RootWyrm
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Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Any mockery of real persons, living or dead, is intentional.
CTO of Antifa
More fun on Masto.
https://www.rootwyrm.com/
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RootWyrm
@rootwyrm.com
· Jun 15
Build software better, together
GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.
github.com
"Oh, but Bluesky's..."
Funded by fascist-funding crypto bros and run by people who demanded a service where Nazis could "coexist" with decent human beings, but pretend they don't use algorithms or automod for using the word 'assholes'? Of course I have receipts.
github.com/search?q=rep...
Funded by fascist-funding crypto bros and run by people who demanded a service where Nazis could "coexist" with decent human beings, but pretend they don't use algorithms or automod for using the word 'assholes'? Of course I have receipts.
github.com/search?q=rep...
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Reports of Steve Bannon being a racist shitbag are capitalist propaganda intended to prop up America’s genocidal military, apparently.
Noam Chomsky loves the taste of boot, as long as it's edgy and contrarian enough.
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Reports of Steve Bannon being a racist shitbag are capitalist propaganda intended to prop up America’s genocidal military, apparently.
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"According to four people familiar with the situation, the errors have alarmed senior newsroom leaders who have acknowledged in an internal Slack channel that the product's output is not living up to the paper's standards."
Fake News! The @washingtonpost.com no longer HAS any standards!
Fake News! The @washingtonpost.com no longer HAS any standards!
Washington Post's AI-Generated Podcasts Rife With Errors, Fictional Quotes - Slashdot
The Washington Post's top standards editor Thursday decried "frustrating" errors in its new AI-generated personalized podcasts, whose launch has been met with distress by its journalists. From a repor...
news.slashdot.org
December 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"According to four people familiar with the situation, the errors have alarmed senior newsroom leaders who have acknowledged in an internal Slack channel that the product's output is not living up to the paper's standards."
Fake News! The @washingtonpost.com no longer HAS any standards!
Fake News! The @washingtonpost.com no longer HAS any standards!
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Huge scandal, immediately impeachable. But of course in context of all his other crimes you just shrug
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Huge scandal, immediately impeachable. But of course in context of all his other crimes you just shrug
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Hey, fellow shredded-cheese gremlins: don't eat metal fragments in front of the fridge. www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
Shredded Cheese Sold Under Aldi, Target, Walmart, and Other Brands Recalled - Consumer Reports
Multiple brands of shredded mozzarella cheese and cheese blends have been recalled because they may contain metal fragments.
www.consumerreports.org
December 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Hey, fellow shredded-cheese gremlins: don't eat metal fragments in front of the fridge. www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
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If at first you don’t commit misconduct, try try again
BREAKING: For a second time in a week, a grand jury in Virginia has REFUSED to INDICT NY AG Letitia James .
99.6% of all cases presented to a federal grand jury result in an indictment.
The chances of the same case being brought to a grand jury and failing twice are about 1:40,000
99.6% of all cases presented to a federal grand jury result in an indictment.
The chances of the same case being brought to a grand jury and failing twice are about 1:40,000
December 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
If at first you don’t commit misconduct, try try again
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Journalistic malpractice and NYT headline writing, a sample.
The New York Times Spread Dangerous Health Disinformation, Erased It, Hopes You Don’t Notice
The New York Times aided the MAGA, anti-science FDA in its mission to undermine the public’s trust in life saving vaccines. Another example of editorial decisions undermining trust in the Grey Lady.
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Journalistic malpractice and NYT headline writing, a sample.
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New pardon candidate incoming! www.wired.com/story/do-kwo...
Crypto Magnate Do Kwon Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison
The founder of Terraform Labs was sentenced today for lying about “experimental” coins that blew a $40 billion hole in the crypto economy.
www.wired.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
New pardon candidate incoming! www.wired.com/story/do-kwo...
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When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
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Good piece about some very bad editorials, which I find more depressing than enraging. They have no apparent audience (besides Bezos) and lack basic fluency in the legal concepts they discuss. Both asinine and utterly pointless. Can someone who understands the law at least write them?
It is hard to overstate how shallow and embarrassing the Washington Post Editorial Board's analysis is whenver it tries to write about the law. They don't make arguments so much as they crank out half-assed jumbles of buzzwords that they hope will make Jeff Bezos happy. Don't care for it at all!
The Washington Post Editorial Board Is Spectacularly Awful at Legal Analysis
Since Bezos overhauled the board earlier this year, it has been very good at cranking out billionaire-friendly propaganda. It is quite bad at everything else.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Good piece about some very bad editorials, which I find more depressing than enraging. They have no apparent audience (besides Bezos) and lack basic fluency in the legal concepts they discuss. Both asinine and utterly pointless. Can someone who understands the law at least write them?
