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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 11h

I know we’re making jokes cause shit is terrifying & we’re coping…

but this shit is real.

Solidarity with Mark Bray, who has done tremendous research on fascism that has informed our struggle. Wishing you & your family safety.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 12h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12h

i had this random idea the other day and today i made it!

carefax. a form you can fill out to help your friends, partners, lovers, and community show up for you, and you for them.

i’m working on a fillable template, but i wanted to see if people liked the concept and thought i should add anything

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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 12h

love this a lot. I’ve been trying to come up with something similar as a light weight form of (and introduction to) mad mapping and care menus and these items are perfect.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 14h

it sucks that the ai stink is so bad you can't even make a funny joke rng and claim it's ai as a bit because cool people won't fuck with it enough to figure out the joke

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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 13h

I’m inclined to agree with your pessimism, which feels wild to say given that I’m asking people on the internet to be _more_ pedantic but here we are lol

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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 13h

kinda feel like we need to push back harder on the slopification of “AI” — let’s be pedantic, is it a large language model? Or are you talking about conversational interfaces? Or procedurally generated content? Or artificial intelligence in the cybernetics sense? Or transformer models? Or???

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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 14h

having lived basically most of my life without any of these things, it’s truly amazing how life changing it is to have what you need (and more!) within a mile or so. also: deeply upsetting how rare this is.

we should all live like this!

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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 14h

this thread, the post about stamps down thread, and my recent adventures in ohio make me once again deeply grateful to live mere blocks from a corner with an ace hardware (pens, stickies, and soap sold also), a laundry, a small fancy grocery with usps pickup, coffee shop, and bus stop

Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 14h

Today's entry in Back In My Day, Stores Carried Things is sticky notes and normal pens. I went to way more places than I wanted to, including a cute stationery store that happened to be near one of my other errands, looking for them before giving up and going to an office supply chain store.

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 14h

When I talk about how y’all need to cut it out with trying to solve people problems with tech, this is a prime example of what I’m going on about.

Men will badly implement 1970s psychology with the GitHub activity history rather than go to therapy? Seriously?? C’mon

Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 15h

Psychometrics and evidence science folks, I feel like we need to help software engineering out more because they are trying to measure constructs like depersonalization via software activity data?!?!!?

github.com/Rootly-AI-La...

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 15h

Psychometrics and evidence science folks, I feel like we need to help software engineering out more because they are trying to measure constructs like depersonalization via software activity data?!?!!?

github.com/Rootly-AI-La...

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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 15h

maybe a labeler that we hook up to alltrails or strava (rip foursquare): “this user’s last time outside was more than 72 hours ago”

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 15h

Hitlerite Occupied Government

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16h

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 18h

idk. I voted against trump because I didn't want people to suffer. it's hard to feel especially thrilled now that people are suffering, even if some of them voted for him.

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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 18h

it's sixty nine four hundo twenty hours somewhere

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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 18h

(legally mandated disclaimer for bluesky: this is a joke)

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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 18h

cute story but clocks don't even go that high. disinformation isn't funny.

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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 18h

I very often think about this post from @notalawyer.bsky.social back on the bad place

imagine the pieces that could, and should, be written about the rube goldberg of human suffering

Law Boy, Esq. @The_Law_Boy:
same day delivery is the most American shit of all time, you run out of deodorant or something and with a single click start a Rube Goldberg of human suffering in an Amazon warehouse twenty miles
away

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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 19h

sometimes you run across a glimmering reminder of the world we could have had

was stack overflow perfect? absolutely the fuck not, but it had moments of mundane goodness

Can I make Tab auto-completion case-insensitive in Bash?

Ubuntu's Terminal uses case-sensitive auto-completion, as would be expected for Linux. But I think sometimes it would be more convenient to use a case-insensitive one instead, to save you having to...

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 19h

We are being ruled by Home Schooled Children

mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 19h

>not a veteran
>wall full of challenge coins

Kash Patel wearing the corniest Christmas camo punisher skull sweatshirt with his own podcast advertised on the sleeve, wearing his own merch hat too and another behind him, in front of an American flag challenge coin holder that also contains stickers for his podcast

buster bluth in fatigues with arms full of stuffed animals. "these are my awards, mother. from army."

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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 19h

as a former home schooled child: yes (i hate it)

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20h

Finally and VERY importantly, I donated to Blacksky. They're doing incredibly important work and I wanna support it. bsky.app/profile/greg...

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4d

Okay, and now I've just contributed to Blacksky. Consider supporting them too! opencollective.com/blacksky

Blacksky - Open Collective

Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.

opencollective.com

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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 19h

to make it as clear as possible: my goals in going anywhere other than myatproto are use my tolerance for a less smooth experience to

- continue putting resources into the blacksky project without _consuming_ their resources
- test viability of deeper corners of the network
- be weird? lol

justin from the internet @threlk.net · 19h

I’ll be joining the migration wave in the next week or so, with myatproto.social as the likely destination

before I make the jump: are there other options to look at? Blacksky is an _amazing_ project and I’ll support them regardless, but I’m open to less popular options if they’re seeking users

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21h

So last night I migrated @gregpak.net from Bluesky to Blacksky's myatproto.social server for non-Black users! A few thoughts on the process for anyone thinking about this...

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

whew. that took a while! but it looks like i'm done! all blobbed up in blobtown!

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 1d

I agrew up in a fairly moderate republican pro-Reagan environment. I too believed in “small government” and “liberty and justice for all”. But then I realized that many only believed this in a very individualistic & a non-universal way. I think this is why I gravitated toward anarchism.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

as a kid growing up right-wing i regularly heard people express their desire for "a government so small I can drown it in the bathtub". imagine my surprise growing up to realize i was the only one who actually believed that.

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