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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/10/2026
Yesterday I provided my immune system with the latest enemy intel and let me tell you it is working VERY hard on those cellular combat drills right now 🫠
A photo of my left arm with an upside down “Shoppers Drug Mart” bandaid, where I have had my Covid shot. I’m wearing a black t-shirt with various aircraft images on it, courtesy of NGPA (an LGBTQIA+ pilots association)
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TehLaser🏳️‍⚧️ @tehlaser.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Pfft, best laugh about AI I’ve had in a while
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/10/2026
I can run qwen 27B, an open weight model, on my desktop with my 4090 and it is more advanced than the state of the art models a year ago. We could see a similar jump in open weight models in a year and the uncensored versions will be about as good at hacking and illicit actions.
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TehLaser🏳️‍⚧️ @tehlaser.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
If the Democratic party is allowed to win the election, expect GOP hostage-taking to begin immediately. The Dems better be planning for it now. Trump WILL shutdown. He WILL default. He will veto the debt limit. With glee. Trading away rights to keep the lights on isn’t going to work this time.
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TehLaser🏳️‍⚧️ @tehlaser.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
For any who still believe that AI is useless or all hype, I beg you to look again with an open mind. Ignorance will not be bliss. For clarity, I am not pro-AI. But that does not mean it is a toy. Call it fancy autocomplete or a stochastic parrot if you like. It’s frighteningly good at it now.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/10/2026
Distilled dense models are getting smaller. I can run qwen 3.8 27B on my desktop with a 4090 and it has the ability to run at a level similar to Opus 4.6, a model that needed an entire server rack with GPUs to run. They're only getting smaller and more efficient. www.anthropic.com/research/sel...
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AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
Small AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes, with no datacenter needed.
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TehLaser🏳️‍⚧️ @tehlaser.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Seize the means of computation! m.youtube.com/watch?v=_M4F...
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Weekend Update: Mr. Wonderful on Building an AI Data Center in Utah - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/10/2026
This new Sherrod Brown ad debunks a anti trans ad while tying the Republican senate candidate to Jeffrey Epstein. THIS is how you fight back against anti trans ads.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A rising tide lifts all yachts.
Goldman's Top Leaders Set to Score More Than $500 Million With Special
Bonus
1 hr agoWall Street Eyes Record Bonuses as Profit Heads
Past $90 Billion
WALL STREET SET FOR RECORD
$90 BILLION PROFIT HAUL
INFLATION- ADJUSTED PROFITS
PROFITS
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$100B
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Source: NYSE/Intercontinental Exchange;
US Bureau of Labor Statistics: O5C analysis
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WALL STREET EYES $9OB PROFIT, RECORD BONUSES
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What did we learn from the Supreme Court's three-sentence Monday night ruling leaving on hold the Trump administration's effort to interfere with mail-in voting? Quite a lot, as it turns out—and at least some of it is good: www.stevevladeck.com/p/250-what-w...
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250. What We Learned from USPS v. California
In refusing to put the USPS mail-in ballots rule into effect, the majority didn’t say very much. I still think there are three big lessons in Monday's ruling.
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Ken Shirriff @righto.com · 12/09/2026
In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point coprocessor chip. Plugging this chip into your IBM PC made math 100 times faster, good for CAD and spreadsheets. I opened up the chip to reverse-engineer exactly how it does complicated calculations. Let's take a look inside...
The integrated circuit is a black ceramic rectangle with 40 metal pins sticking out, in two rows. (This is known as a DIP, a Dual Inline Package.) It has three rows of text: "D8087-1", a cryptic version label, and then the copyright line with a big lower-case I, INTEL m c 1980 1984. The m and c are in circles for the mask-work symbol and the copyright symbol. The chip has a small semicircular notch on the left side, indicating its orientation. The package consists of two thin ceramic layers, bonded together with a gray substance; the metal pins stick out from this gray substance. The ceramic package is important to me because tapping the gray layer with a chisel will cause the two layers to separate, revealing the silicon die inside. In contrast, most chips are in epoxy packages, which are very difficult to open, usually requiring strong acids.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Roberts Court doesn't get that much credit for only handing the GOP a dozen seats in 2026 and holding off on adding one more at the last minute.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 25/08/2026
I think it’s worth explaining what the Supreme Court actually did. As Justice Sotomayor explained, the decision only postpones whether California can sue over Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting.
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TehLaser🏳️‍⚧️ @tehlaser.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If SCOTUS rules that Trump has free reign to fuck with elections because the California case is too early (ripeness) but the League of Women Voters case is too late (Purcell) I’m gonna lose my shit.
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Julia Curlee @juliacurlee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yesterday I told you my story. Today, my interview with Adam Harris at The Atlantic — how it felt. Thank you to everyone who wrote yesterday, the officers still serving who can't say anything aloud, the parents of trans kids, who only want them to have a future. I read every note.
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The Trump Administration Wanted Her Expertise, Just Not Her
An interview with the transgender CIA analyst fired from Trump’s White House
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Julia Curlee @juliacurlee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The White House fired me for being transgender. In 2013 I became the first CIA officer to successfully transition. I worked for Mike Pence for a year. Then I volunteered to serve the second Trump White House.
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The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 30/07/2026
The Worst Person You Know Just Filed A Good First Amendment Lawsuit Against A Very Badly Drafted Nudify App Ban There's been a bunch of news this... www.techdirt.com/2026/07/30/the-wor…
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The Worst Person You Know Just Filed A Good First Amendment Lawsuit Against A Very Badly Drafted Nudify App Ban
There's been a bunch of news this week regarding Minnesota's new law that purports to prohibit "nudification" technology, and the fact that xAI has sued to have the law blocked as unconstitutional. A few things need to be said upfront, because it's very, very easy to just say the tech is terrible, that Elon Musk...
