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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 9h

This guy is a box checker, that is it. He proposed the superficial bare minimum for something that meets stated requirements, but completely lets the whole "why it is a good idea to spend time with your child and bond and develop them" thing that is parenting go over his head.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I bought 3-cd changer Awia a kid. I kept it around with scavenged speakers in to my mid 20s cause it just worked, and that was a long time ago now.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah that shit was sold to Blue collar workers in manufacturing before, look at the work you no longer have to do. As a personal anecdote, 9 months later 4/5ths of the line workers got their temp worker contracts ended on 12/24/08 after management decided the system was robust enough.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yep, on the corporate side of things, you'll have increased work requirements, less pay, more hours, and more blameability (not accountability) until things break, then a few months of doing things right before it gets swept away again.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And that does sound exactly like the throughput transition problems of automation. You are now a line worker like I used to be to feed the machine as fast as possible, but also make sure everything coming through works. It sucks being down stream of a machine that just 150x increased output.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just like other industries with automation, controls, checks, and validation are required. If a person isn't validating the work, shit will go south quickly. I think because I've worked through the same problems on automation in my former career, this does feel the same.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Isn't this like other forms of automation, some people really do lose that hands on, detail feeling because what was automated was their enjoyment? Some analytical chemists hated autosamplers when they first came out cause they aren't feeling the injection in to the sample loop.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That kind of also applies to our current ruling class, and explains why things are the way they are

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As proof, typing this one handed because I'm not allowed to stop.

A grey cat is basking in sun while getting a head scratch. The cat is pressing up in to the hand with his eyes closed in happy bliss.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thank you, I now get the draw with the tabs side by side. Not for me, but I understand why there are people who want it.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm on the wait-list, so hearing about the delays on reservation list is not a great feeling.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Does how high they are falling from change anything?

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The straight line angling of the wing tip feathers is the detail that really makes this look straight out of man in the high castle.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm a big fan of regulated utilities (for the utilization of the populace) and ISPs and insurance fall squarely in what I would consider should be a utility. I'm guessing sometime in the future that will include AI. I personally don't care about shareholder value in those spaces.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think you have reinvented lawyers.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Creating an ai agent to be petty to corporations might be the AI arms race that would end the world, cause someone is going to be a bad actor when being petty and let's face it, we'll all cheer when Comcast is taken down.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah but dogshit over time builds something that runs, just gotta stick with it tortoise and the hare style.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are so many ways to ethically grow this technology. The people in charge, in the US at least, are not even caring about consequences of scaling. If the data center was built in a non wasteful, considerate, and useful manner, we'd be pro data center as a country.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

in your group / office / class / jam band. A bunch of shit around the mean, following best practices (some of them completely out of context or made up), is going to come out and look the same, perform the same, and be the elevator music of the internet. Kids are already just referring to crap as AI

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The bar is getting raised in new and weird ways. New tools are being usable by people who have no clue what they are doing, and something plausible.... depthless comes out. So much quarter assed shit is going to get slopped everywhere in business, industry, art, science, and math by the laziest dick

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And I forgot to include my point, which is that cars themselves are inefficient and pretty fucking dumb for transporting people. Waymos are pretty bad, but I do think active dumbasses are worse. I haven't had a waymo infestation happen yet, so I don't have experience with them.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As I watched an old white dude wedge his truck with dualies in between some weak metal posts guarding a protected bike lane to park there, in front of the liquor store, I wondered if that guy was even aware how fucking inefficient his stupid ass truck is because it is blocking a more efficient path.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That is a line that has been sung in trade shops for decades, you are supposed to twirl during the "world of OHSA vio-lations" to ensure you point at a minimum of 3.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just finished watching and damn. Such an emotional episode.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I suspect this type of graph shows up in all industries under consolidation. The big mergers get headlines, but all of the support industry companies are also getting swallowed up and reintegrated. Large companies have cut so much they rely on outsourcing, and those companies are cutting each other

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At my workplace there are thousands of engineers, thousands of designers and three (3) graphic artists. We don't have Gen ai for graphics etc, so "other jobs" do the majority of throwing clip art and poorly cut images as a placeholder until one of the overworked graphics artists can do the job.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Where are the adults in the rooms on the conservative politics and pundit realm? Are these people okay mentally? To grasp at this weak of straw to get a gotcha, and just blindly trust it without simple fact checking, or a thought? How disconnected and unaware are these people? Is it all satire?

