@nvkaushik.bsky.social
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!! CALL TO ACTION !! #Booksky

please join me in the fight to save our libraries.

EveryLibrary is working hard to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and grant recipients.
April 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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LTO-9 tapes are 18TB, cost under $100 each, and last for 30+ years making them the most efficient cold storage solution on the market, which every competent IT professional knows, but no im sure you can just dump all of that essential data in some shitty budget cloud storage service lmao
April 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Whenever this all ends, and who knows when that will be, the United States is going to need a Truth & Reconciliation Commission. There has to be a full accounting of the wrongdoing and the collaborators.
April 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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The stocks I buy soon as I sell my entire position
April 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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BREAKING: CaaStle, a fashion startup who raised over $534 million from VCs, just declared itself broke in "one of the biggest startup frauds ever", per Axios.

Investors are now wiped out after "founder financial misconduct".
March 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Foreigner and Russian sympathizer bribes congresspersons to do his bidding, and break their oaths of office.
Musk donates to GOP members of Congress pushing to impeach judges who oppose Trump
Trum push to impeach judges come as administration is accused of defying federal court order on deportation flights
www.independent.co.uk
March 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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March 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Bluesky’s tshirt pivot will be called Threads 🧵
March 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Jensen Huang has been talking for two hours. Has he been describing the function of each transistor on their newest chip? $NVDA
March 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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I’d just like to reiterate today:

UBI NOW
March 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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NEW: Months before Google was accused in a lawsuit of facilitating the suicide of a teen user of the Google-tied chatbot startup CharacterAI, researchers at Google DeepMind warned in a paper that chatbots could target minors and manipulate vulnerable users into suicide.

futurism.com/google-suici...
March 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
@houstonlanding.bsky.social Hello HLanding. Relatively new supporter here. Just wondering if you have any stories in pipeline about car breakins in the city ?
March 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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#F1 I’m glad everyone is feeling for Hadjar acknowledging and accepting his apparent crying. Not too long ago he would have been told to “man up and shut up”.
March 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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When asked about the benefits to society of Universal Basic Income, David Graeber mentioned this.
March 16, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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In 2019, the National Park Service had a budget of $4 billion but generated over $30 billion in economic activity.

Firing federal workers and cutting public programs is going to end up costing us MORE, not less.
New data from the US Treasury reveals that federal spending was $603 billion in February, which is $36 billion HIGHER than February last year under Biden.

This suggests that DOGE has done nothing to cut spending.
Trump's first month showed $36 billion more in spending than last year
This February's monthly statement showed federal payments that were $36 billion higher than last February's.
www.axios.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Just to be clear, a big reason @altssa.altgov.info and I are here is because it's painfully obvious to employees that SSA is being sabotaged. They want it to break so they can kill it and blame us.

We need all your help to spread the word far and wide so these people can't escape responsibility.
March 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin".

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
March 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM