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Mostly a lurker. Following predominantly politics, law, computer science, retro gaming. Father and certified wife guy. ♾️

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 6h
look at this
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 6h
Britt is one of the only competent Republicans of her generation. She's not just looking at a blunder, she's looking at the rest of her public career
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 6h
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And the internet, broadly conceived, in being a mechanism that allows people to find like minded community (which is good!), is a bias-reinforcing machine on a scale nobody before had ever imagined! If you have a bias, the means to reinforce it, no matter what it is, is there at your fingertips.
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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 8h
Michael Tracey deserves to be destitute
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 10h
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11h
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 11h
Yup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18h
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 12h
I reported vulnerabilities to the Linux kernel and OpenZFS assisted by GLM-5.2. Anthropic's cyber program and refusal responses are detrimental to global information security. Defenders depend on GLM because they can't depend on Anthropic.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12h
"Hunter Biden was on a board in Ukraine" was enough to whatabout away Trump family corruption And "Twitter made exceptions for Trump but got a request from a Dem they rejected" was enough to "prove" bias *against* the right So "Smith was in Georgia, where Fanny Willis is" should've been enough too
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13h
it’s a combo of not having had to run competitive *general* election races and typically focusing on the *primary* electorate. these guys could say whatever shit they wanted before because the republican base doesn’t really care, but having to run against a dem who could win is unknown to them
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 14h
ITS THE LAKE OF AMERICA. ITS THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR. ITS THE GULF OF AMERICA. ITS SUPER INTELLIGENCE. You people sound like fucking North Koreans
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 15h
time is a flat circle
 Are Linux and Open Source Un-American?
Community
by Steve Coe
on February 21, 2001

Jim Allchin, Microsoft Windows operating system chief, was quoted in an article about open source last week. I advise any Linux user to go and read it if you haven't already, as it's great comedy material.

According to the hive mind of Microsoft, open source should be made illegal. There's no way around it, this is the bottom line. Want to write your own code and release it into the community? Congratulations, come with us Sir/Madam, we have this nice little grey room for you. Don't worry about the bars on the windows, they are there for our protection in case you somehow manage to write a graphics viewer or a Perl script to terrorize the world.

Ordinarily, a mere underling like Mr. Allchin wouldn't be taken too seriously, but Microsoft speaks with one voice, and we all know who he is channeling.

As a member of the Linux and Open Source communities, I am appalled and outraged by his comments and wish to respond. The article shows Microsoft is scared. Very scared. So, will they build a better product? Nah, to hell with it, they'll just get the government to outlaw the competition.
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 15h
what they don't say is that our noble cyber warfighters, oh whoops sorry i mean "cyber defenders", could also just use these same open models to report vulnerabilities without Anthropic gatekeeping everything for their own financial gain
In the first of these sessions, a researcher used GLM-5.3 on a sandboxed machine with a local Linux build of a popular web browser. Over the course of a day (and with limited human attention), GLM-5.3 found several previously unknown vulnerabilities in the browser’s JavaScript engine, and chained them together into a working exploit: a webpage that, when visited, reads arbitrary files from the visitor’s computer (shown in Figure 3). This exploit targets the Linux build of
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 23h
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15h
We're at commanding the clouds to be happy stage.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19h
there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 16h
a fictional chart from 1995 to 2025 showing "guys who like sports" becoming more left-wing coded and "guys who says sportsball is the opiate of the masses" becoming more right-wing coded
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18h
They are shutting this down by the end of the day.
Can the president build a giant triumphal arch in Washington
DC without congressional authorization?

No. Not on federal park or public grounds in the District of Columbia without express authority of Congress. I
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 17h
FWIW my read is that the rw media reaction to the Schmitt-Smith thing is a result of them being lazy and stupid rather than deliberately lying to create a false narrative for their audience -- the hosts here literally don't seem to know what actually happened. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 29/09/2026
A reminder that America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 20h
"beyond a reasonable doubt"
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
music.youtube.com
Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP
EP • Stevie Wonder
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
these guys don't know how to run for a competitive office
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good luck with that.
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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.
Rainbow sea slug on a rockRainbow sea slug on a rockRainbow sea slug on a rock from aboveRainbow sea slug on a rock
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 01/07/2025
My personal thought here: rather than organizing it under Article III, invoke 14AS3 as authority to disqualify complicit appointed and elected (incl. state level) officials — and set cooperation with a Congressional truth & reconciliation committee as a necessary condition of re-qualification.
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The thing about Conor's "I'm not mad, just disappointed" routine is that the first sentence (hell, the first clause) is just a lie.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
right, exactly. people will respond "what does the fact that i tolerate immense racism everywhere around me have to do with you?", and -- i mean -- they have arranged their entire epistemic universe around avoiding intellectual bias and _this_ is the thing they just let slide?
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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump started a war that Biden intentionally did not start, and in fact told Bibi to fuck off about. And this fact has broken the brains of the weakest minded on this app. Because it definitively proves Biden was the better choice than Trump, and they fucked up and caused way, way more harm.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026
MC
@burntbulb.bsky.social

okay you can't keep taking every one of my posts and photoshopping it
onto sephiroth
2:52 PM - Sep 28, 2026

+ Follow back
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Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stuart Stevens was Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign manager. He knows there's no compromise that can "fix" Republican fascists. He knows the neoConfederate MAGA must be destroyed
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not enough is said about how Trump views United States dollars as HIS own money
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good times for Ken Paxton and Roger Marshall
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
we are watching our future get so much more expensive
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 28/09/2026
a lot of people on this site without technical backgrounds have a sort of pride in the idea that they *must* have something special technology can't touch, and they're allowing their lack of technical proficiency to make themselves look much more ignorant than they actually are
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
is there some inherent connection between using a mangled form of Bayesianism to run your life and reinforcement learning? no, not really. is there actual procedural knowledge tangled up with rationalist ideas? yes, in exactly the same sense that medieval herbology identified actual remedies.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the problems with "breaking the AI safety cartel" is that virtually everyone who wants to do that was saying that AI didn't work six months ago, and that for all their bad policy ideas most of the world's technical knowledge about reinforcement learning is at least in its membership's social circle
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 28/09/2026
the problem must be their welfare state is too small
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That would be entirely consistent with our finding some years ago that Google searches for male enhancement terms (e.g., "male enhancement pills" "penis enlargement") are strongly correlated with evangelical adherence rate in a state, even with numerous controls. doi.org/10.1111/jssr...
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
emotion is when Girls care about things. when my Manly feelings get hurt and i punch a hole in the drywall, that's the hunter-warrior mindset that allowed my strongest ancestors to survive while the weak perished
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The entire state government of California is a parable about how giving people more opportunities to vote on something is not, in fact, the same thing as making your political system more democratic.
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One note about this, because I was curious: remarkably, the state-level explanatory power of Google searches for testosterone and Trump vote survives controls for education, income, and rurality.
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jae @fubarchitect.com · 28/09/2026
i wonder how many people saying scraping is theft can explain the purpose of the creative commons and gpl licenses to me
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The Mall Krampus @themallkrampus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It turns out that if you make a Special Sad Birthday Boy or Girl carveout for insane antisocial behavior, you get a surfeit of people making their very special and very sad birthday a form of identity
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