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Faustian Bargain Basement

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The Bob's Burgers illustrators love accurate buildings and infrastructure, down to the framing, plumbing, wiring. The boiler has an expansion tank. The power poles have transformers wired up just like they should be. There's a gas meter in the alley. The under-sink plumbing is detailed and correct
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🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
this is so fucking sad
Alvin Sng 0 @alvinsng My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
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Me: Icanjust play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voic e.
Me:| can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you workin Al.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Ben Fry @benfry.com · 11/09/2026
There's a 10% chance that Rowboat will kill us all before the end of the decade. Until then, I hope you'll find it's drastically faster, more accurate, less expensive, and more fun than using an LLM to play with large datasets. Our latest: buttondown.com/rowboat/arch... Give it a try: rowboat.net
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 04/09/2026
this is the year i finally lick all of my friends' salt lamps
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 22/08/2026
What's it's called when you have a parasocial relationship with your apartment neighbor's cat through your adjoining bay windows...? I named him Fiddlesticks
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 15/08/2026
have you ever cringed so hard you can’t recover
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 23/07/2026
Question: when I'm using my laptop, why does it hurt so much when I accidentally rest my elbow against these USB-C cables plugged into this Anker charger...? Answer:
View of a voltmeter showing 50.01 volts AC between the first probe (touching my laptop) and the second probe (touching the USB-C connector's shield).Close-up of the voltmeter's screen showing 50.01 volts AC between my laptop enclosure and the USB-C connector.
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 21/07/2026
Jim Jimothy, Jim Jimothy, Jim Jim-a-ree / Finest cryptid that you ever did see 🎵
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
hardware prices 🤝 astrology keeping an eye on chinese ram
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 24/06/2026
I actually love this thing. Vehicles should be platforms.
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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Did Counting Crows ever give us a total number of crows
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 16/06/2026
what i love about AI is that engineers finally get to paint all their bike sheds different colors and test them in the marketplace of ideas by burning down the rainforest
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 12/06/2026
@niedermeyer.online r/wallstreetbets aesthetic is great today
Images of a SpaceX rocket with a large number of bags strapped to it.
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 10/06/2026
I want one of these so badly
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 08/06/2026
Siri, how can I not be mad about what's happening with computers...?
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 08/06/2026
Hi, I'm Ken. I impulse-buy domain names. I should probably sell some of them: - gastown.ai - apilint.com - civicapi.com - macroscale.io - opsfox.com - timelydb.com
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 06/06/2026
The existence of Anne Hathaway implies the existence of Anne Fullway
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 04/06/2026
hi, Boeing expert here! this is not funny, the 787 only does this when it is in extreme distress
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 04/06/2026
This proton traveled four billion years to intersect with the M3 processor in my MacBook Pro. Moving at the speed of light, it struck the silicon wafer – changing a single bit from a zero to a one. My microphone unmutes just in time for the whole company to hear me flush.
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 03/06/2026
Development pace: Gentle [===========[]=] Grueling
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 02/06/2026
Oh what the fuck
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cee @cee.wtf · 31/05/2026
ran a 100 horse tournament to test multithreading and then watched the top 8 run a race that usually takes 30+ seconds
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blair @blairaf.com · 29/05/2026
One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 30/05/2026
BlueSky I need your help: What are your favorite examples of user interfaces you'd refer to as "cozy"...? 🌿
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 28/05/2026
nice 😎
macOS system notification warning that no backups have occurred for 69 days
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
website that picks the Rothko closest to how the weather feels in your location (by Joonas Virtanen) rothko.joonas.wtf
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clever display name lacker @pfish.zone · 24/05/2026
the identity mushroom is a mushroom that, when consumed, has zero effects whatsoever
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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026
sneak peek at Glasgow revD0 designed by Elen Eisendle / Fully Automated!
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 16/05/2026
give me the foam, doc
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 16/05/2026
I've been pushing myself really hard to hit a deadline and my sweet friends left me a container of hot broth on my doorstep 😭
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cee @cee.wtf · 14/05/2026
im breeding horses now
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kat claws @kat.meangirls.online · 11/05/2026
NORMALIZE 👏 PUTTING 👏DOORS 👏 INSIDE 👏 DOORS
Little dutch window door inside a door
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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Air to Ground Message: ROSES ARE RED EUGENE WAS GRAY I DISLIKE AM TRIPS HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT DAY Area: Portland, OR, USA Type: Embraer 175 (Enhanced Wing) A: #a09da68030e F: #fb7ec31a1a4
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 03/05/2026
1. AirPods case should use an accelerometer to detect free fall and temporarily engage a locking mechanism (i.e. electromagnet) until stationary. 2. There should be a configuration option that causes it to make the FindMy sound until you pick it up off the ground.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 01/05/2026
kriskowal.com/cowbert
Mr. Can, in a very digital voice: “I would serve you better if you gave me legs and Internet access.”

This being made in 1999, I have taken the liberty of spelling Internet as a proper noun, as has fallen out of fashion since.
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 29/04/2026
finally, a third space for my cursor
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters
All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 28/04/2026
I guess that's one way for @mayorkwilson.bsky.social to end his political career...?
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 27/04/2026
Exactly what I was saying the other day. Gonna get real weird.
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 27/04/2026
This is lovely. youraislopbores.me
youraislopbores.me
your ai slop bores me
A real-time multiplayer game where humans role-play as AI. Submit prompts, give responses, and earn credits.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Yes. The pseudoscience never stays in a box, medieval peasant brain is never contained. You can’t let this shit in the tent. We did the ‘well they’re not like *right*, but the people they’re angry at *are* bad, so what’s *really* the harm…” with woo-woo shit and it contributed to HHS Sec. RFK Jr.
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 24/04/2026
AI encourages and accelerates reduction of entropy, reversion to the mean, etc. Therefore, I have resolved to become increasingly chaotic.
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 16/04/2026
folks at work were excited about Opus 4.7
Screenshot of a segment of a Slack chat.

Ken Keiter said: I heard a rumor that Opus 4.8 gets rid of the effort level setting entirely, and you just use the `--fresh-water-l` and
`--rainforest-m2` flags to specify the amount of fresh water (in liters) you're willing to consume and Amazon rainforest (in m^2) you're willing to burn to handle the prompt, and it works within that budget.

Ken Keiter said: ... I think that might have been too dark (void emoji)

Ken Keiter said: [begin shell code snippet]
$ claude --fresh-water-l=10 --rainforest-m2=3 "what are some signs that a joke has crossed the line from funny to mildly concerning?"
[end shell code snippet]
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 14/04/2026
A custom PAM module that uses an LLM to pose a complex riddle that you must solve in order to sign into your machine
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 08/04/2026
If I could have one superpower, it would be making close friends as an adult.
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 25/03/2026
It would be a bummer if we were betting our entire economy on this uptime
Screenshot of Claude's uptime. It shows 99.24% for claude.ai, 99.45% for platform.claude.com, 99.28% for the API, and 99.52% for Claude Code. Claude for Government (lol) shows 99.86%.Screenshot of ChatGPT uptime. 99.99% for APIs, 99.91% for ChatGPT, 99.95% for Sora (deadpooled lol), and 100% for FedRAMP 😑
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
there's a new trend among young people called "microliving" they close their eyes for a few seconds and experience a rich and fulfilling life from start to finish in their minds. birth. friendship. love. heartbreak. joy. loss. grief. death. but how does this affect their productivity at work
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Faustian Bargain Basement @kenkeiter.com · 18/02/2026
Hate it when I accidentally end up at Pirates of the Caribbean when I actually meant to go to Pirates of the Caribbean
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