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Joshua Noble

@fctry2.bsky.social
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Person, person, and oxford comma lover

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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wait, is what happens here "discourse"? I was thinking of it all as either "hype" or "cries for help".
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I read "Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages" by Carlota Pérez this weekend and it is the bible of tech bubbles for a reason. www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/tec... My half-baked notes: blog.thefactoryfactory.com/blog/reading...
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LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This little guy just won the lottery.
A squirrel with a candy bar
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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
don't want to hear you talk about a bubble unless you've read the bible
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I didn't realize that I liked Henry Rollins as much as this article made me like him. very much looking forward to this album: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How two punk icons are giving the Cramps a second life
“If you lose culture," Henry Rollins explains, "the society dies.”
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Bauhaus Milhaus
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/07/2026
The Onion looks back on 250 years of American exceptionalism. Watch now on youtube.com/theonion
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Great news: USA has broken the Preston Curve, an econ theorem that says wealth to life expectancy is a log curve. Poor to middle income = huge gains in life expectancy, middle to rich = modest gains, rich to richer = no gains. Bad news: we broke it in the wrong direction. www.nber.org/papers/w35470
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The U.S. Mortality Crisis as a Preston Curve Reversal
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Why acquisitions make some powertools so much worse while not affecting others: www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-power...
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Your Power Tools Got Worse On Purpose | Who Really Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?
How TTI and Stanley Black & Decker took the same playbook in opposite directions. One invested $206M in R&D and grew to 4,000 workers. The other is $6 billion in debt and closing its hometown factory.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"Friends don't let friends use ollama" sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-...
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Friends Don't Let Friends Use Ollama | Sleeping Robots
Ollama gained traction by being the first easy llama.cpp wrapper, then spent years dodging attribution, misleading users, and pivoting to cloud, all while riding VC money earned on someone else's engi...
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Business AI for Business transforms your Business into AI Business www.instagram.com/reel/DZCtsqh...
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Emily Mattheson on Instagram: "hope I get it! #vo #voiceactor #voiceover"
146K likes, 2,894 comments - emilymattheson on June 1, 2026: "hope I get it! #vo #voiceactor #voiceover".
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I'm sorry some of you dislike Bluesky. My experience here is pretty good. Maybe it's because I don't think of myself as a political operative posting to win elections or transform politics. I like writing, reading, and interacting, and found here better than elsewhere. To each their own, I guess.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Something gloriously touching in this song about an bleakly anonymous urban-ish part of an mid-tier American city: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd3k...
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Smokey Brights - "Northgate Way" (live from The Rabbit Box)
YouTube video by Smokey Brights
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I am consistently baffled by Pydantic. It feels as though it exists solely to generate the maximal number of minimally interpretable runtime errors.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Plugging into "the future of tech" does not feel like something I want to willingly do
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It's hard to feel like ideas matter right now. Hot takes pitching a substack to a barely literate audience with a 30 second attention span. Dismal times.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It'd sure be cool to live in a country not run by a violent racist power-hungry clique.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Why do so many OpenSource projects rely on Discord? It is tremendously annoying to use in all possible ways. I am not a gamer, I do not want games, I do not want things gamified. The login experience is tremendously bizarre. There has to be a better platform.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
In America, we may need one of those "It has been ___ days since" signs for presidential assassination attempts. We can just put it up at border crossing and airport so people know what they're in for when they come in.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Reading the Alex Karp diatribe I cannot help but wonder: why are billionaires always complaining about "The Elite"? He has unimaginable wealth and power far beyond the imagination of an adjunct professor or journalist making $75k/yr. He is The Elite. There is no one more 'elite'.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Every morning at 6AM the dudes next door try to get their pickup started for about 20 minutes straight and I just want to go over and say "look, just take it to a shop, I'll pay." And then they finally get it going and I fall back asleep and forget it ever happened. Until the next morning.
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.
