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Attila Szegedi @szegedia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Job Trail" is like Oregon Trail, but for finding a job in the age of AI. I died many times but eventually made it! (Kinda, new job pays less than the old job did.) labs.ficuscreative.com/job_trail/

Screenshot of me winning Job Trail, it says:
"The Job Trail
Week 1 ---💼----------------- Week 52
Designer. Hired in week 9.
36 applications, 0 ghostings."

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Erin Okuno @thiserin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Librarians are defenders of democracy. We’re defenders of the freedom to read. We’re protectors of patron privacy. Libraries are one of the few places in this surveillance economy that are not trying to collect and sell your data." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

nytimes.com

Forget the Shushing. Librarians Have a Whole Lot to Say. (Gift Article)

We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.

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Attila Szegedi @szegedia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s cute how he’s trying to stay “apolitical” but i reckon he’ll find out that Eventually You Are Going To Have To Stand For Something.

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No one gets a PhD in "what if the people in charge of the Pentagon are chud idiots and they collapse the world economy because caring about strategy is Woke and Gay". But that is (self-evidently) a far more likely thing to happen, simply because it only requires stupidity to accomplish.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.

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Attila Szegedi @szegedia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The strudel… its force is too strong, I can’t resist it; it’s pulling me into the bakery.

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Attila Szegedi @szegedia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Watched Odyssey yesterday evening with German subtitles (no choice in the matter in Swiss cinema.) During the whirlpool scene the subtitles kept saying something-something-Strudel. I was yesterday years old when I learned the German word for whirlpool (and swirl and vortex) is… der Strudel.

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Attila Szegedi @szegedia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

President America signs an executive order in his office in America House in America City, D.C. saying that we all now live on Planet America, in Solar System America, in a spiral arm of the American Way Galaxy.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The conclusion is NOT "we need to debias LLMs" Besides that it's impossible, it also detracts from the point, which is: We shouldn't use machines to offload of the very cognition that is constitutive of the work to be done & supercharge existing inequities and injustices in the process. 🧵

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Attila Szegedi @szegedia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here’s the unprocessed original.

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Attila Szegedi @szegedia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It’s tricky, isn’t it? ;-) The photo is originally taken as 1-bit and I overlaid a color gradient on it myself in post-processing. So the final image is not 1-bit… I did tune the color gradient manually to progress through two blue colors into green so it kinda matches the sky-lake-grass composition

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Attila Szegedi @szegedia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Feeling cute might delete later.

Self portrait. Middle-aged guy with glasses and a t-shirt. Black and white 1-bit photo, with manual color gradient in the background.

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Attila Szegedi @szegedia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BitCam is most fun you can have with 1-bit photography (it’s a lot of fun).

1-bit photo of view in front of my house. There’s Zugersee in the middle, with a green slope and a small house in front of it and the ginormous pine tree next to our balcony that I love so much. I added linear gradient to the 1-bit photo to color the sky and the lake blue and the slope green

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Haven't watched yet, but as it has a new season let's bring over to Bluesky my cast list for Lord of the Rings using the cast of S1-3 of Ted Lasso. Let's start with an easy one: Aragorn. No fucking second breakfasts for any fucking hobbits or any other fucking muppets with this Aragorn.

Bret Goldstein as Roy Kent glares to the side.

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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 21/08/2026

Before you say positive things about DHH because of Omarchy, a reminder that it's been like 3 weeks since he published a blog that compares Roma people to the wolves Denmark eradicated in the 1800s. He's an open, virulent racist and always has been. Everything he touches should be radioactive.

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 22/08/2026

Because Omarchy news is going around, not so gentle reminder that the author is a vile, miserable, racist asshole who is calling for the eradication of entire peoples.

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Attila Szegedi @szegedia.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I am not superstitious for similar reasons – it brings bad luck.

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Nat Harkness 🇵🇷🏳‍⚧🧹 #VisionDivison @peanutbutterwhisky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ally Pankiw (I Used to Be Funny) revealed in an Instagram post that she passed on directing the HBO Harry Potter series. Kate Herron (Loki) revealed in the comments that she passed on directing episodes TWICE. It really is that fucking easy. It's really just that easy.

Text messages:

"I have an instinct on the answer but I feel compelled to ask."

"Harry Potter? Hard no?"

"Absolutely fucking not!" Lol"

"But thank you got asking."

"Of course :)"

"I assumed as much"

"And agree)

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

So I know in the past I've complained about Hogwarts Legacy and gotten responses to the effect of "is there a way I can ethically play it". With a sequel on the way, here's what my answer is: Don't play it. Don't even pirate it. There's like literally a billion other videogames you could play.

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 27/04/2026

Something to bear in mind as things get harder, from a 2009 Metafilter post from someone who lives through Sarajevo.

Metafilter post from Dee Extrovert part 1: Well, unlike the majority of you (l assume), 1 actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions.
Of those who couldn't leave my city, Sarajevo:
Some people (very few) were prepared for what they thought would be the "long haul" - this tended to be a couple of months. These people were widely seen as lunatics and dangerously pessimistic ones at that.
Most people were not at all prepared. This included my family. Many of those - like my family - considered the idea of "preparation" to be an affront to the decency we felt most people possessed. Were we wrong? Well, I don't know. We suffered greatly; my parents were killed. But speaking only for myself, I never felt I cheapened my soul by betting on calamity.
Today, that still feels like it's worth something.

