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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We lost the technology to build glorious massive red power switches like the old IBM PS/2

Close crop of the beige front of an IBM PS/2 model 30. The huge red paddle switch is focused, raised into the "on" position.

mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Did you see the ProPublica report about how this one company Bowlero is acquiring most of the lanes in the US, jacking up prices, adding giant video screens with shows & ads, pushing out leagues, and sometimes replacing pinsetters with a system where every pin has a string on top instead?

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He says we've been "telexing" people, which predates the VP's lifetime

Screenshot of the opening paragraph of the wikipedia article on telex, including a photo of an antiquated olive-and-beige teletype machine: "Telex is a telecommunication system that allows text-based messages to be sent and received by teleprinter over telephone lines. The term "telex" may refer to the service, the network, the devices, or a message sent using these.[1] Telex emerged in Germany in the 1930s and became a major method of sending text messages electronically between businesses in the post–World War II period. Its usage declined as the fax machine grew in popularity in the 1980s."

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Amazon doesn't let you search reviews anymore, or view more than the 5-10 reviews surfaced on a product page. Sometimes, it refuses to show you *any* reviews on a product page. Gated behind sign-in.

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Google Maps doesn't show business hours or let you search reviews anymore. Gated behind sign-in now.

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@barelyconcealed.bsky.social Noticed another person's stab at something that looks like the phone from It Follows.

Seashell-shaped DIY e-reader using two e-ink screens. Opened vertically in the creator's hands.

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

CDC revised their COVID levels again, mid-surge, without disclosure or warning. Consider the CDC's maps and threat assessments unreliable, but their published data is still correct and reported correctly by sites like pmc19.com. (screenshots from pmc19.com/bluewashing.mp4)

Graph showing CDC revisions to COVID classification levels based on wastewater values. The latest rewrite on August 14th nearly shifted the entire scale by a level. What used to be "Very High" is now "High", what used to be "High" is now "Moderate", what used to be "Moderate" is now "Low", and half of what used to be "Low" is now "Very Low".

Side-by-side CDC US map coloration before and after the category shift. 2 states are no longer red, 5 states are no longer orange. This makes hte country look like the surge isn't happening.

PMC COVID-19 dashboard map of the United States, colored using the CDC level palette before the revision. Lots of red throughout the entire southeastern US, plus California, half of Nevada, most of Montana, most of Washington, most of Arizona, and mostly red in Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, and US Virgin Islands.

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A random grep accidentally turned up Jackbox data files categorizing Saved by the Bell characters

JSON-looking text with Saved by the Bell character traits; like "name: Zack Morris, tags: schemer, wise-cracking, name: Kelly Kapowski, tags: cute, friend, sweetheart"

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Check out the roots of the thread. Whether a layered system functions is orthogonal to whether the video accurately describes an LLM. You can use all sorts of software tricks to edit/compose that context, but it must always be reduced to context in, tokens out, at the LLM interface boundary.

Quote from upthread saying "Sure but the video is false."

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Y'know how the guy in "Memento" reads all his tattoos every morning to figure out who he is and what he's doing? That's how LLMs work. The context is the tattoos. The model is stateless. If you send altered context, the model will autocomplete from the alterations. The presenter explains this.

Screenshot from the parent video, where the woman explains if something isn't in the conversation, it doesn't exist. A note appears over the screen at this point in the video: "*saved memory, projects, custom instructions, etc. All just text added to the conversation!!"

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Required reading. Really crushing to hear @frame.work doubled down on throwing money and support at Omarchy/hyprland, I used to really admire and advocate their modular hardware.

Screenshot from the quoted linked post: "Speak up on this. Boycott aggressively. Let people know you don't support Cloudflare, Shopify, 37signals, Dell, 1Password, Framework, Block, Coinbase, Dropbox, TapTap, and any other company enabling the spread of dangerous and harmful political ideologies that will continue to result in further violence and death. And let people know the harm these companies are actively doing."

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Comparing base models, the Ford is $3400 more than the Slate, and comes with a touchscreen. Slate's *lack* of a touchscreen would be worth paying $3400 *extra*.

