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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nice! I grew up in the Minneapolis area, and came out here in 2001.

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Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes. Start with prosecuting the crimes first and work your way backward if that makes you more comfortable. But we cannot live in a country with this level of elite impunity.

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Wait are you also a Minneapolitan?! My mom and sister and I rocked the Hennepin County Library every dang weekend

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was like "This sounds like Charlie. Oh it WAS Charlie"

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A lovely point but also San Francisco leadership is actively displacing people who already live here and closing the few underfunded services left in order to increase property values for the class of people who own everything. Progressive housing policies have never been tried

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That’s a warm radiator under Wheezy’s corrugated cat-throne, and the heat rising through it induces quite the luxurious recline

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

other day i was at david lynchs grave just having a moment of thought and admiration and lookin down at all the flowers, and coffee cups, and two cookies and a coke, and wow it just hits you like a thousand suns that art is immortal. creation is too radiant to contain in a body. we trot across time

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Holy slime mold! This is tomorrow, 10/6!! See you soon!

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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dave McKean was one of the earliest adopters of Photoshop in comic art production, making his thoughts on "AI" especially trenchant and poignant.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026

Everybody's loving this clip, for good reason, but it should remind everyone that cities therefore have an obligation to build enough housing that all these marginalized and outcast people can come and afford to live in them on minimum wage *without* becoming homeless. YIMBY!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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I didn't realize my Bolt Thrower purchases on Bandcamp were having such an effect!

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Unfortunately, no, the AI companies also stole everyone's copyrighted code, too. In excess of even the permissive "please contribute back" free software licenses.

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One might (try to) argue that the trade-off is worth it, but that is a whole separate argument. If engineers and investors don't come to grips with why almost everyone else is pissed off, it's going to go badly before we get to that argument.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026

Sure, he's wrong about how many tokens it takes, because he's not a software engineer. That's not the core of his point, which is "the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks". And that is true.

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this isn't some abstract argument either: all of our decades of experience with large, complex safety-critical systems shows that building a safety culture is the only way to manage and mitigate risk responsibly... and that's impossible to reconcile with a longtermist utilitarian perspective

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how we got here.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Is there any sight more powerful to the human eyebulb than a brand new pot of mustard

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like oh is it bathtub music for middle-aged white moms, or is it a producer taking inspiration from Phil Spector's wall of sound to layer a hundred slightly different tracks of Enya's voice over each other with laser precision in a way no one had previously attempted

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The Darbscent @darby3.chickenwing-gingerbreadman.xyz · 04/10/2026

despite everything I still believe in this vision

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Kazin @themalaiseoftech.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Always and forever:

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So simple, so true, and so impossible for the privileged and comfortable to understand.

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Now you've got me excited about Karen Armstrong writing a book called *The Historical Gollum*

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Even when I worked at EFF, during the Filesharing Wars, I used to wonder with a colleague: Man, is minimal copyright really the most important thing we could be working on? And how come none of my musician friends are into this? Hang on

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