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@djinnandtonic.bsky.social

I wake up at 6am

i remove my phone from three layers of Faraday fabric, and check Signal messages using a dedicated burner laptop running Tails OS from a thumb drive

I don’t use a mouse; the movement of the cursor could be used for biometric identification

February 1, 2026 at 1:37 AM

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Chris Person

@papapishu.bsky.social

I’d love to show Sam Altman my expensive cask of amontillado stored deep in my family’s catacombs.

January 26, 2026 at 3:46 AM

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Marco Chitti

@chittimarco.bsky.social

Milan's ATM published a new map of the metro + linee S for the urban area. It's way better than the previous one and one of the best in Italy (in truth, a very low bar to clear...)

January 23, 2026 at 2:32 PM

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lauren

@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

January 17, 2026 at 2:52 PM

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Paul Frazee

@pfrazee.com

Guy who went to mime school: that’s a video. That’s a picture. That’s an octet stream.

January 13, 2026 at 10:11 PM

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Mel, AnarcHochulist 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️

@astruckpersonn.bsky.social

now i want to put wind turbines on a late 70s–era layout at oh boy these nasa prototypes fucking rule

The NASA Mod-0 wind turbine prototype with a reflection of it in a lake below. The turbine has two blades, white with red tips, sitting on top of a steel truss tower

The NASA Mod-1 turbine on a forested mountaintop, 2 white blades with red tips on a blue steel truss frame

Three NASA Mod-2 wind turbine prototypes on a vast empty plain. They have solid white towers, with a single solid white blade extending in both directions, with red tips

The NASA WTS-4 wind turbine prototype on a farm. This looks the most like a modern turbine, with 2 white blades with red tips, resting on a solid white tower

January 10, 2026 at 6:14 PM

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outsidewolves

@outsidewolves.bsky.social

Photograph of me dumpster diving at the TV station

Parody image of famous dumpster milk scene from TV show "Pluribus." An anthropomorphic wolf is shown reaching into a dumpster filled with discarded videotapes and video equipment.

December 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM

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Lee Harvey (non-Oswald)

@valleyguitarist.bsky.social

These two volumes contain the sum of all human knowledge and possible experience

Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 26d

Two lesser known books today, both
illustrated by Ronald Lampitt (1972)

The front covers of the two books which are guides to better understanding the design and features of British churches

January 10, 2026 at 8:04 AM

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jenny tightpants

@jtp.bsky.social

clicking "play" on a steam game you just bought and instead of launching the game it launches another launcher

January 10, 2026 at 6:13 AM

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Notthedarkweb

@notthedarkweb.bsky.social

January 6, 2026 at 5:06 AM

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John Herrman

@jwherrman.bsky.social

Wrote about an obvious and yet profoundly underappreciated aspect of the AI boom: its total narrative capture by Elon Musk's X nymag.com/intelligence...

The reality of the AI industry is far larger than a subculture on X with hundreds of billions of dollars flowing into physical infrastructure, reshaping jobs, and deploying into products used by billions of people. But that makes X's capture of the AI conversation all the more notable. Much as Twitter long ago captured, amplified, and distorted elite conversation in media, in sports, in parts of finance, in left politics, and more recently in right politics, the world's understanding of what's going on in Silicon Valley right now - the hype and the doom and the bubble and the progress - is first processed through the strange culture and incentives of X, which is now owned by estranged OpenAI co-founder, Google antagonist, and xAI founder Elon Musk. It has been merged into xAI, where the in-house chatbot occasionally confuses itself with Hitler. When the history of this period in tech is eventually written, it will be composed of, among other things, a whole lot of threads and replies from blue checks on X.

Then, of course, there's the Musk factor. The fact of his ownership creates obvious risks for all of his competitors, who rely on his platform to supply the vibes they need to help keep their companies, and the AI boom in general, going. It's worth remembering that, back before he decided to purchase it and let it drive him nuts, Twitter was, to Musk, a platform with clear functional utility, a social network that helped make him wildly famous and use that fame to convince thousands of retail traders to buy into Tesla, the company that made him the richest man in the world.
Even if we assume, against all reason, that Musk won't leverage this unusual sort of power over all the competitors gathered on his platform, X's influence over them and how they're seen by the rest of the world is undeniable. Along with "AI Twitter," some of the other communities thriving on Musk era X include MAGA guys and crypto guys, meaning that the background vibe of the primary gathering place for the industry that's trying to remake the world is quite a bit more conservative and mercenary than it otherwise might have been, and while the primary factor in the public's deep skepticism of where Al is going is clearly fear about labor, association with polarizing Muskian politics probably doesn't help assuage ambient fears about job loss and surveillance. (One important consequence of having the AI elite gathered on X is that their media diets are now substantially made up of one another's posts, effusive and dismissive responses to their oren posts, and standard "For You" page Musk-era algo-slop.
It's hard to overstate how thoroughly their information diets are influenced by their timelines, and you can get a pretty good idea of what those look like by jacking into
AI Twitter yourself.)

January 5, 2026 at 2:56 PM

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JB stan account

@johnbrownstan.bsky.social

January 4, 2026 at 8:34 PM

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Erik Hane

@erikhane.bsky.social

Just realized that Emperor Qin Shi Huang's "Terracotta Army" of clay soldiers he kept in a vault in like 200 BC make him the first Warhammer Guy. he got some disposable income and started painting minis. totally get it

January 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM

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Jackie Burns

@artistburns.bsky.social

Perseverance is a NASA rover that has been exploring Mars since February 18, 2021, as part of the Mars 2020 mission. I drew this digital portrait of Perseverance with Adobe Fresco and using only two colours - black on a background of white. 🧵 1/2

January 4, 2026 at 11:15 AM

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David Buchanan

@retr0.id

I think a big chunk of the "linux is hard" sentiment stems from the fact that most linux users do weird things with their computers. basically this:

tweet screenshot:

a popular myth is that people who are Very Computer have computers that work. nothing could be further from the truth. the Very Computer are capable of generating much more novel and fascinating ways to make computers not fucking work and exercise this capability wantonly

January 3, 2026 at 2:22 PM

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Nanoraptor

@nanoraptor.danamania.com

It's fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

A bunch of microsoft logos from the 70s, 80s, 90s and today but instead of saying Microsoft all of them spell Microslop in the vibe of the original logos.

January 3, 2026 at 2:47 AM

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)

@danlehner.bsky.social

Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes

January 2, 2026 at 10:01 PM

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Eliot Higgins

@eliothiggins.bsky.social

January 1, 2026 at 5:13 PM

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George Park

@georgeparkart.bsky.social

Good old days

January 1, 2026 at 3:35 AM

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Sky Marchini

@sky.skymarchini.net

I am firmly of the belief that there are very few problems which cannot be solved by sufficient application of petroleum, electricity, or bullets.

In this case, the Americans, having a larger engine (liters, for you Europeans), applied more petroleum to the situation.

January 1, 2026 at 6:59 AM

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Chris Person

@papapishu.bsky.social

Attacking a data center like it’s The Bastille, everyone fleeing with a bushels of RAM to desolder and resolder the chips. One peasant coded guy with a wheelbarrow of SFP+ modules. Manifesting this for 2026.

January 1, 2026 at 2:30 AM