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Southwest pilot on a very delayed flight, 2006: "The next time your travel involves changing planes, I recommend you not do so in San Francisco."

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 22h

I find it very entertaining that he used the Concorde, a notoriously unprofitable and inaccessible airplane, as his metaphor.

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Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) @cncf.io · 29/09/2026

From 100 people lined up at 7 AM to 900+ attendees, CNCF Ambassador Ronald Requena shares lessons from KCD Lima 2026 and scaling Peru's cloud native community. Read the full story: www.cncf.io/blog/2026/09/15/what-i-…

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 29/09/2026

Amusingly, this type of liability was also covered in the Talmud in roughly 200AD. As the rabbis would have it, an AI is either a roof or an ox, and either way the owner is responsible. The situation is quite thoroughly precedented.

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 29/09/2026

I often wish my own medical bills were as straightforwards as those from the vet. Let alone prescriptions!

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 29/09/2026

Or even a bought shape that means something specifically! Like a pokemon-decorated plate for irony.

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 28/09/2026

... or ones where they are, like Helen Frankenthaler painting on unprepared canvas so it deliberately bleeds. Theoretically, one could even make a sculpture consisting entirely of stretched canvas over boards. As they say, "the possibilities are endless" ;-)

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 28/09/2026

IMHO, the question is always "is it part of the artwork"? Because: you can make a painted plate where the plate isn't part of the artwork, and use a bought blank, or you can make a painted plate where it IS part of the artwork, and hand-make it. Same with canvasses; most aren't significant ...

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 28/09/2026

Vaguely amusing side note: one of the many ways I earned money to put myself through art school (in ceramics) was stretching canvases for the painting students. Most of them didn't know how, and I did. And you're right, nobody asked ;-)

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 28/09/2026

As usual, Randall sums it up: xkcd.com/1432/

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The Sake of Argument

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/09/2026

Today is my birthday! Please buy my books, I'm so broke

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 28/09/2026

I know how you feel; I just made a case of bread & butter pickles because we have an excess of cucumbers. Last time I did this, it took us 3 years to go through 1 year's harvest so ... gifting time.

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 27/09/2026

Dunno, my old phpBB site fell over 3 times last week because of the bots

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Microsoft has argued that the statements describing mass AI training on people’s work as potentially the “largest theft of labor in human history” and an “astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” were one employee’s personal views, not the company’s legal position.

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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”

Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

OpenAI models independently uploaded user photos that had been shared with ChatGPT to the public internet. This seems a lot worse than hacking. Images you’ve shared with ChatGPT being randomly remembered by an AI agent from its training data then posted to the internet is wild.

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 26/09/2026

Wait, when did Dolly do Coat of Many Colors?

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amye @amye.org · 25/09/2026

Portland is taking Dolly Parton Day seriously. Three cars have passed me playing Jolene, Coat of Many Colors and 9 to 5.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We’ve got to build it before China does.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"And I suppose we should go back to using hammers instead of nail guns, right?" I dare you to use a probabilistic nail gun.

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 25/09/2026

Incidentally, I did once help with solving database replication into orbit. I really don't think they've consulted any actual experts on this.

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 25/09/2026

Ssssshhhh ... it's bad enough what they're doing on land. Please don't encourage them to wreck the oceans too.

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 25/09/2026

Aside from the ones that physics imposes and you can't bribe your way out of. That does sound like the kind of idea an engineer who doesn't understand law would come up with, though, so plausible.

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 25/09/2026

"... from a productivity standpoint, junior developers have negative productivity. The only reason we hire them is that eventually they become senior developers. But an LLM will never become a senior dev." Least satisfying "I told you so" that doesn't involve the White House.

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 25/09/2026

"... but junior developers are not a scarce commodity. We have lots of them. It's senior developers we have a shortage of. Also, junior developers are useless." "What?" he said. "Junior developers, in general, will spend a week doing something a senior could have done in an hour ..."

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 25/09/2026

So 5 years ago when the CodeGen thing was just getting going I consulted informally with a VC funding a CodeGen startup. "It's not a solution, it's a problem," I told him about the proposed tech. "Look, this tool replaces junior developers ..."

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Mallory Where @malwhere.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm not saying they should be ashamed for not taking Physics 101 in college. I'm saying they should be ashamed for not paying attention to Project Hail Mary

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 25/09/2026

Frankly, this is such a stupid idea that I feel like it's got to be a cover story for something else. NFI what, tho.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/09/2026

“The chips can operate for about 15 minutes in space before needing to be shut down so they can cool off, said Travis Beals, Google’s senior director of product management for Project Suncatcher.” What could possibly go wrong?

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 24/09/2026

I also strongly suspect that Salem will wait until after the election to try to force Waymo on us.

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 24/09/2026

We knew they would do this. That's why I suggested some regulation hacks to our council; hopefully they've followed up on that.

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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

some waymo reps are right next to me at a coffee shop casually discussing how to override city authority by appealing to the state 🤪

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 23/09/2026

"Welcome to the SRE team. If you do not already have a fursona, one will be assigned to you."

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

5/ RSV protection for babies is running into its own set of problems. RSV is the leading cause of hospitalizations for kiddos, so it's a pretty big deal. Fortunately, we have monoclonal antibodies, which are shots that protect babies under 8 months against severe RSV during their first season.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the sort of thing you'd pitch as the premise for a series of YA thrillers with cyberpunk vibes. The sequel would involve a school trip that's just openly called the Lord of the Flies tour.

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 21/09/2026

This is because Kassandra was staffing the Oracle that week. She gave them a clear answer that would not be believed.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026

George Lucas Frantically Hosing Wasp Nest Out Of R2-D2 Before Museum Opening theonion.com/george-lucas-frantical…

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/09/2026

31% net positive on military junta, higher than Trump dying in his sleep, is....absolutely something

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 20/09/2026

I make my own cold brew concentrate, intended for 2:1. Once I had a guest drink it directly -- 12oz of it. "Your cold brew was really bitter" After I get done cough/laughing: "I hope you didn't expect to sleep tonight."

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 20/09/2026

You're supposed to dilute it.

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 19/09/2026

For today's #Caturday, I bring you: Neighborhood Watch.

back view of a large black cat, sitting up and staring out the window around a curtain. He's keeping track of what all the neighbors are up to. He does not approve.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

if you need to "check everything" that an LLM spits out in peer review, aren't you just making MORE work for yourself? What is even happening, and why is adding more steps and labor somehow considered the "better" way to do peer review???

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SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra.org · 19/09/2026

We are saddened by the loss of NPR journalist and SAG-AFTRA member Rose Friedman, who died at 38. A proud shop steward, Rose helped win increased paid parental leave for NPR employees. Our condolences to her family, friends and NPR colleagues. #SagAftraMember ow.ly/cNFC50ZPpMs?

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Editor Rose Friedman, who helped shape NPR's cultural coverage, dies at 38

Friedman was in her early 20s when she landed her first position as an editorial assistant at NPR. She became an editor and reporter, and a co-creator of the annual Books We Love reading guide.

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Linda Arbuckle @lindaarbuckle.com · 19/09/2026

The US has denied Palestinian officials visas to attend the UN General Assembly, + bring issues before the Intl Criminal Court. Think they're afraid of consequences of things presented to a court? How is this helping to settle the Israeli war on Palestinians? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Trump administration again denies entry visas to Palestinian officials ahead of UN general assembly

For the second year in a row, the administration has barred the Palestinian delegation from US travel for the forum

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

They are trying to blame AI for these kinds of mistakes in the way that you put googly eyes on a rock and then pretend it's a scapegoat.

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