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Belle @ autumnal wonderland! @torrentempress.neocities.org · 08/08/2026
Okay here it is, I told you I would post it. I locked in, so fucking hard. So, so hard. Please read it special thanks to @joebasser.com for inspiring it with his post. Read the entire thing, think about it before you reply.
torrent-empress.leaflet.pub
How creatives and devs can all finally escape the control of the silicon valley of evil and make a trillion dollars
ft. ATprotocol (the remix)
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
nice quick AI take from donna haraway english.elpais.com/culture/2026...
Q. We’ll return to forms of resistance, but let me clarify something: Do you use artificial intelligence?

A. It’s impossible not to use it. Every time I log into Google, I get an AI-generated summary of what I looked up. I have no choice. Do I actively and intentionally use AI? No, I have not. I’m too lazy to learn how. I have artist friends who do very interesting things with it. At some point, I suppose I’ll learn to use it selectively. But, again, it’s not the devil: it’s a set of tools that’s the subject of hyper-investment — with large amounts of capital going into it and not for the best purposes. It’s causing enormous environmental damage. I’m more for a “slow AI” — developing it only to the extent that there are sustainable energy systems, sustainable ecological relationships, and a creative reorganization of work. I’m for slow AI integrated into the world of the kind that I want to affirm. And not the “fast AI” that we are currently being subjected to.
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 26/07/2026
108 PRs in eight days, up from an average of 5-10 PRs total per week. I think I may have found something pretty cool! Loop engineering, using a combination of Obsidian and Claude's /loop function. Link to a sample repo to try it out in the blog post! brittany-ellich.offprint.app/a/3mrjj34puv...
brittany-ellich.offprint.app
108 PRs in eight days: Accidentally discovering loop engineering
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Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 24/07/2026
The solution to this is a working week with fewer days 4 day work week would easily cure my AI burnout at this stage
pydantic.dev
The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired
On reward functions, dopamine, and what it actually feels like when the code starts writing itself
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ian @flankstaek.me · 23/07/2026
My two favorite genres of Theo @ the Lake photos: swimming to the other side of the lake, passed out in the grass.
Theo - golden retriever - asleep in the grass with a lake in the background Theo - a golden retriever - in the middle of the lake swimming with a life jacket on
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ian @flankstaek.me · 03/07/2026
Just released a small little nicotine+ (soulseek) plugin that turns all your uploaded files into a playlist - was mostly just something I wanted as a more bespoke "shuffle" option. tangled.org/flankstaek.m... (or gh mirror: github.com/flankstaek/u...)
tangled.org
flankstaek.me/upload-playlist
nicotine+ plugin to create an uploads playlist
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ian @flankstaek.me · 22/05/2026
I sometimes keep the public chat messages on nicotine+ scrolling while I'm seeding. I think it's worth it for gems like these:
Chat message in the room "^ILLUMINATI&awareness" from CHIEF_SKYFLY_&_THE_G_FUNK saying "shout out to the beautiful shemales in the world"
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ian @flankstaek.me · 15/05/2026
Is it crazy that I'm planning to fly all the way across the the country to see the Hotelier Goodness 10 year show?
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ian @flankstaek.me · 04/05/2026
Do climate deniers think people who believe in climate change are a doomsday cult?
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.
no01.substack.com
March, 19-21: God is a comedian
A stiff drink is recommended
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ian @flankstaek.me · 23/03/2026
writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/craf... Thought this article was very interesting and well written. I think it misses some additional comparisons but a prescient comment overall.
writings.hongminhee.org
Why craft-lovers are losing their craft
Les Orchard made a quiet observation recently that I haven't been able to shake. Before LLM coding assistants arrived, the split between developers was…
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ian @flankstaek.me · 23/02/2026
Can't stop thinking about a person using ChatGPT for dirty talk. "And not only am I going to make you moan, but also cum!"
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
idk how to rebuild society for this but i don't think people should be allowed to talk like this without it going very poorly for them
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Brosephine Wires, Perennial Soup-Lover @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Spanberger is a moderate Democrat who used to work for the C.I.-fucking-A. It should put the actions of Schumer and Jeffries into perspective for everyone. Are they Republicans? Because they sure act like it. They need to get the fuck out.
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...
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Usili (Talia) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.
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ian @flankstaek.me · 26/01/2026
The resistance happening in Minnesota makes me proud, but it still feels so hard to have any belief that institutional change can happen.
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ian @flankstaek.me · 23/01/2026
Saw a cute cat taking a nap under a tree today, enjoying the pleasant warm weather before the snow and ice coming to Richmond this weekend.
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ian @flankstaek.me · 29/12/2025
Posted my yearly review & reflection for 2025: flankstaek.me/blog/2025-12...
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2025 in Review | ian's blog
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ian @flankstaek.me · 24/12/2025
First Christmas holiday evening with some Carne Asada on the new charcoal grill. Turned out great!
Golden retriever, Theo, leering over carne asada tacosSliced carne asada flank steak on cutting board close upChunks of skirt steak carne asada on a charcoal grillBack yard with charcoal chimney in grill
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ian @flankstaek.me · 21/12/2025
Got tired of having a static html site that was separate from my blog so I rebuilt my personal site in hugo to have both hosted from the same build. Hopefully inspires me to write more flankstaek.me
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ian @flankstaek.me · 05/12/2025
I don't begrudge anyone for streaming, but as someone that doesn't use Spotify I gotta say, I hate wrapped season. Nobody ever has interesting music taste.
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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 14/11/2025
Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing. I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink. But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
blog.muni.town
Open Source Power
We have to talk about open source licensing.
