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Tom Chappell

@tomchappell.bsky.social
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Software Engineer Backend (Golang / Scala) 📍Palm Springs, California Today’s a good day to punch a Nazi. he/him.

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lapsu.bsky.social @lapsu.bsky.social · 14h
Just a reminder that the war is also illegal. Maybe do that one too.
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Defend Democracy @finalreckoning.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Tom Chappell @tomchappell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh, no. Oh my god.
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Tom Chappell @tomchappell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ugh, that J. D. Vance!
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
Launched in May, “the page uses data from customers’ activity to generate details about them in categories like Product Preferences, Interests & Hobbies, and Home & Family, which Amazon then uses to personalize users’ product experiences.”
fastcompany.com
'Has flat buttocks,' 'cusses when scared': Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles. Here's how to find yours
Amazon's new 'About you' page lists many assumptions about shoppers—like their favorite brands, their hobbies, and the shape of their bodies.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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rob pike @robpike.io · 06/10/2026
This is enraging. www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
niemanlab.org
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.
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ceej @ceej.online · 05/10/2026
we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"But the handicapped need cars!" No, what they need are options in mobility. The tech exists to enable their freedom of independent mobility, but almost always what is lacking is the enabling infrastructure. Bike lanes and quality sidewalks serve everyone.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He's *already* murdered vastly more people than any serial killer could hope for. The most prolific serial killer, Pedro Lopez, only killed about 300 children. Elon has *already* killed over 300,000. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_L...
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Pedro López (serial killer) - Wikipedia
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/10/2026
Also forgot: Tom Dotan on Oracle, covering both my Hater's Guide to Oracle, his wonderful Vanity Fair piece on Normal Mr. Ellison, and the Paramount situation. Got some very exciting guests to announce for CES soon too. www.vanityfair.com/story/larry-...
vanityfair.com
Inside Larry Ellison's Wide Web of Power, Money and Politics
The $200 billion software titan has suctioned himself to many hubs of influence—from data centers to TikTok to Hollywood studios to the Oval Office itself. Tom Dotan dives deep into Ellison’s kingdom,...
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lapsu.bsky.social @lapsu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Same. I assume every political text is from scammers pretending to be the candidate.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Also, AI creates cognitive decline, so fuck that.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
wisn.com
Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 28/09/2026
I am amused at how easy Starbucks makes boycotting them. Two locations I walk by semi-regularly now have signs up, “our cafe is closed but our drive-thru remains open”. Both signs “apologize for the inconvenience”. Cutting off people who didn’t drive seems unwise for a company that wants business.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Rapid industrial development requires human capital: workers who are literate enough to be trained, healthy enough to show up, disciplined enough to come in on time, and sufficiently unencumbered by traditional life that they can sell their labor to whoever offers the most for it“ Thread
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The people making generative AI are in a millenarian cult based on a Harry Potter fanfic and heavily subsidized by Jeff Epstein in its beginning, that is a death cult by day and a rape cult by night. And they make zero effort to hide any of this, they count on you going no fucking way that's weird
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/09/2026
watch it, it's good www.hbomax.com/movie/1d7c48...
hbomax.com
Watch The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley | HBO Max
Watch The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley on HBO Max. Plans start at $10.99/month. An inside look at Theranos and its founder Elizabeth Holmes, whose ambition spawned one of the biggest frau...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 26/09/2026
Yes, yes, I'm sure that will stop all interest in the film.
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Tom Chappell @tomchappell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Solid gold bars, but cursed.
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lapsu.bsky.social @lapsu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
PSA: "tho" and "thru" as alternate spellings of though and through are in the @merriam-webster.com dictionary and were popular even back in the late 19th century. Let the spelling scolds know. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tho
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/09/2026
I've known @josephscrimshaw.bsky.social for years and am delighted his movie is getting traction!
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Tom Chappell @tomchappell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mm no m
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Tom Chappell @tomchappell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How many roads must a man walk down?
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s really rare how few contemporary politicians are talented at doing what I am calling “Mayor Quimby shit”
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026
Here's Alex Gibney's complete interview with the LA Times youtu.be/ISgepiLrfaU?...
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Alex Gibney ('Musk') on how Elon got so political: 'If Trump doesn't win, he might go to jail’
YouTube video by LA Times Studios
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
new toon: large language muddle www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
dailykos.com
Large language muddle
A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 18/09/2026
is it too much to ask for one single reporter/outlet to lure in Elon Musk's mom in with the promise of an anodyne book-promoting interview, and then hit her with the "so what was it like being raised by Nazis?" and "why do the dates of your residency in South Africa exactly line up with Apartheid?"
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19/09/2026
The reason that OpenAI delayed its IPO is because its finances fucking suck
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Tom Chappell @tomchappell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yeah, if you want to watch a cat go completely insane try that with a cat. But be prepared to put the poor thing back in its carrier until you can get some furniture in the new place.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
the problem for Dem consultants is that they haven't properly internalized that tech - not the rank and file, but the guys at the top - has completely turned against them and should now be treated as an implacable political enemy you can't win them back by playing nice on policy and you shouldn't
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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 25/02/2026
You never have to read too far into these Atlantic articles to find the author carrying water for the subject they claim to be profiling just out of "curiosity."
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Rand Paul had held Schroyer's nomination to run ICE hostage to force DHS to tell him about its investigation into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti (hint: there isn't one). Trump preferred to kill the hostage, I guess. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
White House pulls stalled ICE director nominee
The Oklahoma state trooper had no experience leading a major law enforcement agency but was close to the Homeland Security secretary.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Google is killing journalism: "At Truthout, we anticipate a loss of roughly $500,000 in online revenue as a result of this massive traffic plunge in the next year alone."
truthout.org
We’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian Future
AI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back.
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 15/09/2026
All of Ed Sheeran’s opening acts and his touring band have dropped out of the remaining dates of his ‘Loop’ tour in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore.
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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 16/09/2026
Today I learned that I am rabid fans of FINNEAS, Lukas Graham, and Aaron Rowe, the opening acts for Ed Sheeran that quit in solidarity with Macklemore, who I learned yesterday that I'm a huge fan of. I guess Ed's the only one too chickenshit to pick a side. Even his backup band, Boega, quit.
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We were all so worried about millennial fever and randomly spawning death cults in the mid 1990s, and it turns out we were thirty years early. There are just so many death cults right now: AI doomers, religious doomers, climate doomers, MAGA doomers. Is everybody that desperate to avoid work?
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Prince - 1999: Party Over, Out of Time
Alt: The purple one would like a word. Prince - 1999: Party Over, Out of Time
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Solar has overtaken Wind, even though it is far more recent. #SolarHockeyStickOfHope Wind started off in 1980s in wind farms. But it is a technology of the 20th century. It is not modularizable in manufacturing. it not shippable as is buljy with deployment of wind farms close to manufacturing.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.welcometohellworld.com/i-do-not-bel...
Just once in my life I would like to see a Democrat being interviewed by right wing media like Fox News or right wing media like every single other outlet treat their questions with the contempt they deserve. I know it's not going to fix everything or maybe even anything but how much coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think it would inspire if when asked about "boys in girls sports" or some other stupid fucking culture war distraction one of them finally said "What the fuck are you talking about man? You sound like a dumb asshole right now."

