YakBarber
@yakbarber.bsky.social
The world is beautiful. Greed is ugly. Stand with the oppressed and listen when they speak. Learn how hate works so you can loudly and forcefully reject it. Take care of yourself.
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"The issue with renewables is [thing we're already solving with batteries]"
December 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"The issue with renewables is [thing we're already solving with batteries]"
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/dev/slop directory that pipes out bullshit from an LLM
September 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
/dev/slop directory that pipes out bullshit from an LLM
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It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack
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Chatbots killing their users suggests that big tech has transitioned from simple parasite to parasitoid, indicating that keeping the host alive is no longer essential for their evolutionary strategy
August 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Chatbots killing their users suggests that big tech has transitioned from simple parasite to parasitoid, indicating that keeping the host alive is no longer essential for their evolutionary strategy
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My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias
August 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias
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how many times am I gonna have to post this
August 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
how many times am I gonna have to post this
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"Nearly 70 percent of Democrats now have an unfavorable view of Israel, according to Pew. Yet Democratic officials carry on as if full-throated support for Israel were party doctrine," writes @ryuspaeth.bsky.social. nymag.com/intelligence...
Israel Was Supposed to Sink Zohran Mamdani
Will the Democratic Party absorb the lesson?
nymag.com
July 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"Nearly 70 percent of Democrats now have an unfavorable view of Israel, according to Pew. Yet Democratic officials carry on as if full-throated support for Israel were party doctrine," writes @ryuspaeth.bsky.social. nymag.com/intelligence...
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We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
"At the urging of Rat Shit Incorporated we have decided to loosen the requirement that there be no rat shit in baby food."
Should bioplastics be counted as compost? Debate pits farmers against manufacturers
Should bioplastics be counted as compost? Debate pits farmers against manufacturers
Plastic manufacturers are pushing to have their products counted as compost. Composters and farmers are trying to stop them.
www.latimes.com
July 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
"At the urging of Rat Shit Incorporated we have decided to loosen the requirement that there be no rat shit in baby food."
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Mamdani's plan to make it easier for street vendors to get permits is incredibly based.
We must work towards a world where there's a taco truck and halal cart at every intersection.
We must work towards a world where there's a taco truck and halal cart at every intersection.
June 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Mamdani's plan to make it easier for street vendors to get permits is incredibly based.
We must work towards a world where there's a taco truck and halal cart at every intersection.
We must work towards a world where there's a taco truck and halal cart at every intersection.
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And then this shit just came out.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance
June 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
And then this shit just came out.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
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Oh so you don't have to spend millions on a liberal Joe Rogan or attack trans people or support genocide to win after all
June 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Oh so you don't have to spend millions on a liberal Joe Rogan or attack trans people or support genocide to win after all
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One of the SpaceX fan cams caught a crane collapse at Starbase in Texas. This kind of thing only happens from a completely unacceptable safety culture failure and I'd be shocked if there wasn't a death here
June 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
One of the SpaceX fan cams caught a crane collapse at Starbase in Texas. This kind of thing only happens from a completely unacceptable safety culture failure and I'd be shocked if there wasn't a death here
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There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.
June 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.
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It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.
June 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.
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Remember, don't call them "illegals."
That's a slur used only on nonwhite people.
FOX has never called a white lawbreaker "an illegal."
Call them "Christian refugees."
It's accurate, moral, and will infuriate the right fake Christians.
That's a slur used only on nonwhite people.
FOX has never called a white lawbreaker "an illegal."
Call them "Christian refugees."
It's accurate, moral, and will infuriate the right fake Christians.
June 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Remember, don't call them "illegals."
That's a slur used only on nonwhite people.
FOX has never called a white lawbreaker "an illegal."
Call them "Christian refugees."
It's accurate, moral, and will infuriate the right fake Christians.
That's a slur used only on nonwhite people.
FOX has never called a white lawbreaker "an illegal."
Call them "Christian refugees."
It's accurate, moral, and will infuriate the right fake Christians.
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'...most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as, “One day a bridge collapsed, and no one came to fix it.”'
When Nobody Comes to Fix the Bridge - Truthdig
The decline and fall of a superpower, one piece of collapsed infrastructure at a time.
www.truthdig.com
June 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
'...most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as, “One day a bridge collapsed, and no one came to fix it.”'
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The wealthiest person in the history of human civilization has a grassroots proposal for you.
June 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The wealthiest person in the history of human civilization has a grassroots proposal for you.
@mikethompson.house.gov are you distributing food and essential supplies to the community as well?
Finally got a chalkboard for the campaign office!
Whenever we're open, feel free to come by 7016 N Clark St to ask a question, hang out, and grab what you need from our donation shelves.
Whenever we're open, feel free to come by 7016 N Clark St to ask a question, hang out, and grab what you need from our donation shelves.
May 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
@mikethompson.house.gov are you distributing food and essential supplies to the community as well?
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How do famous right-wing influencers actually poll with young men in 2025?
Rogan: 27% favorable, 35% unfavorable, 45% don't know/never heard of
Theo Von: 21% fav, 16% unfav, 55% dk
Andrew Tate: 12% fav, 47% unfav, 36% dk
Source: iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/5...
Rogan: 27% favorable, 35% unfavorable, 45% don't know/never heard of
Theo Von: 21% fav, 16% unfav, 55% dk
Andrew Tate: 12% fav, 47% unfav, 36% dk
Source: iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/5...
50th Edition - Spring 2025
A new national poll from the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School reveals a generation navigating financial hardship, frayed social bond
iop.harvard.edu
May 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
How do famous right-wing influencers actually poll with young men in 2025?
Rogan: 27% favorable, 35% unfavorable, 45% don't know/never heard of
Theo Von: 21% fav, 16% unfav, 55% dk
Andrew Tate: 12% fav, 47% unfav, 36% dk
Source: iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/5...
Rogan: 27% favorable, 35% unfavorable, 45% don't know/never heard of
Theo Von: 21% fav, 16% unfav, 55% dk
Andrew Tate: 12% fav, 47% unfav, 36% dk
Source: iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/5...
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this is like worse case scenario for me and many other trans people on medicaid. i will likely not be able to access life saving care if this goes through. can't state it any more - they're trying to eliminate us from existing. please call your reps now
The House Republican reconciliation bill will now ban both surgeries and HRT prescription under Medicaid for all Americans.
Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.
I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”
Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.
I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”
May 22, 2025 at 3:45 AM
this is like worse case scenario for me and many other trans people on medicaid. i will likely not be able to access life saving care if this goes through. can't state it any more - they're trying to eliminate us from existing. please call your reps now
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The special section was syndicated to the Chicago Sun-Times and other newspapers. To our great disappointment, that list recommended books that do not exist. We are committed to making sure this never happens again.
May 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants
May 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants