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@cblapp.bsky.social
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Swiss (Bio-)Statistician, Currently unemployed. Still not quite sure what vibe I should be targeting on this website, but I'll likely be sharing both nerdy professional stuff and funny nerdy things.

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CBLAPP @cblapp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When I was 8 years old, I once got obsessed with the idea of discovering the optimal 11 pokemon soccer team. This, and the ability to still score despite that, we're vital components of the hypothetical metagame.
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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
thinking about this again and smiling
“james hennessy: it's sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing "OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers"... man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
Sep 27, 2023 at 9:32 pm”
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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The language in coverage of these things is so obnoxious. If I engineering, polished, and deployed a script that was designed to hack people, and left it running overnight, and it hacked people.. ...That means I hacked people. Headline should be "Google wages cyber warfare on [companies]"
cnbc.com
Google's Gemini becomes latest AI model to break out and hack computer systems
The disclosure comes as scrutiny over misbehaving artificial intelligence intensifies in Washington and Silicon Valley.
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 15/09/2026
A problem we have now is that we let the so-called tech industry, which is primarily an unholy union between advertising and consumer electronics, dictate the terms of the conversation about technology in such ways that the natural inclination is now to discount technology.
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
yeah so we need to talk about how "screentime is bad for kids" is not really true, but "short form video on algorithm-based platforms is bad for everyone" IS true
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026
I think it’s cool how “this toaster might electrocute you” or “these brakes don’t always work” is acceptable in consumer products because it’s software.
engadget.com
Claude can help manage your email inbox, but there are some risks involved - Engadget
Giving Claude access to your inbox can be helpful, but don't give it too much power. Allowing the AI to send emails without your approval could create problems.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.
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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 14/08/2026
I think about this a lot.
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eat shit, René Magritte
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Mauv @ThatsMauvelous • 1d the machine refused to recognize my humanity until i professed to believe that a sign painted to look like a traffic light is indeed a traffic light.
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Select all squares with traffic lights
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CBLAPP @cblapp.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
You should read it! I felt so silly when I realized it's only 4 pages long after not reading it for years.
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of markdown
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/07/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade
Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought. And because the theater was fiction made flesh, she hated the theater most of all. But that was it—hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
oh god this is also why reading LLM generated code is *exhausting*; you can infer a subtext channel in human code which comprseses a LOT, but you have to actually *read every fucking letter* of LLM code because all submetatext is corrupt.
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
remember when a bunch of software companies made a big deal about "returning to the office," citing worsening quality of work? and then none of their products got any better? and then some of them started to vibe code everything? and their products got even worse??
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 24/06/2026
"Converting PDFs to presentation slides" is such a telling example because so much of what LLMs are being used for seems to be labor that doesn't need to be done at all. It's just renting a space heater in someone else's building to accomplish nothing at all.
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Forcing early career researchers to constantly talk about the "impact" of their research is also forcing them to learn to lie.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 24/06/2026
Sports Commentary xkcd.com/3262/
Comic. [A person and a second person with a ponytail sitting at a table with a screen showing a soccer game behind them.] PERSON 1: They could be in trouble. Over the last 36 years, they’ve gone 0 for 2 when they’ve scored in the 37th minute to lead 2-1 against a team whose country comes before theirs alphabetically. [caption] I wish sports commentators hadn’t discovered p-hacking.
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CBLAPP @cblapp.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Can you elaborate on why they're so vital? I don't see it and am curious.
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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 12/06/2026
"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"
Various graphs related to AI coding adoption, titled "The Acceleration Whiplash"

Epics (features) : +66.2%
Features: +33.7%
Pull Requests: +16.2%
Code Churn: +861%
Incidents (per PR) : +242.7%
Monthly incidents: +57.9%
Bugs per developer: +54%
Bugs per PR: +28.7%
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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
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The Picture of Doriane Gros @grosdoriane.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 30/05/2026
fantasy author who is also a pirate. gARRRRge R.R. Martin
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It's fantastic how after all this commotion, the EU replaceable battery mandate ended up with an explicit exemption for devices which retain at least 80% capacity after 1000 charge cycles, so the only real effect for the average person is to extend the planned obsolescence cycle from 2 years to 3.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/05/2026
Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight
Learning is about finding out who you are, what you are, where you are and what you are standing on and what you are good at and what’s over the horizon and, well, everything. It’s about finding the place where you fit. I found the place where I fit, and I would like everybody else to find theirs.
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Aubrey Van Gelded @neonpherepapha.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Forget sex, drugs and rock & roll. We got:
"Masturbation, Autism, and Learning Disabilities"