Screenshot from the linked article, comparing the Fathom to the Slate electric truck: "Ford’s Fathom, on the other hand, will be a fully featured vehicle, including integrated Apple Maps running on what’s called a “large, high-resolution touch screen.“

And, yes, both Android Auto and Apple CarPlay will be supported."

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Fuck that fucking noise, reddit

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The idea of LLM providers throwing a fit about somebody making derivatives of their shit, calling it IP theft, is deeply funny given that's what they're doing to millions of content creators.

Screenshot from the QP article: " OpenAI and Anthropic are banning distilling in their terms of service. Bellamkonda said they're essentially suggesting that using their models without authorization represents potential IP theft."

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This is great, though I'm not crazy about the recommendations against disputing mandates and other nonsense in public. Though I can imagine how you'd arrive at "just keep your head down and look for a new job" as a consultant seeing maximum delusion with minimum power. Quoted bit feels right.

Quote from the post's section for people just trying to survive: "If you’re being asked to review huge volumes of terrible AI code, just assume that the organisation is going to burn you out and fire you. You will not convince the person drowning you in 2000 line PRs to stop. Start looking for a new job as if you have already been fired. I have seen this happen many times now, and it always plays out the same way – do the job search while you have energy. Don’t worry if your speed drops or management gets annoyed at you. There is no way to avoid that, you can simply choose whether it happens now because of your job search, or later because you are too depressed to work anymore."

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Lia writes about how, when GenAI gains a toehold anywhere, it's the narrow end of a wedge that drives greater use, acceptance, and normalization. This is why LLM companies push their shit so hard, this is why your poisoned C-suite is teling, not asking, workers to use it. Great post.

Screenshot of paragraphs from the link in the quoted post:

Every self-respecting software engineer knows that writing code is easier than reviewing or auditing existing code. That's one reason why getting a professional audit done is so bloody expensive. But somehow, "generated code is fine, you just need to review it carefully" is painted as time-saving. Wat?

Every self-respecting software engineer knows that deleting code is better than adding code. But somehow, "I can write more code faster with this" is a perk now. The fuck?

Every self-respecting software engineer resents iterations times that aren't instant and dreads systems that only offer indirect control. But apparently guiding an unreliable chatbot via responses counted in seconds is a good workflow. What's wrong with you?

Screenshot of more paragraphs from Lia's post:

Despite all that, though, it's working. Stuff I'm not allowed to talk about. A blog post that ends with "and this was faster thanks to AI". A reference article that used LLMs to summarize GPU specs (and trusted them to respect NDAs? My dude). "Careful experiments" and "just to generate tests" and "only for checking the boring parts of a code review".

That's all the narrow end of the wedge. Using it for busywork is still using it. It means you've got the subscription active, that you've done the setup, that you have now learned the vocabulary as a user rather than a critic. You are not immune to propaganda. You've given it a finger. What makes you believe it will not take the arm?

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Rounded, shiny on one side, you say?

Photo of an OUYA console. A rounded silver cube, shiny black face on top with a circular blue power button.

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We all grew up believing one prickish guy from the EPA could come in and throw a giant switch in the company's basement for not complying with environmental regulations, damn the consequences. Why isn't that guy shutting down data centers?

Movie still from Ghostbusters. In the firehouse basement, the EPA suit is pointing a finger at a professorial Egon, telling him the containment grid must be shut down. Janine looks over her glasses at Egon in the background, while a disheveled Rick Moranis points back at the EPA guy in the foreground.

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Fuck @nianticspatial.bsky.social for doing business with military industry, trading player-collected data.

Screenshot from the article: "Iris Muis, a data-ethics expert at Utrecht University’s Data School, framed the trap plainly: a user cannot picture how their data might be used later. Maybe in five years there is an application with effects you fundamentally disagree with. British game designer Adrian Hon has gone further, advising Pokémon Go players to stop making scans and consider smaller games less likely to resell data. De Hingh, who quit the game over a year ago because he was tired of the updates rather than the data terms, called the news an enormous eye-opener. “A game should stay a game,” he said."

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Granted, most of these games aren't making money, but this graph was already getting out of control and looks like it's not letting up. (This is annual releases, vs. the quoted graph showing "first five months" releases.) steamdb.info/stats/releas...

