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@legendblade.bsky.social
[He/him] Software Engineering Manager. Sometimes streamer. Gay. Cat-dad to multiple feline menaces. I feel too old for only being in my 30s.
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friendly neighborhood barred attorney telling you to never put your ID on your phone
iPhone driver’s licenses: Here are all the states working on support
iPhone driver’s licenses: Here are all the states working on support
At WWDC 2021, Apple announced support for adding driver’s licenses and state IDs to Apple Wallet. Since then, over a dozen states in the United States have rolled out support for the platform.
As that number continues to grow, here’s where driver’s licenses and state IDs could come next …
more…
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January 20, 2026 at 9:42 PM
friendly neighborhood barred attorney telling you to never put your ID on your phone
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Last year a whistleblower said DOGE had illegally accessed a Social Security database. SSA now acknowledges it's true—& that DOGE employees had secret agreement w/ unidentified political advocacy group to use SocSec data to help overturn election results. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
January 21, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Last year a whistleblower said DOGE had illegally accessed a Social Security database. SSA now acknowledges it's true—& that DOGE employees had secret agreement w/ unidentified political advocacy group to use SocSec data to help overturn election results. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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The fallout of the AI bubble won't be just a financial one, but of mass de-skilling and atrophy
“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”
AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
AI may or may not excel at a lot of things, but from an economic standpoint, it's definitely not making us more productive.
futurism.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:16 PM
The fallout of the AI bubble won't be just a financial one, but of mass de-skilling and atrophy
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Man, I’d be the worst if I ever got isekai’d into a fantasy world and had to solve riddles. “So we can’t kill him in day or night or indoors or outdoors with any weapon made by a man so we’ll kill him in a doorway at twilight with… you know what, have we tried just encasing him in concrete instead?”
January 20, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Man, I’d be the worst if I ever got isekai’d into a fantasy world and had to solve riddles. “So we can’t kill him in day or night or indoors or outdoors with any weapon made by a man so we’ll kill him in a doorway at twilight with… you know what, have we tried just encasing him in concrete instead?”
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We're still looking for someone in the Inland Empire area to adopt or foster this little tortoiseshell kitty. I'm willing to drive halfway to L.A. if anyone there wants to meet up to take her.
A neighbor was taken to a care facility, and her little tortoiseshell kitty was left behind. I can't take her in but I've been feeding her and giving her water every day. No one in the neighbor's family can take her in. Is there anyone in the Inland Empire area that could foster or adopt her?
January 19, 2026 at 9:21 PM
We're still looking for someone in the Inland Empire area to adopt or foster this little tortoiseshell kitty. I'm willing to drive halfway to L.A. if anyone there wants to meet up to take her.
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blast from the past... or the future you prevented #ffxiv #finalfantasyxiv
January 19, 2026 at 8:19 PM
blast from the past... or the future you prevented #ffxiv #finalfantasyxiv
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“We’ve all been…eager to shove COVID under the rug & pretend like 2020 never…happened. It’s totally understandable… [But a groundbreaking new study shows] COVID-19 leaves a distinct fingerprint on the brain’s microstructure & chemical balance, even in people who believe they have fully recovered.”
"even a “mild” infection that you seemingly bounce back from may leave a latent neurological footprint—a silent echo of the virus that persists in the brain’s wiring." #covid #cognition #brain #health
www.zmescience.com/science/news...
www.zmescience.com/science/news...
MRI Scans Reveal Your COVID-19 Can Leave Behind Nasty Brain Damage, Even After You "Recover"
Millions of people could be suffering from unseen damage.
www.zmescience.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:46 PM
“We’ve all been…eager to shove COVID under the rug & pretend like 2020 never…happened. It’s totally understandable… [But a groundbreaking new study shows] COVID-19 leaves a distinct fingerprint on the brain’s microstructure & chemical balance, even in people who believe they have fully recovered.”
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baby goat centaur doodles from a million years ago still make me happy
January 17, 2026 at 8:27 PM
baby goat centaur doodles from a million years ago still make me happy
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Wow, sure would be pretty crazy if a ton of experts in the artificial intelligence field relentlessly warned everyone about this state of affairs being inevitable over and over for years.
January 17, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Wow, sure would be pretty crazy if a ton of experts in the artificial intelligence field relentlessly warned everyone about this state of affairs being inevitable over and over for years.
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SCAM ALERT – IMPORTANT
The cat has already been fed.
The cat has already been fed.
January 16, 2026 at 11:35 AM
SCAM ALERT – IMPORTANT
The cat has already been fed.
