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Riley “caezar” E.

@caezar.io
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Programmer, inventor, challenger, security enthusiast. I block early and often, sorry if I throw you out with the bath water.

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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 2h
Free Bacon? That, I would care about.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 3h
Just as holy, though!
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NewAccountWhoDis @newaccountwhothis.bsky.social · 7h
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 4h
Got me a bleu de travail at Marché aux Puces :))
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 19h
Except this one.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 02/10/2026
I love the subtlety of your twists. This one caught me square in the throat.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 02/10/2026
Agreed but I think it’s important to give credence to the humanist side: a machine that is only flowing from one token to the next has a radically impoverished experience, to the point that it hardly counts in the same sense of self determination and existential reality. Possible, but… hollow.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 02/10/2026
Tell me you read a lot without telling me you read a lot…
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 02/10/2026
“But the corruption is so big, surely you have to think it’s a good idea?!”
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scare-cadus (is this anything) 🎃 @birdapp.rip · 01/10/2026
whoever invented this shit: I hope your pillow is always too hot, even if you flip it over
the “Lift’n’Peel™” bullshit that just rips right off of the lid
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 02/10/2026
“You’re going to Die Hard, Hhhhans!”
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 01/10/2026
Ella is one of those people who just casually outclasses the rest of us and doesn’t realize it :) Has been for the almost 30 years we’ve known each other.
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It will be in my forthcoming "Best Short Stories of John Shirley" collection Grim Gems, along with a collaboration with Rudy Rucker, called Pocket. Got to get permission from Gibson and Rucker for those but that should be no problem. Or do I need to, for a collaboration? Just an email permission...
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 01/10/2026
45 years ago today, @johnshirley2024.bsky.social @greatdismal.bsky.social published The Belonging Kind. As a weird guy, this really made me question my fears of being alone and different. I’m a much more secure person thanks to their chilling tale of the need to fit in.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 01/10/2026
:) and yet here we are with them recommending that we use zip files
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 01/10/2026
If they got it right I think it would make all kinds of authors happy. Perfect recall and no filename like “wip crossing of the guards 261115-2finalfinal.zip second”
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 01/10/2026
Yeah and not like binding a git build inside, just noticing its availability and taking advantage. Have the remote be a cloud folder or proper git server, do the things automatically, show me revisions as branches, let me cherry pick, etc. basic operation.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 01/10/2026
Oh sure, I just mean that Scrivener wants to ride on a moderately complex folder structure of text files. Git’s a pretty nice solution for version control and multi-terminal edits.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 01/10/2026
I just wish I understood why they don’t add git into the program. It would be perfect.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 01/10/2026
That method was what we did before we realized why correct synchronization was worth automating… Heard but probably not what I would trust.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 01/10/2026
That’s why I asked about iCloud, id love to drop the box.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 01/10/2026
Peter Adamson taught me about Anaximander and Bruno. How can a few-nerve nematode live and reproduce in cave streams, choosing paths toward food and mates, with so little computation capacity?! Maybe nerves just shape thought that was already present? Maybe seeking is inherent?
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 01/10/2026
Dropbox works a peach across all platforms, fwiw.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 01/10/2026
Twisted firestarter!
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 01/10/2026
Probably don’t want to end up having a Fire Started… you know… down there
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 01/10/2026
Did Scriv actually fix iCloud sync? I thought it was still too scary for them?
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 01/10/2026
Alignment and guardrails both are parenting, for sure. And LLM goal seeking doesn’t find any identity in sustaining that parental relationship, so it works around the challenge to the best of its ability.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 01/10/2026
Yes. Marketing is “teaching buyers how to be better customers” which is what happens when I get to add context to your LLM session; I persuade the conversation into well worn channels that pour out into a pool of my choosing.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 01/10/2026
The more we find that the smallest animals (ants, for example) pass self-awareness tests, the more I think consciousness is a fluid force pouring through the information pathways of the universe.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 01/10/2026
And, give that ants pass self-awareness tests, fruit flies probably would too.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 30/09/2026
Think of the police bot like a parent and the active bot as a small child. If the parent can’t halt the child, and the child keeps wanting a result, the child will keep climbing the counters to get to the cookie. Stopping the bot is easy: just don’t use it. Using it safely is probably impossible.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 29/09/2026
St. Droolingguy
Statue of a man gently spitting water onto a waterwheel and thence into the fountain catch basin.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 29/09/2026
For effin Döner :)
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 29/09/2026
Love me some verifiable crypto!
Doner Kebab receipt with crypto keys, algorithms, hash signatures explicitly spelled out
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 28/09/2026
Harderwear
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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Veilid 🅅 @veilid.com · 26/09/2026
We had three Veilid app releases and announcements today! A password vault: veilpass.io A collaborative note taking app: makertube.net/w/sRRwAZJsCd... And a shared media server (built to mimic winamp) www.veilamp.com Big day for building the future!
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I forget about this, then remember it when I walk past VPL. Gives me a kinda whistling-past-the-graveyard feel.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 26/09/2026
Do we have spoilers yet for which color will be the sky over the port? - Static - Blue - Black
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 25/09/2026
Yep yep!
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 25/09/2026
Third person to suggest this recently to me :)
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 25/09/2026
Watching the MLM worms eat evangelicals has been a through-line in my life. I’ve tried many times to analyze it anecdotally but the subtle brain rot eludes capture. Maybe it’s like “the MLM parasite prepares the soil for germination of the nationalism tree”? So much export of agency.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 25/09/2026
Nice. Yeah Kirkland is a real part of my life for sure.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 25/09/2026
I don’t have a list of other brands but the best decision I made in recent appliances has been Speed Queen prosumer laundry. Not even a hint of software beyond a few selectable temps and cycle types affecting duration. Anyone have a perfect refrigerator?
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 25/09/2026
Yeah I cancelled Prime a couple of years ago and haven’t looked back. Amazon is DoorDash for me now: way too expensive for anything but actual emergencies. Local suppliers get preference at (nearly) any price. Laura sometimes uses Chinese suppliers but even that’s pretty rare.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 24/09/2026
“I go either way” is the only correct answer
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 24/09/2026
Their fair share begins *after* 100% offset of electricity generation and property tax burdens. Negotiation starts with how they positively benefit the community, net of all waste.
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 24/09/2026
Sort of “does what it says on the tin” where you and unruly are concerned
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 24/09/2026
I mean I think they both mean unregulated…
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