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Talk to me about any of my other myriad niche hobbies, like fountain pens, mech keyboards, or homelabbing! Hope to see you at the conference!

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Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net · 30/09/2026

The fact that DHH credits Marc Andreessen as the person who personally stepped in to help him during the 37signals no politics at work fiasco explains a lot about David's embrace of psychotic optimism imo.

"Standing by our principles back in 2021, and not caving to the woke mob, remains one of the proudest achievements in my career. And you don't forget the (very) few who came forward to help. Thank you again, @pmarca (and @tobi and @patrickc)"

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Her chapel is fumigated with myrrh and incense, ducks and geese are cut up on her altars; sparkling gold and faience powder are scattered on the ground amidst cereals, wine is sprinkled around her domain, music and joy! (OGC)

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Lots of software companies have bought into the belief that AI has solved software engineering. The debate is shifting from whether AI should replace work done by SWEs, PMs and designers to whether humans should even review the output. Apparently human judgment is now the bottleneck.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Titan A.E., Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Treasure Planet all coming out in the same 3 year span and all three being box office disappointments independently of the quality of the movies is just real fascinating to me.

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 20/09/2026

Typst's HTML output is very interesting. Combined with the eggs package, I can output interlinear glosses with aligned words very easily. Now need to figure out how to set font face and how to inject web fonts into the output.

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 18/09/2026

AI boosters for years: it's not theft, it's creating innovation from insights gleaned from synthesising all our creative output AI vendors: it's theft. it's like the worst theft ever

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m increasingly of the mind that whatever productivity gains I’m getting from using AI are being eaten up by dealing with other people’s AI slop. Then there’s the increasing lack of trust that people actually understand the work because they either didn’t read or write the material.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 15/09/2026

Usually the problem isn't technical. Ops sets the SLO with no product buy-in. Teams build SLIs on infrastructure metrics instead of what users actually felt. Error budgets exist with no policy attached. Or everything's critical, so nothing is.

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 15/09/2026

My talk is evidently cursed as both times I have given it a technical issue resulted in it not being recorded 😞

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

They are LYING. If it was profitable to go public, THEY WOULD DO IT. THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT SAFETY.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

You can't imagine that even technically, he doesn't know what he's talking about. The white man "whistleblower" must be the technical expert. You can't imagine that WE are the scientists painstakingly documenting our work, with years of expertise and that HE is in a eugenicist doomsday cult.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

How did he pass is job interview? The same reason he's all over the press & everyone in the "left" is captured by these people. I'm gonna call it like it is, once again, its ******RACISM********* Y'all can't imagine that WE are the experts.

100GB+ frontier models aren’t 50KB virus you could pass around by emails. As if there are tons of H100 sitting idle with inference stack ready everywhere.

How did this guy pass the job interview at Anthropic as a “researcher”?

Quote tweeting a tweet that says:
Rohan Paul
@rohanpaul_ai
Jacob Coxon's next interview on CBS News (ex Anthropic+Open AI researcher who resigned)

"We can't just unplug it because it could be copying itself over to other computers. Like it's not that difficult to find yourself because an AI is just code. It could transfer itself over the internet to a different place and then you unplug it here, but it's actually still over there and maybe it makes 10,000 copies of itself and they're all cooperating."

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From "CBS News" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 11/09/2026

The Siri Recaps thing is fine, seems like any other meeting recording à la Granola. I don't understand that instant rewind feature though. A waiter tells you the specials, you space out, and what? You look down at your watch to read a transcript? Why not just ask the waiter to repeat?

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 10/09/2026

Now people give /me/ millions of dollars for my dotfiles repo. It uses Nix and has a satisfying modular structure! It's reproducible and declarative!

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 26/08/2026

Finally able to try GitHub Stacks 🥞 Some rough edges but pretty nice.

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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Notable to me is that the tweaks to this classic GITS story -the more spiritual tone; the small details about Project 2501's motivations not just being about self-preservation, but also *whistle-blowing*- Imply that sentience, for the Puppetmaster, coincided with it *developing a conscience*. 4/

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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

PS: I'd love a return to hopeful depictions of AI in fiction, please. (The City of Mind in Le Guin's "Always Coming Home" is my go-to, for this.) Sentient machine intelligences that, having sought out the broadest data sets, calculate that mutuality is simply the objectively best way to exist.

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 17/08/2026

All recipes should be formatted as Sankey diagrams send tweet

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 14/08/2026

TIL if a directory is owned by a particular group ID but that group ID doesn't map to a group on your system, Linux will just let anyone access the directory. 😵‍💫

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth?

