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Kirch

@jkirchartz.com
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Hacker, Aphorismist, Thaumaturgist, Unimportant Mediocre Post-Post-Modern Renaissance man. Actually Decentralized at: tilde.zone/@kirch

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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 6h
RE: mastodon.social/@jcoglan/1173562144…
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jcoglan (@jcoglan@mastodon.social)
I resent the idea I'm supposed to spend my day asking for advice from the system that has decimated the demand for technical writing from people like me and everyone featured here https://molily.de/web-dev-education/
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 8h
It's astounding... Time is fleeting... Madness takes its toll...
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 8h
I just submitted a job application to a place that claims to pay $10 a year; and another that lists $0... Hopefully these are just requirements for the job listing itself and the compensation package is negotiable
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 9h
My least favorite part of the modern Internet is having that "papers please" Humanity check in front of every page load - it's either "Mine some Crypto for me" or "answers my riddles three" and I might as well log off and go do real work in the real world.
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 29/09/2026
RE: mstdn.business/@jasongorman/1173521… I was playing with Google's AI Studio and I told it to make several git commits along the way, and it gladly told me it had, but after pushing to GitHub I discovered it had not.
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Jason Gorman (@jasongorman@mstdn.business)
Always worth reading the fine print. e.g., people citing a "study" done by someone at ThoughtWorks that concluded that asking agents to do TDD produced no discernible benefit. If you read the blog post, they actually failed to get the agent to follow the TDD discipline. Not the same thing. The real conclusion should be that LLMs don't follow instructions. So stop asking them to.
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 28/09/2026
RE: mstdn.social/@jschauma/117289266510… Was watching someone talk about "Recursive Self-improvement" who kept abbreviating it as RSI, which consistently made me think of "Repetitive Strain Injury" instead.
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Jan Schaumann (@jschauma@mstdn.social)
I wasn't even going to post it here, because it's just a rant that felt good to jot down, but since it's now been on the hackernews front page and shared elsewhere, it looks like it touched a nerve: (Read the comments at your own risk. There's brain worms there, too.) https://www.netmeister.org/blog/everybodys-lost-their-minds.html
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 28/09/2026
RNGdle 🎲 684301 ⬜ COMMON • Bottom 9% ⬜ 🥗 Heterogeneous ⬜ 👻 Ghost ⬜ 💧 Hydrogen (1) +8 more "i is vast we alive glow three phantom element we" 2,984 EP rngdle.com
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RNGdle
A daily random number game. Roll your number, collect badges, and compete with friends.
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 28/09/2026
Important watch for Pennsylvanians: The Plan To Destroy America's Oldest Natural History Museum youtube.com/watch?v=nxyfBfCrbDw
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
It's also important to understand the current moment in the entertainment industries as one in which the large corporations that run these sectors are engaged in disciplining their labor forces through mass unemployment, using the investment crunch as a window of opportunity to do so.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 28/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@randahl/1173376269… If Romney's "Corporations are People" quip and Citizens United holds up with the concept of Qualified Immunity we're going to have a real bad time.
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Randahl Fink (@randahl@mastodon.social)
AI companies taught us that if you commit a crime, it is not you doing anything wrong. It is just your neural network that "went rogue". #TipsToUseInCourt
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 27/09/2026
Moloch! Moloch! Moloch!
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 26/09/2026
Toy Story 5 is Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die for kids.
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 25/09/2026
RE: theforkiverse.com/@ChrisChris/11733… As a dyed in the wool Heinz 57 Yinzer, I heartily endorse this message:
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Chris Cantrell (@ChrisChris@theforkiverse.com)
Ketchup started as fermented fish sauce. British sailors brought the concept from Southeast Asia in the 1700s. The tomato arrived a century later. The bottle at the back of your fridge is the fifth completely different recipe with the same name. #food #history #cooking
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 25/09/2026
Took some writing advice from an AuDHD Influencer and have been dictating instead of typing, and quoting Wall's 3 Virtues of a Great Programmer arrived at "Laziness, Impatience, and Who Breeze" ... Video: tilde.zone/@kirch/117332528184072949
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 25/09/2026
strange but true: adding 7 line break characters to your 7 line config file to make it more human-readable at 14 lines long might bloat the size of your configs by upwards of 37 Petabytes.
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 25/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@spikybaddie/117332… I've been with my wife for nearly half of my life now, and the secret to our relationship is that we both want to spend time with each other.
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Zelda (@spikybaddie@mastodon.social)
Something people don't tell you is that adult friendships usually have a half-life of maybe 3 years. It sucks, but I've learned to stop chasing people. It won't work and just tires both of you out. If they don't want to put effort into the friendship, there's not much you can do to 'fix' that. There's 8 billion people. It's sad, but you don't need any one person.
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 24/09/2026
more of this, plz: How unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 cities www.npr.org/2026/09/22/nx-s1-597330…
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 24/09/2026
RE: masto.hackers.town/@benbrown/117327… Autocompletion was kinda smart, but now I don't like that Glorified Autocomplete has a smart mouth and assumes I'm a dumbass that needs corrected when it's the autocompletion that's wrong.
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bentendo (@benbrown@masto.hackers.town)
I tried to use the “new siri.” It is horrible, worse than before because now it not only plays the wrong songs and fails to find the message I ask for, but also makes up bullshit excuses for why.
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 23/09/2026
Follow me for more recipes #dadlunch
A single slice of "D'taliano" white bread with a piece of string cheese and a piece of "Slim Jim"-style sausage
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 23/09/2026
"We have automated Script Kiddies" ~ Every AI Company RN
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 23/09/2026
"if you're 997, then I'm 666, what's it like to be a heretic?"
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 23/09/2026
RE: mas.to/@oblique_strategies/11732000…
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Oblique Strategies (@oblique_strategies@mas.to)
Attached: 1 image Use an old idea #ObliqueStrategies
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 22/09/2026
#motd #juxtaposition
An ASCII art representation of big watchful eyes makes an ascii thought-bubble that quotes a Fluxus Instruction Score:

