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Glad that folks see a difference! Also I keep hemhawing on what to call a feature that encapsulates “your chances to act” (confs, meetups, cons, etc.) Originally called it Shots (as in ⛹️‍♀️), but now I’m thinking of “(tour) stops” as a mental model?

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 16h

Okay, time to dust off the old poasting button to ask a Little CRM question: do you consider conferences *different* than conventions? In my mind, a conference is for professional development, while a *convention* is a celebration of a cultural/social aspect.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 03/10/2026

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Ursula Dorada @sulamoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If he wanted to protect his team, he should have hired more people, or reduced the scope of delivery. Simple. But someone needs to get rich, right? So that is not happening.

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Village of the Lambed @bradenlamb.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

You’re not beholden to the Indoor Kid label you’ve given yourself

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 28/09/2026

Also! My face absolutely lit up seeing this. So happy that I’m chipping in, and can’t wait to donate more!

The list of sponsors for ReActionView, including Practical Computer

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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The new shows, and current television in general, puts focus on the overarching story of each season told in like 8 episodes, like an 8 hour movie or something, when TNG and DS9 are like “we gotta fill time for 24 episodes this one is uhhhhhhhhhhhhh what if Quark thought he was dying”

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

It should really bother everyone more that these "AI" companies and the people that run them are always— ALWAYS— looking for ways to trick or coerce us into giving up more and more ourselves to them.

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 27/09/2026

Also! As a former student who very much looked up to his teachers: these letters are a LIFELINE/shining point for students. That’s arguably even more important than the college rec commendation part. Do you really want to outsource that? What message does it convey to someone you’ve taught?

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There are lots of ways to answer this and one of them is that studying history makes you a better citizen and our public universities have an obligation to produce good citizens. History education is essential to a republican model of government. Engineering is not.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The visions that SV techbros have for is honestly so dark, so bleak, so isolated and isolating; one where any and all community and connection is pushed aside in this perverse forceful push to transcend our bodies, born of their terror of disability and death. These people decide our futures, my god

itself. Our physical bodies would be discarded, and in their place would rise robotic übermenschen. Our minds, so tragically prone to decline as we age, would be transferred to flawless, immortal code. Machines were about to mature “from the simple devices they still are, to entities as complex as ourselves, to something transcending everything we know, in whom we can take pride when they refer to themselves as our descendants,” Moravec wrote.

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 25/09/2026

Finally; some actual care about the markup!

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 25/09/2026

Truly incredible work by Marco & the team here; I’m so excited that we’re finally starting to leap forward to the state of the art on the frontend

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Marco Roth @marcoroth.dev · 24/09/2026

Today is a big day for Herb! It's built into Rails 8.2 by default for all HTML+ERB views. My talk at #RailsWorld in Austin today answered three questions: What is Herb? What ships in Rails 8.2? And what does this enable? Herb v0.11 and ReActionView v0.6 released alongside it.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In a world where tech companies were altruistic and moved slowly and governments weren't afraid of strict regulation, I'd be somewhat sanguine about driverless cars and how they could help fill in transit gaps or benefit non-drivers. Sadly, we do not live in that world.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When you hear a fantastical story about AI, you should ask yourself, "How does this serve the political project of AI?" Because, as others have pointed out, that's what AI really amounts to: a political project.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The most generous assessment is that this was shitty, lazy engineering; the more in-character scenario is that the sandbox was intentionally breakable because of the story it would generate. Whichever you believe, the story is not "OMG, they made AGI!"

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 19/09/2026

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social y’all absolutely should do an episode on this memoir. It’s indicative of an entire mode of thinking around AI that is going to be used to run cover for bad actors & still act surprised when bad things keep happening

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 19/09/2026

It’s the Zyn banner that turns this into art

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 19/09/2026

Because I’m a glutton for punishment, stubborn, I finished Tim Berners-Lee’s memoir. It was…fascinating to analyze. Oh, the halcyon days of technocratic thinking

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the goal has always been control through theft of human labor and creativity

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026

Share if you agree

Fat little chihuahua puppy (maybe?) looking extremely round and smiling lying on a tan fleece blanket

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you

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jordhiatt.bsky.social @jordhiatt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Maybe we are guilty of gatekeeping, but the gate swings open for everyone. It might hurt a little, take a little blood, a little vulnerability, a little you, but it will be worth it and it might be amazing. Nothing is more beautiful than a new writer finding their favorite words.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 11/09/2026

Beep boop. Not the question at hand here

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 11/09/2026

Context: I'm using my homelab to experiment with containerization/isolation as much as possible; keeping a server as lightweight/"stock" as possible (Fedora Server 44). So I've got the rootless Podman container (a separate issue), but I'm trying to figure out if I need to spool up a new VM for Miren

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 05/09/2026

Yes! Very much agree; and why I love DS9 so much because it’s the only one (kind of) interested in challenging the cultural norms.

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 05/09/2026

My face as I watched The Happening for the first time; and as I read effusive Letterboxd reviews for The Happening

A photo of my white, spotted dog, confused and squinting into the middle distance

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Ben Novack @titlecharacter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’ve seen a lot of this worry but to me the core is this: data centers provide little to negative actual benefit to Normal People. Even if you like them, they’re not especially exciting to have nearby. There are very real people who are stoked to advocate for local green power, and that does matter.

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 05/09/2026

just said "1password and the shopify nazi gave $12m to DHH for his fake linux distro" which sounds like a made up jargon sentence from 30 rock

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 04/09/2026

As played by Jeffrey Combs

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 04/09/2026

If I had to parse, comprehend, and (in the most briefest window possible) imagine the phrase "Ferengi gynecologist," I must not suffer alone

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 04/09/2026

I’ve been running OS 27 and trying to figure out all the different places to turn off “writing assistance” (buzz off, I have a brain). The inline suggestions are buried in the keyboard settings; along with the 3 other plac... microblog.thomascannon.me/2026/09/0…

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 04/09/2026

Publish or Perish is an episode built for Columbo Screens

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 31/08/2026

✅ Deep Space 9 rewatch is officially finished 🫡

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 30/08/2026

The local Best Buy had a perv glasses kiosk that looked like a D-rate Warby Parker 🆒

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