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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 12/09/2026

Surprised I haven't seen more of this chart from Anthropic's www.anthropic.com/institute/ec... (well, semi surprised - when a wave of doom debate hits it tends to drown out all else 🙄) "In all scenarios, ordinary workers get _zero_ of any AI-driven economic growth" is, um, striking!

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

"We don't usually see each other's banners. Here's mine! Quote with yours!"

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Charlie Brainman @expanse.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

FYI regarding Gaiman since his account is reactivated: If you want to disconnect from it, the correct order is unfollow, then block. If you forget to unfollow first, click on @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and unblock, then unfollow/block.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The transphobe-to-Nazi pipeline is real. Don't give JK Rowling money. Simple.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Everybody! I just found something. I'm sure lots of people knew, but I didn't, so here it is: Paste a link into your post. Watch it generate a linked preview of the page, but one that *doesn't take up more characters*. Delete the link *text*. The preview link remains. :)

en.wikipedia.org

Luddite - Wikipedia

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

It's really sad to see #Carney stans spreading outside of Canada. People, please understand: he's a neoliberal. He wants to reset the world to the economic system that opened the door to fascism to begin with. He happens to have a good speechwriter and is "normal shaped." Do not get attached.

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ceej @ceej.online · 22/01/2026

There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

It is *far* more interesting to ask why non-compete clauses are now inserted into the contracts of people working fast-food. There was no "trade secret" to selling sandwiches; there is tactic of trapping workers in crap jobs.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Never forget, our politics are "polarized" because the right has been sliding towards fascism for twenty years, and now it's *arrived* there. If anything, the centre and liberals have been dragged *to* the right in the process, and the actual left is now organizing against the fascism. #JustSaying

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I feel like today is a good time to remind ourselves that dictators aren't, by and large, genius masterminds. They're thugs who lived lives without consequence and so become convinced that they can't lose, and a certain kind of authoritarian will bow down to them. What they are not is *smart*.

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Julie Morris of the Auntifa Morrises @juliemoonthego.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Even if you don’t live in the US, Block These Accounts. They’re up to no good.

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The Williamsburg Savings Bank finally got the clock on the north face of their tower (aka "the big clock right out my window") working again! Having it telling the proper time, instead of being stuck forever at 12:00, is a huge improvement in my daily quality of life.😄 #Brooklyn #NewYorkCity #NYC

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Wishing a very Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends on here! 🍁🙏🏻🇨🇦🦃🍂

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Just a reminder, for anyone who's interested: #Substack is a business model built on enshittification, and it bans adult content but allows Nazi content. I won't give them money, and you shouldn't give them your content. IMO.

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

When Charlie Kirk died, his detractors celebrated his death, while his supporters tried to keep people from speaking about his life and work in any but the vaguest terms. When Jane Goodall died, people mourned her death, and celebrated her life and works. Don't be like Charlie. Be like Jane.

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

You know what I'd like to see in a reaction video some time? "A psychologist reacts to _Inception_." Like, there's a whole lot of stuff in there about working with or against the subject's own psyche, about daddy issues, identity, etc. I'd love to see what a psychologist had to say about it.

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

AI Bros: "It's getting better all the time, soon it won't make mistakes, really!" OpenAI, makers of ChatGPT: We just proved mathematically that "hallucinations" are inevitable. www.computerworld.com/article/4059... #AI #AICrap #AiResearch #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #ChatGPT

OpenAI’s own advanced reasoning models actually hallucinated more frequently than simpler systems. The company’s o1 reasoning model “hallucinated 16 percent of the time” when summarizing public information, while newer models o3 and o4-mini “hallucinated 33 percent and 48 percent of the time, respectively.”

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

NB: the term "carpetbagger" refers to people coming from the North to aid in democratizing the South after the US civil war. It's a bit like "Luddite" in that people doing justice work are now used as a pejorative. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpetb...

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Carpetbagger - Wikipedia

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Quick ❓ for folks following the #NYC mayoral race: When Mamdani calls Cuomo "my friend" and then "habibi", is he just being a wise-ass, or is he responding to something in Cuomo's video? (I didn't bother to watch Cuomo's vid.) I'm here for it either way! Just curious. #NewYorkCity #NYCMayoralRace

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Increase a band: Thomas Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

A quick explainer for people who don't know the ins and outs of computer hardware and cooling: storing emails doesn't take any water. Storing emails takes a little space on a hard drive, but honestly, not very much. Not compared to lots of other things like images, videos, and programs. 1/5

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I don't think there's a "male loneliness" epidemic. That's absurd. There definitely is a fascist manopshere grifter problem, though, and we're currently not winning that fight.

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Quick reminder that if you link to something on Substack — even something really cool and progressive and feminist — there's a whole bunch of people who won't read it. Because we don't give The (Other) Nazi Site our time, clicks, or eyeballs. At all.