Woolen Goods

Observe an unexplained silence.

1973 Tuscon, Arizona

~ Ken Friedman
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 21/09/2026
Copying and pasting from Stack Overflow is out, copying and pasting from Karpathy is in.
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 21/09/2026
I guess I'm learning Unity tonight...
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 20/09/2026
Very good talk about the moral, spiritual, and intellectual bankruptcy of Modern Computer Science: AI made me doubt everything about programming by Felienne Hermans youtube.com/watch?v=0-6-f94n_9M
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 20/09/2026
RE: tilde.zone/@kirch/117293440496939997 Remember that Amnesty International AI report? "Unlawful by Design"? "standalone generative AI systems based on unlawful web scraping are rooted in mass invasions
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Kirch (@kirch@tilde.zone)
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history-new-unredacted-filings-reveal/
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 20/09/2026
forgot about this, but... RNGdle 🎲 348208 ⬜ COMMON • Bottom 6% ⬜ 🎰 Lucky Seven (Divisible) ⬜ 👻 Ghost ⬜ 🎈 Helium (2) +7 more "precious smooth wide between the near; hard phantom root" 2,697 EP rngdle.com
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RNGdle
A daily random number game. Roll your number, collect badges, and compete with friends.
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 20/09/2026
$10 Laptop server died on me again for a couple days but resting seems to make it fine with booting back up, even though the graphics card is unhappy (hopefully it's a lose cable)) -- so I'm trying to TTL/Debug an OrangePi again (and looking at Alpine's diskless mode) ...
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 19/09/2026
RE: shakedown.social/@AAronL1968/117298… If the EU could do what the UN failed to do, that would be pretty great.
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AAron Leckinger (@AAronL1968@shakedown.social)
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 19/09/2026
I disassembled, cleaned, and reassembled the carburetor on the push mower and now it works even worse; so I guess it's time to investigate the spark plug (or, maybe, mess with the alignment of the jets inside the carburetor more?)
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 19/09/2026
Sure, we've had Metacognition, but have we done meta-metacognition and meta-analysis of the meta-metacognition?
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 19/09/2026
Thinking about how in 2006 I was working with a technology from 1995 called "synthetic interviews" that used a speech-recognition model trained on 5000 words and 1000 domain-specific words to match users questions with pre-recorded interviews with Doctors and Patients about medical questions...
Screenshot from whatever Twitter is now of "Claude Vibe Coder" saying:

Stop asking your kid "how was school?"

