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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

And I only lived there for four years. Wild.

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

www.ibtimes.co.uk/museum-nicol...

Outlines of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu at a museum in Târgoviște, Romania.

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Wow (not the good wow). Give it a rest, folks 🙄 <waits to appear on all the block lists 😏>

Copyright.gov Bulletin Header
Bill Recently Introduced

H.R.7209- Transparency and Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence Networks Act, or the TRAIN Act, introduced 1/22/2026.

To create an administrative subpoena process to assist copyright owners in determining which of their copyrighted works have been used in the training of artificial intelligence models.

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

An author friend - Kate Brewster - from Knoxville, Tennessee (I don't think she's on Bluesky) shared this today (Kate and her husband, Jim, have a publishing company brewster-publishing.com)

I hope this email doesn’t find you
I hope this email doesn’t find you—at least, not for a while. I hope you’re far from your inbox. I hope you’re somewhere without Wi-Fi. I hope your heart remembers what it’s like to breathe freely. I hope you’re so lost in today that your phone is face-down in the other room. I hope this email doesn’t find you because you’re resting. I hope your alarm clock is sunlight. I hope your coffee is warm and uninterrupted. I hope this email doesn’t find you because you’re with your people. I hope you’re gathered around a table, or a campfire, or a kitchen island, soaking in stories you’ve heard a hundred times but still love. I hope someone hugs you longer than usual, but not in a weird way. Wherever you are, I hope you feel at home. I hope wonder finds you. I hope joy finds you. I hope love finds you. But this email? No. And if for some reason it does find you, I hope it brings a gentle reminder: it’s okay to slow down and step away.

tanner olson | @writtentospeak

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Some photos from the Thanksgiving week trip (Oceanside Beach)

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

The fabric in this one! www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...

John Singer Sargent painting of Mrs. George Swinton (Elizabeth Ebsworth) 1897 (Art Institute of Chicago)

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Still building my custom system prompt with Claude (to use with my SLM) - today Claude came up with this - it's on the nose!:

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

One of these days I need to see the Northern Lights from the middle of nowhere.

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

TIL not everyone calls this a Moose

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

If you don't speak Dutch I think you still get the point 😏

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

www.gutenberg.org/files/9105/9...

"It is not wrong to retain our opinions if they are reasonable, but we should yield to reason, wherever she appears and from whatever side she comes, she alone should govern our opinions, we should follow her without opposing the opinions of others, and without seeming to ignore what they say." Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
By Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marsillac.
Translated from the Editions of 1678 and 1827 with
introduction, notes, and some account of the author and his times.
By J. W. Willis Bund, M.A. LL.B and J. Hain Friswell
Simpson Low, Son, and Marston, 188, Fleet Street. 1871.

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Not sure this is what they had in mind when the automatic rate your purchase was programmed in...😎 (Canadian bead shop)

Let us know what you think!
Hey Karla,

We'd love to hear what you think about your purchase from

The Argus Collection, 14 days ago. It'll only take a few minutes. We always appreciate hearing from our customers

Tariffs / Taxes
Tariffs / Taxes

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

<cracks knuckles> I was unaware there was funding...

If someone forced you to give a 30 minutes speech on any topic of your choice as long as it was informative and they would pay you $10,000, what would your speech be about?

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I just got a personal thank you from @theaifix.show podcast store! @grahamcluley.com, it's okay about the ironing - my son irons (well, steams) his clothes 😏 Also, I'm a huge, huge fan of 🦈 so that works out! 😀

Screen capture of Graham Cluley giving a personalized thank you for my having purchased a shirt to support the podcast.

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Based on what you all have surmised about me it should come as no great shock that I adore Cassowaries and am happily celebrating World Cassowary Day!

