“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses, because somewhere down the road of history, some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

The road to fascist hell is paved with well intentioned quarterly earnings

He’s a national treasure!

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/o...

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The Hallucinating ChatGPT Presidency We generally understand how LLM hallucinations work. An AI model tries to generate what seems like a plausible response to whatever you ask it, drawing on its training data to construct something t…

Just like web became a place and google became a verb, transformative tech has a way of entering our lexicon

Trump’s jibber jabber and slop may be agentic! 🙂

www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/t...

Brilliant, timely, and spot on from Greg. Again.

Full moon lunar eclipse aka blood moon

Blood moon rises high
Tyrants fall to justice keen
Shadows claim the throne

The End of Programming as We Know It

Well researched, well argued and opinionated. Another great piece by Tim O’Reilly

www.oreilly.com/radar/the-en...

Exclusive: Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes More good news for those looking to exit Meta's social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a

Let's Gooo!
techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/b...

Meta just flipped the switch that prevents misinformation from spreading in the United States The company built effective systems to reduce the reach of fake news. Last week, it shut them down

White apologies to Billy Joel

Mmh, you can say the human heart
Is only make believe
I am only fighting fire with fire
But you are still a victim
Of the lies you let by
As sure as I'm a victim of desire

www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

Poignant, heartwarming letter from President Jimmy Carter written in response to a 13-year-old seeking advice from former presidents. Only President Carter responded.

This is the America I know and love.

Shared by Fr. James Martin, SJ.

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Zakir 1951-2024

A tribute and a loving remembrance worthy of the master!

open.substack.com/pub/srajagop...

Isn’t it nice when you can reuse ads to promote a sustainable economy ? 🙂

We got our turkey from a tiny rural MA farm full of Trump-signed landscapes. The contents of one freezer at the general store - pierogis, falafel, dumplings and dosa batter reminded me that in a battle between hate/division and hope/inclusion, my money is on the latter (and the batter!)

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Bluesky's biggest accounts: Top 10 most-followed users on the app With more than 19 million users to date, here are the top ten most followed accounts on Bluesky.

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This helped me process the election results a bit #nyc #lowereastside #streetart #kobra

💡 Tip: You can set your website as your username on Bluesky!

This is one form of self-verification, and we especially encourage official organizations and brands to do this! Examples include @npr.org @react.dev @duolingobrasil.com.br.

Here's our guide for how to do this:

In case you missed the other Starter Pack this feed offers:

Happy Friday! #bayarea #sunrise

How to Clean Up Your Bluesky Feed In our recent comparison of Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads, we detail a few of the ways the similar-at-a-glance microblogging social networks differ, and one of the main distinctions is how much contr...

Hello Blue Sky world!

Exploring here and learning the pros and cons of this platform. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... seems useful