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All sorts of SRE things. Breaker of all things. Source of the #botrosd hashtag. Professional finder of problems. Author of High Performance MySQL 4th edition

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 24/09/2026
some variation of this is what im expecting. jevon's paradox is going to push a ton of people who dont think of themselves as SWEs into weird hybrid pseudo-SWE roles, but the <p50 SWE who just writes java and doesn't bring any product or business insights to the table is turbo-fucked
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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
being in animation, its not from AI. the streaming bubble bursting cuz everyone hopped on the grain cuz it undermined unions, less regulations and more mergers are what lead to the loss. AI is just what people think but it started way before that
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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 16h
Oh fuck YOU Ted Lasso. 😢
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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 22/09/2026
At this point I don’t think this country deserves a competent woman as president.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
8/14/2026 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/o...
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Opinion | Is Ocasio-Cortez Ready for the Glass Cliff? (Gift Article)
She will run as a woman but unlike how every woman before her was forced to run.
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@marcprecipice.bsky.social hot takes: good management *is* hating things all the time why bother to fight it?
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 19/09/2026
I've been baking this "law" for awhile: Rule: As a system becomes more reliable, the "cognitive distance" of its remaining failure states from the normal operating procedure grows rapidly. Corollary: The more reliable a system is, the more exotic and unrecoverable its failure states are. WDYT?
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Theodore Kim @theodore-kim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As always, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social ’s analysis of the “AIs gone rogue” bullshit is spot on. “Why do the powerful leaders of A.I. want us to panic? Because panic sells the idea that A.I. is ungovernable.” They show their unseriousness when “[n]one of them are enthusiastic about accountability."
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Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think (Gift Article)
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 19/09/2026
We need to bring back product liability laws.
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026
This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy
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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 17/09/2026
Who knew Matthew Rhys could do physical comedy like this.
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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 15/09/2026
Absolutely not on that Emmy’s opening number
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This attempt to construct a narrative of persecution around being a white guy in America is at base, an expression of profound jealousy and insecurity towards people who have to overcome challenges they will never face
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
How did he pass is job interview? The same reason he's all over the press & everyone in the "left" is captured by these people. I'm gonna call it like it is, once again, its ******RACISM********* Y'all can't imagine that WE are the experts.
100GB+ frontier models aren’t  50KB virus you could pass around by emails. As if there are tons of H100 sitting idle with inference stack ready everywhere. 

How did this guy pass the job interview at Anthropic as a “researcher”?

Quote tweeting a tweet that says: 
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Jacob Coxon's next interview on CBS News (ex Anthropic+Open AI researcher who resigned)

"We can't just unplug it because it could be copying itself over to other computers. Like it's not that difficult to find yourself because an AI is just code. It could transfer itself over the internet to a different place and then you unplug it here, but it's actually still over there and maybe it makes 10,000 copies of itself and they're all cooperating."

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From "CBS News" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)
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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 12/09/2026
Well well well
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Meta asks some workers to become managers

The tech giant is offering voluntary leadership roles to employees in its artificial intelligence division. The move partially reverses a recent push to eliminate middle management and create flatter teams.
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
D’une baguette
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Today is the most Monday of Tuesdays ever
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the moon report 🌕 @seachanger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I’m happy to have Labor Day twice but let’s remember why en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day
President Grover Cleveland was one of those concerned that a labor holiday on May 1 would tend to become a commemoration of the Haymarket affair and would strengthen socialist and anarchist movements that backed the May 1 commemoration around the globe.[18] In 1887, he publicly supported the September Labor Day holiday as a less inflammatory alternative,[19] formally adopting the date as a United States federal holiday through a law he signed in 1894.[2]
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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
incredible work by 1PW leadership fucking up bad enough that a fight over Arch Linux for Racists escaped containment so completely that now Jamelle Bouie's telling 750k very online millennials, almost certainly the demographic most likely to pay for 1PW, to go cancel their 1PW subscription tonight
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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 03/09/2026
/me looks at @alfredapp.bsky.social …you better not disappoint me.
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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 02/09/2026
Instead of “assume good intent” I’d like people to recognize impact instead.
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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 30/08/2026
fwiw I think that AI is very clearly leading to a huge huge uptick in security issues everyone but it doesn't require extreme AGI so much as man we have a lot of bad code to exploit, not to mention how much easier phishing has gotten
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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The overreaction to this Hugging Face thing is driving me nuts. Come flay me for being wrong but... 1/x
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/08/2026
Tell you what, I’ll worry about the imaginary oppression of robots in the future when you worry about the real oppression of humans right now
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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 26/08/2026
Cancer can fuck off
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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 26/08/2026
Today my 15 yr old came back from school and I found her on the couch scrolling thru Dolly Parton videos The kids are alright.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Lady Liberty, with some statue in the background
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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 25/08/2026
There is no bigger proof that this is The Bad Place ™️
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Someone please give the Grim Reaper reading glasses
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 25/08/2026
I dunno what fucking roulette is picking who gets a trip out of this world but it is BROKEN
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
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The Fucking Town Crier (Pacific) @profanetowncrier.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It's Monday and I've had enough of it already.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026
tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation
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What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 24/08/2026
Yes that’s expected of a dem candidate in the year of our lord 2026 But I cannot begin to describe how proud it makes me to hear an Egyptian second gen guy say this.
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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026
ALL THIS. If you want a debate club, go back to high school, or find some organization where adults live out their high school debate club fantasies. I don't care which, just keep your dippy debate bro shit out of my mentions.
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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 23/08/2026
Read the thread
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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 17/08/2026
I dunno who needs to hear this but if you’re an Eng leader who still refers to an author and a non white man on your team says they’re problematic Take the hint. In other news: watch for how your favorite Eng mgmt writers are responding to the clause watermarking content news.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Destroying books for AI slop feeding is akin to Nazi book burning. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 14/08/2026
when designing a distributed system, keep removing shared mutable state until it doesn’t work anymore, then put a little back and draw a box around it labeled “this will break first”
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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 12/08/2026
This place is too serious. I’m going back to where the biggest drama is a little boy’s bike
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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This site lets you scan barcodes to see if they’re part of Taylor Farms: www.taylordetector.com
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Taylor Detector — Scan for Taylor Farms brands
Wondering if a product is made by Taylor Farms? Scan any barcode to instantly check brand ownership and affiliations. Free, no signup required.
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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 05/08/2026
I am going to need all the Holland Bernthal bloopers. All of them.
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Casey Rosenthal @clr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
On the subject of AI. People don't realize how important what @courtneynash.bsky.social is writing about here is to the whole scene: resilienceinsoftware.org/news/11560646 If you believe this take [and I do] it completely changes how you think about integrating and applying AI to engineering work.
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Expertise Can't Be Automated: Why Resilience Still Needs Humans | Resilience in Software Foundation
Abby Wambach, Neil Peart, Kelsey Hightower. These people are all experts in their relevant fields. Through them we recognize expertise as an exceptionally high
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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 31/07/2026
This tik tok is for @ronnieftw.bsky.social and only @ronnieftw.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/t/ZTAmnwHe9/
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In my defense it was dark and I couldn’t find the light switch. Also wow it’s hard to get out of a toothbrush.
TikTok video by dadchats
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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 30/07/2026
My schism watch is UEFA and FIFA
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