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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fully agreed, but it will be the next few Presidents. Some institutions that were damaged or lost took decades to build. Repairing them won't happen in a single term.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Who knew it would be a bad idea to let AI agents execute code from unknown third party sites? /s

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Weird how spikes started in 2016 then 2024. Why would something like that happen?

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

First, agreed with the policy, good to see. Had it not been in place, I would have loved to see what the crowd did to them.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Wishful thinking to believe the billing admin is going to do a Root Cause Analysis or have an escalation path to the people that built the system.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Claude Code seems to now be struggling to run installed skills, even when referenced in CLAUDE.md and asked explicitly. I said "use superpowers to show me in a browser" and it still created an artifact to push to claude.ai/code/artifact/ and spun up the local dev server before getting it right.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

They have been telling us for over 20 years now: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy...

en.wikipedia.org

Privacy concerns with Facebook - Wikipedia

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

So, someone's omission of any possibility they didn't include in the 300 characters means they are wrong. Right. Sounds like a good faith discussion to me. Mute.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

There is potential for a soft landing, but the same could be said about pent up demand in other cycles. My fear is that manufacturers will keep (some of) the inflated prices. Competition no longer means a race to the lowest price, it's about extracting as much money from consumers as possible.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Yes, the fact that he's actually attempting to test something is a positive sign.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

People keep forgetting that Dogma was also about getting Matt Damon home

Dogma: Movie about two rogue angels trying to get back home to heaven by exploiting a loophole in Catholic Dogma.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

There were two assertions in my comment, neither of which were regarding coordination. The straw man you present, which is not what I said, is indeed incorrect.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I agree there are more bad actors than good uses. I don't agree with the premise there are no legal use cases. The ability to avoid censorship, government overreach, and support causes anonymously has legal value.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

What they want to do and what they will actually be able to do are two different things. They absolutely want control, and they are going to try. The decentralization means they won't ever have the same level control as they do the USD.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

If it's a new project with low user count, that's really bad. If it's a project used by millions (billions if you include libraries) that started 30 years ago, it's not bad at all. (bad wording on my part, the 12k was historical, not one release)

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

How old was the project? 10k reports means your app has enough user engagement to reach that threshold, and that it's lasted long enough without users defecting. curl announced 12k+ bug fixes in one of their posts last year.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The message "datacenters aren't paying for the energy they use" gets spread, when they do pay for their own power. They aren't paying directly for the infrastructure upgrades needed for the local grid needed because of them. Attributing to the right cause matters when solving a problem properly.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Hank Green does a better job of explaining some of them than I can in 300 characters at a time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6...

youtube.com

Why is Everyone So Wrong About AI Water Use??

YouTube video by Hank Green

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The issue is they give the wrong reason behind the real problems they are seeing, based off of misconceptions. They say money spent on datacenters is taking away from infrastructure (when it's private money, not public). They think it's the total water consumption, rather than where it's consumed.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Agreed, and a lot is laziness, lumping everything together with one label. Those are real problems. However, many people complaining aren't aware of those individual issues, it's just a reflexive "AI bad, so datacenter bad." They propagate incorrect information and discredit the real message.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

That is my understanding as well. The post being about infrastructure projects people are mad about not happening, like rail and transit, eminent domain is usually needed. The level of effort and expenditure required by the government for a datacenter is much less.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Wait until you learn how infrastructure projects work, and the level of effort it takes to implement something like a rail project and using eminent domain for hundreds of properties. Thinking a datacenter takes nearly as much effort is extremely naive.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

You do know crypto was started so that a central body couldn't control the currency, right? I'm not saying it has good uses, just that your hypothetical scenario is completely wrong.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

First, don't mistake the comment as arguing for datacenters. Private projects on a single piece of land are faster than public infrastructure. A tax break that covers a tiny fraction of the cost is not the same as your taxes paying for it. If you want to make a change, get the facts straight.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

One is private money on a single piece of private land, the other is public money.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It's a good suggestion, but backups are still necessary, just like any other data. Just make sure the copy is not subject to the whims or mistakes of any company. I uploaded to Google Music, but accounts can be taken down or hijacked, so I copied everything to a NAS.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

When they try and fail, can they really call it "canceled?"

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My new favorite is MAHA Blast.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

From the article: "As cases of Cyclospora-related diarrhea explode"

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Google is becoming Microsoft, putting unwanted AI in all the things.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The effect will likely be the polar opposite of lettuce.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The vast majority of the negativity will not be from people that actually know who Linus is.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It's so strange how none of this evidence ever gets submitted under oath or penalty of perjury. Wonder why that is 🤔

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

You are apparently also allowed to park wherever you want, even in bike lanes.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I think the people swayed by carbon emissions arguments were already against the war.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Some US states allow people, with photo evidence, to issue parking tickets for cars in handicap spaces. It would be great to see something like that for parking in a bike lane.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Part of the answer is incentives and how consumption is priced. Minimum grid connection fees on bills prop up existing plants when they are not producing. One thing TX actually got right is consumption pricing that ensures the cheapest sources get prioritized. Now it's the top producer of RE.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This echos Instagrammers calling themselves photographers because they posted an image that looked OK with a filter. The first relies on the computer to do it, the second understands the process and how to ensure repeatable quality.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Whether you agree with it or not, it was still a point.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Adding to that, OP said "Hollywood needs to stop" but that was user created, not Hollywood created. Their point still stands, just a bad example to use.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Same experience here with other embedded devices. Even when the code can be tested, and it's accurate, I've still gotten things like major screen flicker. A process with incremental changes, verified by a human each step, is going to always have better quality.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It's temporary amusement for revealing something that will be online forever. Years from now, you won't remember you posted it, but you'll use it as a password recovery question for a sensitive account.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

People still haven't learned that the "your name is your grandfather's first name and X" threads are easily data mined for security question answers. Sharing just this, and another piece on a Facebook thread, and other places online, all gets correlated together. OSINT tools make it easy.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Different models, but similar experiences here. I'm wondering if it's time to redo agent definitions. As models get "smarter," behavior changes. What works for one model may be different in another.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

How about granting it with the condition of implementing and enforcing ethics guidelines?

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Local, old fashioned multiple terminal windows. Remote or internal lab, tmux if on the same host. Text based projects, remote claude code session against a git repo synched to local Obsidian (idea development/execution workflows). Yes, the wrong prompt occasionally goes to the wrong window 😉

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

His story is very similar to Midas, but everything he touches turns to shit.

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Brett McCully @bmccully.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Watch Greenland too. Warm air suddenly turns cooler, then gets replaced with warm again. It gets cooler when ice absorbs the heat and/or melts. It's not dark red, but also alarming.

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