Reposted by Michael EngardIris shitting in your brains @irisofigb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I am a plant physiologist and it's more of a threat coming from me because I am touching grass in novel and risky ways. 1154
Michael Engard @engard.me · 28/09/2026A good person I know is heading to rehab for alcoholism. His best-case scenario is walking out with his life, his health, and only $40,000 in medical debt. There are people who choose for us to live this way. They have names. 010
Reposted by Michael EngardButt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 26/09/2026I just feel like if you design a piece of technology and you're like "wow! This technology doesn't do what we want a lot of the time and we aren't really sure how it works!" that isn't a brag that's just a sign you're really bad at your job 26216
Reposted by Michael EngardButt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 25/09/2026THIS. AI isn't "going rogue" any more than those exploding Samsung galaxy phones from 2016 went rogue. Human engineers poorly deployed a technology and there were negative consequences. The responsibility falls entirely on humans. 6330107
Reposted by Michael EngardPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2073092278
Reposted by Michael EngardAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/20268. often, when people say LLMs "can do" something they mean LLMs can produce output that looks like the output of doing something 9. producing something that looks like the output of doing something is not the same thing as doing it 4447111
Reposted by Michael EngardTekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Voyager, walking on those tiny legs. 13868592165
Reposted by Michael Engardlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/09/2026there are so many amazing, life-changing things you can do with computers and i think it's a serious problem the companies that make them keep trying to sell them by saying "do you hate everyone in your life? are you less of a person than a hollow automaton waiting to be told what to do by me?" 958161
Reposted by Michael EngardThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I'm French. I will vote for bad people to stop fascists. But I will be mad as all hell doing it and I won't contribute a single fucking dime. And I will criticize them every god damn step of the way with the lone exception of the polling place itself, and then only because it is illegal. 510623
Reposted by Michael EngardDilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽♀️ 159167194682
Reposted by Michael EngardPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The OpenAI "breaking containment" story stems from the company's own failure to build a secure sandbox. They relied on a single local proxy to "contain" the program. They could have air-gapped the thing. It's not like they lack resources. It was advantageous to them for the agent to "get loose." 380578
Reposted by Michael EngardSeth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My hot take: We are not arguing about SSRIs. Some of us are using them as prescribed by our doctors to treat mental health difficulties. This administration has decided that's a problem based on no actual research. 552157347
Reposted by Michael EngardMichael Engard @engard.me · 17/09/2026What makes my skin crawl is that I could almost handle it better if they were competent. Like, amoral, greedy, bloodthirsty, etc., but with some philosophy, some half-coherent sense of geopolitics behind it. But they’re not. They don’t even understand what they’re destroying. They can’t *see* it. 3123
Reposted by Michael EngardMichael Engard @engard.me · 17/09/2026We can’t have a conversation with them, we can’t “debate” them, the things we love and value and depend on in the world are meaningless to them, they’re just mouth sounds. It’s 80 years too late to explain to Donald Trump that other humans are real. 1111
Reposted by Michael EngardCasey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Watching tech people tremble before the awesome power of AI feels like when an actor is “attacked” by a wild animal in a movie but they are just holding a raccoon pelt to their neck and pretending to wrestle with it 10869241
Reposted by Michael EngardProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is wonderful 1134
Reposted by Michael EngardDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 17/09/2026There are real risks and harms from AI usage but the current panic about destroying humanity based on poorly run security testing is theater. LLMs are fundamentally unreliable and shouldn’t be the sole decision maker for consequential decisions. That’s the huge risk. Everything else is noise. 5417
Reposted by Michael Engardsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present 322234397
Reposted by Michael Engardhuck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026rip annie dillard 1134051130
Reposted by Michael EngardColin Dickey @colindickey.com · 16/09/2026“Have no antecedents, no established character, no cultivation, no ideas, no manners; have Shares.” Charles Dickens eviscerating the investment class, from Our Mutual Friend (1865): 04715
Reposted by Michael EngardMeredith Rose @mrose.ink · 15/09/2026People treat world building as a question of “what’s different?”, but it’s just as much a question of “what’s the same?” 062
Reposted by Michael EngardPhilo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 13/09/2026They’re helping 7848371115
