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This is to balance out all the times people with late-alphabet names had to sit around six years waiting for their name to be called.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 5h

I don't think you're being unreasonably paranoid here. I can totally see how they might be trying to delay giving people a cut of the take as long as possible. It's ugly, but these big tech companies? They have long since sacrificed their veneer of benevolence.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 17h

This wasn't tuna. It was weirder. Like sardines in mustard sauce, or smoked oysters, etc.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 19h

Incredibly, it was still alive, but it was so badly scarred at that point that I couldn't really recover it into an appealing state.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 19h

My sister bought me a cactus for my birthday, back in the 90s. My hands were full setting up for the party, so I set it down for a moment, and completely forgot it existed for several months until she was visiting, and noticed it had sat there, untouched, the entire intervening time period.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 19h

I've been amused by the tinned fish trend of the last several years. In my family, it was a weird holiday treat. We'd find tinned fish in our Christmas stockings. I have no idea if that's an older family tradition, or if my parents were just being odd.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 22h

Chris wakes up and checks his tattoos to see if he can find any clues as to what is going on.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 29/09/2026

Yes, that incredibly obscure Star Wars that nobody saw but you and your besties, and which did so poorly at the box office that they never made another one.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 29/09/2026

I think the funniest of these guys are the ones who think Star Wars was their special precious nerd thing, and that no women or girls were actually into it at all, ever.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 29/09/2026

I have held and continue to hold the belief that there are more great artists alive today than at any time in human history. We are surrounded by riches. We should be celebrating this, instead of making their lives harder again and again.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 29/09/2026

I'd love to have enough dosh that we didn't need to contract to make ends meet. Really slows down our in-house projects. But investment comes with expectations, and part of the joy of being a small indie is that you can take the time to tinker, without someone breathing down your neck.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 29/09/2026

You can also slowly end up with nightmare code through accumulated scar tissue. The changes are insufficiently surgical. It's constantly meddling with mature code for no reason. The code is all subtly deranged.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 29/09/2026

And yet, nonetheless, they are not for dentistry. (Unless you are Leatherface.)

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 29/09/2026

I would not describe the AI code I have had to review as "pretty good." I would describe it as, "Well, it compiled, I guess."

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 29/09/2026

When you see a chainsaw, you understand, intuitively, that it is not for dentistry. The problem with tools that aren't well-understood is that people lack that intuition. They'll do chainsaw dentistry, because they don't know any better.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 29/09/2026

The businessman, and the programmer he's exploiting. Wait.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 29/09/2026

Who knows. I'm glad we don't keep our in-house repos there. So tired of their broken mess.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 29/09/2026

My malware monitor just blocked GitHub. So that's fun.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 29/09/2026

No one would have predicted that Ben Kingsley would one day be doing comic book movies.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 29/09/2026

You were PREPARED for walking into that Radio Shack, and showing off your l33t skillz.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 28/09/2026

LOL, well, sure. Even before we had mice. Put enough lines on the screen, and it will scroll, after a fashion.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 28/09/2026

Scrolling? I was programming. I was logging into BBSes. I was building peripherals...

A scare image snipped from Facebook. The text reads:
DID THE SCROLLING START BEFORE 16?

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 28/09/2026

This is why vertical slices are so important. At the same time, as a programmer, I hate vertical slices. Coders unfortunately work almost entirely on the vertical axis of the vertical slice. You need a huge amount of actual code done, and anything you fake becomes a liability.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 28/09/2026

My eyelashes are turning white on one side of my face, and not the other. This is going to be very strange.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 28/09/2026

And this last part isn't just for vanity, either. If scientists don't get credit for their work, they're going to have a hard time getting funding for more work. It's one of the many ways gen-AI is being used to bite the hand that feeds it.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 27/09/2026

My game monsters are all grunting when I hit them! What could it mean?

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 26/09/2026

Sometimes, your news feed serves up a perfect pairing.

Two news articles.
The first one is illustrated with a photo of Jensen Huang. It is from the Verge. The headline reads:

"Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain."

The second article has an illustration of two people walking past each other. One is glancing back. There's a tall clock between them. This one is from the New Yorker. The headline reads:

"Why People Aren't Having Kids."

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 26/09/2026

LOL, my Dad would sometimes lord his PhD over me even when we weren't talking about anything even remotely related to chemistry.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 26/09/2026

This goes for every sort of intelligence. A person can be high-EQ and still use that ability for evil.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 26/09/2026

Everybody needs to justify their conclusions. Everybody needs to show their work. More importantly, intelligence isn’t a moral virtue.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 26/09/2026

When “smart” people say stupid things, that doesn’t necessarily mean their reputation was wrong. Smart people are very good at rationalizing their way into a ditch. We need to be wary of that. The real problem is when other people think “Well, he’s smart, so he must be right.” Oh-no-no-no.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 26/09/2026

I could pretend to be your grandma and send you one, if you need to relive the experience.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 25/09/2026

My mother always did this exquisitely perfect sewing work, even on thoroughly unimportant casual garments. No matter how much care I put into something, my work never looked as neat as hers. It's just not me.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 25/09/2026

Many years ago, I was in an Earthdawn campaign with some friends, and there was one session where I didn't succeed a single roll. Not one. My character's best friend was downed, and she draped herself over him to protect him, because at least she couldn't screw up being a meatshield.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 25/09/2026

Me, sewing: "Yes! Hahaha! No, no, no, no."

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 25/09/2026

Hex paper is absolutely magical stuff. I wish I'd had it years earlier.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 25/09/2026

Not even to mention the radiation problem. There are reasons you don't put the latest, greatest chips in space.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 25/09/2026

There are definitely some influence ops going on. I've seen multiple reports of AI-critical YouTubers receiving offers of sponsorship money in exchange for making AI doomer videos.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 25/09/2026

Like, at least have some fun with it. Call your live worms the “Klingon Diet,” or something.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 25/09/2026

Whenever I hear about these regimens, I’m like “Why would you want to live forever, if your whole life is going to be more of this miserable shit?”

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 25/09/2026

Why the hell would you even put a 1GW data center in a place as hot as El Paso? I mean, yeah, I know that the answer is a favorable regulatory environment, but it makes no goddamn engineering sense.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 25/09/2026

It’s not even rational from a cold-blooded business perspective. When you demoralize game developers, you’re gumming up your factory, and it’s very hard to fix that.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 25/09/2026

A Bag of Holding is like a pointer in C. It's just pointing to storage elsewhere. If you put one inside another one, it's just putting another pointer in the storage pointed to by the first pointer. All very ordinary. Of course, nothing EVER goes wrong with pointers... [wiggles eyebrows]

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Heard an interview today where someone said the dumbest thing ever. "When an AI agent hacks a website, there's no law that can arrest the AI." No mf, you arrest the person who pressed "deploy." wtf are we doing here? Did COVID turn everyone's brains into applesauce?

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