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

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

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

Speakers always pick the topic, whether one has been assigned or not.

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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 · 18/07/2026

(This is also true for prosocial positions — for example an op might take an antiracist position that’s great but be so aggro about it people get put off plus another account can nutpick and look reasonable.)

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Especially with the ones your’re tangentially in - how sure are you they’re real people? Operatives/bots sometimes perform racism for demoralization ops (as well as grievance recruitment). Real people can get fighty/terrible too, but these days ”how do I know they’re real” is often worth asking.

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

It doesn't matter if it's wrong if it's the catechism, if it's repeated so early and often that enough people make that belief home and hold it dear as God himself.

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

He cares that he can scare people with it, he cares that he can use pretend enemies for power. Like McCarthy, he's never cared about what words actually mean, or about truth. And his "faith" is the same way.

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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 · 10/07/2026

And one of the best things about 2025.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Doesn’t really answer the question: who stayed out that was obviously competitive more competitive *circa 2025*? With justifications that aren’t so obviously monday morning quarterbacking? If Mills had never wanted to be there, she could have just stayed out. More likely she read the room.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Who stayed out that would have been more competitive? Blaming Schumer in general is a odd reflex. It's odd to blame *anyone* for preferring someone like Mills who has in fact won statewide office twice and made reasonable policy contributions. That's a decent candidate for a Senate seat.

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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 · 06/07/2026

I just want to find dogs that are low sodium and delicious (veggie or not).

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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 · 02/07/2026

I don't think it's at all surprising that prospective Trump voters might have no idea who currently controls congress.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Much like Del Taco or David S Pumpkins, if you think of it as its own thing, it has its points.

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

Just in time for a back-to-physical media movement?

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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 · 25/06/2026

Do you consider Switzerland, The Netherlands, Germany, and France industrialized? Because they have insurance companies and universal coverage. There’s an ACA shaped path there with subsidies and some admin changes. Single payer can work great too, but it’s not the only way.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

HR 3962 had the public option and was *passed* by the house in 2009. It’s nonsense to say that any dems killed it in the house. Obamacare subsidies *have* been gutted by Republicans, but that’s not the Dems fault.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Dozens of moderate Dems worked for a public option in the Senate. *1* (Leiberman) killed it because they didn't have more votes. A strong constituency might draw several lessons from that (or the benefits of the ACA) but "moderate dems killed it!" would not be the smartest one.

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

But what if THIS TIME is the time that running against the primary victor and loudly complaining about "the establishment" works out for everybody?

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

I was hoping they wouldn't be swear words, but these do seem to be profane times. Best McConnell lessons D minority senate leadership should learn from ? (Not sure lessons transfer to the House/Jeffries but maybe...)

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

I'm not sure I understand what options legislative minority leadership has beyond negotiation (hell, even legislative *majority* work involves a lot of negotiation), but I'm definitely open to hearing what people think minority leadership should be doing.

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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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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Thanks. Polis and Castro aren't people I'm very familiar with. (And I'm probably Klein-blind, but I think he either doesn't think of himself as partisan or wants to cultivate a non-partisan policy journalist image.)

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whyfly @whyfly.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It might be that I just don't know who most of the Democratic associated people are, but if Cory Booker's it or we're squinting to pretend Larry Summers counts, bipartisan might be the wrong term here?

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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 · 10/06/2026

did you swap cummings with Joyce or are thy really that alike?

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