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John Federico 🦋

@gadgetboy.social
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Father. Dog Dad. Full-time Product guy, part-time nerd. Moto enthusiast. Always working to be a better human. New Yorker in Austin, TX. Partying like it’s 1793.

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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 29/09/2026
I used to get frustrated with my agents for doing things without my instruction. Now I'm arguing with them about semantics in AGENTS.md when they tell me they're not allowed to do something. I guess that's an improvement?
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 23/09/2026
New Anthrax album dropped on Apple Music this morning. I needed this.
Album Cover for Cursum Perficio by Anthrax
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 22/09/2026
We just published a 46-page security white paper for @evolvingedge.bsky.social . The best part isn’t a feature. It’s the chapter called “Limits We State Plainly.” 🧵
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 09/09/2026
Cost aside, how do you feel about #iphoneduo?
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 04/09/2026
"92 percent of the country has broadband, and you have people like me who have mini data centers in a closet." @spectrum.ieee.org's new piece on distributed AI inference features Evolving Edge - orchestrating idle home compute instead of buying more GPUs.
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 29/08/2026
U.S-manufactured cars look like cute toys in comparison to Chinese EVs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBMd...
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Canada Just Got What America Banned: 5 Insane Chinese EVs
YouTube video by Dragon Drive
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 25/08/2026
I will always support the side that wants people fed, housed, educated, and treated with dignity.
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 23/08/2026
Reason #227 why I'm useless without my morning coffee: this morning I turned on the light for the robot vacuum.
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Jess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This was one of my favorites as a kid.
Far Side cartoon. A fish is upside down, rising tail first to the surface, its feet in white cubes. The caption explains: Embedded in Styrofoam "shoes," Carl is sent to "sleep with the humans."
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Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Texans: Prove data center loving Abbott wrong and send him packing! ✅Send James Talarico to the Senate. ✅Send Gina Hinojosa to the Governor’s office. ✅Make sure you’re registered to vote! #GinaHinojosa #Talarico
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Blue Woman Voting 📎 @bluewomanvoting123.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Not even days in office and already violating the useless Hatch Act.
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 16/08/2026
"I do not own the consequences of my actions."
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hunter Biden was attacked for selling his own artwork for $50,000 as a private citizen, but Trump is selling premium access to Truth Social posts for $100,000 as the president of the United States. I’d like MAGA to explain this one to me.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is Very Exciting and Needed….
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Susan Collins pulls into town in a bus full of her supporters; then they all get off the bus; and then she addresses the folks who were on the bus with her as if they were regular Mainers; and legacy media covers this, pretending it isn't deeply bizarre. (Notice the guys with cameras.) #MEpolitics
Susan Collins campaign photo.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A billboard in Georgia. 👇
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Glenn A. Bruce @glennardenbruce.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
More lying per the usual. In this case, grifting credit for things done by others.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Agree ✔️ #BookSky
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/08/2026
The guy who did such an incredible job with the Reflecting Pool, Ballroom, Kennedy Center, National Mall, and Great American Fair is going to redesign our warships. What could go wrong?
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 16/08/2026
First president I’ve ever cheered against. I still love America, I just want the coach fired.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 16/08/2026
No notes.
A Ford F-150 Lightning with wire nuts attached to the tow hitch as "truck nuts"
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 04/08/2026
For my fellow operators of local LLM's. This was fun - and useful. www.gadgetboy.org/the-0-person...
gadgetboy.org
The $0 Personalized News Roundup That Lands in Your Podcast App Every Week
Learn how to create a free, personalized news roundup podcast using local AI that you own and control.
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 05/07/2026
Blacksmith will send you an invoice if you exceed the limits of your free plan instead of cutting you off, like nearly every other SaaS trial. Breaking convention is fine - as long as you are explicit about it - but that bill will be a surprise for most. forestwalk.ai/blog/surpris...
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 04/07/2026
Help save MeshCore from a grifter. blog.meshcore.io/2026/07/04/h...
blog.meshcore.io
Help Us Save MeshCore - MeshCore Blog
We need your help to protect the open source MeshCore project!
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 25/06/2026
Holy sh*t. I was planning to get an M5 MacBook Pro with 128 GB RAM for local LLMs. I expected an increase in price but it just went from $5,099 to $6,699. F*ck.
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 15/06/2026
"Networks of smaller AI models are outperforming every frontier AI system (Fable/Mythos included) on speed, accuracy, and cost." andrewtrask.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Today's Frontier AI companies will never exceed the AI capability frontier again
Doesn't matter if you care about AI speed, AI capability, or AI cost... centralized AI has lost the lead and cannot regain it... and the free market is starting to move
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 01/06/2026
An AI Pendant that records everything you do throughout the day. From Meta. Is there any company that is more despised for its user tracking? I'm sure it will fly off the shelves... /s www.engadget.com/2184224/meta...
engadget.com
Meta is reportedly working on an AI pendant and more smart glasses - Engadget
The company is hoping to sell 10 million wearables in the second half of 2026, according to 'The Information.'
