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Jim Gumbley
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Cyber Techie. Old millennial. Basically a contrarian but can't see the point of getting into it.
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Russian poet-futurist Vladimir Golzschmidt hypnotizing a chicken. 1923
February 2, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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This moltbook thing is a waste of electricity
February 1, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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zfighteramuro.bsky.social
#lrt Today also marks 25 years since Sega announced that the Dreamcast would be discontinued and they were getting out of the console production business for good.

youtu.be/8WTxxmuk0PU
JAPAN: SEGA ANNOUNCES FUTURE OF DREAMCAST
YouTube video by AP Archive
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January 31, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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brokenbanker.bsky.social
this is apparently not a joke, can't wait to see how badly this bombs:
A march for policy failure Tragically delusional 'justification'
February 1, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
Imagine being a 42 year-old pleading with a known pedophilic sex criminal to fly you to his island so you can party with girls he assures you will be 25 or younger.

Then imagine lying about it to hundreds of millions—and continuing to lie even after your lie's revealed.

You don't hate Elon enough.
February 1, 2026 at 5:26 AM
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anna-orridge.bsky.social
Fabulous 10/10 no notes
A headline from Sophia Money-Coutts which reads I shit you not, 'Being posh should be a protected characteristic'
January 31, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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emily.gorcen.ski
Cool thoughts from Noam Chomsky
From: Matthew Hiltzik < To: J <jeevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Thoughts from Chomsky Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 23:34:06 +0000 I think that is wise Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2019, at 4:19 PM, J < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: Ive watched the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public. It's painful to say, but I think the best way to proceed is to ignore it. I've had plenty of experience, though of course not on this scale. A google search will bring up tons of hysterical accusations of all sorts, even groups devoted to vilifying me. I pay no attention, unless I'm approached for a comment on a specific matter. It's a nuisance, but it's the best way. The same conclusions from experiences of others, in some cases close friends. What the vultures dearly want is a public response, which then provides a public opening for an onslaught of venomous attacks, many from just publicity seekers or cranks of all sorts -- which are impossible to answer (how do you prove that you are not a neo-Nazi who wants to kill the Jews, or a rapist, or whatever charge comes along?). That's particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder. For virtually everyone who sees any of this, the reaction will be "where there's smoke there's fire, maybe raging fire" (whatever the facts, which few will even think of investigating). In general, it's best I think not to react unless directly questioned, particularly in the current mood -- which, I presume, will fade away, even if not in time to prevent much torture and distress.
January 31, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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simonwillison.net
I wrote about Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw and Moltbook, the fascinating, weird and sometimes even useful social network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/...
Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …
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January 30, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
www.404media.co
January 30, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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jotatx.bsky.social
Burn this company to the ground
agreenberg.bsky.social Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 3d
The AI-chat-enabled stuffed toy Bondu invites little kids to have intimate conversations with it, like an LLM imaginary friend. It also exposed virtually all their chats on a web interface with no security. Anyone with a Gmail account could log in and read transcripts. www.wired.com/story/an-ai-...
An AI Toy Exposed 50,000 Logs of Its Chats With Kids to Anyone With a Gmail Account
AI chat toy company Bondu left its web console almost entirely unprotected. Researchers who accessed it found nearly all the conversations children had had with the company's stuffed animals.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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joeberkowitz.bsky.social
Incredibly, this is an actual photo New York Post used for the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar.
MAGA fuckface in cozy red sweater, holding dog also wearing sweater, against a background of vivid red foliage. Endlessly useful Zack Fox tweet from 2018: this how photos be lookin in headlines when a white man kills his entire family. (it's a guy on a jetski with wife and daughter.)
January 28, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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davidrvetter.bsky.social
Surprise! Britain's most popular newspaper fervently believes that ICE are the good guys. By an extraordinary coincidence, the same newspaper supported the Nazis in the 1930s.
A Daily Mail headline that reads "The sinister network of agitators unmasking ICE agents ... and its chilling message to America"
January 28, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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martinfowler.com
Fragments: Thoughtworks launches AI/works™, electricity consumption of LLMs, how LLMs shift where we put discipline, and thoughts on The Situation in Minnesota

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Fragments: January 22
fragments 22 Jan 2026
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January 22, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social
as an adult
January 28, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Drowning High Five refers to a comic by Russian artist Gudim showing a hand reaching out of water, evidently belonging to a drowning person. Another hand comes in and gives the drowning hand a high five. The comic has been used as a reaction image and object labeling exploitable. Obama's "here's a podcast" line is in the third panel
January 28, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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404media.co
BREAKING: Hackers claim they’ve hacked Match Group, which runs dating apps Hinge, Match, and OkCupid.

Match Group, the company that owns the targeted platforms as well as Tinder and other massively popular dating apps, says it is investigating the incident.

404 is analyzing the data:
Hackers Say They've Hacked Match Group, Maker of Hinge, OkCupid
Match Group says it is investigating claims that a mass of internal data was hacked from its popular dating apps.
www.404media.co
January 28, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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benstanley.eu
That moment when you can see a bus coming and it has a you-shaped space underneath it
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d
So basically Albert Speer’s defense at Nuremberg.
January 28, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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jasongorman.bsky.social
It's quite comical, really.
January 28, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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localnotail.bsky.social
Mother nature is a raver.
Marram grass leaf. Light micrograph of a cross section through a closed (unravelled) leaf of Marram grass, Ammophila arenaria. The deeply grooved leaf is thrown into folds. The folds conserve water and withstand salt, and prevent excessive evaporation. Round vascular bundles are visible inside each fold, serving to transport food and water through the leaf. They look like smiley faces. The large "eyes" are the xylem, which transport water. The bright blue "mouths" are the phloem, which transport sugars produced during photosynthesis. The spiky, curved structure is a natural adaptation to drought conditions, helping the leaf to roll up and conserve water. Spines on the surface discourage animals from eating the leaf. Marram grass is important in coastal ecology, since it is one of the commonest grass species in Britain to stabilize sand dunes.
January 25, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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January 24, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
Holy shit. Like Tiananmen Square levels of bravery.
dmbmeg.bsky.social Dumb Megan @dmbmeg.bsky.social · 7d
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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timofnewbury.bsky.social
Jonesy cartoon in Private Eye No. 1667
January 25, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
The fricking NRA is now the voice of reason. That’s how far off the deep end the U.S. government and conservative enablers of Trump have gone.
January 25, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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jessasatomp.bsky.social
This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape.

Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.

But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇

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AI nudification: the latest weapon of violence against women and girls
In Julie Burchill’s recent article in the Spectator, Does it really matter if Grok undresses us all?, she makes the argument that those who, like me, have repeatedly had their clothes removed by socia...
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January 23, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
Two hairdressers and a stylist working full-out for 90 minutes before his speech at The Dracula Ideas Summit to make this guy look as absolutely fucked up as possible. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Palantir CEO Says AI to Make Large-Scale Immigration Obsolete
Artificial intelligence will displace so many jobs that it will eliminate the need for mass immigration, according to Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp.
www.bloomberg.com
January 21, 2026 at 8:19 PM