Bill Harting
@billharting.bsky.social
Dad, husband, geek, progressive. Loves science, sci-fi, fantasy, movies, comics, George Carlin, The Beatles & lists. 🖖🏻
See cool frogs. Share them with @seananmcguire.bsky.social. That’s the rule.
December 4, 2025 at 4:58 AM
See cool frogs. Share them with @seananmcguire.bsky.social. That’s the rule.
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Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead.
Idk, just spitballing here.
Idk, just spitballing here.
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead.
Idk, just spitballing here.
Idk, just spitballing here.
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*stares in Adelita Grijalva*
December 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
*stares in Adelita Grijalva*
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It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
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firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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‘You boy! How do I unsubscribe from all these Black Friday emails?’
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
‘You boy! How do I unsubscribe from all these Black Friday emails?’
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Why the fuck should anyone care what a retailer needs?
Tell corporations to stop buying so many lattes, lay off the avocado toast, pull themselves up by the bootstraps, etc.
No retailer is entitled to profit, and anyone who claims so is as much of a dipshit as Jennifer Williams & the WSJ editors.
Tell corporations to stop buying so many lattes, lay off the avocado toast, pull themselves up by the bootstraps, etc.
No retailer is entitled to profit, and anyone who claims so is as much of a dipshit as Jennifer Williams & the WSJ editors.
If you want people to spend more, pay them more.
December 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Why the fuck should anyone care what a retailer needs?
Tell corporations to stop buying so many lattes, lay off the avocado toast, pull themselves up by the bootstraps, etc.
No retailer is entitled to profit, and anyone who claims so is as much of a dipshit as Jennifer Williams & the WSJ editors.
Tell corporations to stop buying so many lattes, lay off the avocado toast, pull themselves up by the bootstraps, etc.
No retailer is entitled to profit, and anyone who claims so is as much of a dipshit as Jennifer Williams & the WSJ editors.
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Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
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i wanted a sign for my table so i ordered a handful of prints for the season. swing by my table this weekend and next weekend and the weekend after if you want one! (stickers should be here by next week too)
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
i wanted a sign for my table so i ordered a handful of prints for the season. swing by my table this weekend and next weekend and the weekend after if you want one! (stickers should be here by next week too)
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Paul McCartney
Lake Street Dive *
Sara Bareilles
Billy Joel / Elton John
Weird Al Yankovic *
* multiple times
Paul McCartney
Lake Street Dive *
Sara Bareilles
Billy Joel / Elton John
Weird Al Yankovic *
* multiple times
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Bowie *
Roger Waters
July Talk *
Metric *
Alice Phoebe Lou *
* multiple times
Bowie *
Roger Waters
July Talk *
Metric *
Alice Phoebe Lou *
* multiple times
November 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Paul McCartney
Lake Street Dive *
Sara Bareilles
Billy Joel / Elton John
Weird Al Yankovic *
* multiple times
Paul McCartney
Lake Street Dive *
Sara Bareilles
Billy Joel / Elton John
Weird Al Yankovic *
* multiple times
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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Peppermint Patty lost her mind screaming at Charlie Brown because of Snoopy's unconventional Thanksgiving meal. What did she expect? The dog made the dinner. If your dog prepared a meal like that it'd be amazing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuG3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuG3...
Peppermint Patty - What kind of a Thanksgiving dinner is this? (READ DESCRIPTION)
YouTube video by Professor Hulk
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Peppermint Patty lost her mind screaming at Charlie Brown because of Snoopy's unconventional Thanksgiving meal. What did she expect? The dog made the dinner. If your dog prepared a meal like that it'd be amazing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuG3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuG3...
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This may be the greatest scientific study of our time (or, at least the funniest).
The Batman Effect, just published in NATURE:
When an experimenter dressed as Batman boarded a train, passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seats to another “pregnant” experimenter than if Batman wasn’t present (67.21% vs. 37.66%) #SciComm 1/2
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
When an experimenter dressed as Batman boarded a train, passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seats to another “pregnant” experimenter than if Batman wasn’t present (67.21% vs. 37.66%) #SciComm 1/2
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect - npj Mental Health Research
npj Mental Health Research - Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This may be the greatest scientific study of our time (or, at least the funniest).
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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"What are you working on?"
I put the soldering iron on its stand and inspected my work.
"A time travel receiver. I figured out the machine can't travel in time itself."
"Do you have a transmitter too?"
I plugged the power in. "Not yet."
A newspaper appeared in the machine.
"I will, next year."
I put the soldering iron on its stand and inspected my work.
"A time travel receiver. I figured out the machine can't travel in time itself."
"Do you have a transmitter too?"
I plugged the power in. "Not yet."
A newspaper appeared in the machine.
"I will, next year."
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"What are you working on?"
I put the soldering iron on its stand and inspected my work.
"A time travel receiver. I figured out the machine can't travel in time itself."
"Do you have a transmitter too?"
I plugged the power in. "Not yet."
A newspaper appeared in the machine.
"I will, next year."
I put the soldering iron on its stand and inspected my work.
"A time travel receiver. I figured out the machine can't travel in time itself."
"Do you have a transmitter too?"
I plugged the power in. "Not yet."
A newspaper appeared in the machine.
"I will, next year."
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I feel like this strip directly led to the dialog style in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”
My favoritest C&H of all time:
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I feel like this strip directly led to the dialog style in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”
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November 18, 1985, the world met Calvin & Hobbes
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
November 18, 1985, the world met Calvin & Hobbes
The best comic strip of all time.
40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The best comic strip of all time.
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cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
When we retake our government and restore sanity at this country, these men need to be held legally accountable; we need to arrest them in front of their families, their friends, their pastors, and their God.
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
When we retake our government and restore sanity at this country, these men need to be held legally accountable; we need to arrest them in front of their families, their friends, their pastors, and their God.