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  I grew up in a cult. And this is the first article on this stuff that has clearly captured the cultishness — if saying no to something loses your friends, house, job, and community… you are definitely in a cult. And this is like five of them. Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan https://iankduncan.com/personal/2026-09-16-sex-ai-and-the-apocalypse/

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  RE: https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/117270577434344129 I was a founder, fired by my board, for far less egregious sins than Matt (I dared to let growth sink to 70% annually - and I was dumb enough to hire a COO with no loyalty). Yeah this is heinously weak.

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  This is a long and incredibly fucking depressing list of tech people who have either gone full fascist or are just perfectly comfortable hanging out with and supporting those who have. Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH https://brennan.day/normalized-fascism-in-open-source-12-million-given-to-dhh/

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  Welp, I finally saw the Odyssey tonight. Nolan is a whole thing, isn’t he? Wants audio to be uncomfortable, believes color is offensive except in very small and relatively dark doses. Has never seen a smile before. Is so afraid someone might break the fourth wall that actors are not allowed to ever look at the camera. I have regularly thought of the movies of his I have watched. But I am not sure I have ever *enjoyed* them, or thought them good movies? Memento was probably the one that haunts...

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  RE: https://sfba.social/@historyofpunkrock/117018129540167223 They’ve always been here, and what we have could not exist without them

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  RE: https://sfba.social/@historyofpunkrock/117018151631617867 Thank god gender queer was only invented a few years ago

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  Last week at Local First Conf, it seems like everyone was talking about ATProto. I really want to build on it, but I'm not sure I'll be able to. I wrote up what and how and why not: https://lukekanies.com/writing/building-on-atproto/ (ActivityPub was never an option, because it's even less local-first, and the HOA mentality makes it impossible to build applications on.) #atproto

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  My twins’ doctor’s office just changed software systems, and the changeover managed to merge a bunch of their records. Siblings born on the same day is still too challenging for the modern software industry, in the year of our lord 2026. Yay.

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  It’s very cool to be at the VoxConf 2026. I just came by briefly to say hi. I did a quick summary of what my goals were when I started Puppet, back in2005: - Sysadmins should use software written by sysadmins - Sysadmins should have a seat at the table, not just have code thrown over the wall - The job of system administration should change from manual, one-off work to strategic, high level, automated work It’s great to see the community working to build a strong, viable community around a tru...

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  @ripienaar@devco.social I’ve tried that. The plans are fine. It’s the architecture, the interworking that I have not been happy with. I have also struggled with plenty of details around web dev just not producing an app that feels good, but I am not as deep into that so not sure how much that’s my lack of experience vs actual limitations.

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  This article is *a lot*. (It is also very very long.) Do not read unless you want to learn far more about interracial porn and right wing insanity, and how it all overlaps. The Interracial Cuck Porn Theory of Everything https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interracial-cuck-porn-theory-of-everything/

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  This is a hell of a review. A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dangerous-dirty-violent-young-ayers-dohrn-weather-underground

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  The Network You Can’t See https://mikefisher.substack.com/p/the-network-you-cant-see

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  Wow. What a note to attach to an article. https://lingo.lol/@Neverfadingwood/110826104304469376

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  Radical freedom! Turing Test 2.0 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/652

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  RE: https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/116352646031251286 Damn. This is a great article. I love reading something that goes into company culture, how a company works and thinks differently. It’s very rare.

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  This is pretty interesting analysis. Inside Claude Code's leaked source: swarms, daemons, and 44 features Anthropic kept behind flags https://thenewstack.io/claude-code-source-leak/

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  [@V0ldek](https://awful.systems/u/V0ldek) VCs and tech founders loved them, and thought everyone else would too

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  This is a good and fun article on the diffusion of the chili through China, and its relationship to class structure Poor Man's Stir Fry: Chili-Fried Chili (辣椒炒辣椒) https://chinesecookingdemystified.substack.com/p/poor-mans-stir-fry-chili-fried-chili

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  Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/sperm-whales-alphabet-vocalizations-similar-humans

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  This is an amazing piece on the ugly collision of AI and corporate culture. I don’t know what the corporate x AI world looks like in three years. But I do know that’s around when we’ll start to figure out the consequences of all the stupid shit people are doing now, and I bet money there are going to be some spectacular holes in the ground as a result. The AI Great Leap Forward https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

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  So *this* has been what’s spooking the private credit markets (from February). I knew they were shaky, but figured it was a more obscure finance reason. Nope, it’s AI. Well, a made up, far out, extreme imagined worst-case scenario involving AI. ‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/24/feedback-loop-no-brake-how-ai-doomsday-report-rattled-markets

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  RE: https://sfba.social/@historyofpunkrock/116265446753421823 Nazi punks, fuck off

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  I found this to be a very rational and calming take on the whole Gas Town meth binge. Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale https://maggieappleton.com/gastown

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  @hongminhee @jalefkowit huh. I’ve been pondering using it for some projects of mine, so this is good to know. Is it a fundamental problem with JSON-LD, such that it should just be avoided, or a problem with how ActivityPub uses it? And is there something else you’d recommend that fulfills the same goals?

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  I Am An AI Hater http://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html