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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10h

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good."

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
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More silence

"Professor?"

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m_r_Blake (he/him) @mrblake.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Great presentation here, Toward a New Hacker Ethic

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m_r_Blake (he/him) @mrblake.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dip! But no, my memory was a live action film, and I'm too, uh, mature to have been frightened by Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

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m_r_Blake (he/him) @mrblake.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have no idea what movie it was, or how to find it again, but it involved battery acid being poured on someone's face. I can still see it, if I think about it.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE

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Thorin Klosowski @thorinklosowski.com · 01/10/2026

last year we did a little made up holiday called Opt Out October that was all about taking control of your data across platforms. This year we decided to talk about how many excellent alternatives to the products made by big tech are out there www.eff.org/pages/welcom...

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Welcome to Opt Out October. Let’s Take Control of Our Data and Our Devices

Big tech companies are hell-bent on taking away our agency and forcing us to use their surveillance-based services, apps, and devices. It’s hard to fight against, and it often feels much easier to giv...

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m_r_Blake (he/him) @mrblake.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why can't we have FUN billionaires!?

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m_r_Blake (he/him) @mrblake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

TIL ! And a Ford Tri-Motor! Lovely plane, one of my models as a kid.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s SUCH an important framing to change from ‘here is the solution I want’ to ‘here is the problem I have’. I see it all the time in teams of scientists and engineers (software AND hardware!).

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Acerbic Otter, but SPOOOOOOOOOKY @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is what is literally killing me. All the things I am genuinely good at cannot be quantified on a spreadsheet, don't count in productivity reviews. But that's ALL this damned society values now and I feel like I'm useless some days.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 24/09/2026

I would like tech companies to understand that just because I have signed up to use your software, that no, I do not want to automatically be subscribed to your product newsletter. Say less. Please stop spamming me. Just push code that works. Sweet jiminy christ on a flying biscuit just STFU

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Exciting news from Cambridge, where the long-lost, original model of the USS Enterprise is about to go on display at the MIT Museum! (This is the one featured in the opening credits, not the larger studio model at the Smithsonian.) Details: mitmuseum.mit.edu/announcement... #StarTrek #scifi 🗃️📜🖖

The rediscovered original 33” model of the Starship Enterprise prior to restoration. Courtesy of Heritage Auctions/HA.com.

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Finally made it to the Ohio Pawpaw Featival. Obviously I had to make a bee-line to the museum. Also got some pawpaw beer and cider (they were out of 2026 glasses, but the old one will do just as well in my Ohio museum), and a zine of pawpaw poems. (not pictured: pawpaw lemonade, curry, and mustard)

Photo of one wall in the museum with maps and biological illustrations and newspapers clips

A Profligate Proliferation of
Pawpaw Poems
Collected from the Public Domain and interspersed with illustrations
1839-1925
by JP Goguen

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m_r_Blake (he/him) @mrblake.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why, Ford? Why not in the good old USA, you know, where you started? My Fusion won't last forever.

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Gummy Arts @gummyarts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Replacements’ “Tim” was released on this date in 1985.

Colored-pencil card drawing of Paul Westerberg

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m_r_Blake (he/him) @mrblake.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Love Cincinnati chili, and still laughed at loud. Now, as a coffee lover on the hand...

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m_r_Blake (he/him) @mrblake.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Those windshield wipers must be downright magical!

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

yeah so we need to talk about how "screentime is bad for kids" is not really true, but "short form video on algorithm-based platforms is bad for everyone" IS true

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m_r_Blake (he/him) @mrblake.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Watching broadcasting TV commercials because watching a broadcast TV football game, and wow are commercials for broadcast TV shows... dumb. Or maybe that's broadcast TV shows are dumb? I don't know, I never get the remote.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026

The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.

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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

dig through the TINKER and burn through the TAILOR and slam in the back of my SOLDIER SPY

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m_r_Blake (he/him) @mrblake.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I feel that I am currently going through the stage of parenthood where the frustrations slightly out weigh the joys.

