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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 33m

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 32m

Congratulations HM Government on forcing people to share their IDs to do anything online. Expect a lot more stories like this.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d

“A federal team in El Paso that once pursued child traffickers has been disbanded.

“A task force in Kansas focused on stemming fentanyl has been redirected.

“Highway checkpoints near the border—on roads identified as major drug-trafficking routes—have gone unstaffed”

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Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases

Federal investigators are resigning, and morale is low, as they juggle complex cases and detain migrants.

www.wsj.com

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 44m

www.brookings.edu/articles/sna...

SNAP cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will significantly impair recession response | Brookings

Lauren Bauer and Diane Schanzenbach analyze how SNAP cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will affect the program’s response to recessions.

www.brookings.edu

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Runako @runakog.bsky.social · 57m

I don’t know about the other two, but they already got to Ansible.

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 6h

🇹🇼TSMC September 2025 Sales Snapshot Monthly Performance (September): • Sales: NT$330.98B • YoY Growth: +31.4% Year-to-Date (YTD) Performance: • Total Sales: NT$2.76T • YTD YoY Growth: +36.4%

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KammyVania 🇵🇷💥 COMMS OPEN - 5/7 done @cammiluna.bsky.social · 21h

Affinity Photo, Designer, etc, is temporarily(?) completely free on the ipad (download. start trial, hit "buy", and it's "$0" according to Reddit).

Perpetual licenses and downloads for desktops are no longer obtainable. Affinity will have more info on Oct 30th.

affinity.serif.com/en-us/?utm_s...

Apple app store listings of affinity creative software being free

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 8h

Tech enthusiasts: my entire house is smart

Tech workers: the only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 11h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 20h

They didn’t stop being rapists just because Epstein “died” they’ve got new channels to get young girls I’m sure and it’s still happening and nobody is doing anything

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 16h

We 👏🏻 are 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 three 👏🏻 percent

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 19h

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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Runako @runakog.bsky.social · 13h

Where is the money going?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

JPM DESK: “.. the US budget deficit has not shrunk despite the tariff revenue.

“.. if tariffs are not being used to pay down debt or in some cases as a bailout (e.g., soybean farmers ..) at what point does the bond market react negatively?”

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

JPM DESK: “.. the US budget deficit has not shrunk despite the tariff revenue.

“.. if tariffs are not being used to pay down debt or in some cases as a bailout (e.g., soybean farmers ..) at what point does the bond market react negatively?”

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 13h

Coming around to the theory that they're Truman Showing him

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13h

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

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Dinosaur Dracula 🦖🧛 @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social · 19h

Halloween! Nightmare King! Ghost! Ghost Pepper! Wednesday! And now the Jack-O-Lantern Whopper. I'm the only person in the world with a complete collection of Burger King's Halloween Whoppers, dating as far back as 2015. Can't believe I'm single.

Every Burger King Halloween Whopper, from 2015 to now. (Why though?)

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 21h

You made it halfway through the week *and* we still have free shipping? Sounds like the perfect time to treat yourself to a new book and support indie bookstores in the process. 📚

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 21h

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

jessica.substack.com

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 21h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 21h

the only thing people want to do on Sora, it seems, is generate images of copyrighted characters. now that they can't, they're crashing the fuck out www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

www.404media.co

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 22h

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Chicago Latina Shot by Border Patrol Survives, Lawyers Up

“La Maggie” Martinez survived a federal shooting in Chicago. Now her attorney says body-cam footage shows the agents provoked it. The public deserves to see the tape.

open.substack.com

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Runako @runakog.bsky.social · 22h

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 1d

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

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