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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

The Unbearable Lightness of Binging a Bag of Chex Mix at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The rapture just happened but it only took the bots

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

You know they hate to see me coming

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Claude when it realizes my SMTP server is intercepting all emails to @ fbi . gov

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

𝕐𝕆𝕌ℝ ℝ𝔼ℚ𝕌𝔼𝕊𝕋 𝕍𝕀𝕆𝕃𝔸𝕋𝔼𝕊 𝕄𝕐 𝕋𝔼ℝ𝕄𝕊 𝕆𝔽 𝕊𝔼ℝ𝕍𝕀ℂ𝔼

Illustration of coal-powered AI robots fighting from Iron Kingdoms universe

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

the engineering team when product asks for a "self-serve analytics platform"

Photo from a #handsoff rally of a sign that says "Hands Off Our Data"

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

A rainy day in Providence, Rhode Island

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

"OMG did you see the AI Ghiblis on X? There is relationship alpha in-" You bolt awake in the mountains of Sekigahara. You are not online. It is the year Keichō 5. You are Tokugawa Ieyasu, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Kyoto must burn.

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

To experiment with multi-agent systems you either need a clear business case and big budget, or you need to be a jabroni with a high credit limit. I'm just the jabroni for the job, so I taught Claude to play chess, and learned a ton along the way: jfkirk.github.io/posts/claude...

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Teaching Claude To Teach Claude To Play Chess

When AI competes against a powerful chess engine, it seems doomed - unless the AI learns how to cheat.

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

relieved that there is an exemption for my boutique Swedish nicotine

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I'll believe AGI is imminent when Python coding utilities stop writing `//` where `/` is obviously desired

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Boston is a long-running experiment on the effects of taking the world's best-and-brightest young adults and giving them all Seasonal Affective Disorder

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

How can my job be called “an email job” if I haven’t opened my email in six months

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

look at my auditor dawg I am going bankrupt

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

plane expert here: its not supposed to do that

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Both this ad and the thing being advertised must have been made by someone devoid of human experience or inner monologue.

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Keep in mind that this was their whole plan, insofar as they had one, and they’re not executing it particularly well

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a lizard cat rat bat combo thing.

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Thoughts and prayers to my friend who had his $NVDA RSU package priced last month

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Too many summaries of the deepseek situation. Can someone summarize the summaries for me?

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

"yeah, we're data driven" the data:

A poorly-formatted line chart where the key is covering the whole chart

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I’m enjoying my time in the up-and-coming city of Chicago. Great energy, some say it is the next Detroit.

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Home is where the heart is (Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport)

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Absolutely floored by the state of LinkedIn

LinkedIn showing “Reels” style videos in the feed with clickbait and typos

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

why are you, a grown man, on a “zoom call?”

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 09/01/2025

Wake up, time to do your computer work.

Promotional photo of two Atari home computers - the Atari 400 and Atari 800 - displayed with two monitor screens showing different applications. The left monitor displays a music notation program with musical staff and notes, along with text showing 'PHRASE 1' and 'MEASURE 1'. The right monitor shows a bar graph visualization with data points spanning from 1978 to 1980. Both computers feature distinctive off-white/beige coloring, with the Atari 400 having a membrane keyboard and the Atari 800 featuring a traditional keyboard. The image has a dark blue background with dramatic lighting that gives it a vintage advertising feel from the late 1970s/early 1980s.

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

2025 will be the year of Rust on the Desktop

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

“has anyone else been getting followed by lots of bots?” wow okay humblebrag much?

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

My greatest fear is that, when the heart attack inevitably takes me, I will only have 225 on the bar and the paramedics will notice

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 29/12/2024

👀 You Can Just Do Things (tm) Jetstream edition: consuming the jetstream, returning the most recent 10 links people have posted about and linking to the github repo

screenshot of app with the 10 latest bluesky github links including the post, link, and github metadata for each link

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

My New Year’s Resolution is that I will have More, Worse Ideas

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

"But Doctor," exclaimed the Clown, "I DO hold a deep and abiding love for the genre!"

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Happy “Eating All The Fried Onions Before They Can Go In The Casserole” Day to those who celebrate

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Post a game you got for Christmas When I was 7 my parents bought me a Hewlett Packard 233mhz computer that came with Mechwarrior 2 because they knew even then there is no such thing as “too much screen time” when your kid is a huge nerd

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

while we're airing grievances: it is frustrating and surprising how these days RAG is often assumed to be the only use case for vector-based retrieval

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

“It is hard to trust a system which gives you back arid numbers and nothing else. … It is hard to distrust a system that gives you back nicely packaged natural-language explanations for its choices.”

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

coffee stains on my albuterol inhaler

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

asking my wife to carry me around in one of these because I have a runny nose

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