet for what it took from us. It's gorgeous. I bought it for the article about industrial design that set Victor Papanek off. He references it in the intro to Design for the Real World.

1968 Fortune magazine. A cover illustration of a white strip of paper with dimensional illusion folded to look like a dollar sign. Two gold strips on a black background are the bars across the S shape and also a double yellow line.

New Trials for the dollar
The Corporate Bond Bingo
Britain's Road Back
The Downfall of Marlon Harper

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mamdani bent over backward in support of Palestinian liberation on today of all days but it was still not enough

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The movement for Palestinian liberation is right on the fundamental merits but often gawdawful on the particulars

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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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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Replies are what one would imagine

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

King: i definitely want to emphasize that this writer is a totally normal guy King: he doesn't smoke weed like some sort of artsy fartsy guy King: he drinks beer, the normal drink of normal writers King: in fact, the more beer you drink you more normal you are

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

gregor samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a sickass beetle. fuck yeah he said scuttling all over the walls and ceiling like no dumbfuck traveling salesman could ever do. this is the best day of my life he said

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 07/10/2026

Not gonna RS the thread that made me think about this (you've likely already seen it, or a similar one) BUT Every person I know who has cut off or gone low contact with a parent took YEARS of agonizing and trying to make things work because damn that's their PARENTS.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Remember what Hananina is

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