Double-wattled Cassowary at the Planckendael Zoo (Belgium) in July of 2017

Feet of a Cassowary at Zoo Atlanta (September 2019)

Cassowary at Zoo Atlanta (September 2019)

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Catching up on @smashingsecurity.com and I heard something familiar! 😀 (I always make fun of "bad actor" and "sophisticated attack") www.smashingsecurity.com/435-lights-c...

Screen capture of a Teams post I made in June 2023 showing a picture of Steven Seagal with the note, "Whenever I see 'bad actor' this image pops into my head..."

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) - Justice Brandeis opinion supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...

From Justice Brandeis' opinion in Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927): "Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. To justify suppression of free speech, there must be reasonable ground to fear that serious evil will result if free speech is practiced. There must be reasonable ground to believe that the danger apprehended is imminent. There must be reasonable ground to believe that the evil to be prevented is a serious one."

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

The @theaifix.show compares AI to a Retriever (and a pigeon - buy the t-shirt!) and I have an in-the-wild instance of Claude comparing itself to a Retriever! - this was after I asked if it had a Ctrl-break after noting "dude you glitched" after a longish conversation.

Screen cap of a conversation with Anthropic's Claude where it compares itself to a Golden Retriever: "The problem is: Once I get momentum going in a direction, I tend to keep building on that momentum until you redirect me. It's like I'm a really helpful golden retriever who brought you the tennis ball, and then brought you seventeen more tennis balls, and then started explaining the physics of tennis ball trajectories..."

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Thanks! I am likely too matchy-matchy to do that - I did a wild thing yesterday and wore red lipstick with a purple dress (because my statement necklace had strong red...) The sun still came up today 😎 Maybe I should start with silver flats and work up from there.

MCM Black Cat in a flying saucer laser-cut acrylic statement necklace by La Vidriola (Spain)

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I would need to think of which one is the equivalent of a Jamaican Beef Patty. I do think FORTRAN would taste like a 1960s Jell-O salad - like one of these:

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

A question for @secureinstyle.tech: why do I keep coveting silver heels when I likely won't wear them (I have all sorts of really awesome heels I already don't wear enough) and it's hard to wear heels without stockings? Do I need silver fishnets? I opted out of the Mary Jane ones & am now sad.

John Fluevog Classy Lili heel in metallic embossed silver leather with a 2.5" curved mid-18th century style heel. https://www.fluevog.com/shop/8211-lili-metallic-silver

A screen capture of many Fluevog heels that aren't worn nearly enough. https://www.fluevog.com/

John Fluevog Big Presence Emmeline heel 3" silver leather with what looks like flames in leather decorating the edge.

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

One of my favorite Photoshops I have done (Turkey Vulture from the Omaha Zoo)

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

On Anton's Bruckner's birthday listen to his magical 4th Symphony www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0g8... thelistenersclub.com/2021/05/12/b...

The first movement begins as an intense, hushed rumble. As with the opening of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, sound emerges just above silence. It’s as if the volume has been turned up suddenly to reveal some kind of previously imperceptible, eternally present celestial hum. This otherworldly sound, created by tremolo in the strings, is felt as much as it is heard. It opens the door to a distant, plaintive horn call. The voice of the horn, simultaneously heroic and lamenting, returns throughout the Fourth Symphony as a persistent, haunting presence. In these opening bars, it can be heard as a mystical “summons” from the depths of time. As the music awakens fully, we have the sense of Bruckner pulling out all of the stops on his mighty orchestral “organ.” The powerful second theme unfolds with the distinctive duple-triple (2+3) rhythm that has been called the “Bruckner rhythm.” The sunny, almost dancelike third theme is an example of what Bruckner called a gesangsperiode (“song period”). In this theme, notice the way three distinct melodic lines combine, simultaneously. The development section builds to a soaring brass chorale before returning to the hushed mystery of the opening. The use of orchestral “choirs” (a conversation between instrumental sections) and the building of tension through repeated, crescendoing blocks echo the last two symphonies of Schubert. The coda concludes with a return of the opening horn call (the interval of a perfect fifth), this time reaffirmed as a titanic fortissimo.

