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argonaut

@argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

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who i am, in the word of giants: “Omnia fui, nihil expedit.” —Septimius Severus “I don’t feel like writing what I have just written, nor do I feel like erasing it […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@argonaut, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h

founded as Misión San Francisco de Asís, in the then Spanish Province of Alta California. never forget.

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h

examples of my creative writing include my thinking, my personality, and my existence.

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h

ikea seems the perfect place for assembling

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h

read it. but my short answer is: we have evolved feeling- and thought-inducing buttons that can be activated by combinations of the words we also created, and gen-ai uses those same combinations of words we created because we trained them to, and those word combinations activate those feeling […]

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h

(Go west) in the open air (Go west) baby, you and me (Go west) this is our destiny

post from: You Are Carrying @YouAreCarrying
“You are the first person to breathe
the air of this room in uncounted
years. The only exit is west.”

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

this is EXACTLY what i’ve seen around on gen-ai code: fast, workable, but complex and fragile to an absolut *untenable* degree. from 25+ years of software design, i—and any programmer worth their salt—know what makes great software is not a great first release but a great subsequent development […]

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

aka nocturnal griffin

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Game must be called “Siri” or “Alexa”.

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

same arseholes that want all drag queen shows banned when they could just “not be watching it”

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

religious people like: this that i have in front of me and i can see that exists should not exist by the personally-chosen weirdly-written poetic-waxing hard-to-interpret laws given to me by that “god” thing that i have never seen and that has no proof of existence and that i cannot prove […]

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@CuratedHackerNews/… this is techbros thinking they know better than everyone. all buildings in california are subject to official fire and engineering reviews. apple park had to pass them as any other building. the construction is designed to be so […]

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@jasoneckert/117372… not easy to joke about cubes and roots and still keep the joke real

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@CuratedHackerNews/… now do zero-indexed arrays.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 03/10/2026

Cisgender people, particularly in the UK, please read this growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...

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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart

Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…

argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@CuratedHackerNews/… this explains SO MUCH.

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

RE: mastodon.world/@obsoletesony/117369… Sony’s King of the Sports Line 🔥🔥🔥

The Sony Sports Walkman Solar FM-W107, a bright yellow water-resistant walkman with a solar panel and a battery pod.

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Happy "Charles Darwin is poorly today" Day to those who celebrate 165 years ago today, Charles Darwin was having a rough one

Photo of Charles Darwin's hand-written journal entry from 1 Oct 1861 and digitized text of same

"But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."

argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

i mask even outdoors, have done it since 2020, and i have been sick only twice, from something i ate, and from the shingles vaccine[1] take note: **one** illness in 6 years. we do not realise how much time and energy we lose to illnesses until they’re no longer there. not sure why everyone is […]

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

prob heat got over 950 °C/1,742 °F? www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-real…

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Why the Bronze Age collapsed

Historians like to blame drought, famine and invaders. But this can’t explain why the empires never came back.

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

most pessimists mistake finding flaws for finding failure. most optimists mistake finding strengths for finding success. #pessimist #flaw #failure #optimist #strength #success

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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Puts its finger on most of the issues around how social media is leveraged by the fascists to destroy their opponents. www.liberalcurrents.com/social-medi…

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Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

so the takeaway is vegans hate plants, right? #vegans #hate #plants #right

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

in social media **all** questions are rhetorical #socialmedia #tenets #questions #rhetorical

argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

social media exhausts me. not the media part. the social part. #neurodepleted

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

explaining things on social media is gruesomely painful, having to divide your thoughts into 500-char chunks and still make sense. no wonder everyone is already talking only with likeminded others. #socialmedia #echochambers #arelesstiresome

argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

i believe many good ux ideas come from devs. as a designer, i also see a lot of apps that could be better but are not because they’re designed from dev—not user—priorities. i use dev not as a person but as a perspective, and many that are called devs are also designers. also, if you let dev […]

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

love to see ai companies suffering from… <check notes>… their own ai? call it dogfooding? (often the ai responses are indeed akin to very bad dog food) “I heard you liked training AI, so I got an AI to train the AI for OpenAI that was supposed to be a person but is actually a contractor using […]

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

as i see it currently, the most deceitful danger any AI product present is that *anyone*, regardless of their expertise, who uses AI inside a collaborative workflow immediately becomes the process’ statistically weakest link. the danger becomes even worse if used unbeknownst to others as the […]

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

be mindful of when you’re surprised by something, for it usually tells less about the reality of what surprised you, and more about your knowledge of it. #sapientiaperdefectum #wisdom #from #failure

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

people: ai is going to kill us all so we need to do something to stop it now! same people, 4 years ago: i know covid has killed millions but it’s not a big deal and it’ll pass and i’m not wearing a mask because i look silly #ai #covid #silly #people

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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

For those who mute my boosts or B**y, more important research: yet another study confirming that transgender identity has a biological correlate. It’s a natural variation of what it is to be human […]

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

hear me out: U.S. “Feral Government”

argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@kerfuffle/11729748… indeed, i have wondered if what ai companies need is a refresher course on firewalling. (even the 101 covers what they seem to be glaringly missing)

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: mastodon.art/@mobydick/117294002085… architect, from greek arkhos+tekton, literally means “master builder”.

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@anon_opin/11729403… it may as well explain our current u.s. president’s two stints in government.

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

RE: universeodon.com/@georgetakei/11728… never underestimate the power of AmericanRacism™

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

someone leaves a 1-star on a free iphone app made to help kids with their education because they couldn’t sign in and hated that to get more features they had to pay, without realising they’re putting a dent on a project that has taken a couple of years to build, and impacting the small business […]

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Ulysses is another Catch-22

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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Decided to make a dedicated page for this. stopomarchy.neocities.org

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STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers

Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.

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Tyrone Slothrop @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

On this day in 1973, the Chilean army, backed by the CIA, overthrew the democratic government of Salvador Allende. They installed a dictatorship that lasted until 1988. Thousands were killed and disappeared. Keep this is mind when you hear USians talk about freedom and democracy […]

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2026

In an incredible move, Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada has announced a gender-affirming care clinic for trans youth, asserting tribal sovereignty and defying the region's ban. It is one of the biggest cross-movement solidarity moments in Canada. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Canada First Nation Leaders Announce They Won’t Comply With Alberta Trans Care Ban

“This is about more than one health service,” officials wrote. “It is about Indigenous sovereignty. It is about our responsibility to care for one another.”

argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@augieray/117249777… every tweet a confession

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

the premise was simple, it just takes a lot of people long to perceive it: capital always is—and has always been—cancer, and the larger the capital the larger the damage it creates. think of money as energy, and now think what tends to happen when you put A LOT OF ENERGY in one single place […]

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

seven nation army has no true bassline

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: blackqueer.life/@Damselfly/11724329… literally. that is what the code is trained to do.

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: eworld.social/@ismh86/1172433720428… 🤩

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

as long as we value quantity more than quality, output more than outcome, speed more than depth, clout more than reach, and status more than impact, AI would have us grabbed by the throat.

argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

you can talk about morals, but the only mark of ethics is action.

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

if you miss “the internet of yore” as it was a “better one”, there are mighty great odds you’re white, anglophone, american, and old enough to start yelling at clouds any moment. most probably all of them. better if they realise that 1) the internet is better for millions across the globe, and […]

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