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

Look, Matt Mullenweg has a lot of time on his hands these days.

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That some technofacist can gin up a decade's worth of FreeBSD funding from his rich buddies for a crappy vibe-coded arch distro ... still kinda grinds my gears.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 11/09/2026

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

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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.

Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 09/09/2026

Going on slack and trashing the board after they force you on leave is ... a choice. I'm sure they have second thoughts about their decision now.

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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Paul Bauer @bauer.codes · 08/06/2026

"slot machine in the terminal" We already have claude code.

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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. 🍿

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

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.

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

Cool. Cool. But nobody working on bun is ever going to read the diff anyway.

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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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"neither credible nor attractive"

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I think there is a place in hell for Karp and Palantir investors next to Eichmann. And I'm ashamed to say how many family evenings I lost in 2018-2020 because my employer had them as a customer. Ex-customer thankfully. They are awful customers too. Doing work for them is moral thin ice.

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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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