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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 08/10/2026

Margaret Hamilton, famous for her work on the moon mission, passed away. I just learned there's a children's book about her, and the nieces/nephews are definitely getting this this year bookshop.org/p/books/marg...

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Margaret and the Moon

A true story from one of the Women of NASA!Margaret Hamilton loved numbers as a young girl. She knew how many miles it was to the moon (and how many back). She loved studying algebra and geometry and ...

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 07/10/2026

Went to Devops Days Philly last week. Particularly neat stuff included the talk on sustainable dev (the big summary there was "scale to zero is a good idea for planet AND wallet) and @ewindisch.ontological.observer 's workshop on AI agents and security.

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 12/05/2026

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

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Elect Alexis for Maryland! @electalexis.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

When DOGE came to CFPB after shutting down USAID I immediately questioned them, their credentials, and if they had the training to access our sensitive data. I was fired for it. Now, I’m running for Congress, and I’m committed to investigating the damage DOGE did. Learn more at: ElectAlexis.org

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Elect Alexis Goldstein - Democrat for Congress

Elect Alexis Goldstein to Congress to represent Maryland's 6th district.

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This! Dem Electeds must STOP placating #BigTech: “In short, the Biden Admin naïvely followed a path of least resistance, trying in vain to placate the very tech CEOs who then worked w/ [47] to brutalize the federal workforce and gut entire agencies.” —Alexis Goldstein newrepublic.com/article/2087...

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How Silicon Valley Humiliated the Democrats

When will they learn? The party remains far too solicitous of an industry that’s rewarded their fealty with four years of Trump and untold damage to democracy.

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 08/05/2026

Have now referenced this in conversation a few times, on the virtues of laziness as a programmer, and considering that int he age of AI. Via @bcantrill.bsky.social bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

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The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 15/12/2025

AI generated art isn't new. Working on a sidequest art project and stumbled on this circa 1986 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_N...

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 11/12/2025

Track the festibuses/transit in philadelphia 🎄☃️🚌 festibuses.septa.mobi

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Festibus Tracker

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 04/12/2025

This was a fun collection to read, of stories of "tech evolving, no more jobs" (spoiler, there were still jobs) www.jasonscheirer.com/weblog/vigne...

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A Series of Vignettes From My Childhood and Early Career

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 03/12/2025

😈 Anybody else starting to see those Spotify Wrapped posts and having some feelings? We just launched a thing for that: fftf.link/spotifywhacked

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 02/12/2025

@matt-levine.bsky.social There was a bit of a large exchange among OCaml maintainers (probably Jane Street) with a user endlessly insisting on an AI generated PR. I felt like there's a Money Stuff in here, couldn't figure out if there was a tips email so here's a link github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...

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DWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocaml

DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB. What's Impleme...

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 28/11/2025

it's happening!!! from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off! wizardzines.com

woman with shell necklace and a redirects belt accessory

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 27/11/2025

We did a dumb thing, please enjoy

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 27/10/2025

I pretty much always enjoy a Paul Ford read, so I'll be checking this out

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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 19/10/2025

Slides from the Touch Grass talk at BarCamp Philly #bcphilly docs.google.com/presentation...

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Touch Grass

Touch Grass Getting the Online Offline

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Ignore All Previous Instructions @techcultpodcast.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

New episode! Fun in programming and hacking vending machines Pam brings the topic this week of "fun in programming." More nostalgia, talking about how it feels in modern programming, the joy of problem solving. Also, we talk about how Sarah is hacking vending machines! pamselle.com/podcast.html

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Ignore All Previous Instructions is a podcast about tech, culture, and society at large hosted by Pam Selle.

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 19/10/2025

I'm at #bcphilly, if you'd like to use BlueSky to connect and chat while here, let's!

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Ignore All Previous Instructions @techcultpodcast.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Do you remember your first computer? www.youtube.com/watch?v=l51v... The surprise topic of NOSTALGIA and computing with @geekygirlsarah.com and @pamselle.com!

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Do you remember your first computer?

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 18/09/2025

Enjoyed this write up of "what I use" in 2025. They're more AI-focused than me, but I want to look into some of these voice control setups … zackproser.com/blog/2025-ai...

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My 2025 AI Engineer Setup - Portable, Productive and Fun

My 2025 AI engineer setup. Evolving out of the multi-monitor battlestations for improved portability and productivity.

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 12/09/2025

It's not podfade, it's "Season 2"

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Matthew Sanabria @matthewsanabria.com · 21/07/2025

Unpopular opinion. A well-written issue is generally more valuable than a pull request.

