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Tom Kramer

@bastable.bsky.social
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Still trying to learn this tech stuff after all these years. I make drinks, play games, practice Bass guitar and try to be a decent hooman daily.

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Accidental CISO @accidentalciso.net · 15/10/2026
Some of the most unfortunate decisions people make are just fear dressed up as responsibility.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/10/2026
this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted
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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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Karoli @karoli.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This was my point on last week’s podcast. The one thing they CAN do is lower health care costs. But groceries? gas? Not so much.
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Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reminder : Teaching children to read early, and how to read for pleasure, is the "cheat code" for all other education.
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MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A key point: you do need a theory of communication, alongside a theory of politics, to be an effective operator I think the centre and left struggle, generally, with "playing the game" - it's not enough to just have policy prescriptions you think will work
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@bamaslymm.blacksky.app checking on ya man...
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Ted Nguyen @tednguyen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Jesse Minter is a mad man. How do you even think of this stuff?
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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you need tools like Jira, the odds are that you're not working with agility—where we adapt what we're working on to incorporate lessons learned as we work—at all. No shop that works with any agility has the level of bureaucracy that requires tools like Jira. 3/3
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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've worked with no backlog at all—feedback from the current thing told me what to do next. Huge backlogs and the tools required to support them are phase-gated (waterfall) up-front planning. Jira manages that bureaucratic planning system. 2/3
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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Tools like Jira are bureaucracy-management tools, not Agile tools. You don't need a backlog at all to get work done—a handful of index cards or stickies work just fine, and more than a couple of weeks' work in that pile is too much. 1/3
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 07/09/2026
The Athletic Live premieres on Tuesday, Sept. 8 and will kick off with three livestreams every week before ramping up to five weeknight shows in late October. The show will be co-hosted by @fourverts.bsky.social, Max Browne, Daniel Popper, Zach Harper and @kofie.bsky.social.
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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If you didn't measure productivity before you started using AI, a current claim that AI improved your productivity has no legitimacy whatsoever. And even then, how did you measure productivity? That's very hard to do.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 04/09/2026
I have been a 1Password customer since 2006! My whole family is on it! I have moved multiple enterprises to it! Let me just tell you how stoked I am to move 20 years of shit because these people insist on being fascist assholes
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is so basic. It is not USPS' job to decide whether ballots are eligible or not. That's the job of the state election officials. USPS' job is simply to ensure that the ballots get from election officials to the voters and then from the voters back to election officials. That's it.
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 27/08/2026
Some people have reduced their own value to what can be accomplished with a computer, and consider anything that can match their limited capabilities to be as human as they are.
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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly was so respected even the Black Sabbath subreddit has a rest in peace thread. Go find Ozzy and Lemmy, Dolly. They got the good shit.
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Soylent Green Goblin @lexdirects.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
WWDD? What would Dolly do?
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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 14/08/2026
90% of all data breaches are due to not implementing the most basic controls we’ve known about for 30 years.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
aiddata.org
Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Beth 🇪🇹 @hopeforever9.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Nothing changes your body like lifting weights. The more muscle you build, the more calories your body burns, even at rest. I burn around 1,800 calories a day doing nothing because I have more muscle than fat now. Build muscle, and fat loss gets a whole lot easier 🔑💪🏽
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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 30/07/2026
The entire cybersecurity industry, including governments, are busy giving themselves blowjobs about GenAI when Iran's breaking in by doing stuff which was novel in 1995.
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 23/01/2025
1. Impact. How much revenue does my work protect or generate? 2. Quality. Does my work meet or exceed customer expectations? 3. Efficiency. Reward making the right buy versus build decision. 4. Reusability. How do others leverage my work? 5. Supportability. How much work do I create for others?
