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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

@edzitron.com Here is the first mention I have found of an AI service switching to usage-based billing... github.blog/news-insight... I first found it reported on Slashdot.

github.blog

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

@maddow.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social Could one or both of you dig into this bill and give it some needed airtime? This codifies the 4th Amendment for a digital age and gives us a private right of action for violations. It's a good law.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/12/2025

My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

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The Enshittifinancial Crisis

Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of writing and research. If you liked it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, ...

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

@kylekulinskishow.bsky.social You have to watch the end of Philip Defranco's video from today... He totally cooked the CEO of KIND, calling him out for both-sidesing and false equivalency... youtu.be/bf5q2oacArc?...

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He Died On Stream After “10 Days Of Torture” & The CEO of "KIND" Has a Problem With Me...

YouTube video by Philip DeFranco

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

What a brilliant idea... Keep scammers so busy they can't spend time scamming... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogxd...

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I Trapped 500 Scammers in an Endless Maze (they're furious)

YouTube video by Kitboga

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com I've been watching the confusion between yourself and Jen Psaki about ranked-choice voting. The simplest real-world example was the process of the 2020 Iowa caucuses where folks from the smallest pools of voters get shuffled to the highest remaining candidate preference.

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I don't know that this is or isn't true, but simply the fact that the story exists should tell us all that ALL code powering our election infrastructure should be open source.

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

We already have that, and his name is Bernie Sanders, and he is rightfully working with her as at least an equal partner... Scream away; the lack of confidence in women is astonishing; she could do and is doing it without any man giving her permission if and when needed.

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

For anyone who is in the market for a new 3D printer, I would avoid BambuLabs if you value flexibility to use alternative tools and options.

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

No truer sign has ever been created.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

wired.com

The CFPB Has Been Gutted

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

@meidastouch.com @jenpsaki.msnbc.com @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social Towns large and small are joining in the movement. Around 250 folks showed up here in a very red city of 40,000.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This was….five months ago

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

What a lovely distraction from today's wackiness... youtu.be/_6s8ebjmxeQ?...

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A Solid Hour of Useless Information

YouTube video by AustinMcConnell

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This is the result of decades of civic poisoning by Fox News and right-wing echo chambers and channels.

A screenshot of a post on X by user Suzie Rizzo (@SUZIERIZZO1
). The post includes a text graphic with an orange background and black text that reads: "WHEN did America become a place where people take joy in suffering? Celebrating job losses, cheering immigrant arrests, ignoring terrified schoolchildren, and applauding when neighbors lose public assistance—what happened to basic human decency?" Above the graphic, Suzie Rizzo's comment reads: "Anyone want to answer this??? "

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

For someone as eloquent as Pete to use "fuckup" should signal to anyone how bad this is, no pun intended.

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

This is a very nuanced and honest take on the who "trans kids in sports" situation. Please take the time to read it...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

“Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.” Whatever happened to #abolishICE? It needs to be abolished. This is torture.

nhpr.org

Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained

Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

A cogent explainer of the SSA fraud claims and a proper condemnation of the President's use of the fraud that does happen to enrage folks needlessly. youtube.com/watch?v=GvMz...

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How Social Security Fraud Actually Works

YouTube video by vlogbrothers

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A decent, low-key explainer about the issue around the SSA fraud, waste, and abuse supposedly found by DOGE... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyR8...

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DOGE vs COBOL: How Social Security 'Fraud' is Actually Legacy Code Issues

YouTube video by Speedify

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

@governorwalz.mn.gov I live in Jim Jordan's district in Ohio, and we could use some air support in finding and/or running a Dem candidate.

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This is long, but totally worth the listen, all the way through. youtu.be/wAUTbQ4rPI4?...

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The AI Hoax is Destroying America with Ed Zitron

YouTube video by Adam Conover

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 26/02/2025

Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)? A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

An excellent take on the benefits and drawbacks of AI and the use of algorithms in our daily lives. And of course, I'm here for whatever amount of snark comes from this channel.

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Heads up, my local Skywarn training was canceled because of the Trump/Misl regime. This program empowers everyday people to sipplememt the NWS for severe weather reporting and warnings, especially on places that aren't super-well served by radar, like mine.

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I am not a religious person, generally, but in this world, we should have 1,000,000 of Rev. Trevors to 1 of Kenneth Copeland... youtu.be/XEhwXiZi7uw?...

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Responding To Comment About Religion Being Used To Control The Masses

YouTube video by Rev Ed Trevors

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Just saw a post on FB about Seven of Nine and the arc of that character from simply an onscreen, flat ensemble player to a complex and rich personality. The article rightfully calls out @jerilryan.bsky.social for her portrayal of Seven over the last 30 years. Thanks for your hard work! #randompraise

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This is the sort of attitude we all need right now.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/02/2025

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Stunningly dismaying... Watching the historical parallels is just heartbreaking.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Correct. This is a President of the United States declaring himself a dictator. And instead of Americans understanding that we’re now under imminent threat of martial law and tyranny, we’ll get a month of think pieces about what the President of the United States meant by his UNAMBIGUOUS statement.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Given the data which keeps disappearing, check out this video for information about archiving resources for use offline or restoration later. youtu.be/QGuXTFyxLe0?...

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It's time to start backing up the web.

YouTube video by EposVox

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I would encourage my fellow Buckeyes to contact your state senator and register your opposition to Ohio SB 63 which would ban Ranked Choice Voting in Ohio and use the power of the purse to enforce that against counties and cities who would independently run them. ohiosenate.gov/legislation/...

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Senate Bill 63 | 136th General Assembly | Ohio Senate

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I'd love people's help getting this out into major subreddits. Especially ones frequented by technology workers. The more people in Silicon Valley who know the truth, the better. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...

notesfromthecircus.com

The Plot Against America

How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This is probably the most concise summary of the modern liberal position in America, and the way liberals differ is usually on how to accomplish these goals, not what the goals are...

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I wouldn't remove it, but you can actually change the name of the root account by changing its name in /etc/passwd and leaving the UID of 0. Alternatively, see what happens when you add a new account with a uid of 0... ;-) Just promise me you'll do that on a local machine or a private VM.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/02/2025

“Never before has a presidential administration so openly wielded the power of the federal government as a blunt-force instrument to be used against fellow Americans, journalism outlets, and, yes, its political rivals.” NEW from @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social:

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The Real Reason Musk Is Mad at Us

The anatomy of a conspiracy theory

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Why am I not surprised that Trump sounds more and more like Emperor Cuzco, except without the charming change of heart in the third act? #emperorsnewgroove #realityisstrangerthanfiction

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Rob @nosbig.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

@maddow.msnbc.com Looks like the Drizz might be a committed standup guy?

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