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@sethvirtually.bsky.social

just a dude being guy https://heyhowdy.blog

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I also think a lot of the people who get on board with AI doomerism are themselves addicted to the technology and reason that if someone as smart as them can fall prey to it, then the world at large is doomed, when the reality is that they refuse to criticize their own profound spiritual weakness.

happy father’s day to all, except whoever thought nailing this feature wall directly into the drywall and giving it the thickest coat of latex paint known to man was a good idea

i’m infinitely capable of explaining what i do in interesting and meaningful ways until the second someone who decides if i move up ladder or not is in the room

the best part of primary season in oklahoma is watching people who voted for the “grab them by the pussy” guy twice pretend their moral fiber is to strong to elect a guy who texted a woman that she was hot while he was married

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We are very happy that today Apple issued a patch and a security advisory. This comes following 404 Media reporting that the FBI accessed Signal message notification content via iOS despite the app being deleted.

i’m growing increasingly worried that folks are simply going to applaud and ignore the degradation of free speech and access to information on the internet just because they think they’re “sticking it to big tech”

getting into self hosting and homelabbing has been giving me hope for the internet to feel fun again. i’ve often let my more indie web endeavors and tastes die just to fall back into the convienence traps of the modern web. but you really don’t need it.

sethvirtually.comIt's not that hard to leave the big web behindThis last month I've jumped into the deep end of self hosting and home-lab-ing. In large part this is a piece of my ongoing efforts to stop relying on a lot ...

you might have gone to xian college when you open linkedin to see your former dorm mate posting about how quitting porn, smart phones, tv, socials, movies, processed food, and the news cured them of ADHD

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The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill. open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...

open.substack.comLet Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet ScandalInside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.

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Court battle over surveillance footage at the Broadview ICE detention center reaches new levels of kafkaesque absurdity: The DOJ claimed it *couldn't afford* hard drives to put video footage on. Plaintiffs bought THE US GOVERNMENT hard drives. ICE "lost" them. www.404media.co/government-l...

404media.coGovernment Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage OnA Kafkaesque saga in which the government has failed to produce critical video footage has reached new levels of absurdity.

conservatives i’m sorry you had to see so many not white people for 30seconds while you called your grandkids to figure out how to stream turning point on your tv. that had to be very traumatic for you.

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Man this is really something

David F Brand@davidfbrand.bsky.social

Mayor Mamdani names criminal justice reformer Stanley Richards as NYC’s new Department of Correction commissioner Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails system @gothamist.com @wnyc.org gothamist.com/news/mamdani...

the newly circulating Pretti video is not AI. frankly scary how easy it is to dismiss anything as AI generated now and holy shit the future is going to suck. it still doesn’t justify him being executed in the street. still murder.

based on an interaction i had this week, ai search results are already radicalizing people. the sycophancy factor is bending information and making up facts just to play to peoples established biases