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 14/07/2026
People mistake attraction for need because people that provide emotional and spiritual space for you make you feel good you attracted to that healing
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Run The Jewels - Close Your Eyes (And Count To F**k) feat. Zack de la Rocha (Official Video)
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Spreading The Disease (Remastered 2003)
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Live your life so that at the end, when you are hospitalized and people are debating if you are dead, very nearly dead, or brain-dead but still breathing restfully, the matter isn't an endless source of internet comedy, contempt-filled criticism and weekend-at-Bernie jokes.
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Big Bad Booty Daddy @bamaslymm.blacksky.app · 16/06/2026
THIS IS WHY IF YOU SEE SOMEONE STEALING FOOD OR DIAPERS, NO TF YOU DIDN'T.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 13/06/2026
A rigged economy is when working people are taxed on unrealized property value gains but billionaires aren't taxed on unrealized stock value gains. Billionaire bootlickers pearl clutch like taxing unrealized gains isn't the exact policy already enforced on hundreds of millions of working Americans.
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Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I’ve seen the paper. It’s not a jailbreak. It was Defense Oriented Prompting (DOP) - a capability defenders need. My thoughts about the hasty Export Controls that made Anthropic halt access to Fable. If national defense is the goal, this is an own goal against us www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
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Anthropic Halts Access to Top AI Models After U.S. Ban on Foreign Use
All Fable 5 and Mythos 5 users have lost access after the Trump administration declared the models security risks.
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B. @missxbri.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Interpersonal skills matter a lot. You can’t learn to read body language & social cues without small talk lol. I think the pandemic & social media made us forget how important non transactional, leisure conversations & interactions are.
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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 26/05/2026
"This kickback sucks! Nobody is even disagreeing! How will you grow?!" You think too highly of your hot takes.
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
@sydseter.com tis a good day!
Picture of Cornucopia game
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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 19/05/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I quoted the Virginia Constitution and Republicans are losing their minds.🤯 Jonathan Turley suggested I am a "radical" and "Jacobian" for literally quoting the Virginia Constitution's Bill of Rights.😂
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 07/05/2026
You don't care because it doesn't affect you, and because you don't care enough about other people.🤷🏿‍♂️ The fact that there are perfectly good Dem candidates that didn't do this, is not a concern for you. You would only care if you have to experience 1/10th of what I have experienced most of my life.
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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 03/05/2026
The longer i exist on this earth, the more the answer seems to be "capitalism/patriarchy/white supremacy" are directly the cause of every single human trauma. I would add religion, but i "think" that is the tool the above three use to maintain control and not the source itself.
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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This is also true for difficult or 'controversial' policy and legislation. You will lose sometimes. Even often. But you can lose badly - shrink away from ambition, give concessions to the opposition for free, stop trying at all - or you can lose well.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 25/04/2026
It's everyone in the world, so we can all safely press Blue.👍🏿 There aren't as many trash people in the world as it seems. Because many of the selfish, trash people are concentrated in the US, and they're very loud! So at times it can seem like the whole world is evil. It's not. The world is kind.
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
There are many things the government could do if their goal was to reduce the number of vehicle fatalities. But this person has convinced themselves that we were helpless until this particular technology came along. And now we're eager to be diligent stewards of driving safety. GTFOH.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 25/04/2026
If I say that young Americans are low trust bordering on nihilistic, it makes it sound like there's something wrong with them. I gotta fix them! But Young Americans are acting rationally. 🤷🏿‍♂️ There's absolutely nothing wrong with the way that they are acting relative to older generations.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 25/04/2026
If you really want to get out of this trap of capitalism like you allege, you will get out of your individualism & understand yourself as part of collectives whose collective good is your good.
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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 31/03/2026
I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important
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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 23/04/2026
"You don't feel safer" is an entirely different sentence with a different meaning. That is best addressed through therapy rather than through policy.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 23/04/2026
Every thing all of our messaging tells us we need more Nothing tells us we have enough True abundance is knowing that you are enough
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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 21/04/2026
Apparently I missed Airport Discourse yesterday by virtue of being at airports... LOL Anyway my hot take is that intentional kindness is even more important when in high stress environments like airports. #MakeKindnessNormal
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