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TehLaser🏳️‍⚧️ @tehlaser.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
So that’s what they mean about not picking a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...
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Inside the Rushed Effort to Get Trump His New Air Force One (Gift Article)
A New York Times investigation found that President Trump’s push to speed delivery of the aircraft led to ballooning costs and trade-offs in safety features.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It's not often that I read a judge’s ruling and start cheering out loud. Yesterday’s order in Trump’s IRS case was a welcome instance. My write up at the link in comments.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/06/2026
Every time I make the typo "grabity" part of me wants to argue that it should have been called that all along.
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TehLaser🏳️‍⚧️ @tehlaser.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
For any who haven’t realized: A “real name” policy acts to silence trans voices. I got my face permabanned from Facebook by attempting to use my real name instead of my deadname.
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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 24/06/2023
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Ken Shirriff @righto.com · 30/05/2026
In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to be faster for spreadsheets or CAD, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point chip. Internally, the chip runs special code called microcode. We opened the chip, extracted the microcode, and are figuring out how it works. 1/n
The 8087 chip is a black rectangle with 40 metal pins along its long sides. This package is known as a DIP (dual inline package). Unlike modern chips, this chip is a ceramic package. Text on the chip includes "D8087-1" "Intel copyright 1980 1984"/
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hby's stuff @hby.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
#pixelart
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TehLaser🏳️‍⚧️ @tehlaser.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
If the supreme court somehow rules that only Republican partisan gerrymanders are permitted, the dissent is going to be scathing.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 10/04/2026
I had turned off Signal message previews in my iPhone system settings, but I just went to the app and found that “notification content” was still enabled. FYI!!!!
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted
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Talia al Ghoul 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Holy shit these two photos from Artemis II that were shared just a bit ago.
Picture taken from inside Integrity at the window looking at Earth.A full picture taken from Integrity looking at the half-disc of Earth surrounded by space.
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Utah Overpass Action @utahoverpassaction.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Yesterday, SLC came together to protest the site of a new ICE detention center warehouse. We showed that we will not watcn as a rogue government brutalizes our immigrant brothers and sisters and tramples the Constitution. But this was just the start. Please watch for more ways to resist with us.
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TehLaser🏳️‍⚧️ @tehlaser.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
A generation of writers wrote primarily for search engines. Tragically, the next generation of writers is probably going to have to write for LLMs first and humans second, if at all. What a waste of human potential. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/t...
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Chatbots Are the New Influencers Brands Must Woo
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It seems timely to re-re-up this crystal clear Nov. 2025 @lawfaremedia.org article explaining precisely when federal officers can and cannot be criminally prosecuted by state authorities. It's by @bgodar.bsky.social of Univ of Wisconsin www.lawfaremedia.org/article/are-...
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Are Federal Officials Immune From State Prosecution?
Contrary to recent assertions, federal officers do not have blanket immunity from criminal prosecutions brought by states.
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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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Miranda Miller’s Skeleton @randymiller.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
quoting chatbots as official company sources shows that our tech reporters are not up to the task of understanding the basics of the technology they're reporting on
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
my son got two different toy fire trucks for christmas. two. and despite being considerably more familiar with their purpose and operation, i didn’t receive a single fucking fire truck
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
If you got a problem, yo, I'll solvent, check out the gunk, isopropyl dissolves it
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Ken Shirriff @righto.com · 09/12/2025
In 1980, Intel announced the 8087 Math Coprocessor, a chip that made floating-point 100 times faster. I opened up the chip, took photos of the silicon structures, and analyzed its circuitry. It's a very complex chip for its time. Let's take a look inside...
A photo of the 8087 die under a microscope. The die is rectangular, with complex patterns in purplish-brown. The patterns consist of rectangular regions, striped regions in the bottom half of the chip, and other more irregular regions.

At the right, two regions are highlighted in red: the registers and the stack control circuitry.

Around the edges of the die, you can see the hair-thin bond wires that connect the chip to its 40 external pins. The complex patterns on the die are formed by its metal wiring, as well as the polysilicon and silicon underneath. The bottom half of the chip is the "datapath", the circuitry that performs calculations on 80-bit floating point values. At the left of the datapath, a constant ROM holds important constants such as π. At the right are the eight registers that form the stack, along with the stack control circuitry. The chip's instructions are defined by the large rectangular microcode ROM in the middle.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Hot off the keyboard and gifted: Hegseth has to go. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
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TehLaser🏳️‍⚧️ @tehlaser.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Schumer needs to go. The democrats need leadership, not someone afraid of his own shadow.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 14/10/2025
And it is unfortunately extremely dangerous for someone to take the letter of the law to its logical conclusions, instead of its practiced one. Because the law in text is extremely punitive and not something you want to be subject to.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I thought maybe it was time for a judge story. This is a story of the time a federal judge made fun of me, repeatedly, for passing out during a cross-examination. /1
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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/09/2025
JUSTICE FOR THE EM DASH (from @ellecordova.bsky.social) youtube.com/shorts/XKsPa...
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Em dash on ChatGPT allegations
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
99% of media commentators think Elon Musk isn't an elite and a barista with they/them pronouns is
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TehLaser🏳️‍⚧️ @tehlaser.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Jesus. Apparently we’re already past the “papers, please” phase. Give the gestapo your papers, they just confiscate them. And you don’t get them back if released. Not to mention the judge struggling to understand what the court can even do for someone being held on an already closed case. Sheesh.
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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
HAPPENING NOW: Catholic leaders lead a march to an ICE office in Detroit to hand deliver a letter calling for humane treatment of immigrants (Video: Niraj Warikoo)
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 02/07/2025
Wrote a bit about the launch of a concentration camp in Florida.
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