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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

@honer.bsky.social Who are the pioneers today in adapting history’s lessons to the next wave of naval technologies?

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Should improve authoritarian surveillance of US state governments?

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

@radiofreetom.bsky.social how well do presidents surround themselves with capable staff and cabinets?

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

It's not just automating coordination to flatten orgs. This autocratic-flavored enterprise ambition is to stop renting smarts from human experts (who leave, die, have opinions) and make smarts owned by the company in full. Scales better, keeps improving, doesn't question orders, works weekends.

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

So someone comes to your town to build an AI data center that will pollute, raise local energy prices, and lie abandoned in five years as old chips don't matter and the funding goes away. What can locals do to get the AI wildcatters to shoulder all the pain? www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economic...

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AI's Economics Don't Make Sense

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

So what's the fully loaded cost of using AI (the way you'll want to use it a year from now)? Without the subsidy? Adding in taxes, to cover the externalities?

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 15/04/2026

I wrote a piece explaining why open protocols are even more important in a world where everyone can build their own software - and what that might mean for social. werd.io/one-size-fit...

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One size fits none: let communities build for themselves

How open protocols and agentic development could lead to a whole new generation of social applications.

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

So if you have budget for 100 agents as direct reports, what percent do you dedicate to roles that defend you from internal political attacks, that wage quiet wars on rivals, that support sponsors and allies as you accumulate power? More than your colleagues? Less than your boss?

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Persistence of a customer relationship must span products, projects, and companies. The lifespan of all of these can be shorter than the time to build enduring relationships (or communities) and trust that creates value over a lifetime. So if your relationship is not with the software pop-up?

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Is #peakoil about historic levels of production? or historic prices? Who thought it would come in 2026? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil

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Peak oil - Wikipedia

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Jeff Stormer @jeffstormer.gobirds.online · 09/02/2026

You ever stop and think about CASABLANCA? You ever stop and think about "Welcome back to the fight, this time, I know our side will win?" You ever think about a bar full of people defiantly singing La Marseillaise, played by a soundstage full of Jewish refugees? You ever think about CASABLANCA??????

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

So many DHS/ICE "reform" ideas floating around as the budget fight in Congress develops. From 2010-2014, I helped negotiate & enforce consent decrees relating to racist/violent police agencies across the country as part of the U.S DOJ's Civil Rights Division (RIP!). Here are my general thoughts.

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The break ups are harder on away missions episode. The dead school chum makes us grow up a bit episode. The I really shoulda joined the Starfleet accounting academy episode. The does this dress uniform make my biceps look bigger episode.

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The strange team sport episode. The parent issues episode. The crappy roommate figures it out episode.

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The culture-is-hard but love is harder episode. The who gets to lead the team episode.

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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Russian prosecutors asking to have Pussy Riot officially declared an "extremist" organization. From Pussy Riot's official facebook: "Singing in the streets is not extremism. If telling the truth is extreme, then hold my Red Bull."

Three masked women in punky black dresses release neon-pink smoke into the air.

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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Long Beach, Signal Hill, Avalon, Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach & South Santa Ana. Let’s go!

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

@radiofreetom.bsky.social So, how do autocrats consolidate power when they fear losing their figurehead? Do they try to shift loyalties to a new DearLeader? To a new institution? Something else?

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 19/11/2025

Kudos to Josh for doing an amazing job with TPM and entering the 25 year club at truly independent media, which I think consists of him, @techdirt.com and... um... not sure who else? Does @slashdot.org count? Probably not since they got bought at some point.

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

About a generation ago there was a huge movement to capture the expertise of skilled and knowledgeable employees in side of a company or other large organization in ways that could be reused. Sometimes in the form of manuals and documentation, or training programs and curriculum, or software. /1

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Can you design or regulate 2026-era data centers for a productive retirement? Readily-recyclable aged compute and network gear? Repurposed physical spaces and real estate? Or will these become the next industrial abandonware, rusting, crumbling hulks like a new rustbelt?

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

If you are in the US military, this is your reminder that it is illegal to follow an unlawful order.

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

When companies hire back laid off humans (to fill the gap until... whenever) will workers #unionize? It will be a moment of employer vulnerability and labor opportunity. #aibacklash @carnage4life.bsky.social

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 21/08/2025

Regular reminder that Skynet Sentience day is next Friday, on August 29th.

