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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 22/09/2026

"🚨 BREAKING: TRUST ME BRO THIS WEEK THEYRE RELEASING OPUS 6.2 WITH 'DOUBLESPACE' TOKEN COMPRESSION"

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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 21/09/2026

I am unfortunately writing something that has a 100% chance of getting HN front page

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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 19/09/2026

I resigned from Westinghouse Electric Company today. I spend the last three years researchign alternating current at both Edison and Thomas-Houston. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to high-voltage arc lighting and gambling with our lives.

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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 17/09/2026

The air has turned cooler. Bees are still out. #mnwx

A large sunflower dominates the foreground, its bright yellow petals fully opened around a dark brown seeded center, with visible pollen and a bee visible on the disk. The flower sits on a hairy green stem amid leafy foliage. In the soft-focused background, a residential driveway leads toward a house with a reddish-brown roof, framed by tall green trees under a partly cloudy sky. Smaller sunflowers and buds are visible at the frame edges, suggesting an abundant garden planting.

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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 16/09/2026

Have these freaked out Anthropic researchers tried asking AI to play several rounds of tic tac toe?

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 08/09/2026

My front porch is my favorite location at the MN State Fair. Heck, my front porch is my favorite location at Burning Man.

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 28/08/2026

For years now, if someone has spoken of "Rich Dad Poor Dad" favorably, I have chalked them up as having defective bullshit detectors. www.vanityfair.com/story/the-...

Screenshot of a Vanity Fair magazine article headlined in large serif type: "Poor Dad Author Goes Bust: How Robert Kiyosaki Went Into Debt, to the Tune of $1.2 Billion," (with "Poor Dad" in italics). A thin horizontal line appears beneath the headline. The overall background is black with white text. The image above the headline is a composite photo showing an older Asian man in the foreground (Robert Kiyosaki) wearing glasses and a pinstriped suit, smiling and holding a microphone in one hand and a copy of his book "Rich Dad Poor Dad" in the other. Behind him is a faded black-and-white vintage family portrait showing a man in glasses, a woman, and a young child seated.

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Chaos @shed.gay · 22/08/2026

This has been on of those posts which has lived in my head rent free to the point that when I DJ'd last month I made sure to reference it, I'm not sure if anyone at #EMFcamp got the joke or not but it was for me so that's not the point.

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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 17/08/2026

A great dry day in August #mnwx

A weathered white barn with a red metal gabled roof and peeling paint, marked with the date "1850" and a small metal star on its front gable. The barn has a pair of wooden double doors and small square windows, with a decorative windmill and a black-and-white cow lawn ornament near the entrance. Tall shrubs and vines partially obscure the lower half of the building, with large deciduous trees surrounding it and a gray two-story house visible in the background to the left. The sky is clear blue, and a paved path curves through the grassy foreground.

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 14/08/2026

Oops I started listening through Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell again

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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 12/08/2026

Mike Lindell, I just want to say you have every right to continue your run as an independent and I would support you doing so 🤡

Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 07/08/2026

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every time one of these stories does the rounds and you think "man did more people REALLY watch the new spiderman than JAWS?", the answer is always "lmao absolutely not"

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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 03/08/2026

Mississippi River dams on a Sunday evening #mnwx

Three teenage boys, silhouetted, walk and fish along a rocky riverbed in the foreground, one carrying a fishing rod and another holding an orange bucket. Behind them, water cascades over a low dam spanning the river, with a pedestrian bridge bearing a "Danger Keep 300 Feet Away" sign running above it. Trees line the far bank, and the sky glows with a hazy, golden late-afternoon light.

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

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A mature community is like a wonderfully mature fruit tree. It gives shade and comfort, food and even stability to the very soil that we walk on. You have to start investing in it when it's nothing and keep on tending it. And eventually you can sit in its branches, lean and rest on it.

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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 23/07/2026

For everyone who saw me on Twitter in 2008, pretty sure I’m not so bad anymore

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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 19/07/2026

Thank god for a breeze for the championship game, Lions Park in Golden Valley #mnwx

A wide, sunlit view of a youth softball complex on a clear summer day, shot from behind a chain-link fence at the edge of a grass field. In the middle distance, two teams of girls in bright pink jerseys are lined up along the infield dirt, filing past each other in a post-game handshake line; several wear batting helmets and carry gloves. A man in a red T-shirt and gray shorts walks along the baseline near them, and adults in pink shirts stand at either end of the line.

On the left is a green-roofed dugout shelter with a yellow sign about a senior scholarship program; parents and children cluster around it with tote bags, coolers, and cardboard boxes. A woman in a white tank top, dark shorts, and a cap walks across the grass in the foreground toward the camera. At the right, near the fence, two adults stand watching while a young girl in a light dress walks along the grass.

