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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 19h

i have a reading rec that’s top of mind (if perhaps related in a way that might not seem super obvious at first):

Information Activism, which has a lot of good stuff to say about the tied-togetherness of knowledge creation and community formation

Information Activism | Are.na

dukeupress.edu/information-activism

www.are.na

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Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 11h

Refactoring (destroying my working codebase beyond repair)

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Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 13h

tfw you fail a bunch of chess puzzles and they start giving you the easy ones 👿

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onion person @junlper.beer · 18h

jd vance is currently defending this

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 18h

Young Democrats: hey maybe don’t kidnap my international friends

Young Republicans:

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Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 20h

Sorry if it's an obnoxious question but I've meant to ask, do you have any recommended reading on this sort of thing? I feel like I have several competing mental models for what's going on and what to do, and they only range from wrong to embarrassingly wrong

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Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 20h

pls

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 1d

In a statement released today, the autistic population explained: “Lol have you ever got a single fact wrong around one of us?”

Read this and other exclusive articles on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/116939...

a group of men and women shouting with fists raised

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Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 2d

I'm ready nooooow

Sondheim's Company - 2011 - Marry Me A Little

YouTube video by Some Days You're Barbra

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Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 2d

I am normal and can be trusted with large quantities of flour

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Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 2d

48 bagels in however long

Photo of 16 bagels, half everything, half poppy seed

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Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 2d

Gorgeous! I knew there was a reason I bought a mandolin without any specific plans

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Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 2d

I never loved apples (flavor or texture) until I found McIntosh, and when I first tasted one of these it tasted like a McIntosh. Stunningly delish

I like preserving things and have some nice weck jars for that. Or fermenting

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 2d

It’s not that tech workers or tech leaders (notably, a different class) are less critical than all other professions—but the lack of a critical perspective in tech casts a much longer shadow of harms due to the outsized role and power of tech in society. A fact that isn’t lost on critical thinkers.

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Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 2d

That's p much the plan, maybe some apple sauce or apple butter or something (that's a thing, right)

But also if you want I would send some! We still left like half of them on the tree too

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Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 2d

Hmm what do I do with 9 pounds of apples

Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 3d

Pickt apples

Photo of a bunch of little apples in a large colander

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

I have been working on and writing about civilian drone regulations for a long time, and I have learned many people genuinely have *no clue* that stuff like “shining lasers at aircraft” is incredibly illegal and dangerous.

Which is why I think it’s very important to repeatedly explain this stuff.

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 3d

The believe in general, genius level AI because this is the kind of shit they think is smart. Absolutely indistinguishable from AI slop.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 3d

Pickt apples

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Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 3d

Or Bats??

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Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 4d

First woodstoving day of the season let's gooo

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 4d

Reptar on Ice takes on a new meaning

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Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 5d

A new version of chess where it takes the king sqrt(2) turns to move diagonally

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Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 5d

I think bash scripting is the only time it's unethical NOT to use chatgpt

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Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 5d

Somewhere, Mike Johnson's son's cell phone pings solemnly

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