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i made an amp yesterday i usually open logic, select an ampsim (guitarrig), and then play, but yesterday it occurred to me I shouldnt need logic at all i have some more features I wanna add and then I'll put it online somehow

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

walked passed this fella having a drink yesterday

an older dog is sitting on a bench at a bar with a beer in front of them on a table

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

love this shirt i got a few nights ago when i saw Snarky Puppy live

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

got this for secret santa from someone who barely knew me after they asked my friends what I am like and they nailed it so hard Ive kept it hung on my wall ever since

a four pane comic that features a small, curious cat

frame 1: cat is looking out the window in a spaceship. text says "small cat, get out of that spaceship"

frame 2: the spaceship has launched. text says "stop that right now"

frame 3: the ship is floating through space. text "stop exploring the cosmos, small cat"

frame 4: the ship has landed somewhere and the cat is out of the ship, in a space suit. text says "you are misbehaving"

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

cant believe this thing stayed in tune while traveling across the country

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

claude lists it first whenever i ask it what atproto is for

screenshot of an interaction with claude

my prompt:

what problems does atproto solve? atmosphere, the protocol under bluesky

claude's response:

• Account portability: Users can move between hosting providers (PDSes) and keep their identity, followers, and posts. The old server does not need to cooperate.
• Identity lock-in: Identity is a DID, not a server address. Handles are domain names, so users can use a domain they own.
• Data authenticity: User data lives in signed repositories. Anyone can verify it no matter who hosts or relays it.

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

got told off pretty hard yesterday by a musician who was mad that I'm not anti-AI they spoke to me as tho i am to blame for what the industry is doing never even asked me how i feel about any of it either

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

one of the greatest quotes of all time

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

Daniel Kahneman

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Claude, how's my poop? www.kohler.com/en/products/...

picture of a new toilet from Kohler with the text: introducing Claude toilet

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

cant decide which sticker to put on my front door the cat skating away is a classic for artsy introverts. the computer is the recurse center logo and that's what i had on my last apartment door. but maybe i want people to know i believe john brown did nothing wrong too

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

casting musical spells, with elegant tools from a former civilization

two witchy cats, standing on their back legs, with wizard hats, a torch, and a wizard's cane

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I need to get this print, frame it, and put it on my wall I adore Grant, yet have nothing honoring him other than my collection of Grant books, which blend in with my ever-growing collection of history books

The Siege of Vicksburg - Assault on Fort Hill, a painting by Thure de Thulstrup

The lainting depicts fighting between Union and Confederate forces on June 25th, 1863, at the 3rd Louisiana Redan, known as Fort Hill during the siege of Vicksburg.

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

this graph from @ganeumann.bsky.social makes the point nicely, tho I'd recommend going deeper with some LLM too

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

they fear China so much they're willing to become China to beat them heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...

This flow of taxpayer dollars to favored businesses rather than to programs that serve the needs of the people seems to be a feature rather than a bug in the Trump administration and reflects its rejection of democracy in favor of the right-wing axis of authoritarianism.

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

iOS started doing this, instead of just downloading the OS update, and it is unbelievably obnoxious it has failed to download several times too! so i cant update my device! WTF

Screenshot of the software update section of iOS settings.

The region has the following text:

IOS 26.6.2
Update Requested...
By updating, you agree to iOS Terms & Conditions.

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

finally found my way to the legendary skatepark, Burnside

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

bandsintown for Portland lists a show which is actually just a talk with Jon Meacham, the historian and author

A screenshot of the bandsintown app that shows a picture of Jon Meacham and information about when he is giving a talk at Srlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, September 22nd

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

she doesnt care what we're laying on (an air mattress) as long as she can curl up next to me

Sierra, my kitty, is curled up under my arm as we rest on my air mattress. the air mattress has a sheet on it and a blanket on top and we're on top of the blanket

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

she sees tech revolutions as a cluster of technologies that work so well together it captures the full attention of the economy for several decades as the economy rebuilds itself around new capabilities the cycle has happened 5 times so far

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

📚 The Rise And Fall Of The Artificial State, by Jill Lepore Lepore is a historian who has written some of my favorite books. I especially loved both We The People and These Truths The book is modeled after Hannah Arendt's The Origin of Totalitarianism, but for the context of modern technology

The front cover of a book which features a red background and a dark robot on the front. The text on top reads:

