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Brian in Detroit @brian.delightfullyweird.blog · 1d

My anecdotal, I-was-just-one-guy experience at Microsoft: this absolutely checks. In 2024, it started coming from the top, hard: COPILOT EVERYTHING, even though it sucked and made things harder and worse and slower.

It felt "If you don't use Copilot for everything, you're not welcome here"

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“People [in tech jobs] worry that not being seen as uncritical AI cheerleaders will be a career-limiting move…for those who aren't insiders in the tech industry, it's vital that you understand that you've been presented with an extremely distorted view about what tech workers really think about AI”

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 2d

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

Hi. There is an influx of government sites and I’m gonna use what little clout I have

To say

Don’t bait them.

pay them DUST.

Commit to boosting coverage of what they do, centering the voices of who they target .

In fact start muting folks who over antagonize them

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a programmatic way to ID "accounts who repost [$account] more than N times"?

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon dog is laughing and biting its nails .

Alt: a cartoon dog is laughing into its hand. "from TOP ... to BOTTOM" the completely straight and masculine-coded dog is thinking. It's remembering how incredibly straight the Marine was who said "Semper Fi, bro," to him, shirtless, while looking him straight in the eyes in a heterosexual way.

media.tenor.com

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NFL Daily News @fantasynflnews.bsky.social · 2d

FLACCO DIME TO HIGGINS WHO MAKES A HIGH IQ PLAY

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 1d

Tee Higgins was easily, obviously correct to slide down at the 5 yard line last night. The two choices were:

- Score a TD. Leave PIT down 6, with 1:40 and 2 timeouts
- Kick the FG. Leave PIT down 2, with 0:11 and 0 timeouts

It's no contest.

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 2d

2010 is generous. I was ring-shopping in 2004 and had read a piece in Wired that made me wonder how easily I could get a non-conflict diamond, even back then. www.wired.com/2003/09/diam...

The New Diamond Age

Armed with inexpensive, mass-produced gems, two startups are launching an assault on the De Beers cartel. Next up: the computing industry. Aron Weingarten brings the yellow diamond up to the stainless...

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 2d

I can't speak for all ten-year-olds, but having a few sheets of this in the house and being able to print a full 8½"x11" sheet of Los Mr. Carrotitos temporary tattoos might be a HUGE HIT.

Temporary Tattoo printer paper lets you print from an inkjet or laser printer, then apply transfer paper (included) to make a sheet of temp tattoos. Make a sheet, print, cut them to size. You can get 16-24 small fun tatts to a sheet. Make sure to check whether you're ordering inkjet or laser style!

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MIST COULD PASS. @mrreciprocity.bsky.social · 4d

But a couple months ago, Mondrian's "Composition 8" popped up in my feed and I was like "oh shit, do I not hate Mondrian?" It's still just squares and colors, still abstract, but I find it much more affecting than his more famous works.

Mondrian's "Composition 8”, an arrangement of mostly rectangles in various shades of grey, as well as pale pinks and yellows, separated by black lines. The colors and line weight are much more organic than the work in the previous post.

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 4d

Which I guess is to say: art is supposed to be sincere, and Fine Art often isn't, and people can usually feel that in their bones when they encounter it.

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 4d

Fine Art's utility as a mechanism for money-laundering and the enormously outsized influence of nepotism in "the gallery scene" means that most people dealing with the Fine Art world deal with fail-scions as the face of the domain, way more than truly passionate experts, which turns people off.

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 5d

Someone get Matt Taibbi on the horn, STAT, he's going to be very upset about this, and/or have an excruciatingly nuanced reason why this specific thing is not actually a "takedown" or "jawboning" at all.

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 5d

Trump admin pressured Facebook into removing ICE-tracking group

Meta removed ICE Sighting group after hearing from the Justice Department.

arstechnica.com

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 5d

me casually pretending im not super excited to steal canada's buffleheads. #birds

a bufflehead in the water looking anxious

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 5d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 5d

This is blocked up similarly to the 87-yard TD that Derrick Henry had against the Bills a year ago. I-formation from right hash with two eligible to the field. They spread one to the boundary; the Ravens kept a TE in close. Trapping the backside guy out where he's vestigial creates the mismatch.

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Dak @dak.myatproto.social · 8d

🎶Whoa, Black Betty🎶

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 6d

OOshutup10 works on Win11 and can provide a one-touch answer. It’s still vulnerable to forced updates reverting the settings but you can script it to run regularly.

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BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 7d

Happy 40th Anniversary of Rorschach seeing the city‘s true face to those who celebrate

The first panel of the comic “Watchmen.”

On the top of the panel, text reads “Rorschach’s Journal. October 12th, 1985. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.”

The rest of the panel depicts an extreme closeup of a city street where a pool of blood runs off into a gutter. On the edge of the gutter there is a yellow smiley face button marred by a single drop of blood that partially obscures one eye.

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Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 7d

it remains fucking bullshit that neither of these guns are fired by the final act of the cherry orchard

cropped photo of a passage from chekhov's the cherry orchard:

the clearest of days. The sun is about to set. SHARLOTTA, ASHA, and DUNYASHA are sitting on the bench. YEPIKHODOV stands nearby playing the guitar.
They are all lost in thought. [highlighted sentence:] SHARLOTTA, who is wearing an old peaked cap, bas taken a shotgun off her shoulder and is adjusting the buckle on the strap.

cropped photo of a passage from chekhov's the cherry orchard:

YEPIKHODOV. I am a man of culture—I read the most sundry books—but I still can't quite decide what direction to take, what I really want to do-live on or shoot myself, so to speak. But to be on the safe side, [highlighted:] I always carry a revolver with me. See?... (He takes out a revolver.)

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 7d

I feel like a stupid fraction of Tomlin’s wins in the last decade have been showing up and refusing to make mistakes, letting the opponent lose, and not interfering.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 8d

ALERT - SAFETY ALERT - Southern Connecticut State gets one after the snap goes over the Delaware State punter's head.

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 8d

An aide whispers to the President, "Sir, another inflatable frog has been spotted in Portland".

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 8d

China's internet policy makes excessive use of the word "harmony" and man, if what you post doesn't Spark Joy, if it doesn't Promote Harmony, brother: it fuckin' gets baleeted.

The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 8d

Oh, ugh, facepalm, sry. No, yes, of course that's what they meant. And yes, I crave that robot. I would trade a million sassy emoji-riddled robot-written articles or sonnets for ONE robot that could do that task for me. Ideally it could fold up and store itself in my dishwasher when it was done...!

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 8d

I don't think I understand the premise? We definitely automate dishwashing. There's a necessary amount of hand-dishwashing that occurs in home and restaurant scenarios, but dishwashing has been solved for well over 40 years.

Photograph of the interior of an automatic home dishwashing machine, opened to reveal the racks of dishes inside

Marketing photograph of a restaurant-grade tunnel-style commercial dishwasher. A human operator on the left performs loading and pre-rinse, and a human operator on the right unloads and returns the dishes to the cooking and cold service areas of the kitchen.

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