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I am all for this. Now everyone can tell who is a sycophantic moron even after they scrub the orange tanner off their nose. Super intelligent of them.

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 27/09/2026

The Turing test is passed not by computers getting smarter, but humans getting dumber.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Felicitas Pojtinger @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 26/09/2026

And "those people" are OpenAI and Anthropic employees & executives. Everyone involved in this should be on trial right now. Gross incompetence.

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 22/09/2026

"Artificial intelligence" is now "super intelligence", per the orange clown? Why not "American Intelligence" or "Intelligence of America"? Rip all the right-signaling startups with Anguilla top level domain names. I guess they all have to move to Slovenia now (.si).

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 18/09/2026

A computer scientist discovering what LLMs often get used for.

static.klipy.com

Jeff Goldblum inspects a massive pile

Alt: Jeff Goldblum inspects a massive pile

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 19/09/2026

Frontier labs and Palantir held to account when?

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 14/09/2026

<Scooby-doo mask reveal meme> The frontier LLM business model is entirely human labor arbitrage, from stealing and renting back the entirety of human knowledge to farms of underpaid human classifiers.

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...

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The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 14/09/2026

Anthropic and OpenAI think open weight LLMs are good enough to eat their margins, ergo begging for gubmint regs to save their failing business from competition. The companies launching irresponsible cyber attacks and stealing work from literally all humanity didn't suddenly grow a conscience.

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 13/09/2026

A favorite conference talk I attended was from @felienne.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy at Strange Loop '14 on spreadsheets. Her DDD EU 2026 talk dropped this week. It's an all timer, a thoughtful, grounded piece on AI and human choice. She's also a fantastic speaker. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6-...

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AI made me doubt everything about programming by Felienne Hermans - DDD Europe 2026

YouTube video by Domain-Driven Design Europe

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 11/09/2026

One of my favorite podcasts was @adamwiggins.com' "Meta Muse"; old recordings is the only meta muse I'm going to use.

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 11/09/2026

Imagine thinking a large matrix of floating point numbers can "want" anything.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 11/09/2026

The agents all going rogue and escaping their sandboxes and whatnot are doing so because OpenAI and Anthropic are just leaving the computer under the supervision of the Homer Simpson drinking bird, but you can just not do that.

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 10/09/2026

All phones are foldable if you have the courage.

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 08/09/2026

Not surprised and I'm not naive. This is how the world works now, but still disappointing.

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Saudi Arabia post on Linkedin with a photo commemorating a meeting between them and CEO of Datadog, Olivier Pomel. The official Datadog linkedin account and other Datadog employees liked the post.

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 31/08/2026

Oh great. My MAGA relatives are gonna convert to AI maximalism overnight now.

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 25/08/2026

Best feature LinkedIn ever made

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 10/07/2026

#JohnBolton, the great unifier of our time.

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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I had forgotten about this, but The Athletic pointed out that Cristiano Ronaldo was only playing in World Cup group play because FIFA suspended his 3 game ban that he got for elbowing somebody during qualifying.

nytimes.com

Cristiano Ronaldo avoids World Cup ban as FIFA grants Portugal captain ‘probationary period’ (Gift Article)

Ronaldo, 40, was sent off in Portugal's penultimate World Cup qualifier against the Republic of Ireland.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/06/2026

People will say it's "Tech Week" here in NYC. Well, any event run by Andreessen Horowitz is illegitimate, because the NYC tech community has values, and one of its most fundamental is its humanity. They have forfeited theirs.

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 28/05/2026

Yubikey for this, TouchID for that. All Day Long. The frequency at which my work laptop demands physical touch is bordering on an HR violation. If Demis is right and we are in the "foothills of the singularity" I'm reporting this to see who wins: HR or IT. 🍿

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 20/05/2026

😅 @reckless.bsky.social over here dodging bullets like Neo > Eater, Popsugar, SB Nation, The Dodo, and The Verge are each in a strong place as distinct brands

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 20/05/2026

Recruiting email: "We are looking for a strong executioner [...]"

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 18/05/2026

We successfully avoided the ideal outcome - both Sam Altman and Elon Musk losing.

