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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 11/09/2026
The weirdest thing is seeing anti/negative about LLMs pieces that are entirely LLM written and reek of Claude. What are these “authors” doooing?
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 08/09/2026
OpenAI somehow found a way to turn “solving one the most famous math problems of the last century” into an L
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 25/08/2026
Concretely, I’m drowning in load-bearing seams, that’s the honest truth
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 12/08/2026
I hate that they keep presenting it like this like they singlehandedly jumped from 41.6->67.2%, when they took a previous conditional result in that same range and removed the conditions. It’s cool, but it’s not what they’re presenting as.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I will vote for a platform of de-Trumpification. It needs to be a scorched-earth removal of every hateful symbol.
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Why the European left should always be pro-AC: - Ceding this popular issue to the right empowers them; in power they'll gut climate action far more than any AC "emissions." - AC runs on solar. Breaking news: The sun shines when it's hot. - AC saves lives. HEAT PUMPS FOR ALL! (AC is a heat pump...)
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 26/06/2026
It's ridiculous to me that AC is a political debate in Europe (eg France). I think people don't understand the scale of climate change that's coming. It's a tsunami of heat waves. It is not survivable with simply other adaptions like trees. We're going to need all the adaptions.
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 24/06/2026
On hot days like this, energy efficient computers are much nicer to use than energy hogs, they heat up the house (and your body) less! I'm sticking to my m1 laptop over the desktop workstation today.
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 19/05/2026
Excited to go to #Rustweek this week!
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 18/05/2026
A fun thing I did with Rust a few months back: amedee.me/introducing-...
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500x Faster Theseus Plots with Rust and Gitoxide
I rewrote Git of Theseus in Rust for fun.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/05/2026
very good and it zeroes in on a really important dynamic: the way the professionalization of the court and the industry around it serves to insulate the justices from democratic feedback as well as contribute to the idea that the justices are law wizards to whom we *ought* to defer.
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 11/05/2026
lol
an "impressionist painting" described as a mermaid diagram, like "soft light" in a box with an arrow pointing to a cloud emoji, pointing to a box with a "willow tree" emoji, pointing to "shimmer light uwu", etc."a cyberpunk scene" described as a mermaid diagram with a box labelled "Neon sky"-> "MEGA CORP" -> "NEON CITY" and so on. This is in a gemini-like corporate AI chatbox.
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 09/05/2026
I'm so tired of shopping for clothes in ugly boy colors. It's always "black,navy,charcoal,camo green". I never want to see "charcoal" again. Give me a color that's not ugly pleaseee
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 13/03/2026
That loud kick drum in Dying For You sounds so good… stuck in my head!
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 25/01/2026
the kids and the commies are always right, nobody ever listens to them and nobody ever learns a single lesson from being completely wrong about everything all the time because capitalism gives them headpats and belly rubs for refusing to change
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 17/12/2025
I don’t want to be an AI booster, but all of us who write text for a living (coders, copywriters, mgmt to some extent) have to confront the Innovators dilemma for our products: AI is not as good as a professional, but a)it keeps improving and b)one day (today, in some cases) it’ll be “good enough”
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 08/10/2025
I really like these “Git of Theseus” charts that make your git repo look like a weathered mountain. Unfortunately they can be slow/cumbersome to make. By reimplementing it in Rust with a better algorithm I got a massive speedup, hopefully now more people will make them! amedee.me/introducing-...
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500x Faster Theseus Plots with Rust and Gitoxide
I rewrote Git of Theseus in Rust for fun.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2025
this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 16/09/2025
jacobin.com/2025/09/kirk... I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here. This feels like a normal, level-headed, centrist take. It shouldn't take one of the most leftist publications to publish this, this to me is a WaPo/WSJ/NYT uncontroversial opinion. Instead these other places are hagiographizing.
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Political Violence Is Abhorrent. Charlie Kirk Didn’t Think So.
The murder of Charlie Kirk was a moral travesty. We can recognize that without ignoring that he repeatedly fanned the flames of political violence himself.
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STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
The two things to remember about the Hillary email thing is: A) the Times have hated the Clinton's since they made them look dumb in the 1990s. B) by the time the NYT printed this, it had already been discovered that the whole thing was a troll job by Jason Chaffetz, and the FBI had cleared her.
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 16/08/2025
There’s a funny thing where historically we tend to inadvertently use the “currently hot thing” as our model of the mind. Freud used steam engines, when I was a kid it was computers, and recently deep learning/“predictive processing”. But now the hot thing is LLMs, and they are so faulty!
