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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

With the right engineering mindset, you can solve any problem.

whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

TO THOSE WHO HAVE LOVED ME When I am gone Let me lie in state in your heart for a day or two or more. Then plant me deep in the soil of your best work And let me help toward harvest.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Rejection is a dish best served warm? 🤔

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Was thinking "I might need to create a custom feed that just shows relatively quiet posters" because cool as some people are, favoring sheer volume is a bug, not a feature. And lo: Someone has already done it! bsky.app/profile/why....

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Freesound seems OK. YouTube, not IMO. And at some level we collectively decided this was OK when we let Spotify with its pittance payouts and who's-going-to-stop-me approach become a thing. If we want other outcomes, we're going to have to collectively decide this is not OK and remake law.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Kisses from the earth to the sky.

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Paul @atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Terracotta vase in the form of a mouse Mid-5th century BC. The mouse crouches with its front paws under its chin and its tail curled up beneath itself. The mouth of the vessel, in the centre of the back, is flanked in front and back by a pair of string holes Museum of Fine Arts Boston #History

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"Mathematics will draw the soul toward truth" - Plato

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Chris Mohney @chrismohney.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

in addition to his movies and warmly genial public persona, I always liked Sam Neill’s tiktoks etc, increasingly rare kind of celeb just posting cute little daffy personal clips along with famous person stuff. here’s Sam Neill with one of his beloved chickens

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Bird sight on bird-site-like.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I spoke to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes this morning. He said "pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness."

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Janet Mills has won statewide office in Maine twice. She's done good things for healthcare, education, housing, & other things that help people. She's probably the only other candidate who can make the 5 mo runway left in the race (besides the guy who won the primary but might have to drop out).

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I've never thought Jung's statement "People don't have ideas. Ideas have people" was the whole story, but people like Rogan going human bot does make a case for it.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The water used in power generation, the waste heat from power generation & use, and the economics involved mean that current LLM-"AI" has never been likely to work out environmentally and economically.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Uncomfortable truths in jest.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Beyond FOMO, there is FWAMO (Fear We ALL Missed Out).

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The vulnerability affects *smart tvs*? That’s a whole mess right there. People who manage app servers or linux desktops are going to update pronto. Who knows what smart tv manufacturers are going to do?

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Stack Overflow is still a great resource for the same reasons it was a great resource to train models on. I'm glad some models will give references to it in their answers; I often learn something from reading those. File this under takes that'll be popular, predictive, and still wrong.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This post is hilarious. And banging on "we lost because corrupt establishment didn't do my things" *is* functioning as cog in that political machinery. The opposition knows this. Do you? Advocate for the things. Work for the party that does them. But it's hard to punish your allies to victory.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Watching the web and search get better for the first 15 years and then watching search get worse as the web fills with garbage over the last 15 years has been a hell of a lesson in incentives and how humanity can follow them to ruin.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

So (a) not my favorite green but I really like this color and (b) LOL

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 19/06/2026

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12/06/2026

Hundreds of strangers in Belfast working together. Doing shopping, providing accommodation, driving kids to school, people to hospital appointments. Have just been told of a woman close to us who hasn't left her house since Monday so we'll be sorting her out today and getting her anything she needs

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

In saner times, I’d say sober well-planned and financed construction would be the better road. But given the environment, straight out opposition might be the only path to the better road.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Advice for people who've decided they'd rather have someone other than Platner win the primary: watch the polls, make your top-ranking choice whoever is in the lead (probably Mills), then make your honest preference after that. The same logic will eventually apply to the fight vs Collins.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/06/2026

This afternoon's reflection on AI and the dying internet.

"Our generation created the most transformative information technology since the printing press (if not the invention of writing itself) and within the span of three decades we have already found a way to destroy the vast public value it provides."

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

More repairable intentional-tech cars next.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

My most disappointing moments on parasocial media might be when I've seen follows I respect & learn from making a rarer iffy argument, have politely engaged w the best counterargument I could make figuring one of us would learn something, & just got blocked instead. A following can be a cell.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

But what about that one point Josh forgot about, did Platner prove that point?

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

“The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary.” -Ursula K. Le Guin

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A month later, I’ve realized half the problem with my “move most non mutuals from follow to lists” plan is the shallow drink-from-app-firehose habits I’ve let apps like this train me into. (the other half is that bsky makes it harder by not showing “follows you” in your follow list)

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Experiment: move most non-mutuals from "follow" to lists.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Statesmen take their time, do their homework, and try to do right by everybody. People who want to move fast and break things should stay away from public office.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 25/07/2025

We said release the files not the accomplices, idiot.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The Department of Justice is pretending it needed to talk to notorious liar Ghislaine Maxwell to know the truth about Jeffrey Epstein, when it is concealing thousands of documents about him that don’t lie. It’s a sick farce.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

A good pairing with the first reply: “You won't find life in your books and stories, Bilbo baggins. Life happens out there, in the world."

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Alt U.S. Department of Labor @alt-dol.altgov.info · 09/04/2025

If anyone out there still thought DOGE was "volunteering," game's up. Taxpayers deserve to know how much $$$ the technofeudalists forced on DOL are being paid to steal sensitive data, fire federal workers and dismantle critical public services. This is huge - and disgusting.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 13/03/2025

This is Lola. She needs to be tucked in for bedtime, but has very tiny arms. So you can see why this is an emergency. 12/10

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Sounds like a serious due process violation.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

If you experience a problem w/ social security, go straight to the office of your congressional reps & senators. They should be ready to help partly because they work for you, but also because the Rs are cooperating w/ the Trump admin to actively damage social security (among other public services).

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Lately I've been feeling bad about some of my personal security lapses, but I'm not "accidentally looping in journalists on foreign policy / military operations" bad.

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Tom Merrill @saltlaketom.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

An accurate first hand accounting of last night’s Maloy-Kennedy town hall. Wherein, @dcharrison.bsky.social admits he did some booing.

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