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Eric Schultz

@wwahammy.com
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FOSS and #DigitalAutonomy activist. Principal Software Engineer Software for Good. Engineering Lead CommitChange. Houdini Project Leader. Opinions are my own. Nonbinary. Cover photo from: t.co/7rVeNC

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 5h
they COULD design their app to make it actually serve the customer, with an easy “reorder” button that would duplicate the order exactly without error it would be: 1. utterly reliable 2. faster 3. cheaper so much “ai” is a sloppy patch for learned helplessness at the corporate level
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phylan @phylan.website · 21h
smoking that shit that makes me look like the live action Moe Szyslak
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Eric Schultz @wwahammy.com · 29/09/2026
I've now heard it all.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lost in the discourse about where Dems are is the fact Republicans know the anti-trans ads aren't helping them but, as Terry here openly admits, hurting trans people is all they have left. They'd use their dying breath to ruin one more trans kid's life.
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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.
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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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Eric Schultz @wwahammy.com · 29/09/2026
OMFG you are not on message if you are talking about trans anything. You need to yell and scream and point at the price of gas every moment of every day. Affordability is all people care about. It is THE issue. Donors should demand their money back because this guy is burning it.
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Eric Schultz @wwahammy.com · 29/09/2026
It's a good idea to adjust our funding system for higher education based on the observation that many student loans don't make sense financially to the individual. The correct policy though is to actually fund universities, not punish people for learning important things that aren't lucrative.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
I regret to inform you all that Bernie Sanders is in fact taking meetings with noted rationalist wacko Eliezer Yudkowsky over what AI regulations should look like. x.com/SenSanders/s...
Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders
Will Al become smarter than humans?
If so, is humanity in danger?
I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading Al experts that question.
Here's what they had to say:
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The Als are much, much, much more powerful.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
@ESYudkowsky • Mar 4
My thanks to Senator Sanders; as to other legislators on all sides of any political aisle, and to any human being on Earth who now stands
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 28/09/2026
I hope we keep writing docs for people who want to understand and build things without using AI.
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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I love how the dems that want to throw trans people under the bus are all like "we need to win moderates outside the coasts" Meanwhile the biggest defenders of trans people are the governors of Kentucky, Minnesota, and Illinois
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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 28/09/2026
it's so frustrating how generic levothyroxine gets recalled almost every year bc of incorrect dosage/label. and thyroids take long as hell to adjust and these are taken daily and often forever. one recall really messed me up for a year and now i pay extra for brand name synthroid lol pisses me off
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What's a good way to visualize how the AI boom/bubble is propping up the economy? Ah, thanks.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.co
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New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life
Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.
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farce majeure @hongpong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
a gajillion dollar company released a giant AI product, which shifted many billions on the stock market, and it will just pack up and send the entire environment in runs in, to who ever asks for that. this is the engineering going on the market right now. and how logically markets react to it
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 16/09/2026
lady: our data center flexes demand to protect the grid and ratepayers!

guy: how

lady: we use AI to shift load!

guy: how

lady: we run diesel generators when prices spike

guy: thank you
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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🦉 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This story of Babel is bullshit because every construction site in chicago has guys who only speak polish, guys who only speak spanish, and guys who only speak English, and they can still finish the building
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i hate that elon musk is the antagonist of reality. it should be a skull faced muscleman in hot pants and he-man should constantly outsmart him
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Eric Schultz @wwahammy.com · 26/09/2026
To reinforce how rare I should be using LLMs, I always refer to them with coworkers as "the slopper". I accept that they may be a defensible but extremely problematic choice at times. But it's not a colleague, a person or an assistant: it's a slop generator.
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 26/09/2026
Average bluesky poster
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Eric Schultz @wwahammy.com · 26/09/2026
They've perfected the exonerative tense that police departments invented.
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i told him that if he threw trans kids under the bus that would kill him stone dead with Bluesky and he indicated that wouldn't be a problem that will arise
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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dril tweet reading "if you ask me this election could end about 100 different ways:
1) trump gets 0% of the vote
2) trump gets 1% of the vote
3) trump gets 2% o"
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
My (still relevant) old motto: Meta is full of shit.
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Meta's new motto: we care about privacy
Meta is making privacy a centerpiece of its AI reboot.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/09/2026
Age verification is an egregious privacy violation, an inexcusable form of surveillance, and… it’s also voodoo bullshit that doesn’t work. It’s one of the reasons I’m proudest to support @eff.org, who have been leading the fight against the horrible practice for years: www.eff.org/issues/age-v...
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Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “ag...
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this killed me
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Eric Schultz @wwahammy.com · 25/09/2026
The NFLPA needs to file a grievance on Jordan Love's part. That's an unsafe work environment
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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Happy one year anniversary to this banger tweet that got so ridiculously blown out of proportion that it got us 70k wishlists in like a day
screenshot of a twitter exchange, dated Sept 23 2024: 

