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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 3d

Yep, we knew (thanks for the ping anyways), we'll post what happened in a bit (it was just a Twitter thing).

Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 10d

Jim said it well!

Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 10d

@oakparknerd.bsky.social Mask off for Stopeck, I guess.

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 12d

Have you moved to the district yet?

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 12d

It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress.

Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights.

But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 13d

I feel like at the height of the Google Reader blogosphere there was a lot of overlap between Twitter and blogs. And blogs had huge audiences!

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 13d

Simon calls out this Dan Abramov comment about how ATproto is qualitatively different from ActivityPub. Maybe he's right. But I look at ActivityPub/Mastodon as a midpoint between blog/RSS and Twitter, and I don't remember the blogosphere being ineffective.

simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/27/...

A quote from Dan Abramov

Conceptually, Mastodon is a bunch of copies of the same webapp emailing each other. There is no realtime global aggregation across the network so it can only offer a fragmented …

simonwillison.net

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 14d

I will never do anything 1/ε as good as Fox Confessor so don't let me sound like I'm being dismissive.

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 14d

New Neko is fine. Good. The music has gotten more interesting. This is better than the last album with all the cigarettes on it. Still not clear how you can ever outdo Fox Confessor.

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 19d

Though note that Nostr people are big mad at me about that post (and the paper itself). I guess the newer Nostr protocol fixes all these things, and they got Daniel Bleichenbacher to bless it?

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 21d

Called this. www.galois.com/articles/cla...

Claude Can (Sometimes) Prove It

www.galois.com

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 24d

Good Morning Spider is an underrated album.

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 28d

Next time I'll keep the chicharrones separate and chop them in at the end; they still improve the texture braised, but I think it'd be even better if they were crunchy.

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 28d

The butcher always looks at me funny when I tell them not to take the skin/fat cap off but I feel bad wasting that. But normally I just drape it over the top like a blanket, which (I now see) is dumb.

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 28d

New frontiers in carnitas-making. Today: took the fat cap/skin off in a whole sheet, sliced that into big cubes, rendered it for a couple hours, tried not to eat all of that, then browned the shoulder in the fat, cubed up, threw the skin in, and braised it off. I've been doing the fat cap all wrong!

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · Sep 11

It's an entirely separate thing. I like LLMs. I like coding agents. I would not plug an agent into our local 911 dispatch.

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · Sep 11

I love that Bing doesn't just think this data exists, but also thinks we have it to single-digit precision.

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · Sep 11

This is Bing, citing one source ("human-intelligence.org"), which in turn cites Richard Lynn's discredited data.

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · Sep 11

What the FUCK, Microsoft?

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · Sep 9

Current status at Apple SEAR:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GJS...

Oogie Boogie bug/uncovered version

YouTube video by kiddodeathsoul667

www.youtube.com

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · Sep 9

I am unreasonably excited about this.

go.dev/blog/jsonv2-...

A new experimental Go API for JSON - The Go Programming Language

Go 1.25 introduces experimental support for encoding/json/jsontext and encoding/json/v2 packages.

go.dev

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · Sep 9

My basic thing is if you're going to write a whole big splashy blog post about how a piece of anti-surveillance tech has a vulnerability in it, you should first be sure it has that vulnerability in it. It'll look pretty grim if you write the piece and it doesn't.

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · Sep 5

ANSI art is back, baby. simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/2/r...

Rich Pixels

Neat Python library by Darren Burns adding pixel image support to the Rich terminal library, using tricks to render an image using full or half-height colored blocks. Here's the key …

simonwillison.net

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · Sep 5

I don't get what Ken White thinks he stands to gain by wading into these social media slapfights between progressives and liberals. Lakshya Jain's first couple polls for The Argument haven't impressed me, but he's not a comic book villain. The people who think he is hate Ken and everything believes.

Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · Sep 5

I say (by way of analogy) "what are birds?" at least once every other week and nobody, including THE WHOLE INTERNET, knows what I'm talking about. Maddening.

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · Sep 5

Somewhere on Kyle Kingsbury's site there's a link to a "What are birds?" video (it is what it sounds like) and I always assumed it was just a meme everyone knew but the Internet does not know about this meme and it lives permanently in my brain and I'm constantly having to go find it on his site.

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