Metafilter post from Dee Extrovert part 2: But here's the main point: "Preparing" for the disaster really didn't do anyone much good. Those who
"prepared" ate a little better for a while. They stayed warmer for a few extra days. They enjoyed the radio for a while longer (via batteries.) But in the end, they ended up hungry, cold and bored too, just like the rest of us. Guns and weapons helped no one directly and were even of little to no use in the defense of Sarajevo, since they were toys compared to the shells, bombs and high-powered armaments of the attacking forces.
The worst parts of war were psychological - the fear, anxiety, boredom, loneliness, paranoia, bad dreams.
Respite from those things came with sharing food with a neighbor, finding a piece of clothing that would fit someone you knew, commiserating with others in your position, figuring out how to make make-up from brick or french fries from wheat paste and spreading this newly-acquired war knowledge around the mahala.
We knew who had extra food and supplies. For the most part, they weren't attacked or hassled or bothered. Contrary to what these survivalists say, those in dire times generally hold on to their personal sense of pride even more than they do in normal times. I'd take a bite of a friend's salad without bothering to ask in normal times. I'd never have done that in wartime, no matter how hungry I was.

Metafilter post from Dee Xtrovert: Well, unlike the majority of you (l assume), 1 actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions.
Of those who couldn't leave my city, Sarajevo:
Some people (very few) were prepared for what they thought would be the "long haul" - this tended to be a couple of months. These people were widely seen as lunatics and dangerously pessimistic ones at that.
Most people were not at all prepared. This included my family. Many of those - like my family - considered the idea of "preparation" to be an affront to the decency we felt most people possessed. Were we wrong? Well, I don't know. We suffered greatly; my parents were killed. But speaking only for myself, I never felt I cheapened my soul by betting on calamity.
Today, that still feels like it's worth something.

Posted on Jan. 28th 2009. 1696 favorites

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Attila Szegedi @szegedia.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Catering Truck One is a great name, but let’s also not forget the staffers and journalists left on the decoy plane, a.k.a. The Disposable Ones.

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Attila Szegedi @szegedia.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

In preparation for tomorrow posting this evergreen from the evergreat @ellecordova.bsky.social: youtube.com/shorts/sAwSQ...

youtube.com

Real footage of the #eclipse

YouTube video by Elle Cordova

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I don't think they are that astonishing though - I think they're a tremendous amount of computational power used in a quite novel way, but ultimately the cost of keeping them running is too high for us to sustain. I don't think it's impressive to liquidate society to do brute force statistics.

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

reuters:

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.

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Diane 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @madameoconnell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Kid Rock was the nickname for Epstein's island

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Attila Szegedi @szegedia.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

That’s one big ass trophy. How are they going to carry that home?

Shot of the podium on the green of the World Cup final, with a huge World Cup trophy in the background.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Dang they really got a category for everything

THR
The Hollywood Reporter *
@THR
Louis C.K. Wins Grammy for First Special Since Sexual Misconduct Allegations

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 17/07/2026

a few good Jessica’s

A digital illustration of 6 versions of doodles of Jessica Rabbit: short, fat, flat-chested, black, asian, and masc.

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Attila Szegedi @szegedia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

And yeah, all while being a well-off, white, European, male-presenting.

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Attila Szegedi @szegedia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

And then I can also worry whether my residence permit will get renewed when it expires, whether I’ll be allowed to stay if I lose my job, that I can end up being deported on any number of bureaucratic anomalies that I can fall into even outside my fault.

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Attila Szegedi @szegedia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Even when you don’t have anything explicitly stacked against you, it’s still learning customs and languages and uprooting social ties (friends, family) and trying to build new ones, often not feeling like you belong. None of it is easy, even on easy mode.

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Attila Szegedi @szegedia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Can confirm. I moved countries 4 times. First was not of my own volition (to Hungary as an underage refugee from war in Yugoslavia in 1991) but I did what you did on relatively “easy mode” (plus kids) to US, to Sweden, and finally to Switzerland.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/06/2026

Wrote up a little newsletter about why people should go see "Supergirl" -- and watch "Sorry, Baby" and "Is God Is" "They’re all very different films, but they all grapple with what it means to embrace life under the totalitarian horror of misogynist violence." news.chanda.science/archive/you-...

news.chanda.science

You should go see Supergirl

It's pop art that is unapologetically political.

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The Haunted Drive-in @haunteddrivein.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Remember folks, if buying isn’t ownership, piracy isn’t theft.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 24/06/2026

"Converting PDFs to presentation slides" is such a telling example because so much of what LLMs are being used for seems to be labor that doesn't need to be done at all. It's just renting a space heater in someone else's building to accomplish nothing at all.

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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

People, I am begging you, if you have air con in your flat please PUT IT ON YOUR DATING PROFILE.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

funny how that works

@omgsidewalks
Honestly, i don't understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks.
daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent's entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10/hr and need second jobs.
college costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and puts students into debt for life and yet we have thousands of professors living in their cars.
everything we need is astronomically expensive and yet almost none of the money we pay is going towards the people actually doing the work and providing the services.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

In America if you touch the president's special slime pool they send you to prison

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I get the urge to try and argue from a common ground, But police shouldn't kill guilty people, either. Guilty people shouldn't die from abuse or neglect in jail, either. Nobody deserves to be sexually assaulted, even in prison, even if convicted. Obviously. We can't cede that, even rhetorically.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

My main worry is that we’re banning social media for kids but not AI. So you can’t speak to real people online anymore, kids, but you sure can talk to your fake artificial friend who weirdly loves to talk about taking your own life!

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