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Roger "Device Hoarder" Braunstein
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Curious person learning to be chill with being bad at things. Made some fun stuff like a multicart for the Suzuki Q-chord and a flashcart for Casio Loopy. 🇨🇦 Lives on an island on the west coast of Canada
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Roger "Device Hoarder" Braunstein @partlyhuman.com · Apr 21
I'm delighted to announce my English translation of Puppy Love Story on Casio Loopy, a visual novel penned by Kenji Terada. You can play on real hardware with a Floopy Drive, or emulate with LoopyMSE. I translated the manual as a little bonus too! Prepatched available at archive.org/details/pupp...
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kathleenneeley.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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goodnews.computer
you don't have to use the other website. you can just stop. it is literally that easy. you don't even have to use THIS website! imagine, being free from website
January 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
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ICE slipping on ice
January 12, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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f4mi.bsky.social
Stanford researchers just managed to prove how you can easily extract near-verbatim dumps of books from the training data of production LLMs by simply asking them to do that in a very specific way LMAO I can smell lawsuits coming

arxiv.org/pdf/2601.026...
January 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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mrdanzak.com
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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mmitchell.bsky.social
Life situations are bleak right now for a lot of people. In tech, the "Venn Diagram" of (1) positive work and (2) making enough money to support your family is increasingly non-overlapping. We all do what we can.
This image has been living in my mind rent-free for months.
Tech Venn Diagram Two circles, one says "Doing work that contributes beneficially to society."; the other says "Making enough income to support a family."
October 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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katie-drummond.bsky.social
Hey! @wired.com is doing a bunch of hiring. Here we go with a thread of five great jobs, with a few more coming shortly:

1) We are hiring a senior editor for our science desk, which means you get to work with geniuses like @timmarchman.bsky.social @mollytaft.com and @emilymullin.bsky.social
Senior Editor, Science
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
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January 14, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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violanorth.bsky.social
Don Quixote-ass headline
Donald Trump Suffers Legal Blow in His War Against Windmills
January 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country
January 14, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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January 13, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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ohpoorpup.bsky.social
On Cinema is always like four steps ahead of reality
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d
Update — Here is what the new apparent CBS News segment "Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil" may look like:
January 13, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'

www.rawstory.com/ice-agents-d...
Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach fo...
www.rawstory.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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ziibiing.com
just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday
Eyewitness account: Good morning, My name is Brandon Siguenza, and l am a US citizen from Minneapolis. Yesterday, while doing legal observation, ICE stopped their cars to harass my friend and me. They sprayed pepper spray into the vent of our vehicle. We held our hands in the air and told them we were not obstructing, that the car was in park and they were free to drive forward and away. There was no active immigration raid. They returned to their cars, and drove forward a bit, then decided to stop again. They surrounded us, smashed the windows of our car, opened the doors (they were unlocked), ripped my friend and I out of the car and arrested us on charges of obstruction. I was put in an unmarked SUV, separated from my friend. As I was put in the back seat an ICE agent tore the whistle off my neck and said "I'll be taking this, I might need it later." My phone was knocked out of my hand while being arrested. As we drove away I asked the driver and the passenger if they wouldn't mind buckling my seatbelt, as they were driving erratically. I was ignored. I asked them if I could have the handcuffs loosened, as I was losing circulation, and was told no. At one point the passenger realized his own driver's license was in the backseat next to mine, and tried to surreptitiously grab it without me seeing it. We were taken to the Whipple federal building, where I saw dozens of brown people being processed in an unheated garage. I was frisked, told of my charges, and saw buses and vans being prepped. I later learned that these were being filled with detainees and driven to the airport for deportation. As we were led in, I noticed that the building was very busy. I got the impression that one of the 2 agents bringing me around was being trained. At multiple points throughout my stay, government agents were unable to open doors, not sure where they were meant to be going, and overall confused and overwhelmed. They couldn't figure out how to use the building phones, or complai…
January 13, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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dannyvegito.bsky.social
living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be
January 12, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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Did you know that LoopyMSE, the Casio Loopy emulator, has printer emulation? You can customize what it runs on the exported image so here it's using Python to send the image to this bluetooth printer which can print full-colour 3"x2" stickers!
www.youtube.com/shorts/zzCtG...
January 11, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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yearprogress.bsky.social Year Progress Bot @yearprogress.bsky.social · 7d
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January 10, 2026 at 2:31 AM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
chickenshits www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
www.theverge.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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magicmooshka.bsky.social
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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tuta.com
Gmail welcoming the Gemini era?

That's it. Guide to disable Gemini everywhere: tuta.com/blog/how-to-...
Screenshot of Gmail tweet saying: Welcome to the Gemini era, reposting a Google tweet that explains the latest update on Gemini.
January 9, 2026 at 8:53 AM
partlyhuman.com
Some classic scenes from MSX Snatcher
Jamie Seed answers the videophone from her workplace, in lab coat in pixel art captured on a CRT Randam Hajile mugs for the camera, wearing Blade Runner reminiscent coat, in pixel art captured on a CRT The Snatcher who replaced Lisa Nielsen drops the act, revealing her facial injury showing her mechanical endoskeleton, smirks at Gillian, in pixel art displayed on a CRT The Snatcher who replaced Lisa Nielsen prepares to fire at Gillian from a weapon integrated into her endoskeleton mouth, rendered in pixel art on a CRT
January 9, 2026 at 6:46 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.
Chart showing "Detention Population, Among Those Arrested in the interior, by Criminal Record, May 2019 through January 27, 2026. There are three lines on the graph: prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. from 2019 through January 2025, "prior conviction" is by far the highest, followed by pending charges much lower down and "no criminal record" the lowest. During the Biden admin, very few people arrested by ICE in the interior and detained had no criminal record. Beginning in January 2025, all three lines jump, but the highest spike is among those with no criminal records. By September, that has become the single largest. Since that point, there are now thousands more people in detention with no criminal record than people with prior convictions.
January 9, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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Thank god I'm not with this Canadian bank, I'm with the one that launders money for organized crime.
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
January 9, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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letsgomathias.bsky.social
Holy fuck they actually did it
January 8, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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