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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Proudly wearing my I Voted sticker around the house so my cats can't judge me thinking I haven't voted yet.

Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If you're trying to convince me that LLMs are ethical, you may want to try not using language from the notably less than ethical crypto movement for starters.

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Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My rejection of "AI" has always been an ethical one, not a capabilities one. It's freeing, because I have no need to scramble to keep up every time there's a point release of a model. It doesn't matter how "good" at whatever they claim to be able to do the models are (also they're still ass lol).

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ComicsXF @comicsxf.com · 05/08/2026

As a reminder, in 2020, more than 60 people accused Warren Ellis of grooming and sexual impropriety, coming together to create the website somanyofus.com. In its most recent update, in 2023, the site posted: "To the best of our knowledge, Warren Ellis took none of the steps we hoped he would."

A screenshot of an Image Comics press release announcing the reprinting of Warren Ellis and Chris Sprouse's Ocean.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 01/08/2026

For me, LLMs are clearly powerful machines, but everything about their construction and deployment in society by the people constructing them appears oriented around achieving a political project that deeply conflicts with my values or a vision of a future I want to live in and dont have a choice in

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david celis @davidcel.is · 29/07/2026

at some point, you have to accept that the company you keep reflects on your own character. to me, Matz and everyone who remains on the Rails core team are so obviously complicit in DHH remaining platformed and relevant and it's laughable to suggest otherwise

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I don't think people understand how thin the line between "deportation" and "extermination" really is - not just in Europe, but everywhere the topic comes up. Many people feel comfortable with the idea of deportation because it obscures the underlying violence that is necessarily implied.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The best time for groups like Rails Core and Ruby Central to be distancing themselves from DHH was fucking years ago at this point. The next best time, as always, is today. The fact that they're not doing so tells people who is and isn't welcome in the Ruby and Rails communities.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 20/07/2026

This stage of the AI push reminds me of peak cryptocurrency, which was supposed to change everything. I was never afraid of blockchain the technology, I was afraid of the people behind it, and their vision for the future.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I think a lot about how the devops movement shifted as we attempted to "sell it" and a lot of it are concepts like this that got elided for "metric line go up".

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Google has spent decades mining my data and yet still can't figure out that the Play Store sending me push notification ads to use AI isn't effective for me.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/04/2026

everyone else who still regularly masks in public can hear you making fun of that person and that sucks, actually plenty of other things to make fun of people about

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 24/04/2026

yes! and otherwise well-meaning people are parroting “ai is here to stay” and not seeing how unnecessarily threatening that pattern of speaking is

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/04/2026

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The #1 browser user on my newsletter site this month is FacebookBot, an agent specifically designed to steal data for LLM model training. Anyway, this is why I do subscribers-only content. I hate this shit so much.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The baby: *gives up on pooping after several times of straining and crying* Me, a scholar of talmud, to the baby: You are not obligated to finish the work, but neither are you allowed to desist from it

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I felt this to my marrow.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The world is terrible and on fire, but at least snuggling with my 2 week old daughter is pretty great.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

When my 4 year old left for school this morning, he told us that we were farmers and our house was a farm and that we had to take care of the animals while he was gone. So I shipped the pretend cows off to the meat processing plant, but now my wife tells me we are a dairy farm. What do I do?

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Jack Dorsey renamed the company to Block because he thought blockchains would be the future, in case you were wondering what his track record of predicting long-term tech trends is

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Sarah Barsness @sarahbarsness.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

"At scale" is one of my least favorite phrases in tech. Everyone wants to think they're at scale and the phrase is ambiguous enough to make everyone think advice about something "at scale" applies to them. Most of the time its like "your k8s cluster has 20 nodes this doesn't apply to you."

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Fred Hebert @ferd.ca · 23/02/2026

AI SREs are framed as nameless job automation; Coding Assistants as named partners. The framing used to create these products reveals a lot about how the builders and buyers perceive these roles. I also write about the challenges and risks of picking self-limiting analogies in building systems.

