Reposted by Nate VackElena Wicker @elenawicker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Going full mad scientist in my kitchen replicating how the U.S. Army printed orders and maps in the trenches of the Western Front… (Just a very normal research day.) 712320
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 05/10/20261982!!!!!!! I am torn between wishing I had seen one of these and being very glad I have not 000
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I don't think I will ever celebrate the death of a person, but there are people for whom I will not shed a tear 000
Reposted by Nate VackAntigone @antigoneinthebes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026People don’t realize how serious the situation is. 371460360
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The state of enterprise security tooling is frankly baffling to me. We're still waiting on <vendor> for macOS 27 support three weeks after launch. They're waiting on <vendor> for SDK support somehow they broke filevault and firewall detection in *27; how I have no idea 100
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Dear Senators: Before you bring your weird-ass conspiracy theory to the floor, paste it in to ChatGPT and ask "does this make sense, can you find any obvious holes" 000
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026<whisper> You have absolutely heard “Choosin’ Texas” you just haven’t noticed it 010
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Genie: <raises eyebrow slyly> Master, what is your first wish? Me: I wish for world peace. <raises finger> But! I have some stipulations. I want you do this by killing everyone in the world except Steve from marketing. And don't just disappear them, have them literally die and decompose. 100
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026it's weird, what things are cheap on Amazon/eBay/Etsy versus McMaster-Carr 3/8" O1 steel rod? Way cheaper from McMaster. (Yes, you'll pay shipping.) And my experience ordering tool steel from Amazon has been Not Great. "Annealed, except for the edges where we used a plasma cutter" 010
Reposted by Nate VackKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually 11896951920
Reposted by Nate VackAsterix Archiv 🐗 @comedix.de · 20/09/2026Eine schöne Bastel- und Malarbeit. Manchmal trägt Obelix den Hinkelstein. Manchmal ist Obelix der Hinkelstein. Dürfte nicht leicht gewesen sein, diesen Stein zu finden. #Asterix #Fanart 162722632
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 19/09/2026At Back to School night for my high school junior, her English teacher said something that has wedged in my brain: "We used to read novel in class, but so many kids said they just weren't readers, so now we do short stories and poetry" 100
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026chat is this good www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...cnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 000
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Not that anyone need care about my rule of thumb on this, but: If there is a reasonable chance that you will someday write a performance review or letter of recommendation for a person, you should actively avoid nudity with them. Yes, that constrains managers more than reports. Sorry. 131
Reposted by Nate VackFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026like if I can get one thing right in my life, it’s being “not very susceptible to joining a millenarian AI sex cult” 71957
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026You can believe, or not, that there is an X% chance of AI killing all the humans. But! It's pretty inarguable that AI has made a bunch of things in the world way worse, even while it's made some things better. And it's reasonable to try and find ways to mitigate those harms through regulation 100
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026One delight I have gotten to see over a few decades at the University is watching how we have gone through... three? major HR migrations, each of which has yielded software substantially worse then the prior version 100
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026oh my god there is so much stuff on the internet, actual real content, that just screams "my name is Claude and I wrote these words" 000
Reposted by Nate Vack🎃 damned316 @dxmnkd316.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My brain can’t handle longyud, the sankey chart, these feet, and kash patel horse posts all in one day 0828
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The wildest thing about 9/11 is that if things had gone slightly differently, the hijackers would have been caught beforehand and we would have spent a week clowning on some idiots who thought they could hijack airliners with box cutters and flight sim training and that would've been it 100
Reposted by Nate VackFlukeman @flukeman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026oh my god (source: www.instagram.com/reel/DdL76P3...) 27225
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Honestly if a politician said something like “there’s three kinds of people: straight women, gay guys, and people with genetic abnormalities” I… might tell people I really don’t appreciate that language at all Might not donate to his campaign either 140
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026And you may ask yourself: “Am I right or am I wrong?” And you may ask yourself: “Who made the first taco? What did they put in it?” 000
Reposted by Nate VackMatt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 11/09/2026shout-out to my friend who has been using “down bad” to mean “having a stressful time” for several months and has just now learned its actual meaning 1325722
Reposted by Nate VackStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026In a lot of ways, the public has too gamified a perception of war but in a weird way, also not enough of one. “Why is my little sister driving fast and lobbing turtle shells at me in Mario Kart?” is clearly a silly question. 255536
Reposted by Nate VackStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026In a cosmic sort of way, reading American analysis of the Iran War is darkly hilarious. “Iran is shooting at the navy blockading them during a war. What does it mean?” 2788498
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Dang! I had no idea Voltron was older than me. As a kid, I thought of Voltron as basically eternal. There was no time before Voltron 010
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think Trump is a little confused; obviously that would have been the Secret Service pulling him from danger during his 2001-2005 Presidential term 000
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026www.theverge.com/tech/991190/... For now, you can turn off your television’s wifi and ethernet; there’s no particular reason they can’t start shipping TVs with a cellular modem though “It’s, um, to ensure your TV’s software is up to date for the latest features and security!”theverge.comLG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standbyGamers Nexus comes for LG again. 001
Reposted by Nate VackChuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026ENJOY YOUR LABOR DAY BUCKAROOS 132446717
Reposted by Nate VackShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/20244 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day. On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga 566130123299
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Genuinely looking forward to Trump making 35 campaign stops in the last 30 days before midterms to throw his support behind candidates in tight races. This is the most useful thing he could be doing for the country right now; I hope he does even more rallies than that. Can't afford to look weak 000
Reposted by Nate VackRichard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction. 1162958672
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026UI Rant: If typing in a box generates a dropdown list, once you have started showing items in that list, reordering those items (other than filtering as you continue typing) is not okay. Even if the data are coming in over time and there is a better match that belongs on top 100
Reposted by Nate Vackslate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 03/09/2026he got him. he finally fucking got him 8657851300
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026say what you will about the president but he always thanks you for your attention to matters it’s very polite in my opinion 000
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Have we considered the possibility that the majority of the Supreme Court actually hates the Supreme Court 000
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Similarly! Most of the guardrails in agent harnesses (claude code, etc) are _advisory_ in nature. Agents work by executing commands LLMs write. They can and occasionally do ignore harnesses settings like ”manual mode” 150
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026If you do not have an answer to this while running for Senate in Minnesota... probably the best spin her office could release is "she was having a medical emergency but the doctors say she will be okay" In any case the correct answer is mini donuts. Sweet Martha's is safe, but a coward's answer 000
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026And I hope our Canadian friends also know we understand that it’s time to play hardball with the US. 020
Reposted by Nate VackFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2026How could you block something this beautiful 1115611
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I am embarrassed on behalf of Texas Instruments over the quality of their TI-84 batteries. The calculator shipped with a bad battery, I got a warranty replacement, and the replacement lasted lesa than a year. Going with a cheap knockoff for reliability reasons 000
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Coward-ass president doesn't even sign an order to rename Canada to "Little America" 100
Nate Vack @njvack.bsky.social · 26/08/2026when you realize you are in a lower circle of hell than Lindsey Graham 020