What's the worst that's going to happen the New York Times is gonna work overtime to make sure you don't get elected? They were already doing that buddy.

You simply say "Are you stupid? Do you think I am stupid? And do you think all of the people watching at home are stupid? Everyone sees through what you are doing. Using one group as a scapegoat for the very real problems everyone has – all caused by Republicans by the way – unlike this fake one you have made up. Dumb asshole."

Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you.

And if you want to say something else true that almost no Democrat ever says for some reason you can top it off with a “Every single Republican in our lifetime has sought to make our lives worse in every way possible. I’d like to try to stop that.”
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/09/2026
One thing not getting as much attention re: Dario's essay. In it, he talks about the need for third party evaluators to review models for safety. But a few days before the essay, Anthropic... refused to submit its latest models to the UK's evaluator: www.ft.com/content/560e...
ft.com
Anthropic withheld latest AI model from UK testing agency
Decision to exclude Aisi has prompted fears inside British government of protectionist shift among tech groups
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I know this is not going to fix anything, but how much media coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think would happen if one of these dem candidates just said, once in their lives, what the fuck are you talking about you sound like a dumb asshole right now
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Tom Chappell @tomchappell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Dang, you were in Palm Springs? For how long, and did you have a nice visit?
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Faustbot @faustbot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's hilarious that this thing that's going to "kill all of humanity" isn't, and never could be, profitable.
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Rabbit Hole Studios @jenpallante.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So my former boss- when an employee has an event (birthday, retirement) he will buy his favorite cake. He brags he "never" buys a cake they like. So they will leave it and he will get credit for the gesture, but get to keep the cake. My last day was no different. But, knowing this, I took the cake
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