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The Picture They Paint of You

Musings on the way we frame Coding Assistants, AI SREs, and what this communicates in terms of how these roles are perceived.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/02/2026

I feel this so strongly. Covid was a test of our moral integrity & decency -- *not just elites, but all of us* -- and we failed. I genuinely think one reason Covid has been memory-holed so hard, & so crusted w/ myths & conspiracy theories, is that on some level we know this & are ashamed.

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This quote is actually saying the quiet part out loud: "You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market" is an admission of how people in the US have been implicitly subsidizing the global healthcare system, to the benefit of the other OECD countries specifically.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Well, it seems like its a great time to be an immunosuppressed person in the state of Wisconsin.

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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Holiday gathering reminder 🎁 If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%! This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍

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Study Examines Performance of Serial COVID Testing - News Center

Testing performance of rapid antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2 improved for both asymptomatic and symptomatic patients after testing multiple times in 48-hour intervals, according to findings published in ...

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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 14/12/2025

If you're looking for the proper anti-Zionist response to the mass murder in Australia, it's pretty simple at this stage You just say, "Holy shit it is really bad that that happened, and I hope the perpetrators are brought to justice" Keep it simple, folks

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Medical professionals: Why are people turning away from medical science and turning to quackery? Also medical professionals: I don't think I can help you, so I'm referring you back to the specialist who referred you here and cant see you again for 8 months, until then you'll have no treatment plan.

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It is not a stretch at this point to say that, if you are using a Ring doorbell, you are an ICE collaborator. Amazon readily provides data to LEOs and ICE. Don't want to be an ICE collaborator? Then don't use Ring.

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Your yearly reminder that “holiday” celebrations that only include Christian traditions are not, in fact, inclusive even if you don’t use the word Christmas, so tbh I’d rather you just say it’s Christmas.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/11/2025

just great

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

We had even put this specific genie back into its bottle until Google affiliated researches said, "Hey, it turns out if we throw the entire corpus of the internet at an LLM it might actually be more useful." And then when people asked if they had obtained that data ethically they kinda shrugged.

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 26/10/2025

I wrote my most personal blog post to date. It summarizes some of my personal feelings and experiences in the Ruby/Rails community. afomera.dev/posts/2025-1...

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Courtney Nash @courtneynash.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Hey can y'all do me a favor? If you run across any post-incident write-ups from companies affected by the AWS outage, could you send those to me?Feel free to leave a link in the comments, or you can drop them here: www.thevoid.community/submit-incid... Thanks!

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Submit an Incident Report

The VOID is a community-contributed collection of software-related incident reports.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

My house is going to be the it house for Halloween this year.

A screenshot from a grocery app with the heading Halloween Candy 2025 and items listed that include cold medicine, immune support pills, lip ointment, and taco seasoning.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Never have I ever seen people more in need of hearing the term "sociotechnical system".

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

When a person has a history of harassment, their presence, or simply the threat of their presence is intended as and received as harassment by their victims. Abusers and harassers understand and weaponize this.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I shared this earlier because I think it is so funny but then I also thought to myself, what advice would I (a learning scientist by background, married to someone who teaches programming) actually give a developer who feels bad reading this? How can you avoid writing this? A few tips:

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

It would be great if we could go a year without a tech conference being planned on a high holiday.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

On a similar note. Anyone else weirded out by the fact they decided this would happen on a high holiday?

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StaffSRE1138 @sysadmin1138.net · 18/09/2025

The people pointing out that "Antifa has no central structure or leadership, how are they going to target this order?" fails to understand how this administration works. Maximum ambiguity give the maximum room to maneuver.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

"It hasn't been that long since I cleaned my office" he says as he proceeds to find a Windows XP installer disc and a @quinnypig.com business card from before The Duckbill Group existed.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

When people said we wanted the Democratic party to fight more, we meant we want them to fight the Republicans, not people in their own party who are further left.

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