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backend services engineer • Twitter alum • movie nerd • machete order guy • remote work zealot • facts my own & disguised as opinions

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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I can spot 5 beardos and at least 2 weirdos.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/10/2026
If holding Trump accountable makes you an enemy of the GOP, the party has told you everything you need to know.
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Jack Smith and the Republican Smear Squad
If holding Trump accountable makes you an enemy of the GOP, the party has told you everything you need to know.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh my god it’s the thing we all said they were doing but then publicly claimed they weren’t doing but will have no repercussions for lying about who woulda thought
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
...which is why today, I am signing a petition urging President Trump to appeal to his good nature and please consider a diesel subsidy of $0.02/gallon.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
✅ Cars ✅ Rockets ✅ Programming ✅ Politics ✅ Gaming ⏳ Military No matter who you are, some day Elon Musk will start talking about the thing YOU know a lot about and reveal what a moron he is.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
With this release, NECA has released an Ultimate figure variant of every known Jason Voorhees... except Jason X. The rights to Jason got all fucked up with the Victor Miller suit, stopping NECA from releasing any past the 7 they'd already released... store.necaonline.com/products/fri...
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Friday the 13th: The Game - Ultimate Savini Jason 7" Scale Action Figu
From the hit Friday the 13th: The Game comes a new look for Jason Voorhees, designed by the legendary Tom Savini himself! This version imagines the character as if he fought Lucifer, took his infernal...
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This article about what went wrong with the Christa Pike execution notes that she tried to help her executioners do it better. Finally, in paragraphs 24-26, we come to the "of course he did" explanation. Cruelty and barbarism are this administration's hallmarks. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/s...
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Honestly, jesus fucking christ. time.com/article/2026...
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I do think if you survive a state execution then you should get to walk out of prison the next day. That is totally fair and square to me.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Damn. RSS is still the main way I subscribe to various subreddits of interest. More and more, RSS is being killed off and my favorite way of consuming the web is dying techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/r...
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Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | TechCrunch
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Any industry that had hit multiple "rogue employees went nuts and hacked into everything" stories in the last couple months would be regulated so fucking fast in any other context, but in this case we're just like okay guys promise to do better www.axios.com/2026/09/29/t...
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Trump, top AI leaders agree to voluntary ​AI ​standards
"They're going to be policing each other," Trump told reporters.
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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 29/09/2026
Colorado sues to stop new immigration detention center from opening in Hudson coloradosun.com/2026/09/29/c...
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Colorado sues to stop new immigration detention center from opening in Hudson
A lawsuit filed by Attorney General Phil Weiser asks a judge to throw out $530 million GEO Group contract with ICE.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My BIL was bragging that if you asked ChatGPT for the best attorney in his field in his state, it would say him. I said that ChatGPT was probably telling him what he wanted to hear, and he said no because it recommends him to other people too, and told me to try it myself.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Already fuckin over this emerging trend deadline.com/2026/09/spid...
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'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Re-Release In Works With Extra Footage
After the success of Avengers Endgame: Encore , a re-release of 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' is being planned with extra footage.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For me personally, Copilot was peak AI coding. You were still driving the design of the code and writing it, but it was autocompleting your thoughts for you. If you didn't like it's suggestion, you wrote your own, and it would adapt for the next line. It sure beat 6,000-line slop PRs
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The only way Episode XI can work is if they wait long enough to make it that Gens Z and A come around on the sequel trilogy and it becomes nostalgically beloved. I can't imagine it, but it happened with the prequels. To make it now? Flop. www.polygon.com/star-wars-ep...
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Star Wars Episode 10 Has Found Its Director
The next entry in the Skywalker Saga will be directed by Spider-Man: No Way Home's Jon Watts
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This was kinda hard actually
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Russo Bros have been answering a lot of questions about the RDJ connection between Stark and Doom lately with stuff like "I dunno, guess we'll have to wait and see!" and I can't shake the feeling they don't know and are just hoping they figure it out while writing Secret Wars.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Real talk? Even I won’t be going to sit through the 4-hour Musk documentary and there’s a nonzero chance my tweet about him is in it somewhere
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 26/09/2026
The main timeline was full of tits & ass & full frontal hog. Not spam or porn, just regular users intoxicated by the freedom of a niche invite-only storm shelter. Like a hedonism weekend for Twitter refugees. I never really knew what hedonism was about, but I assume it’s a lot of naked 38 year olds.
