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I knowwww Currently looking like my dumb ass is going to be in frigid freaking Finland sorting shit out

It really is wild how close we are coming to the literal premise of Cyberpunk as a genre, where corporations slurp data of all kinds and bank it.

Jesus Christ. And I say that as an enjoyer (up until now) of the lime Liquid Death

From the TopCharacterTropes community on Reddit: (Interesting Trope):She was right there, idiot!/Open your eyes, idiot!

www.reddit.com/r/TopCharact... Oh my God this actually has upvotes. Like, what an absolutely brain dead reading of Obsession to begin with. I beg these people please read something other than Harry Potter and Marvel comics. For fuck's sake.

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Instead of the sound effect of a pill bottle shaking when healing, it's just an inhalation of opium

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Seriously? No kidding. What an absolute weird connection.

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Why do US sports show percentages as decimals? Like in the Falcons/Saints game they just said the hosts have a "win pct" of .625 Like, why not 62.5? What am I missing here?

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"every single punk rock band, not only punk rock, every rock musician except Nicki Minaj and Kid Rock" is how I parse that

This is a feature of the Chicago Transit authority too. The city lets itself down by not controlling antisocial behavior, leading to people looking down on transit, and thus the managed decline loop keeps spinning. It's shameful. They wouldn't let that fly in NYC.

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I love a little corretto

Apparently they're national buys meaning they air in that slot no matter what game may be airing locally in each market (including the various Texas ones) bsky.app/profile/xmrn...

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Ah that would make sense. So that whatever game Texans are watching in Texas, they're getting that one

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I'm confused. I'm watching an NFL game with two non-Texas teams (Bears vs Jets) on over-the-air TV, and they're airing Texas political ads. Have they mistakenly thrown in budget for nationwide advertising?

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Hmmm Should include ginger beer in some way

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yep, I mentioned we were headed that way, he said he used to work there and then ... "Hold on, this time last year, was it you who gave us the half bottle?"

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this is by far the best "I quit my AI job over safety concerns" essay yet because it is the first one that is able to talk about safety concerns in practical terms and that understands "safety" as a topic with extensive literature in analogous fields www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Two changes are urgently needed. First: AI companies need to rely more on the safety expertise that already exists in other fields. And second, before we create systems significantly more capable than the ones we have today, we need new science to ensure that more capable models (and their successors) will make safe choices when we aren’t looking.

Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster. Right now, AI companies don’t know how—but other people do. In a nuclear-power plant, the technical systems and rules people follow are set up so that, if equipment breaks or someone pushes the wrong button, we still won’t risk a meltdown. OpenAI and other labs are growing and deploying frontier AI with far less redundancy and rigor than this, even though the harm from an irreversible loss of control would be much greater than the harm from any single meltdown. Even short of a full loss of control, we could see autonomous swarms of AI agents that act without human permission. Imagine “rogue” agents that work like teams of hackers (for example, holding hospital computer systems for ransom) but never need to sleep.

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Think before. Did you catch that the guy I was talking to was my bartender at Bramhall last year, whom I gave the rest of the bottle to?

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That said, of COURSE someone lights up at the end of the carriage when I still have 6 spots to go

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Brb working on a cocktail idea called Dark and Stormy Daniels

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I know people rag on the taxiing times at ORD but generally if I'm landing here I only have to get my ass on the train and then home, so a bit of a run about the taxiways isn't the biggest deal.

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mine only had the first one... Where the heist is DVD players!

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Slides for my #monktoberfest talk today, "Execution in the Kingdom of Agents: Reflections on Abstraction and Complexity"; video to come! speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/ex...

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Execution in the Kingdom of Agents: Reflections on Abstraction and Complexity

Talk I gave at Monktoberfest 2026; video to come!

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I love the fact that this Monktoberfest I have added two more people to the list of introducing them to Jerk City and get a confused "wait, are you saying this is the same Rands as Rands of Rands in Repose/RLS?" Yes, yes it is.

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"If we leave LLMs to their own devices, we risk systems that collapse under the weight of their accreted complexity To make effective use of LLMs, our (human!) abstractions are more important than ever - and the code very much still matters!" Preach, @bcantrill.bsky.social ! #monktoberfest

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"Abstractions and complexity in the LLM age Complexity has always been the enemy of systems - and it is simple to make the system complicated! LLMs are extraordinarily powerful - but they are a tool" - @bcantrill.bsky.social #monktoberfest

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You can't turn up with that cheese roll T-shirt to Monktoberfest and not expect that to happen

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I already know the answer to this one, #monktoberfest: EVERYTHING

“What Technologists Owe Creatives”
By Joey Carpinelli

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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 01/10/2026

"I have been told that women's pain is normal" - @missamarakay.bsky.social #monktoberfest

Amara Kay standing at a lectern, microphone in hand

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Something I’ve learned over the last decade and a half of attending #monktoberfest: The ones and zeros in technology are secondary to the humans behind them. Empathy is the most powerful and most important product the industry can build.

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Laurence @piewords.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Systemic and structural problems cannot be some individually. But collectives have to gather somewhere. Where do communities organize? - @rude1.blacksky.team #monktoberfest

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And now Rudy Fraser, @rude1.blacksky.team, is talking about Blacksky. From a Bluesky community, to a stream, and now an app. Going to be a cool story. #Monktoberfest

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"What if changing the world looked more like care than war?" - Rebecca Solnit, via @ericksoen.bsky.social #monktoberfest

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It's a deeply human thing to discount the future. "It's much easier to prioritize solutions after a bad thing happens, than to convince senior management to prioritize resilience work in advance" #monktoberfest

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Oh hi, I have to write everything down and check them off as I collect them

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When I had @ericksoen.bsky.social message me he would be coming to #monktoberfest I had no idea he would be speaking!!

How to build a bike bus... Everything worthwhile is done with others

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Is that what you call your walking pad

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This is genuinely one of those things I, as a European, find actually worrisome. They want more butts in seats, more green activity statuses. Less working with mind clarity consciousness.

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Taking micro breaks is important, 10 minutes of movement for every hour of sitting. Any kind of movement is helpful. - Kim Lloyd However, with all the Big Brother work machine monitoring software watching EVERYTHING, is that actually feasible in the US in TYOOL2026? Like genuinely? #monktoberfest

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