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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Through a combination of negligence and incompetence, our software did a bad thing. Please blame the software, not us, and let's get some regulatory capture going so we can eliminate our liability risk."

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This morning's rabbit hole: In 1982, The Cure released Pornography, a compelling, dazzling, but crushingly nihilistic album that fairly or not cemented their reputation as "goth." They took a hard turn from their (supposedly inadvertent) "anti-image" look to the theatrical one they became known for.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

AI is to consumer-detrimental decisions as Management Consultants are to employee-detrimental decisions: Something other than management to pin the blame on.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Bernie once again demonstrating that, despite his positive traits, he's an utter buffoon when it comes to matters of technology policy.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I spent the afternoon tending to my github account err I mean civilization."

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This (gestures broadly) got you down m? Stop what you are doing and watch this immediately. youtu.be/eAYn9sjW4hU?...

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Dog Vlog 4: I Spent 3 Weeks Exploring the Pacific Coast!

YouTube video by Willy’s World

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Academic Freedom doesn't mandate institutional support for ascientific animus-based dehumanization repackaged as faux-legitimate inquiry. The more interesting question is why Ghent hired this obvious clown in the first place.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In software dev, explaining your code to somebody else is so helpful with debugging and problem solving that I've seen people do so to a literal cardboard cutout. I find coding agents similarly beneficial, except the cutouts can type crazy fast and suggest we use insertion sort instead of quicksort.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I was today years old when I got Mr. Roger's "King Friday XIII" joke. Only 55 years slow on the uptake.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

At this time of division and rancor, it's important we pause for a moment of sober reflection and note, "Take that, spineless centrist surrender-monkeys!"

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Local Buffoon Confuses Could and Will"

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Apparently the notion that the utility of money is nonlinear has not yet reached all corners of the internet. "You are utterly broke. Your terminally ill child could be saved with an operation that costs $50k." But apparently "You would be crazy to take a 90% haircut on EV for certain payment."

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Funny the degree to which a simple question about coin-flips and money brings out the supremely confident lecturing gasbags.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I find it sadly ironic that while much of the country has fallen to a kind of pathetic, reactionary nostalgic conservatism wrt technology (solar, etc), there is a leading proponent of forward-looking "can-do" techno-optimism. But he is a deluded, narcissistic, sexist, racist, nazi-adjacent dipshit.

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Hi I’m a Gen Xer whose politics lean neither left nor right, I guess you could call me an independent, kind of homeless politically, maybe the last sane person in an insane world, anyway enjoy my 300 daily posts dedicated solely to bitching about trans people and the left

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.

Are you having fanatical thoughts about other people's crotches?
Has hating a minority group become your entire personality?
Do you obsess over other people's toilet use?
If so, you could be a danger to others - it's time to seek help.
Contact our team: youneedhelp@leavetranspeoplealone.com

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Meta are sending Fucko the Knife Robot to stab you in the knee. To disable go to Accounts> Settings> Robots> Knife Robots> Fucko> Opt Out

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A worker returns to her job, which consists of yelling into a telephone and typing while wearing a hat.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Yeah, this is simply not the case. Changing clocks is a PITA, and increases all kinds of risks around the time of the switch. But essentially all of the science shows that what is far worse is forcing people -- especially kids -- to wake up and get around in the dark.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This makes me want to rejoin X for the sole purpose of mocking these gormless bootlicking techbros.

Teddy - PolyBackTest.com • @Bitcoin_Teddy
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Elon Musk thinks coding dies this year.
Not evolves. Dies.
By December, Al won't need programming languages. It generates machine code directly.
Binary optimized beyond anything human logic could produce. No translation. No compilation. Just pure execution.
Musk: "You don't g."
Code was never the point. It was friction. A tax we paid because machines didn't speak human. Al just learned fluent human. The tax is gone.
Now plug that into Neuralink. No syntax. No keyboard. No screen.
Musk: "Imagination-to-software."
Thought becomes executable. You imagine an outcome, the system architects and compiles it into reality instantly.
We're not automating programming. We're erasing it from existence.

