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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 31/08/2026

We continue to live in the absolute dumbest timeline imaginable.

Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 05/08/2026

Darryl Taft was a tech journalist who pursued his beat with a genuine interest in the people that made tech what it was. The world lost someone good today and it hits Baltimore right in the chest. 💔 I enjoyed every single interaction I had with Darryl. My condolences to everyone in his orbit. RIP

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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 21/07/2026

I can save you some tokens. You did poorly on your date. Asking a computer to evaluate an innately irrational and emotional situation is... perhaps missing the whole point?

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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Hunkerousness [HUNG-ker-us-nes] (n.) - Old fogy-ism; political conservatism; an inexplicable opposition to compassion, kindness, progress, and equality.

A “Grandiloquent Word of the Day” meme featuring the word “Hunkerousness,” with the pronunciation “[HUNG-ker-us-nes]” beneath it. The definition reads: “(n.) 1. Old fogy-ism; political conservatism; an inexplicable opposition to compassion, kindness, progress, and equality.” Below the definition is an example sentence: “The xenophobic party cheered each fresh act of cruelty as its hunkerousness metastasized into a cult of personality surrounding a bloated demagogue who trafficked in suspicion, cruelty, and anti-intellectualism.” On the right side is a detailed Victorian-style woodcut illustration of two men in top hats standing beneath a decorative arched structure.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

gamifying killing pedestrians

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 28/03/2026

anyway here’s @greatdismal.bsky.social in 2011 in Zero History describing the obsession with tactical clothing as a fetishized pursuit in a way that perfectly nails the combat cosplay of modern day ICE and BPD

"Young men who dress to feel they'll be mistaken for having special capability. A species of cosplay, really. En-demic. Lots of boys are playing soldier now. The men who run the world aren't, and neither are the boys most effectively bent on running it next. Or the ones who're actually having to be soldiers, of course. But many of the rest have gone gear-queer, to one extent or another."
"'Gear-queer?"
Bigend's teeth showed. "We had a team of cultural anthropologists interview American soldiers returning from Iraq. That's where we first heard it. It's not wholly derogatory, mind you. There are actual professionals who genuinely require these things—some of them, anyway.
Though they generally seem to be far less fascinated with them. But it's that fascination that interests us, of course."
"It is?"
"It's an obsession with the idea not just of the right stuff, but of the special stuff. Equipment fetishism. The costume and semiotics of achingly elite police and military units. Intense desire to possess same, of course, and in turn to be associated with that world. With its compe-tence, its cocksure exclusivity."
"Sounds like fashion, to me."
«Exactly. Pants, but only just the right ones. We could never have engineered so powerful a locus of consumer desire. It's like sex in a bottle."

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 27/03/2026

if you have been personally victimized by bhyve’s lack of nested virt, you may be entitled to compensation! see here for more information: oxide.computer/careers/sw-h...

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Operating System and Virtualization Engineer / Oxide

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 26/03/2026

I love the hope in @masnick.com's piece here (and appreciate being quoted), but I want to add an important bit of context — whether it's possible for LLMs to enable anything open to survive depends on who has power over those LLMs. Right now, that's fascists. Which is why the open web is in danger…

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I now join the chorus of folks looking for a job. I’ve got some software and systems engineering expertise, some AI/ML expertise, and I’ve been in a business seat for the past few years, meaning I know a lot more about how GTM, sales, etc works than I did. Let me know if you’d like to talk.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Lots of guys with backwards ball caps and truck nutz never gonna listen to Philip Glass again

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 18/01/2026

You know, many of us said the post 9/11 War on Terror measures were Orwellian bullshit at the time, from DHS to ICE. The Patriot Act was chilling as well. Some of us objected vociferously. Perhaps we didn't have the mics or the power, but we remember 2001-2005 as a terrible time in this country.

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 31/12/2025

A reminder that it's your last day for 2025 charitable giving. Food insecurity, homelessness, and reproductive health services are big on my list of targets but whatever yours are, now's the time to finish them if you haven't

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 28/12/2025

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

EVERY house we looked at in altadena had a high fire risk, so we looked and bought in Pasadena even though there was less inventory. EVERY house i looked at in Altadena burned in Eaton, four weeks after we closed. Eaton missed our house by five blocks. the risk rating worked. shame it’s gone.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

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🛰️ SATCOM Security

Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.

