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@brettmn.dev
Software developer, player of games, and printer of 3d things. WIPDeveloper.com
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ladies, is your programming - a field dominated by rich white men - driven by fashion trends - practiced as a demonstration of status - funded by vanity projects for failsons - filled with queers trying and failing to break even that's art, sorry
I don’t know how people could say that programming and art are completely different disciplines when both workflows involve going ‘This will never work, I’m a failure’, changing one thing, then thinking you might be the smartest person alive
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70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
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Seems relevant to that flood of journalists who in the last few weeks announced publicly that it was okay to return to X, that the platform had gotten better, and the worst aspects of it had been minimized. This is what you have endorsed.
On X, users have circulated nonconsenual AI videos created by Grok of a woman they think is Jane Doe. They continue to spread her name. People have praised X for staying relevant for AI and tech conversation. But it also is the main vector for a doxing. That is X. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/n...
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Trump started a trade war with our biggest ally and gave a handout to our biggest enemy.
President Donald Trump’s diesel deal with Russia is unlikely to significantly reduce fuel prices for truckers and farmers, because the amount that Moscow will supposedly export is very small compared with U.S. and global demand. Read the full story: cnb.cx/3VHrlN3
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An Open Letter To The People Writing Lengthy Posts About 'Why I'm Going Back to Twitter' dansinker.com/posts/2026-1...
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The frequency of these is increasing, so do your civic duty today! Once your deliverability is affected by spam complaints, it's *really hard* to reverse, so the lazy sloperators will start to vanish for everyone
reporting emails as spam is doing a civic duty for everyone else because the more spam complaints a sender receives, the bigger impact on their deliverability do your civic duty today and every slop spam email you get, report it as spam
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NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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Last Sunday #communityharvestleague took down apples from two apple trees: Honey crisp and Haralson apples. Unfortunately past their prime so they were headed to #littlebluestravelingzoo farm 😍 if you are interested in volunteering, sign up at CommunityHarvestLeague.org!
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Official statement on today's SCOTUS ruling. With the election approaching, please check your registration at mnvotes.org and act quickly on any official notice about your voter status.
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If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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Hey, friends—I'm excited to share my new project! I call it Tupo. It's a daily logic puzzle with roots in sudoku, where every cell has to have a unique color-number combo. Give it a shot if you like daily logic games, and let me know what you think! playtupo.com
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Cancelled my @1password.bsky.social account today, after many years as a happy customer. I was kinda hoping they'd recant on the whole YoU cAnT jUsT sAy RaCiStS aRe EvIL thing and stop showering a white supremacist with money, but since it seems like they won't, I'll take my business elsewhere.
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Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. Impossible to see this as anything but a statement of their values.
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but sure just keep posting about tech on there yeh?
Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...
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Appreciate this "ode to links" by @jim-nielsen.com They are a tiny but powerful artifact for sharing culture and ideas. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ode-to-...
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Dividing up AI users in 3 categories: Wizard: approaches AI academically & with appropriate guards & wards. Treats it like a tool. Warlock: Makes a pact for power with an alien entity without considering the costs. Is corrupted by the whispers. Cleric: worships their new machine god. Is insane.
This is warlockphobic. Shameful.
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Trump has spent more than a year dangling “dividends,” “rebates,” and $2,000 checks in front of Americans. The amount and timeline keeps changing. The number of checks that have actually reached the public? Zero. Credit: @groundwork.bsky.social
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