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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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“Deleting” :chefskiss:

James Felix Black @tft.io · 29/09/2026

Daughter #2’s gymnastics class on Saturdays is just far enough away that it doesn’t make sense to come back home after drop off and not long enough to actually DO anything so I found myself sleeping in the car last weekend in the mall parking lot. Let no one say that parenting isn’t dignified.

James Felix Black @tft.io · 29/09/2026

Of COURSE it was the Circle Jerks

James Felix Black @tft.io · 29/09/2026

… story checks out

James Felix Black @tft.io · 29/09/2026

Holy shit yes

James Felix Black @tft.io · 29/09/2026

These people are so goddamned stupid

James Felix Black @tft.io · 29/09/2026

A Canadian FN-FAL

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James Felix Black @tft.io · 28/09/2026

al-Pharazôn truthers stand up

James Felix Black @tft.io · 28/09/2026

The Red Book is just Noldorin propaganda, trying to pin the woes of the world on one guy and his kids. Sorry, Galadriel, I’m not buyin’ it.

James Felix Black @tft.io · 28/09/2026

I just like the, start as a fish, crawl out of the oceans, live for millions of years, then say, you know, the ocean seems pretty cool? and then head back into the water.

James Felix Black @tft.io · 28/09/2026

Whales are so fucking cool

James Felix Black @tft.io · 28/09/2026

I could really use a mental autoclave, I gotta say

James Felix Black @tft.io · 28/09/2026

OK, I’ll allow it

James Felix Black @tft.io · 28/09/2026

Without taking a position on scraping, ethically, it simply isn’t correct to call it ‘theft’! Non-rivalrous goods are weird, actually.

James Felix Black @tft.io · 28/09/2026

Slop is not an AI problem; slop is an engineering management problem.

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.

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

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

Nothing licenses people to be awful to other people. It’s just that simple.

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

QUELLE SURPRISE

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

Literally anything else

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James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

Histories of science and of medicine, nodding along.

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.

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

It’s usually famines and tax farming that lead to revolutions so I mean [touches earpiece] I have terrible news

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

Yeah I mean I just don’t wanna know anything about these sad sacks and every time one more fact about them makes it into my brain I am worse off as a person.

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

But it’s not just about getting laid, right? They could use a pro. Instead they want to dominate another person without ever having to engage in even 10s of introspection. These people are pathetic.

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.

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

I mean I have NOW. But I don’t TikTok or listen to the radio, so there’s really no vector for me to hear it?

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.'

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

Woof

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

The North Shore of Superior is, I think, my favourite geography in the world.

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

JETTISON, Naked Raygun ROCK FOR LIGHT, Bad Brains VERSUS GOD, Dillinger Four INFLAMMABLE MATERIAL, Stiff Little Fingers IN ON THE KILLTAKER, Fugazi

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

But the Mamluks were Turkic, no? Seljuk or Kipchak Turks? They did the impossible at Ain Jalut tho, mad respect.

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James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

This is correct. It’s the ideology of the kids who did debate and carried briefcases in high school in the 80s.

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

Yeah it’s super tempting but

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

I’m even more of a sicko with just a pile of cheap-ass Chinese hardware running a bunch of crazy nonsense. I should upgrade to ubiquiti but it’s all pretty stable rn so

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

The 10Gb/s twisted pair gets hot but yeah. Fibre was actually not that bad but we had the advantage of having to tear out walls for mold remediation so we made some lemonade.

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

She gets a great death scene too.

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

We have 8Gb/s and I wired the house with fibre and it’s glorious

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

Clearly, we need the bomb.

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

Ashton Kutcher invested in my shitty startup and I’m straight and all but man alive

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

I cannot recommend FTTP highly enough.

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

There should be more movies set in late Cold War contested spaces.

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

It’s super horny, stylized to within a centimetre of its life, set in late Cold War Berlin? It’s like they made it just for me. The cars! The set pieces! Toby Jones!

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

Precocious only child of an academic? Johns Hopkins CTY summer camps? Christ almighty I dodged some bullets.

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

That works too!

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

Yes there’s a very strong THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD GO I element to my visceral revulsion at those fedora wearing sex weirdos

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

This movie is perfect.

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

I have BIG TROUBLE and BUCKAROO BANZAI in the same continuity and if those cowards would just make THE WORLD CRIME LEAGUE …

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

It was a time.

James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/09/2026

DOCUMENT hit me like a thunderbolt, but yeah lots of good stuff in there.