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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1h

Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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jbartko.bsky.social @jbartko.bsky.social · 7h

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Sabo-Katt☭ @resistokatt.bsky.social · 1d

Who did it better?

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Eileen @geoleeny.bsky.social · 7d

All of this yarn was dyed with one species of mushroom, Phaeolus schweinitzii, commonly known as the dyers polypore. What a variety of color from one mushroom

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Matthew @dlthings.bsky.social · 2d

I have a note: Please don’t make AI slop versions of actual signs ppl made by hand.

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wyatt 🍉🎃 @velvetxero.bsky.social · Jul 15

"You need to cut toxic people out of your life, see through the bullshit, and start worrying about the things that really matter."

-Shigeru Miyamoto
On how to unlock Luigi in 'Super Mario Odyssey'

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 1d

and then people have the audacity to claim it's because you're not trying. your life flashes before your eyes. you are forced to internalize the reality that you trying your goddamned best is other people's version of "not trying at all"

zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 2d

ADHD is just one continuous parade of doing your best to keep up with everything and every week you learn you've forgotten to do something crucial

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 1d

Lately I've been rejecting "productivity culture" for "I do what I want" culture. I don't need a new journaling system or a calendar app. I don't want to sell my paintings. I don't want a content schedule. The world gets what I have to give.

You're welcome 🫶

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 1d

Willy Wonka and friends in The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai.

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Cami @cafiffle.bsky.social · Jul 9

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

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Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 2d

Every pic or video from the rallies brings a different stanza from Hughes “Let America be America Again” to my mind.

O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—
And yet must be—the land where every man is free.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 5d

Rosie the Ribbiter by Canadian artist Jo Blakely (@[email protected]).

Rosie the Riveter poster only it’s the Portland frog and it reads: Rosie the Ribbeter says We Can Do It! She has a no kings button, and where it said War Production Department in original, war is now Peace production.

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 4d

Itagaki Tomonobu

Here was a guy who wore sunglasses at night— indoors— who wore at a minimum 87% black leather and always an obscure metal band t-shirt; a fit, razor-thin guy whose intense, brooding stare could cause brave men to flee and satellites to de-orbit. He looked like a dark anime character come to life, complete with a half-smoked cigarette dangling from his menacing grin, and it took no imagination at all to worry he had a diamond sharp katana ready at any time to separate the head and body of the poor programmer who missed a half millisecond of timing on a block controller. There was no detail of game design or mechanic that escaped him, no ambiguity in his vision of tightness and quality in the feel of a control or the animation of a character. He was the embodiment of the ideal of the hardest edge of combat design, utterly uncompromising and ruthless.
Also, he was the quickest to break a smile, always ready to make a stupid joke, the first ask after your loved ones and to be sure you were well, the very best of friends, the very kindest of fathers, and a very great human being who I very much fear we will not see the like of again anytime soon. I will miss him gravely.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 4d

I am getting way too much mileage out of this meme I made

Simpsons meme where Hamlns Moleman is on the phone with the caption "I need the biggest metaphor you have. No that's too big"

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 6d

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6d

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵

DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees

Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.

www.aip.org

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Stein Makes Games ➡️ #GodotFest @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 6d

There's really only two file formats

Calvin and Hobbes comic. Dad explains there's only two types of file formats: .txt and .zip

#programming #software #softwareengineering

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 6d

Software engineer salaries are going to be crazy high after the LLM companies spend years enabling everyone to create mountains of technical debt then go bankrupt.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 6d

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.

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ʙᴜη ₊˚⊹⋆ @bun.is.a.cutie.fyi · 7d

!!!

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 7d

Here's a recording of the pilot of C-GZPT, a Cirrus SR22, tracing the Jays logo over Nova Scotia

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 7d

Thou sayest the King grows mad, I’ll tell thee, friend,
I am almost mad myself.

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 7d

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
#MycoBookClub

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Lemonlight @lemonlight.bsky.social · 7d

I'm pulling tricks with my Sega Genesis that would make Hiroshi Yamauchi rise from the fucking grave just to shit himself

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: A stunning new study finds that satellite transmissions—from calls and texts on T-Mobile to US and Mexico military communications—were sent unencrypted for any snoop to grab. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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