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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Isn't it weird that I can post a photo of my words, but not the plaintext?

Civilization is a paper thin veneer over society that allows 8 Billion people to survive. If it tears sufficiently, the supply chain for agriculture breaks for good and half of us die in the resulting famine.
That in turn creates the escalation pressure on the nuclear powers that could easily wipe us all out. Given the vast corruption and incompetence of the current duopoly, it wouldn't take much.

Even AI curing cancer with a public domain one shot cure could be the destabilizing force that causes the first tear, then it's game over. 8(

Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It was solved in back in 1999, and it was called Napster. It caused CD sales to skyrocket, so naturally, the music industry killed it. I've never purchased a new CD since, I was buying a few a month until they started suing customers.

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Damanique 💜 ⊙㋥㋓ 💜 아리랑 @damanique.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

TW: POLICE VIOLENCE, RACIAL PROFILING, DEATH . . . . . So yesterday in my city, Dutch police mistakenly arrest a black man for riding a stolen fatbike; it was his & he was trying to pick up his diabetes medicine. He tries to warn them but they choke him out. "I can't anymore" were his last words.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Went to #VCFMW today, and saw this nifty new way to display time on a Tektronix 2235 scope

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

@miasato.bsky.social doesn't seem to realize that many data centers are using their own turbine based generation, adding huge noise, and air pollution, to the sizable heat island they create from using all that power.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm the kind of guy who watches a 3 year old video on YouTube, and notices a 5 dB difference in signal levels during tests. The first test was -115 dBm, the second was -110 dBm, of course the SINAD got better. Still, great video, and I'm going to be doing the thing www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyfM...

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SI5351 Clock Gen as Radio Local Oscillator in Old Radios

YouTube video by John Hawkes

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of Senator Graham. He seemed so happy doing his job in Ukraine earlier this week.

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n1k0 @n1k0.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

What happens when the maintainer of one of the tiny pillars of the modern infrastructure edifice depicted in the famous KXCD comic retaliates against AI? Spolier: you won't like this blog.johanneslink.net/2026/06/09/th…

the all modern infrastructure xkcd meme with the bottom tiny pillar supporting most of the whole thing labelled “jqwik”

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Jade @ap.jade.ellis.link · 31/05/2026

The three genders (nonbuynary)

What is your gender?
Please select one.

Male
Female
I have no plans to purchase a new vehicle

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Here's Union Pacific's Big Boy x4014 taking the curve in Hammond, Indiana. Notice the articulating boiler.

Union Pacific's Big Boy locomotive takes a curve in Hammond, Indiana. The articulation is clearly shown as the headlight is far offset from the centerline of the boiler.

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Anna @mothninja.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Good morning

Unattributed meme. A nine-square alignment chart, featuring signs.
Going left to right, and then top to bottom:
Done with this shit / I have questions : sign riveted into a tree in a forest reads "Your GPS is wrong turn around"

Done with this shit / Disturbingly specific: sign reads "128 persons have drowned in this lake. 2 wearing a life jacket. 126 not wearing a life jacket."

Done with this shit / Vivid: sign reads "Danger, not only will this kill you it will hurt the whole time you're dying"

Ominous / I have questions: sign reads, " if you can read this you're in range"

Ominous / Disturbingly specific: sign reads "Warning! Evacuate the island if you hear 8 short blasts"

Ominous / Vivid: sign showing a palm tree and three people being chased by flying black circles, reads "Beware falling coconuts"

Do not test the gods / I have questions: sign reads, "if elevator does not move do a small jump it should move after"

Do not test the gods / Disturbingly specific: sign reads "road may be subject to sudden catastrophic sinkhole collapse"

Do not test the gods / vivid: sign crushed by falling rock reads "Falling rock"

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

A Tree Swallow zips over the pond's surface, hunting for insects.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

A pretty scene I managed to catch with my smartphone, and "pro" mode.

A night time scene.

