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lena @lenazun.bsky.social · 1d

it can’t be good for our fragile brains to be asking “is this real?” at everything we see

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 1d

Millennials were too young to see the subprime mortgage crisis coming.

Is this what it felt like?

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Chris MacQuarrie @cmacquar.bsky.social · 1d

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 21h

unsubscribed with extreme prejudice from a newsletter that migrated from buttondown TO substack in the year of our lord 2025. I have some sympathy for folks who started on substack years ago and haven’t pulled the trigger on leaving, but going there on purpose???? now???? peace be with you I’m out.

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · Jul 22

and it seems like this intellectual tradition, the thinking about programming as a craft, and considering longevity, and outcomes (especially negative ones), has been replaced with nothing but tool choice

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · Jul 22

these are essays that were 30+ years old, then, but still fresh (and still are)

bc it’s about thinking about programming as a process and a tool

programming was an intellectual tradition not just a job

of which there seems very little today

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · Jul 22

learning to program in the late 90s and early 00s, you’d inevitably run across classic works like Goto Considered Harmful and No Silver Bullet, even if you weren’t particularly bookish, and there was tons of discourse about HCI as well, all grounded in decades of research

i’m afraid that’s all gone

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · Jul 22

these are essays that were 30+ years old, then, but still fresh (and still are)

bc it’s about thinking about programming as a process and a tool

programming was an intellectual tradition not just a job

of which there seems very little today

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · Jul 22

learning to program in the late 90s and early 00s, you’d inevitably run across classic works like Goto Considered Harmful and No Silver Bullet, even if you weren’t particularly bookish, and there was tons of discourse about HCI as well, all grounded in decades of research

i’m afraid that’s all gone

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

I agree with everything @dhnexon.bsky.social says in this post about where we’re at with the American Republic today and where we must go from here:

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...

The State of the Republic is Grim - Lawyers, Guns & Money

If you’re on Bluesky and follow me, you’ve probably seen that I’m writing threads that really should be the basis for posts at LGM. You’ve also likely gotten a bead on where I am these days. Here’s a ...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 16h

I *love* this newsletter.

Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 21h

buttondown.com/perfectsente... this week in sentences: sand, surprise, dismay, bilge, as with much, gestures, legacy, anti-capitalist, Pikachu, vaporware, perhaps, investigation, enough gravy, butt-drag, characters, meddling

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 13h

Uncharismatic gigawatt-scale datacenters

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 10h

Do y’all know how violent police usually are to normal ppl? Great thread 🪡

alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 19h

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 10h

THIS

alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 19h

And this leads to one thing, among many, that scares me a lot now: Things were already very bad on this front, but the unhinged gestapo tactics of ICE grant enormous power to predators across society in positions of power to prey upon vulnerable people: employers, abusers, etc.

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Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca · 3d

Love it! 😄

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 3d

Or, hear me out, the provinces need to step up and do their fucking jobs and fund their own services properly. They are not helpless. They can raise their own revenues.

The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 3d

Canadians could be facing a “perfect storm” in mental health challenges due to insufficient supports and a trend of growing economic stressors—which will need to be addressed through greater federal funding.

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 3d

I keep saying: the corruption of the Supreme Court is the biggest problem in the collapse of the republic

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 3d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Rick Downer @rkdowner.bsky.social · 4d

$A flow chart with a bubble that asks "Do I need AI?" There is only one path out of the bubble and it leads to a box that says "No" It's really a poor flowchart, because the question should be in a decision diamond and it should lead to an end state oval labeled "No," but it's an internet meme so what do you want ¯\_(ツ)_/¯$

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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · 3d

NEW An EPA report found that PFNA, a chemical in the drinking water of some 26M people, interferes with development and likely causes liver problems & male reproductive harms. The report was done in April, scientists told me. But the agency hasn't released it

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

www.propublica.org

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 4d

Bring back the Dewey Decimal system

a cartoon of a man with the words to the library on the bottom

ALT: a cartoon of a man with the words to the library on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 4d

We need to go back to doing things the old way like looking up shit in a library because this tech will track you down and implicate you
Another reason not to use ChatGPT

Megan Gray @megangray.bsky.social · 4d

Police arrest man based on his ChatGPT prompts. Did they issue a warrant to OpenAI, did company give notice to the accused? How was the prompt “found?”

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 4d

"What is needed now is not more big ideas or breakthrough products. It is repair. Design as repair means paying attention to what is already in motion." - @ronbronson.com

blog.ronbronson.com/design-as-re...

Design As Repair - Ron Bronson | Ron Bronson

Note: These are the prepared remarks I wrote for my talk at IxDA Oslo. In the end, I spoke more extemporaneously, but I thought at least I could

blog.ronbronson.com

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Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca · 3d

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 4d

time relates to quality of relationships with each other, and with the land. inefficiency can create unexpected and welcome moments for building collectives. these themes can inform tech organizing and advocacy efforts.

biancawylie.medium.com/tech-isnt-th...

tech isn’t the future it’s just capitalism faster

responding with slowness in relations

biancawylie.medium.com

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 4d

a lot of people in a range of sectors are looking for permission to slow down tech adoption, but are scared that they're going to miss out or be at a disadvantage if they do so. there are structured ways to approach this problem.

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 4d

www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...

In a list of the Office of Personnel
Management director's priorities for the federal workforce, technology is "number one, two and three."

"We have a real, acute shortage of people who have what I would call very cutting-edge, modern tech skills," said Scott Kupor, director of the government's personnel agency.

A man dressed in a hot dog suit, saying “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.”

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Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca · 4d

All of these are, uh, very on point.

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 4d

NYT Opinion headlines as Culture ship names:

GOU Make No Mistake About Where We Are (28 Sep)

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