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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Setting AI system instructions feels like a weird combination of onboarding a new team member and couple's counseling. (I hope Claude thinks I'm a good boss and/or partner.)

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Would've said Charlie's but they're still renovating

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 04/04/2026

I am a medieval historian!! The world always is in a state, it has never not been in a state, joy and delight and beauty is what humanity exists for

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

One thing I will never understand: How did the 90s give us Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, Anti-Flag, Rise Against, Dead Prez, Pennywise, etc., but suddenly when we have actual neo-fascists in charge of things...

media.tenor.com

a man with a mustache sits on a yellow swing

ALT: a man with a mustache sits on a yellow swing

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

WAR DON'T SEX CRIMES HIDE CRIMES

Unfortunately formatted hand written sign at the March 28th No Kings protest in New Haven saying "War crimes don't hide sex crimes", but it also can be read as War don't sex. Crimes hide crimes"

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Gen Z just got their own grade-A example of why Oxford commas matter.

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

As a guy, my opinion should be taken with a large grain of salt, but I'd suggest starting with "hi!" and then building from there. Sending a message that strengthens a relationship probably does more than sending something generic. (Would also accept "fuck the patriarchy; hi!...")

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 14/02/2026

It's very bad when all 2000-odd Democratic candidates every cycle can freely text everyone in the country who donated even a single dollar sometime in the past, without consent or consequence. The commons are being destroyed to extract an additional marginal dollar.

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

This contretemps has been going on nigh a decade now. It's time for closure.

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

If I ever run into that damned Needle in a bar, there will be a donnybrook. A genuine donnybrook!

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

What's the red line for the military in terms of illegal orders? Where do you think they'd actually say no en masse, and what does that look like?

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

This one was way easier to write than last year's. (Fingers crossed I don't have to do this again for quite a while.)

LinkedIn post announcing my departure from Zencity

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

As a native masshole, I can say with confidence that if there's one state I wouldn't put it past, it's Rhode Island.

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Nothing like finally wrapping up another 10+ hour shift in the data mines, then calling an Uber to go out for the evening, only to wind up with a driver who's listening to an hour-long NPR for on agentic AI.

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a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window and says " i just want it to stop "

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window and says " i just want it to stop "

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

As if "obvious flaws as a politician and as a human" is remotely disqualifying anymore?

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Air traffic control issues in Boston are getting wild. Per @flightradar24.com lots are getting diverted, including at least two that had to abort landings at the last minute.

Plane flight path that diverted at the last minute

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Ever think of restarting the War Stories podcast?

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I would also suggest Sam Waterston as a consensus pick.

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Feels very Boston to have arrived at the protest an hour behind schedule because of @mbta.com shenanigans, but we made it in the end. Kind of shocked they couldn't get @dropkickmurphys.com to show up though - maybe next time boys?

Standing in a big crowd at the Boston no kings protest

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

My over-under on this episode is 12 hours

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

(seriously, this model is OpenAI's cyber truck - an embarrassing failure from what had been a respectable brand, but hyped so hard they can't walk it back)

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

GPT-5 really makes me miss Clippy.

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Yeah that all checks out. Even get why @drewmagary.bsky.social didn't write it himself - we're so bad we don't even deserve another of these until we get our shit together.

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

And... now it's paywalled AND not even written by Drew. Well, f me.

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The Patriots one is always excellent too (though these days, just kinda sad)

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

also, using it for what is good at rather than what people want it to do but isn't good at

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

What I'd really be curious to know as a follow-up: how much the performance of fine-tuned models varies on each? That's an area where I could see substantial differences existing between providers that aren't obvious until you've tried them all.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 22/06/2025

The powers of the imperial presidency have to be placed into a tin box and lowered into the ground, and that ground needs to be covered with concrete and sealed inside the Chernobyl sarcophagus. Enough.

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This will be fun. Wonder which side he'll choose.

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

(a "vodka under the bridge" joke would've been more satisfying, though)

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

But isn't that one all just sand under the bridge at this point?

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

(not sure what that means either, but it's been a long day)

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

My new Turing test: can your AI model successfully figure out how to find the right variable for the right geography and get it from the American Community Survey API? (Also tempted to use this as a modern captcha for job applicants - all these ML engineers need to chill with the resume spamming.)

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Jesus Christ 🤦‍♂️

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Goodnight, baby girl. Sweet dreams, little one. Sleep well, I'll see you in the morning. Love you, honey. Goodnight, baby girl. 💔

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

My curiosity was mostly whether there are ai assistants that, given a prompt to build an integration package, would start by looking for open code that already does that and then reusing it without attribution. Like, could it be an innocent(-ish) mistake?

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Curious whether it was "IBM" or one underperforming engineer who thought they could get away with it. (Alternatively, I'm curious if any coding assistant tools think it's fair game to copy and paste any code with an attribution-free license verbatim.)

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

You spelled "existential shame and radioactive stomach acid" wrong

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

If that man has tasted malort and still believes in God, he deserves the job

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

If the masses knew that I think they'd have chosen Judaism

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Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Y'all need Jesus, but not sure even He could save you from this

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