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Michael Bolton

@developsense.bsky.social
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This post is on my Web site. I've finally started posting on Substack too, as part of the Post On Site, Syndicate Everywhere strategy suggested by Cory Doctorow. This one is on supposed "bottlenecks" in software development. The only real bottleneck is responsibility. substack.com/profile/1030...
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Michael Bolton (@michaelbolton)
Language is the bottleneck. We need to be able to understand each other and ourselves if we want good things, or if we want other people to provide good things for us. Sometimes we need to express ou...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yet if you listen to the podcast, he still sounds all-in. It was painful.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I've been saying all along that we need sharp journalists to point these things out. <grin/>
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
They asked a chatbot for a recommendation.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Come come from from away away!
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
So far so good.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My karma meter just hit the pin. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right political commentator, detained by ICE
A former editor of Breitbart News, Yiannopoulos has also served as an intern for Marjorie Taylor Greene
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
No argument there. I'm not a revolutionary leftist, myself, which allows me to believe that both of our points stand.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Well… in the same way that Boy-Ar-Dee is an Italian chef.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I’m not sure I would characterise those autocrats as “left-wing”.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The plagiarism is significant, but it’s a subset of the slop. Which is even worse.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
No! No! Must have digital pants!
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Crass-action suit. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Lawsuit aims to block UFC event at White House on Trump’s birthday
Case argues Trump administration broke federal laws to accomodate ‘deeply corrupt’ commercial sporting event
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
It faces fierce competition from the real news, though.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Quality post, that.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
s/discuss/deplore/
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Of course it is. And of course the deaths happening in the “detention centres” are in addition to the ones in the field.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
He’s doing a pretty good job of that right now for free, so… I’d advise no deal.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Oh, there’s definitely been a system crash.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Thinking of code only as a cost without considering its value is very peculiar. It seems to me like thinking of words in a newspaper story as a cost. One could reduce the cost of both code and words to zero. Would that help the business deliver value?
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Xitter. First syllable goes like the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Again, Dear BlueSky People: this is social media. As much as I might agree with you’re saying, your whimsical pseudonym is not helping me to see you as a real person with a real name. In this moment, it’s socially important for real people to identify themselves, bravely, as real people.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Ummm… “Whatever anyone might or might not have done, government officials should not be killing them.” People who don’t have enough spine to say that, loudly, clearly, and often aren’t qualified to run for office, nor to be in office.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Speaking isn’t loud enough. youtu.be/lsO_SlA7E8k?...
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MARIO SAVIO - "Operation of the Machine"
YouTube video by HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I believe the anonymous account’s reply was answering zero to the question “How many people died in concentration camps under the Obama administration?”
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Well, sure, but other than that okay, amirite?
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I like the culture on BlueSky, except this: I don’t like anonymity and pseudonyms. I like real names. I like to know who’s talking. I like the fearlessness of people putting their names on what they write I know there are other perspectives on this point. I’m only letting y’all be clear about mine.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I know you well enough to say: can confirm.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Now, now. Boys will be boys. Oh, and men will be boys. And… (checks notes) some boys and men will be sociopathic monsters. We can’t let little details like their inhumanity be held against them, can we?
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
A well-designed experiment could determine the validity of statements 1 and 2 pretty quickly. While any choice about 3 is a matter of preference, the scientific basis of it is sound.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“Officials have said the app is better than a birth certificate.” Well, for plausible deniability, yes.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Brownshirts.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Apparently you’re not the only one.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Looks like the revolution WILL be televised.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Remember to remind everyone that it was larger than both Trump inaugurals.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“Wondering what your career looks like in our increasingly uncertain, AI-powered future? According to Palantir CEO Alex Karp, it’s going to involve less of the comfortable office work to which most people aspire, a more old fashioned grunt work with your hands.” K. You first, Bub.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“Nato troops stayed a little off the frontlines.” Heed this stern rebuke from General Bonespur.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Me, I'd encourage them to get going. You know... as soon as possible.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Yes. And Sweden is probably next in the crosshairs, because the other Nobel prizes are given out there. If Obama had got one for physics or medicine, you could count on Gotland being essential to America's defense as well. I mean, it even *sounds* a lot like Greenland
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
"Risks becoming", in the same way that the Sun "risks becoming" hot near the surface.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I'd want back in.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
When *officials at FIFA* see a moral quagmire, one has to start believing that there’s a real problem. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Growing sense of embarrassment at Fifa over Donald Trump peace prize
There is a growing sense of embarrassment among mid-level and senior officials within Fifa over the awarding of the peace prize to Donald Trump
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Problem for you: I'm willing to undercut you.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
@carlbergstrom.com The thing that always bemuses me about staunch libertarians is that they wouldn't survive in the worlds that they propose, because someone else would exercise the freedom to shoot their annoying asses pretty much right away.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Cool. Okay, Canada: let’s do Putin, Netanyahu, Xi, Modi, and Trump.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I’m taking up smoking!
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
That doesn’t answer the question in the original post: what ARE these things good for?
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
“the design of LLMs makes them a non-option for truth-based work” As someone who has tested these things extensively, I can confirm. The hard part is that it will take at least a generation to unfuck the data AND societal damage that reckless broligarchs have let loose from the lab.
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Michael Bolton @developsense.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
So far as I know, every news outlet in the world has missed the opportunity to refer to “the Andrew formerly known as Prince”.
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