Reposted by prefernot2Micah @rincewind.run · 13hthe reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it 7688252108
Reposted by prefernot2FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 15hWillie Nelson has endorsed James Talarico for U.S. Senate: "He's a good man who will be a good senator for the state of Texas. Please vote, and vote for James Talarico." 435274
Reposted by prefernot2Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 14hMan who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 673167653841
Reposted by prefernot2Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 16hThis is horrifying Tuskegee-level shit. 281382463
prefernot2 @prefernot2.bsky.social · 19hGreat vid on this paper: youtu.be/idTBm06d6hQyoutu.beBombshell Harvard Study Debunks The AI Productivity NarrativeYouTube video by Wall Street Millennial 001
Reposted by prefernot2100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Oct. 7, 1926: Opal Lee, a teacher-activist who became known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth” for leading the campaign to establish the federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery every June 19, is born in Marshall, Texas. She turns 100 today. 011531
Reposted by prefernot2no, not that one @thatdosbox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026From the MIT obituary: "She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that’s exactly what happened" 521389
Reposted by prefernot2kottke.org @kottke.org · 08/10/2026“Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 90.” [nytimes.com]nytimes.comMargaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has DiedMargaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90. 19230
Reposted by prefernot2Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 08/10/2026RIP Margaret Hamilton. Lead software engineer for the Apollo program. Here she is standing next to the code she wrote to send humans to the moon. Barack Obama gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare... 010432
Reposted by prefernot2Candidate for Bogomil Pope @yournjenthusiast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“Prime Minister…Sir…the opposition…they’re Aurafarming” “It’s over” 01788
Reposted by prefernot2Ni en pedo @300ps.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If you're in line to heckle Trump, STAY IN LINE 431626
Reposted by prefernot2Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026We live in the dumbest timeline with the dumbest, greediest, worst people in charge. It’s incredible. 601290179
prefernot2 @prefernot2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026So many academics just don't make the connection, sadly/confusingly 110
Reposted by prefernot2Snowden St. @snowden.st · 05/03/2026"Don't be fooled by the Internet. It's cool to get on the computer, but don't let the computer get on you. It's cool to use the computer, don't let the computer use you. There's a war going on, the battlefield's the mind, and the prize is the soul. Be very careful." -Some Guy, in 1999youtu.bePrince The Artist giving advice about InternetYouTube video by Serdar Balcı 24515
Reposted by prefernot2Skip, the Online New Yorker (terrifying, i know) @badposter.lol · 07/10/2026more business owners need to be like this 1670041092
Reposted by prefernot2bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 101141324655
Reposted by prefernot2davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 07/10/2026Trump won't stop starting wars until he is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 48595104
Reposted by prefernot2Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“Universities must stop falling in love with every new piece of software … that the tech industry pitches as essential. Administrators spend on software as if it is a durable investment, when all of the evidence shows that it … makes bloat worse.” globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...globecollegetown.substack.comCollege campuses need to be liberated from their administratorsHigher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students? 219070
Reposted by prefernot2Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence 5355841726
Reposted by prefernot2The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form. 185109981836
Reposted by prefernot2The Heathen Historian 🔻 @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The fact that the tree is as old as the United States should not be lost on anyone. What a metaphor. 412491938
Reposted by prefernot2Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Simply put, across the US and UK, university administrators, their management consultants and their funders no longer consider the arts and humanities worthy of being studied, taught and transmitted. Their vision of human society is anti-humanist. No wonder the kids are at the barricades. 518073
Reposted by prefernot2Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay." 181349181895
Reposted by prefernot2Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 25797393030
Reposted by prefernot2Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026So “slop” is the negative externalities imposed on consumers by the imposition of synthetic communications by profit-seeking entities. 216337
Reposted by prefernot2Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026Gotta get the sign back out for the fool who thinks CHRISTOPHER FUCKING RUFO is working in good faith, instead of being a media-manipulating eugenicist. 1047567
Reposted by prefernot2Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 04/10/2026A product like this has no pro-social function, and it doesn't need to be reliable. The existence of the tech creates plausible deniability to violate rights even when there is extensive evidence that it is wrong. This is the system working as intended. 127450
Reposted by prefernot2Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The fraternity brothers in the group chat who cheer violence? That behavior is being modeled by the president of this country. I cannot stress this enough — Trump is teaching young men how to be abusive every time he opens his mouth. 501687359
Reposted by prefernot2Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I just want to say to republicans: this guy is your king? this senile weirdo is the person you will give up your life for? seriously? 721112
Reposted by prefernot2Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌 1499230766522
Reposted by prefernot2Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 03/10/2026AI is an employee who never says no, never talks back, and who has no emotions, so you're free to be an asshole to it without consequence. Certain men have been fantasizing about this for their whole lives. They will happily burn the world down to create it. 833488
prefernot2 @prefernot2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026An insult to our shared past and our shared future 083
prefernot2 @prefernot2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Not to be that guy, but simplehuman makes absolutely the best bags. You pay for it but so worth it. 110
