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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Was at a local wholistic healing place to get a (wonderfully relaxing) massage today and I feel like someone there saw Demolition Man

Picture of a table next to a toilet. On the toilet are three seashells. I don’t want to spoil the joke but if you want to understand the joke here Google “Demolition Man three seashells scene”

Picture of three seashells on a table. This poster found it funny as it reminded him of the three seashells scene from Demolition Man

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The real tragedy of Soylent Green (1973) is that the world never adopted wearing sensible ascots as a fashion accessory

Picture from Soylent Green of Charleston Heston yelling “it’s people”. He’s wearing an ascot.

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think I’m having a stroke reading this Taco Bell notification

Notification from the Taco Bell app. It says “Olivia Rodrigo sip. Y... 3m ago Your You Seem Pretty Pink For A Baja Blast® is waiting.”

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thinking of that scene in Big Lebowski when Jackie Treehorn walks out of the room and The Dude shades in the blank page of the notepad to see what Treehorn was writing

The Dude from The Big Lebowski. He’s looking down intently

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I love when I print something useful, in this case shoehorns for my new walking shoes I haven’t broken in yet

Picture of the back of Nike runners. A 3d printed shoehorn is attached. Also a hand is holding a second 3D printed shoehorn

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hate Gavin Newsom with the fire of a thousand suns but save a little bit of that hate for California’s next governor who’s probably going to be Xavier Becerra. They teamed up to push the Paramount-Warner deal through.

Excerpt of Hollywood reporter article:

Newsom's fingerprints were all over the announcement of the settlement.
Paramount thanked him "for his support throughout this process."' Read between the lines, and the picture comes into focus:
Newsom wanted a deal, and Bonta fell in line.
Newsom leaning on Bonta - along with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and gubernatorial nominee Xavier Becerra - put the state's top prosecutor in an increasingly untenable position. California had sued to stop the merger, but it also faced the prospect of losing Paramount regardless of the outcome of the lawsuit if a deal wasn't struck ahead of an Oct. 1
deadline when the $7 million-per-day so-called ticking fee starts accruing.

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Linda Cardellini is such a good actress that you didn’t even know she was in Widow’s Bay the whole time

Google AI summary that says:
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• Linda Cardellini won the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 78th Emmy Awards in September
2026 for her performance in
Widow's Bay.
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If you'd like, I can share more details about the other Emmy wins for Widow's Bay or its cast and crew.
Ask anything
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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sometimes I wish I could just look up into the sky and yell a primal scream and have a giant beam of energy shoot out of my chest into the heavens

Picture of Marvel character “Havok”, he’s screaming and beams are shooting out of his chest

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Happy Kirkiversary to all who celebrate

Painting of Charlie Lork. It looks kinda funny, it’s not a great painting. Also the news Chevron has “pick 4” gambling odds bullshit

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The only way this nation can come together is through the shared culture that we love. And that’s Reacher, seasons 1 to 4, now streaming on Amazon (or even better, pirate it).

Picture of very big man Jack Reacher from the show “Reacher”

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sure we are in a perpetual war and live under fascism and the world is heating up by the day but look at the bright side…Chipotle has chili lime chips now.

Picture of a chipotle bag of chips with a “Chili lime” sticker

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Happy National Dog Day from my cutie pie to all who celebrate

German shepherd husky mix licking her lips

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Was waiting in the car for my son so we could get groceries and when he got in I said “Get in loser, we’re going shopping!” and chuckled at my wit then realized he is only 14 and hasn’t seen Mean Girls and was wondering why his father just called him a loser.

Picture of the main mean girl from Mean Girls in the front seat of a car. Caption says “Get in loser. We’re going shopping”

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I am Elmer J Fudd. Millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht.

Picture of Elmer Fudd in a rabbit suit chewing on a carrot. He’s sitting in a rabbit hole

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It’s that time of year again. That time of year that I get to watch Reacher beat the crap out of this season’s corrupt government official/businessman/Poiice department

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Really feels like we should throw all C level execs into a volcano and never speak of them again. This response is beyond patronizing, beyond thoughtless. It’s so absurdly out of touch. Does he think “duhhhh I asked Claude is a dunk”? It’s self own you brain dead executive

[Update: 13 August 2026: This Week in Videogames requested a follow-up comment from Saber Interactive, and received the following statement from Karch:
"Stella who? I had to ask Claude because I have never spoken to her or seen her.
We have already said we are using Al for certain parts of the game and will update the Steam page once we have finalized the feature set.

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Maybe we should stop listening to Democrat Strategists because at best they don’t seem good at their job and at worst they seem like vile manipulative proto-fascists

Norman Rockwell meme of guy standing up at a city council meeting

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Me (QA) playing my boss (CTO) against product management like I'm motherfuckin' Sanjuro

Picture of the character Sanjuro Kuwabatake from the movie "Yojimbo".

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This man needs to be stopped before he can cause more damage

Picture of John Oliver in a wig in the promo for the new season of Days of Our Lives. He was recently on General Hospital and seems to be making the soap opera rounds

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Watching “Logjammin’” for the plot

Screenshot of a screenshot of the tv in The Bug Lebowski showing “Loghammin’”, the title credits for a porn starring Karl Hungus

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is so utterly ghoulish and evil, I am genuinely at a loss for words.

Article from Haaretz https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-08-07/ty-article-opinion/.premium/israels-most-powerful-defense-systems-are-indifference-and-belief/0000019f-d879-d09d-a59f-fa79e8c60000

Quote:
"The Israeli public is exhausted, indifferent and more than anything, people just want to take their summer vacation.
"Don't start shooting until the end of August, after that we'll be fine," goes one joke that's making the rounds.
The public is very tired of war, but it still believes in it.
And those who believe, as we know, are never afraid."

