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Welp time to go put this album on again...

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

and right when people were making algorithmic bias/inequality more visible, many of those processes were **mysteriously** relabeled "AI" and that whole conversation got erased...

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 28/09/2026

The ovals are DESTROYING me.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"we didn't have anything like as many people claiming to have ADHD back in the days when everyone carried around a pack of inhalable stimulant drugs and took between 20 and 40 doses every day"

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2022: AI is here! You can just ask it stuff! 2023: Asking it doesn't work, we need to prompt engineer it. 2024: Prompt engineering doesn't work, we need RAG 2025: RAG doesn't work, we need Gastown 2026: Gastown doesn't work, we need Jev 2027: Jev doesn't work, we need Poob 2028: Poob doesn't work…

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 23/09/2026

Agreed. I also think this is kind of a trap? If the organization isn't big enough to have the decision-making be completely corporatized, or the company isn't run by someone with the same brain as you, you can easily wind up thinking everything's okay but it's actually not, and nobody's telling you.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 23/09/2026

I'm honestly not sure if I should be encouraging or discouraging this behavior?!

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 23/09/2026

Here's some more modern Noodles just for you!

A border collie posing with a globe on his head. He looks disgruntled.

A stick figure holding a small table with a small tablecloth and a small lit candle on it. The table is connected to a strange-looking device that's resting on a border collie's head. The stick figure is saying "Hello? Hello? Is this thing on?"

A stick figure looking at their phone, dismissively saying "Yeah, yeah. I'm sure that's fine." to a border collie who's carrying a huge sign that reads "POST ABOUT UR DATING LIFE ON WORK SLACK"

A border collie looking confused at the math statement "P(A|B) = (P(B|A)*P(A)) / P(B)"

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 23/09/2026

The title slides are a better representation of skill since I don't always go hard on the individual slides, since they're on-screen for so little time, usually.

Title slide for "Digging into the Matrix: Practicing Code Archaeology". Me in a jungle, uncovering the idol from the beginning of the movie UHF.

Title slide for "Survival Under Fire: How to Stay Whole During Adversity". A person walking alone in a dark and dangerous woods full of glowing red eyes. Their only light is a world that's on fire.

Title slide for "Leadership and the Power of Regret: Turning Emotion into Action". A person with a bag of lemons, feeding them into a sausage grinder and making lemon sausages.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 23/09/2026

This, but for drawing your own slides for talks. Here is a series of images of my slides over the years. Starting in 2017 and continuing until my most recent. Just get started. You'll get better as you go, even if you only build talks once or twice a year.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 23/09/2026

This is why I've never actually touched Claude, and never will until I'm forced into it to keep a job. Which I estimate is going to happen here in about three to six months.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 23/09/2026

In the face of never having to provide concrete and useful outcomes, and a world where people are increasingly isolated and lacking socialization skills, of course I'm going to go spend my time with My Plastic Pal! He always tells me I'm right.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 23/09/2026

But nobody cares about the output, because as you noted yesterday, most startups seem to actually acquisition bait. On top of that most public companies are nothing but Number Must Go Up anymore, which is driven by nothing but investor storytime.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 23/09/2026

Close-to-the-metal computing is full of mess and compromise and bitwise math. Caring about the product is full of humans and messiness and more compromise. In the middle is the space where you and the LLM can craft a beautiful architecture that does nothing the users want, but looks like it does.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 23/09/2026

(Up until a certain level where politics once again rears its head.) An LLM turns that consistency into a sort of Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With. It's still consistent - not in results, but in emotional tone. It's consistently your supporter, your ally. It only argues if you tell it to.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 23/09/2026

Computers have clear rules, clear permissions, and consistent execution. And a compiler always errors the same way, whether it's the 3rd time you've made the same error or the 300th time. There's no ambiguity over the experience. As you note, huge corporate structures function the same way.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 23/09/2026

Apologies in advance for threading in your replies, but... I have held a theory for a long time that a lot of developers got into the practice because computers are in a lot of ways ideally suited as an interaction modality for neurodivergent people or people with emotional struggles.

