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James Thompson

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 17/06/2025
Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995
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James Thompson @plainprogrammer.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This will be an important labor statistic moving forward, capturing this data consistently and accurately should help us make better AI policy. www.entrepreneur.com/business-new...
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New York Requiring Companies to Reveal If AI Caused Layoffs | Entrepreneur
New York has become the first state to require companies filing WARN notices to disclose if layoffs are due to AI, robotics, or other technological innovations.
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James Thompson @plainprogrammer.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
www.newsweek.com/florida-sher...
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Florida sheriff's ominous warning to rioters: "Kill you graveyard dead"
Recently, Trump sent 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles in response to protests that began on June 6.
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James Thompson @plainprogrammer.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Show up and speak out wherever you can. One Sherrif in FL already said his force is ready to kill protestors if you scare him and his deputies. Stay safe, stay alert, and take care of each other. www.nokings.org
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No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 12/06/2025
If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.
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Islands & Trains Game 🏝️ 🚂🚃🚃🚃 @islandsandtrains.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
it's a train, it's an island, it's relaxing 🚂🔧 and it will be out later today! ahhhh!!! 🥹
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James Thompson @plainprogrammer.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
We can observe some of how they categorize us by gender, age, and wealth — shaping their behavior towards us. Hopefully, greater understanding will help us identify and correct biases; ensuring LLMs remain helpful rather than another reinforcement of harmful stereotypes, or worse.
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James Thompson @plainprogrammer.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
An interesting look into the way LLMs form an understanding of their users. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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What AI Thinks It Knows About You
What happens when people can see what assumptions a large language model is making about them?
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James Thompson @plainprogrammer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
It helped me finish in a couple hours what would have been at least a solid day of effort unassisted. And, for around $15 in API usage, I appreciate the time savings for me.
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James Thompson @plainprogrammer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
It’s helped troubleshooting plugin setup, reorganizing my posts, adjusting my site’s theme, and plenty of other tasks.
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James Thompson @plainprogrammer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I’m rebuilding my personal blog with Jekyll, and Claude Code wrote a custom importer for my Medium content and helped me build excerpts for all my posts.
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James Thompson @plainprogrammer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Enjoying exploring different LLMs for #Ruby and #RubyOnRails — Claude Code is really impressing me on the whole.
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James Thompson @plainprogrammer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I've been happy with the face recognition for photos I've dug into so far. I hope to explore more of the search or organizing features this week.
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James Thompson @plainprogrammer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
So far, very well. I paired it with PhotoSync on my iPhone. With small DNS setup for my home network I was able to transfer 24k+ photos and 600+ videos in about a day and a half. I was also able to import my Google Photos Takeout backups by unpacking them in a folder under originals.
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James Thompson @plainprogrammer.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Enjoying getting @photoprism.app set up on my home server. Next to plain file storage and backup, photos are the single largest set of data I have. Another great step for me in moving to a #selfhosted #personalcloud future!
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Elon did the Nazi salute twice. TWICE.
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James Thompson @plainprogrammer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Watching Musk give a nazi salute not once, but twice, for a crowd of cheering fans is insane.
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Kent Beck @kentbeck.com · 04/12/2024
Response to www.forbes.com/sites/josipa... I'm going to live tweet my responses & convert to a post afterwards.
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The Great Tech Wake-Up Call: VCs Discover Billions Wasted On Inefficient Engineering Teams
A viral social media thread by tech industry figure Deedy Das has ignited a fierce debate about engineering productivity at some of America's largest technology compan...
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Kent Beck @kentbeck.com · 04/12/2024
"Mouse movement software" -- if one of my reports resorted to this, the first question I would ask myself is why I created the environment in which that is rational behavior. It's the environment that's interfering with productivity.
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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Subtitles aren’t just for deaf or hard of hearing players. They’re important for players in loud environments (who can’t use headphones), non-native speakers who rely on text to follow dialogue, and many neurodivergent folks who struggle to focus or process audio quickly. Just to mention few.
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