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He is literally telling on himself that he does not like big butts and I guess we can infer that he lies.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Like .. even if you spin and pivot a 360, that is called being aware of shit and making sure you are on the right path.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It sure did go viral. I also doubt this is straight up hallucination and more just not fact checking anything and making shit up in a plain old fashion. But with how sloppy everything is, and these people obviously don't check their work, it is indistinguishable from AI slop.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Laws and rules are only meaningful on enforcement, and the fucking law "enforcement" officers certainly sure as shit aren't following the law. Is it going to take judges hopping in to armor and raining decisions and lead like judge DREDD to end this? Cause that was also dystopian.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I replayed the shit out of gta3 because it was a large novel change from 1. San Andreas and IV had a few missions that were worth replaying, but V felt like more of a slog during missions. Overall I think I'm just getting older and have less free time, but GTA games just aren't that fun anymore.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lots of times the singular genius on a technical project is just the one who got the funding and kept asking questions. This can run the gambit from acting like its AI (over and over again with hints and new ideas until something pops out they like), or someone who actually mentors and trains others

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Or if you bring up that his son was well hung.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The kids are just calling out the problem, if it looks low quality, no effort, like you didn't even review or think about it before sending it out, it is the exact same effort as saying "ai go do this" and not even looking at it before claiming it was your work. Great job kids.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

that is not a romance song and I have to question why my brain allowed that to be categorized that way.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wonder what percentage of our lives is determined by what we misheard or misremembered. Like that very much changes the parable and now you have to incorporate that as some sort of rationalization. Like last week, listening to radio by alkaline trio and realizing "bathe with you" were the words...

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That person was having a great interview up until finding out on their tirade they believed safety rules didn't apply to them, and that isn't a good fit in a lab and production environment. I'm very glad that Dr pepper ended the interview. So I'm pro letting people bring drinks to interviews.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As a former chemist who did interview chemists and technicians, I would send an email with the location and clothing and footwear requirements to do the lab tour and that food and drink would have to be left in the conference room for safety. One time I had someone refuse to leave behind a Dr pepper

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Context matters a lot. Like I'm not going to judge someone for bringing an iced coffee with them to an interview, but I'm totally going to take note of how they choose to place and dispose of it.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I was a chemist coming in to the industry in 2007 when pharma decided to start downsizing because it is cheaper to buy companies with product than to develop product. It was a blood bath. Being entry level to a suddenly shrinking field sucks. Much more will be expected with less pay and resources.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah, the "doesn't accept no as an answer" crowd has a risk to make well designed, dazzling, purposeless items. Makes sense that Zuck would feel like an allegory for extreme wealth and the lack of consequences in caring for others.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yep, the current "need" is because there is a metric for on time performance that is a pass/fail with no nuance because then leadership would have to use rationale and fact based criticism. That supervisor/project lead then correctly prioritizes speed and on paper completion over thought and reason.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The corporate hardware engineering world got wrecked by sycophants. No questions why something is done, just follow making to the spec within their silo and holding "product" schedule. You'll enter VP level discussions where they are worrying about a Gant chart instead of the physical prototype.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm pretty sure this is how conspiracy theories are born. Two people trying to out bullshit each other, but one of them is dumb enough to believe the other.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

With how we fight and how we resupply, this was never a winnable war. Iran was prepared for this, and pretty much America only has stupid options that take way more planning and logistics than our current leadership is capable of performing.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm on board with that. Using LLM/ Gen AI to fuck around and find out in learning and experimenting sure, have fun. Use it at work to make product others buy? Nah, build it and test it with people. Gen AI use should be like drug use, don't do it while getting paid to work.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I'm sorry officer, I don't know how that man talked himself in to becoming a human pretzel, I was in the other room busy practicing plausible deniability"

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The number of fucking stairs I've had to recaptcha over my life better not end up with one of these cars driving in to stairs.

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Ducking Mitch @duckingmitch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is so very very much good advice. Leaders / supervisors should always just go find out what the issue is, especially if they are the issue. At the minimum, you just helped someone working under you who is stressed enough to speak out. More likely your going to learn something you wish you knew.

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