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robin @squarehead333.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Professional manga translators have adopted the tics of scanlators. Also the bar is pretty low considering the demand. Think this Rachel Thorn article from 2009 about the low quality of manga translation is a good read: web.archive.org/web/20140828...

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On Translation

"Translations are like wives: the faithful ones are not beautiful, and the beautiful ones are not faithful." A horribly misogynistic quote to begin an essay with, I know, but it's a quote that has ...

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

A burning need for prompt engineering for real life situations with high stakes. Lawyers, judges, doctors, adjusters, police, plumbers, your kid's teachers... Not just for the ADHD/NA folks but for everyone. How do I get the best outcomes from this constrained interaction and avoid bad things?

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I get the sense agentic stack users need something similar. @simonwillison.net

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Nobody ever names new variants "stupid, stupider, and stupidest". Or says "our bots suck less" or "we're doing a little less worse". There's plenty of accomplishment, no need for hyperbole. Maybe give equal weight to ongoing problems, shortcomings, concerns.

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

"an industry that has no franchise value" means # buy hard assets (data centers, infrastructure) when your human assets are depreciating fast. # operate in the moment, for our future is fickle and we don't know where to steer the ship

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 29/06/2025

Well, quite. You need to catch up with the treatment backlog so we're not funneling so many people into underfunded disability and social care, rather than attacking them for not getting treatment. Also fuck you for attacking trans healthcare

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 27/06/2025

Hot take: Mamma Mia! is the first film in the Eurovision Extended Universe

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 97 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Andry José Hernández Romero with a makeup client.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 13/06/2025

"If your decentralised protocol is missing features, the market will add them with centralisation." — @goat.navy *This*: - is why why the web was captured; - is why email became concentrated; - is why ActivityPub, as defined today, isn't capture-resistant.

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The Salish Current @salish-current.org · 10/06/2025

A book about Bellingham pipeline explosion disaster is in the works. Author Ron Holcomb worked as a public information officer and spill responder for the Washington Department of Ecology. Read the full story by Ron Holcomb and Dean Kahn at the link below. salish-current.org/.../pipeline...

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Pipeline explosion: Book about Bellingham disaster is in the works

Author Ron Holcomb worked as a public information officer and spill responder for the Washington Department of Ecology.

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

@kenwhite.bsky.social Any military lawyers defending officers declining to follow unlawful orders?

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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 29/05/2025

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

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Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"

YouTube video by Annie Andrews

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Phil Wolff @philwolff.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This is holding up well but I missed #btw and #AI as cover for stockholders and execs taking power back from workers in 2024 and 2025. Symbolic hiring freezes, ritual layoffs of the experienced, thinning of expertise. With AI project errors, this is self-inflicted institutional dementia. #mgmt

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Hold on let me try something, I love Boeing, I love when doors fly off the hinges when I am in a tube in the sky, I love the Qatari government, I call them “the Handsome Guys Who Don’t Do Corruption,” unrelatedly did you know there is no upper limit in the donation field at membership.theonion.com?

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Join The Onion

Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

corporation for public broadcasting has sued the trump administration seen below, the lawyer representing cpb www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...

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Micah Sifry ❌👑 @msifry.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

National park workers led protests in more than 100 locations last weekend; did you know that letter carriers protested at more than 200? That’s not counting the #TeslaTakedown rallies and the Bernie Sanders/AOC giant rallies. The most interesting thread that I tease out in this week’s Connector...

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orchleague.bsky.social @orchleague.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

New from Symphony: Bellingham Symphony Orchestra Celebrates 50 Years

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Bellingham Symphony Orchestra Celebrates 50 Years - Symphony

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Joyful Trouble @mini-marshmallows.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This made me smile. An old clip of Kamala Harris calling Americans who benefited from Affordable Care Act. 💙 This could and should've been our president - still hurts that we got pure evil instead. 😭 #ACA

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

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...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.

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Angela ColterGEIST 👻 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I put together a GitHub repository of resources for fired federal employees including state government job boards and rapid response efforts. If you are aware of others that should be added, send them my way. github.com/acolter/fed-...

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