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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

Looks like it's back, sadly it's a subscription and signs point heavily to vibe coding but might still give it a shot. daymapapp.com

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

"You should go back to X because Apple's CEO is posting marketing videos there" may be the funniest thing John Gruber has ever written.

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Wait, there's not a universal quality called “intelligence” that can be reduced to a number??? ⌄ 🌍🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Ironically this makes it more like actual human intelligence but less like their conception of human intelligence

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Is it just me or is “jagged intelligence" just a way for AI pushers to spin “our whole premise was wrong”?

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Playing chicken with sellers on SeatGeek and StubHub

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Literally the one thing I know about Spokane

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Going to be in Spokane next week and heartbroken to find Cyan Worlds doesn't do tours. Anything else to do around there?

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

So I just completed by rewatch of The Prisoner, a show I started in middle school cause our eccentric English teacher would play an episode a month as a treat, but missed the day they played the last episode. And I'm ready to issue a Take. I love this show, it's super fun and the aesthetic and […]

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Something I'm wondering about: why haven't the model collapse predictions come to pass, even as models are increasingly, explicitly getting trained on synthetic data? Or has "collapse" been manifesting in less obvious ways?

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

And now my Siri voice sounds depressed

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Executive function is so hard, man

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Upgraded my Mac too, in for a penny in for a pound, and so far the main new feature seems to be that Safari is always crashing

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Everyone warned me about the transparency but the animation is so much worse. I want a slider for that.

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Will the going rate come down $3500 anytime soon? Probably not, so I should probably just bite the bullet. But I really should have done it a year ago.

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

So it looks like I was dumb to assume the 2027 Bolt would bring down used Bolt prices. Unfortunately it looks like this might be my last chance to get a $3500 credit from the state for a used EV.

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Basically only did this because I figured my “you’ve reached Jesse’s call screening service” voicemail message was probably annoying people more than a Siri voice would

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Scorching hot take, I do not care for liquid glass

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@Kevin So I hear, managed to skip the last one so this is a leap of faith

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Updating to iOS 27, pray for me.

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@Kevin I got one too, that's my problem! I want the stylus but I don't know if I can give up the small size now

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

nitpicking but for that price perfectionism seems reasonable

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

If the iPhone Duo had an eink screen I'd be super tempted to

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I really want the Boox Palma 3 but idk about carrying two phone sized devices

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: kolektiva.social/@tortitude/1172843… None of the above I just like to make them keep guessing and watch them get increasingly uncomfortable

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Jesse and the Purple Crayon … of Death!! @misctakes.com · 19/09/2026

shared this take with some dsa comrades last night and they were like "no, I think Bernie is right" I already thought I needed to write something about all this but now I *really* think I do.

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

A question I still haven't seen answered in all the "rogue AI" coverage: was the answer to the Exploit Gym challenge actually on Hugging Face's servers?

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I think Dario Amodei sincerely believes in godlike ASI and extinction risk, and that's exactly why he's motivated to say anything that will help Anthropic. Because he thinks Anthropic is humanity's best hope.

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

People are acting like someone being a true believer means they are speaking candidly, and I don't think that's true.

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

The best targeted ad I've ever gotten

instagram ad for kohler that says "introducing claude toilet" with "claude" in a rather claude-like serif font

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

not gonna do the "a memo must have gone out" thing, but I watched this video www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v… and read this blog www.patreon.com/MaxRead/posts/ais-s… in short succession and couldn't help but notice they make the same slightly odd […]

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

enjoying spending more time here again, feels a little less affected by doom panic than bluesky

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

It's painful to see Bernie's instagram post about his "ban superintelligence" plan getting likes from people I respect. That dude is doing incalculable damage to AI resistance.

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

I could just say time and a half but I feel like I should ask for more?

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

I work in IT and someone at work asked if I could provide some freelance support for his wife. How do I figure a good asking rate?

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Evan MacKay @evanforcambridge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thank you, and solidarity forever.

I congratulate Representative Marjorie Decker on winning the election for State Rep in Cambridge. I am profoundly grateful to every voter and volunteer who made our campaign possible.

Although we did not win this election, we built something real. Together, we knocked 54,054 doors. 653 people volunteered. We took on the political establishment and built a movement that could not be ignored. Thousands of neighbors joined conversations about getting ICE out of Mass., getting money out of politics, and delivering a State House that works for everyone. Those relationships and the power people discovered in acting together will endure. We look forward to working with Representative Decker and our community in advancing the commitments made during this election.

This campaign may be ending, but our movement's fight for democracy and transparency continues. Thank you, Cambridge. I love you all, and I look forward to continuing to organize alongside all of you. Solidarity forever!

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Jesse and the Purple Crayon … of Death!! @misctakes.com · 03/09/2026

really hard to readjust to normal life after going full throttle for a campaign!

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Just hope I'm not permanently barred from chocolate, alcohol, citrus, spicy foods, tomatoes, and carbonation 😭

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

[cw: puking] So it turns out that the chronic allergies I've been trying in vain to fight for years with allergy shots and an ever increasing regimen of nasal sprays, air purifiers, and antihistamines, but still worsened to the point I had coughing fits that felt like asthma attacks and was […]

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Can someone explain to me why this flyer feels so palpably ai generated? It's not just the busy-ness, it's something about the fonts. (also, why CEA why)

A post from the Cambridge Education. Association on Instagram. There is a blue banner at the top with the name of the org and a slogan "Our Students. Our Schools. Our Union." It proceeds to say "Five Union Contracts Are Now Expired. Why? Settle the Contraces. Fair Pay for All Educators.
- Living Wages for All
- Useful and Differentiated Professional Development
- And Educator Voice In Admin Evaluations"

In another blue banner at the bottom is written "Strong Educators. Strong Schools. Strong Cambridge."

A lot of the writing is made to look like it's been stenciled or stamped with paint. There are bunch of clip art like icons - for example the bullet points are pencils emerging from symbols in circles: a dollar sign, a book, and a megaphone.

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Haven’t been online much but I wanted to share this op-ed I just published about the race in my hometown of #CambridgeMA between Rep. Marjorie Decker and @evanforcambridge.bsky.social I really put my heart in it and I hope you'll read and share … and if you live in the 25th district, vote for […]

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

long shot but looking for someone who can do a passable Earth Wind and Fire karaoke? I have an idea for a little project for a good cause…

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Jesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

Seems like these are the options if you have an ongoing need for distilled water: - $1.50 or more a gallon in a plastic container forever - an hour a day at the stove - $80 device that will fall apart in 6 months - $300 device

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Sometimes I wonder if we're so focused on using technology to "empower" people because we're afraid we'll never figure out how to use healthy, boundaried, empathic human relating to empower each other. The truth is the former can't succeed without the latter, and to the extent we manage the […]

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