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

But even if the lion could speak low German and casual latam Spanish, could you really understand it???

Picture of Ludwig Wittgenstein, who coined the phrase "If a lion could speak, we couldn't understand it"

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Heathcliff! It’s me! I’m Cathy! I’ve come home!

Picture of the sickos.jpg guy at the window. “Sickos@ is removed from his shirt but text dialogue says “yes…ha ha ha…yes!”

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Babe wake up new phase of the war dropped

Newsweek article headline that says “U.S.-Iran conflict enters new phase a...”

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Last night I had a vision of the moon pop into my head and told me I must print the moon. So I printed the moon. It came out quite nice

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If you can make sense of this collection of words then congratulations you get to be the CEO of Microsoft and you should also probably seek help.

LinkedIn post by ceo of Microsoft Satya Nadella:

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In a world where software has real marginal cost for the first time, how do we ensure frontier benefits are diffused across the entire ecosystem?
The key is to optimize the cost-to-outcome frontier in real world context. In practical terms, that means using the right model for each task, and optimizing the context, skills, tools, and agent harness around it.
This is the motivation behind our MAI model family. These models have been built ground up with clean data lineage and optimized for learning transfer from generalist to specialized skills in enterprise RLEs. We continue to make rapid progress in this pursuit.
We can now take saturated frontier capabilities and deliver them at scale and

We can now take saturated frontier capabilities and deliver them at scale and at lower cost through models optimized for high-usage products, while continuing to use frontier models for frontier needs.
We are proving this out across our first party products, and thereby creating a template for every other Al native, Saas, or Enterprise company out there.
In our products, frontier models from OpenAl and Anthropic are part of the orchestration system alongside MAI. But the model is only one part of the hill-climbing system. Harness, memory, context, tools, skills, user interactions, etc. all shape the evals and performance of these agentic systems.
The other key criteria to ensure that you are in control, is your evals should continue to hill climb even when any given model has been removed.
Therefore we build RLEs where models learn inside the product system and are

$continue to hill climb even when any given model has been removed. Therefore we build RLEs where models learn inside the product system and are rewarded for completing the tasks customers actually care about. We train models against the actual product harness, interactions, and outcomes they will encounter. And strategically ensure that the harness, memory, context, skills are externalized outside of the model. Product-specific evals and model independence give us the control and a direct hill to climb, and to keep refining until we reach the right quality-cost target. We are now seeing MAI models outperform general-purpose frontier models in many use cases while using a fraction of the tokens. We believe the biggest opportunity is to optimize all of these layers together in the products where the world works every day. And we are beginning to route traffic across our first-party surfaces to MAI$

We believe the biggest opportunity is to optimize all of these layers together in the products where the world works every day. And we are beginning to route traffic across our first-party surfaces to MAI whenever our models match or outperform frontier alternatives.
We are seeing promising early results across GitHub Copilot, Excel, and Outlook and are beginning to take the same approach across Copilot Chat, PowerPoint, and more. And all these results will only get better as the entire system keeps hill-climbing!
What we are doing across our first party products is also what every enterprise customer can be doing in their real world agentic systems with their proprietary evals, their proprietary RLEs, workflows, and context. We are making all this available as part of Foundry and our toolchain.
Read more here: https://Inkd.in/
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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Whenever I shed this mortal coil I hope I go out like Chekhov

Excerpt from Anton Chekhov’s Wikipedia entry on his death:

Anton sat up unusually straight and said loudly and clearly (although he knew almost no German): Ich sterbe (I'm dying'). The doctor calmed him, took a syringe, gave him an injection of camphor, and ordered champagne. Anton took a full glass, examined it, smiled at me and said: 'It's a long time since I drank champagne.' He drained it and lay quietly on his left side, and I just had time to run to him and lean across the bed and call to him, but he had stopped breathing and was sleeping peacefully as a child
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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Once again posting this evergreen meme

People surrounding lobsters suggesting they are watching a lobster fight. Everyone is labeled “leftists”

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Plate or shrimp or “plate of shrimp”.

Miller from Repo Man bathed in the green glow of the alien infested Chevy Malibu

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I’m no expert but I suspect this box I found on my walk today contained illegal fireworks

Box that looks like a Patriot missile launcher and has a picture of a cannabis leaf on the side and on the other side says “Blue Dream”, a popular strain of cannabis

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons gif

Picture of Homer Simpson lying down instead of studying for a test. Three stereotypical nerds are standing next to him looking at him sadly. Homer is saying “I’ll hide under some coats and hope that somehow everything will work out”

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Everything about the announcement on their page reads like fake bullshit but you had any inkling that this was real, “a spa in downtown San Francisco” should disavow those thoughts.

AI pics of some fake spa. Text says “The Midjourney Spa
The first Spa will be opening in the heart of San Francisco in 2027.
Our spa will have hot tubs, saunas, cold plunges, and cozy rooms with pools of golden light which softly scan your body.
Concept renders of the Midjourney Spa.
It should be a place you love going, whether it's by yourself, or with friends. It should be available 24/7. The scans are a side-effect. You barely think of them when going to the spa. But suddenly, you have a huge library of data about your health.”

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Steven Spielberg is an amazing director but such a mediocre writer that his movies are aggressively mid (at least everything made after Jaws).

Norman Rockwell painting of guy standing to make a statement meme

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

90 degrees but also high winds and thunderstorms and gnats. I’m not a religious man but this sure feels like a higher power trying to tell us something

Picture from Apple weather app of Washington DC weather report showing 90 degrees but also “severe weather” and thunderstorms

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Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We visited the pier last night to say goodbye (also to the Chit Chat). Super bummed.😞

Picture of a pier sinking into the ocean.

Picture of a cafe that was on a sinking pier. The cafe wall is heavily cracked and warped

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