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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 27/09/2026

He’s got numbers nobody’s seen, facts nobody can verify, and confidence nobody can explain.

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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But I need to smile more.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 26/09/2026

How can you build a better life online? Basically, don't rely on social media for all your information needs See the full video that talks about how context collapse in social media undermines expertise at youtu.be/dcz8YzRNo5M

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every article about someone praising some new ai thing is like “and then I never had to think about anything ever again. Just no more brain use! A dream. That my AI agent dreams for me. Bc I do not brain anymore.”

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bring back RSS www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Traffic to news sites is plummeting in the U.S. as tech giants steer people away from search and toward AI.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

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Shiv J.M. @shivjm.in · 18/09/2026

The new @arstechnica.com CAPTCHAs are a little frustrating, especially when they seem to pop up on every second article.

A prompt to confirm I’m human by choosing which images show chairs out of a set of nine. I’ve failed the test because I marked four but there’s a fifth that I can barely recognize as a chair even now. The images are quite unclear (to make it harder for machines, I assume) so there’s a lot of squinting and thinking involved.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If a generative AI CEO is telling you something, take it with a grain of salt the size of an iceberg. So if they want regulation now, it is more likely something to do with finances than an immediate existential threat. These dipshits do not care about existential threats other than going bankrupt.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 14/09/2026

"once you take away costs, the company is profitable" is fuckkin lol www.ft.com/content/4564...

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Anthropic has told its backers it will be profitable this quarter, as it moves to allay investor concerns about the aggressive cash burn of frontier AI companies ahead of its blockbuster initial public offering.

The company has told a small group of shareholders that its adjusted operating income will be positive for the second consecutive quarter, according to multiple people with knowledge of the matter. The measure strips out costs including stock-based compensation.

Anthropic’s gross margins are above 80 per cent before accounting for revenue shared with distribution partners, including Amazon, and the cost of training its models, according to two of the people.

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WedgeStratos @wedgestratos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This article from @tante.cc on #omarchy is a great read I stumbled upon from Masto. tante.cc/2026/09/11/p... Even if you don't read it take this one thing away: David H. Hansson is a Euro-fascist trying to take Omarchy global as a defacto Linux distro.

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Martin @concretebadger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Eg: The BBC says "traffic lights installed to improve road safety." Someone thinks, "No! The BBC is The Establishment and biased!" A FB post: "traffic lights are mind-control laser beams installed by the illuminati lizard people!" Someone thinks, "my friend on FB shared this, so it must be true."

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 09/09/2026

If the people working at Anthropic et al sincerely believe that GenAI will kill 10% of humanity in the next decade, why can't we try them for conspiracy to murder?

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Shiv J.M. @shivjm.in · 07/09/2026

Thanks #ProtonMail for letting me know I had unread emails in my Inbox!

11 emails in a row from Proton itself, two unread

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Shiv J.M. @shivjm.in · 04/09/2026

What’s that you say? WILD HEARTS™ is an #EA game and it wants me to install a launcher to play it? Give me a moment. Just need to uninstall the game and check whether I’m still eligible for a refund.

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Shiv J.M. @shivjm.in · 04/09/2026

Behold, the website for #FinalFantasyResonance: incapable of displaying static text and images without JavaScript, and offering exactly one link (to the Square Enix site). www.square-enix.com/finalfantasy... Now that’s what I call an experience.

Searching the HTML turns up exactly one <a> linking to the Square Enix website

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 02/09/2026

🔥 New blog post! My post on two-state dark mode toggles sparked a lot of discussion around what the optimal dark mode toggle design is. But should you have a (persistent) dark mode toggle *at all*? I have since been convinced that for most websites, the answer is NO. lea.verou.me/blog/2026/da...

