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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 15h
To be fair, before AI they constantly argued that no one but them is writing code correctly.
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If I was just a little more condescending, I'd start a web series where I sit down with someone who thinks LLMs are inherently harmful, help them install one on their laptop, and then we sit and wait for it to do something harmful on it's own. 30 minutes of uncomfortable silence. "Any moment now..."
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
And it’s dazzle camouflage will give it an edge over U-boats
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Sounds like a modern version of “You can have a second computer once you’ve shown you know how to use the first one.” –Paul Barham
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FuzzWolf 🏳️‍🌈 @fuzzwolf.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.
Centered text reads “The sky above
the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel”

Below are 3 versions of the same cityscape labeled 1985, 2005, 2025 with the background changing from grey static, to solid blue, to streaming service logos.
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Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
War is the continuation of sports betting by other means
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The average user who leaves doesn’t want to read daily Discworld quotes, and we are better off without them.
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Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"In the most extreme case, our model achieved the top rank on a standard chest X-ray question-answering benchmark without access to any images." Well this isn't good 😮 arxiv.org/abs/2603.21687
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MIRAGE: The Illusion of Visual Understanding
Multimodal AI systems have achieved remarkable performance across a broad range of real-world tasks, yet the mechanisms underlying visual-language reasoning remain surprisingly poorly understood. We r...
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This is true, but only if the infrastructure to support it is in place. Automatic deployments, monitoring, automated testing, feature flags, etc.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The dog’s quiet.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I want my kids to play the claw machine so that they don’t get addicted to slot machines. The claw machine is so obviously rigged as to be an instructional tool.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
So instead of Terminator style Doomsday, the robots are just going to be really passive aggressive to us? It could be worse. Which is good because I curse out the Walgreens telephone robot until it gets a human for me.
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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 01/02/2026
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
If you’re cold; they’re cold. Please take your pets inside.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Saints fans hate Tampa and Carolina a healthy amount. The hatred for Atlanta is entirely unhealthy.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Pandora’s Box is just sitting forgotten on the metaphorical shelf of metaphors.
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
excuse me?!
an email from Nilay Patel, my editor in chief:

We are holding CHIPWRECKED
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Nilay Patel
7:56 AM (2 minutes ago)
to Elizabeth

Elizabeth - as I’m sure you know by now, I have decided to hold your piece on Nvidia, GPU depreciation, and the fundamental instability of the AI economy, which we have tentatively titled CHIPWRECKED. 

To run a story on this subject, we need to do more. And this is The Verge. We need to be able to get a GPU on the record. That is my North Star: talking to computer components like they are alive and asking if they fear death. Please do the fucking news.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I’ve had sweet “cornbread” that tasted great. But I wouldn’t dunk it in chili, therefore it wasn’t cornbread but corncake.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
What’s funny about the Disney YoutubeTV fight is that Disney probably doesn’t realize no one at Google is paying attention. They deployed YoutubeTV, earned their promotions, and moved on to the next product.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
That table deserves nothing less.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 08/09/2025
"yes bro eat excel take it away" - a tiny tortoise is trying to eat the green excel logo from the task bar of a pc.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Of course. It’s a Honda.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I snorted.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Yeah. The font seems more modern than the real answer.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
1989
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I think Altman assumes that “PhD-level expert” means someone who speaks confidently on everything as opposed to saying “it’s nuanced,” losing their keys, and getting maniacally fixated on their current topic to the point of seeing it in everything.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
This is a sci fi future we were promised.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/07/2025
3. Your small dog should get training. Yes, that dog in particular.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
You need to start using it in the cringiest ways you can. Rob the word of its power. Like setting a controlled burn ahead of a forest fire.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
2 indexes! The “If I had a nickel for every time. I’d only have two, but it’s weird that it happened twice” meme applies here.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Steely Dan was right: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvz0...
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Only A Fool Would Say That
YouTube video by Steely Dan - Topic
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I remember using the cigarette vending machine for my mom. That’s right there used to be cigarette vending machines.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
It’s pretty hard to determine that a random bit of code won’t lose data, get hacked, or summon nasal demons.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Software too! I know software engineering is the one profession everyone is ok with AI replacing, but there’s a huge difference between software that looks like it works and software that actually works.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Reconstruction 2: Electric Boogaloo
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I think it’s another version of “show don’t tell”. Show me the moral within the story; don’t tell me and take me out of the story. The kids cartoon thing works (to the extent it does work) because it’s usually at the end of the episode and is summarizing the episode’s message.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
He can maybe bribe enough of the cabinet into using the 25th amendment. They hate him but they don’t hate money
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Thanks
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Do you have a link to the turtle ramp? Our idiot (pictured) would love that.
A leopard Gecko with solid yellow coloring is perched halfway up a small white rock.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Tim Apple failed the Lando test.
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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Oh my god. This is art: www.reddit.com/r/Experience...
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From the ExperiencedDevs community on Reddit: My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insane
Explore this post and more from the ExperiencedDevs community
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Wait what!? Fully admit that I haven’t been paying attention to him in a while, but that seems really out of character.
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
art blakey for all your friday needs youtu.be/fsJ3JjpZyoA?...
youtu.be
Moanin'
YouTube video by Art Blakey - Topic
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I didn’t even have to press play to hear that opening piano.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Just waiting for someone to get twisted into knots arguing that Churchill wasn’t a tory.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
There’s always sinkholes.
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