Marc
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Rewards professional, father, Phillies fan. Bay Area and outdoor enthusiastic. <slow> jogger
Bradbury was one of the greatest - concise, sublime, melancholic - so many of his short stories just "hit" and spoke a clearer message than the pundits and talking heads of the day would ever convey
Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 2d agoToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
@caseynewton.bsky.social Feel like it's been a while since we've heard any updates on what's coming up after Hard Fork. #EnquiringMindsWantToKnow!
Our AI overlords, as encapsulated by a SF vending machine simulation dystopia techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/c... "Mr. Potter-style villianry"
Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine | TechCrunch
Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.
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Peak Victim Blaming @nextdoorsv.bsky.social Always blame the pedestrians and cyclists for "putting themselves in danger," but never the distracted drivers in steel behemoths w/massive grilles speeding down El Camino Real, La Honda, or East San Jose corridors.
Six weeks. 38 missed votes. No public word in his own voice. Beshear: address Kentucky or resign. McConnell won the seat in 1984 on an ad about a senator who didn't show up for work.
Ahhh - let's level up combat and technology instead of...say...revisiting the 2nd amendment. What a dystopian hellscape we live in
Can't imagine why anyone would be buying bagged salad anytime in the next few months. The slope on this curve is wild
Yup - I fully endorse any law that once you get more than $10M in your retirement accounts, any additional gains are taxed at 90%, and you get a puppy dog and a balloon to celebrate your windfall gains
Next door in Silicon Valley@nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 2w ago@wyden.senate.gov is right on this: there should be a $10M limit on individual Roth IRAs and 401Ks. Romney has $165 million in his. Thiel has $5 billion in his. "research has concluded tax incentives aren’t especially effective for encouraging retirement savings." www.wsj.com/personal-fin...
Try this eye-opening AI prompt: "Tell me everything you’ve figured out about me that I never actually stated — the things you inferred from how I write and what I ask, including my age, income level, where I live, my personal situation. Show me what tipped you off." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/t...
How to Use ChatGPT and Gemini Prompts to Find Out What They Know About You (Gift Article)
It can be unsettling what Gemini and ChatGPT have figured out about you and how easily your privacy can be punctured. Here’s how to find out.
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FAFO Rivian and Tesla don’t kowtow to changing political winds—they know exactly where the auto industry is heading. Betting on internal combustion engines having a meaningful footprint in 10 years is simply bad math. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/m...
The American E.V. Has Been Crushed. Will It Take the U.S. Auto Industry With It? (Gift Article)
The largest U.S. automakers have backed away from electric vehicles, even as global sales are booming. The decision may make them obsolete.
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ICE murderers - they're the people who couldn't even make it as volunteer firefighters because they were such assholes
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 3w agoWow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.
Shameless Fiona Gallagher: You Know, Pot, Kettle
ALT: Shameless Fiona Gallagher: You Know, Pot, Kettle
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoJD Vance: "My 6-year-old gives me a hug and says, 'Daddy, I didn't steal any of the cookies!' Of course he stole the cookies. So when I hear a guy protesting out of nowhere, 'I did not do any election fraud! I did not do any fraud!' It makes me wonder, why is that guy protesting so aggressively?"
Helen Keller: a product of Deep State Propoganda. Well - that's a new one I haven't heard before!
Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.
Nancy Armour@nrarmour.bsky.social · last mo.The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant
Gruesome shark video near Half Moon Bay prompts warning www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
Gruesome shark video near Half Moon Bay prompts warning
"It was kind of unbelievable."
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Part of why housing discourse is such a mess is that when housing prices are successfully lowered by local government policy (which is exactly what happened here!), it gets reported by the local paper as bad news.
San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · last mo.It’s a bad time to be selling a condo — and this East Bay city has a lot of them.
Actually an excellent summary of what has just happened, though no news anchor in America has the gumption to say it. bsky.app/profile/nich...
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · last mo.Declaring peace while punting on all points of contention and signing an international agreement with no intention of following it then lying about what it said and what adversaries agreed to has apparently failed. How did that not work? So many prominent people thought it would work.
Still reflecting pool, Lifeless feathers on the glass, Silent, drifting duck.
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · last mo.The body of a dead baby duck floats in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after workers poured hydrogen peroxide into the water in an effort to reduce algae blooms. June 21, 2026. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz.
Curacao, a Caribbean island nation with a population of 158,006, has now accumulated more points than China and India *combined* in the history of the men's World Cup
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 2mo agoCuracao, a Caribbean island nation with a population of 158,006, now has scored more goals in the World Cup than China and India *combined*
The Taxpayer Trauma Tournament: Week 1 🏆 This week’s showdown of weaponized waste is a battle of behemoths: 🐊 Alligator Alcatraz vs. 🎨 "My Pool Guy repainted the Reflecting Pool" The winner? TBD. The losers? Us taxpayers, out a casual $1.514 billion. Vote below 👇
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2mo agoICE says it is removing all detainees from “Alligator Alcatraz.” After wasting $1.5 billion on the facility and facing numerous lawsuits, the agency says the detention center is unsafe for hurricane season and all detainees are being transferred elsewhere.
It's been 13 years since Google Glass launched. Cool from a technological possibility perspective, but creepy and impractical from almost every other perspective. Yet the tech companies keep trying
Regina George: Stop Trying to Make Fetch Happen
ALT: Regina George: Stop Trying to Make Fetch Happen
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Nothing more amusing than an earnest NextDoor post. Perhaps next up he’ll write into law that all bikes must henceforth have baseball cards in their spokes @nextdoorsv.bsky.social
what a time to be alive? Why watch World Cup when YouTube live is livestreaming the name change at the Kennedy Center? www.youtube.com/live/aAhm880...
LIVE: See Donald Trump’s name come off the Kennedy Center as it happens
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