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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At tech companies, meetings are the bane of your existence. It is a very small minority which have a clear agenda, start and end on time, and stay on topic. What if someone crashed your one-on-one, or your skip level? UGH. That's what this week's Lowered Techspectations newsletter is about.

Two panel snippet of a comic where Frank and Noah are meeting.

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This week marks one year since we launched Lowered Techspectations at @smallpressexpo.bsky.social 2025! It's been a fun ride and we're still going strong :)

colorful cover art for Lowered Techspectations showing some familiar characters including Dogboss, Liz and Barb.

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

On this week's Lowered Techspectations, dangerous acronyms 😱 🤡

Two panel snippet of a cartoon where a man wonders what does "ICP" mean?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/09/2026

I will say it is funny watching OpenAI boast about solving a complex math problem using millions of dollars of compute (and someone else’s work) all while remaining unable to solve the most obvious math problem (how to make their services profitable)

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hey @ericlipton.nytimes.com 👋 AI is not “evolving” on its own. *People* are choosing how to build it. *People* are choosing how to train it. *People* are choosing how to run it. Maybe the problem is that they are the *wrong people* to make these choices.

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I guess I'm totally clueless, I thought that's what they call the thing that cleans the ice rink.

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This sprint Lowered Techspectations is on hiatus, OOO, PTO, whatever you wanna call it. Sometimes you just need a break from the... expectations.

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I hadn't heard about the insurance carve outs, super interesting. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

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MSN

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Excellent comic about AI avatars (profiles) on Facebook, designed to appeal to particular customers but which are exceedingly problematic. Cheers to @whittaylor.bsky.social. Read: www.patreon.com/CrucialComix...

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New Comic: Off Script | Crucial Comix

Grappling with AI and Digital Blackface About the artist: Whit Taylor is a cartoonist, writer, editor, and public health educator from New

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theorangefedora.bsky.social @theorangefedora.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Come check out my art studio if you're in the area! There will be food trucks and a new art gallery show opening. Lots to see! Saturday the 22nd from 5-7:30.

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Today's Lowered Techspectations newsletter shows what goes wrong when everyone is prompting but no one is reading the output. Know the feeling? #techworkers #aislop

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It's remarkable to see an image this clearly, without any effort to create it! When I was a kid, my mom would make camera obscuras inside of big cardboard boxes to teach her first grade students how cameras/ the human eye worked. It was always tricky to get a good light seal.

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Mark Runyon @runyon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Duplicate. Close This. #Stackoverflow #ProgrammerHumor

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I thought he was dating Katy Perry? 😂

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

buttondown.com/LoweredTechs... - subscribe for free, whydontcha?

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Hacking it up

Excuse me!

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Don't you hate it when you get assigned 'action items' from meetings you weren't even in?? Check out this week's newsletter!

comic panel of Flora shrugging and grimacing while saying "That's great, hackathons are always fun!"

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Let's give AI agents credit cards to buy API stuff, what could possibly go wrong??

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I know what you mean, not all Work is alike. I'm glad you're enjoying the new studio!

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Artists deserve weekends, too! But it's not always easy to give them to ourselves 😅

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Strategent (the company where Lowered Techspecations takes place) conducts twice-annual biennial Employee Engagement Surveys, and then tries to act on the results.

Three panel cartoon of Dogboss asking for feedback from his employees, and berating them with "Don't all speak at once!"

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Wait til you see what I hallucinated.

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Wait, you draw all these comics by hand? Yes, @theorangefedora.bsky.social does. The latest newsletter dropped today.

Photo of the artist in front of paper comics pages

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Allan “Ransomware Sommelier” Liska @ransomwaresommelier.com · 06/07/2026

What kind of sociopath has EVER looked at a PDF document and said to themselves, "This could be a podcast?"

A screenshot from Adobe Acrobat showing the toolbar which includes the following options:
Edit a PDF
Generated Podcast [New]
Create PDF Space
Export a PDF
Create a PDF

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This week's newsletter, Frank tokenmaxxes all the vibes. buttondown.com/LoweredTechs... #tokenmaxxing#vibecoding

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Vibe coding without the vibes

Twist my arm and give me a Mac Mini

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Congratulations to Barb on earning Employee of the month at Strategent, again! She's gotten us out of so many scrapes, we truly CANNOT fire her. 😅

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Lol Dogboss has never ever sounded like this...

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The alpha plane has had to make some serious pivots along the way.

two comics panels showing the robot team in the alpha plane, starting off with the goal of building a replicant style robot, then ending up with a smoke detector.

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Great article on the miserable 'it's inevitable' language coming from AI boosters, written by Mike Monteiro of Mule Design.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Describing the current state of San Francisco to a writer friend: Me: You cannot satirize this place. It is beyond satire. Them *eyes glowing, voice echoing*: Challenge accepted.

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This week's Lowered Techspectations newsletter - can AI replace engineers?????? buttondown.com/LoweredTechs...

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A token engineer

Frank complains to Dogboss

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Dogboss is distancing himself from the Ferrari situation.

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

In this week's Lowered Techspectations newsletter, Darlington's teammates go looking for him. buttondown.com/LoweredTechs... #workingintech

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No return

Two-way portals cost extra

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

We're thought-leading on LinkedIn! Follow Strategent or Dogboss Hound for the latest jargon and highest ROI

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Darlington, a brave speech engineer at Strategent, volunteered to try the new portal to another dimension. In today's newsletter you find out where he went. buttondown.com/LoweredTechs...

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kwisatz haderade (#FreeSkylar) @booksandbows.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

seems like a great technology to build literally everything on

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