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bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 4h

grogu the polls

bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 5h

and yet in 'etail' the 'r' is egnored. English is wild

bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 6h

we've seen it across twitter and bluesky now. A fundamentally misunderstanding about how useful it was to have a guy named @jack that everyone hates

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bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 23h

honestly a bit impressed both usernames show up as links in both places

bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 1d

that's right. they're both me

michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · Nov 10

👆 sent to bed without supper

👇 not allowed on the Nintendo

bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 1d

it's weird. I get that users are kind of zero sum-y but also you'd think social media operators would have so much to bond over how much it seems miserable to do

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bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 1d

ideally you can work out how to both stop this from happening and also, optionally, start this happening

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bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 2d

holy shit that is the revenue source though: cost-sharing on your money-losing endeavours as long as it's also a copyright violation. drop whatever you're doing and call Sam Altman and tell him you'll only tell him your idea if he gives you $1B

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David TS Fraser @privacylawyer.ca · 2d

What a beautiful proposed amendment to Bill 127, the "Protecting Nova Scotians Act". Unfortunately, the proposed amendment was defeated.

A printed legislative document titled Bill #127 – Protecting Nova Scotians Act. It’s a proposed amendment sheet labeled “CHANGES RECOMMENDED TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE ON BILLS.” The amendment suggests deleting the title “Protecting Nova Scotians” and substituting “Big Omnibus Bill that Really Should be Different Bills that are Voted on Separately.” Handwritten notes in blue ink indicate the amendment was “DEFEATED – Oct 1, 2025” and names S. LeBlanc, CWHB, Clause 1.

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bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 2d

the latter

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bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 2d

Making a newletter where every week I mail people a brand new letter of the alphabet

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bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 2d

shit. my coin landed on its side

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 2d

When you realize how long it takes for a single tree to become fully mature and how many trees it takes to be productive... This is just one more method of *generational* violence.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

Hundreds of olive trees were seen uprooted by Israeli forces in the villages of al-Mughayyir and abu Falah near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 2d

we HAVE to convince filmmakers to stop filming shit on iPhones dude. just use a DSLR with like a decent lens im begging you!!

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bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 3d

that pilot in Solaris saw Michael's baby and none of the people at the tribunal believed him

michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 3d

I know every new parent thinks their baby is the largest, most telepathic baby they've ever seen but in my case I think it's literally true 😍

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bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 3d

on some level the only real defence of a machine that generates something that vaguely look like valid answers is something that vaguely looks like a valid argument

it’s xeecee @xeecee.bsky.social · 3d

it’s pretty rich to call people who are rude about chatbots bigoted when the entire AI apparatus mostly seems to revolve around creating an illusory servant class. if you think the chatbot you’re designing to kiss your ass and do your work for you is alive, what does that make you?

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bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 4d

great os

bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 4d

I know there's a thing that I only ever see with iTerm where it has a modal open on a different screen so whenever one of its windows gets in focus it tries to snap to that desktop. It's absolutely miserable.

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bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 4d

wow, the internet archive is doing so much more extensive of archiving than I thought

a year filter that is currently sorted by year. On the first page of the filter the year starts at 9999 and makes it as far down as the year 2912

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bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 4d

oh wow, it turns out the guy who invented "what if a shape was the same width" agrees with me

bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 4d

I mean this with absolute sincerity: a wedge and an inclined plane are obviously the same thing and a screw is just an inclined plane wrapped around a wheel. What the fuck kind of lies were they trying to teach us in school?

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bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 4d

oh that was me. sorry

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bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 4d

because I believe in the truth

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bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 4d

choosing to believe the baby is named swamp thing

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