Paul Ford
@ftrain.bsky.social
Bureaucracy enjoyer. So cringe it’s meta. Aboard.com.
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Paul Ford
@ftrain.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Do a teamwork, not a screamwork.
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🫡 Honored to serve on the technology committee.
If you're looking to work for the next administration, submit you're resume to www.transition2025.com/apply
We're looking for the people who will bring excellence to public service.
If you're looking to work for the next administration, submit you're resume to www.transition2025.com/apply
We're looking for the people who will bring excellence to public service.
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🫡 Honored to serve on the technology committee.
If you're looking to work for the next administration, submit you're resume to www.transition2025.com/apply
We're looking for the people who will bring excellence to public service.
If you're looking to work for the next administration, submit you're resume to www.transition2025.com/apply
We're looking for the people who will bring excellence to public service.
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8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
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my first WORK FRIEND column covers labor-law violation and unwritten-coworker-law violations. please submit more questions to [email protected] !!
What’s the Most Elegant Way to Lie to My Co-workers?
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
my first WORK FRIEND column covers labor-law violation and unwritten-coworker-law violations. please submit more questions to [email protected] !!
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Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
I wish political journalists would acknowledge that there is a difference between scandal and evil.
November 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I wish political journalists would acknowledge that there is a difference between scandal and evil.
My personal conception of horseshoe theory did not include MAGA ideologically converging with NAMBLA to form MAGAMBAGLA.
November 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
My personal conception of horseshoe theory did not include MAGA ideologically converging with NAMBLA to form MAGAMBAGLA.
One of my best friends on earth, and the producer of some of the albums I love the most, is trying something new and awesome (producing YOUR songs): www.instagram.com/p/DRBVDMhjOnJ/
He's a Canadian socialist & self-promotion is literally his worst nightmare, so I'm boosting.
He's a Canadian socialist & self-promotion is literally his worst nightmare, so I'm boosting.
Stephen Ramsay on Instagram
20 likes, 3 comments - stephen__ramsay on November 13, 2025
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November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
One of my best friends on earth, and the producer of some of the albums I love the most, is trying something new and awesome (producing YOUR songs): www.instagram.com/p/DRBVDMhjOnJ/
He's a Canadian socialist & self-promotion is literally his worst nightmare, so I'm boosting.
He's a Canadian socialist & self-promotion is literally his worst nightmare, so I'm boosting.
Thanksgiving conversation gonna be real quiet this year.
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Thanksgiving conversation gonna be real quiet this year.
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The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
Would NOT have been great in the household if things had gone otherwise.
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Would NOT have been great in the household if things had gone otherwise.
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I can’t wait to watch the @hellgatenyc.com live election coverage from LA. www.youtube.com/live/fKA4Vpk...
2025 Mayoral Election — LIVE with Hell Gate
Hell Gate once again has full coverage of the 2025 election, with our hosts in the studio breaking down the results and kicking it to our reporters in the field. We'll take you to the election night p...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I can’t wait to watch the @hellgatenyc.com live election coverage from LA. www.youtube.com/live/fKA4Vpk...
The Cheney/Mamdani juxtaposition is such a perfect setup for a Kelly cartoon in the Onion that it has me sickos.png In anticipation.
November 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The Cheney/Mamdani juxtaposition is such a perfect setup for a Kelly cartoon in the Onion that it has me sickos.png In anticipation.
The Cheney/Mamdani juxtaposition is such a perfect setup for a Kelly cartoon in the Onion that it has me sickos.png In anticipation.
November 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The Cheney/Mamdani juxtaposition is such a perfect setup for a Kelly cartoon in the Onion that it has me sickos.png In anticipation.
As a NYer, ”real” “small town” America now looks like a sexual freak zoo run by genital-obsessive xenophobes who make women into living dolls and shoot each other. Mamdani’s NYC (and mine) is a safe, wholesome place where neighbors help each other, do scavenger hunts, ride bikes, and birdwatch.
November 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
As a NYer, ”real” “small town” America now looks like a sexual freak zoo run by genital-obsessive xenophobes who make women into living dolls and shoot each other. Mamdani’s NYC (and mine) is a safe, wholesome place where neighbors help each other, do scavenger hunts, ride bikes, and birdwatch.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
When my son starts to yell at us about having limits on phone time I like to play Adagio for Strings on the Sonos.
October 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
When my son starts to yell at us about having limits on phone time I like to play Adagio for Strings on the Sonos.
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My old friend Steve is the worst person at computers on earth. A little while ago he asked me to please explain AI to him, and I did my best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6oR...
