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Martin Bechard

@martinbechard.bsky.social
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Professional Software Builder. AI skeptic and practitioner. In a Turing-test kind of mood so if you DM me, make it count. Don’t ask for my personal information. We can be cordial correspondents

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Martin Bechard @martinbechard.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Downloaded the latest Claude Desktop - it keeps crashing randomly invoking an MCP extension, often wiping out more than just the last part of the chat. Anybody else have this issue? #Anthropic #Claude #Sonnet
Error message: Claude will return soon
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Another FBI leader standing up for the rule of law “Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy." James Dennehy, FBI NY Field Office
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Top F.B.I. Agent in New York Vows to ‘Dig In’ After Removals at Agency
James E. Dennehy, the highly respected leader of the largest and most important field office in the bureau, said the F.B.I. was in a “battle of our own.”
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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
They wrote a 900-PAGE BOOK FFS, which they are following chapter by chapter-they quite literally told us what they would do. How are democrats this unprepared?? @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“DEI is not a threat. It’s a gift.” — Alicia Keys Damn right.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Anti-ICE protesters in California have shut down the 101 freeway in Los Angeles marching towards City Hall.
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Rex Chapman @rexchapman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
New meme just dropped
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Support Canadian alternatives!
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
If you had told me ten years ago that someday Beyoncé would win Best Country Album and still not have an Album of the Year trophy…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025
Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
For the visual learners...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
No. The Medicaid portals were shut down because the OMB demanded they be. They’re only back up because of the outcry. I’d tell you to stop lying but we know that’s a feature of this administration.
A tweet from Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) stating: "The White House is aware of the Medicaid website portal outage. We have confirmed no payments have been affected — they are still being processed and sent. We expect the portal will be back online shortly."
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Rex Chapman @rexchapman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Deleted apps for Instagram, Threads, & Facebook. X is private and no longer active. Eliminating the unnecessary. Cheers.🍻
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luna @imlunahey.com · 23/01/2025
ill keep watching this.
graph showing the last 7 days of reddit posts/comments linking to x and bluesky.
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Martin Bechard @martinbechard.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Quel titre racoleur! Le TAL ne recommande rien du tout!! Les calculs du TAL sont basés sur: - l'Index des prix à la consommation - Les changements des taxes municipales - Le taux des CPG de 5 ans majorés de 1% Le TAL produit des exemples de calculs FICTIS! #ledevoir #TAL
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La hausse recommandée des loyers est de 5,9% pour 2025, un record
La majorité des locataires du Québec peuvent s’attendre à recevoir un avis d’augmentation encore plus élevé cette année.
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RussCazier 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇭 ✝️ ❤️is❤️ 🤟🏻is🤟🏻 @russcazier.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
9 Questions Senators Should Ask Marco Rubio. Getting the SecState nominee on the record about taking Greenland, blaming Ukraine, and Elon Musk’s quest to topple European governments. Cathy Young www.thebulwark.com/p/nine-quest...
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9 Questions Senators Should Ask Marco Rubio
Getting the SecState nominee on the record about taking Greenland, blaming Ukraine, and Elon Musk’s quest to topple European governments.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The "slow breathing to convince your body that you are not actually in physical danger" thing actually kinda works, y'all.
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Anyone who says there wasn’t enough water in the reservoirs to fight the California wildfires NEEDS to watch this & help stop misinformation. Can we please get back to uniting as a country when there are catastrophic disasters? Lying only disrupts efforts to help people in need. youtu.be/OsuBmAVqR7I
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L.A. Fires: Why Did the Fire Hydrants Run Dry? What We Know | WSJ
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X. Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship.
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Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X
Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship - Anadolu Ajansı
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Reminder that while Puerto Rico was devastated by a hurricane Donald Trump asked Miles Taylor, a former DHS chief of staff, and other officials whether the U.S. could swap Greenland for Puerto Rico because, "Puerto Rico was dirty and the people were poor." www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/01/2025
Californians are no strangers to hate, but the hate we’re getting during these unprecedented fires is next level. Look into it—when other states face disasters, California steps up to help, no questions asked. Our governor and leaders don’t trash-talk the states in need! #AngelinoStrong 👊🏽
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
The oil depot in Engels, russia, has been burning for four days.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
"Walmart makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all. Sometimes consumer prices are an incomplete, even misleading, signal of economic well-being." Fascinating studies on the broader effects of Walmart: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
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Jakub Janovsky @rebel44cz.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Perun-o-clock: Unmanned Ground Vehicles in Ukraine - Robotic warfare, Ground Combat & Supply drones www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrrX...
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Unmanned Ground Vehicles in Ukraine - Robotic warfare, Ground Combat & Supply drones
YouTube video by Perun
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Dan Hernandez @cubanmissiledh.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
It seems pretty clear the brave firefighters and emergency personnel saved Encino, where I live, from disaster last night. The shock of what is happening has not fully set in for many people here, but let us take a moment to appreciate everyone fighting for all of Los Angeles.
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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Vindman Congressional Swearing-In: A Joyful Day open.substack.com/pub/alexande...
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Vindman Congressional Swearing-In