The cat has already been fed.
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"I used AI to-" Then you aren't an artist.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a writer.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a coder.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a game dev.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a poet.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a filmmaker.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a teacher.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a writer.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a coder.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a game dev.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a poet.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a filmmaker.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a teacher.
June 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't an artist.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a writer.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a coder.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a game dev.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a poet.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a filmmaker.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a teacher.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a writer.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a coder.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a game dev.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a poet.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a filmmaker.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a teacher.
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No, I will not “shut up” about “AI” being an ecology-wrecking fascist grift, and honestly I judge anyone who asks me to do so.
January 10, 2026 at 4:34 PM
No, I will not “shut up” about “AI” being an ecology-wrecking fascist grift, and honestly I judge anyone who asks me to do so.
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Holy crap.
If you've worked with Hiveworks, you need to read this.
If you've worked with Hiveworks, you need to read this.
The Hiveworks Artist Guild has released a public statement alleging years of labor abuses, financial mismanagement, and misconduct at Hiveworks at the hands of Xellette “Xel” Velamist and Isabelle “Isa” Melançon. Read their full statement at:
cartoonist.coop/hiveworks-gu...
cartoonist.coop/hiveworks-gu...
January 12, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Holy crap.
If you've worked with Hiveworks, you need to read this.
If you've worked with Hiveworks, you need to read this.
Medieval torturers: "We have created the rack..."
My spine: "Well hello there"
My spine: "Well hello there"
January 11, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Medieval torturers: "We have created the rack..."
My spine: "Well hello there"
My spine: "Well hello there"
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had it up to here!!!
January 11, 2026 at 2:03 AM
had it up to here!!!
Nothing like finishing a long and... quite dark and emotional story and experiencing a sense of loss because that's it for the characters (... the ones who survived).
Bleh.
Bleh.
January 10, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Nothing like finishing a long and... quite dark and emotional story and experiencing a sense of loss because that's it for the characters (... the ones who survived).
Bleh.
Bleh.
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Do not use the news as a self-flagellation device, it does not help you, and it does not help those around you.
Read about events, and intake what you can, but be strict about what you can tolerate and what you cannot. You can't help other people if you're actively hurting yourself.
Read about events, and intake what you can, but be strict about what you can tolerate and what you cannot. You can't help other people if you're actively hurting yourself.
January 7, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Do not use the news as a self-flagellation device, it does not help you, and it does not help those around you.
Read about events, and intake what you can, but be strict about what you can tolerate and what you cannot. You can't help other people if you're actively hurting yourself.
Read about events, and intake what you can, but be strict about what you can tolerate and what you cannot. You can't help other people if you're actively hurting yourself.
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As if artists don't have enough to deal with, Amazon has a "Buy For Me" program in beta which is scraping indie shops for their items and putting them up on Amazon (often incorrectly), for their "AI agent" to buy from the other site. It is NOT opt in, and there is no opt out.
I just found out that our stuff is being sold on Amazon - WITHOUT our consent or any ability to opt out bc Amazon is just scraping artist’s websites and putting our shit in their search results. Again, without our permission.
December 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
As if artists don't have enough to deal with, Amazon has a "Buy For Me" program in beta which is scraping indie shops for their items and putting them up on Amazon (often incorrectly), for their "AI agent" to buy from the other site. It is NOT opt in, and there is no opt out.
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this is how every outlet should refer to X
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
this is how every outlet should refer to X
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Also there’s a solution to this that exists already and doesn’t require weird AI shit and it’s “you seem to be having trouble would you like to turn the difficulty down or skip this battle?”
January 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Also there’s a solution to this that exists already and doesn’t require weird AI shit and it’s “you seem to be having trouble would you like to turn the difficulty down or skip this battle?”
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Das gilt übrigens auch für Deutschland. Wenn euer Gerät illegalem Content begegnet ist das ausreichende Grundlage für Kripo
Not even the prompts. If you are a Twitter user in the UK and Twitter sticks a Grok CSAM image in your feed for WHATEVER reason, well congrats your device just downloaded child porn. And you are legally responsible for that.
Even if nobody wants to take action against Musk for building a CSAM generator, there are people using it who are based in the UK and those prompts are absolutely something that would get you on the sex offender's register. Absolutely no justification not to try to identify and prosecute users.
January 5, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Das gilt übrigens auch für Deutschland. Wenn euer Gerät illegalem Content begegnet ist das ausreichende Grundlage für Kripo
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Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.
January 3, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.