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ian @flankstaek.me · 10/11/2025
The news of senators caving to the the shutdown is yet another reason we should abolish the Senate. www.dsausa.org/blog/abolish...
dsausa.org
Want Democracy in the United States? Abolish the Senate! - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Senate Chamber c1873/ Wikipedia By Sean Monahan Ending the filibuster isn’t enough, we should demand the end of the Senate itself. Socialists correctly insist that the only way to truly “get money out...
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Anybody who has watched the Times pull this shit for ages knows this game. Good piece.
When writing to a journalist friend, I just said that it's a bit unravelling, right now, to be on the receiving end of this kind of belated real-time education in elite
metabolization. Like so many other bits of Times coverage, the whole of the piece is structured as an orchestrated encounter.
Some people say this; however, others say this. It's so offhand you can think you're gazing through a pane of glass.gazing through a pane of glass. Only when you stand a little closer, or when circumstances make you a little less blinkered, do you notice the fact which then becomes blinding and finally crazymaking, which is just that there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two "sides, or
their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it.
Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of
studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling "appraisal" surgically excised.
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ian @flankstaek.me · 05/11/2025
Very excited to see these election results and I'm hopeful that we can carry this momentum into building something that actually resembles a left party in the US. Less hopeful the Democratic party will be that.
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Key 🗝 🦊✅ @keytryer.net · 03/11/2025
Sometimes I like to entertain the fantasy that maybe Trump is actually secretly intelligent but it's hard to believe it considering how stupid he is.
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ian @flankstaek.me · 17/10/2025
Stayin up all night watching Hotelier live sets
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ian @flankstaek.me · 08/09/2025
Trump reading the Epstein list out loud to the tune of The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
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ian @flankstaek.me · 01/09/2025
Happy Labor Day, enjoy Theo galloping into the water and swimming away from last month
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 20/08/2025
This week at Fingers, I interviewed @resnikoff.bsky.social on the perverse relationship between parking minimums and drunk-driving, and why it's imperative to integrate bars and restaurants into broader conversation about housing density, zoning, etc.
fingers.email
The "housing theory" of corner bars
The Fingers Interview with Public Comment's Ned Resnikoff on third places, urban policy, and much more
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ian @flankstaek.me · 01/08/2025
Nothing is more disappointing to me than bands that only have their music accessible via streaming
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ian @flankstaek.me · 27/07/2025
Every recipe that leads with its macronutrients or "high protein" completely and utterly worthless to me.
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ian @flankstaek.me · 15/07/2025
Why does every clip of a show I see on dropout give such big theatre kid energy?
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ian @flankstaek.me · 12/07/2025
Anyone got any tips for dealing with the dissonance of having the world be on fire but everything just continuing normally?
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ian @flankstaek.me · 10/07/2025
Seeing first hand erosion of extremely intelligent people's critical thinking skills as they choose to rely on AI to think for them is disappointing.
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ian @flankstaek.me · 09/03/2025
Feeling vindicated in having gotten into an argument with a redditor about why Cobra Burger is better than Steak n Shake.
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ian @flankstaek.me · 10/02/2025
God I love the Richmond airport. Not even 5 minutes from curb to gate.
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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing
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ian @flankstaek.me · 01/02/2025
Honestly just what I needed to read today: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Trump’s neofascism is here now. Here are 10 things you can do to resist | Robert Reich
America has deep problems, which is why we can’t give up. Protect the vulnerable, organize boycotts and keep fighting
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ian @flankstaek.me · 25/01/2025
Beautiful and prescient piece by RVAMAG. Articulated a lot of the lingering nebulous worries present since the election with clear calls to action.
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Sean Sublette @subletteweather.com · 24/01/2025
More post-mortem on the RVA water crisis from Sarah Volgelsong and Graham Moomaw at @richmonder.bsky.social Side note: This is also kinda why we need a strong EPA, which issued a 2022 report (i.e. warnings) about the water plant.
richmonder.org
State health officials say Richmond water crisis was ‘completely avoidable’
Questions remain about delayed response to 2022 inspection More than two weeks after a power outage set off a series of events that crippled Richmond’s water treatment plant, Virginia regulators are ...
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ian @flankstaek.me · 23/01/2025
Happiness Hours by The Sidekicks is genuinely one of the best songs ever written and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
if we are all going to be forced to relive 2016, they should at the very least let us see mad max fury road in theaters again
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ian @flankstaek.me · 08/01/2025
I find it absolutely insane that whole the capital of your state is completely without water for over 24 hours now, with a brand new mayor struggling to deal with an unprecedented situation he had no preparation for, our vacant governor has not said or done a god damn thing.
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ian @flankstaek.me · 06/01/2025
Cannot wait until the day my coworkers stop telling me how they spent 30 minutes manipulating their AI text box to do what works have taken a competent engineer 5.
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ian @flankstaek.me · 05/01/2025
Continued my yearly tradition of reflecting on the year in music and books. blog.flankstaek.me/2025/01/01/2...
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2024 in review
Really enjoyed thinking through this year - as I did last year - not just in things that “came out” this year, but the things I enjoyed. Since I don’t know why media has this culture of caring about t...
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ian @flankstaek.me · 12/12/2024
Why is every boomer just constantly sick?
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ian @flankstaek.me · 12/12/2024
I worship every Say Anything album. Weatherbox is the most underappreciated band of all time. Los Campesinos should be in the rock and roll hall of fame. And The Menzingers are the band Bruce Springsteen wishes he was.
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Joe For America @makeitunclear.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
finally finished downloading my limewire wrapped after 20 years
LimeWire Wrapped

1. sistem_of_a_dowm_Zelda_song.flac
2. Nirvana - Glycerine.flv
3. track_8_(1)_(1)c.mp3
4. weird_al_Bert_and_Big_Bird_smoking_weed_FUNNY(parody).wav
5. jay-z_the-blueprint_FULL ALBUM_REAL.mp3.exe
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