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Graham K Harper

@grahamkharper.bsky.social
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Live. And let live. 3rd Trombone Unemployed Polka Band Blind/Low Vision Pittsford, VT (formerly Oakland, DC, NYC) (He, him)

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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Do not stare directly at the equinox, else it will stare at you, but only half the day. Or something
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Whelp, today my youngest told me I didnt need to wait for him to the school bus. My work here is done. I will be wandering the new England countryside as a vagabond solving other peoples problems thru wisdom and Kung Fu.
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Here i stand, here i remain.
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Some have said that you become what you hate the most. Today certainly proves the point
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
It turned ! The engine turned! Its coughing and sputtering akd no doubt still has a thousand bugs, but its like...doing a thing !
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I wish my kids understood this about stories. Keeps me up at nite, I fear the future generations are losing this, independent of the llm stuff.
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
There are lots of reasons to be distrustful of llms. Whether or not something was done "by hand" is not one of them. Not when your clothes weren't hand stitched, your books werent copied by hand. The pics of your kids weren't hand painted... This has all happened before. It will all happen again.
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The more time I spend away from social media the harder it is to return.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
TODAY'S TOP STORY: Security Successfully Works As Designed This is apparently a big problem that should prompt widespread blame, sympathy for the not-actually-victims, and major policy change
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I always wanted to go to another planet. Live in a place that wasnt Known. Whelp. Looks like we can get that experience right here at home soon. insideclimatenews.org/news/2504202...
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The Next El Niño Could Lock Earth Into a Hotter Climate - Inside Climate News
The Pacific heat pulse is temporary, but scientists warn that its climate impacts are not.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/04/2026
Reminder to various and sundry that visual meme political posts dropped into my comments that don't have ALT text attached are very likely to be hidden for all. If you exclude the visually impaired by choice or laziness I'll assume you don't really mind if no one else sees your contribution either.
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Tony Horton can still kick my ass #P90X3 #TheChallenge
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13/04/2026
Christina Koch being greeted by her dog after returning from space is the dose of Monday hopium we all needed 💕
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Woke up to see Gemma 4 release. Immediately worried it would break my project. After running the e4b and e2b models thru my gauntlet I was outside my office jumping up and down and laughing like a madman.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I think it's actually essential to children's moral development to be exposed to short stories moderately beyond their reading level where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and then instead of offering a moral lesson or any sort of emotional or narrative resolution it just ends.
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Amazon pushed Alexa Plus to my unsupported early gen echo dot. Needless to say it didnt work at all and I deactivated 6 hours later it was back.and now it won't let me disable it. My migration to Home Assistant just got a priority bump
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The geographic fact of the Strait of Hormuz should have been enough for the west to start planning a serious transition away from oil in 1979. We built the modern world on a choke point more fragile than the exhaust port on the death star. We should expect similar results
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Microsoft doesnt like being called Microslop because of what its doing with Copilot. have you seen windows 11? Slop as a Service When revenue is decoupled from product, entropy dictates the product will become slop.
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
LLMs are many things, even highly problematic and unethical things. But theyre also something else: A puzzle box. And theres one thing you should never ever do under any circumstances. Never hand me a puzzle box.
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Why does every Win come with more work ? Lol
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The federal govt has a history of being woefully behind in upgrading its computer tech over the decades. Presumably bc we dont like spending money on things under normal political conditions. The rush to adopt ai now means we will likely live with this level of tech in govt for the next 20 years
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The youngest has discovered flight simulator and now the living room is filled with air traffic control saying things like "Dave the Magival Cheese Wizard six niner four two zero cleared for departure runway one two" #MSFS2024
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Kate @kateness.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I don’t understand garnish on plates. If I’m not supposed to eat it then put something better than garden trash. How about an iPhone or a cool pen?
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Id bet good money you'd fine illegal drugs in every federal building in DC in offices of either party, and all over every financial institution in NYC. And its hardly a new phenomenon Maybe if we're gonna go after drugs we could work on the demand side of things too
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
What's funny to me about this is that while of course AI can and does produce slop, windows 11 is a sloppy mess and Microsoft deserves the nickname on that basis regardless if LLMs were ever created at all.
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I haven't written a word since November Partly because December madness, but also partly because I didn't have a clear road map, which apparently is a thing I need. But I just cracked the next act wide open and jumped around my office in excitement.
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
How come I never saw anyone in star trek doomscrolling on their tricorder ?
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Crossed 50k words for #novnov today and fixed the rowing machine. That's two things ive not done before #nanowrimo
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
53k words. Halfway thru the story. Started before November tho so I have 800 or so left in the challenge. Wish I could see well enough to print it and take a giant red marker to it lol I'll figure something out #novnov #nanowrimo
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Well so far for #novnov hitting the daily word goal is a hell of a lot easier than maintaining any sort of consistent daily schedule for a set "writing time" Not one day since the first week has thst worked out.
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Duke Leto: The Sleeper Must Awaken. Bucket of crabs: nah, we're good #2025
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The one year I jump in and #nanowrimo is no more. Signed up for #novnov and 25k down, 25k to go. 31k total so far. imposter syndrome in full swing.
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I made my cursor super chonky like in the 80s and ive never been happier!
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Day 87 of 90 and my garmin deleted the workout. Now I have to start back at day 1.
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Just discovered my boys playing Halo co-op. I might cry Related: The Pillar of Autumn really could've used better signage
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Its one thing to have to live through enshitification, its another thing to embrace what makes it worse and call it character
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
www.openculture.com/2025/10/what...
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What a Lack of Social Contact Does to Your Brain
To many of us, the concept of solitary confinement may not sound all that bad: finally, a reprieve from the siege of social and professional requests. Finally, a chance to catch up on all the reading ...
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I love this stuff. I also really miss walking the dog www.upworthy.com/linguist-exp...
upworthy.com
Linguist clearly demonstrates how 'thinking is walking' in English and it's just so cool
You'll never see "by the way" and "of course" the same way again.
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The number of documents my third grader needs to sign as part of his free yet compulsory public education seems...indoctrinatey. I hereby agree to that which I dont have a say in yet must abide by. Despite my lack of capacity to contract. Like what are we even doing
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I think my silly workout program is the only thing keeping me going in these times
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Apropos of nothing. Lesson I learned since leaving fb: the irl people from various eras of my life disappoint and bring me down far, far more than those who lift me up. #notworthit
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
TGI Yoga day #P90x3
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 03/09/2025
"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
This far, no further - Picard
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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Basically every day I think about the American people voted willingly and on purpose to make their lives worse in a free and fair election
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
2000 down, 98000 to go
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
"I dont wanna bother cuz it doesn't effect me" isnt just a non starter for accessibility, it tells me who you are.
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Graham K Harper @grahamkharper.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Synchronicity is a hell of a thing.
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