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Chris Elion

@chriselion.bsky.social
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Software engineer at a climate tech startup. Dog-dad to Eleanor the rescue mutt. SF, CA

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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Honorable mention: Dr. Dog - Heart It Races (Architecture In Helsinki cover) youtu.be/IQqa588F9Vs?...
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Heart It Races (Cover Version)
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Queens of the Stone Age - Going Out West (Tom Waits cover) youtu.be/EI06Sc9paF0?...
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Queens of the Stone Age - Goin' Out West (Tom Waits Cover)
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Jackie Treehorn pencil rubbing from The Big Lebowski
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Betteridge's law of headlines - Wikipedia
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Akallabêth 🇺🇦 @akallabeth24.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#truth #starwars
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Darmok from Star Trek TNG
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
More Food About Buildings and Songs
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Proofs of finite-time blowup for the Navier-Stokes equations
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 10/09/2026
“I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots” ploum.net/2026-09-09-ai_policy.html > My AI policy is "I don’t want any kind of interaction with that thing." And this should be all you need to know. This.
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I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots
I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Bloc Party - Banquet youtu.be/vdkmhquF60o?...
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Bloc Party - Banquet (Official Music Video)
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Sterling Archer: Hey! Phrasing!
Alt: Sterling Archer: Hey! Phrasing!
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I went to a party where the theme was The Industrial Age.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
As soon as you say "here's how AI fits into my process and how it doesn't" you might as well be a stack of cardboard by the curb re the attention you're going to get from me.
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
So you’re pro-ton?
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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“I’m smart enough to breath asbestos dust without getting sick” “I’m experienced enough to eat off of a lead plate and be fine.” “I’m senior enough to use the chatbot without getting billionaire derangement syndrome”
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Monsters
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"I'm, like, angry at numbers" "Yeah, there's like, too many of them, and stuff"
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numbers suck
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.
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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 21/07/2026
Writer friends, if you run your own Wordpress, please check if you are affected and take action URGENTLY, this is a very, very bad bug which is likely to start being exploited at scale within the next few days. RTs appreciated slcyber.io/research-cen...
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wp2shell: Pre Authentication RCE in WordPress Core › Searchlight Cyber
Critical issue discovered in WordPress Core affecting the majority of WordPress-built sites. The zero-day is a pre-authentication Remote Code Execution (RCE) that can be used by attackers to run malic...
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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.com · 12/07/2026
This is the first thing I saw waking up today 🤣🤣 This is gonna be a good week!
The Grim Reaper at a claw machine: Mitch, you're mine this time. Oh WTF Lindsey Graham awesome!
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’m admittedly biased, but I have Irish heritage and used to live in Dublin, and the Irish are… not fans of England.
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Might I suggest the perennial favorite, Not England?
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
“And did you know, the hole’s only natural enemy is the pile?”
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Frinkiac
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
He’s just an area man.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/06/2026
Bon Iver: Perhaps the most accurate term to apply to your situation is “seriously injured and lost in the woods.”
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What Your Favorite Sad Dad Band Says About You
The War on Drugs You make your own paella and take super long naps on Saturday. Like over two hours, consistently. You prefer the smallest possible hardware ...
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Reading this thread I simply cannot fathom the speed with which some scholars *resign* their vocation the moment the option to defer to AI arises. I fought many years for the privilege to write and teach. Even if AI *could* do my job (it can’t) they will have to pry it from my cold dead hands
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Missed opportunity for him to auction off the letters.
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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 09/06/2026
"We didn't wait for the breweries … we went and got it."
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How David Keene and a Honda hatchback changed American craft beer forever
"We didn't wait for the breweries … we went and got it."
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
@bencollins.bsky.social - where did you end up going?
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Aces is a New York fan bar. Greens, Mad Dog in the Fog, and Kezar Pub are all great for any sports event - Mad Dog and Kezar have good pub food too.
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Not a wonk, but I’m a programmer working on grid stuff. Happy to meet for a coffee or a beer.
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I never noticed the Cheeto cameo until today.
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Goodhart’s Corollary: When a measure becomes a target, the Jets will use it to help them draft.
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
They’re all yours, I just wanted them out of my brain.
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
It was a toss-up between that and “Raincoat-augmented generation (RAG)”
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Moisture context protocol (MCP)
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Lobster trap 🦞
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Truly, he has a dizzying intellect.
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
AnthropMick
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Ky @ky.fyi · 24/04/2026
I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.
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Do I belong in tech anymore?
On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Oddly enough, they also pick Kevin Stribling.
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Texas Chainsaw Writing Workshop @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
It’s a depressed-coast IPA
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Coincidentally, also the name of the IPA.
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Phineas, a corpse @phineas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: 
Using Generative AI?
You’re prompting with Hitler!
GenAI is a Fascist Project!
Try using your brain instead
Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The show in Oakland last year was one of all-time favorites. Still can’t get over the visuals for Copy Of A.
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Chris Elion @chriselion.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
BTW, Mike Doughty is touring this spring.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
ITS FINE - dashare.zone ADMIN
ITS FINE TO LAUGH AT SOMEONE WHO THINK'S A MARKOV CHAT BOT IS SUPER INTELLIGENT, ITS OK TO MAKE FUN OF THE TENDENCY TO OFF LOAD ANY CRITICAL THINKING ONTO AN APP THAT IS GENERATING TEXT WITH NO INHERENT MEANING, ITS ACCEPTABLE TO FIND IT HUMOROUS THAT AN ENTIRE SEGMENT OF PEOPLE THINK THAT A SET OF D&D DICE REPLACES A SEARCH ENGINE, ITS ONE OF THE NICEST WAYS TO HANDLE THE SITUATION, THE WORLDS RICHEST PEOPLE DEVISED A WAY TO FORCE EVERY SKILLED WORKER OUT OF EMPLOYMENT AND TURN ALL ART INTO UNIFORM SLOP AND IF WE CAN LAUGH AT THEIR COLLABORATORS AT LEAST WE GET SOMETHING OUT OF THE DEAL - DA TEXT SAYS "ITS OK TO MAKE FUN OF AI USERS, THERE NOT ABLE TO READ WHAT YOU TYPED ANYWAY" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Something else about the halftime show: As I said, especially as a 41 year old white person who barely speaks any Spanish (much to the shame of my extremely fluent mother), this was not For Me—and I was fine with that But also I got this strong vibe of “if you want to party with us you are welcome”
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cyrus @professorbutts.com · 09/02/2026
freddy removing the super bowl mask to reveal thursday night football
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