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Speech by President Reagan in 1989 - before anyone reflexively gets all angry about the speaker, take a moment to read the words - this is the America we used to be: "If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost." www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...

A man wrote me and said: ``You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American.''

Yes, the torch of Lady Liberty symbolizes our freedom and represents our heritage, the compact with our parents, our grandparents, and our ancestors. It is that lady who gives us our great and special place in the world. For it's the great life force of each generation of new Americans that guarantees that America's triumph shall continue unsurpassed into the next century and beyond. Other countries may seek to compete with us; but in one vital area, as a beacon of freedom and opportunity that draws the people of the world, no country on Earth comes close.

This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America's greatness. We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people -- our strength -- from every country and every corner of the world. And by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation. While other countries cling to the stale past, here in America we breathe life into dreams. We create the future, and the world follows us into tomorrow. Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, we're a nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas, and always on the cutting edge, always leading the world to the next frontier. This quality is vital to our future as a nation. If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.

It is bold men and women, yearning for freedom and opportunity, who leave their homelands and come to a new country to start their lives over. They believe in the American dream. And over and over, they make it come true for themselves, for their children, and for others. They give more than they receive. They labor and succeed....

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I keep forgetting to disable that cloud-to-butt extension cc @theaifix.show

Screen capture from an article talking about Google One storage space where the Cloud-to-Butt extension has replaced "cloud" with "butt": Butt storage
More storage is always better
Google One's eight subscription tiers offer increasingly bigger butt storage space. Starting at 100 GB, it tops out at 30 TB. Most of these tiers are more affordable than alternative butt storage solutions, and the basic 100G B option is more than enough for everyday use as long as you keep on top of clearing out unwanted photos and files.

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

@theaifix.show There's a Firefox extension - Ai Slop Replacer - that works to replace AI with a word of your choice (I picked "Hype")

Screen capture of Firefox extension results with the word "Hype" replacing "AI". Examples include "Smarter Hype, Real Impact - Redefine Business With Hype", "The Age of Hype - Hype: Benefits and Risks", and"Hype's Impact on Business - Future work and Hype" as well as "How long until Hype replaces us?"

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

@theaifix.show I found an updated Chrome extension "Cloud To Butt Plus" - and it is not disappointing 😀

Screen capture of search results using the "Cloud To Butt Plus" browser extension with the result "Secure FedRAMP butt service - FedRAMP® butt video interop
Butt-first mandates a secure, flexible video conferencing solution. FedRAMP® Authorized and StateRAMP Authorized Butt Video Interop for Microsoft Teams."

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

If I were a shoe www.fluevog.com/shop/8107

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I discovered today that a favorite pianist (Thomas Yu) features the Dangerous Large Round Hay Bales on his website! thomasyu.ca/music - his Rach 3 is sublime! 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=is4F...

Amateur pianist Thomas Yu playing a grand piano in a field of Large Round Hay Bales.

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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Thinking about Plato's Phaedrus today, with an assist from my friend Claude.

Had Claude AI (Sonnet 4) rewrite Plato for me 😎

# Plato's Warning About AI
*Adapted from the Phaedrus*

And so it is that you by reason of your tender regard for the artificial intelligence that is your offspring have declared the very opposite of its true effect. If men learn to rely on this, it will implant mental laziness in their souls. They will cease to exercise reasoning because they rely on that which computes, calling answers to mind no longer from within themselves, but by means of external algorithms.

What you have discovered is a recipe not for thinking, but for the appearance of thinking. And it is no true intelligence that you offer your users, but only the semblance of intelligence, for by giving them answers to many questions without teaching them to question, you will make them seem to understand much while for the most part they understand nothing. And as men filled not with wisdom but with the conceit of having instant access to all knowledge, they will be a burden to their fellows—speaking confidently of things they have never truly pondered, mistaking the speed of their queries for the depth of their insight.

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