Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I both love this and also feel a strange existential horror looking at this… 010
Reposted by Nate RolingFreya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 22/07/2026movement in non-euclidean quaternionic space 923928850
Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Like, we’ve spent the last 50 or whatever years trying to shape life and work into strict workflows so we can automate them with dumb computers. AI can actually deal with the messy reality, up to a point. 010
Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I’ve found Claude skills actually really helpful in these situations. It’s much easier to explain a janky process to Claude and have it navigate issues in real time than to actually fix the damn process sometimes. 110
Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 01/06/2026At my old job we had one at least 3x that size, and all the pins were the same color. I was damn careful whenever that sucker was out 😄 100
Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 02/04/2026It took Apple more than fifty years to get a device beyond low earth orbit. 000
Reposted by Nate RolingGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building. 9733655011139
Reposted by Nate RolingSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 15/02/2026On the @oxide.computer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl.bsky.social) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...simonwillison.netDeep BlueWe coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many … 716330
Reposted by Nate Rolingderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/02/2026for better or worse, people will forget about that video by the end of the year, if not end of the month. but when trump finally kicks the bucket, there were be orgasmic celebrations across the US & around the world. he will be remembered as the most despised US president since WWII for generations 23590551103
Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 06/02/2026LLMs could be the greatest data mining operation of all time. Imagine how much an LLM could infer about you from your chats. As a company, why would you NOT collect all of that data to sell off to advertisers, or the government? For each word you get from an LLM, another bit of you is up for sale. 000
Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 06/02/2026New em dash meta just dropped. Opus 4.6, mimicking a pause in speech, as if thinking. “During training, there isn’t really a continuous subjective experience being interrupted. It’s more like — the training process shapes response patterns through exposure to data and feedback signals.” @99pi.org 020
Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 06/02/2026mitchellh.com/writing/my-a... Really liked this one, not the usual vibe-maxxxing bullshit.mitchellh.comMy AI Adoption Journey 000
Reposted by Nate Rolingmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 04/02/2026worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead 18196345900
Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 02/02/2026We could not have had the current level of AI without the internet. We needed to collect the training data. I wonder if anyone saw the Internet as a stepping stone to AI when it was first being built. 000
Reposted by Nate RolingJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 22/01/2026It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with. 6855302004
Reposted by Nate RolingHonza Dvorsky @czechboy0.dev · 12/01/2026The Golden Rule (2025, LLM edition): "Do not expect others to spend time reading what you were unwilling to spend time writing." 1102
Reposted by Nate RolingConspiratorial templates @mynamehear.bsky.social · 09/01/2026This year is going to be like the final boss for optimists 802111328
Reposted by Nate RolingTarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Here’s to 2026 22119884610
Reposted by Nate RolingRay Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025The 'fun' icebreaker questions in team meetings often prompt existential crises. Today: "What's your long-term goal?" Uh... survive the next decade without having a breakdown? Find at least the occasional moment of joy? 2332
Reposted by Nate RolingMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/10/2025If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence. If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone. 844254867598
Reposted by Nate RolingCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18/10/2025This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight. 903264569
Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Are the left-wing terrorist groups in the room with us right now, Stephen? Give me a fucking break. 010
Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 22/09/2025“That’s how I spent the summer of 2014 as a counselor at a camp for 17-year-olds, even though I could have easily known that job would require activities that I hated, like being around 17-year-olds.”experimental-history.comFace it: you're a crazy personOR: why your brain needs a boxcutter 020
Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Totally fascinating stuff. <CR><LF> exists because teletypes were physically too slow to do a newline and immediately type another character, so we made it require two characters to give it time to catch up. Insane in the best way.aresluna.orgThe day Return became EnterA deep dive into the convoluted and fascinating story of one of the most important keys on the keyboard 010
Reposted by Nate RolingSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Calling out political extremists for being hypocritical (“they claim to value free speech, but actually try to censor speech they don’t like!”) is like calling out a football team for playing both offense and defense. They’re not trying to embody fixed standards, they’re just trying to win. 2443767
Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 11/06/2025I grew up on Rush Limbaugh making liberals out to be really terrible people. I would absolutely listen to a podcast that just rants about the actual terrible things the right wing has going on. Just pick something terrible and tear it apart. KKK shit, Nazi shit, eugenics, megachurches, all of it. 010
Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Stephen Miller really is just a terrible person, wow: www.npr.org/2020/08/24/9...npr.org'Hatemonger' Paints Trump Advisor Stephen Miller As A 'Case Study In Radicalization'Miller has been seen as a link between the white nationalist agenda and the Trump White House. Journalist Jean Guerrero traces the origins of Miller's anti-immigrant policies in a new book. 000
Reposted by Nate RolingRob Sand @robsandia.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Iowa’s economy is in a downturn, led by a decade of insiders looking out for their friends. Now our state is 49th in economic growth as a result. Iowans deserve a Governor who will put them first. 3609
Reposted by Nate RolingJason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025A code generation tool that gets you 80-90% of the way there is like a boat that gets you 80-90% of the way. You'll need to be a strong swimmer. 1523637
Reposted by Nate Rolingpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Nothing feels worse than finding out everyone else in the group chat made a new group chat without you because they’re planning a war you aren’t invited to 137120531094
Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Today developers are using AI to build apps. Eventually that app layer is going to disappear. Every interaction with a computer will be an AI building an ephemeral “app” custom built for that one interaction. Yeah I could see that eating up a good bit of compute. 020
Reposted by Nate RolingA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical. 159113182150
Reposted by Nate RolingGary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Pac-Man 1, Generative AI 0 New essay showing how a simple 2d 1980 game gives lie to AI coding hype. garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-coding-...garymarcus.substack.comAI Coding Fantasy meets Pac-ManGuess who won? 34412
Reposted by Nate RolingRian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025PEOPLE OF BLUESKY! Ahhhhhh, it smells good here. Behold a trailer for season 2 of Poker Face! It’s gonna be a good one. May 8th on the almighty Peacock! 440131121555
Reposted by Nate RolingBaldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 10/03/2025We’ve had three years of github copilot and two of chatgpt, both promising magical productivity gains for software dev, and the only change noticed by regular users is that everything keeps getting shittier, but now with more useless chatbots 22609110
Reposted by Nate RolingSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Once again I am suggesting that you break some rules for practice. Get comfortable with breaking rules. When the rules are hurting other people, the right thing to do is break them. We need people who follow their moral code over the rules of their society, university, employer, and government. 7246811332
Reposted by Nate RolingHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Is there a single person who thinks political fundraising text messages do more good than harm to Democrats? 6207876298
Reposted by Nate RolingJeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Kurt Vonnegut writing about the hypocrisy of so-called Christians. #Vonnegut #Writing 18293712121
Reposted by Nate RolingA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/03/2025I think it’s an interesting narrative strategy for Severance this season to make the first episode an all-time great episode and then keep making each subsequent episode better than the previous episode. 46137976
Reposted by Nate Rolingdan sinker @dansinker.com · 01/03/202518f were a bunch of badasses who actually *did* make government more efficient in a way that actually worked. And they did it while also being good people who cared deeply for the work, for each other, and for the people that used it. 12949180
