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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

how much time I spend with Claude vs how annoyed I am to read text generated by Claude

a graph of a straight line. title says "perfect positive correlation"

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

possibly the most perfect bluesky post ever skeeted?

screenshot of a post that says "I think there is a very clear class incentive for journalists as symbolic capitalists to want to deny LLM capabilities. Additionally, I think it's quite evident that there is a widespread attempt to deny LLM capabilities on the part of the general public and certain numbers of the intelligentsia."

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

without conceding that "phenomenality" is a meaningful concept, I don't think this even supports the claim that it's requisite for "reasoning"? this is just about why a stack of functions like learning *and reasoning* are (purportedly) different from "consciousness"

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

this lady has a bunch of these? like here's one with the *exact same script,* but delivered by an Asian dude with a camera instead of a white guy with lotion? what is happening?

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

idc about phantom or not; played a couple of games, here's my review

King Arthur in Monty Python's Holy Grail: no, on second thought, let's nto go to camelot. it is a silly place.

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Have been logged into Facebook this week, as it's the best place to track the wildfires on Mount Hood, and it's such a shit hole. Aside from the fact that they're showing even me a bunch of racist and misogynist content, what the hell is this?

A Facebook post. It says "it's not as hard, as it looks" and has the equation "(k+k)/k = 6"

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

absolute banger of an init commit today

screenshot of a github repository called 'mollydoran'. includes a screenshot of Jackson Lamb saying "I'll see you in another 15 years, Molly," a quote about Molly from Dead Lions, and the description 'Molly Doran remembers things that need remembering, and forgets things that need forgetting.'

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

it's giving, "Ma'am, that song is about racist cops."

classic Tom Morello (guitarist for Rage Against the Machine) tweet referencing the fact that Republican Senator Paul Ryan once said RATM was his favorite band. he tells the story of meeting a woman who said "Killing in the Name" helped her rage against her parents and (lol) 'the jab.' Morello responds, "Ma'am, that song is about racist cops who often behave like the Ku Klux Klan."

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I usually don't respond to unsolicited work spam, but sometimes the itch is too strong.

two emails. first, some rando:
Hi Todd, my name is Andre Hamra, Stanford MBA’24 and founder of Refer.
We started by connecting Stanford alumni ready for a better job to those who were hiring, and we're now opening access to the tech industry across the US.
Given that you work at [], you qualify to join the network.
Refer was recently on the cover of WSJ for flipping recruiting upside down – employers pay nothing, and candidates are the actual clients.
Would you like an access code?
Andre Hamra
CEO at Refer
Stanford MBA'24
Forbes 30 under 30

then, me:
I don't give a shit about Stanford.

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

@codytownsend.bsky.social and I have the same problems. I'm glad he's brave enough to speak up about this issue. youtube.com/shorts/XxKW2...

cows blocking my trail run in Switzerland

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The really crazy thing to me is, the whole conversation started this way. Joel is the other guy in the comic! The bit you quoted with this image was him flipping the second guy's crap back on him. The whole point Joel is making is that you can always be more-second-guy.

peasant says "we should do something about elon musk somewhat" and a guy pops out of the ground to say "yet you participate in twitter. curious! i am very intelligent."

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

every day I carry with me the knowledge that I will die without ever once, even for a moment, looking this "yeah, that dude fucks"

the drummer in the song above. he's got on a worn out cowboy hat, a denim jacket, a black t-shirt with some kind of pentagram. i think dog tags maybe? the very stub end of a cigarette hangs from his lips while he drums.

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Having this huge open space in Northeast is an affront.

part of the map of Portland from the article, showing NE Portland, with zero dots in the area east of MLK and north of Fremont

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

jac is in this photo frame. not many know this.

Wolverine looks wistfully at a framed photograph.

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

with apologies for stalking, this spurred me to go find the Strava segment you mentioned, and photos from people's rides on the segment are absolutely nuts. like very very cool, but also damn.

a tiny person carries a bicycle up a steep grade, on a trail that is almost a stream. through a thin fog, a craggy hillside looms behind.

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

the mobile app has these filters, and I think the web app maybe has more? but it's dependent on people accurately classifying their uploads, so the caveats stand somewhat

drop down menu with options ride, mountain bike ride, gravel ride

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

plants in this garden that I'd order at a cocktail bar

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

this genius i follow on the internet once said

another 9mo post by stumptown scud that says "the novitiate asked, "master, what is best in life?" the old man smiled, and said, "when you think somebody is coming over to your house so you clean your whole house but then they don't""

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Best Star Trek monster of the week, wrong answers only

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

received two cursed emails in the last hour

someone is looking for specifically a "polyamorous and sex-positive" runner for their relay race team

someone used my email address to log into Frontpage Magazine, add a copy of "Ivory Tower Hypocrites" to their cart, and then not check out. this feels like a conscious trolling by a friend?

