Reposted by gemorrisTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Andor was a truly great show because it understood the fundamental truth that very evil things mostly happen at pretty boring meetings 1768
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Louder for the people on the "multitasking 3 different workflows" path, they were reading something else and didn't actually hear what you said. 020
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Once again, we are asking organizations to care about their data. Nevertheless 161
Reposted by gemorrisSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 19/04/2026*vibrating, levitating* your org chart is a philosophy of mind, and also a political philosophy 1455
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I think putting *oneself* in a cynefin zone shows an impressive misunderstanding of... well, everything 010
Reposted by gemorrisAndy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 08/04/2026Tired: campuses are hot beds of leftist ideological indoctrination Wired: we professors couldn't indoctrinate a student if we tried Inspired: of course there is ideological indoctrination on campus, that's the entire point of the business school 051
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Nothing in my post should be seen as excusing any previous or existing faults within Agusta Country Club, the sport of golf, etc etc. 000
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Every year we get five days to experience what apps, events, and sports could be like if their owners acted like stewards and not like vampire squids. Happy #TheMasters to all who celebrate. Download the app and then get mad about how much everything else sucks in comparison. 110
Reposted by gemorrisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/04/2026I will just say, as a southerner born & bred, I have a great deal of sympathy for anyone thinking, "how did I get in this Waffle House?" 1826822
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Rip the practice of forensically reconstructing a critical business process when a load bearing resource walked out the door, we hardly knew ya. 040
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 03/04/2026They are filling their sharepoint servers with a quantity of slop that is an order of magnitude larger than their existing documentation, and at least an order of magnitude less accurate. 180
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Repeated rounds of layoffs will ensure everyone is in a similar situation with similar levels lf desperation. 140
Reposted by gemorrisdorian @doriantaylor.com · 02/04/2026this point is everything like, large language models are structurally incapable of fact-checking; you have to assume everything they produce is bullshit (which is why they work with code, because code can be bullshit and still run) 726655
Reposted by gemorrisLiz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 31/03/2026young people are not supposed to think we're cool. wanting to be thought of as cool by young people is the least dignified way to age. 7474
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 30/03/2026combine this with the Chipotle chatbot hack and you've got "two weird tricks" to reduce overhead. 010
Reposted by gemorrisAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 30/03/2026part of the pollution that's happening to our information ecosystem is that it becomes harder to actually be responsible like somebody says "oh, i don't trust ai. i'm going to find a reputable source, like an actual medical clinic" 4332124
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Uncharachteristic miss to not put this in a political compass format Pavel. 000
Reposted by gemorrisZito @zeets.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Kurosawa on watching Solaris with Tarkovsky 343835979
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 29/03/2026I maintain that folks who've never worked crap jobs have no business designing software for people doing most jobs. If you've never had the visceral pressure of extraction and control applied to your own person, the likelihood of recognizing when you've been asked to create the Torment Nexus is low 020
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Was not expecting the Shingy reference in a page of text on Taylorism. 110
Reposted by gemorrisNate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 26/03/2026I mean, to be fair, the people running Wikipedia have values and think about things and care about having their project do well at serving the common good, so this is an apples to oranges comparison really 0435
Reposted by gemorrisTze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Someone somewhere is preparing a PhD proposal on the 2026 Iran-US meme wars but is being outmaneouvred with the funders by a classmate outspecialising them in the 2026 Iran-US Lego diss track battle 0276
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 14/03/2026My man, the greatest number of absolutely absurd assumptions I have seen made about how physical labor gets done, and physical materials move through the world, have been made by techbros. A 6 year old with 1 season of How It's Made playing in the background has a better grasp of physical reality. 070
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 13/03/2026media.tenor.coma man with a beard says that 's a name i ve not heard in a long timeALT: a man with a beard says that 's a name i ve not heard in a long time 020
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 13/03/2026I guess they did finally identify a valid use case for the technology (generating new, bad, concepts) 030
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Still reading Pretenders, but agree, have been getting strong Andor vibes (complimentary) throughout. This series has been my introduction to AT's work. 010
Reposted by gemorrisAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 12/03/2026every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat 16878243
Reposted by gemorrisColeman Ridge @colemanridge.bsky.social · 09/03/2026The difference between being too lazy to do it yourself and being too lazy to check that an ai did it right is very small. 1317
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Love to start statements with "In fact..." wile completely lacking the ability to prove the rest of my statement is factual. 000
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Every c-suite who thinks "oh I can automate these jobs" is picking up pennies in front of a steamroller. 040
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Not real, this is a photoshopped title over a new pokemon game 100
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Rivers are ontologically slippery, never the same twice. 030
Reposted by gemorrisMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/03/2026i’m at the anti-ICE protest i’m at the anti-war with iran protest i’m at the combination anti-ICE anti-war with iran protest 814906645
gemorris @gemorris.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Marathon is this and will only ever be this in my mind. Running on pizza box Mac Performa machines after school. 050
Reposted by gemorrisChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 01/03/2026lmao people worrying about an apple watch in a SCIF when these guys are drawing up war plans in claude and placing side bets with online bookies 502538492
Reposted by gemorrism. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/03/2026i liked my job better when i got to explain complex and subtle things about technology and society, not when those things were, like, "insider trading on war crimes is bad" 11139
