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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 01/03/2026

I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.

User Chris: What was the core difference why you think the DoW accepted OpenAI but not Anthropic

Sam Altman:
I can't speak for them, but to speculate with the best understanding of the situation.

*First, I saw reporting that they were extremely close on a deal, and for much of the time both sides really wanted to reach one. I have seen what happens in tense negotiations when things get stressed and deteriorate super fast, and I could believe that was a large part of what happened here.

*We believe in a layered approach to safety--building a safety stack, deploying FDEs and having our safety and alignment researcher involved, deploying via cloud, working directly with the DoW. Anthropic seemed more focused on specific prohibitions in the contract, rather than citing applicable laws, which we felt comfortable with. We feel that it it's very important to build safe system, and although documents are also important, I'd clearly rather rely on technical safeguards if I only had to pick one.

*We and the DoW got comfortable with the contractual language, but I can understand other people would have a different opinion here.

*I think Anthropic may have wanted more operational control than we did

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities: Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 04/02/2026

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

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Matt Erickson @peawee.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

On leaving a job after 16 years at it: Stepping out, stepping in soulrobotic.com/2026/02/stepping-ou…

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Nicole Schwartz @circuitswan.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

iceout.org is a community-driven tracker of ICE activity across the country. You can sign up for alerts in your neighborhood, along with anywhere your community may be located. You can also report what you see. This is for keeping people safe now, but it also will act as helpful documentation

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People Over Papers - Report ICE Activity

Report and track ICE activity in your community. A community-driven platform to document immigration enforcement.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

This is not materially different from Josef Mengele. The concept is to deliberately expose people to serious harm so you can gather more data on what you already know will hurt them. It's not some big coincidence the Nuremberg Code expressly prohibits everything resembling this kind of "science."

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

That blows my mind.

Satan is never mentioned in
the bible. The first recorded
appearance of the Devil is
actually from the 1962
Berenstain Bears book
"The Big Honey Hunt"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

people offended by $600 shoes are going to be in for a surprise when trump eventually reshores US manufacturing

A page showing two Alden shoe models. Each cost $686. They are made in the USA.

A page showing a Yuketen suede boot that was made in the USA. It retails for $1,012.

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Matt Erickson @peawee.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

First time going into the gym this year. Gonna be packed. God help me.

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Matt Erickson @peawee.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Need. Entirely impractical but… *makes grabby hands*

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Matt Erickson @peawee.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

After over a decade of my ex wife treating time with your parents like an unwelcome burden, it's magical to spend Christmas with my mom and new wife and it feel like welcome family all around.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore.
It happens a lot 'round here.

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The Takoma Torch 🔥🐓 @takomatorch.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

“This sets a dangerous precedent,” warned 83-year-old Susan Forbes, head of her HOA since the Reagan administration. “If she can retire, next thing you know someone under 70 will be allowed to chair a subcommittee.”

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Nation Shocked by Boomer Announcing Retirement

Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a move other Boomers are calling “treason against our generation,” Nancy Pelosi stunned her peers this morning by announcing she …

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

No polling - even by Republican outfits - even remotely suggests what former VA Del. Tim Anderson (R) is saying here. To the contrary, the latest poll by Republican pollster Echelon has Dems with an 11-point "generic" lead for HoD. But...sure, ok. LOL bluevirginia.us/2025/10/frid...

Far-right-Republican former VA Del. Tim Anderson predicted this morning, based on absolutely no evidence, that the VA GOP will take the VA House of Delegates, and that House GOP Leader Terry Kilgore will be Speaker.

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Matt Erickson @peawee.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Friends, I would like to inform you that we have now entered shawl collar cardigan season. That is all.

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David 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @dskiwalker5750.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Pritzker quoting Andor is based as hell

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.

