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Undercaffeinated Eel @caffeinatedeel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's a very good quote and one that reframes a LOT of the world when you become aware of it.

“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I always think of a female colleague who told me "It doesn't matter how many women we recruit -- if we don't create a culture where they're comfortable staying, we're just pouring more water into a leaking bucket."

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Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Talked to a CxO recently who refused to believe that people can write entire blogs without AI.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wish there was a way to figure out which of my donations got me on all these spam lists so I could never donate to those causes again

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Does this count as an exorcism?

painting of a white cat holding a baseball bat in front of a wifi router

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hell hath no fury like a tech man held accountable for his actions. Every time they tell you a woman is nasty, useless, difficult etc - it is likely because she said no, or reported him.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 23/09/2026

The US has arrested the CEO of Oxygen Forensics for hiding the company's Russian ownership when selling software to the US government www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr...

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026

This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy.

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Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@clofsnitville.bsky.social warned me but, lawdy, why does my chosen profession (technology, not AI) always seem to be structurally built to disadvantage women & minorities?

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The Daily Mash @the-daily-mash.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The bloke's guide to not criticising age-gap relationships just in case buff.ly/L9Qge2P

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Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

These allegations are just shocking. There's no way anybody could've guessed. I don't always know if I'm being sarcastic; however, this is one of the times I know.

reddit.com

From the BetterOffline community on Reddit: Coxon, the AI whistleblower was connected to industry-funded "doomer" networks.

Explore this post and more from the BetterOffline community

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Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 10/09/2026

thinking about extreme credulity about AI causing the imminent extinction of humanity vs skepticism on climate change a month after 35k+ people died in European heat waves in the hottest summer in recorded history

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ceej @ceej.online · 07/02/2026

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

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Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Two men I overheard in a hotel bar in Portland last night Man 1: It’s like when they banned gold in the 1920s. But, now, Trump’s going to announce a national cryptocurrency. Man 2: I love Trump but I asked ChatGPT about that and it said it’s a scam.

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Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The seemingly Random capitalization of Words That Don't Need To Be Capitalized has been an early and reliable warning sign of Brain rot. It should be a diagnostic criteria in the next DSM.

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Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A perfect zero. I have listened to none of these. Or watched them? I guess they probably do video?

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Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Turns out that I've been old my entire life.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

NYC street artists work fast….Fulton Street is now Parton Street 🙏 *Work by plannedalism(IG)

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Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

In a surprisingly lucid moment, Trump explains why it's critical to get out and vote blue this year. > “I’m going to be impeached. They’re going to impeach me. They have no idea why,” the 80-year-old told supporters at a rally in Myrtle Beach.

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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 21/08/2026

I'm talking to all the journalists and analysts I know follow me, too. If you're doing a piece on Omarchy that involves him and doesn't mention the fact that he has spent the last several years being an out and proud racist, you're a coward.

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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 21/08/2026

Before you say positive things about DHH because of Omarchy, a reminder that it's been like 3 weeks since he published a blog that compares Roma people to the wolves Denmark eradicated in the 1800s. He's an open, virulent racist and always has been. Everything he touches should be radioactive.

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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Kevin passed about an hour ago. The time to find his cats a home IS now, and I'm not one step closer to finding it. Please, friends.

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Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

SAP just published research that shows how the explicit biases present in the material AI models were trained on can encode those biases into their outputs. If you're relying on generative AI, this is a serious problem to consider. Are you amplifying, subtly or otherwise, structural bias?

community.sap.com

Code that Breaks the Law: Ethics and Legal Challenges in AI-generated Code

By Philip Engelmartin, Head of Security Engineering & Professionals for Human Security Risk & Compliance; Ron F. Del Rosario, Head of AI Security for SAP SCM; Debdutt Mondal, AI Product Security Expe...