Graph from steamdb.info showing annual releases from Steam's inception in 2006 thru 2025. The first decade was moderate, from a few hundred games a year to around 4K, but it's been climbing since, topping out at 21K releases last year.

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Google going fully up its own arse

Screenshot of searching "no more" at Google. The genAI overview fills the entire viewport, saying it's stopping, cleared everything, and will not send any more messages or information.

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Citizens United removed the distinction between people and corporations in campaign spending. But people have rights, corps only have powers granted by states. Hawaii's about to remove the power they grant corps to spend on campaigns. Hell. Yes. Good Q&A: www.americanprogress.org/article/addr...

Meme from The Matrix when Agent Smith is interviewing Neo and melts his mouth shut. Two panels, showing Smith and Neo. Caption: "What good is Citizens United / If you are unable to spend"

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

This is a really cool collection.

Screenshot of the entry for "STRING GAMES (1974)", which used a very early Bell Canada videoconferencing system to play Cat's Cradle with people representing one hand in each of 2 cities.

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Fuckin' red hot dogs on trash meltaway mush rolls

Photo of half a dozen grilled red hot dogs sitting next to half a dozen toasted soft-sided hot dog buns. Throw 'em all in the bin.

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Fuck, this hits close to home. Must-read.

Screenshot from the quoted post: "Then someone — there’s always someone — builds a leaderboard tracking how many prompts you wrote this week, how much of your code is AI-generated, your ranking versus your team, versus your org, versus the entire company. One day your company announces: stop everything, it’s AI Week. Build something with AI. Show what you’ve got. You think you’re done after the hackathon? No no no. Now you have to promote it. Daily posts: look what I built, here’s how many agents I used, here’s how many skills I shipped. Pull in teammates. Pull in strangers. Ask for feedback. “Humbly.”

Your AI usage is now a KPI."

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

You know what else would help with long TSA lines? Dismantling TSA. 👆👉

Captain America sitting on a backwards chair in a school hallway

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

FCC banning non-US network routers when there aren't any US routers. Brilliant move, Brendo. JFC. www.wired.com/story/us-gov...

Screenshot from the article: "Are Any Routers Manufactured in the US?

The only routers I know of that are manufactured in the US are some Starlink Wi-Fi routers, which are primarily made in Texas. Starlink is part of Elon Musk's SpaceX company, but many of the components in these routers come from East Asia.

Botezatu says what matters more than geography is the security model behind the product. "

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I also recommend all of "Shoot 'Em Up" for this. Even the one-line synopsis is good.

Screenshot of a search result for "Shoot 'Em Up (2007)" at IMDb. "A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and then is called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen."

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I love this. youraislopbores.me

A screenshot shared from youraislopbores.me. I ask what to do if I'm having trouble focusing at work. The human reply: "The best course of action is to eliminate any distractions. You could wear noise cancelling headphones, Horse blinders, or simply make sure all of your coworkers are fired through a convoluted plan."

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

As such, I deleted this post.

Bluesky post by meme calling out Proton for sharing data when their homepage says "a better internet starts with privacy and freedom"

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

So wait Hamnet is NOT a pig-based dialup BBS from the 1990s with door games like MudWars 2002 and Legend of the Porco Rosso?

ASCII art pig, since I couldn't immediately find a colorful ANSI art version.

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This sounds like a retread of the old finger-wag about how millionaires would leave, when the opposite has happened under Massachusetts's $1M+ income tax just 2 states north of NY. www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

Screenshot of a paragraph from the linked article, which quotes the report at the heart of the article: "Research has demonstrated that million-dollar earners and high net worth individuals tend to exhibit lower rates of migration compared to the general public," said lead report author Omar Ocampo, researcher at the Institute for Policy Studies. "This is not a surprise. Their family, business and social network deeply root them to amenity rich locales where they enjoy a high quality of life. A modest increase on their incomes does not compel the overwhelming majority of millionaires to flee to other states."

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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

It looks like it says 230 years

Close crop of the photo in the quoted post showing banners on the side of the Deptr. of Ed building. The font they used for numbers makes it look like they're celebrating the 230th anniversary instead of 250.

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