WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 2hTo a certain kind of person who I encountered in my research days, if you have a perfect record doing science or engineering, then you’re viewed with suspicion. So I would not be surprised to find out that “very low but non-zero fatality” is the most compelling story to tell. 000
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 9hBring Wendy back you cowards. 313637
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 7hSo my friend @wendyxu.bsky.social has been suspended, no reason given, and thus can't promote her popular procreate brush for colored pencils on here. Maybe we can help her out. ko-fi.com/s/cef920b108ko-fi.comColored Pencil (procreate only) - Wendy's Ko-fi ShopI've spent the summer painting with acrylic marker brushes and using colored pencil and ofc when I went back to my tablet none of the pencil brushes I... 6340229
WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 3hI don’t mean this to make light or to valorize anti-social behavior, but one of the great under-discussed ways to process grief is to find a villain, metaphorically unhinge your jaws, and swallow them whole. Low stakes options are probably best, obviously. 000
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedButlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 7hHarvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf 3732391239
WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 3hUgh yeah. This was a big extraordinary claims/evidence situation but since Adobe was the target, it got past a bunch of people who are otherwise skeptical of such things (including me). Alas. 000
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedMicah @rincewind.run · 11hrip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived 294563946
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 9hSource: news.mit.edu/2026/margare...news.mit.eduMargaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90. 09918
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 9hSoftware engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere). 8647200
WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 06/10/2026“I can fix him” is a powerful force even on people who absolutely know better 000
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedEmilia @lazerwalker.com · 05/10/2026the Slow Fourier Transform movement encouraging bespoke hand-processed audio 24112
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedScience Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8scim.agHow did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’tNew analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51 412168771
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedDavid Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026 30127303967
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedlex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 30/09/2026kinda feel like it should be a bigger news story that ceo of xbox is talking openly about how her chief strategist (and snow crash fanfic writer), matthew ball, has been grooming select journalists to control the media narrative around xbox 716933
WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 30/09/2026This is the kind of innovation you won’t get from risk averse AAA studios 010
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedAndrew @digitalcantina.com · 30/09/2026One of the best to ever do it is putting it out there for indies. Go get it!! 05312
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedCirc @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going. 2679284651
WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 26/09/2026Yeah they don’t tell you these things really. You just get to discover it on your own. 020
WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 26/09/2026I tire of “Dudes rock” posts, I wanna see ROCK DUDES!!! 000
WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 26/09/2026I have dropped in from time to time to see what the OSS models can do and every. single. time. I get an overwhelming sense of "you live like this?". Out here talking about step functions in fidelity or whatever, meanwhile it still can't manage two people in the same picture without mixing details. 010
WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 26/09/2026What do I need to do to make macOS and iOS stop composing reply suggestions in messages? They suck sour frog ass, and I'm never going to use them. They don't sound like things I'd write, and even if they did, the *presumption* 000
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say 6537761489
WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 25/09/2026Walla Walla Washington understands this plight. 010
WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 25/09/2026I don’t think I fully agree with your premise, but like…in a normal human disagreement, not a Social Media way. Regardless, I got chilled to my bones reading this a while back: 010
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.forbiddenstories.orgThe Deportation Project MapBetween 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De... 3822401169
WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 25/09/2026Wait wait wait, why am I only learning about this??? (it’s because I followed your book advice and missed several months of stuff) 010
WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 22/09/2026This is the kind of experience only engineers who have worked at stable and sustainable companies have had (Citation: spending an afternoon chasing down the origin of a change in the code across the cutover in source control systems only to finally discover it was me, a decade earlier) 011
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/09/2026VERY IMPORTANT NEWS: It’s Fat Bear Week! I do love a fat bear 🐻 explore.org/fat-bear-weekexplore.orgFat Bear Week 2026 - Explore.orgExplore.org is the world's leading philanthropic live nature cam network and documentary film channel. Our mission is to champion the selfless acts of others, create a portal into the soul of humanity... 824678
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedMelanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I'm over calls to "normalize" behaviors. Who wants to be normal? AI's "not going anywhere?" Until you drop kick it outta your life with no regrets. Be weird. Hang out with librarians. #EduSky #AIRefusal www.librarian.net/notoai/librarian.netHow to disable or avoid intrusive AIOne of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides "what is taking up all my cloud storage?") is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don't want it. ... 19429
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedpretty BOO!!!👻👻🎃🎃😈😈🎃👻!!!😈g @inyourculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026unironically this is a harbinger of our cultural victory 71904401
WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 20/09/2026The rest of the site is full of this kind of joke and I am so glad to know about it. 010
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026when ai leaves u behind 75262229832
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedStrategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Right now you can proactively be developing a new kind of music specifically for playing in the abandoned data centers of the not too distant future. 510429
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other. 131657497
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedjenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 18/09/2026Claude is making all of your otherwise nice web projects look like a fugly brown pair of cole haan oxfords 713713
WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 18/09/2026@nikostratis.com “which is to say the Beck that feels like he made a bet with the devil that before he dies he will find a word that rhymes with orange buried in a pile of Game Boy sound chips” God DAMN but you can write! 171
Reposted by WorkingBits but hauntedClaire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026New IRL Profession: Heavy Metal Friend Refer me to your shitty workplace. I'll do whatever it takes to get hired. Then I'll steal a few paychecks doing nothing but supporting you, even picking fights on your behalf. No need to pay me. Your employer will do that for you. 042
WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 18/09/2026I knew a PhD who dressed as a clown, does that count? 010
WorkingBits but haunted @workingbits.tech · 18/09/2026I had one, though knew him by their other name: Quaker Parrot. They are astonishingly loud (like conure loud), and ours was also mercurial, ill-tempered, and destructive, but at least he would also bite you for no reason. Ideal pet bird, honestly. Gets the full experience in one go. 010