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proud union programmer @bethesda.net (views are my own and do not reflect my employer) photographer at https://zacaudette.com/ for new classical music performed by women checkout https://newdownbeat.com

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Why I Don’t Vibe Code A “brief” accounting of various reasons why vibe coding has just never clicked for me personally as a developer.

Hey all, I decided to write up some of my thoughts in more detail about why I don't vibe code, in case it's interesting to any of you

jacobharr.is/personal/i-d...

06.03.2026 15:19 👍 78 🔁 21 💬 11 📌 14
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‘We Couldn’t Say the Title’: Darcie Little Badger on the Words Banned at a Utah University When a Utah university gave author Darcie Little Badger a list of words she couldn’t say, she was stunned.

‘We Couldn’t Say the Title’: @littlebadger.bsky.social on the Words Banned at a Utah University pen.org/darcie-littl...

05.03.2026 19:07 👍 32 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 1

so many people have headed calls to move off Google to places like proton. Actual useful advice is that you try to keep as much sensitive info offline as possible.

05.03.2026 20:57 👍 378 🔁 94 💬 7 📌 1
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830792528 Polygon The Rise Of The Video Game Union : Nicole Carpenter : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive “The Rise of the Video Game Union” is an all-in-one explainer on why game workers are unionizing. Polygon created a zine of the original story that is...

With GDC only a few days away, I added @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social's brilliant gaming union zine/explainer to archive.org. The previous host for the PDF added a monthly subscription.

Please feel free to print and share as you wish!

05.03.2026 20:33 👍 136 🔁 41 💬 1 📌 2
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

05.03.2026 20:39 👍 2433 🔁 1395 💬 92 📌 339
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

05.03.2026 20:41 👍 2799 🔁 1535 💬 89 📌 384
The Big Gay Myth of Masculinity in Sports, with Jay Jurden | PTFO
The Big Gay Myth of Masculinity in Sports, with Jay Jurden | PTFO YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

The Big Gay Myth of Masculinity in Sports — with Mississippi’s own @jayjurden.bsky.social: youtu.be/2tYHGWMLwpM?...

03.03.2026 14:30 👍 155 🔁 28 💬 2 📌 13
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CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

03.03.2026 14:07 👍 1171 🔁 728 💬 31 📌 119

Masks should never have been removed from medical settings.

03.03.2026 02:23 👍 131 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 1
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Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai Some AWS services are down in the Middle East. Recovery is unclear as it requires 'careful assessment to ensure the safety of our operators,' according to Amazon.

AWS services are down across the Middle East after 'objects' struck Amazon data centers near Dubai over the weekend

02.03.2026 16:05 👍 250 🔁 89 💬 7 📌 29

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

02.03.2026 03:03 👍 6311 🔁 1494 💬 104 📌 75

Toni Morrison said, “My responsibilities are to do the best work I can do and to be the best human being I can be.”

”You must know when you're at your best… And, and no matter what, you must be unblinking, be really unblinking and really, really true."

02.03.2026 04:28 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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As Trump Bombs Iran, We Need to Reckon With the American War Machine We cannot afford to slip into despair. We must push back against militarism everywhere, at every turn.

Essential reading. "We in the U.S. need to reckon with the fact that so much of our state wealth, capacity, and technology goes toward burying children in rubble."

01.03.2026 00:09 👍 401 🔁 194 💬 7 📌 10
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How US tech giants supplied Israel with AI models, raising questions about tech's role in warfare U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services.

I would like to remind people that AI has already been used to kill people

OpenAI and Microsoft supplied Israel with AI models to track and kill people in Gaza which led to increased civilian deaths

apnews.com/article/isra...

28.02.2026 14:26 👍 1440 🔁 695 💬 26 📌 22

What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.

28.02.2026 14:35 👍 3365 🔁 1109 💬 18 📌 0
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Robin D. G. Kelley: It’s Not Enough to Abolish ICE — We Have to Abolish the Police “What’s happening now has happened before,” Kelley said, underscoring the anti-Blackness foundational to US fascism.

