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Quentin

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

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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
*wins
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Wind are a team stat, not a QB stat. Mahomes may still be the better QB, but wins aren’t the stat line to make the argument for him.
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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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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Splitting hairs at this point, no?
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
We have CIA black sites, Guantanamo Bay, and now we even ship Americans and legal immigrants to Venezuelan prisons. So, yeah, we do that too.
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Mr. Booverages @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 · 13/04/2025
“We must tolerate all views” is itself fundamentally flawed, even for the people who want to be as tolerant as possible. Not all views deserve to be heard. Not all opinions are valid. Not all feelings are real. Despite recent recent history, you can’t just make up your own reality.
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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 · 17/03/2025
Well, that’s unfortunate.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
“Less people do my kind of coding, so it’s more high-IQ” has to be the lowest IQ take I’ve seen in a while. Who are these people?
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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 · 06/03/2025
This rules, did you model these yourself? Can you share the files?
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Quit chrome first
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
They just did a search for “trans” and flagged everything.
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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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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The work is mysterious and important. (the work is figuring out how to get people to click ads)
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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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🎃Autopsy of 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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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If AI eats that whole low-level workload, what’s the pathway to become a senior designer? I see a lot of senior/design-influencer folks talking about how no one should fear AI because of “taste” and none of them seem to appreciate the learning process of relative-grunt work we all went through.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
But, that being said—junior level designers are (well, should be) currently going through the equivalent of what medical residents do—low level tasks supervised by experienced designers with the purpose of teaching them the skills/processes/taste necessary to be successful. 2/
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Well, to start, we aren’t performing surgery. Neither the schooling nor the workforce development process for software designers should be approached with that mentality. In my opinion the industry, and especially design “influencers”, has a bit of an overblown sense of self worth…
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Sure, but if AI kills all the entry/junior/production level stuff, which it is poised to do—at the very least, massively constrict the market for such—what happens to the development pipeline that creates and refines the skills/style/taste? A whole lot of people seem to forget the learning they did.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Whoa, love this
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I also tried to curate a different feed here because what I had on Twitter was a drag. Then I mistakenly followed a bunch of independent journalists trying to support better journalism, and, welp, it’s all back to the same bullshit. I need to leverage Bluesky features better to curate things.
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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
It’s the opposite of thinking…
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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 · 10/02/2025
Except it kind of showed that their product is pretty underwhelming outside of the hype bubble.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Telling you how ineffective you were isn’t the same as supporting genocide. But it’s clear you lack any capacity for even the slightest nuance here.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Pointing out how ineffective the “movement” was isn’t whining.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
That seems to be a common problem for you.
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Quentin @quentincole.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
That you failed at a different thing doesn’t mean you didn’t fail.
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