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namhenderson @namhenderson.bsky.social · 6h

We ended up not making it to school today (sick kid) but look forward to participating next week!

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namhenderson @namhenderson.bsky.social · 7h

A bit of odd synchronicity on my timeline….

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 1d

Everything Is Becoming a Bank. “Most major corporations — from airlines to social media platforms — now aspire to become unregulated banks. Bankification today accounts for the highest profit margins in the US economy.” [jacobin.com]

Everything Is Becoming a Bank

Most major corporations — from airlines to social media platforms — now aspire to become unregulated banks. Bankification today accounts for the highest profit margins in the US economy, crippling productive capacity and setting the stage for the next crash.

jacobin.com

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 1d

And ended in an absolutely predictable 14-point Bennet blowout. Colorado was not in play in 2022. Colorado was not in play in 2024. Colorado is not in play in 2026. Anyone who knows anything should know better by now.

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neutral @neutral.zone · 1d

Basically a trust fund protocol now lol

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Active Towns @activetowns.bsky.social · 1d

YAY! IT’S PREMIERE DAY: Please tune in today, Tuesday, Oct 7th, at 2 pm EST / 12 noon MST, for this special profile of Denver’s Park Hill Elementary Bike Bus and Crossing Guard Experience featuring Liz Brodahl and Nicole McSpirit aka @goingdutchdenver.bsky.social, respectively
youtu.be/xlu8sCCQAFU

DENVER: Park Hill Elementary Bike Bus & Crossing Guard Experience

YouTube video by Active Towns

youtu.be

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

It’s every flavor of awful at once and I wish I could comprehensively and decisively nullify its existence. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/technology/elon-musk-grok-sexy-chatbot.html [2/2]

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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From Create Mode
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 2d

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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namhenderson @namhenderson.bsky.social · 2d

#SFUAB #thisisfine

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

namhenderson @namhenderson.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry to hear, sir!

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tigard-stripes.bsky.social @tigard-stripes.bsky.social · 4d

One person moving in a multi-ton metal box gets $9,000, and one person moving on an efficient micromobility device gets $225. Electric cars do not solve for congestion, storage, sedentary lifestyle, injury/death due to crashes. The battery in ONE gaint electric SUV could power hundreds of e-bikes.

Denver Bicycle Lobby @denverbicyclelobby.bsky.social · 4d

Gov. Polis is increasing the EV tax credit from $6,000 to $9,000. But lowering the e-bike credit from $450 to $225.
www.denverpost.com/2025/10/02/c...

Colorado expands EV rebate program in wake of federal cuts to tax credits

The increased rebates begin one month after the federal tax credit for purchases ended, part of Trump’s plan to push fossil fuels in the United States despite their contribution to climate change.…

www.denverpost.com

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 3d

AI at its peak.

Scene from Silent Running (1972). Dern hangs with a robot.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 4d

JOB! The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is hiring an arts reporter:
jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/gannet...

Job Details | Dayforce Jobs

Find your next adventure

jobs.dayforcehcm.com

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Thot Leedurr @docdre.distributedblackness.net · 4d

PSA: you don’t have to be Black to migrate to BlackSky…you DO need home training, tho

dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 5d

you can migrate to blacksky

non-black users have the choice of "myatproto.social" or "cryptoanarchy.network" handles

sources and additional information under this video thread hereby blacksky.community/profile/shar...

Writing our Destiny aka Andrew @planecrazy.bsky.social · 5d

I just don’t know where else to go? Won’t do Meta, and won’t do X. Guess I could try Mastodon again, don’t want to if I can help it.

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namhenderson @namhenderson.bsky.social · 4d

+ "To walk around and through the site now is to understand that a severed limb has been successfully reattached to the body of Lower Manhattan, and that the scars of that...surgery, though plentiful, are beginning largely to fade. Compare...to the...bland, bloated...placeless...Hudson Yards"

Henry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social · 21d

enjoyed this reflection from @hawthorne.bsky.social punchlistmag.com/p/shockingly-enough-the-world-trade-center-site-is-turning-out-ok

Surprisingly enough, the World Trade Center site is turning out OK

Taking stock after 24 years and a day; plus, a ranking of WTC architecture from best to worst

punchlistmag.com

namhenderson @namhenderson.bsky.social · 4d

"On the whole the museum’s architecture offers a winning (and unusual) mixture of deftness and brawn. Credit for this, beyond the design team, goes to Princeton’s highly regarded campus architect...and to Steward, the museum’s director" www.punchlistmag.com/p/scandal-an... via @hawthorne.bsky.social

Scandal and bloody-mindedness

A review of the new Princeton University Art Museum, by Adjaye Associates and Cooper Robertson

www.punchlistmag.com

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FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 8d

Adapt or die: the architects pioneering a new wave of building reuse on.ft.com/3VE0r5s

Adapt or die: the architects pioneering a new wave of building reuse

Thanks to innovators and smart policy initiatives, demolition is becoming more unfashionable. But is the tide changing fast enough?

on.ft.com

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namhenderson @namhenderson.bsky.social · 4d

#ICYMI

Jackie Han Photography @jackiexphoto.bsky.social · Feb 24

#diabeacon
Humans of Dia

Man with sunglasses and scarp black and white photo

black and white photo - two people sitting on a sofa chair

black and white photo - two people standing, one is sketching. The other is watching him sketch

The Dia map inside the side pocket of pants. black and white photo

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namhenderson @namhenderson.bsky.social · 4d

"My work is like an empty can...and the audience can fit inside their own life experience" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/a... re: new #DIABeacon retrospective of #TehchingHsieh's #lifeworks

The Artist Who Lived in a Cage For a Year

www.nytimes.com

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Ahmed El-Geneidy @ahmedelgeneidy.bsky.social · 4d

Two fully funded PhD positions in Public transit planning and operations.

Interested candidates can find more information about the position, and complete an expression of interest form here: surveys.mcgill.ca/ls3/156813

Expression of Interest Form

surveys.mcgill.ca

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 5d

Today in the dissertation knowledge mines, found a 1993 article about using GPS for agriculture with the headline "From Desert Shield to soybean fields"

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Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 5d

fuck i didn't know this was a decentralized platform based on open protocols. that changes everything,

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 5d

It is incredibly funny how the Bluesky team thinks that everyone is here because of their cool new coding system and framework to build your own siloed communities meanwhile 99% of their user base has no clue about any of that shit and is only here because it is like Twitter before Elon bought it

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John Darwin Kurc @kurc.com · 5d

How many FLOCK spy cameras are near you? Here is a site to check the locations of the cameras that are feeding information to US Border Patrol and DHS. www.deflock.me
Note: There are ways to thwart their data gathering. #OSINT

DeFlock

Spot, map, and resist automated license plate readers (ALPRs) near you.

www.deflock.me

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