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Dr. Dabbles

@drdabbles.bsky.social
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Hardware Architect. I like the intersection of ISA and hardware. Realistic expectations evangelist. C / Go / Python

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I am amazed that for a few years we had the ability to instantly access information through an almost perfect search engine and the makers of that search engine decided hundreds of billions wasn’t enough profit so they destroyed it
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 21/08/2026
I am becoming incredibly exhausted of this pattern: many people: "AI sucks!" Very Smart Person: ah but have you considered (distinct application of ML or statistical modeling that has no real relationship to what the tech industry is marketing as, and people broadly perceive as, "AI")
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/08/2026
finally got long videos to work, so here's my masterpiece
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Maybe I'm naive but I kinda don't think the product can survive being widely known as pervert glasses
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
You can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...
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Italy's $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral | Fortune
Extreme heat is straining the vaults that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral, and economists say the damage runs wider than the vault
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
AI slop loving dipshits calling people "boomer", and then going on 10 post tirades is always a sure sign that someone's not suffering from being online too much.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 09/08/2026
workshopping a new sticker
Same "Free people read freely" sticker with the illustration of the girl, but "free people read freely" text has been crossed out in red, "TM" has been added at the end, and "some restrictions may apply" has been added below
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
See what being soft on crime gets you? When you fail to prosecute the criminal element in the US, it spreads. And becomes responsible for countless deaths by shutting down USAID.
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Because a product that actually improved safety would need to do so in secret, obviously. It's a scam. Always was.
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Friendnard @friendnard.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Me: surely the designers of this keyboard put the battery in a safe place. Designers: the battery helps dampen the keys!
Spicy pillow shaped by a keyboard pcb pressing into it.
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
These people are perverts and freaks, and we should all just say so.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/08/2026
NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
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FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
If you post survey data, news articles, etc. without a link back to the source whenever possible, you are weakening the informational chain of custody and making it harder for other people to confirm that they're seeing accurate information. This holds even if you're mad at whatever it is.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is framed as a feel-good story, but it should scare the wits out of anybody on the road. Tesla's deceptive marketing is convincing seniors that the cars drive themselves. In reality, a human must always be ready to intervene. If someone lacks the ability to do that, they shouldn't be driving!
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Forget rideshare. How seniors are using Teslas for transportation
As Waymo and Tesla robotaxi services promise more rides for more cities, seniors are taking matters into their own hands and self-driving Teslas.
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Missy Cummings @forrealflygirl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Are Waymo execs trying to cash out once they get to an IPO, leaving investors to clean up the mess? nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Rapid Scaling Turns into AV Achilles’ Heel
AV operations aren't scaling because their vehicles have gotten safer. In contrast, scaling is exposing AVs' weaknesses, as evidenced by each recall involving software updates that proved ineffective.
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sin_pyro🖤🩶🤍💜 @sinpyro.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I started to write a joke about Oedipus and Midas. It was motherfucking gold.
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This week in "They Actually Play For The Same Side", people that should know better carrying lots of water for the shittiest, most hateful, two-faced politicians. It's good when they put themselves, but not nearly enough people are grossed out by it.
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I went to bed after hearing the news, because nothing was going to top that for the rest of the day. And people like to say nothing good happens late at night?
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 30/06/2026
The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
If the next #nothing flagship has UWB and a decent camera setup, I'll probably never buy another #pixel phone again. Everyone talked shit about Phone 3, and that thing is still better than my Pixel 10 in the ways I care about.
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I learned something long ago after implementing a corporate internet monitoring tool. Humans forget they're being watched, and we behave our worst when watching. These tools are abused 100% of the time they're deployed, and only creeps want them.
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I'm sick to death of people in the tech industry that don't want to know how anything works, don't want an understanding of the tools, environments, and technology they interact with. Fuck off with this "ask AI how to..." bullshit.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
We wanted to understand why so many young New York City Democrats turned out in last night’s primaries. So we talked to three retired Republicans at a Capital Grill in White Plains
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The most incredible thing to me is that the number of news outlets or journalists I want to follow has decreased dramatically in the past 10 years. Obviously I'm not alone on this.
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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Lord Farquaad: Some of You May Die
Alt: Lord Farquaad: Some of You May Die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 18/06/2026
for every skeet i post here showing ai systems catastrophically failing to do what they are supposed to do, i have dudes replying with “but humans are also bad at x" just don't. it's ignorant and unhelpful
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CCC @ccc.de · 15/06/2026
Bavarian judges ruled: That they’re using a crappy LLM model to generate a text doesn’t matter – Google is creating the text and is liable hackaday.com/2026/06/14/b...
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Bavarian Court Tells Gemini It Can’t Be A Real Boy Until It Tells The Truth
Does anyone like Google’s AI summaries? If so, they weren’t on the Judge’s bench in a specific Bavarian courtroom recently, where it was ruled that yes, Google is liable for the h…
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 15/06/2026
"But sending sexually explicit pictures to and from children – that’s not free speech, that’s basic protection." Says the man who has taken zero action on a social media platform producing a distributing child sex images for a year. Tough on teens, laisser faire on white supremacist billionaires.
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Starmer says teenagers won't be punished for trying to get round ban
Q: Will you fine children who ignore the ban? And what are the implications for freedom of speech?

