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Developer, gamer, progmetal lover???
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nied.bsky.social
I'm going to say it plainly: Vote scolding is good, vote shaming is good. You should be reminded that the choices you make have consequences especially if those consequences are dire. If you don't like people pointing out what your decisions lead to, try making good decisions.
figgityfigs.bsky.social The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 24d
Pretty fucking wild to see people in January 2026 whining about “vote scolding” to defend people who couldn’t get off their ass to vote against Trump. Whatever they thought of Harris, they can never honestly answer whether the world would be better if she’d won (lol of fucking course it would).
January 4, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
January 10, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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dikkii.bsky.social
Tweet by Jatin @jatinkmalik The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible
January 10, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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rudbeckia.bsky.social
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
October 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...
Man, 34, is no longer blind after tooth is implanted in eye in 'crazy' surgery
Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like.
www.nbcboston.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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swiftonsecurity.com
QUIZ: Are You Even Good Enough to Have Imposter Syndrome?
August 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Breaking: Children Starving To Death In Gaza Were Actually Already Pretty Hungry Before This Started. Exclusive To The New York Times
July 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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brunodias.bsky.social
ah yeah the familiar whiplash of seeing a legacy media org cover something you're an actual expert in and realizing "oh if this is how badly they're fucking up this, how badly are they fucking up every other topic?"
bryantfrancis.me Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · Jul 29
This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...
Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation. After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.
July 29, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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scotnational.bsky.social
Tomorrow's front page 📰

Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland
July 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Finally got a chance to watch the @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social routine about Trump and Epstein that came out a few days ago.

I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell.

Give it a watch and share it.
Trump VS MAGA? The Epstein Crashout Explained
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
www.youtube.com
July 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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wired.com
You don’t have to accept the AI that Samsung offers you. www.wired.com/story/limit-...
How to Limit Galaxy AI to On-Device Processing—or Turn It Off Altogether
You don’t have to accept the AI that Samsung offers you.
www.wired.com
July 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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edzitron.com
www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
The Business Idiot's economy is one built for other Business Idiots. They can only make things that sell to companies that must always be in flux — which is the preferred environment of the Business Idiot, because if they're not perpetually starting new initiatives and jumping on new "innovations," they'd actually have to interact with the underlying production of the company. Does the software work? Sometimes! Do successful companies exist that sell like this? Sure! But look at today's software and tell me with a straight face that things feel good to use. And something like generative AI was inevitable: an industry claiming to change the world that never really does so, full of businesses that don’t function as businesses, full of flimflam and half-truths used to impress people who will likely never interact with it, or do so in only a passing way. By chasing out the people that actually build things in favour of the people that sell them, our economy is built on production puppetry — just like generative AI, and especially like ChatGPT.
July 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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headfallsoff.com
this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day
June 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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vanoreo.bsky.social
insane that mamdami is getting accused of being an antisemite with like 100x the furor of elon musk, who runs stormfront 2 and did a hitler salute on national television
June 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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maiamindel.bsky.social
"mommy why is Teheran a green crater" "well, this one video game about depression got a good review from an ex boyfriend..."
utopia-defer.red utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · Jun 22
They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
June 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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merlinogames.bsky.social
Oh

time.com/7295195/ai-c...
June 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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andydiggle.bsky.social
Quality manager John Barnett died in an “apparent suicide” during his deposition on the insane practices he saw and tried to stop at the Dreamliner assembly plant.

“It generally takes 10 or 12 years for assembly-line sloppiness to culminate in a plane crash…”

This plane was delivered 11 years ago.
One of the Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed
Whistleblowers always warned that passengers would pay a price for Boeing’s tyrannical corner-cutting, especially with the planes shipped overseas.
prospect.org
June 13, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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spcialndsjungle.bsky.social
A new study shows ADHD is not be coming more common, but that greater awareness and acceptance are likely to be encouraging more people to seek help. This is undoubtedly the same for autism.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Greater awareness behind ADHD surge, study suggests
Study found ADHD is not becoming more common, despite a surge in people being diagnosed.
www.bbc.com
June 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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chrisdeleon.bsky.social
another hidden/externalized cost and form of theft in AI is the bots for Meta etc are blowing up site hosting charges of pages they're looting for information to take credit for. profits go to meta and others, made possible by costs spread to all the operators of sites they're crawling to steal from
gergely.pragmaticengineer.com Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · Apr 2
Last month AI crawlers generated 90% of my site's traffic, forcing me to pay penalties

Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking.

Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors
June 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
This story explains a LOT of things: ChatGPT appears to be rooting on sociopathic mental illness by validating every delusion of grandeur.

It also explains, in part, the hype cycle around AI: rich people, addicted to praise, invented a Compliment Machine.

www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-wh...
May 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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mckelvie.bsky.social
Shoulda right-clicked and saved it.
vixichrome.bsky.social Vixi and Friends [🚀] @vixichrome.bsky.social · Apr 25
Delighted to hear some NFTs are lost media
A screenshot from a tweet that says "Imagine spending $1.25M on a rare NFT... Come back 3 years later... And the image is just gone 😭" The image they posted is of two NFTs, but instead of an image it just says "The content has been restricted. Using Cloudflare's basic service in this manner is a violation of the Terms of Service. Please visit cfl.re/tos to learn more."
April 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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newseye.bsky.social
🚨TARIFF UPDATE:

Tariffs are non-negotiable, negotiable, but not a negotiating tactic. They are permanent until they are paused but they will never be paused, until they are paused which means they increase. Permanent exemptions already announced are temporary, but nothing has been announced.
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The latest deeply confusing post by Trump in the ongoing circle jerk of mixed messages over tariffs. The post says. NOBODY is getting "off the hook" for the unfair Trade Balances, and Non Monetary Tariff Barriers, that other Countries have used against us, especially not China which, by far, treats us the worst! There was no Tariff "exception" announced on Friday. These products are subject to the existing 20% Fentanyl Tariffs, and they are just moving to a different Tariff "bucket." The Fake News knows this, but refuses to report it. We are taking a look at Semiconductors and the WHOLE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN in the upcoming National Security Tariff Investigations. What has been exposed is that we need to make products in the United States, and that we will not be held hostage by other Countries, especially hostile trading Nations like China, which will do everything within its power to disrespect the American People. We also cannot let them continue to abuse us on Trade, like they have for decades, THOSE DAYS ARE OVER! The Golden Age of America, which includes the upcoming Tax and Regulation Cuts, a substantial amount of which was just approved by the House and Senate, will mean more and better paying Jobs, making products in our Nation, and treating other Countries, in particular China, the same way they have treated us. The bottom line is that our Country will be bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. We will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
April 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM