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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 10/03/2026

Criminals Doing Crime is not a Government

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 06/03/2026

veni, vidi, ef-$!*@-fugi.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 01/03/2026

A real-life case of spacebar heating.

Screenshot of a software manual, text reads:

Appendix B: Beeps 4 life

The default windows command-line uses a character set named Code page 437. Its historical relevance goes back to the days where Unicode wasn't yet ubiquitous.1

In the early days of butler, we were using the CP437 character 007 to display bullet points (whenever butler starts a new task). However, that particular character is also used to emit a system beep2.

This was a bug, of course, but early users got attached to it. It was soothing. The bug has since been fixed, but the historical behavior can be restored by using the --beeps4life option.

Note that this option is not listed in the program's inline help.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 28/02/2026

Peace to you all today, however you can find it. We have nothing more to learn from more war. There was never anything there to see, just the terrors we raise against each other.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 26/02/2026

Nyx, magnificently and magnetically attracting attention

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 26/02/2026

AI can’t really solve what we don’t understand ourselves; and trying to use it that way leaves us understanding less.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 20/02/2026

Had to check the publish date quick (1998, whew). Poor de Bono.

Photo of a chapter frontspiece in a book - it reads:

Three of the Methods of Simping:
- Historical Review
- Shedding
- Listening

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 19/02/2026

The article is worth it. I'm entirely uncertain how so much can be mapped, without things being badly wrong in several ways; even after the obvious ethical, political, and existential ways - there's a pile of dysfunction here.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 17/02/2026

Evergreen. Wish it weren't. War Is A Racket - Major General Smedley Butler www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH...

ratical.org

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 10/02/2026

I believe the commerce secretary may be uh, being economical with the truth.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 02/02/2026

What's the situation on ATProto labellers for genAI content? I don't block or filter anything yet, but I would certainly like to (the not-people/meaningful)

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 25/01/2026

Imagine how much more they could get away with if they could just feign concern, accountability, contrition. For even 5 minutes. They're being undone by the classic narcissistic trait of being unable to be wrong.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 24/01/2026

The people who would dehumanize others to "protect you", will always dehumanize you to protect themselves.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 24/01/2026

Outside, my eyes are stinging - the air is acrid with smoke, the awful smell of homes on fire. I look to see the helicopter I can hear, thinking they've brought out the bucket, and it's dangling a crypto ad banner, dappled in partial sunlight through the haze.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 23/01/2026

Another day, another dollar based hegemony.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 21/01/2026

Even the most ideal hypothetical transition to a hypothetically more sane US administration will have the rest of the globe reconfigure to price in this history. The conferred hegemony is no longer implicit, rather conditional, and volatile.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 21/01/2026

That was a very Don Quixote Don Keynote. I never thought 'tilting at windmills' would remain relevant.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 19/01/2026

Poe's Law has never worked so hard

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 17/01/2026

yes, the tail wags the dog, but try wag the dog by the tail, and it might just bite you.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 14/01/2026

Pluralism is the weirdest thing for a federation to be allergic to

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 13/01/2026

We cannot allow any authority to demand more respect, than they respect their office and its responsibilities.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 11/01/2026

Externalized self-hatred gets so far, because it will stop at nothing.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 05/01/2026

Increasingly, hiring processes seem to becoming an inverse Turing test.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 03/01/2026

Every country has policies that are crimes elsewhere. We practice diplomatic immunity to enable any sort of international diplomacy to exist. The consequences for everyone if violence and this supposed 'strength' are believed to be legitimate tools of foreign policy are catastrophic.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 07/12/2025

Nothing much. Was thinking of staying in, and catching up on my browser tabs. You?

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 23/11/2025

fragglet.github.io/sdl-sopwith/ It's 1986. Someone over my shoulder is trolling me, tapping the turbo button on and off.

fragglet.github.io

SDL Sopwith

Modern port of the classic biplane shoot-em up, Sopwith.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 28/08/2025

hadn't seen this in atuin before. Mondays seem busy (and TIL 137 -> OOM)

A screenshot of a terminal / CLI. It's a TUI, showing a detailed history of a command entry in atuin (rebuilding my nixos), a terminal history manager. It includes histograms, return code distributions, timing info.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 17/06/2025

Things you don't want to see at your teller machine

A cash teller machine, but the screen is just displaying an Internet Explorer era error message.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 10/03/2025

"what if the bullshit-asymmetry principle was a government" is real tiresome

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 06/06/2025

I hold my face between my hands no I am not crying I hold my face between my hands to keep my loneliness warm two hands protecting two hands nourishing two hands to prevent my soul from leaving me in anger — Thích Nhất Hạnh

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

"elder scrolls" is just me looking at my phone

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 06/04/2025

Too much seems like the prelude to pursuing conflicts worse than trade wars. Just for the distraction.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 15/03/2025

Lots of backlash for phrasing. Maybe something like "... a draft proposal for how users can express their data-use rights and preferences for privacy, reproduction, and storage; including for research, archiving, and other automation". ML is old tech; content theft is what needs the "No" option

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 13/03/2025

*exhales loudly, audibly pained*

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