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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 05/09/2026

while i love love love the evil dead movies and army of darkness, bubba hotep was a real treat of a movie. he's so good in it. i should watch that again

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 05/09/2026

Do not talk to me about Internet, sir, I was forged in modem screams.

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Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

On one side of the Catholic coin, you have Pope Leo saying it’s an affront to God to harm the environment. On the other, you have JD Vance saying, so what if I bring about the end times? Who tf cares? I can tell you right now which one has never drank a beer with nuns

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m_r_Blake (he/him) @mrblake.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Darn, should have included Elvis Costello in there somewhere, swap out U2 for Mr. Costello.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Specifically, it often means they were likely reading well above their peers' level, and thus had no one around to practice pronouncing those words.

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m_r_Blake (he/him) @mrblake.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: The Alarm Lucinda Williams Neil Young R.E.M. 10,000 Maniacs Love and Rockets Skinny Puppy U2 Columbus Jazz Orchestra Royal Crescent Mob

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 29/08/2026

Sacramento State’s MAC debut is tonight! Distance to each MAC school: • UMass: 2,947 miles • Buffalo: 2,574 • Ohio: 2,421 • Kent State: 2,401 • Akron: 2,399 • Central Mich: 2,292 • Bowling Green: 2,286 • Eastern Mich: 2,283 • Toledo: 2,271 • Miami: 2,263 • Ball State: 2,222 • Western Mich: 2,177

MAC map, Sac State comically far away from everyone else

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 28/08/2026

Video is also 9:25 long...

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m_r_Blake (he/him) @mrblake.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Happy anniversary to me, happy anniversary to me, and many more!

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

From NASA: It happened again! Here's Phobos passing in front of the Sun as seen by the Perseverance rover from the surface of Mars on Aug. 12. science.nasa.gov/photojournal...

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If the Prosecutor says they did it, no they didn't.

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 23/08/2026

The fact that apparently Rita Moreno walks around with a copy of the video of her appearance on the Muppet Show on her phone and still shows it to people is incredibly relatable because who among us wouldn’t if we had?

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m_r_Blake (he/him) @mrblake.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Was too dry, or too wet? Peppers look good!

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Dr. Fim @fim.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes.

A woman with extremely short painted nails weaving magnetic core memory. A series of rows and columns of wires in a grid.

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m_r_Blake (he/him) @mrblake.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Songs From Liquid Days, Phillip Glass. The one CD out of the four or five that you could choose from, to get free, when you purchased the CD player, that I didn't know I'd dislike beforehand.

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

R.I.P. Columbia House (1955-2026) The largest mail-order music and physical media club in the world during its peak will shutter after 71 years. pitchfork.com/story/columb... #MusicSky

pitchfork.com

Columbia House Is Shutting Down

We, too, were shocked they still existed

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typing pumpkin 🎃 @typingloudly.zip · 06/09/2025

i will never forgive the techbros for ruining computer computer was the only thing i liked

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m_r_Blake (he/him) @mrblake.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Box set of the first four Logs, Christmas present from my older cousin. Read them over and over, loved them. Didn't realize they were based on the Animated Series till much later. The different cover on the fourth did sorta bug me though ;)

Red slip case box set of the first four Star Trek Logs by Alan Dean Foster, three generally white spines, and one outlier purple spine on the fourth.

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"Bluesky is dying" bro you're talking about a website full of 38 year olds who have fringe political beliefs and listen to black metal bands with >1000 listeners on spotify, nobody here cares about popularity

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"All the engineers are software engineers. That's not a real kind of engineering. You can't stamp a document with code on it, and then if it fucks up, you go to prison." Listen to @bloodwork.show podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

podcasts.apple.com

The Facilitators: On Engineers w/ Gareth Dennis & Justin Roczniak

Podcast Episode · Blood Work · March 24 · 1h 32m

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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I’m reading a book published in 1944 and this logo is so unbelievably tough. I’d absolutely wear a shirt with this exact design.

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