I wrote about agentic coding techniques: why I use it even though the AI industry is evil, stuff about open models, how I ensure high quality maintainable code, and how I sandbox agents micahflee.com/agentic-codi...

Agentic coding techniques

Since LLMs have been available, I've been doing a lot of coding using agents. Unlike shoving AI into every app, replacing customer support with chatbots, generating endless streams of slop, etc., agen...

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Rape is the central pillar of the right-wing agenda, the right to terrorize other people in the most intimate way possible.

Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterday

Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2

Exclusive: cases of Afghan man, Ukrainian man and Saudi woman show repeated nasogastric tube insertions and lack of legal representation

‘What they’re doing qualifies as torture’: new details of ICE force-feeding revealed

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The US military tested a GPS jammer and murdered a bunch of civilians on a civilian plane. futurism.com/science-ener...

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico

A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.

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Markets are best at the decentralized satiation of complex particular desires & preferences. And thus wherever a corporation/state couldn't rent seek, central plan, enshittify, etc, shit improved incredibly since 1986. Every single consumer electronic. Clothing is better. Even sex is better.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 17h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

"Your distorted worldview that gave them human rights" says it all. Mask fully off right there. And THAT is why you press a single line of questioning. To catch the slip.

Resist 🕎🍉@antizionistjew.bsky.social · yesterday

Feiglin: "You know, I have a grandson, his friend is under his grave because of people like you." Teenager: "So I'm responsible for his murder?" Feiglin: "No, I mean that your disrtorted worldview that gave them human rights is responsible for his murder" Teenager: "So you say everyone must (5/6)

A teenager absolutely destroys Israeli far-right politican Moshe Feiglin Teenager: "You support it for years, you can call it, Ethnic cleansing, Transfer, Immigration of Gaza and the West Bank. What will happened then to the people who don't want to leave?" Feiglin: "The (1/6)

maga will accept as leaders rapists, pedophiles, white supremasicsts, wife beaters, con artists, conspiracy theorists, absolute morons, paid foreign agents, & people who are *all* of those things but you can't be even slightly pro-immigration, that's the line newrepublic.com/article/2138...

MAGA Erupts at Trump DHS Chief—and Accidentally Exposes Big MAGA Scam

Markwayne Mullin just said the unsayable: that immigration can sometimes help the economy and the country. Now MAGA wants his head.

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How baffling that they refuse to pretend to have lost a war that they have actually won. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...

An Angry Trump Struggles to Understand Iran’s Defiant Leaders

Iran’s leaders have perplexed several American presidents, perhaps none more than President Trump.

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I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS

Student loans are breaking *again.* This time, debtors enrolled in the SAVE plan have received a wrongful message claiming they've missed months of payments and are now delinquent. This isn't true. It's a wrongful message—and another massive error. Payments should be paused.

LA man sentenced to prison for attacking CHP vehicle during anti-ICE protest

LA man sentenced to prison for attacking CHP vehicle during anti-ICE protest

A 23-year-old Los Angeles man from the Lincoln Heights neighborhood was sentenced to just over three years in federal prison for pouring lighter fluid onto a burning California Highway Patrol vehic…

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the forest loving primitivist in me 🤝 the city loving transhumanist in me deep visceral hatred of suburbia

This content wouldn’t be out of place in the goddamn Klan.

Manya Koetse@manyapan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Chinese viral AI videos are turning foreigners into villains, flooding Chinese social media. They depict foreigners as threats to China’s social, moral, and national order. Strong, confident Chinese people confront, violently beat, and humiliate them in defense of their country. See more below🧵

“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics

Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

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"Platner’s first deployment, in early 2005, began at the Abu Ghraib prison complex, part of which the military had rechristened Camp Redemption." missed that detail the first time around!

Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

A watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

Another person has died at Delaney Hall, the second in a period of months, supposedly of an unspecified "medical emergency." His name is Edwin Lopez-Cornejo. He was just 41 years old. When we fight against ICE, we are fighting to save lives. This is urgent. crimethinc.com/DelaneyStrat...

Tactics at Delaney Hall: A Strategic Appraisal

An appraisal of the tactics that protesters have employed outside Delaney Hall with two interviews from the front lines.

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Yonette Joseph@sugarcane99.bsky.social · 2d ago

A Salvadoran immigrant, Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, who was being held at a troubled federal detention center in Newark, New Jersey, has died, according to the city’s mayor and Senator Andy Kim www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/n...

while there are problems with anything, the nuclear block is absolutely my second favorite thing that bluesky did. (my first favorite is detach quote, which is another thing that wrecks the way they like to use social media)

Micah@rincewind.run · 2d ago

there are definitely downsides to the nuclear block but the reason I keep coming back to it as necessary and good is that it completely ruined the whole MAGA engagement model to the point that they prefer to mock us from the nazi bar rather than come here to troll us directly

I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"

this is necessary as stochastic defense against Man in the Middle attacks

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · last yr.

one of the basic issues with building secure right-wing comms is that every third cryptographer is trans

Im a more or less professional discourser! I love to discourse! But the first rule of doing cool shit club is you don't talk about doing cool shit, especially online. If you find this hard just do what I do: tell yourself you're saving it for the memoir lmao

CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️@cnlester.bsky.social · 2d ago

Should be pinned to the top of every single intercommunity argument about tactics. In particular: the people doing the kind of direct action work that other people like to fantasise about online are ABSOLUTELY not talking about it online, are you high? Doing the work > masturbatory discourse

Stares in man from nowhere whose loyalty is to a transnational ideology and not to soil and homeland.

BREAKING: Another ICE Prisoner Has Died at Delaney Hall in NJ via our @jordanchariton.bsky.social www.statuscoupsubstack.com/p/breaking-a...

BREAKING: Another Delaney Hall ICE Prisoner Has Died

A Delaney Hall ICE prisoner has died, the second prisoner that we know of who has died while being imprisoned inside the for-profit New Jersey ICE prison.

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i'm so tired of trying to use an app or a website like a normal person and then the ceo will be like "i don't see enough racists on my app and that means it's a total failure. i need everyone who uses my app to get super fucking racist right now, or i'm going to kill myself in front of you"

You see this a lot when people assume the “anti-woke” position is a free square that no one could possibly object to, they lead with the “anti-woke” stance and are then shocked when the people they just insulted aren’t willing to sit around for the rest of their spiel.

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d ago

this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol

ICE doing repeated starlight tours really needs to be talked about more. That’s premeditated murder

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Her case echoes a similar one a week earlier in Buffalo, New York, where a 56-year-old Rohingya refugee with significant vision impairment and limited English was found dead after the US border patrol dropped him off alone at a closed Tim Hortons coffee shop." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Friendly reminder how this shit all shook out because Dems are rake-steppers that fell for the ban thing Rs pushed

White House outlines TikTok deal that would give US control of algorithm

The White House said a deal could be signed "in the coming days", but Beijing is yet to comment.

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Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 2d ago

For months before Sophie Cunningham's latest blow-up, Instagram and TikTok have been shoving tribute videos of her fighting Black players on the court into everyone's feed. I wonder why that is, and I wonder about the timing of the buildup.