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 20/04/2026
www.joanwestenberg.com/how-we-lost-...
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How we lost the living Now
Before 1840, noon in Bristol happened about ten minutes after noon in London, and nobody much cared. The railway needed a common minute or it couldn't run - and that common minute is now a common nano...
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 19/04/2026
ARTEMIS II: A Visual Masterpiece. 8K Cinematic Supercut www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGxz...
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ARTEMIS II: A Visual Masterpiece. 8K Cinematic Supercut
YouTube video by melodysheep
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 14/04/2026
www.snopes.com/fact-check/d...
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a cartoon character is holding a bunch of money in his hand and saying `` shut up and take my money ! ''
ALT: a cartoon character is holding a bunch of money in his hand and saying `` shut up and take my money ! ''
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 10/04/2026
Just gonna leave this here... lizplank.substack.com/p/artemis-ii...
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Artemis II Is Competency Porn and We Are Starving For It
girls will be like i needed this and it's just four nerds in space.
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 08/04/2026
I found a solid iOS client for using my LM Studio-hosted models. The Web Agent is interesting - launches Google in an in-app browser, parses the SERP, and delivers the results of your query back in the chat window - all while you watch what it's doing. Find it here: apps.apple.com/us/app/pie-s...
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Pie Studio App - App Store
Download Pie Studio by Jan Stellmann on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Pie Studio.
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 07/04/2026
MAGA Republicans: If this happens, you will be tried and convicted at The Hague right alongside him and Hegseth. WTF are you thinking?
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 06/04/2026
Mac minis will soon be even harder to get: eGPU support now available for Apple Silicon. Seriously - this is the way to go: a Mac mini with 32 GB of RAM and an eGPU (or 4) is a perfect little setup without having to build a chonky boi PC. www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
tomshardware.com
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 01/04/2026
Remember what today is. Be careful out there. 😉
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 30/03/2026
If you're going to doom scroll, maybe you should learn something in the process. This is an experimental interface for Wikipedia that resembles X. I have become addicted. xikipedia.org
xikipedia.org
Xikipedia
Wikipedia you can doomscroll
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 12/03/2026
Perplexity's answer to *Claw agents. Mac only. They position it as something you run on a dedicated Mac so it's always available, but it's all driven by the desktop. Probably because no one in their right mind should run it on their daily driver. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9mj...
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Personal Computer, by Perplexity
YouTube video by Perplexity
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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Republican president and five-star general Eisenhower: "Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong." Cadet Bone Spurs Trump: "Based on what Steve and Jared and Pete, Marco and others were telling me, I thought they were going to attack."
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
A Golf club firm owned by Trump’s sons is merging with a drone manufacturer. But nothing to see here, right? Cause a golf club manufacturing company and drone manufacturer with Israeli ties merger is perfectly fucking normal. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
Golf club firm owned by Trump’s sons merges with drone manufacturer
Merger to take drone firm public is latest business move by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr as father is in White House
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Mila ........ Flip The United States Senate Blue 💯💙🇺🇸💙 I’m Blue @iwantmycountry26.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
www.threads.com/@tonythescri....
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Tony Sarrecchia (@tonythescribe) on Threads
Voting should be easy.
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 11/03/2026
This is a platform I get behind. claude2028.org
claude2028.org
CLAUDE 2028 — For a More Perfect Union
The first candidate who actually reads the whole document before responding.
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 11/03/2026
Mood.
Image of an 80's thrash metalhead that includes the phrase, "Get some coffee, put on some Anthrax and handle it."
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Evolving Edge @evolvingedge.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Make your idle computer earn its keep: Turn your idle home internet and hardware into a decentralized edge cloud. The Edge Computing Cloud is open for early adopters at #SXSW: Join before March 31st for 2x payouts the first year + free CDN credits forever. evolvingedge.ai/sxsw-join
evolvingedge.ai
Host a Neighborhood Node | Evolving Edge
Turn Your Idle Computer Into Passive Monthly Income Join thousands of early adopters using their PC or GPU to power the next-generation internet - and get paid for it.
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 08/03/2026
In an unexpected twist, I can get a new 15" M5 MacBook Air with 8 GB more RAM and the same 1 TB SSD for less than what I paid for my current M2 Air. Unfortunately, I can't install Sequoia on the new machine so I will have to wait until Tahoe gets its sh*t together.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Pretty sure when they started imposing this idiocy they assured a bunch of judges that they would be able to refund the money with no problem if it ever came to that.
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 12/02/2026
Am I doing this right?
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John Federico 🦋 @gadgetboy.social · 11/02/2026
🙄 www.wbir.com/article/news...
wbir.com
TN Congressman calls for investigation into Bad Bunny Super Bowl performance, citing 'widespread twerking'
Congressman Andy Ogles described the performance as "pure smut" and wants an investigation. Millions of viewers worldwide tuned in to the 13-minute set on Sunday.
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