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Katelyn Gadd @kg.luminance.org · 31m

there are a bunch of limitations on ref structs for memory safety reasons, unfortunately

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 3h

He was at a wedding where they ritualistically stabbed pictures of a 4 year old palestinian boy that was murdered. he represented the murderer for free. Will not stop being pissed that he was removed from sanctions

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h

Greta is an immensely impressive human being and despite her well-intentioned downplaying of her experience what she endured was torture. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 1h

The expiration of the labor neutrality agreement implies that Microsoft will begin discriminating against labor again

Battle.net Workers Unionize As Microsoft Neutrality Agreement Expires - Aftermath

Nearly 400 workers have organized into two unions covering all sorts of jobs on Blizzard Entertainment's Platform and Technology departments

share.google

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Katelyn Gadd @kg.luminance.org · 47m

ahhh, ref structs

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

started / going

DHS Says Social Media Will Be Screened for ‘Antisemitism’ as It Purges Pro-Palestine Immigrants
Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem says people shouldn't try to "hide behind the First Amendment."

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs
The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels.
By Matt Novak
Updated October 15, 2025

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 12h

jesus christ

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outsidewolves @outsidewolves.bsky.social · 18h

A four panel comic strip. An anthropomorphic wolf man runs into an office where three others are working at their desks. He says, "The fire marshal is coming for annual inspections!" In the next panel, a seated wolf is playing with a remote control airplane, and a smoke detector with an open battery compartment is mounted on the wall above him. The first wolf says "Put that 9 volt back in the smoke detector!" In the third panel, an anthropomorphic dog holds a power strip while standing next to a sculpture comprised of multiple power strips. The first wolf says "Hide your..."Daisy Chain Power Strip" sculpture!?" In the fourth panel, a bear proudly displays his t-shirt which reads "I love storing combustibles around radiators." The first wolf, in exasperation, yells "CHANGE YOUR SHIRT!"

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 19h

Hey man, if you’re free later me and the boys were thinking of getting together and pressing X to snap to cover.

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joannes @playthroughline.com · 3d

The sci-fi setting of Neurocracy posits exactly this scenario: brain implants are initially trained on neural data from a subset of society, so getting them to work requires us to think in ways characteristic of that subset, installing biases directly in our minds and fostering a mental monoculture

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 3d

Hi hello did you know that Elon Musk's third Neuralink patient (previously nonverbal) is "getting help from Grok" to communicate

and I hope -- I REALLY HOPE -- he's not stuck in his own brain listening as a robot talks for him without his input because this, to me, would be worse than death

This patient’s Neuralink brain implant gets a boost from generative AI

A patient who types with his brain thanks to a Neuralink implant is using AI chatbots to speed things up.

www.technologyreview.com

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Lizzie Kodpuak née Acid Lich (Gröbnerpilled era) @acidlich.bsky.social · 22h

This is why I am extra tired of your armchair speculation on what type of protest works

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 23h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Katelyn Gadd @kg.luminance.org · 23h

ohhhh

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Sébastien Deleuze @seb.deleuze.fr · 1d

You are wondering if #Spring could run in a #WebAssembly engine like the one in your browser? The GraalVM team did it with Web Image.

You don't believe me? Check the related demo graalvm.github.io/graalvm-demo... and the Devoxx talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=uefc... !

Spring Shell on WebAssembly

graalvm.github.io

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 23h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Katelyn Gadd @kg.luminance.org · 23h

Huh, YouTube changed their video player UI again. Now everything is round and transparent

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🎃Scarlett The Vampire Slayer 🎃 @dialancea.bsky.social · 1d

Me when a monster tries to jumpscare me

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

I think the leak of the incredibly racist young republican group chat only furthers the argument that millennials were the only generation able to use the computer without going insane, mostly because the computer was once a place separate from the real world. but now the real world is also computer

ceej @ceej.online · Apr 28

that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 1d

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Katelyn Gadd @kg.luminance.org · 1d

are there any warnings/errors in event viewer under System talking about the drive or its storage port? When I last had drive issues I saw a bunch of them

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 1d

"Transsexuality is bourgeois" reflects the common belief that medicine, technology, and any improvements to quality of life are owed to capitalism. The reality is that capitalism holds these improvements hostage for the sake of wealth.

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Katelyn Gadd @kg.luminance.org · 1d

if trans identity is so bougie why does every trans person i know have to post their paypal/kofi/zelle multiple times a week 🤔🥴

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

its murder

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Katelyn Gadd @kg.luminance.org · 1d

yeah

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

do not listen to pundits, even trans pundits, who have given up in their hearts on the dream of liberation, who have preemptively sold out in hopes of becoming part of a world which is already dead and rotting

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