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Adam Compton

@comptona.bsky.social
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Dad, husband, and principal engineer @ wayve.ai. Anyone can break one computer, but if you want to break thousands of computers at the same time you need a professional. Also enjoys reading everything that's not nailed down and pixel art.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22h
look, if you're worried about being remembered, don't try to pursue immortality or whatever, the smart move is to start selling substandard copper and then make sure anyone who complains deposits a physical copy of that complaint in a site that will later be archaeologically significant
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Adam Compton @comptona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don't mind me, just setting up a puppet config to install prometheus-node-exporter on my RetroPie emulation box, totally normal things that everybody does
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Adam Compton @comptona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don't mind me, just setting up a puppet config to install prometheus-node-exporter on my RetroPie emulation box, totally normal things that everybody does
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
you know what? I agree with him my moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment is we throw all of these assholes out of office and then we put them in jail
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Adam Compton @comptona.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I take issue with your using a word I don't know, even though I could easily guess it from context. No, I didn't read all the way to the end of your post, what does that have to do with anything?
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every week, the Muppets have to put on a show to salvage a new institution: the Kennedy Center, the Supreme Court, the No-Mask Lesbian Bar, the Wonka Experience, Kozmo Dot Com (this has a time travel dimension, à la Quantum Leap), Cafe Loup in the West Village, democracy, the third season of GLOW
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Adam Compton @comptona.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just because it's smarter than he is doesn't mean we all have to change the name. That said, I bet Slovenia is excited about the new domain name hosting revenue
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ceej @ceej.online · 25/09/2026
Be serious. Bert and Ernie are not “in love.” Maybe they used to be, once
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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 25/09/2026
this thread is a very fun ride lol neuromatch.social/@jonny/11733...
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jonny (nonvenomous) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
i am waiting on using meta's free ai vm to periodically try and get me oracle's free vps tier to proxy a domain into meta's free ai vm so i can serve the vm image dump of meta's free ai vm from meta's...
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Adam Compton @comptonformillercreek.org · 22/09/2026
Got my official campaign yard sign up!
An image of the front yard of a house, prominently featuring a yard sign labeled "Adam Compton - Miller Creek School Board - ComptonForMillerCreek.org" and a jaunty line art of an apple resting atop a stack of schoolbooks
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 21/09/2026
I've seen folks defending the concept of "vibe coding" as valid in the industry and I don't get why. Vibe coding is the AI equivalent of a hobbyist writing just code. The quality of the work is variable. Professional software engineers should not (and usually do not) proceed that way.
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Adam Compton @comptona.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I think meaning comes from effort in service of something we value. Denying ourselves the opportunity to exert this effort cuts us off from this source of meaning in our lives.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the whole thing of being open-minded isn’t saying all viewpoints are equally valid, it’s subjecting them all to equal scrutiny then rejecting the ones that are evil or backwards or stupid
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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitchy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I need to make this clear: If you (WHOM I AM SPEAKING TO RIGHT NOW) have decided that "The Devil says he'll let us all go if we just hand over the outcast!" You *are* the villain, you *are* the monster, you *are* the bad guy. No questions. No exceptions. Liberty and Justice for ALL or GTFO
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 16/09/2026
Former Waymo CFO jumps to self-driving startup Wayve
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Former Waymo CFO jumps to self-driving startup Wayve
Elisa de Martel, who left her position as chief financial officer at Alphabet's autonomous vehicle company Waymo in January, will be based out of Silicon Valley.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
fuck it, I'm feeling honest today. It's not just highly successful ppl it's also moderately & mildly successful people. There's like 9 billion ppl on this planet, getting ahead is more a function of fortune and circumstance than personal achievement. roulette wheel stopped where we were, thats all
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little john @littlejohn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine what would be possible if we funded education. Adequately, fully, publicly, in proportion to its importance in society and all the burdens that fall to it. Really: imagine. People in power and on the far right have, and that's why we're in this mess. They don't want that to ever happen.
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Adam Compton @comptona.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
LLMs are improv machines, and inference is running "yes, and?" in a loop really really fast
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026
The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
I know it may seem cruel, but it is time: the normies have to be told about Aella, before it’s too late for democracy. I wish I was making a joke.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
Also, these people’s central source text, their Bible, is a Harry Potter fanfic, and I am not kidding. These dorkass weirdos are unthinkably wealthy and powerful now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_P...
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Wikipedia
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Adam Compton @comptona.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"you are the average of your five closest friends" except nobody has friends anymore, just the parasocial relationships the algorithm chooses to inject directly into their brainstems
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Adam Compton @comptona.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'd hire the men's style guy to privately roast everything I wore before I stepped outside every day
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Adam Compton @comptona.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Marin Independent Journal posted a story about the school board seat I'm running for: www.marinij.com/2026/09/08/m...
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Miller Creek School District board election draws 5 candidates
The race includes three incumbent trustees and two seeking their first term.
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Adam Compton @comptona.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I feel like it says something about mass media that the _newest_ character on this list premiered 17 years ago (Leslie Knope, 2009). There was a whole TV show about people working at not-Walmart (Superstore) since then! It ran for six seasons! Are there really no newer references to draw from?
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Adam Compton @comptona.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The problem with never, ever having faced a single Consequence in one's entire life is that you never build the consequence-facing muscles on the little stuff, and the ineluctable ones thus hit way harder than for people who've actually experienced any before
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Questionnaire by Wendell Berry
Questionnaire by Wendell Berry