A Day of Celebration
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
In Engels, local authorities report that fuel continues to burn from the Ukrainian drone strike that occurred four days ago, despite the area of the fire being reduced by 80%. The authorities seem to have nothing left to do but to put on a show of activity and pose for photos with solemn expressions
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
“As Los Angeles burned for days on end, horrifying the nation, scientists made an announcement on Friday that could help explain the deadly conflagration: 2024 was the hottest year in recorded history.” It’s GLOBAL WARMING, not just “climate change.” Pls get it right www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/c...
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The California Wildfires Are the Latest Disaster Supercharged by Climate Change
Extreme weather events — deadly heat waves, floods, fires and hurricanes — are the consequences of a warming planet, scientists say.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
“More personnel and equipment from Ontario, Quebec and Alberta are ready to be mobilized, according to government officials. And a team of senior technical staff members from British Columbia will fill specialized roles, the government said.”
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Mexico and Canada Are Sending Firefighters to California to Help Put Out Wildfires
Air tankers, firefighters and technicians from the neighboring countries are on their way to Los Angeles in a show of solidarity.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
If we have enough money to buy another country then we have enough money to ensure nobody is homeless or goes hungry.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
It was so predictable that this crowd would love this sort of thing. Politics as, I dunno, annoying the libs with how flippantly murderous you are or something. To me it feels kinda like you've lost your soul if this is who you become, but a sizeable minority clearly love it.
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Malcontent News @malcontentnews.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The Palisades Fire from a a flight landing at LAX, approaching Santa Monica, California.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I wrote this in 2015, about climate change, megablazes, and the danger of a Katrina by fire... www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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What Megablazes Tell Us About Climate Change
Pervasive drought and record temperatures have turned forests from Fresno to Fairbanks into tinderboxes. And it's only getting worse.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 08/01/2025
Let’s see - I’m being sentenced for 34 felonies on Friday, I’ve nominated a bunch of unschooled idiots for my cabinet, and I owe E Jean $483 million. What can I distract the idiots with?
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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Something to keep in mind for 2025 Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction
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Martin Bechard @martinbechard.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I just realized that in “Concise” mode Claude is a lot more likely to truncate artifacts and files. Use at least “normal” mode to avoid losing your mind #claude #Sonnet #anthropic
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Martin Bechard @martinbechard.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Google your Gemini API errors are incomprehensible, your pricing page says 1000 requests per minute, 4 million Tokens per minute - why then this ***** message after barely a few requests??? 429 Too Many Requests] Resource has been exhausted (e.g. check quota). #Google #Gemini #HorribleDX
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Martin Bechard @martinbechard.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
WTF Anthropic? Barely 10 messages in my chat but getting the "Your message will exceed the length limit for this chat" Give us the option of deleting some messages. Add a counter showing how many tokens are left. #Anthropic #Claude #Sonnet #great-stuff #I-love-it-but #frustrated #very-frustrated
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Bobby Don Welch @bobbydonwelch.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
WTAF? Tesla's fatality rate stands at about 5.6 fatal accidents per billion miles traveled. Tesla has been named the "deadliest" car brand after an analysis of vehicle fatality rates determined the brand had the highest number of fatal crashes per mile. www.latintimes.com/tesla-named-...
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Tesla Named 'Deadliest Car Brand in America' in Bombshell Car Safety Study
Tesla has been named the "deadliest" car brand after an analysis of vehicle fatality rates determined the brand to have the most fatal crashes per mile.
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Martin Bechard @martinbechard.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I created an MCP server to call Perplexity from Claude Desktop, check it out if you're curious about MCP: github.com/martinbechar... #ClaudeAI
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GitHub - martinbechard/mcp-perplexity
Contribute to martinbechard/mcp-perplexity development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Martin Bechard @martinbechard.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
In the first of a three part series, I present the basics of MCP Tools and Resources, as well as walking through the creation of code with my trusty AI assistant to showcase how AI Coding is capable of helping in non-trivial development. www.linkedin.com/pulse/develo...
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Developing with Anthropic MCP (Part 1)
Anthropic has just released the Model Context Protocol and a new version of Claude Desktop as a new way of integrating its LLM with external code. In this first part of 3, I will present Anthropic's M...
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Martin Bechard @martinbechard.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
This is my main problem
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 30/11/2024
Why does nobody like the surf and turf turkey?
turkey stuffed with octopus tentacles, sitting on top of crab legs
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Martin Bechard @martinbechard.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
DM shibboleth: if you DM me, you must share a pertinent poem so I know it’s really you. I will do the same. Who knew poetry would become our best auth capable of surviving even quantum supremacy?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Alexander Vindman is a patriot. Elon Musk, himself an oligarch, is drunk on power and out of control.
Post from Brian Allen:

BREAKING: Elon Musk accuses Alexander Vindman of working for Ukrainian oligarchs, labeling him a traitor and suggesting he could face the death penalty.  

This is where we are now—billionaires playing judge, jury, and executioner.
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Martin Bechard @martinbechard.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Brilliant as always
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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Life tip: When writing a professional e-mail, do not include the recipient's e-mail address until you have finished typing the entire message.
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