Beyond the field, rows of parked cars, pop-up canopy tents, and additional ball diamonds stretch across the complex, bordered by a dense line of green trees and a tall light standard. The sky is bright blue with a few wispy clouds, and leafy tree branches hang into the upper right corner of the frame. Two bare dirt patches, likely warm-up or practice areas, sit in the grass in the foreground.

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 16/07/2026

Wildfire smoke everywhere #mnwx

A wide, empty rural road under a hazy orange-tinted sky, the color suggesting wildfire smoke or heavy smog. The sun appears as a pale, dimmed white disk in the upper left, muted enough to look at directly through the thick haze. Three orange traffic cones with reflective white bands are spaced out along the worn asphalt, marking a line down the road; the nearest cone in the foreground has a torn or damaged reflective stripe. Yellow center lines and a white edge line divide the road. Beyond the road is a strip of green grass, a set of railroad tracks, and a dense line of leafy green trees. A cell tower rises above the treeline in the distance, its details softened by the haze. Patches of gravel, dirt, and scattered branches line the road's edge in the foreground, with tufts of grass in the lower right corner.

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 13/07/2026

None of the articles about Lindsey Graham’s sister say anything about her qualifications for taking over his Senate seat, possibly because she has none.

Screenshot of Wikipedia entry for Darline Graham Nordone taken today, notably thin on work history or accomplishments: "By 2002, Graham Nordone had appeared in a television advertisement for Lindsey's campaign in that year's U.S. Senate election in South Carolina. She continued to assist in her brother's subsequent campaigns, discussing her childhood in 2014 and 2026. Graham Nordone additionally supported her brother's campaign for President of the United States in the 2016 election.

"By 2008, she had worked in the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department. She helped coordinate a work-from-home program for Time Warner."

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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 13/07/2026

There's a "dang hot outside" warning for the next 3 days. #mnwx

A sunlit park lawn on a clear summer day beneath a deep, cloudless blue sky that fills the upper half of the frame. Bright green mown grass stretches across the foreground. Scattered across the lawn are several picnic sets made of pale, rough-hewn tan stone — chunky rectangular tabletops on thick pedestal bases with matching stone benches. One set sits near the center, another to the right, and two more toward the left, one of them beside a low stone retaining wall and a weathered wooden fence at the far left edge. A row of tall, dark blue-green spruce trees forms the treeline across the middle distance, mixed with leafy deciduous trees, a drooping willow, and a small young sapling. At the right edge, a large cottonwood-like tree with silvery, shimmering leaves rises out of frame, its branches reaching across the sky. Thin power lines cross the sky at the upper left. The light is strong and directional, casting shadows to the right and giving the scene a quiet, empty, midday stillness — no people are visible.

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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 10/07/2026

Hot and dry, coming up on Whiz Bang Days #mnwx

A large cylindrical light-gray water tower or storage tank dominates the right side of the frame, its base ringed with panel seams and fitted with a curved white pipe near the ground. Slender black lamp posts stand around its base and out in the grassy field, one topped with a cluster of floodlights. A paved walking path curves across the middle of the scene, separating a broad lawn dotted with dandelions in the foreground from a line of full green deciduous and evergreen trees behind. A small red fire hydrant sits in the grass beside the path. In the lower left, ornamental grasses and a border of gray landscaping stones edge the lawn. Above, a bright blue sky is filled with large white puffy clouds, indicating a clear summer day.

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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 05/07/2026

Crazy sky to end a July 4th evening of thunderstorms and fireworks going off all over the neighborhood. #mnwx

Three people stand at a residential street corner beneath a spectacular sunset sky filled with vivid pink and coral clouds. A woman in a green dress holding a phone talks with a girl with long wavy hair wearing a light t-shirt and shorts, while a boy in a striped shirt in the foreground gazes off toward the glowing horizon. The wet road beside them reflects the sunset's pink and orange light. A street sign reading "44½ Ave N" and a stop sign mark the corner, with a silver pickup truck parked in a driveway and silhouetted trees framing the fiery sky.

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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 24/06/2026

I'm not sure if this was a smart idea or what

Partial screenshot of a web page notification saying "soolidworks.com was successfully registered" (note the extra 'o')

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 18/06/2026

Joel's Pocketknife: when someone says they could talk all day about something, they've usually just run out of things to say about it.

