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Neil Kandalgaonkar

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Manitoba & 4th, Vancouver

Laura’s Coffee Shop, a humble and inexpensive Chinese-Canadian restaurant,, a relic of earlier times in Mount Pleasant

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I’m volunteering at Software You Can Love 2026! I am wearing the first Zig program I ever wrote. I feel like I’m getting away with something. Met the whole Zig core team for the cost of handing people microphones during Q&As softwareyoucan.love

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I often walk into bookstores and get overwhelmed with choice. I kinda wish bookstores would just have one book No choice, this week you’re getting The Brothers Kamarazov and you’ll like it

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

If you did Main Street Car Free Day in Vancouver, I might have tried to start a conversation with you about Your Plans For The October Election?? And Have You Heard About OneCityVancouver?? I'm sorry. Except, I also saw Christine Boyle and asked those questions […] [Original post on xoxo.zone]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Should somebody call a SWAT team to Anthropic HQ because they are posting multiple threats that they’ve got 8.3 billion people hostage

Drake Thomas, apparently an Anthropic employee, posting on X on 2026-09-10

> I would burn my equity to the ground in a heartbeat for a 1% higher chance we make it out of this situation alive. I expect a great many of my colleagues across the industry would as well.
> I promise you, we are actually just fucking scared, it's not galaxy brained marketing.

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Strange pivot from @evan, Ten Ways to Grow The Metaverse? #Fedicon

Screenshot of livestream from Fedicon 2026, showing Evan Prodmorou giving a talk on “Ten Ways to Grow the Fediverse”. This isn’t an isolated mistake, the livestream’s automated captions consistently render “fediverse” as “metaverse”

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

I met an enthusiastic young Leninist yesterday. They are poring over old college courses from Vietnam in their gaming Discord group. By their own admission, they know almost nothing of 20th century history It got me thinking about the classic novel Darkness at […] [Original post on xoxo.zone]

And so every leap of technical progress brings with it a relative intellectual regression of the masses, a decline in their political maturity. At times it may take decades or even generations before the collective consciousness gradually catches up to the changed order and regains the capacity to govern itself that it had formerly possessed at a lower stage of civilization.

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Thinking about the sci-fi novella "Profession" by Isaac Asimov, published in 1957. In the future, people's brains are tested for professional aptitudes, and then "Educated" by machine which trains their mind to do a job. One man is told his brain cannot be […] [Original post on xoxo.zone]

An excerpt from Profession (1957), novella by Isaac Asimov. While technically not out of copyright, many copies are available on the web

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