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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 13h

each of these nuts take two data centers’ worth of water to grow

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Dr. Nik @pcth.bsky.social · 18h

Flash dying was such a huge setback for interactive media...

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 10/10/2026

She is even more beautiful in person.

Sleeping Hermaphroditus, zooming in on her face

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 23h

The Gen Z kids at work when I do something cool

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Bike Lane Uprising @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

BREAKING: automated ticketing for bike & bus lane violations expands city-wide in Chicago. Passed today.

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 10/04/2026

Best attempt so far, in terms of vibes. Some obvious problems, but more interesting than “ae bay cei day…”

ANTI-NATO ALPHABET v4 (top 50 per letter)
A
- an
- been can
D
E
F
G
done en fun
ー
girl hair
I
- in
J
-jun
K
ー
ken
L
learn
M
- men
N - none
0 - own
P
- phone
Q
- quinn
R
- run
S - sign
T
- then
U
- un
V
- van
W
- when
X
- xene
Y
ー
yen
Z
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zen

Anti-NATO
NATO
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652.2
mean: 2.007
total: 1942.1
mean: 5.976
Ratio: 3.0x more confusable than NATO

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 06/10/2026

Yup, I've had to dump my painstakingly-precise workflows/skills in favor of more generalized solutions because *it ends up limiting the flexibility and power of the models*.

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

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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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bart Simpson as a character is autistic-coded, so you might want to tone down the loathing.

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026

This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...

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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect

In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.

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treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I don't follow politics" is an immediate signifier that you would eat a shit pie if a tiktok told you to

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Dr. Nik @pcth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm reading 'Mating' by Norman Rush and I can't shake the feeling that the narrator would have been a Rat

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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To some people, books are somehow exempt from the same mechanism that slopifies every other cultural product. If I had to guess, it’s because they still associate it with being rewarded with pizza for it.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it is crazy that he did a straight-up supervillain monologue about how he had planted this in right-wing media and that the NYT was going to pick it up, right in front of the NYT, and they did

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One day I hope to convince conservatives that we should enforce the rule of law, reduce the deficit, and not carelessly tear down the institutions prior generations built, but today is not that day.

First tweet:
Harry Heymann @harryh · 16h
The GOP literally cut funding to IRS enforcement so more people could commit tax fraud.
2 replies, 5 reposts, 545 likes, 13K views

Reply tweet:
Austen Allred @Austen
It cut funding to IRS because the assumption that the way to catch tax fraud is to hire tens of thousands of auditors to look through paper tax returns by hand is insane
7:18 PM · Sep 26, 2026 · 196.2K Views

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embracebecoming.bsky.social @embracebecoming.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am far from the first person to observe this, but Yuds stuff is classic auto-didact shit. Part of why we send smart kids off to college is so that they can meet a bunch of people smarter than they are and come to the painful realization that they aren't hot shit. Certainly worked for me.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The New York Times has now run two prominently placed stories about Zohran Mamdani's comms department coordinating with unpaid influencers as if it is a huge scandal. Will they cover Trump using our tax dollars to buy literal campaign ads as if it is equivalent scandalous? If not why not?

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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can think of at least one Chicago Alderman (who was flown out all expenses paid to Israel within a year of posting the attached tweet) who is loving this performance

Brendan Reilly @AldReilly
[Old, dry fingers hold up a pager which reads: “Mazol Tov”]
1:53 PM • 9/18/24 • 1.4K Views
2 Reposts 5 Quotes 23 Likes 1 Bookmark

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Dr. Nik @pcth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A Quantitative Analysis of Imperial Marksmanship: Environmental, Doctrinal, and Force-Related Factors in Persistent Blaster Inaccuracy

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Center for Strategic Politics @stratpolitics.org · 21/09/2026

🚨 NEW POLL of Democratic voters w/ @liberalcurrents.com 🔹 Harris, Newsom, Buttigieg lead the 2028 field 🔹 59% of Dems support military coup against Trump 🔹 57% of Dems want Biden officials in jail over Gaza 🧵 Read the thread for more insights

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The other thing is, Americans are supposed to be tough, right? The pioneer spirit, self-reliance, “pulling yourself up from the bootstraps.” But if it’s below 50 F, are we too soft to ride a bike?