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

counted the weeks backwards from my big objective for the year, put a credit card into Training Peaks

an inspirational poster says "a journey of a thousand miles beings with a single step." an editor has crossed out "thousand" and written "800-900" above it, then crossed out "single step" and written "futzing with calendars" below it

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

this story about two women who are married but complete in skeleton for different countries has it all www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/w...

They met in 2019 on the skeleton World Cup circuit, a series of competitions held in the winter, mostly in Europe. During the Covid-19 pandemic, hotel rooms were in short supply, so they shared accommodations. Love soon followed.

They were engaged in 2024 during a trip to Brazil, and even that was a competition. Ms. Silveira popped the question and Ms. Meylemans said, “No!” — because she was carrying a ring in her pocket and had planned to do the proposing.

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

and now, a festive cocktail interlude

two creamy cocktails with burnt cinnamon sticks

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Christmas morning buns underway

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

for a brief, beautiful moment this morning we got this up over 8. but the rain is quickly crushing it.

Mt. Hood Meadows snow stake, showing a recent addition of ~5 inches of snow.

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I *think* it's happening here too, but the cameras were all taken out by the wind last night 😭

black squares where live footage of snow should be

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

school. Which, in her defense, @joannah11.bsky.social gets into next. But just to dignify this "safety" thing in this way is nuts to me. www.wweek.com/news/schools...

A parent of color at Faubion PK-8, who declined to use his name because a family member is employed by the district, said what others only whispered off the record.

“I am not the kind of person that likes to ever point out people’s racism,” he says. “I don’t think it’s just about people being afraid of Black people. Parents could be afraid of what it means to be in a place where people are treated like Black folks. They think, if I’m in this school, my kid is going to get only the resources that are available in this place.”

Addie Humbert, a mom of a seventh grader at Ockley Green Middle School who’s supportive of the transition, says there’s a flip side to that coin: Wealthier parents can help a long-neglected school get more resources.

“You will use your very powerful voices to fight for staffing and funding at a state and local and school level,” she said in her Dec. 8 School Board testimony addressing some families opposed to redistricting. “And that work will benefit not just your kid, but a community that has been desperate for resources for decades.”

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

This makes me insane. Obviously no one *said out loud* "yeah I'm a big ol' racist." Everyone has to cross MLK! We're talking about young adults. You don't hear Faubion parents complaining about this. It's transparent nonsense made up to cover for a fear of attending a historically-disenfranchised

None of the parents who spoke to WW about their opposition to the plan said they had any concerns about their children attending a largely Black high school. (In fact, many of them worried that pulling Sabin and Irvington students from Grant’s boundary would effectively make that high school less diverse.) Bina Patel, a parent of color who has a seventh grader at Tubman and lives in Sabin, says calling all criticisms racist obfuscates real concerns she says she has about sending her child to Jefferson. And she says some parents she knows are scared to speak out for fear they’ll be labeled as racist.

“What I see is a lot of white people calling a lot of other white people racist. And I think there’s just a lot of white guilt in Portland,” Patel says. “Racism is a convenient excuse to silence people.”

Instead, those families say there are a host of other reasons why they’re concerned about Jefferson. Some are worried about the school’s current facility and lack of comprehensive offerings, or say the route to school isn’t walkable and would involve crossing major streets, posing safety issues.

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I have a favorite coffee mug. It's matte porcelain, it's the perfect size and weight. Every barista I hand it to fawns over it. Last month I dropped it, and immediately ordered a new one. Since then, every website I visit looks like this. Get a fucking grip, AdSense.

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

promised the kid weeks ago we could do a family KPDH Halloween costume, but now I'm having regrets

Amazon listing for the Portland Frog costume. it's only $38!!

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

the world if people had seen Jerry's original, objectively-correct post and reflected on their behavior

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

the only ice we want to see in Oregon this week

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

idk if this does anything, and Ruth is going to feel some type of way about the new season of Only Murders, but here we are

screenshot of a cancelled Hulu/Disney+/ESPN subscription

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

the 2025 version of fast/good/cheap really fucking sucks

a triangle with text at each point. top is 'morals, human decency'. lower left is 'a single clue what's happening in the world' and lower right is 'occasional full week without despair and/or depression.'

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose?

a map for a mall food court circa 1993. there's a Sbarro, an Orange Julius, an Arby's, etc. overlaid on this are 8 sections, lablelled A-H, similar to the world map from yesterday.

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Todd Johnson @todd534.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

frankly rude of the nyt to scoop Mick Herron with its own story of repeat loser special agents the week of the new Slough House novel www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

screenshot from the linked article says "Since then, SEALs have mounted other complex and daring missions that unraveled, in Panama, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia. During a rescue mission in Afghanistan in 2010, Team 6 SEALs accidentally killed a hostage they were trying to rescue with a grenade and then misled superiors about how she had died."

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