Andrew Langmead
@alangmead.bsky.social
Software Architect at a large financial firm. Probably slightly geekier than the general population, but you can sure outdo me whatever topics you are into.
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I have never recovered from learning that "Killing Me Softly With His Song" was written about the experience of seeing Don McLean in concert.
December 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I have never recovered from learning that "Killing Me Softly With His Song" was written about the experience of seeing Don McLean in concert.
My kid has loved teaching friends about this event through this game
Molassacre: Escape the Flood is the first card game about the 1919 Boston Molasses Flood!
Thinking about grabbing gifts for loved ones? Why not grab a copy of Molassacre: Escape the Flood today!
#molassesflood #molasses #history #boston #massachusetts #mahistory #mass #bostonian #celtics
Thinking about grabbing gifts for loved ones? Why not grab a copy of Molassacre: Escape the Flood today!
#molassesflood #molasses #history #boston #massachusetts #mahistory #mass #bostonian #celtics
December 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
My kid has loved teaching friends about this event through this game
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“What if rich kids take advantage of free school lunches?” is like asking “What if rich executives take advantage of public transportation?”
What if they do?
They probably won’t. But what if they do?
Well, nothing.
What if they do?
They probably won’t. But what if they do?
Well, nothing.
December 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“What if rich kids take advantage of free school lunches?” is like asking “What if rich executives take advantage of public transportation?”
What if they do?
They probably won’t. But what if they do?
Well, nothing.
What if they do?
They probably won’t. But what if they do?
Well, nothing.
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Jonathan Harker, my oblivious himbo son
a man who should never have been allowed to travel further than the end of his block
a man who should never have been allowed to travel further than the end of his block
I am reading DRACULA, I have never read it before
It starts with an English man complaining that a paprika-based dish, a national dish of EASTERN EUROPE, was TOO SPICY
This is going to be hilarious, isn't it
It starts with an English man complaining that a paprika-based dish, a national dish of EASTERN EUROPE, was TOO SPICY
This is going to be hilarious, isn't it
December 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Jonathan Harker, my oblivious himbo son
a man who should never have been allowed to travel further than the end of his block
a man who should never have been allowed to travel further than the end of his block
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
My kid just sent me a screen recording of an Instagram post "If Arlo Guthrie had been the one to write 'Welcome to the Black Parade'", knowing that I would catch the musical references on both sides of the joke, yet being very unlikely to come across something on Instagram
November 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
My kid just sent me a screen recording of an Instagram post "If Arlo Guthrie had been the one to write 'Welcome to the Black Parade'", knowing that I would catch the musical references on both sides of the joke, yet being very unlikely to come across something on Instagram
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last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
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Gosh it must be this Big City Company that came to town that caused this, now excuse me while I drown my crops in fertilizer
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Gosh it must be this Big City Company that came to town that caused this, now excuse me while I drown my crops in fertilizer
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Hard to say—as a former ML researcher and a copy editor specializing in journal manuscripts—whether the garbage research or the complete breakdown of science publishing offends me more
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Hard to say—as a former ML researcher and a copy editor specializing in journal manuscripts—whether the garbage research or the complete breakdown of science publishing offends me more
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Gen-X: 42
Millennials: 420
Gen-Z: 69
Gen-alpha: 6, 7
Solve for the next generation
Millennials: 420
Gen-Z: 69
Gen-alpha: 6, 7
Solve for the next generation
Seen on Reddit:
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Gen-X: 42
Millennials: 420
Gen-Z: 69
Gen-alpha: 6, 7
Solve for the next generation
Millennials: 420
Gen-Z: 69
Gen-alpha: 6, 7
Solve for the next generation
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Al Roker: Now for the fan favorite New York police marching band.
Me: Fan favorite, Al?
13yo: Just because people are too afraid to boo doesn’t make them a fan favorite.
Me: Nice one [Dad-boy high 5]
Me: Fan favorite, Al?
13yo: Just because people are too afraid to boo doesn’t make them a fan favorite.
Me: Nice one [Dad-boy high 5]
November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Al Roker: Now for the fan favorite New York police marching band.
Me: Fan favorite, Al?
13yo: Just because people are too afraid to boo doesn’t make them a fan favorite.
Me: Nice one [Dad-boy high 5]
Me: Fan favorite, Al?
13yo: Just because people are too afraid to boo doesn’t make them a fan favorite.
Me: Nice one [Dad-boy high 5]
Let me just throw this in with the rest of the things in the oven because at this point the "reduce heat to 325 is not going to be what messes up this recipe
November 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Let me just throw this in with the rest of the things in the oven because at this point the "reduce heat to 325 is not going to be what messes up this recipe
With the crust packet... with the filling packet... both packets being unlabelled
November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
With the crust packet... with the filling packet... both packets being unlabelled
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Connection to the users and their desire paths is the most important path of working in security and nobody goddamn does it. You are gonna make compromises. And they're all gonna be worth it. Because you understand what they want and you're gonna deliver it and they're gonna stop doing stupid shit.
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Connection to the users and their desire paths is the most important path of working in security and nobody goddamn does it. You are gonna make compromises. And they're all gonna be worth it. Because you understand what they want and you're gonna deliver it and they're gonna stop doing stupid shit.
Something to add to the recent Star Wars discussions: my kid as a teen insisted there was no reason for them to watch Star Wars as they knew it all from cultural references. At first I didn't quite believe it, but they rattled them off:
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Something to add to the recent Star Wars discussions: my kid as a teen insisted there was no reason for them to watch Star Wars as they knew it all from cultural references. At first I didn't quite believe it, but they rattled them off:
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Ebike batteries are in the (bad) news again. Here's background from Bunch about UL certification and regulation - aka "why consumers should not have to guess whether their bikes are safe!" #cargobike #ebike #bunchfam
bunchbike.com/blogs/the-bu...
bunchbike.com/blogs/the-bu...
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Ebike batteries are in the (bad) news again. Here's background from Bunch about UL certification and regulation - aka "why consumers should not have to guess whether their bikes are safe!" #cargobike #ebike #bunchfam
bunchbike.com/blogs/the-bu...
bunchbike.com/blogs/the-bu...
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Great breakdown of why every single parent I know who works in the games industry (myself included) will never let their kids touch Roblox
Oh, God, this is one of those "where do I even start" things, because Roblox is, like, *fractally* fucked. They are terrible at content moderation. A lot of the games are rated incorrectly, so kids can encounter graphic content (sex or violence) out of nowhere --
November 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Great breakdown of why every single parent I know who works in the games industry (myself included) will never let their kids touch Roblox
A ten mile bike ride between East Providence and Butterbang Croissants in Pawtucket. I've found a route that avoids the Henderson Bridge rotary by picking up the multiuse path over by Crook Point Brewery.
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A ten mile bike ride between East Providence and Butterbang Croissants in Pawtucket. I've found a route that avoids the Henderson Bridge rotary by picking up the multiuse path over by Crook Point Brewery.
I've wondered if a pivot to AI was to keep the market for GPUs before crypto and NFTs waned (and at that NFTs a way to shore up crypto) or if crypto was hyped because AI needed the volume but wasn't ready to support it
So does this mean the AI bubble and the crypto bubble are linked or…
$1,000,000,000 liquidated from the crypto market in the past 60 minutes.
November 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I've wondered if a pivot to AI was to keep the market for GPUs before crypto and NFTs waned (and at that NFTs a way to shore up crypto) or if crypto was hyped because AI needed the volume but wasn't ready to support it
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
This supports my occasional rant that access to the discounts negotiated for members isn't worth supporting the boomer lobby
In 2025, AIPAC spent $2,783,195 on lobbying. The AARP spent $15,560,000. That's more than five times more. Do you think the AARP owns the government five times over? Or do you think that only Jews are capable of such perfidy
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This supports my occasional rant that access to the discounts negotiated for members isn't worth supporting the boomer lobby
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NGL I feel like with the latest round of big name abusers we are just repeating the same mistakes that unfolded with #MeToo, which is to say, we are focusing on how to punish bad individuals rather than on create systems that limit abusers’ power and make it easier for victims to escape and heal.
November 18, 2025 at 12:48 AM
NGL I feel like with the latest round of big name abusers we are just repeating the same mistakes that unfolded with #MeToo, which is to say, we are focusing on how to punish bad individuals rather than on create systems that limit abusers’ power and make it easier for victims to escape and heal.
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man good luck hosting a world cup or an olympics, let alone something like a sxsw
NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care.
“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’
Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
man good luck hosting a world cup or an olympics, let alone something like a sxsw
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all I need to know about AI is it ruined animal videos for the entire internet
November 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
all I need to know about AI is it ruined animal videos for the entire internet