Paul Ford on AI
YouTube video by Alive with Steve Burns
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
My old friend Steve is the worst person at computers on earth. A little while ago he asked me to please explain AI to him, and I did my best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6oR...
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🎇New package alert @wired.com! This one has been in the works for months. If WIRED was going to tackle AI -- something we cover daily -- we had to go big. So here are 17 different stories about the way AI is changing us, even as the technology itself keeps moving www.wired.com/ai-issue/
AI of a Thousand Faces
What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
🎇New package alert @wired.com! This one has been in the works for months. If WIRED was going to tackle AI -- something we cover daily -- we had to go big. So here are 17 different stories about the way AI is changing us, even as the technology itself keeps moving www.wired.com/ai-issue/
I’m writing for the local paper again!
People are scared of what happens after the bubble bursts. @ftrain.bsky.social is looking forward to it www.wired.com/story/ai-nor...
The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down
When the AI bubble bursts, the nerds will do their best work.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I’m writing for the local paper again!
Nerds: You can set up an owncast.online server on a random cloud service, then stream videos to it via ffmpeg, and invite your friends to chat and hang while they watch a movie. This is what I do with the fellas. Right now we're watching Playtime by Tati and winding down the night.
Owncast
Owncast is your self-hosted live streaming solution.
owncast.online
October 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Nerds: You can set up an owncast.online server on a random cloud service, then stream videos to it via ffmpeg, and invite your friends to chat and hang while they watch a movie. This is what I do with the fellas. Right now we're watching Playtime by Tati and winding down the night.
This is correct. hellgatenyc.com/guitar-cente...
Guitar Center Is Good, Actually
You'll miss going there on your lunch break and letting it rip when it's gone.
hellgatenyc.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is correct. hellgatenyc.com/guitar-cente...
Late last night in Phoenix I asked the Lyft driver who picked me up at the airport about local nightlife. He said, “It’s all nightlife. No one can go out during in the day.” Then I woke up to this particular view which somehow captured the early Anthropocene of it all.
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Late last night in Phoenix I asked the Lyft driver who picked me up at the airport about local nightlife. He said, “It’s all nightlife. No one can go out during in the day.” Then I woke up to this particular view which somehow captured the early Anthropocene of it all.
I can’t find the video but in Feb a man named Joe Stutler was at an Iowa Legislature session and spoke to defend trans rights. He has a funny delivery—a little nasal—and kept saying, “You’re doing the Nazi stuff again!” I keep hearing his voice echo in my head.
www.legis.iowa.gov/committees/p...
www.legis.iowa.gov/committees/p...
![02-24-2025
Joe Stutler []
Joe Stutler, Decorated Disabled Combat Veteran, born and raised in the City of American History, I am the epitome of Patriot.I served two tours of duty in Germany. I've toured concentration camps. I learned a few things. Consider Niemller's poem: First They Came... Youve said screw those hungry children. Youve continued to attack public education and educators. Youre gunning for the Trade Unionists, gutting Chapter 20 further. Youre trying to criminalize religions you dont like. Today youre trying to dehumanize my family and friends. You're doing the Nazi stuff again. Today, instead of doing your job and telling our school districts what they have to work with so they can plan their budgets, were here to discuss your perverted obsession with other people's genitalia. Its interesting that the only people in favor of this abomination of a bill are theofascists whose deity could have banned slavery, instead it banned pork, and yet theyre not protesting hog farms. Others have and will tell you how your reduction of women into having functional ovaries or they don't matter is disgusting.I'm here to remind you that Nazis are never the good guys. I'm here to remind you that while at the moment you're giddy with power as were your analogs in 1930s Germany, in the end you're going to end up just like they did. And given our technological advances and the good kids studying STEAM, I don't believe it's going to take 10 years to eradicate the Nazis this time. While I'm too old to to be a foot soldier in the upcoming war you're demanding, I'm happy to share the skills Uncle taught me with those who will be taking advantage of our lack of firearms regulations and the availability of resources at our big box stores and home improvement centers...after all, Uncle made me an instructor of such things. Keep doing your Nazi stuff. Foxtrot Alpha, Foxtrot Oscar.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:53ykobfiwdm2ihatqmwdz24l/bafkreihdb52zrchqihs5irxlqfpsenjyv4buqz5uhsw5hl77ympur6glcm@jpeg)
October 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I can’t find the video but in Feb a man named Joe Stutler was at an Iowa Legislature session and spoke to defend trans rights. He has a funny delivery—a little nasal—and kept saying, “You’re doing the Nazi stuff again!” I keep hearing his voice echo in my head.
www.legis.iowa.gov/committees/p...
www.legis.iowa.gov/committees/p...