@MaliceDaFirenze: We're making a game where you play a courier rier in 13th century Mongolia. No combat, just you, the horse(s) you've tamed, bred and trained and the vast wilderness. Would you play this? (10k replies, 11k reposts, 131k likes)

@doodlewhale: I would love to, as long as it can avoid woke DEI nonsense which appears unlikely as you have pronouns in your bio (shrug emoji) (337 replies, 124 reposts, 10k likes)

@MaliceDaFirenze: For every comment like this, I will add one extra pronoun to the game. (2k replies, 700 reposts, 19k likes)
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Eric Schultz @wwahammy.com · 25/09/2026
Skeletor is part of the problem but it's pretty terrible messaging for Dems to talk about "boys in girl sports" when all they need to do is point at the price of gas every damn day.
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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Completely dog brained strategy. Not only do you alienate your base but Anyone who votes based off their transphobia already thinks Talarico and all Dems want to force mandatory transitions on every American. You’ll never win them over and you shouldn’t even try
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Eric Schultz @wwahammy.com · 25/09/2026
Hey @jamestalarico.bsky.social: I still want my $110 back.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I must emphasize that I, an extremely online and politically active person, had barely heard of this man before this year. The outrage about him is entirely manufactured by a right wing that needs enemies to foam at the mouth about
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 25/09/2026
If you heard Nicolas Cage's John Madden impression and weren't told it was a John Madden impression it would take you a really really really long time to guess that's what it's supposed to be
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
wow. weird. you mean making republicans vote on things, even when the good side loses, generates news coverage and frames the story in the way that democrats want? wow. weird. obviously better to say "the votes aren't there" and never try, right? yep. yep. yep. yep.
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Eric Schultz @wwahammy.com · 25/09/2026
Well this has sucked. #Packers
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Glyph @glyph.im · 25/09/2026
New Blog: Who is open source about? blog.glyph.im/2026/09/who-is-open-s…
blog.glyph.im
Deciphering Glyph :: Who Is Open Source About?
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
call myself a single issue voter but keep changing the single issue for each question they ask
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evil maid @lenazun.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
recognizing people I've met in one of the photos of the sex doomsday cult, and feeling a little offended I was never invited. I would have said no, of course, but it's always nice to be considered.
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 24/09/2026
OpenAI created autonomous hacking software and left it running for hours and days with no one watching
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is not responsible stewardship of a language or framework community to collectively invalidate the hard work of that same community and abdicate responsibility rather than providing a clear vision for the future.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can we call it apartheid now
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Eric Schultz @wwahammy.com · 24/09/2026
David Hamburger Helper was in peak form today.
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Eric Schultz @wwahammy.com · 23/09/2026
It's amazing at how money can protect you during a mental breakdown. People just go along with it if you're rich enough.
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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
DHH: “I don't need some woke Rails fork to blow up the community. I can do that all by myself!” 🤡 #RailsWorld #Ruby
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adarsh 🚲 @adarsh.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Once again it’s time to pay attention to who is posting about *still* attending #RailsWorld and noting this for future interactions. #Ruby #RubyOnRails
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Eric Schultz @wwahammy.com · 23/09/2026
Gas is $6.20 a gallon, no one fucking cares.
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 23/09/2026
[looks at the fashionable approaches to contemporary software development] yeah no I can't see any incredibly pointless bottlenecks or overheads, it must be the code monkeys don't type fast enough
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