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Korny

@korny.sietsma.com
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Aussie tech person moved to the UK. Parent, tree hugger, coder. Principal engineer at Liberis, ex-Thoughtworks Pronouns He/Him. korny.info

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Korny @korny.sietsma.com · 01/08/2026
New short blog post on re-building my MPD player tools using modern Claude and native rust, not toolkits: blog.korny.info/2026/08/01/r...
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Revisiting rust and Claude for personal tools
I’m not doing a lot of large-scale AI coding at the moment, but I’m still tinkering on side projects when i can. I had fun revisiting an old problem this week, which turned into a nice illustration o...
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Korny @korny.sietsma.com · 21/03/2026
I love this - daily good news data visualizations. Because it's not good to just focus on the bad stuff! informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/
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Beautiful News
Unseen trends, uplifting stats, creative solutions — a new chart every day. From Information is Beautiful.
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Korny @korny.sietsma.com · 13/03/2026
So annoying that I have to load Bluesky in a VPN to see who sent me a chat message, because of our bizarre UK age verification rules. (It was only a bot anyway)
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
cant.stop.laughing
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Work Chronicles @workchronicles.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
(comic) Data Loophole
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Korny @korny.sietsma.com · 25/01/2026
I thought I'd blog about why I've stopped reading Twitter/X posts, even when 'anonymised': blog.korny.info/2026/01/25/r...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/01/2026
Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants
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Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants
WASHINGTON—In a statement calling for more guardrails around ongoing immigration operations, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives publicly condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thurs...
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Crackdown. My @smh @theage cartoon.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/11/2025
Especially given that Wikipedia is under concerted attack from the right (see also: Elon launching his competitor) and we just saw a gunman storm their leadership meeting *days* ago, be mindful of anything trying to undermine the site while it’s under siege from all of the AI platforms.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Korny @korny.sietsma.com · 28/10/2025
I've shared an updated version of my Agentic AI and Security article on @martinfowler.com's website: martinfowler.com/articles/age... (This is based on all the great research being done by others especially @simonwillison.net - my aim is to provide an accessible overview for others)
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 19/10/2025
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
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Korny @korny.sietsma.com · 18/10/2025
Last week I posted a new blog post about using Mermaid.js more effectively in Claude Code: blog.korny.info/2025/10/10/a... I'm also ditching Discus comments on my blog - instead I'll make social media posts (like this one!) and link them in the blog text.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
It’s pronounced cyclist.
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PetePeteRePete @petepeterepeat.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Cry Ribbit and let slip the frogs of war
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2025
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
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Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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Korny @korny.sietsma.com · 31/08/2025
Am I the only person who reads this and pictures giant 5 meter sea urchins?
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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I can
I can
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 30/08/2025
melania constantly refreshing the tl
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/08/2025
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
For me, the BBC’s image choice here is reprehensible… …it glorifies these thugs who were intimidating refugees - makes them look like they are protesting for some sort of freedom… rather than the targeted harassment of the vulnerable.
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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 01/08/2025
If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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Korny @korny.sietsma.com · 21/07/2025
I forgot to post this to bluesky! Life has been busy...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/07/2025
How many times do we have to remind people: the chatbot *cannot* admit to *anything*. It *doesn't know*. When you ask it about itself, it generates its answer the same way it generates your request that it write an email. It takes what you tell it and responds in way to sound plausible.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
It's performative. If Steve Reed were really "furious" about water bills, he wouldn't have ruled out renationalisation, or forbidden the Independent Water Commission to recommend it. He enables the filthiest, most parasitic capital to defeat the public interest. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Environment secretary ‘furious’ about England and Wales water bills
Steve Reed says he is unable to rule out further above-inflation rises and any decision would be up to regulators
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
By any metric of fascism, when they come for the comedians, it's here.
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 14/07/2025
Researchers in Darwin added First Nations seasonal calendars to solar irradiance forecasting and came up with some vastly improved results.