On teenagers, Starmer said:

We’re not going to start taking action against 13 or 14, 15-year-olds who are trying, as they always will, to get around the rules that adults put in their path.

And, on freedom of speech, Starmer said:

I’m a great advocate of free speech, I really am.

But sending sexually explicit pictures to and from children – that’s not free speech, that’s basic protection.
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Germany leading the way, showing how it's done.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Hi! I'm Bret Rhett Chet, here to tell you why you should buy and hodl SpaceX stonk. For a mere $135/share, you get pro forma tangible book value of $7.85/share, an immediate 94% dilution. New investors are putting up 48% of all capital ever invested in SpaceX in exchange for 4.2% of the shares. /1
SpaceX prospectus dilution table with all those figures
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
... and yet ...
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
If this isn't the perfect image, it's got to be close.
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Ah, I forgot I hadn't blocked nytimes here. Fixed that.
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Kiku @ SPX W15A @kikuhughes.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
these are getting weird
comic depicting tesla cars with bumper stickers reading "anti-elon tesla club," "I bought this before elon went crazy," "vintage tesla, pre-madness edition," "absolve me," "absolve me," "tell me i'm good," "tell me i'm not to blame."
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Japan. My answer is Japan. A bit of protein, a bit of soup. You feel so good all day from it. Second answer is whoever came up with steak and eggs and bottomless coffee.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Peter Thiel is heading to his spiritual homeland of Argentina, following in the historical footsteps of thousands of other deeply problematic men with the exact same haircut.
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
It almost seems like an economy that focuses exclusively on corporations and endlessly increasing consumption rather than the well-being of people leaves everyone feeling like they're on the edge. I'm one cancer diagnosis away from lifelong poverty.
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is why I keep scoffing at the "Starlink seems like a healthy business" claims. Only if it has no costs, no failed deployments, no early failures of satellites, and they don't de-orbit early.
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That Dragon Guy @paintyourdragon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"And FWIW I don't like people telling me my mediocre takes are shitty. So it's you all that are the problem!" When will these waves realize we don't give a fuck? Shut the hell up and go back to the hell site if that's what you're so desperate for.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23/05/2026
The thing about this, as someone who’s very versed in LLMs and related technologies, is that the mainstream, mass-marketed versions of “AI” are *worthy* of contempt! Even if you like this tech, why would you advocate for such shitty versions of it? The Internet didn’t *start out* being shitty!
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The kids are alright.
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The number of times I hear, "I'm not a programmer but I vibe coded this..." is directly proportional to how much my eyes will roll.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Ordering food at a restaurant has made me a chef.
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Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I'll take Things that Never Happened for $200. *daily double sound*
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
i remember learning "there is no silver bullet" in my cs classes and it's bleakly hilarious that all tech speculation now is "what if we made a silver bullet? we will add the line 'you are the silver bullet' to claude's code"
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