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Warren F.

@pscookiemonster.bsky.social
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Systems Engineer with a penchant for PowerShell, science, cooking, information security, family, cookies, and the Oxford comma.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 05/09/2026
You know, honestly, more than monetary donations, if somebody worked at a company that had access to a lot of 18 terabyte and larger hard drives and could talk to us, that's where we are really suffering. The internet archive has no special priority in buying hard drives and those things are insane.
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
If you have time to browse bluesky this weekend, you have time to submit your comment on the proposed OMB rule to politicize science funding agencies. This one is important. Here's my comment if some inspiration will help. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/submit-your-...
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Submit your OMB comment this weekend.
This one is important. It's due on Monday.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Just had Canvas stop working as I was typing comments on a student paper. I now can’t access anyone’s work or grades. Strangely, this never happened back when I used a grade book and had students email me their papers, a system no shareholders extracted money from.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/07/2025
a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This is going to be the vibe coding version of the Chernobyl disaster, a wholly preventable failure caused by a combination of hubris, incompetence and design flaws.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/09/2024
genAI is a threat to knowledge and information systems and is eroding public trust in technology at a fast pace and will eventually shred social fabrics that hold us together
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 17/08/2024
JFC Nate Silver’s new book is over 450 pages. Was the advance not big enough to afford an editor?!?
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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 29/08/2023
some people who make programming easier (who am I missing?)
some people who make programming easier:

- the loud newbie
- the grumpy old timer
- the bug chronicler
- the documentarian
- the “today I learned..."
- the “I’ve read the entire internet"
- the tool builder
- the question answerer
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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 04/08/2023
behind "hello world" on Linux jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/03/behind--hel…
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17/07/2023
Openness is key for fundamental research & for making informed choices for or against deployment of LLM+RLHF architectures. The closed & proprietary nature of ChatGPT makes it fundamentally unfit for responsible use in research and education. arxiv.org/abs/2307.05532 great paper!
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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
I wrote about what makes Threads so depressing
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Facebook's Threads is so depressing
Like a $19 turkey sandwich at an airport
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 02/07/2023
New paper! On Hate Scaling Laws For Data-Swamps arxiv.org/abs/2306.13141
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