Sasha Kotlyar

OMG, they desecrated Zombocom!

Feels like we've hit a tipping point

The comms rep just had no ability to comprehend that AI takes in the information that already exists in the world and repackages it. Our reporting had yet to be published and therefore wasn't out in the world hadn't been ingested by any chatbot.

And they just... believed the chatbot.

Maybe oauth has to be done against PDS instances directly? Just a guess, I have no idea how atproto works

The latter seems to be a corporate brochure site, linking to the former

You told us you’re running multiple AI agents and wanted a better UX. We listened and shipped it!

Here’s what’s new:
🗂️ Unified agent sessions workspace for local, background, and cloud agents
🔀 Parallel subagents
💻 Claude and Codex support for local and cloud agents
🌐 Integrated browser
& more...

Democracy doesn't die in darkness. It dies in the back pocket of a billionaire.

Microsoft Inclusive Design Microsoft Inclusive Design is a practice that anyone who creates and manages products and services can use to build more inclusive experiences for everyone. Get the principles, guidebooks, workshop to...

So I know a lot is going on right now, but I do want to share this:

I’m excited to share the launch of the new Microsoft Inclusive Design website 💙

This project is my love letter to the community and practice that’s shaped my work for nearly a decade.

inclusive.microsoft.design

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Voxtral transcribes at the speed of sound Mistral just released Voxtral Transcribe 2 - a family of two new models, one open weights, for transcribing audio to text. This is the latest in their Whisper-like model family, …

Two new speech-to-text models (similar to Whisper) from Mistral today - one of them is API-only, the other is a 8.9GB Apache-2.0 licensed open weights model for "realtime" transcription. They're both very good! simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/4/v...

Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙

alt text a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow background, wearing a red ballcap and matching ball gag, with a collar and leash; the text reads TREAD ON ME, DADDY

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

I just received the TMBG Homestar shirt today!

I like that they think this is going to mollify anyone, when it'll just make us greedy for more.

And teach us that this is working.

Keep it up.

Verge headline: It doesn't matter if Alex Pretty had a gun by Sarah Jeong Photo by Steven Garcia depicts several masked law enforcement agents soaked in red light at night

"Why is it so normal for law enforcement — those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order — to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?"

Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

ICE shot a man on the ground point blank.

I voted against DHS funding this week, and the Senate has the chance to follow suit next week.

Republicans: Wake up. Our government is killing its own people.

I think it's best for my mental health to stay the hell away from the internet today.

But, now and forever, fuck ICE

YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT [a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision] "In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors! See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/ https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

creenshot of an X.com post by Dan Koh claiming Trump is spending $30B on 10,000 more ICE agents, listing alternative uses for the money (ACA subsidies, ending prescription copays, eliminating medical debt) and criticizing the policy. Below the text is a TV news screenshot with a ‘Breaking News’ banner about a shooting in Minneapolis and on-screen text reading ‘$30 BILLION…’.

Priorities matter. So do elections. Vote the GOP out!

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

SlimProtoNet 0.1.0 .NET Standard 2.0 library for building Squeezebox-compatible clients that communicate with Logitech Media Server / Lyrion Music Server (LMS). Implements the SlimProto TCP protocol with UDP discovery, ...

Published my first NuGet package! www.nuget.org/packages/Sli...

one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny

YouTube video by French Fuse Bro Sacrificed His Lungs For The Right Note 🤣😭 #breathless

If anyone tells you that creativity is dead, just show them this video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdRY...

Sounds like you've got an exciting opportunity ahead!

Masked government agents are killing people in the streets, abducting people from their homes in the middle of the night, and arresting those who speak out.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

HTTP 504 coming from github.com

Welp

ACM is Now Fully Open Access! As of January 1, 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing co...

Whoa, ACM has gone open access! www.acm.org/articles/bul...

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act is now in effect www.in.gov/attorneygene...