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
It's very telling that the far left refuses to support huge pieces of shit who everyone hates
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 03/08/2025
Everything is {gender|computer}
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 23/05/2025
Something I’m not seeing any discussion about is vibe coding for UX prototyping. I just implemented a figma for a complicated new feature in 2 hours, you can interact with it much better and find gaps in the user flows. It’s like 3D printing a prototype to iterate on before sending it to the factory
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 23/03/2025
Google buying Wiz for $32B (!) and adding a bunch of ex-Unit 8200 spies (the cyber unit of the IDF) to their payroll is the final straw for me, I’m going to start de-googling my life.
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Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍 @damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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John Cutler @johncutle.fish · 18/01/2025
At your company, is your key issue collaborating on things that could be transactional, or trying to treat collaborative things transactionally? Or somewhere in between?
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 08/12/2024
Holy absolute fuck this story is damning. Medicine’s culture has to change to weed out perceived “toxic geniuses”, or else it’s going to keep killing people like the 16 year old girl mentioned here. www.propublica.org/article/thom...
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A Hospital Helped a Beloved Doctor’s Practice Flourish Even as It Suspected He Was Hurting Patients
Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did th...
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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Everyone values arts and humanities until it’s time to pay for it; everyone thinks they can be a painter or a writer until they try; everyone is a confident problem solver until there’s no single right answer.
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John Cutler @johncutle.fish · 27/11/2024
"Working in this field in 2024 is like ..." (we asked 570 people to answer this with a metaphor). Some themes/examples:
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 25/11/2024
Cool! The heavyweight models had 80-90% precision vs bag-of-words doing 67%, so "LLM stuff" still has some value at the top end, but I love to see simpler stuff like BoW still holding its own and having applications for on-device classification
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Me: We have to take care of ourselves and each other because opposing authoritarianism is a long fight and you will burn out. Also me: I cannot remember to eat on a regular basis.
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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
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dan @danabra.mov · 07/11/2024
optimizations will continue until the perf improves
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/11/2024
80 degrees on Halloween 😱
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swyx @swyx.io · 31/10/2024
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 07/10/2024
reading a lot of job postings recently, like this one: "Seeking a code-slinging sorcerer to sprinkle some magic on our avant-garde digital quests" 🙄🤮 I think this is so common bc the people writing the JD are deeply bored, they think the job is boring and they need to "spice it up" to attract people
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 17/09/2024
… it’s an ok number
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 03/09/2024
Packing some books… Circles make the coolest covers
Two books in a cardboard box, Revolution at Point Zero” by Sylvia, Federici and “Technologies of Speculation” by Sun Ha-Hong. The first is a red cover with a pair of symmetric circles, the other is a black cover with one circle that looks like it dropped into a lake like a marble
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 16/07/2024
I've been reading a lot of math recently, and while I knew Borsuk-Ulam I had never seen such a beautiful explanation and fun motivation, plus such a computational useful follow-on www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuVq...
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Using topology for discrete problems | The Borsuk-Ulam theorem and stolen necklaces
Solving a discrete math puzzle using topologyI was originally inspired to cover this thanks to a Quora post by Alon AmitHelp fund future projects: https://ww...
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 29/04/2024
Has any college or university tried NOT clearing an encampment, but just providing general security around the area, keeping it chill, waiting for the semester to end?
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eff. @fabjx.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
David Schmitt, Nothing Is Under Control, 2023.
"Nothing Is Under Control" title above a black tentacled figure with "absolutely nothing" written in the center of its body.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
A dog is smoking a cigarrete, with his owner smoking a cigarette beside him. A passer-by on the street asks "Hey man, should your dog be smoking?" The smoking man reassures him "don't worry. They're dog cigarettes."
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 29/03/2024
Cursor has made writing Rust 2-3x easier for me. So much time saved by having someone fix type system issues for me and knowing the "shadow stdlib" of which serde/rayon/etc functions to call/which traits to use and which traits don't work for the use case.
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 21/03/2024
When I learned about Daubechies wavelets in JPEG they sounded so foundational I assumed they had been invented centuries ago. I didn't realize Ingrid Daubechies is my parents' age and has lived a fascinating life! 1st woman full professor at Princeton in '94: www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/m...
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 28/02/2024
I was gifted this Timemore coffee scale(eightouncecoffee.ca/products/tim...) for my birthday, it’s great. This thing has the nicest “getting started” UX I’ve ever experienced! A thin plastic overlay explains all the features, but it doesn’t get in the way, and you can remove it whenever. It’s genius
A black kitchen scale that looks like a square hockey puck. It has a digital display on it and a thin layer of removable plastic that highlights what the numbers and the buttons do.
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Amédée d'Aboville 🦀 @amedee.me · 21/10/2023
I'm really into these generated IKEA instructions, apparently building a skycraper only requires a stick figure person applying an allen key to a 3 story building generativeai.pub/now-the-ai-c...
An IKEA manual that says SKYSCÄPR, shows a skycraper assembly that only requires a little stick figure person, a small 3 story building and an allen key
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