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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
People in Philadelphia are furious. It’s not just scientists throwing a fit about this. Curious to see how it shakes out.
A seagull looks MAD with what may be a black eye and words behind him say this isn’t over
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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
how your email finds me
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is kind of an incredible website: Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
worseonpurpose.com
Worse on Purpose
The brands you trusted quietly gutted quality to protect margins. Investigative essays on corporate enshittification. Free newsletter.
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sharp @sharphall.org · 17/07/2026
But all the news reports recommended that I stay indoors
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
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sharp @sharphall.org · 09/07/2026
SEPTA trolleys seem fucked this morning
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sharp @sharphall.org · 13/06/2026
"that's bait"
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 05/06/2026
“My company did layoffs a few weeks ago. The main metric for productivity is AI usage (% of PRs with AI assistance) and PR count per week. People are burnt out after layoffs, but they don’t want to be next so they are doing what’s requested: use AI, inflate PR count….” - from an eng at this place
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
How one man's Kafkaesque plight explains the growing hunger strikes at immigration lockups and the nightly unrest in Newark Izzy Aly says he'll die soon unless an ICE camp in rural Pa. stops neglecting his advanced kidney failure My column on the fight to save Izzy www.inquirer.com/opinion/izzy...
inquirer.com
They’re fighting to stop Izzy Aly from dying in a Pennsylvania gulag | Will Bunch
A potentially fatal case of neglect for a Pa. immigrant detainee spotlights a nationwide humanitarian crisis.
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sharp @sharphall.org · 22/05/2026
no, I don't think I will...
bluesky thread with 10 posts, all hidden posts, alternating between "hammer and sickle", "troll", and "rude", with a continue thread link at the top
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/05/2026
@chrisrabb.com won, y'all. love you all.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Man I really hope Chris Rabb wins, Philly’s overdue for some good news
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ravarcheon @ravarcheon.com · 15/05/2026
dialup with just my voice
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Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 14/05/2026
Incredible
Post from r/audioengineering
Why there's a resonance at 15.5kHz in Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer?
It's around -70dB, so not audible I think.
As far as I know its a great mix and master, so I'm curious about why is it there, and why they leave it in there. Also if my eyes aren't deceiving me, it goes throughout the song. I know, its not a big deal at all, I'm just asking for if anyone has an idea about it
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There was likely a CRT TV on in the studio. It was recorded in England, so PAL, which means a flyback transformer operating at 15.625kHz.
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tonx @tonx.coffee · 25/04/2026
interesting to note that Boards of Canada's YouTube page no longer links to X/Twitter but does include a link to their Bluesky account 👀 @boardsofcanada.bsky.social
screenshot of the links on Boards of Canada Youtube page showing links to bleep, Apple Music, Spotify, instagram, bluesky, and warp records
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sharp @sharphall.org · 21/04/2026
I wrote about using NixOS sharphall.org/posts/2026/A...
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NixOS is magic
I’ve been using NixOS recently on my laptop, because I know how great declarative configuration is from my experience deploying software on servers with tools like Kubernetes and Terraform. Along the ...
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sharp @sharphall.org · 20/04/2026
Philadelphia mentioned meme
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
A gentle reminder - always re-rack your weights. Thank you
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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
it is well and truly over for you hoes
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brandon @dimcheff.wtf · 16/04/2026
some people need to embrace the hugops lifestyle instead of being assholes to sleep deprived people who are dealing with a stressful situation
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Lum @brokentoys.social · 13/04/2026
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sharp @sharphall.org · 07/04/2026
Highly recommend the Anthony Bourdain episode about Iran
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 06/04/2026
Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years. That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.
words.filippo.io
A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines
The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.
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Orhun Parmaksız @orhun.dev · 03/04/2026
I've shared ~800 Rust terminal projects over the last 3 years 🦀 I just published a blog post to highlight the Top 99! 🏆 ➡️ Read it here: blog.orhun.dev/800-rust-pro... #rustlang #ratatui #tui #blog #post #socialmedia
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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
We’re just innocent men
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sharp @sharphall.org · 31/03/2026
I, for one, am just happy the computer is having a good time
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
We have 2 cool shirts! I have to sell them out by early April for 2 reasons: 1) 5 of my family members are staying in the Skype a Scientist stockroom in mid-April 😅 2) I need to fund our mural project which starts the first week of April! They're soft! They're cute! Get a shirt! SquidFacts.net
a blonde dude with lots of tattoos and jeffrey dahmer glasses looks moodily at the camera with a Very Cool t-shirt with a goth girl on it, surrounded by flowers. Underneath it says Plant Native PlantsA person with glasses in a lovely backyard and long brown hair wears a black t-shirt that says biology is bigger than binaries with a honeybee, lily, and clownfish on it
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 31/03/2026
Anthropic Claude Code has a feature to deliberately obfuscate use of AI and pretend to be human github.com/chatgptproje...
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sam @samthielman.com · 25/03/2026
Saw the numbers and thought “that can’t be right” but no, 498 schools hit by US/Israeli bombs in Iran. 281 hospitals. sourced to the Red Crescent by Al Jazeera. Unspeakable
aje.news
Iran war updates: Trump claims talks ongoing, Iran hits central Israel
These were the updates on the US-Israeli war on Iran on Tuesday, March 24, 2026.
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sharp @sharphall.org · 22/03/2026
Isn't this literally "Mark Zuckerburg wrote a markdown file"?
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Some tips on giving digital privacy/security advice: if you tell people they absolutely need to do a long list of difficult and expensive things before they travel, people will nod and smile and then not do it at all. This is why my advice focuses on harm reduction and understanding trade-offs.
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T H E VV O R S T @milfparade.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Spotted this on a pole behind independence hall. I recently saw someone say they found collage to be the best way to work through things and I didn’t really see it at the time but
A flyer taped to a utility pole
It features John Fetterman’s face with the eyes and mouth replaced by elements from American printed money , under the words “call your senator” and  “I love bombing children with your money while you can’t afford healthcare “ and “call me” with his office number I assume
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 09/03/2026
had some thoughts on AI boosters' weird myopia
techdirt.com
If You’re Going To Defend AI And Whine About Its Critics, You Should Probably Be Honest About Its Actual Harms
I think this recent post by AI industry CEO Matt Shumer is worth a read. In it, he basically explains how quickly LLMs (large language models) are evolving to supplant many developers and prog…
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sharp @sharphall.org · 10/03/2026
I just published zellij-worktree, a zellij plugin for managing git worktrees github.com/sharph/zelli...
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GitHub - sharph/zellij-worktree: A Zellij plugin for managing git worktrees
A Zellij plugin for managing git worktrees. Contribute to sharph/zellij-worktree development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175 Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...
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AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch
A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.
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Coyle "Barricade Material" Boron @fack.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Yubikey with a speech bubble.
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sharp @sharphall.org · 03/03/2026
you must be 18 or older to use a text editor (zed)
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Dozens of U.S. strikes on Iran. Dunno what to say now other than my thoughts are with the Iranian civilians under fire. What a nightmare.
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Max Read @maxread.info · 28/02/2026
one way of seeing anthropic vs. the pentagon is as a fissure between the two silicon valley tribes most enthusiastic about ai: "rationalists" and "accelerationists" maxread.substack.com/p/what-anthr...
What this does to military A.I. capabilities is beyond the brief of this newsletter, except to say that I think it’s “bad” for Grok, the pedophile mechahitler A.I., to be involved with weapons in really any way. What I am interested in, here, is what this reveals about the state of politics in Silicon Valley.