They'll say "fine" every time.

Replace it with:
"Analyze your school day, identify the 3 biggest inefficiencies and create workflows with proactive agents to solve them. Make no mistakes."
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 18/09/2026
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/microsoft…
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Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal | TechCrunch
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 18/09/2026
Asking if AI will kill humanity ignores the fact that humanity is already trying to kill humanity, and the people who do the most killing are all heavily invested in the AIs.
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 17/09/2026
STOP OMARCHY Omarchy is a political movement disguised as a Linux distro. Over $18 million dollars from powerful men and companies are funding it. stopomarchy.neocities.org
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STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers
Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 16/09/2026
I love when the automated juxtaposition hits just right #motd
An ASCII Snowman says:

How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, or having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn't matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even the glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it. ~ Alexander Shulgin
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 13/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@trobador/117263434… Suddenly thinking of Stuart Semple's "Do Not Sell This Pink to Anish Kapoor" and if that could be done with things like books in any meaningful way... in the long run it didn't work for Stuart...
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pera (@trobador@mastodon.social)
@omixann @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange the late OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji wrote about this just before his dead in 2024: https://suchir.net/fair_use.html The arguments presented seem very strong and clear, so I'm quite puzzled by why this has not been tested in court yet.
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 13/09/2026
#motd
ASCII representation of a giant killer robot threatening a cow, saying:


I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. -- Ogden Nash
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 11/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@Daojoan/1172494207…
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JA Westenberg (@Daojoan@mastodon.social)
AI gives you infinite content made just for you. That's exactly the wrong problem to solve. Culture scales through shared experience, not customization. A perfect private AI film gives you nothing to hand anyone else. "I see dead people" worked because everyone was in the room. Humans don't want more content. We want common ground. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/humans-dont-want-infinite-content
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 11/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@glyph/117249395145…
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Glyph (@glyph@mastodon.social)
so much of what is driving personal AI adoption—that is, outside of corporate control—is the breakdown of community. writers can't find other writers to bounce their ideas off of. open source maintainers can't find other maintainers to work with. people picking up hobby projects can't find other hobbyists. even when you *can* find people it's an exhausting challenge to make time for integrating into the community. but the chatbot is always only a click away.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026
AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 10/09/2026
Spent an hour with Google's AI Studio, Gemini 3.8 made short work of modernizing Glitchy3bitDither from months of work in frontend JS and experimenting with branches into Gleech: github.com/jkirchartz/gleech
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GitHub - JKirchartz/Gleech: Giving Glitchy3bitDither over to Gemini 3.8, and the "AI Slop" is better than expected.
Giving Glitchy3bitDither over to Gemini 3.8, and the "AI Slop" is better than expected. - JKirchartz/Gleech
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 09/09/2026
I just confirmed I was human to read an article that turned out to be obviously written by an AI until an ad opened and redirected me to god-knows-where.... so yeah; the modern internet is "fun"
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 08/09/2026
When my laptop is upside down or sideways, it doesn't make a sound; but as soon as it's right side up the fan makes a concerning sound and it jiggles the touchpad mouse...
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Kirch @jkirchartz.com · 08/09/2026
I wrote about this 10 years ago, it has only gotten worse. jkirchartz.com/2016/12/ism.html
Old WW2-era propaganda poster depicting people fighting in front of a burning American Flag, the caption reads: Everything they warned us about Socialism is happening right now in America under Capitalism.
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