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This I think is the main difference between AI writing and human writing. AI selects words via pattern matching and random number generators. Ask a human why they chose a certain word or wrote something in a specific way and they can actually tell you

point is, there is no conscious thought or decision-making process happening here, so perhaps watermarked AI text is not all that much more offensive than regular AI text. But to see it laid out in such stark terms by the companies building these machines shows how little they actually care about writing. If you asked me, on the other hand, why I used one word instead of another, I might not be able to tell you exactly why, but I could probably explain to you what I was going for, the style of writing I do, my intended audience, my mood that day, whether my heart was racing or not, where I was, what I was doing, what I did earlier that morning and what I did later that day. Maybe it was a word my third grade teacher used all the time or which I read in an article last week or is an inside joke with my friends or which I have recently become obsessed with or tend to overuse. Why I wrote what I wrote or why I did anything at all is the result of my some mix of human experiences dating back to when I first acquired language as a baby and continuing on to this very moment that I may or may not be able to explain, but which result in a certain style of writing that is mine.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes

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Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Because German has both singular and plural 3rd person pronouns and English does not, my (very, very New England) high school German teacher insisted we use both 'you' and 'y'all' in translations to mirror the difference in English.

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

NEW: CWA union members have inflated a giant rat and deployed a wall of red flags representing laid off Xbox workers outside the Bethesda office in Rockville. The protest was timed to coincide with a visit from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who is apparently at the studio today.

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Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I thought about re-watching Max Headroom and I realized it's not particularly dystopian now.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Worth reiterating every time that this is not some cancel-culture purity test: JK Rowling has pledged more than a billion dollars of her Harry Potter money towards bankrolling anti-trans lawsuits. This finances that.

deadline.com

Nicholas Hoult In 'Harry Potter' Season 2 As Gilderoy Lockhart - Excl.

Nicholas Hoult has joined Season 2 of HBO Max's 'Harry Potter. He will play Gilderoy Lockhart, portrayed in the second movie by Kenneth Branagh.

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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I’m not an immunologist, but there appears to be a strong positive correlation between vaccine skepticism and being an insufferable asshole.

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Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Correlation: I recently did a test where I put three direct npm dependencies in a Node.js project's packages.json. This resulted in over _a thousand_ transitive dependencies. Friends don't let friends code in Node.

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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 07/08/2026

"'This is a shame award. Don't forget to feel that shame,' one of the hosts reminded the crowd. The Pwnie Awards said nobody from Microsoft showed up to accept the honor." this.weekinsecurity.com/microsoft-wi...

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Microsoft wins 'lamest vendor' at Pwnie Awards 2026 for threatening security researchers with legal action

"This is a shame award. Don't forget to feel that shame."

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Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My partner lives walking distance from multiple hospitals in NYC. There were several weeks during the worst of the pandemic where I could hear an ambulance siren more-or-less 24-7 from her apartment.

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Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I already believed his ex-wife but, as Miller runs the whole abuser playbook here, I'm absolutely certain he's a violent fuck now.

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Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Looking forward to living this reality again, this week. It's not just every airport that's different -- within the same concourse at JFK & LGA, the rules may be different from day to day. I love a TSA agent screaming at me for doing what one screamed at me for not doing a week ago.

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Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

In today's episode of "When You Piss a Librarian Off"...

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Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The reasons alluded to almost certainly start with goals for PMs that specify increasing generative AI consumption. Point at any ridiculous corporate decision and I can reliably guess the goals somebody was given that led to it.

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Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I couldn't think of Louis C. K.'s name so I searched the Internet for "comedian exposed penis" and it turns out that Louis C. K. isn't even in the first page of results for that.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 29/07/2026

If you’re the first, you have to be more on top of your shit, not less. It’s not fair, but it’s how it is

xkcd.com

How it Works

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/07/2026

Paisley shirts were absolute fire in the 70s in the USSR. www.tumblr.com/dashboard sovietpostcards.tumblr.com/post/8234798...

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