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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
npm install bouffont ➜ meodai.github.io/bouffont/
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 14/09/2026
🎨 Ever wondered why oklch() is so odd? Why adjusting L doesn't produce good color ramps? And why TF is L=100% not white?! I just wrote a thorough explanation of why this happens¹: github.com/web-platform... 👍 Upvote if you want this fixed in browsers in 2027! ¹ Spoiler: it’s lack of gamut mapping
Illustration of the problem (screenshot from issue)
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Mike Bostock @ocks.org · 01/09/2026
It’s finally here! So excited to be working out in the open again and for you all to try the new Observable. bsky.app/profile/obse...
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Wealthy White Men Who Care Only About Wealthy White Men.......
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OGBobbyJoshson @jawalker.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The shit you’re seeing with ICE, and police forces in general, is what America has been doing to Black folks since the beginning. None of us are free until all of us are free.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Cointelpro scandal led to establishment of the Church Committee, which exposed rampant surveillance abuse and led to the passage of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. There should be no less of a response to this.
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
@miriamposner.com's SEEING LIKE A SUPPLY CHAIN, out in October from @yalepress.bsky.social, which offers a timely lesson on how capitalism shapes software design--and thus what we can and cannot know about the information (and people) our software rests upon. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... 5/
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Seeing Like a Supply Chain
A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...
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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 13/06/2026
The people of #cssday have spoken: we want gamut mapping and we want it NOW!
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
8 million No Kings protesters Zero police officers beaten Zero police officers killed Zero feces smeared on walls.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Sanders: When historians write about this dangerous moment in American history, when they write about courage and sacrifice, the people of Minnesota will deserve a special chapter.. In the face of unprecedented occupation, this community fought back and won.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...
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Hà Phan @hpdailyrant.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The first of a series of articles on SkyTour. I co-authored this with co-inventors — brilliant engineers and applied scientists. I built the first primitive demo of SkyTour in Protopie in May 2024 & showed it to our Eng mngr & she assembled a prototyping team. The rest as they say, is history.
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Bringing SkyTour to life: Designing an immersive 3D experience for home exteriors
Interaction design and real-time rendering transform AI-enhanced 3D Gaussian Splatting into an intuitive way to explore homes.
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Hà Phan @hpdailyrant.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Was at an offsite with the Research org today, and I gotta say it’s the most strategic research organization I’ve ever worked with. I feel like I fit much better in this org than within Design.
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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It’s all coming together… like a chaotic color master plan 😄Connect any of my tools to the shader using Token Beam. meodai.github.io/poline/ beaming to meodai.github.io/color-palett...
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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A color palette isn't just a list: it's a partition of color space. If a new color doesn't carve out its own territory in the visualization, it's not earning its place. Useful gut-check for those who keep adding "just one more" shade. :D
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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I’ve been trying to build this for years. Finally getting there. Palette analysis like DawnBringer or Censor, but in real time. I want feedback while picking colors, not after the fact. I think this direct feedback loop makes it much easier to make informed decisions when composing a palette.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 02/03/2026
I'm army, boys. I love crashing planes, getting divorced, crashing helicopters, bargain bin jeans, texting while driving, dying in the river, OLD GLORY, and let's not forget my one true passion in life—killing someone else's kids
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Tooey @sueric.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kash Patel today: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want." Really?
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.
An office building lit up in the dark with a crowd of people holding signs in front of it.
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Alexa Philippou @alexaphilippou.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon. Photo via @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 25/01/2026
Mourners gather at the site where federal agents shot and killed nurse Alex Pretti this morning in Minneapolis. 📸: @andral404.bsky.social
Wooden cross with spray painted sign reading Alex Pretti, surrounded by flowers candles and people in winter coats Photo of Pretti with candlesPerson laying candle
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
A nurse. A researcher. A helper.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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local blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026
I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/01/2026
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
it’s pretty insane to think about how the dumbest most violent pieces of shit in the country have been given the message that they can kill with impunity if they join this one government agency
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
NBA star Tyrese Halliburton speaks out
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I started this shader a few years ago because I wanted what the DawnBringer's color analyzer / Censor gave me; but in real time. github.com/Quickmarble/... Still think it would be very useful while picking colors. "Need to continue on that soon"™
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A thought: If the problem ACM is trying to solve with AI summaries is that papers are written inaccessibly and some papers are hard to understand, here's another solution: Actively support authors in (a) writing accessibly in their papers; and (b) writing their own public-facing summaries.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 29/11/2025
I was re-reading this 2020 piece I wrote about the decline of academia and the need to reinvent it. Now, the forces driving its premises are only stronger. What's changed is the opportunity: 5 years ago, no one wanted to hear about reinvention; now our survival demands it. medium.com/bits-and-beh...
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What is the role of academia in a post-truth world?
Lately, I’ve felt very curmudgeonly about the future of facts. But I am by no means the only person worried about this future, nor am I an…
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
MNSPJ condemns St. Paul police attacks on journalists

The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists strongly condemns attacks on journalists by law enforcement on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, during a federal operation in St. Paul.