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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I can’t believe that we’re on the brink of nuking Iran because a smart Black man in a tan suit once made fun of a reality tv host.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Sad story about a researcher who dared to teach science that ran contrary to the diktats of a racist regime: www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...
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A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career
Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Happy "Threatening Genocide On Twitter Clone" Day.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Happy Friday, I made cake to help myself stave off dread and disappointment
A chocolate cake
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I am now 6 months into an absolute struggle to get a small honorarium for a talk that I gave at a UK University. At this point it's just the principle that if I'm going to wake up and be on-camera at 2AM, I should get paid for it.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Boomer war www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump is fighting a ‘boomer war’ in Iran: a relic unpopular with anyone under 60 | Stephen Wertheim
To see this war as archaic, the last squawk of the Middle East hawks, is at once maddening and hopeful
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
In a healthy democracy the government would have collapsed by now and instead we've got at best just over 7 months to know if there will be electoral consequences and until january for them to start to take effect
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Gosh a parliamentary system sounds nice.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Me vs Genoise batter, Round 5. Again, I am vanquished. It's just hard as hell to get right.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I feel pretty good paying my city and state taxes. I feel a hell of a lot less good paying my federal taxes. I do know that some of it filters down to institutions and work that I truly value but a hell of a lot of it goes to murder and destruction.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"Norteado": www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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The ‘self-deportee’ hounded out of the US to Mexico: ‘There are days when I feel literally insane’
Abel Ortiz lived in LA since he was a newborn. The Guardian filmed him as he left after 38 years. Now, we catch up with him in Mexico City, fired up and grieving in his new life
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Well, no longer have to wonder what it felt like to be Italian in 1936. i guess I can wonder what it feels like to have trains, much less trains that run on time.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
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The world energy shock is coming
The US and Israel's illegal attack on Iran will provoke a global economic catastrophe
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Chuck Norris has died. He is survived by 20 years of memes about how Chuck Norris was cool, and 80 years of public record about how he wasn't.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I seem to have fallen asleep for a few hours, what horrible thing has [the US/President/Americans/Humanity] done now?
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The default "tip" for gofundme is 16.5%
A screen showing the default tipping scale for a GoFundMe campaign, which is 16.5%
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I think yes. This will probably be bad for me (and most Americans) but good for the planet.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
One long-term upside of this astonishingly stupid war: it may speed more of the globe towards renewable energy and more Americans to public transit. Could degrade the US. militarily-enforced oil/dollar regime which will be quite bad for us in the US but good for everyone else.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Reading the patience and replies from @besttrousers.bsky.social to explain how data and measurement actually work is awe-inspiring. Lord, grant me that grace some day.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I seem to wake up every morning still an American and the sting of that humiliation has not yet dissipated with time.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Explaining AI is a human problem: thefactoryfactory.mataroa.blog/blog/explain...
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Explaining AI is a human problem — fctry ^ 2
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I read the wonderful Dancing in the Glory of Monsters and was struck by the similarities between Mobutu and Trump: old men, surrounded by cronies asset-mining any institution they touch, a cynical and paranoid public, annoyed neighbors, collapsing future, dynastic kleptocracy, etc.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I had forgotten how fantastically beautiful, weird, and wonderful David OReilly's games and movies are: www.davidoreilly.com
davidoreilly.com
DΛVID OREILLY – Official Archive
Explore a curated selection of animations, games, and interactive works from David OReilly.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I'm really enjoying my time in Hokkaido, the 17th state and/or territory of Australia.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I've been enjoying digging into Causal Artificial Intelligence by Elias Bareinboim. Free textbook here: causalai-book.net
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Causal Artificial Intelligence Book
Causal Artificial Intelligence Book
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
"Slow Horses" really turns into a UK based "24", doesn't it? I was hoping for a bit more spying and a bit less shooting.
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Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I realize that I'm not an AI agent hater, I just find folks chatting about how they get AI agents to do stuff really boring.
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