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Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What I love about philosophy: anyone can participate. There’s no gatekeeping. What I hate about philosophy: anyone can participate. There’s no gatekeeping.

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 20/09/2026

My sincere philosophical advice would be to focus on the mechanism: they are fairly well understood and thus tell you that it would be extraordinary if sth like understanding would emerge from the machine

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 11/09/2026

Really enjoying the old school vibe at @zurichjs.com conf!

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 09/09/2026

Just remembered, a propos, the engineer at a uni fair thing, who could not understand why he was morally obligated to *not* press the doomsday button even if "someone else would do it instead"

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Andrew @kohakudoori.com · 23/10/1927

brand new diner serves coke the normal way

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 28/06/2026

“LLMs are good, but *only* if megacorps can control them” is a position that should be held by nobody who isn’t one of sama’s shareholders

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Susan Stryker @susanstryker.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice … in the field of social ecology, men like Donald Trump are permitted to proliferate freely, like another species of algae, taking over entire districts of New York.” —Félix Guattari, 1989

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 22/06/2026

YouTube recommends "Prime Àlvaro Recoba was Unbelievable" – no. No he wasn't. He did not have a "prime". This is Charlie Brown had hoes for football nostalgia and I will not stand for it. It isn't true.

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waldokanto.bsky.social @waldokanto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 18/05/2026

"Shitty bandaid because we didn't invest in structured data infrastructure 15 years ago" undefeated as *the* use case for LLMs

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 25/04/2026

Maybe a weird observation but the moderation bot talking about using fancier (and more expensive!) models as if it would make any difference is peak AI brain

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 08/04/2026

Ayyyy should have called it Claude Logos amirite

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 17/03/2026

This is a very good, in-depth post that aligns very well with what I also observe in Software currently! Also chuffed that the Borges I suggested made it in, very cool!

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Netscape @netscape.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

DON DRAPER, wearing a Changshan: if we want to sell this revolution as being truly universal under Heaven, we need to make inroads with the fairer sex… how about “women hold up half the sky” MAO, sucking on his teeth: god damn it gweilo you’ve done it again.

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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Fucked up a perfectly good transformer-based translation engine, look at him, he's got anxiety

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 03/03/2026

"It’s been a while, so quote this skeet with your favourite $20 dollar word." autochtone

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 02/03/2026

Important to note that the difference between a design prototype crafted by hand with HTML, CSS (what I aim for and like I believe @set.studio offers) and a vibe coded prototype is that you can actually use the code from the first one for the final product.

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 01/03/2026

I am currently writing down my thoughts on coding with agents, and yeah that feels like a great one-sentence summary of the first 1000 words

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

From a discussion in RISF based on the old IBM adage, an updated version for the modern era:

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 10/02/2026

Well sometimes I use this to be polite when I really want to say "I don't want to build this because it is bad design qua design and will make the product worse" (such is my arrogance) but point taken that I should find a better way to say this

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 18/01/2026

Trying to roughly collect and categorise ways that LLMs could be considered actually useful and one major category emerging is just bandaids for broken stuff

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 09/01/2026

For what it's worth, "Tailwind solves problems that are made worse by our current organisation of labor and its gender aspects" is 1) true 2) not a difficult synthesis to make since all participants in this discussion are 90% of the way there

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 05/01/2026

I'm not joking and this isn't funny. We have been trying to orchestrate the Weltgeist for more than 5,000 years. There are various options, not everyone is aligned. This team goes and does it overnight.

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

claude code is fucking insane i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Hegelly Blonde

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 05/01/2026

Rewrote marinaeschba.ch to Astro. I made the site when I too deep into combining frameworks, but now I tossed out a lot of guff and replacing it with vanilla CSS. Really the best technical solution if you are comfortable with the cascade and know the new features!

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Marin Aeschbach | Writing about Technology, History, and Philosophy

Marin Aeschbach's personal website, featuring essays and short-form content connecting technology, history, and philosophy.

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 30/12/2025

Love Young Frankenstein and this is a great shout but the boring (but true) answer is that Kubrick did Strangelove, Space Odyssey, Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon and Shining back to back

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Heather Buchel @heather-buchel.com · 08/12/2025

Straying out of my lane a little bit here but I think one of the biggest disservices designers do to themselves in the web world these days is going all in on whatever new features Figma or [x] design tool comes out with and not putting that energy into learning HTML and CSS.

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Bramus @bram.us · 05/12/2025

Uhoh, sites sitting behind Cloudflare are spitting out HTTP 500 errors again 💥

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 17/11/2025

Mixed feelings that the official recommendation to handle Next.js v16 breaking changes is basically “just install the MCP we’re shipping, it has a prompt specifically for rewriting stuff”: nextjs.org/docs/app/gui...

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/11/2025

The insistence on making these robots bipedal is probably the most obvious giveaway that it's all a big carny gimmick

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 08/11/2025

Computer got me with this classic philosophy joke

Screenshot showing a terminal output error : "Command "generate:types" not found. Did you mean "generate:tokens"?

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Okay, but: 1. given that outside of the source data itself, the weights used to represent it in the model are essentially arbitrary - it's not calculating the 'essential value' of it, it's just trying to find a way to fit it in with the other pieces of source data - this is a stupid rationale

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I repeat myself, but what people mean by “we don’t know how LLMs work” is not “there’s a magic man in the machine,” it’s a technical statement about our inability to analytically extract the probability distributions learned by the model or directly connect weights to a “concept”

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 30/09/2025

Every time I see Guillermo Rauch I think about the "ET with hammers" tweet

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 11/09/2025

So astro.build is basically a Static Site Generator using Components written in JSX? I am glad that someone else figured out the actually, truly, and objectively best way to make a website 👍

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Astro

Astro builds fast content sites, powerful web applications, dynamic server APIs, and everything in-between.

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johnnyicarus @marinaeschba.ch · 11/09/2025

I got really fed up with the old formwerdung.ch so I put together a really minimal replacement I can iterate on later. First site I built with astro.build, very nice experience overall.

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Formwerdung - Web Design und Engineering

Ich bin Marin. Ich habe 15 Jahre Erfahrung als Designer und Software-Entwickler. Ich berate und freelance bei Ihrem nächsten Projekt im Web.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 11/09/2025

Liberals are doing the right’s job for it. By lionizing Charlie Kirk and refusing to acknowledge his real political project, they’re giving power to the right’s completely predictable effort to use his death to forward their goal of an authoritarian, fascist state.

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