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eightbitraptor @eightbitraptor.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I am immensely looking forward to heading to @lrug on Monday. It'll be the first time I've been in about 18 months I think...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why independent media is so needed, in one post👇🏽 Framing matters

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eightbitraptor @eightbitraptor.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I see Mr Samuel Altman is giving strong Farquaad vibes again.

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eightbitraptor @eightbitraptor.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Also I learned a new word. Anomie. And I feel like I have been existing in a state of it for a while now.

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eightbitraptor @eightbitraptor.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I don't often read the comments on the Orange site, but every so often, very occasionally, one strikes gold. "Maybe just maybe, the novelty will wear off and people realize how artificial and soul-less these AI-tokenmaxxed app's are, with their temu Cyberpunk aesthetics, California minimalist […]

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eightbitraptor @eightbitraptor.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@BjornW/11735917426… One of my core memories about being involved in FLOSS is when I finally met the guy who wrote the first ever PR I accepted and we bonded over the fact that it was also the first PR he ever submitted and how wonderful the experience was for […]

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kjaerulv @kjaerulv.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

...food for thought

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eightbitraptor @eightbitraptor.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

DHHs "technology adoption" argument on stage with Matz that resistance to LLMs is like the initial resistance to early Rails because it was "new", "slow" & "didn't scale"; dismissed by incumbents, but eventually succeeded & "revolutionised" the industry, likely isn't wrong. But it misses a […]

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eightbitraptor @eightbitraptor.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

The LLM takeover of programming is stripping programmers of our personal sovereignty. It's an extension of wealth inequality. I don't want the future job market to be restricted only to people rich enough to afford unlimited token spend.

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eightbitraptor @eightbitraptor.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@diegoe/11733139028… I don't think this is a new idea. In fact even the acronym FLOSS contains two competing reasons for having publicly available software. Free/Libre Software vs Open Source - two distinct framings with the same obviously visible outcome - […]

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eightbitraptor @eightbitraptor.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I've spent a bunch of time talking with my Japanese teacher recently about relative clauses and using verbs to modify nouns (食べる人。昨日買った本。etc). Today I glanced over to my bookshelf and realised that there's a whole selection of my Manga whose titles I just understand at a glance now. I'm a […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Open Source hot take: A software project is allowed to be *done*. Not everything needs to add features or rewrite things. You can just be happy with functionality and focus on just maintainance. "Maintenance mode" is not always bad but can just show a mature product.

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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

www.rubyhack.ai under at least california but almost certainly federal law, doing this is illegal. openai should be criminally liable for this. focusing on whether or not it was an "agent swarm" is like focusing on how many computers were part of a botnet: legally irrelevant. individual […]

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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eightbitraptor @eightbitraptor.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

The planet is literally burning and the industry responsible is apparently now comfortable with going full mask-off. But at least we guitar nerds are eating good. le sigh.

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eightbitraptor @eightbitraptor.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Also, new Russian Circles album released last week basically made me do a 38 minute long stank face. youtu.be/qrb64_QFetU?si=eIzZpsUFuKo…

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eightbitraptor @eightbitraptor.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

I'm real excited by the new Mastodon album. I have listened to it through a couple of times & I love it. I haven't been super impressed with recent live stuff since Brent left. He was such a unique player I don't think anyone can write like him (RIP Brent), I wasn't super into new guitarists […]

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Stop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... huge

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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

I'll say one more thing, if the text generator has eased you into talking with it like it's a person. If it's felt easy to use and helpful, or if it's cheered you up with a compliment don't beat yourself up about that too much, but please do notice that it's happening. It's like commercial with […]

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Chris Lowis @chrislowis.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

I had a bunch of @jwz's handy-dandy cards printed up. If you'd like some, and are *in the UK*, send me a fiver using buymeacoffee.com/chrislowis (put your address in a private message on there) and I'll put 50 in the post for you. If that doesn't work […] [Original post on ruby.social]

Showing both sides of a business-card sized red, recycled card. On the front is written:

> Do not talk to me about "AI". It makes me long for the sweet embrace of death.

On the back side:

> BY USING AI, YOU HAVE GIVEN A PASS TO
> • The staggering climate and ecological impact
> • The outright attack on labor by capital
> • The systematic disregard of consent
> • The basis in wholesale theft and plagiarism
> • The assault on the very concept of objective truth
> • The enrichment of the most cringe billionaire fascist motherfuckers the world has ever seen
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> THERE IS NO ETHICAL USE OF AI
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> If you ignore all of that, you are trying to negotiate what level of harm to others you find acceptable for your personal, selfish benefit. You advance the agenda of these hollow-eyed, joyless money-ghouls who resent
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> THE MACHINE IS DISGUSTING AND MUST BE DESTROYED
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> jwz 2026

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

I know journalists at right-wing outlets are physically incapable of introspection but I hope everyone else around them realises how direct a role they played in hounding a man with two kids to suicide

Jason Arday found dead

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42 minutes ago — Mr Arday was found “unresponsive” at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon. He was later pronounced dead at the scene. A ...Read more
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His ...

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5 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11 ...
A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance – take it from Dr Arday

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1 day ago — Jason Arday resigns from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had falsely claimed to have published a book.
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up... ...

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2 Aug 2026 — He was not born until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academic plagiarism after The Telegraph revealed that he had been accused ...Read more
The Arday scandal exposes the creeping decay of Britain's ...

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7 days ago — Jason Arday resigned on Wednesday as Professor of the Sociology of Education at Cambridge, its youngest-ever black professor. He stood accused ...
Arday 'accused student of white privilege' after she ...

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4 days ago — Former Cambridge professor allegedly implied that Roehampton student was racist after complaint about essay score.
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more ...

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7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity, the now-former Cambridge professor's autobiography is a case study in self-mythologising.
We are all Jason Arday now

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eightbitraptor @eightbitraptor.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

RE: social.treehouse.systems/@bodil/116… Starving children is a conscious choice that we have made as a society.

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

That feeling when saying no to your kid is so hard you’d rather do 1984.

Drake yes/no meme

No: Parent children
Yes: Make anonymity illegal

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herbert @hvdsomp.w3c.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

I want to take a moment, here, to highlight the very short yet utterly to-the-point blog post by my long time hero, David Rosenthal, in which he explains to his old boss, Eric Schmidt, why he and his ilk are getting booed at college commencements, and why laws […] [Original post on w3c.social]

Picture of J.P. Morgan hitting a photographer with a cane. The image is featured in David Rosenthal’s blog post, which I promote in this toot.

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eightbitraptor @eightbitraptor.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

It doesn't happen very often but I wrote a thing. Typically it's about Linux admin stuff. In this case the rather painful process of getting Guix system on my ThinkPad. www.eightbitraptor.com/2026/06/02/i…

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Installing Guix, a journey in several parts | eightbitraptor.com

The ramblings of a software developer. Apropos of nothing.

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eightbitraptor @eightbitraptor.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2025

It really bugs me that the discourse around immigration in Britain focuses around a notion of Britishness that assumes indigenousness. Our whole history is a hodge-podge of invasions, immigrations & racial mixing. The Beakers, Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings, Normans, and more […]

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