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🇨🇦 Web Developer and coffee addict. Follow me for the memes, stay for the posts about my food. In an enemies to lovers relationship with JavaScript
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Brian Best @brianbest.com · Jan 6
Hey @reckless.bsky.social, when is @theverge.com getting dark mode? We've been waiting since September 2022! hasthevergelauncheddarkmodeyet.com
Does The Verge Have Dark Mode?
The answer to the question everyone is asking.
hasthevergelauncheddarkmodeyet.com
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evystadium.bsky.social
guys please don’t fall for the cute doggo ring super bowl commercial. they’re literally creating a tool that turns all ring cameras in a neighborhood into a surveillance dragnet
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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kcoxdc.bsky.social
We asked the Ring CEO pretty directly about this on the show late last year.

www.theverge.com/podcast/8220...
JAMIE SIMINOFF, RING CEO: So, the mental model, or how I look at it, is that AI allows us to have ... If you had a neighborhood where you had unlimited resources, so every house had security guards and those security guards were people that worked the same house for 10 years or 20 years, and I mean that from a knowledge perspective. So, the knowledge they had of that house was extreme; they knew everything about you and that residence and your family, how you lived, the people that came in and out. And then, if that neighborhood had an HOA with, call it private security, and those private security were also around and knew everything, what would happen? When a dog gets lost, you’d be like, “Oh, my gosh, my dog is lost.” Well, they would call each other, and one of them would find the dog very quickly. So, how do we change that and bring that into the digital world is — NILAY PATEL: Can I just ask you a question about that neighborhood specifically? JS: Sure. NP: Do you ever stop and consider that that neighborhood might suck? Just the idea that every house on my street would have all-knowing private security guards, and I would have an HOA, and that HOA would have a private security force. You can easily paint that as dystopia. Everyone’s so afraid that we have private cops on every corner, and I’m paying HOA fees, which is just a nightmare of its own. JS: So, I would assume you live in a safe neighborhood. NP: I hope so, yeah. JS: No, today, I’d go to ... If you want, I’ll take you to a place where people live and have to, when they get home from school, lock their doors and stay in their house, and they can’t go out and — NP: But I’m just saying the model. The model is, everybody is so afraid that they have private cops.
February 10, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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Discord is an app that has no moat. Tech speaking chat and streaming is a mostly solved stack, social network effect isn’t as strong as an instagram or Snapchat.
February 10, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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theverge.com
I went back to Linux and it was a mistake
I went back to Linux and it was a mistake
I need an OS, not another hobby.
buff.ly
February 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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astrokatie.com
GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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secretaboutbox.bsky.social
mamdani is literally the guy from the simpsons treehouse of horror episode who fixes the evil krusty doll
still from the simpsons. it's the back of a krusty the klown doll. there is a switch that says EVIL at the top and GOOD at the bottom. a guy's finger is pointing at the switch. the image text is "yup here's your problem, someone set this thing to evil"
February 3, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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brianpshea.bsky.social
Happy birthday to the GOAT
Two screenshots from Pokémon Red: Diary: Feb. 6 MEW gave birth. We named the newborn MEWTWO.
February 6, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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cameron.stream
Okay well the OpenAI CMO is hopping on now and it is obvious that Anthropic hurt them and they were deeply unprepared
February 5, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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duckvalentine.bsky.social
Good morning!

February marks the 10th anniversary of Stardew Valley. I had the great pleasure of speaking to ConcernedApe ahead of the occasion about the last ten years and his plans for the future. It's a nice long one, please enjoy:
www.ign.com/articles/sta...
February 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50

Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
February 3, 2026 at 4:05 AM
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Skills hooks commands and workflows, so many ways to do very powerful and yet only slightly different things
February 3, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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My bot has nano banana now
a couple of stuffed animals standing next to each other one of which is holding a knife .
ALT: a couple of stuffed animals standing next to each other one of which is holding a knife .
media.tenor.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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I’m very excited about taking some inspiration from openclaw and building my own telegram enabled chat to run my computer. It’s early days, but I’ve given an access to Bluesky as well as a sandbox directory soon I’ll be giving it some more access to using that a banana and some other third party’s
February 1, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Wiser words have never been spoken
comraderobot.bsky.social Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 17d
fuck ‘em
copaceticbunsz.com e.g. Bunny Lastname @copaceticbunsz.com · Feb 2
If you’re over 30, quote this with some life advice 🤌🏼
January 31, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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kentremendous.bsky.social
Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
mayor.nyc.gov Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16d
The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
January 30, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Some of you have never played Viewtiful Joe and it shows
January 28, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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aferaldavid.bsky.social
a cartoon character says moopsy in front of a hand
Alt: The Moopsy, a cute creature that drinks bones
media.tenor.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Friends, I’m once again asking you to donate. But not to me!

@claireforny.bsky.social is a union organizer, democratic socialist and my former Assembly colleague running for Congress in NY-7.

Chip in today: secure.actblue.com/donate/clair...
January 27, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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reckless.bsky.social
This is so funny because Palantir is basically an Oracle database for killing people
makenakelly.bsky.social makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 20d
SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti

WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers.

More here:
www.wired.com/story/palant...
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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cassidoo.co
A friend of my cousin who I mentioned here was taken by ICE today. It's incredibly scary. I am so sad and angry and feel helpless.
cassidoo.co Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 21d
Sharing this on behalf of my cousin and his partner who are teachers in St. Paul and Minneapolis. They are raising funds for the low-income families in their schools who are afraid to go out and struggling.

Thank you so much for checking it out ❤️

www.gofundme.com/f/support-ha...
Donate to Hamline Elementary Family Assistance Fund, organized by Jack Difino
The Hamline community is built on care, compassion, and connection. Right now, s… Jack Difino needs your support for Hamline Elementary Family Assistance Fund
www.gofundme.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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I have been deliberately trying to use Codex on one of my machines rather then Claude Code, and it’s just not the same. Claude is keen to action: use a tool, write some code, run a test. Codex just wants to talk my ear off
January 26, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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theonion.com
Police Repeatedly Shoot Tim Cook After Mistaking iPhone For Gun https://theonion.com/police-repeatedly-shoot-tim-cook-after-mistaking-iphone-1824184361/
Police Repeatedly Shoot Tim Cook After Mistaking iPhone For Gun
January 25, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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barackobama.bsky.social
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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The president can put 100% tariff on all Canadian goods, but he can’t put 100% tariff on gay hockey
January 24, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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alexanderfox1.bsky.social
Finally, a flag worth fighting for.
January 19, 2026 at 8:30 PM