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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge

@histoftech.bsky.social

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Historian of technology and dad joke aficionado who lives with a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit. www.marhicks.com for writing & syllabi

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · Jan 4

Thus begins the #dadjoke thread for 2025 bsky.app/profile/hist...

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · Jan 2

Hey did I tell y’all what my New Year’s resolution is?

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 27m

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 4h

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13h

Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command.

The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other states—and, in at least one case, deploy the Guard from one state into another—is extremely dangerous.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1h

This lady has pancreatic cancer and is about to be evicted unless she can raise a few hundred more :(

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Donate to Shawn's Urgent Need for Housing Stability, organized by Shawn Kellum

Hi, my name is Shawn. First, please let me apologize for needing to create a n… Shawn Kellum needs your support for Shawn's Urgent Need for Housing Stability

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 11h

Realizing that part of the reason universities’ uncritical pushing AI into everything bothers me is that it is partly related to how little our institutions care about the humanities. Tech that might work in (some) fields does not need to be force fed to all of us. But who listens to us?

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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 7h

Flurry of H5N1 activity noted in commercial poultry, wild birds
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Flurry of H5N1 activity noted in commercial poultry, wild birds

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2h

I heard that "icy" is the easiest word to spell.

Looking at it now, I see why.

a group of penguins standing on top of a pile of ice .

Alt: a penguin on top of ice walks and then falls through

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2h

Just blocked someone for correcting my grammar

And it feeled so good

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2h

wait—which has the higher tolerance?🥲

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 7h

My daughter has a school assignment to write a scary story in just a few lines, and I showed her this from Clickhole, which is some of the most efficient horror scripting I've ever read.

Clickhole headline: "Incredible! We Asked These Astronauts What It's Like to Be In Space"

Astronaut Barry Wilmore, pictured in an orange spacesuit, says "“You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.”

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

doomscroll break

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 5h

fleabag from the show fleabag looking horrified and offended (because she shags a hot priest)

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 10h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3h

lol i kind of love this

The Bride (aka Rain) I ❤️ the Monster @simplyrain.bsky.social · 1d

OMFG

Just saw a TikTok where a young person "discovered" pantyhose!

She says they are soft & make your legs look nice & keep your thighs from rubbing together & she can see why they were popular in the 1900s.

💀💀💀💀💀💀

Gonna go bury myself in the woods now.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4h

This is enough carbon-free energy to power maybe two thirds of Vegas btw

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

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Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4h

Yep. Same: ash.harvard.edu/resources/wa...

Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate – Ash Center

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4h

I mean, the ultra rich always benefit from crashes—they buy up depressed assets for super cheap. I think his comments are just a thinly veiled version of “this crash will help me more than hurt me.”

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 8h

tbh I think Microsoft is going to blink right before October 14, and if they don’t… well, that’s a very, very bad decision on their part.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4h

🥲

demi adejuyigbe @electrolemon
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sending tweets that pissed me off to the group chat like an ant taking poison bait back to its colony
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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4h

wow :(

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🫠

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4h

Truly want to print this whole thread out and tack it up on the hallway bulletin board🫠

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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 1d

A brown and dark gray bunny wearing a pink cowboy hat with a silver star sits on a plush purple blanket.

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Tifa | Sacred Ho🧘🏾‍♀️ @chicmojo.blacksky.app · 7h

Sperm from men older than 35 is linked to increased birth defects.

I know men like to think they’re exempt from that 🙂

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4h

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
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Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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