1. How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade?
Please name your preferred poisons.

2. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred.

3. What sacrifices are you prepared to make for culture and civilization? Please list the monuments, shrines, and works of art you would most willingly destroy.

4. In the name of patriotism and the flag, how much of our beloved land are you willing to desecrate? List in the following spaces the mountains, rivers, towns, farms you could most readily do without.

5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security, for which you would kill a child. Name, please, the children whom you would be willing to kill.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I've been saying it
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Bear Claw Billie (1590/5000) @bearclawbillie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
HEY THIS IS JUST A PAINTING OF A THEATER SHOWING COYOTE VS. ACME
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Adam Compton @comptona.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It's already been mentioned but Encyclopedia Brown taught me that it was OK to be a strange kid who loved books and figuring things out. Introducing him to my kids was a special day
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Back to school. ❤️
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Adam Compton @comptona.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
An image of the Magic: The Gathering card "Carnival of Souls"; full details at https://scryfall.com/card/uds/55/carnival-of-souls
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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
For Generation X, this was our "Doomsday." A 1990 crossover event featuring Alf, Winnie the Pooh, the Muppet Babies, the Chipmunks, Garfield, the Smurfs, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Slimer, Bugs Bunny and Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
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Annie💀 @anniemay.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
okay this is cool good job wotc
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Adam Compton @comptona.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
People need something to strive for, something to work on, a windmill at which to tilt. These guys would rather work towards destroying all of civilization and rebuilding it from scratch than giving their money away and planting a garden
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tina tittyfag @antinoe.prettyfem.me · 17/07/2026
whatever big thing in your life you've been hoping would kind of fix itself won't, if it could have it already would have get that diagnosis, actively look for the passion missing from your life, dump your shitty boyfriend,,, take the fucking estrogen
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I take it back, give me the pictures of crosswalks and motorcycles. the captchas are evolving and I can't solve this one.
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Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nobody Gives A Fuck About Moana (2026)
Moana reaches to the face of the ocean but it's the abyss face. I think his name is Mr. Abyss. Hei Hei is there because you didnt follow the Moana marketing enough to be able to tell without it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026
there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
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Simon and Gargamel @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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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Sorry to lib out but I guess my thought on the Fourth is that if it wasn’t possible for this country to really be an egalitarian multiracial democracy someday, the most disgusting people alive wouldn’t be trying so hard to foreclose that possibility
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The sole and entire reason evangelicals oppose abortion is because the IRS revoked Bob Jones University's tax-exempt status because they refused to racially integrate. You say this and people look at you like you're nuts!
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Trump: It's not working! Why don't they love the fair? How do I make the crowds cheer? Oracle of DC: If you test your strength against the heat with a very long speech, the nation will celebrate harder than they ever have. They will party in the streets. No one will ever forget the night.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 28/06/2026
I'm utterly digging the relatively newly universally understood "It Happens," as in "when It Happens" or "the day It Happens."
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
today is happening just once and it is READY FOR YOU with mystery and adventure and glittering love hidden around every corner. it will be here and gone before you know. TIME TO TROT OUT THERE AND MEET IT
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
this is a terrific opening paragraph for a dystopian pulp novel released in 1997
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