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Kevin O'Connor

@rulethepla.net
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Engineering @ Internet Archive, made silly things @ Recurse Center

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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 25/09/2026
If we sent AI people to prison when their agents induced teenagers to kill themselves or they hacked into other companies I think the "alignment" problem would solve itself pretty quickly
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 16/09/2026
It's hard to overstate the level of psychic damage AI is inflicting on boomers, their minds truly have been turned to goop
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 15/09/2026
Today is the day he became Macklemost
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 13/09/2026
As a software engineer, I think I now know how doctors felt when people first started Googling symptoms before they showed up to an appointment
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 03/09/2026
Just incredible business sense to wade into this bullshit, why can you not just be happy to collect $60 a year for doing what Apple Passwords does for free and shut the fuck up
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 14/08/2026
Just read a line from a letterboxd review that is not great: > I consume a lot of true crime, and I’ll freely admit that I’m a fan of the genre. Disgusting that "true crime" is a genre! Why is it that people feel it's OK to make the worst day of someone's life their entertainment, get a hobby
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 08/08/2026
Resilience improvements on the way!
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 28/07/2026
Getting older is realizing nearly ever person in a position of prestige is actually just a tremendous dumb ass like the rest of us
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 22/07/2026
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Never Enough
Comparison is the thief of joy.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
There is no shame in a love this pure.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Page One. @nytimes.com
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Mark Zuckerberg's assistant at Meta, Josh Felker, who was responsible for Meta's "digital experiences for kids," was arrested after admitting he tried to sext a 13-year-old during an undercover sting. nypost.com/2026/07/20/u...
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Exclusive | Meta worker who developed ‘digital experiences for kids’ admits to trying to sext child in undercover NYC sting
He admitted he had been grooming and sexting someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl during a sting by vigilante group Predator Poachers Long Island.
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 14/07/2026
everything in my house is heat pumps. My dog is a heat pump now
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sami 🔵 @hellosami.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 21/05/2026
Hmmmm
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 21/05/2026
This is not at all a novel tactic (this was happening at Reddit at least as early as 2015-2016) and it's ridiculous for anyone involved in this article to be saying that www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Google, Microsoft, and Meta brag about how most of their code is AI-generated now. The developers generating that code say it sucks and that it's making the stupid www.404media.co/software-dev...
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Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
“It's making me dumber for sure.”
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 08/05/2026
It's time to build.
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 05/05/2026
Please send us hard drives
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/05/2026
Love the Wayback Machine? ❤️ Here’s your chance to stand up for it 📣 When news can't be archived, we all lose part of the public record 🕳️ Tell major publishers: keep journalism in the #WaybackMachine. ✍️ Sign here: www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders Campaign is a project of @fightforthefuture.org
Screenshot of a Fight for the Future petition page with the headline "Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!" with the subtext that major media outlets are blocking news preservation and that the petition demands they stop.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 03/05/2026
News shouldn’t disappear. 🕳️ Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine, putting the public record at risk. Journalists are speaking out. Add your name. Stand for preserving the news. ✍️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders
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Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 25/04/2026
I see why they had to add gambling, basketball is very boring to watch now
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 25/04/2026
People who are presenting a ChatGPT interaction as their own original thought when trying to collaborate or troubleshoot something is truly offensive
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 24/04/2026
Purposefully writing absolute dogshit code so people know it was not LLM generated
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 23/04/2026
Staten Island traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...
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To Protect And Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets Yet Remains On The Force - Streetsblog New York City
One of the city’s most-dangerous drivers is an officer with the NYPD, which does nothing to stop his reign of terror on Staten Island.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 21/04/2026
🧵 The arguments behind landmark Supreme Court rulings have never been freely available… until now. More than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs (1830–2019) are now open on the Internet Archive. Full announcement ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u... @wolflawlibrary.bsky.social
The official seal of the United States Supreme Court, featuring a circular design with the words “Supreme Court of the United States” surrounding a central emblem of a balanced scale of justice and a laurel wreath, symbolizing law, authority, and fairness.
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Merrilee Proffitt @merrileeiam.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via @archive.org I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...
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U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs: The Arguments That Shaped America, Now Freely Available | Internet Archive Blogs
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
So glad this story is gaining traction & wanted to highlight that @andrewdeck.bsky.social at @niemanlab.org broke the news that NYT/Guardian/USA Today were blocking IA earlier this year. Encourage all to read: www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...
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News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 16/04/2026
Nooo my reginos
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 16/04/2026
Publishers have real questions about AI, but let’s be clear: The Wayback Machine isn’t a backdoor for AI scraping. For 30 years, it’s been built for people, not bulk harvesting. We actively monitor to prevent abuse. Learn more ⤵️ www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...
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Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.
Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/04/2026
As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate. Taxing billionaires is not radical. What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 15/04/2026
The "why don't they make the whole plane out of the black box material" of our age is "why don't they just use Claude to fix Claude outages?"
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
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The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...
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The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 12/04/2026
“We are collateral damage.” - Mark Graham, Wayback Machine When preservation is caught in the crossfire, it’s not just libraries that lose—it’s the public’s access to history, knowledge, and truth. The web shouldn’t disappear behind closed doors. ➡️ www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...
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Publishers’ AI battle hits Internet Archive
SF organization losing access to some news content
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 08/04/2026
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While the Earth Sleeps - Long Version
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 07/04/2026
Bring back Valleywag
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 04/04/2026
Mario movie bad
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 22/03/2026
Thank you Chipotle and Steak and Shake for securing my child's financial future!!
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 16/03/2026
Marc Andreessen single handedly confirming or discrediting Phrenology, can not decide which yet
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 19/02/2026
🧵TL;DR the biggest AI companies and the New York Times are destroying history and accountability at the same time. www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...
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Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.
Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 18/02/2026
Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠ ⁠ Read more via @techdirt.com 🔗 www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...
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Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.
Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…
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Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net · 16/01/2026
Dr Melfi's son The Sopranos is a cross between Bill Hader and Adam Friedland
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"fart" @jonhendren.com · 02/01/2026
i have a new hobby i made up where i look at hundreds of ancient stock photo cdroms from archive .org and try to find cool shit in them. ill post more later but for now these are "tonights picks"
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 05/12/2025
🎁 Looking for a unique gift for an archivist—or a treat for yourself? 👕 1 Trillion Web Pages Baseball Jersey (LIMITED EDITION) 🧢 1 Trillion Web Pages Baseball Hat (LIMITED EDITION) 🧦 Socks, tote bags, and more! 💛 All proceeds benefit the #InternetArchive. Shop here ➡️ store.archive.org
A white baseball-style jersey with black pinstripes featuring the words Internet Archive in script lettering across the chest. It has black trim on the sleeves and a button-up front.The back of a white baseball-style jersey with black pinstripes displaying the number 10 with a small 12 above it, and the words WEB PAGES printed below in bold black lettering, representing 10 to the 12th power web pages preserved.A white baseball cap with a black brim and maroon accents, featuring a front patch that displays the Internet Archive logo and the words “Universal Access to All Knowledge” and “Internet Archive.”
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 29/11/2025
Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot. Useful to Journalists, Useful to Students, Useful to more than 2 million people a day. Collections growing at 150TBytes/day @internetarchive archive.org/donate www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...
internet archive photo
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 21/11/2025
We are back. Our provider found and repaired a fiber issue last night and traffic has returned. We are sorry for the disruption.
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