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The best dark mode toggle is probably none • Lea Verou

My post on two-state dark mode toggles convinced many. But should you have a persistent dark mode toggle at all? I have since been convinced that for most websites, the answer is no.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 02/09/2026

ah yes once again the racists are the real victims

In an internal Slack message obtained by The Verge, 1Password's Karimov downplayed the overtly racist comments from DHH, telling staff the following:

As I said, people have different personal opinions. You believe in your heart that DHH is evil, that you have the moral high ground, and that nothing will change your mind.
However, not everyone believes that. It is not fair to claim a monopoly and ostracize team members who might disagree with you.

There are people who are afraid to speak up simply because they will be personally attacked.

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leah 🛸 @spacegirl.ing · 01/09/2026

this was interesting to read, but what most stuck out to me was that > Minification of CSS remains a best practice. @shivjm.in has done some interesting exploration around if that belief actually holds up in the real world 👀

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Is Minifying CSS Necessary?

Not even in extreme cases.

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 31/08/2026

AI executives are saying we are approaching the singularity, but AI still can not solve the "dumbest boy alive" problem, i.e. knowing that Saturday is next to Sunday, i.e. the dumbest argument in the history of the internet as outlined by @jonbois.bsky.social So yeah I think we are safe for now.

Yes — for most people, a full-body workout every other day is perfectly safe and can be an effective schedule.

That works out to roughly 3–4 workouts per week, for example:

Sunday — Full body
Tuesday — Full body
Thursday — Full body
Saturday — Full body
Sunday — repeat

The ~48 hours between sessions generally gives your muscles enough time to recover, provided the workouts aren't excessively demanding.

Yes. A 4-day-per-week full-body workout on an every-other-day schedule is generally fine, assuming you're recovering well.

Your schedule of Sunday → Tuesday → Thursday → Saturday gives you about 48 hours between workouts, which is a reasonable recovery period for most people.

The main caveat is that the amount and intensity of work matters more than the calendar. If you're consistently getting stronger, not excessively sore, and feeling recovered by the next session, there's no inherent problem with doing full-body workouts 4 days a week.

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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It’s fair because it’s true

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leah 🛸 @spacegirl.ing · 28/08/2026

finally got around to "releasing"/announcing @userstyles.club :)

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Shiv J.M. @shivjm.in · 26/08/2026

Starting in 2027, Google will block any Android app whose developer hasn't registered and provided government ID. This affects all apps, not just Play Store apps. F-Droid calls it an "existential threat." @keepandroidopen.bsky.social #KeepAndroidOpen keepandroidopen.org

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Your phone is about to stop being yours. In 2027, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There’s an aggressively paid for influence op going on right now to defend AI slop as art and protected speech across platforms. AI execs realize they have a problem and don’t wanna get Marie Antoinette’d. The free ChatGPT trip is the tip of the iceberg. First person to nail it down gets a Pulitzer.

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Shiv J.M. @shivjm.in · 23/08/2026

#Google refuses to index nearly a third of shivjm.blog. Some are index pages (tags, series, etc.); some are entries. I have no idea what I’m doing wrong. The docs says ‘no need to resubmit this URL for crawling’, but I’ve been seeing this behaviour for nearly two years that I can remember. #SEO

Eight notifications in 20 days for various attempts to trigger indexing again, with no reason given in the final report for why 507 pages aren’t indexed

Google tells me that 877 pages are indexed, 2 are not found, 10 have redirects… and 521 are ‘Crawled - currently not indexed’

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Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Stacking LLMs on top of eachother and brute forcing the output until it compiles fundamentally changed how they work don't you know. Because software devs have a toy to brute force the stolen code extruder's output to pass some unit tests now LLMs are solved and he can use them for research.

