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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

tbf the crew of the original Alien is the equivalent of a shipping vessel crew and basically one step up from a warehouse loading job are you going to tell me your moving crew doesn't have one guy that absolutely would do this unprompted

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We only really get one big reset though, and after that our special status is forever lost. Goose, golden eggs, ...

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As the debt increases, the proportion of the federal budget spent on debt service increases. The higher the debt, the bigger a percentage of your tax money gets paid to bond holders rather than funding Medicare or whatever. Next up: why not just print even more money?

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ship a live service game with loot box microtransactions

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It is a very cool drawing! I quite like it. It illustrates the vast gulf between the cheap slop Google tries to jam down every search result, and the quality you get after the $200 plan works for a minute with an ultra model. I hate the former. I am quite happy with the latter.

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

>we must race ahead so less responsible actors don't get there first

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Curiosity is a pretty good indicator of intelligence in my experience. They go hand in hand.

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You have a self driving carriage!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i think the closest analogy to 'what is going on at AI companies' is 'what was going on at JPL in the 1950s,' where communists, Satanists, swingers and adherents of a bizarre Russian Orthodox-adjacent techno-optimist microsect ended up doing a tremendous amount of important rocket science

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Francisco González @grundislav.games · 14/09/2026

As we passed this building, @jesshaskins.bsky.social remarked, “I think a level designer lives here.”

The outside of an apartment building with bright yellow gates, window bars, and a fire escape. The gate and bars feature pointing arrows.

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Where do you go if you don't want to see line drawing art? Where do you go if you don't want to see art about cars? If someone calls something art, it's art to them.

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The solution to the flock problem of "these are cameras that take public pictures of public places" is to give everybody access to the same tools, and exempt nobody (especially not government officials) from getting searched. Sunlight is the best disinfectant!

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thatgirlinsb @34thparallel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Protesters at the Irish Open. shitler’s international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland. Thank you, Doonbeg!

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Every goddamn thing is spam and frauds. Every phone call, every email, every mail, every website, every post. You can't use anything without being on guard for almost all of it to be malicious junk. Even the messages I am beamed directly from God have turned out to be fraudulent.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 13/09/2026

Humans are capable of recursive self-improvement. TESCREAL talks about a "singularity"— a machine that learns to self-improve without limit. Using their terms, I sincerely believe the slow-takeoff singularity occurred in 3000 BCE when primates invented writing, which lets us make ourselves smarter.

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Internet is stuck at a high school sophomore level of rational analysis. It's not able to appreciate "the death of the author," much less "post modernism." Still, it has its uses.

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There's a difference between liking art, and giving money to people, and that difference changes at the point the artist dies. Liking a painting by Hitler today doesn't actively support the Third Reich. Buying a book by Rowling today does support TERFdom. But you can still like the art.

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The S&P 500 measures nothing of the sort, for a whole host of reasons. How about comparing to inflation adjusted GDP, which is the actual measurement of that very thing? Like, I believe the underlying problem, but a bad argument for a good cause is actually bad!

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

No, the problem is that the index gain is a cumulative value (an integral) but the wages are a rate (a derivative) If someone had accumulated their wages since 2000, they would now be left with about 2800% of the first year wages.

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The two numbers are "600%" and "12.5%" and they are put right next to each other, despite measuring using two different yard sticks. (To be really accurate, they don't even measure the same thing, so I don't even see why they are being compared.)

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 08/09/2026

With today's Tiny Factory release the Tiny-series has 840+ sprites/tiles and they're all free. Combine them together to create a ton of different games! kenney.nl/assets/serie...

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Why are you watering down the argument by not inflation adjusting the SP500 gains? Obvious fudges like that massively weaken your argument and make me distrust you!

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Write it in a vellum book locked away in chains

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Those are not the only options. I mean, maybe you're a Nazi?

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Operations Skills: PRIMARILY KAFKA AND CASSANDRA BUT I CAN MAKE ANY SORT OF PREDICTION AND HAVE IT IGNORED BY ANY TYPE OF BUREAUCRACY

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Again, what is the threat model? What measurable harm will you suffer by Google breaking their own rules and losing all their enterprise customers?

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Talking about what is shippable quality in a video game. Me: "everything is shippable if you're not a coward"

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Is that "someone" Google? I trust them to adhere to their terms. Is that someone the feds? They'll backdoor my laptop if they think I'm a security threat. Like, what's the threat model here, and why is it worth the cost and time suck to mitigate?

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just explaining why taking the foot off the gas earlier won't work for me, even if I could do it!

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is with "auto hold" brakes -- the gas is what starts the engine. If I press the gas half a second earlier, then that's dangerous in the cases the engine didn't yet stop. It's the latency jitter that's bad!

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

What happens is: 1 stop at a stop sign 2 wait for clear traffic 3 engine stops to avoid wasting gas on idling 4 there's an opening 5 press gas pedal to merge into it 6 nothing happens for half a second because the engine needs to restart Luckily, electric doesn't have this problem at all :-)

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I agree with some of those concepts, if not with the framing. It doesn't have to be either/or.

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

You've got the implication backwards! He's building satellites and AI because he believes that's what will bring utopia And the rockets were a necessary prerequisite to the satellites. (Previously, though, he said the satellites were a way to finance the rockets, so that some day: Mars!)

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Oh I see. Yeah that "default to turn off" is terrible. It allegedly saves gas but it also makes start from red much slower and makes "merge after stop" less predictable.

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

What injury, exactly, am I suffering because of this scan, compared to anti-virus or anti-spam scans?

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