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 21/07/2025

Thanks to this person who wrote out "how do I deploy different environments to fly io Yay finding a person blog post and not AI nonsense orchardlab.dev/posts/fly-en...

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 02/06/2025

Next Philly Queer Slowdance is June 12th! PRIDE edition! queerslowdance.com

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 09/05/2025

I really hate that "please! we could save democracy, if only you gave $10 to our campaign" texts did not stop after 2024

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ISEPTAPHILLY @septaphilly.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Communities that invest in #publictranportation reduce the nation’s carbon emissions by 63 million metric tons per year. Pass it on. #ISEPTAPHILLY #HowWeRoll

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

As promised here’s Pink Pony Club but it’s about encryption

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The full clip of Hayao Miyazaki reading AI engineers for fucking filth so hard their ancestors felt the burning shame back in 2016

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

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IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA

The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 07/03/2025

Really sad to hear from a federal worker pal that their job right now is to sit around and get fired 🙃 🎉 Fun Facts 🎉 Congress has to -approve- reductions in force, because you need to pay out severance AKA *something you need budget to do*

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 04/03/2025

Third in my series of mini-zines responding to questions I come across in my work/life: This one highlights about a dozen resources each sharing specific, concrete actions people can take, especially if they're new to activism and still looking for their political home: guante.info/actionzine

a photo of a zine (small paper booklet) featuring a hand releasing butterflies into the air, plus text: "I didn't believe in the fight- the fight made me a believer: for people who want to take action: guante.info/actionzine"

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 05/03/2025

Next Philly Queer Slowdance is NEXT WEEK and prices go up at the end of the week! www.eventbrite.com/e/philly-que...

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 28/02/2025

On the latest podcast episode, I talk with my pal Meredith about herbalism, blockchains, and intuition✨ Released a little early ahead of ETHDenver! YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR1b... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2pbdE88... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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Pam and Meredith explore herbalism, blockchains, and intuition

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 25/02/2025

I am heading to ETHDenver this week, if anyone is in those circles. Broadly, since I find myself in web3, I'm trying to figure out where People I Might Like To Hang With hang online, since I broadly avoided web3 until working in it :P

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 19/02/2025

I wrote up a post about how we hugely improved the write performance for Bluesky's timelines/following feed. If you want to learn more about how we did it, check it out. Some nuggets in there about embracing imperfection in some parts of a system to scale better. jazco.dev/2025/02/19/i...

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When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky’s Lossy Timelines

By examining the limits of reasonable user behavior and embracing imperfection for users who go beyond it, we can continue to provide service that meets the expectations of users without sacrificing s...

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

That’s how you write a headline, people.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Always upgrade @signal.app as soon as you see a notification to do so. mstdn.social/@rysiek/1140...

just follow the mastodon link, this is a picture of the toot

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David M. Schulman 🦅 @schul.dev · 19/02/2025

when food safety inspections stop and flights are grounded indefinitely, i hope someone can drive home a message to get people to appreciate just how critical these federal programs are. the GOP has had a stranglehold on bashing federal funding for too long (and their states are the biggest takers)

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 18/02/2025

Today I've spent multiple hours on $LIBRA and then completely different but also crypto ecosystem reading basically all of this is real wild tomorrow my pal Meredith therewrite.substack.com/about will be recording with me for an episode of @techcultpodcast.bsky.social …

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About - The Rewrite - System Poetics

the fractal edges of systems - cycle time - the eternal return - first time as tragedy second time as farce - morphic resonance - ai sadhana - water computers - phytophysics - experiments - phase tr...

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Ignore All Previous Instructions @techcultpodcast.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Pam and @bengarvey.com deal with pasts/presents/futures in life and technology Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... Also on Spotify, YouTube, and your favorite RSS reader

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Pam and Ben Garvey deal with pasts/presents/futures in life and technology

Podcast Episode · Ignore All Previous Instructions · 02/14/2025 · 1h 14m

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

In the coming weeks, a lot of slow-on-the uptake folks are going to begin belatedly realizing Trump is both an inept moron and a dangerous autocrat. Our great civic challenge in these trying times will be calmly welcoming them aboard instead of primal-screaming in their faces.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 14/02/2025

While I'm here, if you're good at scaling really big Go apps at a per-process and multi-process level and want to help us tackle some of these problems as we scale, check out this job listing: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

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Bluesky Jobs

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Pam on the internet @pamselle.com · 14/02/2025

A merry Eagletine's to all 💚💚💚💚💚

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