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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

So far the only vegetable that hasn't been recalled is Mitch

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026

It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Ballou on Epstein Files Hearing: There were just long periods of silence in the courtroom as the DOJ struggled to articulate why it couldn’t follow the law here. I had never really been in a hearing like that, where one side was just silent on their own arguments…

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 15/08/2026

I’m so tired of genAI apologists telling me I only hate it because I don’t understand it. I hate it *because* I understand it, you absolute toenail.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 11/08/2026

I didn’t even see this had been announced. I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development. All the passenger voices were AI too. Either they changed direction at some point or they’re not disclosing it on Steam

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Rideshare "Stimulator" - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 11/08/2026

Spotted in Coinbase’s most recent 10-Q: Coinbase has stopped using trading volume as a key metric, which is I’m sure completely unrelated to the 38%/48% decrease in spot trading volume they reported over the past three/six months

Beginning in the second quarter of 2026, we no longer include Trading Volume as a key metric. As our business has evolved to support multiple asset classes, we believe the prior Trading Volume metric which focused on spot crypto volume no longer reflects the breadth of our business. Additionally, we do not believe that a total trading volume metric would fully represent the business given the differences in economics across our diversified trading products. We believe that net income (loss) and Adjusted EBITDA best reflect the financial health of our business, and we believe that metrics focused on users and assets are better operational indicators as they measure the trust customers place in Coinbase and our ability to attract and retain users. See the section titled Non-GAAP and Other Measures for definitions of Adjusted EBITDA, AOP, and MTUs, as well as a reconciliation of net income (loss) to Adjusted EBITDA.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Worth reiterating every time that this is not some cancel-culture purity test: JK Rowling has pledged more than a billion dollars of her Harry Potter money towards bankrolling anti-trans lawsuits. This finances that.

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Nicholas Hoult In 'Harry Potter' Season 2 As Gilderoy Lockhart - Excl.

Nicholas Hoult has joined Season 2 of HBO Max's 'Harry Potter. He will play Gilderoy Lockhart, portrayed in the second movie by Kenneth Branagh.

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Shiv J.M. @shivjm.in · 11/08/2026

I have new messages on ProtonMail? Huh, I wonder who’s— oh.

Eight unread emails about Proton services

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Shiv J.M. @shivjm.in · 10/08/2026

I think we can all agree that, as bad as DOTA: Dragon’s Blood is, that stellar (ha!) opening is one of the bright spots. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4oO...

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DOTA: Dragon's Blood | Book 1 Intro/Opening

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

New blog post, in which I keep insulting the hyperscalers and am appropriately baffled by the past week of Leopold Aschenbrenner's life. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/bullet-poi...

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Bullet Points: Awareness of the Situation

you don't have to believe hyperscalers are particularly villainous companies. You just have to believe they behave like all the other large companies.

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 08/08/2026

Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? It's so lame. We can never zip around and visit a million planets just because of some stupid hardcoded limit that they arbitrarily put in because the devs refuse to optimize their engine to handle faster travel.

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Shiv J.M. @shivjm.in · 05/08/2026

‘If it weren’t for laws that permit the wealthy to endlessly defer paying taxes by keeping their gains unrealized, there would be no trillionaires — and many fewer billionaires.’ otherwords.org/elon-musks-f...

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Elon Musk’s Fortune Comes From Not Paying Taxes - OtherWords

Trillionaires are creatures of the tax code. If they paid taxes like working people, we wouldn’t have any.

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Shiv J.M. @shivjm.in · 04/08/2026

If you use #WhatsApp, back up your conversations! I finally learned how today: www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarde...

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Shiv J.M. @shivjm.in · 02/08/2026

Oh no! That sounds urgent. I’d better get right on it. (kwality)

Text message saying an account is scheduled for suspension as ‘dues of Rs.0.0 remain unpaid’.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/08/2026

Yup. I noted a while back that I don't and won't use "AI" for my writing work, and I recently update my personal site to note that fact. And yes, it's annoying we feel obliged to do this now.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

New blog entry: On the non-use of AI in my writing process: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

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Shiv J.M. @shivjm.in · 31/07/2026

This sucks. Wonder Man was the best of the MCU shows. I can’t believe they un-renewed it after four months. The one and only Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (and Ben Kingsley!) deserved better. deadline.com/2026/07/wond...

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'Wonder Man' Canceled After 1 Season At Disney+

Marvel has changed its mind about 'Wonder Man,' canceling the series after one season at Disney+

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