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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 11/10/2025

Wanted to look at the new line of Polk Audio speakers. Got about 5 pages into the site and got a Cloudflare block. I'm not using a VPN or anything else wonky. No more research into Polk for me. It's truly surprising how sensitive I am to being told I'm not wanted somewhere. I just go elsewhere. /1

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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 11/10/2025

This is wild. Fantastic journalism.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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James McEnaney @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Filling classrooms with computers didn't have the huge and positive impact on learning that was promised. Filling them with tablets hasn't done it either. I know this might sound absurd to many (especially politicians) but what if we filled them with highly skilled and properly supported educators?

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Jason Wright @astrowright.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

She basically invented astrophysics. She proved the laws of chemistry, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics, not just gravity, applied universally. She determined the composition of the sun and primacy of hydrogen in the universe. She advised the PhDs of Frank Drake and Frank Kameny.

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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 20/09/2025

Take care of your teeth. Try to be a better person each day, but don't hate yourself when you fall short; try again tomorrow.

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acmqueue.bsky.social @acmqueue.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Kode Vicious The Process: From start to finish While the Scientific Method gives us a way to evaluate a hypothesis, a Scientific Process allows us to organize our minds to form these hypotheses, lay out a piece of code, organize a project, or debug a program. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i...

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The Process - ACM Queue

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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 05/09/2025

Does anyone I know have (or have had) Sonesse (Somfy) roller shades? Can you share your thoughts and opinions and experiences?

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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 02/09/2025

Given what I'm seeing on email and on linkedin, the world seems intensely focused on (perhaps even desperate to be) deploying capital. Sign of the times. Make of it what you will.

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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 28/08/2025

I don't think anyone truly understands the scope and the consequences of this. 🍿

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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 09/06/2025

Unexpected things I did today: disassembled my generator control board to to meticulously clean out an ant infestation. Also reassembled it. I am not a big bug fan.

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acmqueue.bsky.social @acmqueue.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Develop, Deploy, Operate A holistic model for understanding the costs and value of software development: - Tensions between factors - 4 distinct forms of impact - Warning against measuring against unknown counterfactuals - Consensus mechanism for estimating DDR costs. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i...

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Develop, Deploy, Operate - ACM Queue

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Gwen Shapira @gwenshap.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

🚨 New blog alert: Postgres 18 beta 1 was released last week, and includes native support for UUIDv7. Great opportunity to explain why UUIDv7 is a great fit for your database keys, and show you how to use them in PG18. www.thenile.dev/blog/uuidv7

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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 18/05/2025

Okay my Samsung just updated and the new "sided" visor pull-down behavior is fucking obnoxious. Who asked for this? Feels optimized for lefties. At least let me left-right swap the top status bar if you're committed to keeping this mistake.

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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 18/05/2025

Браво Црно Горо! Поносан сам.

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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 16/04/2025

This is an opportunity for the EU to step up and provide an implementation. No one will both going back.

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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 10/04/2025

I've decided to set up a small electronics lab in my basement. Partly inspired by tariffs, but also I never felt like learned enough to be comfortably productive in my EE program at Hopkins. Wish me luck.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This is inaccurate. There is no known vulnerability with Signal's core tech. The memo was discussing phishing attempts, which Signal has worked to mitigate. And it was hastily reported. It's important not to spread misinfo that can confuse people into moving away from meaningfully private comms.

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

You wouldn't know from reading this New York Times story about Trump punishing the University of Pennsylvania for trans athletes that there are no trans athletes on women's teams at the University of Pennsylvania because the New York Times didn't find that detail worth including

A news article headline reads, "White House Plans to Pause $175 Million for Penn Over Transgender Policy." The subheadline states that the decision is part of a broader effort to push universities to end diversity programming and adopt stricter discipline. Below the text is a photograph of a historic building on the University of Pennsylvania's campus, with a statue in the foreground and leafless trees framing the image. The article is authored by Alan Blinder and Michael C. Bender, published on March 19, 2025.

A news article continues discussing the Trump administration's decision to suspend $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania due to its policies regarding transgender athletes. The article references a White House social media account announcing the move, citing Penn's support of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas as a justification. A response from Penn states that they have not received official notification and assert they are in compliance with all relevant regulations.

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