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Humans are a terrible influence on computers

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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
For me, the spiritual fix has been building push-button automation for the stuff people don’t want to do by hand, but including explainer agents that can help people learn. Turns out wanting to make people’s lives easier was the important part, even more so than the fun puzzles.
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I do kind of get this as a fellow neurodivergent who enjoyed the “needle in a haystack” class of problems where you dive deep into a code base/spec that no-one else wanted to understand, map it out, and squash longstanding bugs. It’s a puzzle that has been (mostly) solved by good LLM usage.
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Chrome now not only requiring 32gb of RAM, but also 32gb of VRAM
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s peak running season, so the agents can have a little break as a treat
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Between this, and the guy who says he can read to his kids using AI, lotta good examples of ingroup vice signaling today on the TL.
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Arron Automata @arrontk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Gamers be like: “I have completed a small task today. I deserve a 6 hour gaming session.”
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I do think it’s pretty evident that AI also amplifies any disfunction an org might have. It’s imo one of the big reasons you see more holdouts in bigger older orgs, (slow lumbering bureaucracies, misaligned incentives to ship LOC rather than specific stuff, etc.).
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I like the implication that when you leave the special forces, they let you take a couple billion dollars worth of future tech home with you as a lil' treat, like you're taking a pack of pens from the supply closet.
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You were robbed on the traditional dance, that was rad.
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Someone's not a real Yakuza
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This will make a lot of blue teamers very happy. We've had so many folks getting burned out by alert fatigue/IR/etc., having the robots running in multiple different directions gathering data and firing off runbooks before you even open your laptop is gonna really feel like the future.
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I paid less than this for a 5090 in early 2025, insane
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Wow, yeah, have to read this as a top 10 extremely unfortunate coincidence. I'm sure the conspiracy-spinning is in no-parts helped by OpenAI botching HuggingFace, but if they actually intentionally-abused side channels, that's a sev-0 incident for every downstream partner. Would be catastrophic.
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I like the version of this where the Windows login screen sometimes just won’t give you a pin entry box. Built in “time to touch grass” mode
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“We’re all trying to find the enemy stand user”
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The want to walk the convergent evolution path here to “just make casinos” so badly, but they can’t say that for obvious reasons.
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I don’t know what’s happened recently in particular, but the number of people I’ve had fully incandescent when I full-stop at stop signs recently is palpable.
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Deputy Rust @deputyrust.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Strong enough to be gentle
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Don’t worry things will get stupider
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There's an extremely funny version of this graph for Shokugeki No Soma, where the fun hangs out near the top for about 2/3 of its serialization, dips down somewhat the moment Azami shows up, and absolute floors out during the BLUE arc. Like dear god, what happened
A manga panel from Shokugeki No Soma, where the ridiculous side-villains from the BLUE arc all walk together menacingly. This includes a horror movie doctor, a punk with switchblades, a big scary clown, a guy in biker gear, a woman in a chef's coat with a bunny-eared hood, and a maid skirt, and many more out of place characters for what is essentially a Top Chef competition.
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
As someone who really wanted to get into the security CTF scene, but spent my first 10 years in tech more focused on the career half of cyber rather than the fun stuff, I feel this deeply. Feels like the genie is way out of the bottle.
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It’s never been a better time to bring back the Ford Pinto
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
the crazy thing is that back in 2019 when we were talking about "how in god's name will we actually roll this thing out," the hypothesis for "if we are not careful" is "we will destroy our public image and the economy," and, well,
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Was curious how this was gonna be, then I saw TWEWY in the recommended side media after KH2, and I knew this guide was Objectively Correct.
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Finally, a direct application for “none of these words are in the Bible”
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/08/2026
when elon says that stupid mobile game he plays is better than chess he's a fucking idiot but when i say slay the spire 2 is better than a rembrandt or a degas i'm on to something
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It’s very clearly lifesaving care for all my trans friends who have ever received it, and they deserve lifesaving care as much as I do. Also I see so much more joy in their eyes now that they’ve transitioned, and I’d never want to take that away from anyone.
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dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 17/08/2026
locking in
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Sometimes I wonder what it’s gotta be like to be a SOX auditor in 2026, gotta be some unbelievably easy layups nowadays.
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Fun little Easter egg when the grok symbol rotated into the symbol ofNew Phyrexia, wonder how that fits the lore
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It’s ok if your parents who mostly stay home, read books and watch movies keep their passwords in a little notebook in a desk drawer or something. Manage risk in a way that’s relevant to the person’s actual lifestyle and needs.
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Instead, we’ve gone with the reverse-centaur where we’ve given up autonomy to let Claude drive in lieu of maximum velocity. It’s no wonder we feel alienated, we immediately took the path that pushes out the human as much as possible.
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I really like Cory Doctorow’s formation of this problem as the “centaur vs. reverse-centaur” configuration. In the centaur config, humans would still be in the driver seat, and stuff like Claude would be used exclusively for the pain points: filling out test suites, code review assist, etc. (1/2)
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Don’t want this to sound like I’m defending what is quickly becoming core internet infrastructure having massive security/reliability gaps, cause good god, but I do have sympathy for the responders putting out fires.
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
2) Getting more funding to get more people into security seats will always be a battle against fueling another product or sales focused initiative. (2/2)
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The crux of this feels like it’s the same as it ever was; enterprise security teams would love to take big swings to fix huge product gaps but 1) unless you’re actively at risk for burning the building down, you have extremely limited political capital to slow down the product for it and (1/2)
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
There’s something to be said that folks are finally willing to admit that tech works on using the collective works of fellow engineers, rather than Great Man Theory, and AI just completely smooths over that attribution and lets the myth persist.
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
No one expects the sweeping charisma of “Generic Democrat”
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Modern TCGs really hit the rotting economic core of everything being scalping or gambling by being the maximal expression of both.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I felt insane for thinking something similar, so it’s nice(?) to see someone else came to this conclusion. With hardware becoming increasingly limited, my image of things was something like a Roku puck/TV inbuilt that is computationally light and leans on cloud streaming, (welcome back Stadia).
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Jesus, you did a midnight fun-run half at my 10K race pace. Does the insanity improve Vo2 max, asking for a terrible runner, (me).
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I’ve really appreciated the neokayfabe definition of Trumpian politics, and in that regard, it’s been impressive how Iran has wrangled narrative formation away from the Trump admin. josie.zone/welcome-to-n...
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Welcome to Neokayfabe — Josephine Riesman // Writer
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Its the most famous example of survivorship bias, basically when we tend to focus on the attributes of the things that make it, rather than the commonalities of the things that didn’t en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivo...
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Survivorship bias - Wikipedia
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This drove me nuts with the Slay the Spire 2 beta release. A week in, and there were already a gazillion tier lists on cards, and whole communities were convinced there was only one way to play certain characters. The game is a deck builder; skipping the deck building skips most of the game!
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I definitely found it telling that all the LFG sites/communities where you could try a harder activity blind died off, and all that remained were the “know what to do” Discord posts.
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I hate how often I have to wheel out The Plane
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Worst part is even the extracurricular are starting to feel unhelpful, even before AI slop spam devalued them. In my experience, having Harvard, MIT, Stanford, etc. on the resume always mattered most for punching through the screeners. It’s all credentialing all the way down, and it sucks.
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Me exactly 2 days into starting a cut
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Techbox @techbox.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Not every AI booster was a crypto booster, but every single annoying, screeching crypto booster became the earliest AI boosters.
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