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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

this does not even consider a car, which: 1. is required in the u.s., 2. is actually two cars for a couple in the u.s., 3. is A LOT of extra moolah

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

when someone supposedly very knowledgeable about programming compares compilers—which are 100% deterministic—with chatbots—which are extremely highly, if not completely probabilistic—seems a good time to stop listening to what they say. #TechIsAReligion #nonsense #programming #ai

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@ianbetteridge i’m beginning to think many right-wing laws are indeed “gateway laws” for more policing, same as some half-arsed children protection laws being—or trying to be—introduced in the u.s. with the ulterior purpose to ask everyone for an id.

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

i think the american catastrophe steams from not realising people are not right or wrong. only actions can be right or wrong. people can change their actions, doings, and attitudes at any moment. labeling people instead of actions makes their changing their actions more difficult and […]

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

the word for those who do things one does not do is not “wrong”, but “different”. tolerance means knowing the difference. #different #wrong #tolerance #knowing

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

the only thing social media platforms have taught me—and keep teaching me—is to reply less. #socialmedia #reply #less

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@nev 1) currently in rochester, ny (a rock throw away) 2) gov’t is nuts, and there are more than a dozen european and asian countries that can prove them wrong in any respect of their—i assume—very flawed rationale

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

if one starts paying attention, one soon realises there are only two profitable business models in the u.s.: entertainment and exploitation (hint: that explains a president that does both) #entertainment #exploitation #business #usa

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@attoparsec worked for a major car company. info ui systems were assigned to the designer with the “coolest” visuals. usually nothing more was required. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

guess the second one… still trying…

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@alisynthesis prob know it but i’d be remiss not to share: have you tried nextdns.io? i use it to control access for home and kids separately, and it has been great, well customisable, affordable, and very reliable.

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

around social media: tired: talking about how wonderful are my kids—who one day will be running the world wired: talking about how wonderful is my sourdough starter and/or my cats—who will eat me after i die alone in my living room 🫠 #socialmedia #kids #cats #sourdough

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

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

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

ikea seems the perfect place for assembling

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

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 · 09/10/2026

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 · 09/10/2026

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

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

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

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

@Unixbigot @briankrebs incredible orders of magnitude for your success

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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)

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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 · 02/10/2026

@glyph @lisamelton weird. that’s one rat getting onto a sinking ship…

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

@VeroniqueB99 like the people in movies that want not to be seen so they hunch down a little because 5’9” is “invisible size” for a 5’11” bloke…

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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."

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

@alisynthesis which magazines could you recommend from your likings?

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

@alisynthesis @gutenberg_org even worse, they’re **themselves paying** not to read, write, or think.

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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

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

i worked for apple. i also greatly questioned the latest design system, and now i still question it, but i also see the new layouts—not the visuals—force designers and developers into questions that, to me, make for better, simpler interfaces, and are clever in the use, and also avoiding the […]

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

apple may have messed it up several times recently, but they care about the user more than almost any other influential tech company around, and most of their software contributions work for billions of users, which in itself is a massive achievement. we should explore ideas and share them, but […]

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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

@CelloMomOnCars i also very much appreciate all your sharing of important and sometimes less visible information about climate change. thanks.

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