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Quentin

@quentincole.bsky.social
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Woodworker, designer, developer, sarcastic cynic, occasional barbecuer.

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Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net · 09/05/2025
“I’d rather read the prompt” Clayton Ramsey grades student assignments and gets papers that are just obviously ChatGPT output. I think any of us can spot it by now: awkward repetitive prose, heavy on bullet points with bold intro words, wordy, etc. There is nothing to be done about it. As an…
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“I’d rather read the prompt”
Clayton Ramsey grades student assignments and gets papers that are just obviously ChatGPT output. I think any of us can spot it by now: awkward repetitive prose, heavy on bullet points with bold intro words, wordy, etc. There is nothing to be done about it. As an instructor, I am always saddened to read this. The ChatGPT rhetorical style is distinctive enough that I can catch it, but not so distinctive to be worth passing along to an honor council.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The journalistic malpractice in this country is crazy. They understand their new role perfectly fine. It’s the American people (well, journalists) that do not appear to have shifted their mindset. They’re doing exactly what they were hired to do.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We have spent far too much time talking about how we should navigate an economy/job market/creative industry flooded with AI, and not nearly enough time talking about why we should be pushing back against it, and not just for IP theft reasons.
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Mr. Beverages @mrbeverages.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
why the hell does everyone want social media to be a debate zone. fuck off! debate my balls!
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Man, turns out the entire tech industry is ran by sniveling, cowardly, greedy losers. Quelle surprise www.theverge.com/command-line...
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Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation
Musk wasn’t happy about the speech on Reddit.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
23andMe is filing for bankruptcy — so, you should reach out to your family members who might have ordered these kits to get them to request deletion of their data. And if you signed-up yourself, you should absolutely do the same!
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dame @dame.is · 20/03/2025
everything started going downhill when people replaced “surfing the web” with “scrolling social media”
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
But hey, at least he isn’t a woman, right?
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Your outie applauds when a guy who keeps crashing rockets into the ocean dispatches unproven AI to sift through your private financial data.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This is basically what every tech announcement sounds like to me nowadays.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Going down a flat earth twitter rabbit hole is a weird way to start your day.
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
It turns out “Idiocracy” was overly optimistic.
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It's also worth noting that this is what people have chosen *instead* of revolution. Inequality is at an all time high. But instead of radicalizing people towards equity, we have a bunch of individuals telling themselves if they can just screw other people *harder" that'll help them get ahead.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 02/03/2025
I haven't changed my tone on crypto from day one. This reserve is the Big Scam(tm). I don't argue with y'all. I don't pretend that my decades of academic and lived experience are equal to your 2 second searches and misplaced confidence. I'm not here to make you feel more knowledgeable than you are
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
And this is obviously applying to so much more than Go.
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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I owe an apology to all James Bond movies. I mocked them for having completely unrealistic, cartoonish villains that simply weren't believable. 2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Facts matter.
Social media post by Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner
) with the text: 'If you include aid that’s been promised but not yet allocated, Europe is putting twice as much money towards supporting Ukraine.' The post includes a bar chart titled 'Aid Promised to Ukraine: US vs Europe,' showing the US has promised $125 billion ($120 spent in the US, $5 spent outside) and Europe has promised $259 billion ($138 allocated, $121 promised). The chart, labeled 'My @Morning_Joe
 chart,' cites sources from the Kiel Institute and CSIS, with red and blue bars representing the US and Europe, respectively.
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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
THIS IS A NAZI SALUTE. BASTA.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Everything is just gambling and schemes now.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I’m so happy to see people and platforms embracing portability and APIs again. But also nothing anyone says on Twitter has ever been worth taking elsewhere. Embrace impermanence.
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
“The fact that Sam Altman can ship such mediocre software and get more coverage and attention than every meaningful scientific breakthrough of the last five years combined is a sign that our society is sick, our media is broken, and that the tech industry thinks we're all fucking morons.”
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The Generative AI Con
It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st ...
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I guess I’ve been kind of looking for a reason to stop Using AirBnB anyway. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Airbnb’s co-founder is joining Elon Musk’s DOGE
Gebbia, a close friend of Musk, has praised DOGE’s work and defended it against criticisms on social media
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Men in aerospace: if you are serious about supporting women and other 'minorities', then you need to stand up now and start arming yourselves with knowledge because it is frankly embarrassing how few of you have ever read a book on racism or sexism. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Your imposter syndrome should have died laughing at this point. You're doing great. You didn't author a bill to rename Greenland "Red, White, and Blueland." You can do anything.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Everyone is all “AI is the answer” But they don’t tell you that the question was “how can we make society dumber”
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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
If AI saves us time, we’ll fill the time with other tasks — such is the promise of AI *not* taking our jobs. The idea that we’ll gain time is a total fallacy.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The pro-Palestinian protests have to be the most ineffective, counterproductive “activism” I’ve ever seen. They demand all of the credit for their so-called activism, but none of the responsibility for its failure. They will sacrifice millions of lives for a pat on the back and a gotcha.
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Riley Cran @rileycran.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Blue Sky recreates a phenomenon from ‘old internet’ where you will be scrolling along and then there will just be a link to a cool article that you’d like to read. It’s sad how so much of the modern internet has scrubbed this idea. It’s a network. You’re supposed to explore around it.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/02/2025
Today I'm appreciating the "detach quote" function quite a bit, it's nice to be reminded that there's a "You don't have to involuntarily take part in this person's attempt at discourse" option here in the sky
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I mean me. I will be unpleasant. But I can promise that it will not include actively trying to harm you and yours through our policies. Regardless of what you fear and what you've been told, that's not our thing.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I’m so tired of seeing random twitter/Bluesky folks saying “do something”. This is on you/us. The “do something” people largely washed their hands of participating and think it’s someone else’s responsibility. Get off your ass and out of your comfort zone. Stop hiding from how hard this is/will be
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
JFC
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
They have made it extremely clear they have no intention of representing the entire country.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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Tim E. o’Danaos & Don A. Ferentis (Structural Woodworkers) Ltd. @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This moose remembers the Guild of Radical Militant Librarians artwork that the Patriot Act spawned. Well done, all of you. 3:O)>
Seal of the Guild of Radical Militant Librarians, centre is a stylised open book with the motto underneath "Scimus quae legis, et non dicimus" (We know what you read and we're not telling) and the date MMV (2005). It was available from many sources as T-shirt art and book bags, etc.
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Jennifer Goodland @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The library where I worked at the time did not successfully fulfill a single Patriot Act request. Not that this is relevant to the current situation. I assure you this is a random memory that popped into my head with zero prompting.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“Mandate”
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John Gruber @gruber.foo · 29/01/2025
Don’t let anyone tell you this guy is popular or that the country is trending his way. Just isn’t true. Never was.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
It’s now effectively illegal in this country to question or criticize Israel. How’s that free speech feeling?
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
What is it going to take for journalists to go back to actual journalism rather than just parroting what they are told? “X says Y”, and a few paragraphs of fluff that doesn’t actually question the validity of what they said, is not a story. Especially when Y is false.
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Julie Ingersoll @julieingersoll.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I beg you if you haven't read any of Project 2025 please do! The first 16 pages tell you a lot. We need to stop being shocked by everything. This is a plug-&-play administration & it's all right there. Once we're clear-eyed about where it's going we can focus on what, if anything, we can do about it
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cageyratfish (UTC-7) 🐟🏳️‍⚧️ @cageyratfish.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Mel Brooks was a fucking genius. Which is not to say that relentless mockery is *enough* to defeat fascists. many more strategies are desperately needed, but whooo do those fuckers HATE being mocked. THAT will never change, as long as fascists continue to walk this earth (may that time be short).
Excerpt from Wikipedia article about Mel Brooks' first feature film, "The Producers":

