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Theo Schlossnagle

@postwait.lethargy.org
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Husband, Father, Entrepreneur, Investor, Farmer

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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 13h
Thank you for being who you are.
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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 30/09/2026
Sigh. No imagination required. I've been to many. It's a twilight zone where the only shared language is a random, often aggressive, hyper-local interpretation of toxic masculinity and it smells like disappointment.
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Oxide Computer Company @oxide.computer · 24/09/2026
We're excited to partner with Carahsoft: together we're enabling public sector organizations to own their cloud with the on-premises Oxide Cloud Computer: buff.ly/XuY5YeV
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Oxide Computer Company and Carahsoft Partner to Bring On-Premises Cloud Computing to the Public Sector | Oxide Computer Company
The Oxide Cloud Computer, purpose-built rack-scale infrastructure, is now available to government agencies through Carahsoft and its reseller partners.
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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 19/09/2026
I want one of those!
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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 18/09/2026
Deep and sincere congratulations!
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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 31/08/2026
We continue to live in the absolute dumbest timeline imaginable.
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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 16/08/2026
Tudo bem.
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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 · 28/07/2026
Tem um bom dia!
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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 27/07/2026
Being a plumber is an awesome job. No one should be "put on" any path: plumber, cashier, doctor, professor, secretary... I'd be proud of my child if they became a doctor, a teacher, an engineer, an electrician, a plumber, or a professor... We need to remove stigma from different jobs.
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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 23/07/2026
I used to run an SMTP-level filter that issued a GET against every URL in every email that passed by. The outcomes were pretty wild. It was mostly a test of how many people had state altering outcomes attached to GETs. Spoiler: not as often as you'd think, but the offenders were BAD.
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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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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 20/07/2026
Always a mistake
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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 15/07/2026
Weed.
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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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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 06/06/2026
Ken is on fire today. 🔥
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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 23/05/2026
That is the case here. I expect a 2-3x bottle price at a food venue vs a dedicated wine/liquor shop. Having that sub 1x remains a crime in my book...
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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 23/05/2026
Over-priced wine is always a crime. Good or bad.
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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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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 23/05/2026
You have described a crime.
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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 14/05/2026
This is the way
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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 29/04/2026
Worth a read pebblebed.com/blog/intelli...
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"Intelligence" is not a technical term. Hardness is. - Pebblebed
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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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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 22/03/2026
I will say the singularly annoying aspect of using any phone infrequently is the myriad updates required. Definitely bring it up on wifi a few days before your trip starts to apply updates ad nauseum.
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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 22/03/2026
I got an unlocked Samsung A32 a few years back and just keep it a drawer for trips. It was cheap and it works and my experience has been positive. I have different reasons, but I think it should satisfy your use case well.
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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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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 15/03/2026
Might I suggest it be followed by a #MeatIn day. That should satisfy the farmers. I'll support both days with fervor. share.google/Wa8ukpYbcgBC...
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Maryland Farmers Push Back After Governor Declares ‘MeatOut Day’ - The BayNet
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The Maryland Farm Bureau is voicing concerns about a recent proclamation by Wes Moore recognizing March 20 as “MeatOut Day,” saying the observance does not reflect the contributions o...
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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 04/03/2026
I mean. If it violates the terms of service to block that account, then maybe disallow blocking that account? What a tragic UX issue. 🤡
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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 02/03/2026
I hope it brings your AGI self joy to see them received?
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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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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 23/02/2026
I never uploaded them. Not sure if I have a log in. I'll dig around.
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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 23/02/2026
How do you pull papers on which you have authorship?
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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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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 21/01/2026
How the World Was One. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the...
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How the World Was One - Wikipedia
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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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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 14/01/2026
Some weird shit bouncing around in here too.
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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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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 09/12/2025
Worse than simply being completely unavailable for the whole flight.
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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 01/12/2025
I really enjoy Vegas (in moderation) and I spend ZERO time in casinos unless I'm walking through them to get from A to B.
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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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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 29/11/2025
I have and will continue to use the best minimal system prompt: ;
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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 27/11/2025
Me, in the kitchen.
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Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org · 20/11/2025
Reminds me of early Beastie Boys a bit. Thematically.
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