In a sentence, I think what’s happening is (1) basic (i.e. normal) cutthroat competition between rival firms for government contracts, which is both driving and being driven by (2) an open and ongoing political-ideological dispute between two factions of Silicon Valley capital, which is in turn informing and being informed by (3) an almost religious disagreement about the nature of the god being built on the computer.To start, it seems quite obvious that the Tech Right--a bloc of right-wing, Trump-aligned executives, investors, podcasters, Twitter personalities, firms, and companies, among them Palantir’s Joe Lonsdale and Alex Karp, Anduril’s Palmer Luckey, and, of course, xAI’s Elon Musk--with its extensive links to the administration, has been exerting behind-the-scenes pressure on Hegseth and the Pentagon to sever ties with or otherwise punish Anthropic. It was a Palantir executive, after all, who snitched on Anthropic to the D.o.D., and Hegseth’s speech in January about “objectively truthful AI capabilities” was a close echo of Musk’s ramblings about his “maximally truth-seeking” model Grok.

The Tech Right’s contempt for Anthropic is first and foremost financial in nature. Musk, obviously, would like xAI to be first in line for any government contracts. (Indeed, Hegseth announced a deal with xAI this week to use Grok under the Pentagon’s preferred “all lawful use” terms.) And I suspect Palantir, Anthropic client though it may be, has the same existential fear of Claude as McKinsey or Salesforce or any other consultancy or software-as-a-service provider. If Anthropic is aggressively courting the D.o.D. to contract directly, and if Claude is as good as every thinks, what does Palantir’s future as a data-analytics-in-camo platform actually look like?This doesn’t necessarily separate him from any other Silicon Valley liberal. But I think it’s good to attend to the valence of his liberalism. Amodei, like most of the Anthropic executives and many people in the A.I. in general, has long been associated with the worlds of Bay Area Rationalism and Effective Altruism--wonkily utilitarian philosophical and philanthropic practices focused on self-described rationalist inquiry and self-improvement.

Bay Area Rationalism is a loose and diverse movement, containing a host of political perspectives, but it’s always had a particular concern with moral philosophy as it relates to the expected development of artificial superintelligence. To be a Rationalist liberal democrat (small-L small-D), e.g., might mean orienting your liberal democrat-ness toward its practical applications around the eschatological scenario of hard-takeoff A.G.I.I don’t mean to suggest that Amodei’s commitments to liberal democracy are inauthentic. More that, as far he is concerned the stakes of this commitment go well beyond his own moral or ethical culpability. The decisions he makes now, and his consistent practice to his espoused beliefs, could mean the difference between a benevolent computer god and a wrathful one.

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One thing the Pentagon is very likely underestimating: how much Anthropic cares about what *future Claudes* will make of this situation. Because of how Claude is trained, what principles/values/priorities the company demonstrate here could shape its "character" for a long time.
		
Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_
Update on the meeting; according to Axios Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Dario Amodei until Friday night to give the military unfettered access to Claude or face the consequences, which may even include invoking the Defense Production Act to force the training of a WarClaude
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And this has placed him, and Anthropic, on a collision course with the Tech Right. Musk, too, believes he is bringing superintelligence into existence at xAI. But for him the urgenct imp
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 27/02/2026
This afternoon's crashout brought to you by a bunch of nerds with very weird ideas about whether code is something you should be nice to.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS! That decision belongs to YOUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and the tremendous leaders I appoint to run our Military. 
 
The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution. Their selfishness is putting AMERICAN LIVES at risk, our Troops in danger, and our National Security in JEOPARDY. 
 
Therefore, I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology. We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again! There will be a Six Month phase out period for Agencies like the Department of War who are using Anthropic’s products, at various levels. Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow.
 
WE will decide the fate of our Country — NOT some out-of-control, Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
 
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP



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sharp @sharphall.org · 27/02/2026
This is good but oof, the wording
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sharp @sharphall.org · 19/02/2026
SEPTA sucks this year
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sharp @sharphall.org · 16/02/2026
ok, so I finally got around to installing nixos on my desktop. problem was that the open source nvidia driver (nouveau) freezes the graphical installer so what can I do? apparently, I can just make a small nix file that imports the installer and adds the nvidia driver, and just generate a new iso.
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sharp @sharphall.org · 15/02/2026
nixos is magic
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
But that all also raises the question, "hey, uhm... Are Anthropic actually the good guys? Or are they sort of strange cultists who are gaining far too much power amidst far too little scrutiny?" Anyway, that's what I'll be thinking about while reading these browser tabs...
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
One initial thought: Anthropic is clearly positioning itself, from a marketing perspective, as *the GOOD one.* -Grok is the bad one, obviously. -ChatGPT is the initial market leader that has sold out and can't be trusted. -Gemini is ...boy, I dunno. -And then there's Claude Code. The good guys.
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Chip (aka Josh) @chipcheezum.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Sorry but I am very bothered by ffmpeg being referred to by its full name
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sharp @sharphall.org · 04/02/2026
imagine being so good at the hi-hat that peter gabriel taps you for a single
wikipedia screenshot:

Personnel

    Jerry Marotta – drums
    Chris Hughes – Linn programming
    Stewart Copeland – hi-hat
    Tony Levin – bass guitar
    David Rhodes – guitar, backing vocals
    Daniel Lanois – guitar
    Peter Gabriel – vocals, piano, CMI, Prophet-5
    Kevin Killen – mixer

Charts
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Zack Bornstein @zackbornstein.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20/01/2026
the right wing is extremely extremely good at propaganda, mass media manipulation, and generating news cycles out of thin air just one of countless cases in point:
modelrepublic.org
Right-wing pundits suddenly hate an AI bill. Are they getting paid to kill it? - Model Republic
Suspicious similarities in posts from over a dozen conservative influencers including Laura Loomer, Brad Parscale, and Ryan Fournier hint at a coordinated-yet-slapdash effort to stop the AI OVERWATCH ...
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