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New blog + atproto experiment 🧪 I recently hooked up my bathroom to the AT Protocol (the thing powering Bluesky) & created what I'm calling Personal Lexicons... Also, I committed heavily to this bit, so you might want to check out the end of the blog (hint: it's my 1st AppView + public lexicon)

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This is what the spy community refers to as a "whoopsie-daisy"

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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

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18F was basically the closest i ever imagined to a dream job in tech and it's honestly such a fucking tragedy it's gone for the foreseeable future

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just got luka'd. my boss saw me drinking a beer after work and he got so mad he traded me to an email job in california

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move over factorio

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oh cool I’ve been meaning to learn anxiety

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[Silence.]

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You really have no idea where this corporate press release will end up, I encourage you to read the whole thing www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

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LITERALLY EVERY FBI DIRECTOR HAS BEEN A REPUBLICAN. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

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Stacy's mom's medicare is gone

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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the kid who wore this every day in high school is now firing people in the NIH for woke

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i forced Elon Musk to take down the entirety of Twitter Spaces after discovering an exploit while i was working from home

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Free speech absolutist

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New: Last night, hundreds of CDC post-doc fellows were fired, including all in the group who call themselves the "disease detectors," and are the future of public health lab leaders. One senior official told me, "It is going to cripple public health for decades." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

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i feel like it's an open question whether or not the flu vaccine will even be available next season

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it’s insane that rightwingers have created a social and legal ecosystem where if any murder becomes a political issue, the right will ensure they get off free and then immediately pipeline them to the upper echelons of their society, rewarding them as the pawns they are

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The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem

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I can’t explain it but pieces like this scratch a particular itch

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>AI = rainbows and pink >gay = rainbows and pink ⟹ AI = gay

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DOGE and GSA: Wash Post says Musk's kids at GSA are cancelling leases so as to keep buildings that are overcrowded and unpleasant, and comparing locations to employee home locations so as to maximize commute times, to make more feds miserable enough to quit www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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“Musk’s DOGE crew lacked high-enough security clearance to access that information, so the two USAID security officials — John Vorhees and deputy Brian McGill — were legally obligated to deny access.”

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This is a coup edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

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two of you

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Trump admin's memo to federal workers today vs. Elon Musk's memo to Twitter employees before laying off 80% of staff. More on how Musk's fingerprints are all over this: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-buyo...

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Congressman Rich McCormick says of potential cuts to free school lunches for children: "Hey, I worked my way through high school...since before I was even 13 years old, I was picking berries in the field before we had child labor laws"

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This is such great news. For so long Amazon has had a chokehold on ebooks. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

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Because of the TikTok ban, a friend of mine has been talking to a trans girl from Shanghai. She asked what stereotypes exist about trans people in china: "rust + archlinux"

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This is Kai. He is on ski patrol reporting snow levels. According to his measurements, it has snowed. 12/10

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well well well... those damn white boys have done it again

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Now that's a headline.

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404 Media siempre con los mejores titulares

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lol this framing

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Musician who gets a little flustered any time there are triplets in the sheet music she's playing

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my bag got pulled over for screening in the airport and the TSA agent flipped through my ENTIRE sketchbook full of semi suggestive furry art and asked me "what do these mean" sir I don't fucking know I just really like catgirls please let me go to my gate 😭😭😭