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UX Researcher, anthropologist, reader, doodler, and amateur cook πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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We just bombed a fucking elementary school and killed a bunch of children. Not sure that really makes us "good at war"

12.03.2026 16:14 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

ε€ŸθΏ‡jiΓ¨ guΓ²

12.03.2026 15:13 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Silicon Valley’s New Obsession: Watching Bots Do Their Grunt Work Techies compare notes on how long their fleet of virtual interns can labor away without making a mistake.

I'm begging you to read a book, stare at puppies, anything.

"Kothari said he’s noticed more people sitting in Dolores Park adjacent to their open laptops, likely babysitting their agents." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

12.03.2026 12:12 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

can someone make this stop please (the guy filming this is super funny though, if you understand Chinese)

11.03.2026 21:55 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Cool birds.

12.03.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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NEWS: Democrat Shawn Harris has forced a runoff in the special election for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s deep-red Georgia seat (Trump +37).

With ~70% in, Harris leads with 38.3% to Trump-endorsed Republican Clay Fuller’s 34.5%.

Runoff set for April 7. A major warning sign for MAGA.

11.03.2026 00:40 πŸ‘ 8385 πŸ” 1943 πŸ’¬ 242 πŸ“Œ 166
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Iran Attack Updates: U.S. Jet Fighters Mistakenly Shot Down as Mideast Conflict Widens Israel launches dozens of strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon, while U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran continue. Follow along for live updates, news and analysis as the conflict in the Middle East unfolds...

Kuwaiti air defenses shot down three US fighters www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

02.03.2026 13:24 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 10

This is flatlined … sad for NSF SBE

01.03.2026 19:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Only 1…

28.02.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is 100% true. LLMs are statistical prediction machine with zero ability to assess the truth claim of anything, including their own output.

27.02.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Meet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax System Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election de...

TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny.

He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers.

(Published 2022)

24.02.2026 04:00 πŸ‘ 1371 πŸ” 722 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 58
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Trump’s Epic Loss on Tariffs Is Even Worse for Him Than You Think The Supreme Court’s stunning invalidation of most of the president’s tariffs is another sign that Trumpist populist nationalism is in crisis.

Very good piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social for @newrepublic.com on the wavering of two major pillars of Trumpism in recent weeks: economic nationalism and a draconian immigration policy.

The two are ideologically connected in important ways...

newrepublic.com/article/2068...

21.02.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 137 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4

OH. So they DID cheat illegally. Funny how I was made to feel foolish by some libs for suggesting they may have changed the final result. GA may not have swayed the election, but many arrogant blue voters said to suggest it makes us as bad as MAGA J6ers. Fuck off. GOP cheats every fucking time.

21.02.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 192 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

Feels like we’re past the prologue of the dystopian novel and well into the meat of this thing

19.02.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There must be trials. Not as an emotive aspiration, rhetorical meme, or empty threat. A concrete plan. A dedicated special court for it. Structural legislation and prosecutors and funding and all the rest of it. Everything necessary for it can be done constitutionally. All it takes is the will.

18.02.2026 03:35 πŸ‘ 2808 πŸ” 819 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 21
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UPDATE: The 21 year old who has been posting β€œchilling” white supremacist messaging on Trump’s official Department of Labor feeds was finally fired.

JUST KIDDING! DHS hired him.

(P.S. They’ve been doing it too)

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

12.02.2026 13:42 πŸ‘ 1661 πŸ” 832 πŸ’¬ 86 πŸ“Œ 41
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NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months

* Down in 2025
* Still below Mar 2024
* Clean energy wave a key factor

If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…

www.carbonbrief.org/...

12.02.2026 07:38 πŸ‘ 1079 πŸ” 442 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 49
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Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

11.02.2026 15:45 πŸ‘ 28974 πŸ” 10300 πŸ’¬ 1067 πŸ“Œ 624
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Right-wing critics complained about the NFL’s invitation for Bad Bunny to do the halftime show, saying he was β€œnot an American artist.”

β€”Letters from an American πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ by @hcrichardson.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

10.02.2026 11:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hard not to read this and feel that what @bardcollege.bsky.social president Leon Botstein found morally urgent and emotionally effecting in the Epstein story was not the women and girls who were abused, but the rich man who was embarrassed.

10.02.2026 07:01 πŸ‘ 280 πŸ” 75 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Farewell to Morgan McSweeney What a fantastic week. Peter Mandelson toasted to charcoal, the government being forced to make public all communications about him, the pos...

this is very good and teases us with a very good time ahead i.e. the end of the labour party averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2026/02/a-fa...

09.02.2026 10:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
@Nick_Davidov
Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops"
Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything.
It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure.
She didn't have Time Machine.
Disc recovery tools can't see anything.
I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days).
I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack.

@Nick_Davidov Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops" Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything. It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure. She didn't have Time Machine. Disc recovery tools can't see anything. I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days). I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack.

Nick Davidov β€’ @Nick_Davidov
VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova

Nick Davidov β€’ @Nick_Davidov VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova

VC, founder, dumbass

08.02.2026 21:37 πŸ‘ 6799 πŸ” 1010 πŸ’¬ 298 πŸ“Œ 586
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🎯🎯

09.02.2026 02:32 πŸ‘ 9708 πŸ” 3942 πŸ’¬ 285 πŸ“Œ 189
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Bad Bunny brings Puerto Rico’s history and culture to Super Bowl show The much-anticipated halftime performance also features Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin and a real-life marriage.

Bad Bunny brings Puerto Rico’s history and culture to Super Bowl show

09.02.2026 10:30 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell MelΓ©ndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album β€œDeBÍ TiRAR MΓ‘S FOToS.”

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

09.02.2026 04:46 πŸ‘ 2028 πŸ” 590 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 109

A couple fascinating things I learned reporting this:

1. Much of the plant life on the field was people in costume.
2. The finale required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics.
3. That was a real couple that got married during the Lady Gaga number.

So many more details here in the piece. Go read!

09.02.2026 03:05 πŸ‘ 786 πŸ” 194 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 4
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This woman is in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, which is supposed to serve and represent the best American values

09.02.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 9589 πŸ” 2437 πŸ’¬ 927 πŸ“Œ 268