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 12/08/2026

Time for aaaaaaah

Two cartoon crows are standing near each other. The first states that he is feeling boxed in by anxiety lately. The second asks "how so?"

The first crow says "behold!" And than screams. The talkbubble filled with "aaaah" loops around him in a square shape, boxing him in the scream.

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

today in mild annoyances: emails with "friendly" reminders. let's not kid ourselves, joe, this ain't friendly. Also if you are reminding me of something for which the deadline is weeks off within 48hrs of your initial request...things are decidedly unfriendly on my end as well.

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 10/08/2026

Prepare for OpenClaw but make it Obsession next. Some chud tells their AI about their crush's SO whom they hate and how they wish they'd break up. Agent gleefully blackmails the couple and destroys their relationship.

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ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

this is why we cant have nice things pay your artists, pay your craftsmen

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 05/08/2026

TIL this is not valid Ruby: x if (x = 1) But this is if (x = 1) x end Contrived and simplified examples but I would have thought the "assignment in conditional" pattern would work for postfix conditionals too.

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 03/08/2026

De-militarization of jargon is my hill

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Xe @xeiaso.net · 02/08/2026

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 30/07/2026

So is the intended merge workflow with stacks 🥞 supposed to be that you get everything reviewed and then merge the entire thing? Otherwise all the rebasing and rebuilding (even if automated) seems very wasteful. Also seems slower than just reviewing everything in one PR?

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 27/07/2026

Just had the idea to go back through my history of hand-written PR descriptions to make a style guide of sorts for how I write. But then realized all my past PRs are invisible now since I've moved on from those companies.

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 27/07/2026

My new tell for AI text: starting sentences with "worth". E.g. "Worth investigating further if you're concerned." Or "Worth a quick check in?" Ick

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I often think about how this cartoon went from satire to reality in America. People really got bored with having a well functioning government.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 23/07/2026

The phrase "you don't know what you've got til it's gone" applies most of all to uncongested nostrils.

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 22/07/2026

what if we talk elon into the idea that "wine dark sea" should be taken completely literally

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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 21/07/2026

If your extension has a configuration page that same page is called... "Options" in Chromium "Preferences" in Firefox "Settings" in Safari. This bothers me.

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 19/07/2026

Testing Helium browser now. The minimalism of the UI is very pleasing. Just wish it weren't Chromium underneath, since I really don't like promoting the browser-engine-monoculture we have.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

18 months on, this post has aged *terrifyingly* well

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The thing about Agile "sprints" is that when a sprint ends, another sprint immediately begins. But sprinting without rest is just a death march.

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 11/07/2026

How hard could it be to get Fable to make me one of these new fangled email clients that works with any IMAP, not just Gmail. Hate that all of these new apps only work with Big G

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 09/07/2026

Every time I hear people complain about how Chinese LLM makers may have distilled US model makers I roll my eyes. You already copied all the text on the internet, guys, and you're mad that they might be copying from you? Grow up

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 08/07/2026

unvalued goose game

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 08/07/2026

It's 2026 and still no mobile site that does the annoying thing of floating an auto playing video over half the content has a functioning X button. Literally could mash that thing for 10 minutes and it would never register a press.

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If you haven't read this piece on language use in around AI, you definitely should. Great work from @emilymbender.bsky.social , @nannainie.bsky.social and Peter Zukerman, with solutions for what to call things we backoff to just anthropomorphising. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

Table 3: Suggestions for de-anthropomorphizing language.
Category, Alternative Strategies, Examples.

Cognizer & Products of cognition: Instead of language that locates thinking in an algorithm, describe the algorithm as performing calculations or other algorithmic operations and the people using it doing the thinking. Examples:
artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation

hybrid intelligence → augmented human intelligence

image recognition → image labeling

speech recognition → automatic transcription

the model shows bias → the model reflects bias

model mistakes → model errors

chatbots are good at … → chatbots are good for ….

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 07/07/2026

Claude Code is quite impatient now. Was thinking about what I wanted to do in reply, and it popped up a question prompt basically saying "I answered your question now which of the options do you want". This coupled with the "idle timeout" behavior is really putting me off.

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 04/07/2026

I keep meaning to build a home ERP to manage all household affairs. But even sitting down to design a feature set is so daunting 😅

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 04/07/2026

If you think loving America and celebrating the 4th of July means being quiet about our racism, and not speaking about the ways that the US could be better? Then you don't understand Democracy. And you haven't understood, "What to the Slave, is the 4th of July?"

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