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jkuznicki.bsky.social
I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.
August 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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danielbiss.bsky.social
Get the hell out of Evanston.
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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anildash.com
"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
October 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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heartlandsignal.bsky.social
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."
October 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
They ruined Google search for nothing
johngramlich.bsky.social John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · Oct 5
So far at least, Americans are lukewarm about AI summaries in search results. Relatively few who have seen them think they're extremely or very useful (20%) or have a lot of trust in the information they get from them (6%). New data from @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Bar chart showing that 20% of Americans who have seen AI summaries in search results believe these summaries are extremely or very useful. Far more (52%) see them as somewhat useful, while 28% see them as not too or not at all useful. The chart is based on an August 2025 Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults. Bar chart showing that 6% of Americans who have seen AI summaries in search results have a lot of trust in the information they get from these summaries. Another 48% have some trust in this information, while 34% have not too much trust and 12% have no trust at all. The chart is based on an August 2025 Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults.
October 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.
PARTIES3. Plaintiff José Escobar Molina is a 47-year-old man who has lived in D.C. for 25 years. He has maintained valid Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for El Salvador since 2001. On August 21, 2025, Mr. Escobar Molina was walking from his apartment building in Northwest D.C.to his work truck, about to start his workday, when two cars pulled up next to him. As he was about to get into his truck, plain-clothed and unidentified federal agents exited the cars and—without conducting any inquiry—seized Mr. Escobar Molina, grabbing him by the arms and legs and immediately handcuffing him. The agents arrested him without a warrant and without asking for his name, his identification, or anything about his immigration status. The agents also did not ask him where he lives, whom he lives with, how long he has lived here, or anything else about his ties to the community prior to arresting him. After ICE detained Mr. Escobar Molina overnight at its processing center in Chantilly, Virginia, the next day an ICE supervisor finally realized that he had valid TPS, which statutorily prohibits ICE from detaining him, and released him. Due tohis Latino ethnicity, Mr. Escobar Molina fears being arrested and detained again while going about his daily life in D.C.
September 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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amybrown.xyz
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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swin24.bsky.social
I don’t care if he doesn’t back this up with further action, in a normal time, this is a major scandal, showing the president of the United States has nothing but contempt for the first amendment, basic rights, and his fellow citizens and will act accordingly in various ways.
July 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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kathleenbelew.bsky.social
"No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.
Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a
different administration may try to seize firearms from law-abiding citizens or prevent people of certain faiths from
gathering to worship... I dissent. " - Sotomayor
June 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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chriscjackson.bsky.social
“oh They got this all screwed up”
Trump 2024
June 17, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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migueldeicaza.bsky.social
Inspired by the talk, and a few spare hours to kill, a nice 2.6x boost in SwiftTerm performance: github.com/migueldeicaz...
Performance · Issue #373 · migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm
Currently about 12% of our performance when outputting characters is being consumed by swift_beginAccess when the insertCharacter accesses the buffer properties, and then when the buffer itself acc...
github.com
June 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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airspeedswift.bsky.social
Learn how to optimize your Swift code with new language ehnancements from @nnnnnnnn.bsky.social in Improve memory usage and performance with Swift

developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

#swift #swiftlang #wwdc
WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer
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June 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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swift.org
The story behind the Apple Password Monitoring service, handling multiple billions of requests per day from devices all over the world, which was recently rewritten in Swift: www.swift.org/blog/swift-a...
In comparison with the previous Java service, the updated backend delivers a 40% increase in performance, along with improved scalability, security, and availability.
June 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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airspeedswift.bsky.social
Here's the quote in context. It's good advice! But it's clear about how you absolutely need to spend time on that 3%.

Key is to get your project into a state where you can continuously identify the 3% whenever you add new code.
A screenshot of an old computer science paper. It has been OCRd but is clearly a high quality scan of a printout. There is no doubt that the grail of effi- ciency leads to abuse. Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficieney actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: pre- mature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportuni- ties in that critical 3%. A good programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been identified. It is often a mistake to make a priori judgments about what parts of a program are really critical, since the universal experience of programmers who have been using measurement tools has been that their intuitive guesses fail. After work- ing with such tools for seven years, I've be- come convinced that all compilers written from now on should be designed to provide all programmers with feedback indicating what parts of their programs are costing the most; indeed, this feedback should be supplied automatically unless it has been specifically turned off.
April 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM