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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · Mar 22

new pinned post:i observe & analyze the intersection of tech,world news,gender,history,and media consumption.

u will see a lot of thoughts,some art & music,cat photos,and occasional selfies.

also re: my writing style: bsky.app/profile/zero...

oh & i love videogames,fountain pens,loud music

ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · Dec 20

i need to restate this periodically: i dont capitalize & often mess up my grammar bc it is part of my personal activism:w/ my words i challenge the subconscious idea we all have that associates perfect grammar & lang presentation w valuable ideas and content, bc that association is classist & racist

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 11h

youtu.be/YK39g6SNnIo?... full version on youtube

cover 追梦赤子心

YouTube video by solarized_titanium

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 12h

www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/pap... big mood

https://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf

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Witch’s Black Kat Marchán 🐈‍⬛🧙🏼 @zkat.tech · 14h

so we're at the "hide entire apartments behind bookshelves" stage of things, I guess? I mean we've probably been there for a bit but

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 15h

this the song i’ve loved for fifteen years and i listen to it all the time and i share it with u if u feel like giving up, just don’t, keep going it all pays off, whatever doesn’t bring u down makes u stronger

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 15h

bsky.app/profile/zero...

ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 2d

so the frog is 卖娃青蛙。https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_23101624 it was designed by a mom with the last name Tong in Nanjing, inspired by the toad in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabas.... it is a mascot of 躺平culture (lay-flat, against capitalism)

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 15h

bsky.app/profile/zero...

ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 2d

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 4d

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 1d

"PRINCE WILLIAM HAS FEELINGS"

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 1d

worst thing is we did not agree on a time proper it was a "i'll catch you around" lolllll

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 1d

<_>

ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 1d

yar it’s neat to be able to agree on the most fundamental things but disagree on other things and still respect and admire and trust each other :D i’m so mentally healthy right now i feel like i can take on 6 more projects

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 1d

i keep meaning to write a piece about my model of love to unpack it more but the short and sweet is it’s cool to be married to ur best friend and u get to exchange thoughts but be independent, they laugh at all ur jokes and they make good jokes, u share hobbies but u each have ur own hobbies too

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 1d

lollll it’s ok that’s a scam, they make bot profiles like this and spam femme profiles across the board

ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 1d

idk what kinda DMs other hot ppl get but i usually only get scam stuff like this and im p grateful ppl generally don’t hit on me (in fact i slipped into @botmatrix.myatproto.social ‘s DMs and now we been married a year and almost a half lmao)

Hello, how are you doing today? Sorry I didn't mean to text you randomly, I'm not gonna lie you look beautiful and you genuine. I would love to get to know you more if that's fine with you.

Are you interested in having someone to spoil you and support you financially. I don't mind taking care of your bills and supporting you financially

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 1d

if i had a dollar everytime told me i was too verbose and elaborate but eloquent and expressive i could train my own LLM to sound less like me

ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 1d

certainly not i, a human

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 1d

i’m sorry if we synthesize information and make inferences similar to LLMs but LLMs are modeled after us not the other way around thank u

ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 1d

one thing i resent about LLMs is how they sound like how i talk (an autistic) and now i can’t say “you’re absolutely right” and use — reliably without wondering if i sound like goddamn AI

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 1d

i was like “how feasible is it to stand here and wait for a friend if friend doesn’t have phone and u r meeting old school” so i waited for 30 min exact and im glad i did cuz friend showed up at minute 30 but damn this makes me miss 1990s a lot less lmaoooo

me looking mildly unsettled under a street lamp, attempting to look less suspicious

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André Arko @indirect.io · 1d

Ruby Central said some really concerning things today. I don’t think they’re representing the situation accurately. andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/t...

The RubyGems “security incident”

Ruby Central posted an extremely concerning “Incident Response Timeline” today, in which they make a number of exaggerated or purely misleading claims. Here’s my effort to set the record straight. Fir...

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 1d

if i get to enforce a law it would be no pants without pockets

ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 1d

nothing makes u feel as safe as having 5+ pockets on your person

ban pants without pockets

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 1d

i had to double check this was real news and not the onion

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 1d

just dropped out of an interview process: join slack,make design doc get it approved shipped within 2 weeks. love it for emulating working together. clear misalignment in collaboration style but it was fun github.com/nombiezinja/... big shoutout to Teleport for letting candidates make things public

Technical Design and Protos by nombiezinja · Pull Request #1 · nombiezinja/k2so

This PR adds initial gRPC definition and final technical design document: Complete gRPC proto (proto/k2so/v1/k2so.proto) with Run/Delete/Describe/Logs RPCs Technical design document (DESIGN.md) co...

github.com

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 2d

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