“Anti-Blackness is foundational to U.S. fascism, which as you acknowledged, not only precedes the so-called ‘classical’ fascism in Italy and Germany, but for Hitler and the Third Reich, a model for the racist and antisemitic Nuremberg laws.” ~ Robin D. G. Kelley

27.02.2026 02:03 👍 87 🔁 40 💬 1 📌 1

The fact that there’s a secret network of doulas going around Minneapolis to help with home births for parents afraid of ICE should be front-page news.

These children, born in secrecy, are American citizens.

24.02.2026 18:38 👍 2631 🔁 1097 💬 32 📌 17
film poster. black text on cream. black panther in the corner. poster reads: Power to the People Y'all. A tressie mcmillan cottom film.

film poster. black text on cream. black panther in the corner. poster reads: Power to the People Y'all. A tressie mcmillan cottom film.

Sign up for updates: linktr.ee/powertothepe...

24.02.2026 22:18 👍 711 🔁 103 💬 15 📌 8

Painful to read this and think about the 2021 coup attempt, which was as blatant as it gets. An utter failure of US elites to seize the moment when everybody saw the threat right in front of their eyes.

If we have history books in the future, they will be unkind.

24.02.2026 16:35 👍 2785 🔁 608 💬 37 📌 31

Wow

21.02.2026 14:25 👍 181 🔁 31 💬 3 📌 1
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Tunic, Night in the Woods Publisher Says TikTok Is Creating and Running Racist GenAI Ads for Its Games Without Permission - IGN Publisher Finji says that TikTok has been using generative AI to modify its ads on the platform without permission and pushing those ads to its users without Finji's knowledge, including at least one ...

Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something.

www.ign.com/articles/tun...

20.02.2026 13:03 👍 3144 🔁 1325 💬 50 📌 134
We’ve Got to Bounce Back │ Gareth Damian Martin on Citizen Sleeper 2
We’ve Got to Bounce Back │ Gareth Damian Martin on Citizen Sleeper 2 This game was designed so you would fail. In this interview, Gareth Damian Martin explains why Citizen Sleeper 2 is built around crisis, instability, and the effort of recovery. Rather than simply…

"We've got to bounce back" 🛰️

Interviewing @jumpovertheage.com taught us why Citizen Sleeper 2 is built around crisis, instability and the effort of recovery.

Check out the FULL conversation we had with them on Youtube!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsuv...

19.02.2026 18:00 👍 83 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 0

Every administrator, every board of trustees, every president, chancellor who bent the knee to Trump and his cronies should immediately be stripped of their position and driven from their institutions.

19.02.2026 05:40 👍 740 🔁 198 💬 3 📌 7
ClickOut Media logo on a light blue background

ClickOut Media logo on a light blue background

ClickOut Media (owners of The Escapist, Esports Insider) has conducted mass layoffs, with almost all editorial staff laid off to reportedly be replaced by AI, with just a skeleton crew of AI editors remaining.

(Read more at Insider Gaming)

17.02.2026 16:04 👍 41 🔁 19 💬 5 📌 25
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A once-underused immigration enforcement program has exploded under Trump Partnerships between ICE and local law enforcement agencies has expanded widely, under the second Trump administration, data analyzed by NPR shows.

Partnerships between ICE and local law enforcement agencies has expanded widely, under the second Trump administration, data analyzed by NPR shows. n.pr/4003k2N

17.02.2026 11:12 👍 199 🔁 110 💬 25 📌 27
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With A Cause | Official Trailer | American Masters | PBS
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With A Cause | Official Trailer | American Masters | PBS YouTube video by American Masters PBS

Coming this May. A documentary about WEB Du Bois - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kMs...

16.02.2026 15:03 👍 400 🔁 114 💬 5 📌 0

Forums for speech don’t, as it turns out, democratically self-moderate towards the good or correct when left totally unchecked.

It’s so cool that the biggest platforms in the world provide and protect the space for far-right hate groups to try and ruin mine and my friends’ lives.

16.02.2026 14:55 👍 128 🔁 40 💬 4 📌 0

Coding is only filled with drudgery if you don’t treat it with respect and as a craft. People don’t learn it that way in bootcamps, and startup culture and short sighted leadership don’t create an environment that encourages good work. The answer isn’t to turbocharge slop.

15.02.2026 01:40 👍 33 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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