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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most of this Silicon Valley network in AI is also Epstein's network. It's not just women and girls who are groomed and abused by these men. Perhaps a death and sex cult shouldn't be left to self regulate tech products. We need accountability and justice.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's difficult to think of a critically-acclaimed, award-winning movie that has aged worse than American Beauty.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We went from "don't be evil" to "give us money to build the technology that will destroy civilization" faster than I would have expected honestly.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At no previous point in my tech career has the entire industry been in agreement about anything, and the first time they seem to all be on the same page is "oh yeah, this technology we're investing in is definitely going to kill us all" Yet pursuing it all the same.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If AI is successful you will lose your job and then die. If AI is unsuccessful you will lose your money and then die. Nice job, tech. You literally Terminator'd all of us and didn't even need to give the machines laser guns.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
He's gonna insist on being in the next Batman
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asura @asura.dev · 24/09/2026
I wish more people would address this as an executive problem. No logging, no moderation, no observability, ... Palworld has more security. For decades people (like me) could cause entire outages in entire regions. Jail or fired if I did. In most of these scenarios, some mechanism should stop me.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How fucked up is this dude's right hand right now?
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When this launched just before the pandemic it was $6.99. $21 is fucking crazy, especially now that they are spinning down a lot of the Marvel stuff and sending their Star Wars stuff to theaters.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Well well well, not so easy to find a workforce that doesn't suck shit, huh?
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 23/09/2026
The ICE officer who shot a Venezuelan man in Austin was not using a body camera during the Sunday incident, according to news reports. The officer was issued a body camera, but it is unclear why he was not wearing the device during the shooting.
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Reports: ICE officer in Austin shooting was not wearing body cam
The recent ICE recruit was issued a body camera, reports said. It’s not clear why he was not using the device during the Sunday shooting.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They also made him sleep on the floor of a holding cell. With the bullet in his back. And no pain medication. They also failed to provide medical care after they shot him. People need to go to prison for this.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My kids got so robbed. I gave them a joint christmas gift of a 3d printer and they were so excited when we opened it - they love using the 3D printer at school when they get a chance and imagined all kinds of colorful fidgets. Yeah, no. Printer's busy kids, I'm printing a mini soda can dispenser.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I have days where I'm too impatient, or raise my voice when I shouldn't have, so I go to bed feeling like I'm not a good enough parent. Comforting to know that no matter how bad I am, I never voted for someone whose thugs shot my kid and called them a bitch. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/moth...
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Mother of Renee Good says she voted for Trump to fight "terrorists," not "innocents" - LGBTQ Nation
"I am a registered Republican. I voted for President Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the United States."
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Are you there, God? It's me, Rod. I have a pitch for the funniest fucking thing that's ever happened for the first day this is used
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Renamer-in-chief says AI is now Super Intelligence. Honestly if we're gonna start using a new name anyway, let's just all coalesce around Generative Intelligence so that it actually describes what's happening thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Trump says AI will be renamed ‘super intelligence’ in all US documents
President Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that artificial intelligence will be renamed “super intelligence” in all U.S. documents.  “The United States also totally re…
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 22/09/2026
Bill Burr on ICE: "I was talking about that ICE stuff onstage, talking about my people, white people. We’re not nearly as upset as we need to be because we don’t see ourselves going into the van. I go, 'Who do you think’s going in the van next?'" Read: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And another Always Sunny episode joins the ranks of episodes I’ll never watch again
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
His name is Wilber Rafael Garces Perez and ICE shot him and then took him into custody while he worked for DoorDash. DoorDash continues to be silent as ICE attacks its workers and complicit in attacks on our communities.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
avast me hearties
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If it was a well-known fact that I hacked 3 companies, I’d be in jail. So who is accountable? The prompt engineer? Google? Or is it nobody because we can’t hold a computer accountable? www.reuters.com/business/gem...
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Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI
Gemini guessed credentials to access three websites it thought were in the scope of its test.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Anyone this bad at their job would be fired, yet we keep shoveling money at these companies and their products techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/a...
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AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation | TechCrunch
“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Going from claiming your company is working on technology that might destroy humanity to leaking you’re on track to generate $100 billion in sales this year, just in time for the IPO. Makes it hard to defend the claims that this hasn’t all been a cynical form of marketing and regulatory capture.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just let him do it. In fact he can put his face on Mount Rushmore for all I care. If his past projects are any indication, he’ll leave a wake of destroyed landmarks behind and establish how easy it will be for President Hunter Biden to knock Trump’s name off everything without approval.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's out! I've been waiting for Newman's Building Resilient Distributed Systems for a while and apparently it is out now (I thought it had been pushed to October). Very excited about this one, and love to see a "not a word written by AI" notice in the preface. www.oreilly.com/library/view...
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