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Max Burke

@m18e.bsky.social
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
A millimooch, if you will.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
He’s her binky as much as she is his.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I write in lowercase because I grew up on IRC. the tone thing is a bonus.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
do a breakthrough
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
and that's not including all the cocaine residue from every line snorted off of the back of Don Jr's phone
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Star Chuck
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yup. It’s like I’ve been given a team of capable developers and designers that I can poke to do the next thing whenever I have a minute. I’m doing less of the work myself but I’m getting 10x the work done.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I guess YANDEX is short for Yet ANother Datacenter EXplosion
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This will be the biggest boost to the death penalty abolishment movement in generations.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is the result of him firing Shivon Zillis
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
alt text because I'm an idiot and forgot: Sam Altman being told a second plane has struck the World Trade Center
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
bay area rationalists be like
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sam Altman being told that a second airplane has hit the World Trade Center
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Being able to understand technology (the solution) and people (the problem). You need to be able to specify the problem but also understand when the machine isn't solving it appropriately.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh so now we’re supposed to respect people’s name change request?
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Critical Drinking
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nothing drives home "blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God" like having a religious affairs office in the Department of War.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How about "Bull Schmitt"?
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah, hard nope on the other options. We can't go down the road to vigilantism.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That's true! But the standard of proof is much lower for a non-judicial consequence. Being associated with gang rape would be enough, even if it wasn't provable as a crime, to be fired, and should be enough to be expelled from a school. I don't think it qualifies as vigilante justice.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It seems like, regardless of whether or not the alleged perpetrators are successfully prosecuted, having a group chat leaked talking about "free pussy upstairs" would be sufficient to expel for a breach of good conduct, in the same way it would be a fireable offense for a job. (Or, should)
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
thanks i hate it
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Look at all of our drone bait"
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
-david ellison, watching cbs news last year
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Considering how much I, as a Canadian, know of the Electoral College, US Congress, and the American judiciary, in order to navigate why my government is doing the things it is, this is all a pleasant breath of fresh air. Well, except for the rise-of-the-far-right stuff. That's awful.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
can't spell "you sucka" without AUKUS
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Could he get hit with breach of contract?
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is what happens when you hear someone's excited utterance of "fucking pig" as a call-to-action instead of an epithet.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh is that why magazines are free?
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So it's confirmed that brain damage makes you Republican.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
nah it's okay I'll just ask your mom
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sure, and I agree with that, but that's a different argument than whether or not tech companies forced things you didn't want down your throat in the past.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You'll never see Google make a Gemini App Sandbox that lets you use AI to build bespoke apps, because of the P+L implications for the App Store team.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think the AI companies are their own worst enemy. Pushing awful Co-Pilot into everything, injecting it into search, etc., turns people off from even considering the legitimate use cases.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Microsoft lost an antitrust case for forcing Internet Explorer into Windows, it was a big deal at the time!
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think they believe that widespread chaos benefits them. Newspaper headlines about drones in Romania or Germany are headlines that aren't about Kyiv being battered by missiles.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I mean, set a strict standard, and they either meet it or they get shut down. Motivate them to solve the noise issue.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
suicidal ideation now in 8k hdr
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The things some men will do instead of going to therapy.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Also the Lindsay Clancy trial was in 2026, not 2024
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm confused, Austin Sigg and Adam Lanza were both 2012, and Sigg wasn't familicide. James Crumbley was 2021 and also wasn't familicide. I'm not doubting the premise, but the details don't seem to add up...?
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I wonder how a lack of exported potash, petroleum, or electricity would go over with border states in midterm season. It would be a fun experiment to run!
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I remember one halloween me and a couple friends got a hold of a bunch of firecrackers and some spent CO2 canisters. We had fun filling the canisters up with the firecracker powder and lighting them off. A couple decades later I realized we were making pipe bombs.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Congratulations!!!
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ron Jeremy ain't looking so good these days
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Weren’t the exceptionally long pipelines more of a PPU(/Xenon) thing? I seem to remember the SPU pipelines being short (6-7 cycle latency tops) though you spent a lot of time shifting registers around and waiting for DMAs
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 20/08/2026
So I get that there's (yet again) a big debate going on about AI on Bluesky. I am turning off replies to this post because I don't want to have notifications flooded one way or the other on this one. I just want to share what I've heard multiple times in just the past two weeks.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 20/08/2026
I don't think everyone needs to use AI. I don't think it's good that AI is being shoved everywhere when it's not wanted or asked for. But I don't find the complete hatred of all AI tools productive or helpful to building a better internet. And others appear to be feeling the same thing.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
To celebrate this milestone, I went out and bought a bottle of Canadian whiskey.
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