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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 15/06/2026

It's the middle of June and the weather is generically, blandly good. #mnwx

A lush summer park scene under a partly cloudy blue sky. In the background at left, a tall white water tower rises above the treeline, its bulbous tank labeled “Robbinsdale” in blue lettering and bordered by a dark blue band where the tank meets the slender supporting column. The middle and far ground are filled with dense, leafy green trees of varying types, including feathery conifers, a willow-like tree with drooping branches, and full deciduous canopies. In the foreground, drooping evergreen boughs frame the left and upper edges of the image. The lower left shows a small, still pond surrounded by thick green underbrush and reeds, while the right side opens onto a sunlit, neatly mowed lawn dotted with dappled shade. A slender young tree with a thin trunk stands on the grass at right. The overall impression is verdant, peaceful, and bright with midday sunlight.

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 13/06/2026

Looks like my plan to skip macOS Tahoe completely will pay off.

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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 11/06/2026

The AI social scene has much the same energy now that blogging did in 2004. In 20 years it may have the same energy that blogging now has in 2026.

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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 05/06/2026

I am taking my pre-teen kids to the Amazing Digital Circus theatrical release this afternoon. I have really no idea how faithful the ending will be to the source material. Potential is there for a theater full of young children being freaked out by a radically horrific and scarring finale

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 31/05/2026

I need the Spotify icon to just go back to the normal one already

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 20/05/2026

I live in a time where I can finally create the ideal tools, tools that "disappear" leaving only results, and by the time the tool is finished I have disappeared into it

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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 05/05/2026

"Oomphalism does not demand belief, only accord." ✏️ joeldueck.com/oomphalism.html

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Oomphalism

Naming the corporate mode of perception

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 28/04/2026

Budding leaves, and the clink of the softball bats. #mnwx

A single set of railroad tracks recedes into the distance under a bright blue sky with wispy clouds, photographed from ground level near a road crossing. The gravel-lined tracks run through a small town in what appears to be early spring, flanked by large deciduous trees just beginning to leaf out in pale green. To the left of the tracks sits a metal utility or signal box on a sandy, gravelly shoulder, with a chain-link fence and a white industrial building visible beyond it. To the right, a grassy strip separates the tracks from a road lined with homes and utility poles. A small puddle reflects light near the bottom right of the frame. The overall scene conveys a quiet, flat midwestern town on a sunny spring day.

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 28/04/2026

Taking a risk and wearing my Jeb! 2016 hoodie on a walk. I could be run down in the street and I'm honestly not sure which side would have gotten me first

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 12/04/2026

It's funny, MAGA leaders have always idolized Orbán's movement. Seems it never occurred to them the feeling was so non-mutual.

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 11/04/2026

I installed Bun and it was installed in .bun/bin/bun

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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 08/04/2026

Finally wrote the post I’ve had in my head for over a year. Actors in the 60s showed us how to respond to the massive coming AI displacement: opcraft.co/writing/2026...

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Hollywood in the 60s and the Good AI Future — Joel Dueck / Opcraft

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 30/03/2026

The $1800 Dell laptop I just sourced for a client gets a Browser Speedometer 3.1 score of 26. The $600 MacBook Neo I just tried at Target scored 53.

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 28/03/2026

It's a beautiful day for fascists to disappear and die #mnwx

A large protest crowd fills the lawn in front of the Minnesota State Capitol on a bright winter day, with the white domed capitol building rising behind them under a clear blue sky. In the foreground, people in hats and coats hold American and Minnesota flags, handmade signs, and a few large blue and dark flags; one sign reads “NO KING,” another says “ICE OUT.” A stage with big screens stands near the building, and leafless trees frame the packed scene.

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 22/03/2026

My "doing taxes" strategy is: do a first pass as quickly as possible with all the info I can gather, don't fuss about getting everything right. Then I leave it alone for a week or a month. Then I go through it again with a fresh brain, fill in the gaps and double check everything before filing.

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 16/03/2026

Twelve inches of fine wet snow. Months from now people will still be possibly able to remember the Highly Adequate Blizzard of '26 #mnwx

A quiet residential yard at night after a fresh snowfall, the ground covered in smooth unbroken snow that glitters faintly under a bright streetlamp. Snow blows diagonally across the scene in dense streaks, partially veiling bare trees, a utility pole, and the dark outlines of neighboring houses and garages, giving the whole image a cold, hushed, wintry glow.

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 12/03/2026

Just finished my last bag of moss tea I bought in Reykjavíc. It was mouthy and kinda terrible but it was special to me.

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 11/03/2026

I'm seeing more and more America. people talking about not paying taxes as a form of protest. And I have to say because I don't see anyone else saying it: that is just a really really bad idea. Please for your own sake if nothing else, file your return and pay your taxes.

Joel D @joeldueck.com · 27/02/2026

Shout out to the engineers who decided that the capacity of the windshield wiper fluid container on all cars shall be 1 gallon less five tablespoons

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Joel D @joeldueck.com · 24/02/2026

If you don't right this minute have a favorite suffragette, study up and pick one now before you get asked about it