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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 7h
Bring Wendy back you cowards.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6h
So my friend @wendyxu.bsky.social has been suspended, no reason given, and thus can't promote her popular procreate brush for colored pencils on here. Maybe we can help her out. ko-fi.com/s/cef920b108
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Colored Pencil (procreate only) - Wendy's Ko-fi Shop
I've spent the summer painting with acrylic marker brushes and using colored pencil and ofc when I went back to my tablet none of the pencil brushes I...
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 6h
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10h
rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived
Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 7h
Source: news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 7h
Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).
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"“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”"

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 05/10/2026
the Slow Fourier Transform movement encouraging bespoke hand-processed audio
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026
Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8
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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 05/10/2026
Watership. Down.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 30/09/2026
kinda feel like it should be a bigger news story that ceo of xbox is talking openly about how her chief strategist (and snow crash fanfic writer), matthew ball, has been grooming select journalists to control the media narrative around xbox
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Andrew @digitalcantina.com · 30/09/2026
One of the best to ever do it is putting it out there for indies. Go get it!!
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WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 27/09/2026
A plague o’ both your FUCKING houses!
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 26/09/2026
I tire of “Dudes rock” posts, I wanna see ROCK DUDES!!!
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WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 26/09/2026
What do I need to do to make macOS and iOS stop composing reply suggestions in messages? They suck sour frog ass, and I'm never going to use them. They don't sound like things I'd write, and even if they did, the *presumption*
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
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The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/09/2026
VERY IMPORTANT NEWS: It’s Fat Bear Week! I do love a fat bear 🐻 explore.org/fat-bear-week
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Fat Bear Week 2026 - Explore.org
Explore.org is the world's leading philanthropic live nature cam network and documentary film channel. Our mission is to champion the selfless acts of others, create a portal into the soul of humanity...
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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm over calls to "normalize" behaviors. Who wants to be normal? AI's "not going anywhere?" Until you drop kick it outta your life with no regrets. Be weird. Hang out with librarians. #EduSky #AIRefusal www.librarian.net/notoai/
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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI
One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides "what is taking up all my cloud storage?") is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don't want it. ...
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pretty BOO!!!👻👻🎃🎃😈😈🎃👻!!!😈g @inyourculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
unironically this is a harbinger of our cultural victory
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WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 20/09/2026
The rest of the site is full of this kind of joke and I am so glad to know about it.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 19/09/2026
Oh my god people, it’s called an Oboe
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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Right now you can proactively be developing a new kind of music specifically for playing in the abandoned data centers of the not too distant future.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.
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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 18/09/2026
Claude is making all of your otherwise nice web projects look like a fugly brown pair of cole haan oxfords
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WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 18/09/2026
@nikostratis.com “which is to say the Beck that feels like he made a bet with the devil that before he dies he will find a word that rhymes with orange buried in a pile of Game Boy sound chips” God DAMN but you can write!
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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New IRL Profession: Heavy Metal Friend Refer me to your shitty workplace. I'll do whatever it takes to get hired. Then I'll steal a few paychecks doing nothing but supporting you, even picking fights on your behalf. No need to pay me. Your employer will do that for you.
A "She protec" meme using Estelle Igni sprites.

It says "She protec / She attac / but mostly / She Metal as Heck"
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WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 18/09/2026
I knew a PhD who dressed as a clown, does that count?
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WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 18/09/2026
I had one, though knew him by their other name: Quaker Parrot. They are astonishingly loud (like conure loud), and ours was also mercurial, ill-tempered, and destructive, but at least he would also bite you for no reason. Ideal pet bird, honestly. Gets the full experience in one go.
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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal
A graphical asset in the shape of a cog. It contains the following text 'This developer assures that NO GEN AI' was used in this indie game
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Kathryn Salamander: Witches' Road or bust 🎃 @transsalamander.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trans Rights
Or Else
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have so many tech followers HIRE ME !!! You need somebody in media and community on product
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WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 17/09/2026
Quick reminder that the CEO of this company was garbage trash to a former writer that the company fired, and while he apologized for that incident, he almost immediately demonstrated that it wasn’t a sincere apology.
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WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 17/09/2026
Oh man. It’s so fun to see the original Space Station layout in this No Man’s Sky expedition.
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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 17/09/2026
a lot of folks are asking how someone can do something so "stupid" as hard coding a secret token, and i'm telling you that you are holding software developers and companies on way too high a pedestal if you still think there's secure, quality code being sent out into the world
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026
HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.
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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The most exhausting part of making a game is definitely the part where you have to make the game
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If God is gonna convert a person then God is gonna convert a person. What hubris of us to think we should go about harassing people into a faith. A person's relationship with the divine is between them and the divine and unless they ask you to get involved, you stay the hell out of it.
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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Never would have guessed the country would anoint an idiot whistleblower who self-proclaims that Sam Altman and kin are seers with special brains. Spread this while it's at peak traction. These are the people building this techno-dystopia. Cult exposure is the most visceral tool we've had yet.
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WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 15/09/2026
Don’t update to Apple OSes 27 if you want to retain control over Apple Intelligence shit.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/09/2026
When we talk about how science is broken, maybe at least consider how a huge collaboration measured the ripples in spacetime resulting the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion light years away, as counterweight the guy who had to fake his data to show that people who procrastinate fall behind.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread)
A black-and-white photograph of artist & writer David Wojnarowicz, with added elements including red and yellow flames along the right side of his body, and maps over his face and neckA photo of artist David Wojnarowicz wearing a jacket; on the back is a pink triangle and the legend, "If I die of AIDS-forget burial-just drop my body on the steps of the F.D.A."
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Here's what I actually think these incidents reveal (instead of a rogue AI terminator situation): Much of the infra we expect to be hardened is actually being held together by glue and popsicle sticks.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Can we make "1000s of lesswrong posts" a meme like "30-50 feral hogs" or "large boulder the size of a small boulder"?
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Is There a Fishing Minigame? @fishingminigames.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This will probably be my last time posting this, at least for a few days, but I would love if y'all checked out my new game! It genuinely is the best game I've written yet and, if it's received well, I'm planning on improving it once the jam is done! #ttrpg #ttrpgdev #indiegame #indiedev
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ah, dammit. Wondered how they were gonna pull through. Guess... not. (their last release was Moss non-VR, redesigned/ported for normal non-VR gaming, and it did eh, ok? ish? but not at their scale store.steampowered.com/app/3914860/...)
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Save 20% on Moss: The Forgotten Relic on Steam
Moss: The Forgotten Relic is an emotional and atmospheric adventure set in the pages of a living storybook, brimming with myth and ancient magic. Guide a tiny but determined hero on a heartfelt journe...
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Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.org · 11/09/2026
VeriTracks (215.29 MB) VeriTracks is a web-based electronic monitoring, supervision and management platform used to track offenders in real-time with GPS, RF, and alcohol monitoring devices. ddosecrets.org/article/veri... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets
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VeriTracks - Distributed Denial of Secrets
VeriTracks is a web-based electronic monitoring, supervision and management platform used to track offenders in real-time with GPS, RF, and alcohol monitoring devices. The data includes records of…
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