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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The group is full of people who, respectfully, are in desperate need of grass to touch

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11/09/2026

the thing about this is that this isn't an AI problem. AI is *accelerating* the problem, but industry investment in training, mentoring and developing employees has been waning for decades, what's different is that it's going to hit white collar work in the way it's been hitting the trades for years

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Adulthood: A - Always B - Be C - Cleaning

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Apparently there are only 20 Black people

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

They don’t have to be the absolute best models, but the mega-prominence of Copilot and Google AI Search mean that their quality has an outsized impact on the field (and the world) as a whole. We should all want them to stay in the top 5 at all times.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The AI bear case has shifted from “this technology will never work” to “it will never have economic use” to “it will not generate revenue” to “it will not generate profit” to “profit is not sufficient to support valuations” which does suggest they may have missed something bsky.app/profile/mexi...

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

There’s only one villain for the X-Men.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 05/08/2026

yeah a huge chunk of the population is seeing garbage technology that gets things wrong constantly and is nothing but social danger and capitalist monstrousness and then a tiny slice is seeing a complex, troubling, but utterly comprehensive transformation in the field of "make computer do thing"

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

ok but pulitzer for whoever got this shot, it’s so good

dog in blue vest with sunglasses in waves with surfboard

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

$ are a straight up better gift like 95% of the time

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you are not using an agent harness to debug your home computer setups, you are missing out. My self-hosted setup would be half of what it is now without them.

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute” as a foundational computer science textbook famously said

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The fundamental, delicious paradox of studying history is that: 1. These people are radically different from me, and I may never properly understand them. 2. These people are exactly like me.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Being so racist against and jealous of Black people that you can't appreciate Stevie Wonder has to be a curse from God.

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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Sometimes I think we don’t talk about just how goddamn good Fela and the Afrika 70 really were and what starkly overt political music that actually picked real fights (with all too real consequences) was really like

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Fela Kuti - Zombie

YouTube video by Fela Kuti

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

History is bad, actually

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Herbie Hancock literally in the studio

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Torontonians: U of T's school of urban research is crowdsourcing a short two-question survey where all you need to do is draw what you consider the borders of your neighborhood on a map carte.utoronto.ca/neighbourhoo...

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Map Your Toronto Neighbourhood

Map your neighbourhood's boundaries and contribute to a community-sourced picture of Toronto.

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Agree. Writing code will never be the same as it was before AI agents, no matter what happens with future models.

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I ain't saying TKMS won't build good submarines. But I am saying that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Unless of course those birds in the bush are European.

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all hallows’ avery @pucksarcana.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

the brits are screaming wonderwall in the azteca. god is dead

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"having a dude who can score goals" remains pretty important

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Rough one for Canada today. Did a lot better than the score shows, but it is what it is.

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

We should allow more hotels. Locals have visitors come from out of town, and I can't always be putting everybody up in my basement. I'm lucky to even *have* a basement for that. So it's either far away hotel, or random AirBnb basement. Nah. Titi deserves a pool near her nephew on her vacation!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I do not want to doom on main. But there could not have been a more slam dunk case for the Supreme Court to unanimously say “no the president cannot rewrite the constitution all by himself.” And yet, it was 5-4.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Among other things, a 5-4 ruling on birthright citizenship is an invitation to try again.

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I already have so many topics I can do this with. Do not tempt me to add another.

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I was impressed at how close the Canada-Switzerland game actually looked. Which makes losing it on two ugly goals sting a lot worse

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The lives, happiness, and dignity of real human beings matters more than whatever philosophical point you are trying to make is basically the entire basis of my ideology now.

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Olives. I will make no apologies. They smell bad, they taste bad, and they overpower everything they touch with their badness.

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This mostly isn't true, but it is definitely more true than the average computer programmer believes. Basically the entire coding bootcamp industry was built on this thesis, and the industry largely responded with "thanks, but we'd rather have Stanford grads do our basic CRUD apps"

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I think an underrated possibility is that both the moderate optimist and pessimist cases about the impact of AI on society are true & we do genuinely get a much more prosperous society from lots of kinds of labor becoming as-if free, but the massive societal disruption lasts & nets out the benefits

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

it is nice to live in a city where a Shin Ramyun streetcar makes sense

A Toronto streetcar covered in advertising for Shin Ramyun

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

We Can Work it Out isn’t actually a song written by the generational talent musician Stevie Wonder. It is instead a cover of some old British group called… The Beatles?

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Yes honestly it has genuinely gotten worse and attempts to suggest otherwise just multiply the damage

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

And they say software engineering is nothing like real engineering

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orangejuliusesq.bsky.social @orangejuliusesq.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque

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Rishi Maharaj @rsmaharaj.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

As a Toronto to BC transplant, you have to understand that Toronto is a genuinely vibrant city constantly held down by some of the worst governance on Earth. Vancouver is an extremely mid city blessed by its stunning natural location. The city didn’t build the North Shore Mountains!

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

At Toronto Comic Con @fellhound.bsky.social had a sticky note on their booth that just said “GAY” (check out their work!) “It attracts the right sorts of people and repels the wrong sort.” Same principle applies to open source systems programming apparently.

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Students host parties and get drunk here (laudatory)

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

this is one of my favorite things on the planet and i will watch it every time it pops up

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Recently did a Claude-free day on a codebase I’ve been working on for a bit. Everything worked, there were tons of tests and documentation. I recognized all the problems being solved. And yet also there was just a wild amount of “oh wait it chose to solve things THIS way? Let me dial that back”

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Reminds me of the FDA with 23andme. They hadn’t done the work to prove their genetic tests gave valid medical advice and get licensed to sell that. So they had to stop giving medical advice. That is, the FDA is already empowered to stop things like this. But I wouldn’t bet on it happening soon.

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Conrad Owen @conradowen.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

When I first learned to code, it felt like once I’d learned the right programming language I would unlock cosmic enlightenment. These days with LLMs, they’re basically all equal.

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