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(ɢɪᴀɴᴛ) 𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕖 𝕡𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 ♡ @minibreadcrumb.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Molly White, of Citation Needed and Web3 is Going Great, switched to Ghost last year. (Link to detailed article: www.citationneeded.news/substack-to-...) she also posted price comparisons with other similar services. (hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/...) there’s a post here too, but I can’t find it

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Harkavian Balvis @harkavian.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I might be a bit too late to this party to start a trend, but I would love a comment thread full of Substack alternatives. Currently, ghost.org is the only one on my radar and I'd love to know more.

ghost.org

Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform

Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Wait, can you not do polls on Bsky? I was going to see if people thought my use of "delving" in my last skeet meant I was Nigerian, or an AI. 🙄

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Delving a little deeper into that "3.5% of population to cause change" idea. One key takeaway: it's a description of what's happened in other situations, not necessarily a magic recipe for success. But it's a sometimes-useful guideline. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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What is the 3.5% protest rule and what does it mean for the US?

As the anti-Trump resistance has grown, so has talk of 3.5%, a figure which stems from research on previous movements

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Lang Belta class is coming back to Dragon Con! Can’t wait to see one of my very favorite con communities again. (Probably ought not to actually *teach* wearing Drummer’s exoskeleton, though…) Official info on this, plus the debut of another workshop, soon! #TheExpanse

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

In the "Between the lines" section in www.axios.com/2025/07/07/d..., the 6th Dem talks about trying to persuade frustrated, angry Dem voters to focus on winning back Congress next year. Our obvious retort: youse didn't do jack with it the last time youse had it.😒Why should we think that'll change?

axios.com

"There needs to be blood": Democrats' voters tell them to "get shot" in Trump resistance push

One House Democrat was told by constituents that "civility isn't working" and to prepare for violence.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Yes, this is it exactly. I am a writing prof. Please understand, the PRODUCT is not the point of my courses. I have them write essays for the same reason you lift weights. The repetition is the point. It builds the skills. I am not collecting undergraduate essays for sale on ebay.

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Oooh, the bar I'm is playing _The Dark Crystal_ on the TV. Which naturally makes me think of @skektek.bsky.social. 👋🏻 Maybe my next Manhattan should be a black one... 🤔

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Re previous post: It drives me UP THE WALL how often protest is depicted in entertainment as spontaneous. Like, Rosa Parks' ride on that bus was planned for MONTHS. This stuff is very much like a military operation. The myth of spontaneity serves the interests of the ppl who hate organized protest.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Periodic reminder, "ricing" a piece of technology--computer, car, whatever--is a super racist term. Just stop using it. You can say, "suping up." You can say "blinging out." You can say "bedazzling" if you want to. But why choose the racist term if you aren't racist? #linux #computers #technology

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will @wagnarok.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Screenshot of a tumblr text post from user 7frogsspeaks, which says:

In case anyone needs more clarification:

What RFK is saying: "Autistic people can't work, so it's our duty as a society to erase autism" → This is eugenics

Harmful response: "Many autistic people do work!" → Validates the belief that that someone being unable to work is shameful and makes them a lesser person, and implies that autistic people should not need support

Correct response: "Yes, many autistic people can't work, so it's our duty as a society to make sure they are supported, you fascist asshole" → Accepts the realities of disability and values the lives of disabled people, names the actual problem here

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Just saw a news headline saying, roughly, "Academy Awards changes rules; now judges have to have seen all the films in a category in order to vote on it", and I'm like, 🤯 wait, they previously didn't have to‽ WTF‽ Did they have to watch *any* of them? What's going on here? 😒 #AcademyAwards #Oscars

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I think I have wanted to paste *with* formatting maybe twice in my life. Every. Other. GODDAMNED. Time, I have wanted to just paste the DATA I copied from elsewhere, and have it match the place I'm pasting it into.

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

It seems today is the day the universe (or at least my job) decided to tell me, "Kagan, you don't know enough about using Postgresql on a Mac. Time to change that!"

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I can't believe #NYC got rid of outdoor dining. This weather would be beautiful for going to Swift Hibernian Lounge after work and doing some writing in the outdoor space they used to have (it was lovely, full of plants!). But no, we had to get rid of all that... why, again? 😕❓

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

It's really annoying that when trying to find a handy guide to link to in my last post, I found a couple of really nice ones from the US CDC and ready.gov... and unfortunately, I don't feel confident about linking to US gov't sites anymore. They might take anything down at any time. 😢

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Kagan MacTane (he/him) @wandererblue.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

In commemoration of #SanFrancisco's Great Quake and Fire of 1906, this is an excellent day to review what to do in an earthquake: Drop, cover, and hold on. Don't try to run inside, outside, or to another room. Stay out of doorways. www.redcross.org/get-help/how... #earthquake #earthquakes

redcross.org

Earthquake Safety

Forty-five states and territories in the United States are at risk of earthquakes. Learn how to prepare for an earthquake with the following safety tips.

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 17/04/2025

i need people to understand "death of the author" means the author can't dictate what you take away from the text, not that you're not complicit in what they do with the profit they make from you buying it in the first place

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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 17/04/2025

One of the most consistently neglected parts of today’s user experiences is our handling of errors. We’re so busy designing the happy paths through our products that we often forget to give the same care and attention to the times when things will go wrong piccalil.li/blog/how-to-...

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How to write error messages that actually help users rather than frustrate them

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