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I am a comfortable, influential PhD and published author and broadcaster, and I don’t understand why people of color buying a snack at Cinnabon don’t just reason with the person shouting racial slurs at them, for the good of World Socialism.
Today in the Atlantic
Today in the Atlantic
December 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I am a comfortable, influential PhD and published author and broadcaster, and I don’t understand why people of color buying a snack at Cinnabon don’t just reason with the person shouting racial slurs at them, for the good of World Socialism.
Today in the Atlantic
Today in the Atlantic
So the Heritage Foundation is now mailing out misleading 'secured ballots' that are surveys which they DEMAND you mail back stating you support mass deportation of anyone not white or Christian. And threatening prosecution of local officials AND YOU PERSONALLY if you don't support Nazism.
December 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
So the Heritage Foundation is now mailing out misleading 'secured ballots' that are surveys which they DEMAND you mail back stating you support mass deportation of anyone not white or Christian. And threatening prosecution of local officials AND YOU PERSONALLY if you don't support Nazism.
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It is not! A “scrivener’s error” is for things like fixing typos or very minor non-material errors, not retroactively adding a deportation order that doesn’t current exist!
Is "correcting" a previous order like this a real thing?
December 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
It is not! A “scrivener’s error” is for things like fixing typos or very minor non-material errors, not retroactively adding a deportation order that doesn’t current exist!
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IT IS TIME FOR ME TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT MY FAVORITE HOMETOWN DISASTER ON @wtyppod.bsky.social
new EPISODE about SIDEWALKS catching FIRE
December 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
IT IS TIME FOR ME TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT MY FAVORITE HOMETOWN DISASTER ON @wtyppod.bsky.social
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It isn't NEARLY brutal enough.
December 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It isn't NEARLY brutal enough.
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programmers go an entire career without building yet another goddamn issue tracker challenge
December 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
programmers go an entire career without building yet another goddamn issue tracker challenge
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all i'm saying is that there were better options
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
all i'm saying is that there were better options
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The term that Temu Nosferatu is groping for is “race traitors.”
Trumpists are the absolute scum of the earth.
Trumpists are the absolute scum of the earth.
“…And yet there are Republican lawmakers who eagerly facilitate the disinheritance of their own children.”
That right there is some dark, disturbing shit.
That right there is some dark, disturbing shit.
December 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The term that Temu Nosferatu is groping for is “race traitors.”
Trumpists are the absolute scum of the earth.
Trumpists are the absolute scum of the earth.
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This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
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ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers
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Birthright citizenship under the common law, a thread:
I have done this many times on social media, in print, and in media interviews, but not to be accused of taking others’ not seriously enough, by plainly stating the law and history of birthright citizenship, I’m taking the time here:
I have done this many times on social media, in print, and in media interviews, but not to be accused of taking others’ not seriously enough, by plainly stating the law and history of birthright citizenship, I’m taking the time here:
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Birthright citizenship under the common law, a thread:
I have done this many times on social media, in print, and in media interviews, but not to be accused of taking others’ not seriously enough, by plainly stating the law and history of birthright citizenship, I’m taking the time here:
I have done this many times on social media, in print, and in media interviews, but not to be accused of taking others’ not seriously enough, by plainly stating the law and history of birthright citizenship, I’m taking the time here:
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#RadRide at auction today! We haven't had any performance cars as of late, so it's high time to change that with this 98 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution GSR V! Long name, but with a turbo upfront & 4WD underneath driven by a 5-speed stick, you can feel the rally heritage! DM for interest or to bid! #JDM
December 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
#RadRide at auction today! We haven't had any performance cars as of late, so it's high time to change that with this 98 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution GSR V! Long name, but with a turbo upfront & 4WD underneath driven by a 5-speed stick, you can feel the rally heritage! DM for interest or to bid! #JDM
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would all these people be talking about the Metaverse if there wasn't a payoff? multiple banks and analysts think it's a $4 trillion industry!
these metaverse skeptics are just technophobes, they need to take a more moderate view
these metaverse skeptics are just technophobes, they need to take a more moderate view
December 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
would all these people be talking about the Metaverse if there wasn't a payoff? multiple banks and analysts think it's a $4 trillion industry!
these metaverse skeptics are just technophobes, they need to take a more moderate view
these metaverse skeptics are just technophobes, they need to take a more moderate view
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