A lone tree, with pink flowers, stands amidst the parking lot in front of Target in Munster, Indiana. It appears as the one colorful object in the scene.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

AI is ALIEN intelligence. The Alien isn't from outer space, it's from latent space, something that exists in math, and is only approximated in computers. The fact that it's from outside of nature, makes it a Supernatural Alien Intelligence 1/2

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Superintelligent AI is a concern, but containing it shouldn't be. It's a failure of imagination to think computers can't be made secure. The knowledge of how to do so is already present, just not evenly distributed.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Imagine being able to converse with experts 100 years ago. You'd compose your letter, send it off, and wait. Now, you can write to a mind trained with the accumulated wisdom of mankind, and get replies in minutes, on your own cheap PC. Maybe even on a laptop? That'll be my next experiment.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Happy Tau/2 day, to those who celebrate

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Happy Progress Day to all who celebrate

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

One can only imagine if this were true...

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Just because the head of the FCC thinks we all need to do the pledge of allegiance... here's a version without all the marketing fluff for your consideration

I pledge Allegiance to Liberty and Justice for all

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

So, I helped a friend get an 80 year old TV working. It still needs tweeks, but it's amazingly clear and bright given the circumstances. I'm quite surprised they had commercially available TVs in 1946, the next year after the end of WW2.

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dragosr @dragostech.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

For everyone that is so confident about the reports of the AI vendors businesses being unprofitable - a look at what we can expect for LLM economics. secwest.github.io/llm-cost-das...

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LLM Cost Dashboard — Inference & Training (Feb 2026)

Interactive LLM cost dashboard: inference cost decline with microwave-oven equivalents, and training cost escalation with Boeing 777 metal smelting equivalents. Updated Feb 2026.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

So, now you can use AI as a computer attacker, with the advantage of supernatural speed to make up for any lack of skills. I actually didn't see this one coming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kc9...

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Inside Anthropic's Detection of an AI-Run Cyberattack on 30 High Value Global Targets

YouTube video by AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Don't forget that Dystopian Savings Time (DST) ended this morning, and if you have offline clocks, you should have turned them back an hour already. Failing this, you'll find yourself at work tomorrow an hour before everyone else, in your own personally saved hour of Dystopia.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

This AI generated story reframes public schooling in an interesting way. School doesn't really seem to be about learning things, but more about conforming to and learning how to utilize the unwritten rules of society. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyOL...

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When The Instructors Asked Humans Why They Sit Quietly In Class, Then Saw Their Combat Logs | HFY

YouTube video by Sci Fi Realm

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I find this to be oddly disquieting

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Holy shit... a lot of what the Trump world says about the borders and their hatred of brown people makes so much sense now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImZK...

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The science fiction book that perverted Stephen Miller

YouTube video by Science Fiction with Damien Walter

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Okay! This is going to take a while so I had to finish some stuff first, but: Why Da Pope Fucking Up Opus Dei Is A Huge Fucking Deal: a thread

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Alas... no mention of a certain Podcast...

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I've never seen a Heron from this angle.... it just looks like a blue grey ball puff of feathers, amazing!

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Avast me hearties... it's Talk Like A Pirate Day!

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

To get in the mood for the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest, I've got a VAX 11/780 running VMS 7.2 .. all the compute power than Rose-Hulman had in 1982, complete with the ability to telnet into it from my local network. Running inside my phone! 8)

Screen shot of an old operating system, VAX/VMS 7.2, on a VAX 11/780 (thanks to SimH) all running in my cheap smartphone

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I have to do *something* hacker worthy to prepare for VCF MidWest, so I've decided to install SimH and run a VAX/VMS 7.30 on a VAX 11/780 in my cheap ass android phone.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

It took a while to realize, but there's great wisdom in this observation:

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

How is it that I only learned of "stationary weight systolic arrays" today? I've been experimenting with the concept for decades... Google's really let me down.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Working on a passion project, it's been really fun, and helped lift my spirits. I'm deep in crazy old man/lone genius territory with this one. Only time will tell which way it went. Here's the full writeup on Hacker News, if you're curious. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505...

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I'm trying to change the nature of LLM compute, with an idea that's been scratch... | Hacker News

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

AI is being rapidly driven forward in a financial bubble Horrible news if you're investing in it, or your job depends on the bubble Awesome news if you just want to use AI to get shit done, because after the bubble pops, AI compute, and/or the hardware to do it, will be dirt cheap for a while.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Motherfucking wind farms…

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 25/07/2025

Want to help build a crowdsourced microcontroller? You're invited to design peripherals (UARTs, timers, synths, etc.) for a @riscv.org.web.brid.gy chip that will be fabbed for real! Take part for free! tinytapeout.com/competitions...

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