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 18/09/2026

man he cant equip that shit hes a cleric not a wizard. this DM sucks

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Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

REPLY WITH A CHARACTER IN VIDEO GAMES THAT YOU THINK IS FAT. Do not worry about if others would agree. Just give me your video game fat characters. FAMOUS GAMES FRIENDS WHO FOLLOW ME: this is for work so RTs are greatly appreciated thank you!

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 12/09/2026

Some days I'm more sure than others that heaven exists.

A photo of a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich next to well done hashbrowns and a cup of coffee, on a diner table.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Nice drink out with my team earlier. But fuck me, doing web stuff since 1997 makes me feel like Frieren these days.

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cones @coneshotline.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

BASILISK: Roko birkin bag. Practical Roko possession bag LESSWRONG USER: No, Roko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. BASILISK: Good Birkin give beautiful Roko deserve AI USER: Roko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. BASILISK: jealousy yudkowsky

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 07/09/2026

One of the best things I ever decided to do on this site was automatically block any account that follows me which is following over 10k accounts. Y'all ain't real, or you're follow-farming.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 04/09/2026

?! That's the ambulance/hearse model they used for Ecto-1?

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 04/09/2026

Hell, I remember when mp3s were actually somewhat controversial because they relied on a couple key patents.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 04/09/2026

Every piece of technology that you actually enjoy using was built using some form of public digital infrastructure and digital standards. The early web? DARPA. Mapping apps? GPS and USGS shapefiles. Streaming music and video? The MPEG standards group. Fight for public digital infrastructure.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 01/09/2026

You can do it. Business Owl believes in your ability to Business.

A decorative owl wearing a human tie that is way too big for it and iridescent human sunglasses that are also way too big for it. But he makes it work.

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Luise Freese 👑 @luisefreese.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We are automating both sides of the bargaining table On the asymmetry of automating our own jobs versus automating away someone else's. Read more: aimbivalence.com/en/bits/we-are-automating-both-sides-of-the-bargaining-table/ #AI #aimbivalence

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Ai gave me five new ideas I never would've thought of!" I dunno man you might just be fucking dim

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 27/08/2026

Actual monsters just straight up do not worry about this.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 26/08/2026

Doing a short stream today to force myself to work on the new talk abstract, and to force myself to submit a mentorship session for KCDC in a couple weeks. twitch.tv/arthurdoler

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Robin Hood is the original Spider-Man

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Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Make today the day you rediscover the movie Clue, an absolutely terrible film that is elevated into the stratosphere by multiple high-energy performances, not the least of which being Tim Curry's.

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Luise Freese 👑 @luisefreese.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

AI did not take your job On the grammar of blame, and who AI's decisions are really made by. Read more: aimbivalence.com/en/bits/ai-did-not-take-your-job/ #AI #aimbivalence

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 24/08/2026

Make a band bigger Shonensword

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Gary, Indiana has been without power almost 2 weeks.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 21/08/2026

Oh my God bsky just glitched and told me I had 30+ notifications and I had a moment of complete panic "FUCK WHAT DID I POST RECENTLY?! NOTHING?!"

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Things To Do With Potatoes Throw a potato on the ground behind a stranger, then say "Excuse me, you've dropped your potato!". If they deny ownership, pull another potato from your pocket, saying "Well it's definitely not my one". Hide a potato in a pair of shoes at a bowling alley.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 17/08/2026

We have lost the techniques of our ancestors; truly we are a fallen people

A blue Royal Dansk Danish butter cookies tin.

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Lemon @ahoylemon.xyz · 15/08/2026

How the FUCK is this a font????

"Fresh cut vegetables", written in the worst typeface I have ever seen

"Fresh cut fruit", written in the worst typeface I have ever seen

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 14/08/2026

They technically cover travel ;)

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 14/08/2026

Don't forget Nebraska.Code!

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 13/08/2026

Honestly, I'd send it to Marc Andreessen. He's not entirely responsible, but it's close enough.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 13/08/2026

And the web writ large has NEVER cared about it being a fully-qualified and well-structured document, so...

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 13/08/2026

I have a joke explanation (the web is bad and we should feel bad) and a real one (<html> doesn't need to exist unless we're going full <xhtml> and pretending that it's a fully-qualified well-structured document in which case we should just have <xhtml> instead of doctypes)

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