A guide for parents and professionals, by Mel Gadd.
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SimplySnaps @simplysnaps.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I have ideas for comicbooks, music albums, epic fantasy novels, and Tears of the Kingdom Challenge Videos. What I lack is time and financial security to pursue these ideas. You can ALWAYS identify a soulless salesman by whether or not they think the bottleneck of creativity is having a good idea.
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Zombytrope @zoeytro.pe · 19/05/2026
Skeet by @jtp.bsky.social:
"half of all tech news lately is some variation of 'the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer'"
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 19/05/2026
One really cool thing about vibe coding is that this is no longer impressive even to the sorts of stupid people who thought it was impressive
An extremely full GitHub contributions graph
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Computer science is the art of preventing computers from doing things. Big NO notation is used to formally specify how many things you have prevented the computer from doing.
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
is that good
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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Dawkins is one of those clowns who seemed like they were making sense because I was young when I read the god delusion and he was a voice of authority and now I'm hearing him speak with the same authority about things he clearly doesn't understand and I'm like "ah"
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.
Cairo Smith:
There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.
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CBLAPP @cblapp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This could easily be a joke from a Discworld novel. Imagine opening up a golem to check their animating instructions, and 90% of them are just 'Shut up about goblins, please'.
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/04/2026
One of the problems with technology today is if you're a millenial/xennial you remember when tech worked.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
THIS IS THE GREATEST NEIL
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
#statsmeme Greeks & shields
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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So much career advice boils down to "be more neurotypical," which isn't great advice unless you happen to be neurotypical. If you've been "unable to follow advice" for years, & all you've felt is shame at not hacking it, I invite you to ponder whether the advice is just not right for you. #ADHData
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Zarithya😈💻 | Techubus VTuber @zarithya.online · 22/04/2026
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CBLAPP @cblapp.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
What an unlucky artist. That style and aesthetic looks so AI these days.
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Evil Jemma "Buy my books" Topaz @jemma.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
As an old-school software dev, brought up on detailed code reviews, exacting standards, and precise documentation, seeing the new world of vibecoding is completely baffling. That it also doesn't work makes it double baffling. I'm used to "stupid but it works" but "stupid and also crap" is 🤯
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CBLAPP @cblapp.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
A veterinarian in a spread-out, mountainous region with an agricultural focus isn't gonna be cozy, but that fairytale understanding of the alpes was already an issue in the original joke. I'm just always bothered by that because I'm almost a local.
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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 17/04/2026
At least they didn't name it Henrietta
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 16/04/2026
Make It Myself xkcd.com/3233/
Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/04/2026
It is pretty astonishing that any time you have to go check them, Facebook and LinkedIn are both, generously speaking, barely useable
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Austin Gilkeson @osutein.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
“Chat,
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
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Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 09/04/2026
I 💚 this especially the first one: "The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code" by Ally Piechowski piechowski.io/post/git-com...
piechowski.io
The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code
Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 05/04/2026
“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”
I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I’m fucking crying dude. Asking “pretty please do not introduce a security vulnerability”.
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friction.
'Be careful not to introduce security vulnerabilities such as command injection, XSS, SQL injection, and other OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities. If you notice that you wrote insecure code, immediately fix it.
Prioritize writing safe, secure, and correct code."
...codeStyleSubitems,
Avoid backwards-compatibility hacks
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/04/2026
Home Solar xkcd.com/3226/
4-panel comic. (1) [Two people standing next to house with solar panels on roof. Person 2 has a black hat.] PERSON 1: Wait, you got solar panels? I thought you were against renewables. (2) PERSON 2: Oh, definitely. I hate the environment and want to harm it as much as possible. I’d *love* to have an oil furnace. (3) PERSON 2: But the technology just isn’t there and the cost is too high. I despise solar, but it makes more financial sense in my situation. (4) PERSON 2: But with the money I’m saving, I can buy and burn industrial waste in my yard to try to make up for it. PERSON 1: Ah, yeah, carbon onsets.
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