When imagining what play "would have people packing up and leaving the theatre even before the first act is over" Brooks decided to combine Adolf Hitler and a musical. 

Brooks, in a 2001 episode of 60 Minutes, stated that, while serving in the army, he was called "Jew boy", and he lightheartedly admitted that he made The Producers to "get even" with antisemites, particularly Hitler. 

In another interview, he further explained his reasoning, stating,
"More than anything the great Holocaust by the Nazis is probably the great outrage of the 20th century. There is nothing to compare with it. And ... so what can I do about it? If I get on the soapbox and wax eloquently, it'll be blown away in the wind, but if I do Springtime for Hitler it'll never be forgotten. I think you can bring down totalitarian governments faster by using ridicule than you can with invective."
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Is it even possible to find product reviews for generalized searches that aren’t just “here are the best products I can get a good Amazon affiliates kickback on”? I don’t want to find out the best product on Amazon, I want the best product.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 22/01/2025
“On social media, ideas spread widely simply because they are emotionally compelling or evocative. Through mass repetition, ludicrous fictions can become accepted as true.” Will Stancil writes on the dangers of new media, and how it is “killing democracy.” Read here: zeteo.com/p/the-intern...
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
In the past 8 years Dems have told the simple truth, called the thing by its name, and talked about the reality in front of its face. But not in whatever abstract was some people wanted, so we get back on the merry-go-round of “burn it all down and hope someone else does something about it”.
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 20/01/2025
Saying that AI can "help you come up with ideas" is such a tell. I've literally never known a single creative person who has said "Wow, I wish I had more ideas". Ideas are everywhere. There is not an ideas shortage and never will be. Claiming that's the bottleneck tells me you have zero imagination.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I BET DEI DID THIS
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The future is stupid.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Why is everything just hyperbolic nonsense nowadays? Just because you disagree or misunderstand the reasons doesn’t make them “dubious”. Even smart people are getting dumber thanks to social media.
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