The Rise And Fall Of The Artificial State
Jill Lepore
Pulitzer Prize winning author of We The People

The table of contents

Part One: Government By Machine
1. The Book of Numbers
2. Technocracy Inc
3. Machines That Think
4. Computopia
5. AI.gov

Part Two: What Robots Want
7. La Bete-Machine
8. Darwin Among The Machines
9. Man And Nature
10. I, Robot
11. Murderbot

Epilogue: The Last Days of the Artificial State

- PREFACE -

What I propose in the following is a reconsideration of the human condition from the vantage point of our newest experiences and our most recent fears.... What I propose, there-fore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.
-Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, 1958

Like, I do guess that a lot of the world gets covered in data centers over time, but I don't know because maybe we put them in space.
-Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAl, 2025

HIS BOOK IS AN INQUIRY INTO WHAT HUMANS MEAN and intend in abandoning constitutional democracy, the liberal nation-state, and even humanity itself for rule by automation, government by machine, and replacement by artificial intelligence. Much in history is headlong but few grand transformations have been more precipitate or more heedless than the rise of what I call the Artificial State. Yet little seems to me more inevitable than its eventual fall, the exhale that follows every inhale, the day that follows night, Icarus's plunge to the ocean after flying too close to the sun.

The Artificial State is a fantasy about humans, machines, and the earth. This book is an archaeology of that fantasy. I was driven to write it by the same concerns that in the 1950s led the German-born political theorist Hannah Arendt to consider how humanity had been altered by automation.! Arendt's best-known book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, appeared in 1951. It ends with Arendt expressing concern about how the machinery of modern life was reshaping the very fundamentals of human existence.

AN URGENT ACCOUNT OF
HOW RULE BY MACHINE HAS
RAVAGED THE WORLD.
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PRAISE FOR THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ARTIFICIAL STATE

"Who's going to determine the future: the tech billionaires or the rest of us? Jill Lepore argues that there's nothing inevitable about eliminating jobs, destroying ecosystems, and arming authoritarian regimes. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State is at once dazzling in its range and totally on target."
-ELIZABETH KOLBERT, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Under a White Sky

"How lucky are we to be alive at the same time as Jill Lepore? Generations to come will marvel that anyone could think so clearly amid such chaos. At a moment when the Al takeover feels new and strange and inevitable, Lepore shows it to be anything but. She connects dots from different eras, different stories, different technologies, even different species. The result is a profound reframe of what we really mean by 'artificial.'"
-LATIF NASSER, co-host of Radiolab

"A person can't help but feel inspired by the riveting intelligence and joyful curiosity of Jill Lepore. Knowing that there is a mind like hers in the world is a hope-inducing thing."
-GEORGE SAUNDERS, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo

"There are times when a historian is absolutely necessary for understanding the future-this is one of those times, and Jill Lepore is the perfect person for the job. A fascinating, perceptive, and completely timely account of how we got to artificial intelligence and how we might get past it."
-BILL MCKIBBEN, author of Here Comes the Sun

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@dollspace.gay found your tattoo place in Portland

a red door with text written on it that reads:

DOLLHOUSE
TATTOO

by appointment only

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

one of my favorite ways to answer questions is with a quotation

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That is the reason I love reading history so much, to see what humanity truly is

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

David Hume

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Einstein claimed Hume's work was a huge influence on his theories of relativity, even claiming at times that they wouldnt have happened without Hume You can also see Hume's influence on the design of the US. Hume's Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth inspired Madison's epic, Federalist 10

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

David Hume

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

@thebadcode.com saw the bug again. got screenshots this time. first screenshot is when i tried to post. second is when i tried to save as a draft. i cant read what the error says because it's mixed with the text im trying to post

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

this pic says everything you need to know about me well, i guess it needs a cat

a picture of my drums in the background of my leg, which shows me wearing ulysses grant socks with white vans

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

imagine a future where you need to do laundry but you're feeling too lazy, so you ask your cats and they assemble into a superhero that gets it done for you while you chillll

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

this is the guitar I'll be playing out of it, my 60's style Les Paul Gibson sells them with a bunch of cream colored components that might make sense for squaredancing fools in Nashville, but not for me, so I replaced all of that with black components that match the black clothes Im always wearing

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

this is my Orange AD30 i cant wait to turn this thing way up once it arrives in Portland

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