Reposted by Michael EngardTerence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...mathandai.orgDeclaration — Math and AIRead the declaration and add your name. 422052926
Michael Engard @engard.me · 11/09/2026Excited to experience this new update to Dropbox where it takes 50 hours and counting to re-scan and re-download all 1.3 terabytes of my data and prevents any application on my Macbook from actually reading files until it’s all done. 000
Reposted by Michael Engardkepano @stephango.com · 10/09/2026This is Knap. It's a new language I created that turns data into Markdown. Knap should feel familiar and comes with a wonderfully pleasant syntax to modify and format plain text. 942550
Reposted by Michael EngardRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This remains an essential Sept 11 read. In 2003, Tom Junod chronicled the photograph's origin and enduring legacy. www.esquire.com/news-politic...esquire.comThe Falling ManDo you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in i... 210836
Reposted by Michael EngardThomas Fuchs @thomasfuchs.at · 10/09/2026If a machine does harm it’s always, without exception, ultimately a human decision to use a tool that’s unsuitable for a given task in a given situation. If I use a chainsaw to cut my toenails it’s not the chainsaw deciding to “go rogue” and make foot carvings. 2386
Reposted by Michael EngardKy @ky.fyi · 09/09/2026they keep makin phones bigger and featurerer. i want phone that is smaller and featuren't 2434
Michael Engard @engard.me · 09/09/2026Apropos of nothing, I have a dev on my team who: - knows their shit, - cares about quality, - can be trusted to do things right, and - proves it through the work and I am unbelievably grateful for that today. 120
Reposted by Michael EngardPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right). 187165325075
Reposted by Michael EngardMaggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026In 2023, I nearly died when an ectopic pregnancy burst, taking out a corner of my uterus and one ovary with it. I bled 2 liters out internally, and the whole time kept asking am I dying because it FELT like I was dying bc I WAS. It was excruciatingly painful. That's how these people are dying. 118391
Reposted by Michael EngardJohn Brooks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026L'Arc de Participationne 151648308
Reposted by Michael EngardElle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Rough Draft vs Final Draft 253116683307
Reposted by Michael EngardAdam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I’ve been getting some slightly alarming government ads recently along the lines of ‘Try to toilet train your child before they start school’ and ‘it’s good to teach your child to read‘. 081
Michael Engard @engard.me · 31/08/2026I guess it’s an endorsement of this Leatherman knife that I opened a Chewy box using the back of the blade and didn’t even notice until afterward. 010
Reposted by Michael EngardAnil Dash @anildash.com · 31/08/2026On Tim Cook's last day as Apple CEO, a reminder of how he destroyed his own legacy, which at one point was a striking contrast to Jobs' unwillingness to let Apple engage with any social issues. Now, all of that good work, and good will... squandered. www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/h...anildash.comHow Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999. 834894
Reposted by Michael EngardFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/08/2026the older I get the more I deeply understand and envy Bill Watterson and his total disgust with pretty much everything in our culture. I can only imagine how he’s feeling right now. 1035424
Reposted by Michael EngardCam Banks 🇳🇿 ❌👑 @rustysellsword.com · 26/08/2026GAMERS! New Cortex TTRPG licensed content just dropped. @jeremyforbing.bsky.social has revised CORTEX LITE, a swift & sturdy build ready to run at your table, and it’s now on DrivethruRPG! Grab it now for a low price! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...drivethrurpg.comDriveThruRPG - The Largest RPG Download Store!Your one-stop online shop for new and vintage RPG products from the top publishers, delivered fresh to your desktop in electronic format. 03714
Reposted by Michael EngardMicah @rincewind.run · 26/08/2026the famous line about how michael caine treated the muppets as fellow actors and tim curry treated himself as a fellow muppet keeps running through my head we have a lot of brilliant actors, but how many of them can really pull off 'unhinged muppet' the way curry could? what a tremendous lossstatic.klipy.comTim Curry Laughing as Pirate CaptainAlt: Tim Curry as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island laughing 2465881441
Reposted by Michael EngardLexi ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 26/08/2026i regret none of the times i was kind, and every time i was mean. 3478
Reposted by Michael EngardHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026I got nothing. 1371940312
Reposted by Michael EngardEric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 24/08/2026One thing that I'm particularly delighted about was a great GitHub engineer partnering with the accessibility team to quietly push this out. A lot of people use GitHub via the command line and email, and folks there often forget it: github.blog/engineering/... www.osnews.com/story/144892...osnews.comThe text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility – OSnews 0235
Reposted by Michael EngardDeva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no. 283063808
Reposted by Michael EngardKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary. 43999022092