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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 6h

I’ve tried commenting out fields before, especially if it’s a Send or Sync issue.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 10h

I thought at first this was about Framework giving free devices for device compat testing to Omarchy, as they would any other Linux distro.

This appears to go FAR FAR FAR beyond that.

Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 15h

The Framework forums thread got insanely unwieldy, so I wrote up a (somewhat shorter) summary post of the situation

crimier.github.io/posts/Framew...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16h

It is October 2028. The Seattle Mariners and Detroit Tigers are still playing the divisional round playoff game that began in 2025. The rest of the MLB decided to continue on without them and start a whole new league.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 1d

For every 1 unethical thing you do, you can pay us money to do 1 ethical thing, or to not do 1 unethical thing we were going to do

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 1d

Human Rights Watch not actually in the business of selling human rights offsets

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 1d

We're currently in the biggest game of the Dollar Auction ever created. Each new frontier model represents a bid, whose cost is paid for at the time that it is trained. But the AI market is a most-capable winner-take-most game.

new post by @talor.computer ft me: taloranderson.com/blog/ai-valu...

OpenAI's inflated valuation, as I understand it - Talor Anderson

Blog post: OpenAI's inflated valuation, as I understand it

taloranderson.com

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 1d

It has one benefit on iOS, if you want to listen to videos you can start a video, lock the phone, then press play quickly on the lock screen and it will keep playing, without subscribing to the premium YT thing

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 1d

EZ spewing slop like an LLM

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 1d

I'll comment! This is a damning admission of a lack of quality control on your own product. I do not trust an 18,000 word article you wrote at a pace above 2,500 words an hour!

conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 1d

no comment!

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André Arko @indirect.io · 1d

Ruby Central said some really concerning things today. I don’t think they’re representing the situation accurately. andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/t...

The RubyGems “security incident”

Ruby Central posted an extremely concerning “Incident Response Timeline” today, in which they make a number of exaggerated or purely misleading claims. Here’s my effort to set the record straight. Fir...

andre.arko.net

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 4d

Sure, it's still got its warts and limitations, but I am enormously impressed at the progress in the language itself, in the ecosystem, and in the standards and implementations. Just enormous complexity with so many implementations, deployment contexts, and users.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 4d

I've been a mostly-Rust guy for 10 years, but every time I check back in on JS I am amazed at how much easier so much of it is.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 4d

JavaScript has gotten so much better than when I started back in 2005, it's amazing

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 4d

It can only good happen

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nrc @ncameron.org · 4d

I have availability for Rust consulting or coaching. More details soon, and yep my website needs updating. But if you're considering adopting Rust, want your team to use Rust more effectively, or need a drop-in staff engineer, get in touch!

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 4d

The slow death of Bivens remedies is a travesty and sets the stage for wanton abuse of constitutional rights by federal officials

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 4d

Unfortunately the Supreme Court has for decades been chipping away at the ability for anyone to receive a remedy for violations of constitutional rights by federal officials

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 4d

Price of Rot confirmed $832

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puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 5d

The team formerly behind RubyGems has come together to launch a new gem server for the Ruby community!

gem.coop

I am *super* excited about this!

gem.coop

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 5d

Also, the "it's just a reaction meme" justification is nonsense that ignores the content of the meme and what it means in context.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 5d

Too real. This kind of toxicity is why I don't like /r/Dodgers

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 5d

This, basically

bsky.app/profile/sjsh...

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5d

no no no you don't understand. it wasn't a death threat. it was a *deniable* death threat. deniable!! why are you banning me!

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 5d

I'm not really familiar with Link. From comments reacting to the ban, he seems like he was generally doing good stuff. That said, he still made a post that looks a lot like a death threat or encouragement of violence against the CEO of the platform, which is disqualifying for keeping your account.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 5d

... yeah, having looked at the post in question, it definitely reads as a threat. Quote-replying to someone's post from a thread about how they're being harassed, with a picture of someone else moments before they were killed and a comment about "consequences." I mean, come on.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 7d

Visiting diplomat on Parks and Recreation, played by Fred Armisen, saying "believe it or not, straight to jail".

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