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James Felix Black

@tft.io
4.6K followers 1.3K following 51K posts

A large person, in Canada. Father to two, smaller persons. Wife guy. Dual citizen, a modicum of discipline. Proud liberal. Hobbesian. Unix apostate, Classic Mac OS revanchist, tilter at path-dependent windmills. Emacsist.

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James Felix Black @tft.io · 29/09/2026
Holy shit yes
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 28/09/2026
I use it myself, and I think that it simultaneously is the only correct model, and a train wreck catastrophe. I’m hoping that somebody else picks up the core idea and puts a human compatible front on it, or at least, a less dog-shit language.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 28/09/2026
“Big wave riding is for macho assholes with a death wish”
A still of Lori Petty and Keanu Reeves in POINT BREAK
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026
Like with much of the cursèd knowledge On Here, knowledge about the EA/AI sex fedora swamp is pushing us all towards a state of Pareto disoptimality, so to speak; nobody is better off but someone is worse off everyone one of these King In Yellow style facts escapes containment.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026
Let’s make it harder for women to be in tech spaces. No way for this to go wrong.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026
DEVELOP! A! THEORY OF MIND! www.rollingstone.com/music/music-co…
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What Some Folks Really Mean When They Claim to Have Never Heard 'Choosin' Texas'
Claiming to have never heard Ella Langley's record-setting country song 'Choosin' Texas' is similar to saying, 'I listen to anything but country.'
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026
There should be more movies set in late Cold War contested spaces.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026
“Hey Vasquez, you ever been mistaken for a man?” “No. Have you?” Jenette Goldstein will always have a place in my heart.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026
I was already off the REM train after GREEN but I’m listening to OUT OF TIME and you know, this is a really great record. The KRS One cameo was a mistake, however.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 26/09/2026
This is so in my wheelhouse it’s a little embarrassing
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 26/09/2026
What a lovely essay.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 26/09/2026
So rad
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 26/09/2026
I was once asked, as the final question in a technical interview, “John, Paul, George or Ringo?” to which I answered Billy Preston. I got but did not take the job.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 26/09/2026
The wife is away so the girls and I went to the movies. SHAUN THE SHEEP review — its not Ardman’s best, but its still hugely entertaining.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 25/09/2026
TIL about the rat patrol in Alberta
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 25/09/2026
RETVRN to luggables
A photo from Wikipedia of the IBM PS/2 P75 luggable 486. It’s so cool.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 25/09/2026
This story is monstrous, but it’s not an “AI” thing; it’s the incentives that the companies are operating under. arstechnica.com/health/2026/09…
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Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 25/09/2026
This is driving me bananas
a screen shot of my Air Canada Aeroplan status page, where I am 573 “SQC” (?) short of 50,000 status.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 25/09/2026
wat
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 25/09/2026
Has anyone seen @sky.skymarchini.net ?
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 25/09/2026
God, this is so good www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zdW5Z…
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The Bronx - White Guilt
Music video by The Bronx performing White Guilt.© 2006 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 25/09/2026
We all love @themountaingoats.bsky.social don’t we, folks? www.youtube.com/watch?v=woRLwy…
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Hospital Job - "Damn These Vampires" Live! from The Rock Room
Watch Hospital Job perform "Damn These Vampires"(Mountain Goats Cover) Live from The Rock RoomFollow Hospital Job here:https://www.facebook.com/hospitaljob21...
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 25/09/2026
Tonight’s jam www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I2Z6K…
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Direct Hit! - Snickers or Reese’s (Official Music Video)
Buy: http://www.fatwreck.com/record/detail/976Tour: http://www.fatwreck.com/tour/single_artist/128Directed by: ADAM SANTIAGO & DEREK SHREVESAdditional camera...
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 25/09/2026
Like I said, too many to name. Peter Hook www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrhUVP…
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New Order - Ceremony (Finsbury Park 2002) [High Quality]
New Order - Ceremony (Finsbury Park 2002) [High Quality]Improved audio and video quality. ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO NEW ORDER AND WARNER MUSIC GROUP!
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 25/09/2026
There are too many to name, but: Joe Lally www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILZ-Jn…
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Fugazi - Reclamation
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 25/09/2026
The tender caresses that bring out the man I can’t still be drunk at five Oh, I guess I surely can Slowly your beauty is eaten away By the scent of someone else in the blanket where we lay — “My Favourite Dress”, Wedding Present
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 25/09/2026
THE DISAPPEARERS and uh fam this is really good and not a good time, simultaneous.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 25/09/2026
I’m a Wovles fan who picked the team up when they drafted Garnett, who I saw at Farragut a couple of times. I’m fully expecting it to blow up, and I don’t care.
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The Nicest of the Damned @tyrannosaurus-ritt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gonna try again: I'm a public school teacher in Baltimore with a newly approved D&D club. We could really use supplies and we don't have much money to spend. Please consider donating some supplies *or* sharing this post on your feed! #dnd #d&d #ttrpg #gaming www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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Check out my list on Amazon
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 25/09/2026
God, it’s good to be home. Even my dumb cats are welcome.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 25/09/2026
PUDGE
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 23/09/2026
What
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 23/09/2026
PAGING PETER WATTS
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 23/09/2026
Just got back from HOPE. That felt like at least three different movies at once, and honestly like they were writing it as they were filming. My kind of picture.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 22/09/2026
www.tft.io/my-q5-review/
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My Q5 Review
So we leased a 2025 Audi Q5 last year; it’s the first time in a while I’ve driven a brand new car, and I have THOUGHTS. First of all, the car is an extremely pleasant place to spend time. …
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 22/09/2026
This is getting me hyped for NEUROMANCER, because the Sprawl books put me in a position to be forced by VIRTUAL LIGHT to San Francisco back, the previous millennium. It’s a very Bridge Trilogy morning. That’s a good thing, folks.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 22/09/2026
OK, I’m officially on the Best League Pass Team bandwagon here. Also, I know, I know, … but Rudy finally getting a guard who can throw him a lob?
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 22/09/2026
TFW you go out to dinner with your oldest friend and then have a good night’s sleep, wake up on Toronto time in San Francisco, go for a walk, have a coffee. It’s pretty nice.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 22/09/2026
Oh hey look a 1200 page China Mieville doorstop? DON’T MIND IF I DO!
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 21/09/2026
This is a cursèd post to wake up to in San Francisco my god
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 18/09/2026
So I should get some Yubikeys, huh.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 18/09/2026
Love to take my brain pills first thing in the morning with not enough water, and then have a belch 15 minutes later that lights my esophagus on fire. 10/10 experience, thanks brain.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 18/09/2026
10/10
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 18/09/2026
I am listening to a @thebulwark.com podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social and his conversation with Wright Thompson makes me wish I liked college football.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 18/09/2026
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 17/09/2026
He was a shit. He’d probably make fun of me because I stopped shaving my head and I listen to music on major labels. He’d be shocked that I still write software.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 17/09/2026
I’ve said this before, but slop is not a function of AI; organizations have always been more or less slopful as a function of engineering management. What AI has done by driving the marginal cost of code to zero, is expose more of the places that don’t understand how to build software.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 17/09/2026
Presented w/o comment
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 17/09/2026
Ok I may watch now
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