At least three local photojournalists were injured by less-lethal munitions deployed by St. Paul police officers while covering the story. One was transported to the hospital in an ambulance. All three journalists were clearly identified as press with badges and/or vests, in addition to having cameras in hand, clearly at work. All three photojournalists and multiple other local journalists on scene were also injured by chemical irritants.

Kerem Yücel, with MPR News, was hit by a less-lethal munition in the shoulder and was transported to a hospital by ambulance. He has since been released and is recovering. Tim Evans, a freelance photojournalist with Reuters, was struck in the stomach with a pepper ball round. Aaron Nesheim, a photojournalist with Sahan Journal, was struck in the head with a pepper ball round. Evans and Nesheim did not require hospitalization.

The three journalists hit by munitions shared with MNSPJ that they believe they were targeted by law enforcement for doing their jobs. Photojournalists are on the frontlines of documenting history and it is imperative that they are kept safe and their First Amendment rights are protected.

Attacking journalists sends a message to both journalists and everyday citizens that their First Amendment rights will not be respected. The First Amendment protects the rights of journalists to report on their communities and provide information that communities need — information that, on Tuesday, was not transparently available from any law enforcement agency.

We demand answers from St. Paul city leadership about why the city’s police department attacked our colleagues and a commitment to seeing that this will never happen again.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
SCOOP—In August, nearly 200 current/former FEMA staffers published the Katrina Declaration, a whistleblower letter detailing all the dangers posed by current leadership. All current employees were put on indefinite leave, and now I've learned one has been fired in violation of federal protections:
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FEMA employee terminated for signing whistleblower letter
It appears to be a major violation of federal whistleblower protections and constitutional rights.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12/11/2025
Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported. www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
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Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft
As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium piece, I decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked or f...
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 11/11/2025
The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities. Lawfare's new project–which includes a tracker and a map–follows where and how the military is being domestically deployed. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...
This visualization, "Domestic Deployment of the Military in 2025," updated on November 10, 2025, displays the geographical distribution, scale, and specific legal authority for four categories of domestic military deployments across the United States. Deployment scale is categorized by the size of the circles, representing 800, 3,000, or 8,000 troops. The legal authorities are color-coded as follows: Article II powers (Yellow), Title 10 Chapter 15 (Dark Blue), Title 10 Section 12406 (Cyan), and Title 32 Section 502(f) (State-Controlled National Guard with Federal Funding, Orange).
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
SCOTUS was never going to come for queer rights via a cert petition asking for an Obergefell repeal—they were always going to come for the LGBTQ community by targeting trans people. and they literally are doing that, this session. protect trans people. open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...
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Kim Davis is a Distraction
The real fight for queer rights is already in front of the Court, and people aren’t paying attention.
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Jen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
In March 1945, the United States War Department created an 8-page fact sheet about fascism for the Army to distribute to soldiers. Wow. This should be mandatory reading now: archive.org/details/Army...
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Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 - Fascism! : Army Orientation Branch: Information and Education Division : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
March 24, 1945. Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 Fascism! A sheet printed and distributed by the United States War Department as an educational tool for...
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Denver guy @denver-guy.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
It looks like you're trying to undo SNAP payments. Can I help you find your conscience?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
hi just a reminder that if you want to support independent journalism you should subscribe to the handbasket (free or paid!) www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe
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The Handbasket
100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/11/2025
The ones that are sat unpowered in Santa Clara are *48MW projects*. How, exactly, are we going to get the 200, 500 or 1.4GW ones up and running? I don't think this is a regulatory issue!
In Santa Clara, California, where the world’s biggest supplier of artificial-intelligence chips is based, Digital Realty Trust Inc. applied in 2019 to build a data center. Roughly six years later, the development remains an empty shell awaiting full energization. Stack Infrastructure, which was acquired earlier this year by Blue Owl Capital Inc., has a nearby 48-megawatt project that’s also vacant, while the city-owned utility, Silicon Valley Power, struggles to upgrade its capacity.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
In short: "If I make my fantasy of actual AI sound erudite enough people will have to believe it!"
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 06/11/2025
You gotta spend money to lose money
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
seeing people talk about setting up mini food pantries in tandem with giving out halloween candy while corporations fund extreme makeover: white house edition is the sign of sick, broken society. i mean what in the actual fuck.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.
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Selby for Europe @selbyforeurope.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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