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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 5h

I 100% agree, but it is crazy that so many are willing and not being taken up on it.

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Tektite Migration Service by Blacksky @tektite.cc · 7h

tektite.cc updated!

- Improved handle & PDS resolution that uses @bad-example.com's slingshot service
- and a tweak to improve memory management

Thank you @baileytownsend.dev for pointing out this slingshot feature. This resolves a pesky corner case issue with some custom domain handles + CORS

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h

fucking WOOF

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5h

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms

The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

they can see the polling

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 14h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Bailey Townsend 🦀 @baileytownsend.dev · 11h

Don’t forget about me and @psingletary.com yap session tonight

AT Proto Calls : Bailey Townsend - PDSMoover (and More!)

Dev, Power Users, and Generally inquisitive folks get a completely unprofessionally amateur interview, Just as silly and irreverent as Bluesky social app Bailey & I will be on a Zoom call and I ....

smokesignal.events

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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dan @danabra.mov · 5h

new feature in @typelex/[email protected]:

"externals"

namespaces tagged with @external are assumed to be coming from somewhere else (like JSON in your lexicons/ folder)

typelex wont't try to emit them in the output, but it will assume that each of these things exists (and won't error on them)

@external
namespace com.atproto.label.defs {
model SelfLabels { }
}

@external
namespace com.atproto.repo.strongRef {
model Main { }
}

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nooki @nooki.me · 18h

(1/4) I'm soft launching nooki.me to get some early traction and feedback on what to improve. Excited to see how this platform grows!

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 9h

The DOJ retaliating against the president’s enemies seems like the kind of scandal that should lead to the president’s impeachment and the disbarment of the U.S. attorney involved.

apnews.com/article/leti...

New York Attorney General Letitia James charged in fraud case after pressure campaign by Trump

New York Attorney General Letitia James was charged Thursday as part of a mortgage fraud investigation aggressively pushed by the Trump administration.

apnews.com

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Melissa Reynolds @melkatrey.bsky.social · 15h

I just keep coming back to this, the most obvious lacunae in every conversation about “incorporating AI” into our classrooms: no one—literally NO ONE—can explain how it improves the work of learning & knowledge-making. There is, in fact, overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

This whole thread.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 20h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 9h

"does the president know what is real and what is not" is a legitimate question that should probably get asked a lot more

Portland Is Burning on the Only Screens That Matter

Welcome to my relaunched newsletter, with independent writing and reporting on science, politics, and policy. Read more about it here, and please subscribe at the bottom of this post to support this w...

www.gravityisgone.com

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dan @danabra.mov · 9h

i wrote a post about @tom.sherman.is's lpm which i think more people should know about

how to manage your AT Lexicons with lpm

underreacted.leaflet.pub

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

drake, amazingly, still finding brand new ways to lose to kendrick lamar

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11h

NEW: Federal judge dismisses Drake's defamation case against Kendrick Lamar storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The issue in this case is whether "Not Like Us" can reasonably be understood to convey as a factual matter that Drake is a pedophile or that he has engaged in sexual relations with minors. In light of the overall context in which the statements in the Recording were made, the Court holds that it cannot.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 9h

Seems bad!

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 13h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 9h

I do think it's sort of crazy that workers are saying 'you can pay us less and not pay for an office' and companies are saying no. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

How Much Pay Will Workers Sacrifice for Remote Work?

A new study of tech workers offers an answer: quite a lot.

www.wsj.com

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 9h

«"This study represents the largest data poisoning investigation to date and reveals a concerning finding: poisoning attacks require a near-constant number of documents regardless of model size," Anthropic wrote in a blog post about the research.»

AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents

Anthropic study suggests “poison” training attacks don’t scale with model size.

arstechnica.com

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 10h

They don’t want it to snap back to normal. They want this to be the normal and no one is stopping them .

They are hoping they can keep a racial hierarchy and unevenness for at least the rest of our lives

And no one is actively saying they will stop them

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 10h

Oh for sure, I meant (sorry for lack of clarity there) no real stated reason. They are def being racist, suppressing the Epstein files, or both. It shows what a huge lie it is, this idea that the line GOP are somehow going to snap back to "normal" if we get post Trump.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 10h

Among the many insane breeches of baseline normal reality for American politics this one should be especially notable because it isn't just the executive branch doing an insane thing, this is line GOP in the House straight up refusing to swear in a duly elected official for no real reason

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 10h

This is insane www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Column | Congresswoman-in-limbo Adelita Grijalva on the dilemma she faces

Democratic Rep. Grijalva won her special election more than two weeks ago, but House Republicans refuse to swear her into office.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 13h

Cuomo's unfavorables are through the roof.

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Michael Scally @fizzvstheworld.bsky.social · 14h

Bro's gonna walk because American Fascists just couldn't stop tweeting about it and posting perp-walk selfies for clout...

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 14h

NEW: The NY State Dept. of Transportation announced that it would not build a "traffic diversion" structure — essentially a highway expansion, according to critics — when it repairs an elevated section of the Cross Bronx Expressway. buff.ly/hV6ujZf

State DOT Scraps Cross Bronx Expansion Road On Highway Repair Plan - Streetsblog New York City

The state Department of Transportation will not build a "traffic diversion" structure next to the Cross Bronx Expressway — a highway expansion project that Streetsblog exposed.

nyc.streetsblog.org

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 14h

Ugh is there anything worse then listening to a Zoom recording, hearing a voice, wondering who it is, and then realizing that it is you.

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