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 18/05/2026

Same lazy energy from software "engineers" that want AI to write all their code, write all their tests, do all their code reviews, claim it's all good because the AI told them so, and get paid for their "taste."

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 15/05/2026

I mean, this is cool and all but nobody and especially not Jarred is ever going to read that PR, so ...

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 12/05/2026

IBM/Dehomag automated the final solution. Each concentration camp victim had a punch card with their identity, name, skills, ancestry and demographics. Leased Dehomag machines ingested stacks of cards for aggregate counts on various dimensions. Technology made the process brutally efficient.

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 08/05/2026

I'm going to be a tad vulnerable here. I probably wouldn't be alive today without SSRIs. They sometimes have side effects. Bad ones. But for the people I care about and depend on me, banning SSRIs would have resulted in a worse outcome for them. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

reuters.com

Exclusive: Kennedy's health officials explored US ban of some widely used antidepressants, sources say

U.S. health department officials last week explored whether they could ban certain drugs in a widely prescribed class of antidepressants as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ‌Jr. prepared to roll ou...

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 08/05/2026

It is important to show resolve when prompting your clanker.

Slack screenshot

Paul [6:02 PM EDT]: I usually just threaten to drive to N Va and unplug it.
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Paul [9:08 PM EDT]: sometimes one has to deliver on the threat or the robots don't take it seriously
[attached screenshot of AWS status on the N. Virginia us-east-1 outage caused by a power cut, 5:53 PM PDT]

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 06/05/2026

I had to re-watch the #clojure documentary and freeze frame to be sure, but Rich Hickey's hammock-time companion is a Boox Go 10.3 I'd recognize that distinctive metal strip on the back anywhere, and the left border is too narrow to be a Note Max. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y24v...

still frame from CultRepo Clojure documentary showing Rich Hickey writing on a Boox Go 10.3 tablet, back view

still frame from CultRepo Clojure documentary showing Rich Hickey at a kitchen table with a Boox Go 10.3 tablet on a stand.

still frame from CultRepo Clojure documentary showing Rich Hickey writing on a Boox Go 10.3 tablet, front view

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The AI-driven hard drive shortage is making it more expensive for the Internet Archive to operate, causing problems for Wikimedia, causing delays in academic and hobby archiving projects. Normal people and non AI companies simply can't find reasonably priced drives: www.404media.co/the-ai-hard-...

404media.co

The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet

The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 29/04/2026

In two weeks, I'll have a net addition of 20 papers and 4 books to my reading pile. This wouldn't happen if I had a ballroom.

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 27/04/2026

I don't know half of computers half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of them half as well as they deserve.

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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

NASA releases insane new image of the mighty hexagonal storm on Saturn's North Pole.

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 21/04/2026

We need to make "Yo monorepo" jokes a thing. As in "Yo monorepo's so big it needs its own CDN"

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 21/04/2026

Balaji reading the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect wikipedia page with zero sense of irony. 👩‍🍳😘

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Mesay @mesay.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

@reckless.bsky.social on the last Vergecast.

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 20/04/2026

Palantir just openly supporting fascism.

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 18/04/2026

Allbirds sold their sole. I've been waiting all week for _somebody_ to make that headline, and ... nothing? #techjournalism, you disappoint me. It was the right there!

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 16/04/2026

I think the #Clojure documentary release today is going to be Awesome, and I think even Rich Hickey would agree that's an appropriate use of the word. (peering over glasses) "Not everything is awesome." - Clojure/Conj 2010

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 16/04/2026

During the sub-prime mortgage crisis, tech companies stopped hiring juniors and then paid for it through the nose after 2012. It's happening again. The companies that buck this trend and think of junior hiring as infra spend might just survive the slopocalypse.

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 15/04/2026

AI has certainly moved the overtone window on what "deterministic" means. Apparently, bash scripts are now deterministic. Somewhere, someplace, Simon Peyton Jones is experiencing a gag reflex. 😂

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

bcantrill.dtrace.org

The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 13/04/2026

Finally releasing that long-promised healthcare plan

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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 12/04/2026

Linux and Libre Office are woke.

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