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Peter W🤓

@wang.social

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Anaconda Founder&Head of AI; created the PyData movement, PyScript, Bokeh, Datashader; Fellow @ Python Software Foundation; Center for Humane Tech Game~B; Physics, Cybernetics, Memetics. A student of the human condition. Memento mori

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Peter W🤓 @wang.social · Nov 15

I want to create an incubator that funds atproto/bluesky experimental projects to the tune of $5k-$10k dev grants.

I am sorely tempted to call it “Chemtrails”, because it seeds the ATmosphere

Hit me with your best ideas!

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Peter W🤓 @wang.social · 4d

But hosting is *so hard*. I need people to do it for me, for free, and then configure it exactly how I want it. Or else I’ll go to Reddit to post about my bad experiences

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Why do you hate pancakes

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11d

it’s fucking insane that you can log off for a few hours and come back to find trump invaded another city in his own country

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11d

Jeff Bezos has cozied up to Trump and silenced criticism of him at the Washington Post.

Now Amazon will pay Trump's FTC a slap-on-the-wrist fine of $2.5B — just 1/10 of 1% of its total market cap — to settle a major lawsuit.

More pay-to-play schemes in Trump's swamp.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11d

Republicans don't need a single democrat to keep the government open. If the government shuts down, it's because republicans want it to.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 11d

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11d

"It's absurd to think that … the government of the United States that [the people] pay for, that they vote for, is really in service of one man. ... He is using every arm of the government to create pleasure for himself … and also to seek vengeance upon his enemies."

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 11d

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

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Peter W🤓 @wang.social · 11d

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11d

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.

Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

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Peter W🤓 @wang.social · 13d

Nailed it

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 13d

A wide ranging convo between me & @rabble.nz for @revolution.social
→ past, present and future of Blacksky (the community + company)
→ mutual aid, susus, people's assemblies, etc
→ building protocols for people

wherever you get your podcasts.

Rudy Fraser on Blacksky, Mutual Aid & Reclaiming Social Media

YouTube video by revolution.social with @rabble

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Aunt Mrgladys @mrgan.com · 14d

A browser without web search, where you type in urls of websites you’d like to visit

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14d

One in every 7.5 jokes Jay Leno made — about 4,500 of them — was about Bill Clinton, almost double the amount he made about George W. Bush.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 17d

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links
2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands
3. The whole app is open source

This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site.

We 💙 the open web.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 19d

A reminder that the only reason Republicans are shitcanning basic checks and balances and rules of order is because they cannot imagine a circumstance in which they will ever be out of power again.
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Senate confirms 48 Trump nominees in single vote, after Republicans went ‘nuclear’ to speed up confirmations | CNN Politics

The Senate confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees in one sweeping vote on Thursday, marking the first bloc confirmed after Republicans voted to change Senate rules to speed up the considera...

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Slashdot @slashdot.org · 19d

Decline in K-12 National Reading, Math, Science Scores Probed By US Senate Panel

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Decline in K-12 National Reading, Math, Science Scores Probed By US Senate Panel

Just days after federal data revealed average reading, math and science scores dropped among certain grades since before the coronavirus pandemic, a U.S. Senate panel on Thursday picked apart the root causes and methods for students' academic improvement. From a report: The hearing in the Senate Com...

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Peter W🤓 @wang.social · 19d

godammit stop being so funny