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First Nations calendars boost solar forecasting accuracy by up to 26 pct, study finds
Researchers in Darwin added First Nations seasonal calendars to solar irradiance forecasting and came up with some vastly improved results.
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Korny @korny.sietsma.com · 13/07/2025
Everyone seems to be re-posting the METR paper on my feeds with "this proves the tools slow developers down" - nice to see a bit more nuanced discussion.
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 13/07/2025
The more interviews with billionaires I hear, the more I believe they’re billionaires because of luck followed by the compounding benefits of capital. Their world views are simultaneously simplistic, confused, and deluded. Tax them out of existence
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Jon Cresswell @jonathancresswell.co.uk · 12/07/2025
BBC Two currently showing Live Aid on a 40 year delay in order to meet Lisa Nandy's new demands for all music performances to be vetted before broadcast
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Marines and DHS arrest anti-ICE protester after children were spotted in chains at the federal detention center in LA
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Korny @korny.sietsma.com · 12/07/2025
My son, in the midst of a typical 8yo conversation asked me "what is the Tri-State area?" I didn't know, and I was tired, so I made up an answer which seemed plausible. And if he finds out I'm wrong, I'll say "you are correct! I was mistaken" ... Are LLMs just treating us like tired parents?
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Korny @korny.sietsma.com · 12/07/2025
The Shock of the New en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sho... - an amazing introduction to modern art for a 16-year-old, so good to get some breadth outside my STEM world
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The Shock of the New - Wikipedia
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Dr Linda McIver @lindamciver.adsei.org · 10/07/2025
Super excited to be able to publish the People Friendly: Teachers' Guide to AI that the incredible @summerscope.bsky.social and I have been working on. The guide will grow and develop as the technology does, and there's more to come! adsei.org/pfegtai-intr... #EduSKY #EduSKYAU
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People Friendly: Teachers’ Guide to Artificial Intelligence – Introduction
Introduction So, you want to teach your students about AI. But it’s hard to know how to teach them, or what to teach them, when it feels like the landscape is changing minute-by-minute, when there …
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 01/07/2025
The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found. tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
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FOI Exposes EHRC Bias: Private Meetings, Legal Echoes, and Policy Capture - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
Let’s be honest. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is not acting like a neutral regulator. It is not standing above the fray.
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Mark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social · 02/07/2025
26 MPs - only 26 - voted against proscribing Palestine Action. It will now be a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison not only to be a member of but merely to express support for Palestine Action. We live in a fascist state.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/07/2025
I must be clear that AGI and superintelligence are a HUNDRED times stupider than the Metaverse, because the metaverse at the very least had virtual worlds you could point at. There is no proof AGI is possible. None. Zip. Taking it seriously - as in the concept - is doing free marketing.
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Ashley Wengaf @ashleywengaf.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
BBC news headlines right now. It's utterly depressing.
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Korny @korny.sietsma.com · 27/06/2025
This was a fun excursion - getting an LLM to analyse the characters and interactions in the book Stonemouth by Iain M banks: blog.korny.info/2025/06/27/a...
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Analysing Stonemouth with an LLM
There’s a lot of positive and negative discussion happening about AIs at the moment. I have thoughts - lots of them - and I want to blog more, mostly about coding tools. But I don’t have the time! Bu...
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steven deobald @deobald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
it's been a very difficult year or two for @gnomefoundation.bsky.social and, to continue to exist, the foundation really needs you. however, we first want to ask you to *donate less*: blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/... #gnome
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Donate Less
We have a new donation page. But before you go there, I would like to impress upon you this idea: We would vastly prefer you donate $10/mo for one year ($120 total) than $200 in one lump sum. That's c...
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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000
A magazine list showing #37, Zohran Mamdani, age 11, asked for Books, FIFA 2003 and SimCity 3000 video games.
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orinoco boo @nocontroller.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country
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