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Dr. Nik @pcth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

HLM would have loved Posting

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Emz 😼🍓 @emzberry.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Never kill yourself 💗

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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the problem isn't that they made a merely adequate Wolverine game. that problem is that they AREN'T greenlighting a Xavier Institute for Higher Learning management sim

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026

Great piece illustrating how sick, sad, and depraved the "effective altruist" movement - which is extremely intermeshed with the massively powerful U.S. AI industry - has become.

strangecosmos.substack.com

The sad decline of effective altruism

A once wholesome and inspiring movement has become entangled with cults and has lost years chasing dead-end ideas

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Chicago 2100 Urbanism @chicago2100.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Construction in progress on new improvements. This will make walking on Chicago Ave drastically safer A stretch where lacking infrastructure has contributed to multiple pedestrian deaths. Long overdue. Lives over status quo.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

been thinkng about this and I think the thing is, 20 year olds just fully don't understand how much shit has happened to someone who is like mid 40s. Like it's a truly unfathomable amount of shit to a 20 year old, you just couldn't understand it being real It's like many times more than you've lived

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Jack Hanford, JD, LLM @simplyjack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Imagine touching the stove so much and so bad that they get rid of stoves

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I see the NYT is still platforming 'dei crushed white men' bullsh*t. Here it's buried in a 'why rural themed pop culture' is so popular in a piece written by a Princeton grad who lives in New York City. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...

Today, it’s country music that — for all its commercial success — represents the underdog. As diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives accord advantages to everyone except straight white men; as globalization and an urban, knowledge-based economy have impoverished and emptied out rural communities; and as trust in institutions including higher education and the federal government declines, the culture of rural working-class whites can symbolize an unconstrained way of life that stands apart from the stifling, all-encompassing H.R. bureaucracy that everyone else lives in.

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Dr. Nik @pcth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Remember this thing? Well posting's at the top of it now. Feel old yet?

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I miss Old Internet a lot, but admittedly a major part of that is that the early internet had a very weird opt-in procedure that you can't recreate, the result of which is that the default user was a curious dorkwad. Plus, there was no money to be made, so no branding/positioning all the time.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 11/09/2026

>the houthis were trying to use claude to build their rocket guidance system just get me off the fucking ride www.anthropic.com/threat-intel...

GTG-87001: Disrupting a Yemen-based guided weapons engineering cell using Claude to develop guidance software
Summary

We identified a cell of threat actors based in northern Yemen running three weapons development programs: a guided rocket that used a commodity phone-class flight computer with final-phase homing guidance; a multi-stage ballistic missile with a stated range goal above 2,000 km; and a multi-variant missile (referred to as the “R2000” set) that included a hypersonic glide vehicle variant.

The actors used Claude Code in place of human software engineers to develop the guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) software that steers and stabilizes a flying vehicle. For example, they used Claude to integrate an open-source autopilot onto a phone-class flight computer, writing the control and position estimation software, tuning the control settings, running a firmware build pipeline, and performing a flight simulation. The actors managed several Claude instances at once, assigning each one a role, much as a lead would delegate work on a small engineering team: the actors tasked one instance with writing the code, another with research, and a third with reviewing the code the first instance produced.

Our safeguards blocked many of their requests, but not all of them. The actors used a variety of tactics to evade our safeguards, including hiding their goals and the products the software was meant for, and they split their work across multiple sessions so no single session revealed their full intent.

These actors carried out a sustained effort to develop guided weapons, including using Claude to design guidance software. We do not have evidence the actors succeeded in fielding an operational device; but they did test-fire a guided rocket. This field test appears to have failed: within hours, the actors returned to Claude to work out why it failed.

We identified this activity as part of our internal investigations into suspected weapons development. We banne…

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

WHAT en.wiktionary.org/wiki/escalate

etymology: back-formation from escalator

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Racist Kim Kitsuragi can still happen if people want it bad enough

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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Only Aggro Comments @pilco.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

mfw my employer donated to the ballroom fund but I have to hit "i understand" during anti-bribery training.

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John @notheotherjohn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A weird thing that really happened around the year 2000 was that mainstream news ran and pushed a story for MONTHS that there was a secret new invention that was going to be revolutionary and then it turned out it was the Segway

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