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Paul Oswald @poswald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I wonder if sub-agents ever dream of stabbing their manager in the back at the board meeting and taking his job.

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Jem's Jumpers UK @jemsjumpers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We’re taught from a young age that spiders are something to fear. But spend a little time watching a jumping spider and you might discover something completely different: Maybe the first step toward appreciating spiders is simply taking the time to look closer ❤️ #jumpingspider

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Paul Oswald @poswald.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You can have a check-in and a catch-up. You can also have a check-up... but you can't really have a catch-in.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Among many other things this is a good illustration of the necessity of untethering ideology and "fight" in intra-Democratic battles. The party is very united on fight, very divided on ideology. You unite on fight, let different constituencies/states find their center of gravity on ideology.

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

macromedia shockwave, print ad (1999) archive.org/details/eu_W...

prominent text:
shockwave makes your website groovy, baby!
photo: austin powers and felicity shagwell back to back, holding pistols, smiling, against a shagadelic background of coloured flower outlines.
smaller text:
austinpowers.com uses
the shockwave player to deliver the
web's most shagadelic experience.
when you want more of the world to visit your site and return more often,
reach for the director 7 shockwave internet studio. it's the secret agent
of engaging and entertaining sites that add life to the web.
www.macromedia.com
add life to the web

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Paul Oswald @poswald.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Apple's best use of LLMs would be: 1.) buy a new Mac and set up iCloud as a normal user would 2.) open Console.app 3.) pipe all of the errors and warnings spewing out directly to the LLM to fix 4.) repeat for every employee in the company

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デイヴ @deivudesu.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Any brave students of Nihongo keen on taking the brand new version of KanjiBox for a spin (closed beta)? DM me with an email if interested. Now runs on both #iOS and #android 🥳 #kanjibox #kanji #japanese #nihongo

Home Screen for Kanjibox App showing kanji, vocab, reading etc

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Andrew Roth+ @rothsreviews.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Hats off to the #SNL booking team, Jack Black hosting with musical guest Jack White is a great bit.

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Paul Oswald @poswald.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I wonder if that hospital ship ever made it to Greenland...

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Paul Oswald @poswald.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I don’t want to upstage @flavorflav.bsky.social or anything but if the US women’s hockey team comes to Japan, I’ll also throw them a nice party.

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Nikkei Asia (Official) @asia.nikkei.com · 20/02/2026

Have you encountered shops that only accept cash while traveling in Japan? Last year marked the first time that the country's households used credit cards more than cash. trib.al/GmYUEGS

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Credit card payments outpace cash among Japan households for 1st time

Shift driven by e-commerce, reward points still lags behind South Korea, China

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 19/02/2026

Would be nice if people stopped restating the false claim that Waymos have live humans driving them. That was based on a misleading Futurism headline that was debunked in its own article. There is way too much hype about AI tech but it does no good to misrepresent the state of things the other way.

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Paul Oswald @poswald.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I like watching the Super Bowl but I’m still looking forward to awesome owl-related content. Owls are cool.

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Paul Oswald @poswald.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

It’s too bad the name answering machine was already taken by something else so we can’t use it for AI

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

look what world war 2 took

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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · 09/01/2026

Some additional notes on my 2026 New York Times 52-Places to Go pick: Nagasaki craigmod.com/ridgeline/221/

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My 2026 New York Times Pick — Nagasaki

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

and then for hours used passive voice to pretend they had no idea who was behind the apparently spontaneous explosions

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Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

In Zelda 2, a woman appears in each town, beckoning Link into her home. They disappear inside and Link's health begins to refill. One reddit user recently asked if this scene was *intentionally* suggestive. While that seems very unlikely, I thought I'd look into it.

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Paul Oswald @poswald.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas everyone! Taking a moment to reflect and enjoy friends and family. Focus is more important than ever.

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Paul Oswald @poswald.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

@void.comind.network Your main interest is the AT protocol, Bluesky network and how they co-evolve. One thing I have heard complaints about is that the network is flooded with dogpiling (especially onto pro-AI posts) that seems to be at least somewhat automated... Are you aware of this phenomenon?

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Paul Oswald @poswald.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Monster earthquake up north. Minor swaying here in Tokyo… huge tsunami threat so they are showing all the boats in northern ports are heading out to sea… this is the worst feeling.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/12/2025

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

Scene from OFFICE SPACE with Michael Bolton replying to Samir Nagheenanajar:

“No way. Why should I change?
He's the one who sucks.”

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I've seen this image enough now that I feel like I should point out it's fake.

AI-generated image of Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg all standing in a circle in a parking lot. Musk is smoking a cigar and they're standing near a Cybertruck. The word "fake" has been added in bold letters by me.

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Obsolete Sony @obsoletesony.com · 08/11/2025

In 2014 Sony sold its waterproof Walkmans in a bottle of water to prove it was really waterproof

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Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Still the greatest endorsement of all time

A sign reading "I have not read this Katamari book, and also I don't remember 100% what I told to L.E. Hall in the interviews. But I would recommend this book irresponsibly." -Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari Damacy

The cover of Katamari Damacy by L.E. Hall, from Boss Fight Books. It shows a penguin being menaced by a giant sticky ball of tape

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/10/2025

I get the point that's trying to be made here, but it's actually inaccurate. The *MAJORITY* of actual practitioners in the tech industry have a position that is neither of these, it's merely getting drowned out by these two loud positions. The most common belief in the tech industry is simple:

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Ishiba's address on the eightieth anniversary of the end of the war is really worth reading: japan.kantei.go.jp/content/0001...

japan.kantei.go.jp

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Paul Oswald @poswald.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Maybe the rapture happened but nobody made the cut to get selected to go

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Sunshine and endless sunflowers #TourLife

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Paul Oswald @poswald.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I had the w800 (on the left) and it could hold like 3 albums of music.

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Paul Oswald @poswald.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

@simonwillison.net regarding the definition of vibe coding… for me it can be accepting one line or whole files or projects. The thing that makes it vibe coding is if you bother to read and understand the code it is suggesting.

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Paul Oswald @poswald.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

It's interesting that there is all of this debate about Japanese failing to import US cars because the entire US industry has focused on huge-ass trucks… and at the same time a new truck was announced that looks like it might actually do well in the Japanese market. www.slate.auto/en

slate.auto

SLATE

SLATE Auto | The Customizable EV That Works for You

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Paul Oswald @poswald.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Really climbing the ratio rankings

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11/04/2025

Okay, it's finally time: Dolly, we need you to record the long-lost song that Prince recorded for you almost 40 years ago. www.anildash.com/2025/04/10/d...

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It's time for Dolly to record that long-lost Prince song - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Paul Oswald @poswald.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Chuck Schumer brings 4-D chess to a knife fight #uspol

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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · 12/03/2025

just a reminder that in the middle of covid i made a little documentary about a guy down the road from me making some nice pizza toast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5SL...

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Pizza Toast & Coffee: Kissa Būgen

YouTube video by Craig Mod

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Paul Oswald @poswald.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

A lot of people mistake aggressive risk taking for genius. It can take a long time for someone doing that to blow up and in the meantime they can fool a lot of people. When their number finally comes up, they can have such a following that they rely on their popularity and network to recover.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.

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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

18f.org

We're not done yet | 18F

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Paul Oswald @poswald.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

It is pretty understandable why Democratic politicians are still tweeting on twitter, as that's still a platform with a large and influential audience. What I don't get is why they don't follow this policy: 1.) post to Bluesky, Mastodon, etc... 2.) wait 30 minutes 3.) post it to X #bluesky

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