The entire profession collapses into a thought.
Decades of training reduced to irrelevance. The gap between idea and instantiation hits zero.
You don't build anymore. You imagine, and it materializes.
Not incremental progress. Total phase shift. The way humans have created things for ten thousand years just became obsolete.
Welcome to a world where the limiting factor isn't skill, resources, or time. It's whether you can picture what you want clearly enough for a machine to birth it into existence.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 13/06/2026

What remains one of the best life hacks I’ve ever learned: at any chain that has a phone number-based rewards system needed for discounts (CVS, Duane Reade, etc.), simply put in the local area code followed by 867-5309. There is always already an account. You will always get the discount.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I believe that it is a minor miracle when technical creative projects -- cars, video games, movies -- manage to overcome complexities, compromises, and doubters and become real. As such, I try always to find the positive in such things. In this spirit I'll say: At least it's not Cybertruck-ugly.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The Odyssey, famous for its scenes of idyllic clear skies and calm seas that make for pleasurable, relaxing sea voyages.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Alas, the Gen X Song of a Generation has to be Born In The USA, cuz apparently most of us turned out to be shallow, dimwitted Reagan-poisoned Trump stans who can't see the monster sitting just beneath the thinnest veneer of faux-positivity.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

There is something beautifully ironic in Dawkins, famous for noting that the existence of biological complexity can fool us into thinking there must be intelligence behind it, believes that because a computer program generates compelling emotive text, there must be consciousness behind it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/05/2026

relatedly i strongly believe — and i think there is even research to this effect — that people are routinely told that affirmative action or DEI is to blame for their professional or academic failures to avoid having to confront them with the realities of their performance

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Depluralize a movie. One Thing Right Here One At A Time

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

What is up with the "your experience doesn't match my experience, and my experience is universal, therefore you are wrong" brainrot 'round here?

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Can I count the entire Steely Dan oeuvre as a song?

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I'll go out in a limb here and say it's bad to allow the biggest simpletons on the planet to pull on the levers of government and military.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

For all of LLM's many real ethical, environmental, and moral issues, they truly are in the process of completely disrupting software development, mostly for the better when used right. Signed, an ancient curmudgeonly skeptical late-adopter dev whose sw you have def seen the output of.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers

Two photos. The first shows Catturd tweeting: Name one US inspired regime change that hasn't ended in absolute disaster

The next tweet shows him posting an AI illustration of Khamenei turned into a pile of dust. It says "I'm eliminated."

Two tweets. The first shows Laura Loomer promoting her show, where she says "A message has been sent that we are not interested in going back to the way politics were prior to Donald Trump, prior to 2016. We don't want warhawks. We don't want any more Neocons. We want American First. Period. End of discussion."

The next tweet says: Today is a great day.

Our military is amazing.

@PeteHegseth
is an absolute killer.

Now you see why the Deep State worked so hard against him.

It’s great having a Sec War who has Infidel literally tattooed on his body.

He actually gets it.

God bless him.

Two tweets. The first shows Will Chamberlain tweeting: The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars. If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position.

The next tweet shows him posting "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead." The tweet has a USA flag attached.

Two tweets. The first shows Gunther Eagleman tweeting: "Warmonger Lindsey Graham just rushed to Fox to advocate for U.S. involvement as soon as he could.

He is also pushing for a US-backed regime change in Iran.

I would like to renominate Graham to get a one-way ticket to the frontlines of every war he wants America involved in." There's an attached video of Graham speaking.

The next shows Eagleman tweeting: UST IN! President Trump is HARD AT WORK all weekend after the massive strikes on Iran!

He’s already on the phone with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte!

Trump is a machine!" There's an attached video of a news segment about the war in Iran.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Also, here’s a photo of people dying to defend a “multicultural economic zone”

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

X isn't a country, it's a private party where the host is paid $ for every guest in attendance, and controls who can speak the loudest. There is no "winning" over the owner, only supporting him by attending the party.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Yup. No more giving colleagues the benefit of the doubt. If you're on X at this point, you're a bad person. Your cries of "but my community!" tell me everything I need to know about what you will support in return for a bit of personal convenience.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Going to war over oil supply in 2026 is like going to war over war horse supply in 1946.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

What did people do before they invented water? Did people drink tree sap or something?

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Taking down the Xmas tree has never exactly been fun. But it's especially hard after a year that saw the passing of friends, family, and heroes. If I'm lucky I'll get 20 or so more Xmas trees. Gotta make them all, and it all, count.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Look at these amateur Reflect Orbital mopes scamming the gullible out of cash for their useless but hazardous "moonlight on demand" satellite fleet.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

It's your periodic Musk Stupid Prediction Check-in! Musk, July 2025: "half of the population of the US will be covered by Tesla's Robotaxi by the end of the year". Actual figure: not even close to 1%, and the "robotaxis" require a human driver.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Watching bsky eagerly buying into an obviously fake note is a good reminder that conspiracy-brain isn't limited to any one set of political beliefs.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Every day I give a small bit of thanks that, as horrible as this administration, its enablers, and bootlickers are, they are not, by and large, blessed with a surplus of competence.

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Given how badly wrong Yglesias is on the basics here, imagine how wrong he and other professional opinion-havers are on the myriad other subjects they pretend to be experts in.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

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Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?

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Hildy Johnson @itshildy.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Your parents die Your heroes die <-- I am here Your friends die You die

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