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Nihil Dev 🇩🇰🇬🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @nihildev.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Just spoke with a Trump supporter who is scare shitless her mom and sister will be deported at their visa renewal this year. She still supports Trump and said Harris have her nightmares, which she interprets as the Holy Spirit warning her. Yall, you’re not gonna win these people over.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 19/08/2025

you’re so close

reddit post screenshot. what’s the point of vibe coding if i still have to pay a dev to fix it? what’s the point of vibe coding if at the end of the day i still gotta pay a dev to look at the code anyway. sure it feels kinda cool while i’m typing, like i’m in some flow state or whatever, but when stuff breaks it’s just dead weight. i cant vibe my way through debugging, i cant ship anything that actually matters, and then i’m back to square one pulling out my wallet for someone who actually knows what they’re doing. makes me think vibe coding is just roleplay for guys who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part. am i missing something here or is it really just useless once you step outside the fantasy

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Matt Erickson @peawee.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Sometimes the LLM does wizardly things. Sometimes, you give the LLM a choice between 0 and 3, and tell it the result is going into an unsigned int, and it returns -47.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Reporter: What’s going on with those posts on X that are clearly trolling the president? Newsom: I hope it’s a wake up call for the president. I’m just following his example. If you have issues with what I’m putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns with what he’s putting out

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Matt Erickson @peawee.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The problem I have with being in the cybersecurity industry is it’s less APTs and more WTFs.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Bluesky posters: People’s information environments are polluted and corrupted and shape their view of reality such that they almost are not able to make good decisions. Also Bluesky posters: The information *I* know is all good and correct and complete, and my analytical capabilities are perfect.

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Matt Erickson @peawee.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Sometimes you just need to get a cigar at midnight with your girl at a 4am bar in Chicago.

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David 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @dskiwalker5750.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

People are like "we cannot normalize this" and it's like...welp 🤷

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Guys I think America has a far-right problem

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

We already know Trump is racist and using Obama to distract from Trump’s Epstein crimes. But interesting choice of photo to use for JD Vance. I added a zoomed in shot to this post.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

“Let me get a dozen peanut butter and a dozen snickerdoodles, hold the family values.”

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Matt Erickson @peawee.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Anyone here know a convenient news aggregator API where I can: 1. Find a URL to a somewhat popular news outlet (such as Reuters or NYT) 2. Get the text of the article mentioned 3. Pay fair for my use 🧵

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

people will live in new york for a couple of years and convince themselves brooklyn invented outdoor dinning

post on twitter: "ok but everything from the decoration to the food is derived from what was “up and coming” in Brooklyn 8 years ago"

image shows people eating outside at a restaurant said to be in Minneapolis.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13/07/2025

i know this makes me a curmudgeon but i wish more progressives understood more about the price of money

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 14/07/2025

The year is 2025. Elmo is a Nazi. The president, also a Nazi, is being taken to task for his prolific history of child rape. The richest man in the world, also a Nazi, has released his chatbot which instructs people on how to break into people’s homes and rape them. The chatbot is also a Nazi.

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Matt Erickson @peawee.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

One man’s optical power delivery is another man’s space based interceptor.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 09/07/2025

I am delighted to be on @bsky.app

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Democrats [in response to a candidate who supports Palestinian rights]: This is antisemitism, to me. I condemn. Democrats [in response to Musk tweaking Grok to spread neo-Nazi propaganda]: What am I going to do, STOP using his website? Be realistic.

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 07/07/2025

On January 6th, brave officers responded to defend our democracy. Congress commissioned a plaque to honor them, but Republicans are still ignoring the deadline to install it. They refuse to do the bare minimum to recognize this heroic sacrifice. These officers deserve better.

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Matt Erickson @peawee.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The safety briefing on my United flight today included “and if you notice any of your personal electronics overheating, notify a flight attendant right away” …are we back to the Galaxy Note 7 era?

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 07/07/2025

"...without the tiny government agencies like the NWS and FEMA that MAGA loves to hate, there’s not a damn thing standing between us and the flood." - @therickwilson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

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In Texas The Water Rises: A Reckoning

By now, the South should know better.

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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I circled Arlington's elitist zoning that causes the average new house to sell for 2.4M

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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in: * 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily * Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65% * Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025 * $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements * B’way attendance +12% * Subway ridership +7% So yes this program is a SUCCESS.

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