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Molly White @molly.wiki · 08/06/2026

I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time. influence.citationneeded.news

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Tech Influence Watch

Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/04/2026

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism

in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification

The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I can't promise right now that I'd make it, but I'd try like hell. Would love to do it.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 02/01/2026

Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor. Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️ The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly. It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.

Paul Graham, Y Combinator co-founder, posts: The rational fear of those who dislike economic inequality is that the rich will convert their economic power into political power: that they'll tilt elections, or pay bribes for pardons, or buy up the news media to promote their views.

I used to be able to claim that tech billionaires didn't actually do this — that they just wanted to refine their gadgets. But unfortunately in the current administration we've seen all three.

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Let it teach you and help you as you go. You won't believe how good the instruction-following gets as you iterate on what the AI needs to be most productive. And have fun! (This is supposed to be fun... if it's not, ask the AI how it could be more fun! 😉)

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Keep at it, create a fuck-around project to practice on, ask your AI for what could be improved in your instructions and processes as you go, let it write the updates for your AGENTS.md files and custom instructions, ask it "based on what you learned doing this task, what should we update?"

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Last thing: remember, this is a new skill, and like any new skill, you need to practice it. You won't be good at it in one day, or one week, or even two weeks. And that's OK.

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

10x, if taken literally, means: "Ship what used to be two weeks worth of code and updates in one day." It's possible. I'm not quite at 10x yet, more like 5x on a good day, I'm still learning and practicing, but I see it, and it's the most fun fucking thing I've done as a programmer in a long time.

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

...which obviously works, but is a waste of money when I already have Pro. We'll get there, I'm sure, but the bottom line: Max out your AI usage, as much as you can, as much as you can afford. This is the step-change to get you to bring 10x more productive as a programmer.

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I still say that CLI-only (i.e. Codex, Claude Code, etc.) is a weak UX, but it works for now. Can't argue with the speedups. I'm itching to design a GUI for this kind of AI assistant flow, but there's no way to use my ChatGPT Pro included usage in a non-OpenAI client. I'd have to use an API token.

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I copy-and-paste the spec over to Codex gpt-5.2-codex high, and say "implement and don't stop until it's complete" and 20, or 30, or 90 minutes later I have a week's worth of code generated and updated. Plus tests, plus updates to AGENTS.md files, plus docs, and I'll add more soon.

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

My favorite hack so far: putting the code for my project in a .ZIP file, uploading that to a Project with detailed instructions, and turning GPT 5.2 Pro with Extended Thinking loose on creating detailed functional specifications. I iterate in ChatGPT until I'm happy, then generate the spec.

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Then create Projects and Skills for yourself. Load context once and re-use it. Create repeatable processes and set Codex loose on them. The light bulb has gone on for me. I'm getting so much more done with this insanely intelligent assistance.

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

About ten days ago, I upgraded my ChatGPT subscription from Plus ($20/month) to Pro ($200/month), which includes virtually unlimited AI + Codex usage. It made me realize that I've been in a scarcity mindset about AI. Having virtually unlimited AI changes everything. If you can afford it, do it.

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Remember: if you make developer tools and ignore Windows developers, only provide examples in bash, you're telling over 50% of programmers in the world to go fuck themselves.

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a rainbow and a star with the words " make you know " on it

Alt: a rainbow and a star with the words " make you know " on it

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Tomas Petricek @tomasp.net · 09/12/2025

What defines a correct program? What education makes a good programmer? The answer depends on what culture of programming you subscribe to! This has been a long time in the making, but my open access book on the history of programming is available for pre-order! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Remember: the question is not "Why does AWS and Azure have outages?" the question is "could you stand up an infrastructure as reliable as theirs by yourself and have fewer outages/year than they do?" For most orgs, the answer is "no". Also, I'm tired of racking servers.

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Apple makes boring hardware and shitty software. Macs are a cult. In today's episode, Apple marketing tells the brainwashed that what Windows has had for over a decade - facial recognition login - doesn't matter for Macs, because they say so. www.extremetech.com/computing/ma...

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Macs Are Still Years Away From Face ID as Touch-Screen Models Draw Closer

Apple's fingerprint sensor remains its fastest and most practical security method for computers.

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

How big was the celebration after the Mariners won last night? "Bottom line for Polanco: it’s visibly a real spike on the PNSN station at field level, but substantially smaller than the BeastQuake and far smaller than the Swift Quake — likely under M≈1.0." chatgpt.com/share/68eb10...

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ChatGPT - Seismic comparison analysis

Shared via ChatGPT

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amplifyingfsharp.io @amplifyingfsharp.io · 26/09/2025

Does #fsharp need file-based apps like C#?. Join us next Friday for a new session where Martin will showcase a prototype for "dotnet run app.fs"-like functionality. More info: amplifyingfsharp.io/sessions/202...

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Does F# need file-based apps | Amplifying F#

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

lol "Born from Ayn Rand paperbacks, pulp science fiction novels, and Austrian School daydreams, libertarianism never matured beyond a sophomore debate-club rant." www.thenerdreich.com/libertariani...

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Libertarianism, 13, Dies in Argentina Chainsaw Accident

It was preceded in death by conservatism, which fell to a terminal case of fascism in 2016.

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

`Flag shorthand -h has been deprecated, use --help` If you create a CLI and do this, you're an asshole. What's the thought process here? "Well, I know my users want help, so I'm going to make it more difficult for them to get it." 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I use Bing for my searches (when I'm not using Copilot or ChatGPT), because it's an better search product, i.e. fewer, better, higher-quality results, with way less ads. I just tried Google again for something. God, it's terrible. I can't imagine why you all still use it. And their AI is 🤮.

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David Pine @davidpine.dev · 04/09/2025

It's been super energizing working on the #aspire brand refresh + docs re-platforming. Here's a few sneak peeks! 🤓 ✨ Fresh new docs UX 📖 Simplified nav and structure 🎨 Modern themes 🔍 Better discoverability ☑️ Asciinema terminal embeds Built with 💜 at Microsoft — @aspire.dev

Work in progress Aspire landing/marketing page.

Proposed new Aspire page for creating your fist app.

Conceptual content will be more concisely conveyed with modern flexibility in the new platform.

An all-new Aspire integrations gallery page, with search/filtering, and download counts.

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Tell me you're using Node.js without telling me you're using Node.js.

GitHub's listing of lines added and deleted in a pull request; this one says "+117,375 -1,791,022".

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Ah... after every reinstallation of Windows comes the day when I can no longer avoid installing npm. Sigh. I feel about Node.js the same way I feel about Perl and PHP... you could, but why would you in 2025?

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

You know that thing where you start writing the GitHub issue for the problem you've been banging your head against for days, and just to make sure you don't look like an idiot you go over everything _one more time_ to make sure... and then you see what you've been missing. So that just happened.

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Not feeling very liberated today.

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Long-lived COBOL codebases are all about the edge cases that they handle. I was 21 when I started at AT&T in their Business Customer Billing system. I had never seen such poorly-formed complexity covering years of changes to products. Social Security complexity > AT&T. Young kids cannot handle it.

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I was a COBOL programmer. First of all, this is going to fail miserably. Second of all, if they actually pull it off, it will be a huge victory for AI coding and a great example of how the fed gov't could move faster. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.

A safe and proper rewrite should take years not months.

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Scott Arbeit @scottarbeit.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Hello, Bluesky. Here's to new beginnings.

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