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@globalvoices.org *Strait. It’s crooked, but narrow.

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So, any tech support chatbot programmers on here? Make a note: the bot telling me it “understands my frustration” doesn’t help. On the contrary.

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@eurobubba.com 🙁

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@lisamims.bsky.social I wouldn’t take that one if I were you.

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@fightforaunion.bsky.social Can we get the Ukes to make a drone strike on that bus?

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@AlexKucera I decided when I was 11 years old that I wanted to be called Michael instead of Mike. When I noticed that people I had just met and introduced myself to as Michael would still call me Mike, I got stubborn about it. My high school friends called me Michael Dammit.

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@hrfmadsen.bsky.social I once installed OS X on an SD card.

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@ambermac.bsky.social Pippin lives!

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@medievalists.bsky.social Lesson one: Don’t hold it by the sharp part!

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@mitch I mean, if they support government thugs literally murdering people in the streets, probably not.

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@chrisbreuer.me Unless it’s a recent feature that I’ve missed, one thing Apple Passwords doesn’t do is host a subset of logins for remote team members.

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@canion When I was solo I went back and forth between DEVONthink and Obsidian. I added Notion after hiring a couple of VAs. They’re all good in different ways but I can’t say I’m a raving fan of any of them. I’d love to be able to settle on just one.

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@mitch Yet.

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@canion Like OF in what way?

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@the Everybody’s got the warm fuzzies for him because he’s nicer than 🎃, but I blame Dubya.

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@astrobites.bsky.social They would just speak with extremely squeaky voices.

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@dappergander.bsky.social Cheezus, is this even legal? (As if that matters to this regime…)

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@mitch I shot a cockroach with a BB gun once.

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@msbeaeli.bsky.social Many Americans are revolting.

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@atrupar.com That ship has sailed way out across the Gulf of America, crossed the American Ocean, and is about to fall off the edge of Planet America.

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@toddgrotenhuis I think it’s more of a deeply entrenched conception of who the enemy is. We see something similar on the left with the tankie types who embrace Putin because Russia is seen as the longstanding enemy of American “imperialism”. (Interesting how Pootie manages to mesmerize both ends of the horseshoe.)

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@morrick And we wouldn’t have any of this notch nonsense.

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@normative.bsky.social Totally worth it. The symbolism matters. The Rose Garden also needs to be restored. The cost will be a drop in the bucket (and they should add a new high-income tax bracket to cover it).

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@punkonbuslives.bsky.social Three decades of learned helplessness.

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@eurobubba.com Spooky stuff. Pumpkin spice.

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I don’t mean to startle anyone, but in barely over a month it will be October.

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@jonathansocials.com My father was slaughtered by a six-fingered man.

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None of the lifelong experts in the field are doing this simple thing I just thought of. It must be because I am brilliant and they are stupid.

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The Texas STEP Deadline That Actually Matters Isn’t September 10: swift-passage.com

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The English-speaking world is sometimes called the anglosphere. For French it’s la francophonie. Is there an analogous expression for Spanish?

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In the rush to block / mute / filter out slop, let’s not inadvertently cancel people who aren’t native English speakers and are using AI translation to help communicate with you or the world at large.

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daringfireball.net/linked/20…

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Apple should merge the new improved Golden Gate Siri with Terminal. Siri should be smart enough to distinguish among chat prompts, searches, and CLI commands, or ask the user if there’s an ambiguity.

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Vive la France!

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www.lemonde.fr/en/france…

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Accidentally discovered a pretty great local singer this evening at a place I wasn’t even expecting to be a music venue.

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music.apple.com/us/album/…

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Inchoate thought: the way I’ve been using Claude Cowork with various MCPs makes me wonder how much longer “applications” as we know them will remain a useful concept. We still need visual representations of our data, but LLM harnesses will keep getting better at generating those on the fly.

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We don’t have a social media age verification requirement in Texas, do we? Bluesky being weird.

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Mary Heimann’s Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed is like the Fox News version of history and the Czechs are the Democrats.

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Inside the Gulliver

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Rawr!

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Steve Jobs might have been the boss from hell, but “If you can’t get this together, you will not have descendants” is a great line.

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geoffreycain.net/steve-job…

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Neighbor

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Spirits Industry Faces Legislative Shifts and Market Headwinds in 2026 \"Assorted : swift-passage.com

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P. Terry’s should have a mascot. Pterry the Pterodactyl.

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David says the Roadrunner movie will be released after all. Beep beep!

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www.macsparky.com/blog/2026…

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“Default Global”: Thinking Big from Day One: swift-passage.com

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I just found out an old friend in Czecho died of cancer last week. I didn’t even know he was ill. I didn’t see him when I was over there last month because he lived outside of Prague and I thought I’d have more time in June.

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This is too bad if they’re really closed for good. Sotol is a pretty interesting drink.

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www.bizjournals.com/austin/ne…

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Happy day.

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US-Canada tensions rising as USMCA review nears: swift-passage.com

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