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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 16/09/2026

See you in Krakow! A city I first learned of as a kid through this Calvin and Hobbes strip. #KotlinConf

Panel 1: Shot of a spaceship flying by a ringed planet.

Calvin: "Fearless Spaceman Spiff closes in on the fleeing Zargons!"

Panel 2: Closer shot of spaceship.

Calvin: "One again our hero is about to teach vicious alien scum that virtue is its own reward! He locks onto target!"

Panel 3: Cut to Susie sitting in a classroom, furtively looking behind her.

Susie: "Psst, Calvin! What was the capital of Poland until 1600?
Calvin (from off-panel): Krakow.

Panel 4: Wider show of classroom, showing Calvin sitting behind Susie, miming piloting a spaceship

Susie: "Thanks."
Calvin: "Krakow! Krakow! Two direct hits!"

Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 11/09/2026

I think a piece of this is, there's been a concerted attack on expertise as a concept, as well as destruction of trusted institutions. So it's harder to have a shared truth that's widely agreed-upon as an alternative to conspiracy theories.

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 10/09/2026

I'm glad to see that, 3 years later, you're no longer invisible.

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 09/09/2026

I have complicated feelings about the "we decided to let them" framing. On the one hand, *I* didn't decide anything. I wasn't even alive during the Reagan admin! On the other hand, if *we* let this happen then maybe *we* can stop it, so I can see how framing it that way could help motivate change.

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 31/08/2026

I thought careful reasoning about stuff that doesn't matter was SMBC 🙃

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 31/08/2026

Hasn't the Gulf of Mexico been labeled Gulf of America in Google Maps for a year and a half now? Nobody should be surprised that this would happen a second time.

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 25/08/2026

Only A. Smith speaks in absolute advantage.

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 24/08/2026

Am I for there? I think.

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 22/08/2026

"Please stop authoring with AI, let the robots speak for themselves." And let yourself speak for yourself, too!

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 10/08/2026

In fact, getting coworkers to consistently show up to do code reviews is such a hard problem that now, in the AI era, we've decided to increase code review demand and make it the entire job.

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 31/07/2026

I've been really surprised at how sticky the term KMM has been, long after it went away officially.

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 30/07/2026

If you're going to send physicists back in time, you need to splice in some cuts to Stephen Hawking, inexplicably alone at his time travel party.

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 30/07/2026

Finally the Face on Mars has something to eat

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 27/07/2026

For some reason the bonus panel has me picturing a T-Rex being taunted by a playground bully saying, "What's the matter? Chicken?"

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 17/07/2026

This seems pretty exciting!

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 13/07/2026

Later you get a chance to turn Adolph Hitler into a famous painter and prevent World War II. The game also has a subplot about a couple trying to steal a baby, and a scene where you can accidentally set off a bomb on the already-sinking ship. The 90s were quite a time.

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 13/07/2026

I mostly know of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám from the 1996 PC game Titanic: Adventure out of Time, in which you, a British secret agent aboard the Titanic, must intercept a copy of the Rubáiyát so it doesn't get sold to fund assassination of Franz Ferdinand. Success means you prevent World War I.

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 08/07/2026

Hard to imagine an AI future focused on customer service when the AI present is so completely the opposite.

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 08/07/2026

Is this the new BAH-fest?

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 02/07/2026

If you're looking for an Anthropic explanation, you should ask Claude, not Bluesky.

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 02/07/2026

I'm not a current user, but for a 0.0.x version I think this should generally be fine, and if you're going to do it, sooner is better than later. Maybe throw up a github issue or discussion to notify people who aren't on social media.

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 30/06/2026

The first picture in this thread was marked as adult content by bsky's default moderation service. But the second one wasn't, despite being essentially the same picture. Weird!

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 19/06/2026

We've lost a giant of the early PC game music scene. Commander Keen 4 was the first game I ever played, so my earliest gaming memories were accompanied by Bobby Prince's soundtrack. Much of his work can be heard on the Video Game Music Preservation Foundation wiki. www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.p...

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Bobby Prince - Video Game Music Preservation Foundation Wiki

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 17/06/2026

Is that 10% of all projects, or 10% of active? Wondering if there's a long tail of stale projects that skew the numbers.

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 15/06/2026

It has more disk storage capacity due to middle-out compression.

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 14/06/2026

Come to Boston and I will

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 13/06/2026

You can't fool me. That's just the classic Windows 3D pipes screensaver!

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 12/06/2026

Automate your migration to KMP by opening your iOS project and hitting ⌥⇧⌘K

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 08/06/2026

I'm not watching and super curious about the context of this one

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 08/06/2026

Not my belief, but a funny interpretation of E1 is that AI is a total scam, it will destroy the world economy, and then we will somehow (step 2: ??? step 3: profit) build a post-scarcity world from the ashes.

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 08/06/2026

Can you wear it on your face so it's a baklava babka balaclava?

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 04/06/2026

Sam Altman said AI budgeting has recently become a "huge issue" for some companies, something that "never came up" before we 10x'd how much we were charging them

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 02/06/2026

A good Bayesian never sets their prior all the way to zero

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 02/06/2026

The idea of dark output feels like a deeply ironic inversion of @doctorow.pluralistic.net's recent article about process knowledge. Claiming AI has invisible outputs while discounting the "invisible" human knowledge and judgement that these models don't account for. pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/p...

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Pluralistic: Process knowledge (08 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 02/06/2026

One piece I've been missing in this convo is, what do the per-token economics look like for the AI providers even if users accept the new costs? Does the per-token rate actually reflect OpenAI/Anthropic's costs, or are they still losing money until they do another rug-pull by hiking rates?

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 01/06/2026

"I would bet that by another year or two from now, there is a much better rationalization of companies' spend relative to outcomes" This is probably true, but not in the way Sam thinks it will happen.

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