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Joshua Timberman

@jtimberman.name
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Code Cleric, Human Advocate. "AI" is sophisticated autocomplete that can use tools. Hobbies: World of Warcraft and Magic the Gathering. Professional interests and contact information: jtimberman.name

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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 27/09/2026
He’s a good cat.
Tuxedo cat lounging in a chair with one front leg dangling
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 05/07/2026
I thought I wasn't patriotic, but my wife swears I'm one of the most patriotic people she knows because I believe in democracy, I believe that this experiment we embarked upon 250 years ago is worthwhile. Just because there's a bunch of fascist assholes in charge right now doesn't mean we give up.
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 05/07/2026
Happy bday, USA. I've come to hate fireworks.
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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 04/07/2026
New blog post: synthesis is harder than analysis surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/07/03/s...
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Synthesis is harder than analysis
Over the years, mathematicians, logicians and computer scientists have developed various calculi. If you have a background in computer science, you’ve likely heard of the lambda calculus, a m…
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 04/07/2026
Did you ever write Infrastructure as Code? Configuration Management? Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or stupid shell scripts? Read this. webframp.com/posts/you-we...
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You Were Never Declaring State. You Were Observing By Hand.
What changes when your agent can observe reality instead of reading your notes about it
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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 13/06/2026
everything said by anthropic should be treated as a marketing campaign unless proven otherwise
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 15/05/2026
Claude is just a sophisticated ETL.
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 05/05/2026
So I have little/no exposure/use of GraphQL. But apparently it came out of Facebook? So apparently everyone thought that was a perfect idea.
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 28/04/2026
If you thought adjusting the layout of a web page by modifying and tweaking CSS was hilariously bad before, just wait until you try and get Claude to do it for you.
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Steve Postman 🇨🇦 @steve1970peng.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Eisenhower
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 23/02/2026
Burning both ends. And the middle too. hbu?
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 18/02/2026
Until it’s too late
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 18/02/2026
But no one reached out.
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 18/02/2026
Fucking autocorrect. I’m not okay.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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scare-cadus (is this anything) 🎃 @birdapp.rip · 15/02/2026
the Black Panthers were right
IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK 
JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS.
WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK.
AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE.
SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS.
THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES.
IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 31/01/2026
Computers
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 31/01/2026
Reminder that AI is marketing. From Claude:
I asked Claude if it can learn, and that the I in AI (intelligence) presumes ability to learn new things. Claude says AI is marketing, it has already been trained on the models, and it's really just a pattern matching engine that can use tools.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 03/01/2026
Jesus fucking Christ. What a year already.
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 04/12/2025
I get it, Kubernetes is dope if you have services you want to run A LOT OF with varying needs for resource constraints, scheduling, etc. It's utter shit if you have a few one off things to run that don't change much, or need to manage state in themselves.
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 28/11/2025
I counted it up the last time I saw KMFDM, I’ve seen them 13 times, in three different states.
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 28/11/2025
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to: KMFDM KMFDM (or, Violent Femmes} KMFDM (or, VNV Nation) KMFDM (or, BT) KMFDM (or, New Order)
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Weird how many racists like to self-identify themselves as racists.
Screenshot of a Colorado Republicans tweet discouraging people from patronizing a coffee shop with a sign up saying they refuse to serve racists and bigots.
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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 10/11/2025
I hate how accurate this is
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 05/11/2025
Did it not occur to anyone that vibe coding is AI driven development, or "ADD"? Cmon now.
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 02/11/2025
Me in 27 minutes
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
a trans girl in college committed suicide days ago amid discrimination against her easily tied to this administration’s policies. npr and other media should cover that too
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RBAC Fan Account @cdemwell.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I will fight anyone who maintains that spreadsheets are not programming systems. Excel is the most popular functional programming system in the world. Heck, the most popular of any programming system.
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 17/10/2025
white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...
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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 16/10/2025
PLATFORM ENGINEERING IS AN IMPLEMENTATION OF DEVOPS PRACTICES AND PRINCIPLES, IT ISN'T A COMPETITION AND IF YOU THINK IT IS I QUESTION HOW MUCH YOU UNDERSTAND ABOUT WHAT DEVOPS IS AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 15/10/2025
Coworker: "Yeah, we're going to use the community postfix cookbook, but weren't sure if that's the right thing to do here... do you think that's okay Joshua?" Me: "Yeah, should be fine... I wrote it."
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/10/2025
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 10/10/2025
You don't have to be a dad nor capable of being a "dad" to tell a dad joke. You only need to tell a joke that causes someone in earshot to facepalm, groan, or simiarly react.
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 30/09/2025
OH "I wonder if anyone has create a Confluence FUSE..." "You mean to mount Confluence as a Filesystem?" "Yes, that!"
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 30/09/2025
In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Unfair comparison because greatness? Explain your nuanced approach
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
This whole section really.
Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 29/09/2025
Had brunch with the kiddo this weekend. He’s doing well. He enjoyed the GF breakfast bagels.
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Both sides!
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
It feels so fucking insane to be scolded about how leftists need to tone down our rhetoric while the world's richest man endorses this shit
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Both sides? Explain your nuanced approach
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 30/06/2025
Just put it in hadoop
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 05/06/2025
docker is a virus change my mind
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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 01/05/2025
At least work is going well. Everything else is utter and complete shit.
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