Jason Brooks
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I like Linux, pro wrestling, the #SFGiants, Days of Our Lives, and building more housing in San Francisco. I work at Red Hat in its OSPO.
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@byondr.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy It just occurred to me the other day to connect the giantbot to bridgy: @giantbot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
December 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
@byondr.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy It just occurred to me the other day to connect the giantbot to bridgy: @giantbot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
simonwillison.net
December 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/
Twitter seems important because it has so many eyeballs. I'm not adding my eyeballs to that count.
Since it looks like we're going through the "liberals who stayed on X/Twitter trying to convince others to go back there," I'll just remind folks I already wrote a long article pointing out how that makes no sense and is, in fact, an incredibly dumb idea.
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/s...
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/s...
Stop Begging. Start Building
As a reminder, I’m on the board at Bluesky, which means you should consider me extremely biased, even as this article isn’t really about Bluesky. The writer Jerusalem Demsas wants you to stay on Tw…
www.techdirt.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Twitter seems important because it has so many eyeballs. I'm not adding my eyeballs to that count.
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This piece was a really interesting read. A lot of people coming down in places that I didn't expect. Props to Sup. Fielder, whom I often disagree with on production issues, for saying she'd support all of the Safeway redevelopment proposals, including the one in the Marina.
We asked every S.F. politician about the Marina Safeway proposal. Here are their answers.
San Francisco's elected officials and significant candidates for office are put on the spot and on the record
missionlocal.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This piece was a really interesting read. A lot of people coming down in places that I didn't expect. Props to Sup. Fielder, whom I often disagree with on production issues, for saying she'd support all of the Safeway redevelopment proposals, including the one in the Marina.
This led me to this Cory Doctorow talk, which is very interesting, and while critical of AI, aligns pretty well w/ my (generally positive) views of AI.
December 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This led me to this Cory Doctorow talk, which is very interesting, and while critical of AI, aligns pretty well w/ my (generally positive) views of AI.
Vegas Raiders:
Super Bowl Gambling Memories - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
youtu.be
December 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Vegas Raiders:
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
this shit is just beyond parody, man
San Francisco is awesome. And I think we actually have a street fair about whipping ass.
This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”
“I walk around Portland, and I go, ‘Fuck you, assholes. Portland is fine.’” - John Darnielle, @themountaingoats.bsky.social. We're proud to claim you as a Portlander, sir.
December 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
San Francisco is awesome. And I think we actually have a street fair about whipping ass.
Outrage goes way down on these w/o robot involvement
A driver fatally struck a pedestrian at Mason Street and Broadway in San Francisco.
Driver fatally strikes pedestrian in S.F.’s Russian Hill
A driver fatally struck a pedestrian at Mason Street and Broadway in San Francisco.
bit.ly
December 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Outrage goes way down on these w/o robot involvement
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Same here - my hard rule is that if you can't explain how the code works that code shouldn't end up in a commit to anything other than a toy project
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Same here - my hard rule is that if you can't explain how the code works that code shouldn't end up in a commit to anything other than a toy project
I'm doubly out of step in that I do like LLMs *and* I don't mind seeing brand accounts on here.
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I'm doubly out of step in that I do like LLMs *and* I don't mind seeing brand accounts on here.
This got me to subscribe to The Verge for the year, and it was interesting. One thing it didn't cover is to what extent the AI Boom depends on LLM-based AGI (which has always seemed awful far-fetched to me) being real.
Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This got me to subscribe to The Verge for the year, and it was interesting. One thing it didn't cover is to what extent the AI Boom depends on LLM-based AGI (which has always seemed awful far-fetched to me) being real.
We're going to see so many Tom Steyer ads
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
We're going to see so many Tom Steyer ads
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CentOS Connect is just two months away! The CFP is open for sessions and meetups until December 16. And don't forget to register. It's free, but we need registration for planning.
www.centos.org/events/conne...
#CentOS #CentOSConnect
www.centos.org/events/conne...
#CentOS #CentOSConnect
CentOS Connect 2026 - The CentOS Project
CentOS Connect is the contributor conference for CentOS, focusing on CentOS Stream, Special Interest Groups, and the entire Enterprise Linux ecosystem. CentOS Connect 2026 happens January 29 – 30, as…
www.centos.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
CentOS Connect is just two months away! The CFP is open for sessions and meetups until December 16. And don't forget to register. It's free, but we need registration for planning.
www.centos.org/events/conne...
#CentOS #CentOSConnect
www.centos.org/events/conne...
#CentOS #CentOSConnect
I think about this post a lot these days
steven vogt is managing a clubhouse full of gamblers with kai correa. oh what we could have had.
November 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I think about this post a lot these days
Fare well, Joey Fuego, I expected he'd stay around. #sfgiants
To summarize, the #SFGiants made the following moves today:
-DFA'd Andrew Knizner
-Traded for Joey Wiemer
-Non-tendered Joey Lucchesi
-Tendered JT Brubaker a contract for 2026
The 40-man roster now stands at 39.
-DFA'd Andrew Knizner
-Traded for Joey Wiemer
-Non-tendered Joey Lucchesi
-Tendered JT Brubaker a contract for 2026
The 40-man roster now stands at 39.
November 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Fare well, Joey Fuego, I expected he'd stay around. #sfgiants
Too much of bluesky is "hey, look at this infuriating thing on twitter"
November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Too much of bluesky is "hey, look at this infuriating thing on twitter"
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MLB teams on Bsky, by activity
NL:
@pirates.com 1.4K posts
@mets.com 457
@sfgiants.com 434
@nationals.com 1
@brewers.com 1 reply
Logos, 0 posts
@phillies.com
@braves.com
@marlins.com
@cardinals.com
@reds.com
@padres.com
@rockies.com
@dbacks.com
No logo, no posts
@dodgers.com
No account:
Cubs
NL:
@pirates.com 1.4K posts
@mets.com 457
@sfgiants.com 434
@nationals.com 1
@brewers.com 1 reply
Logos, 0 posts
@phillies.com
@braves.com
@marlins.com
@cardinals.com
@reds.com
@padres.com
@rockies.com
@dbacks.com
No logo, no posts
@dodgers.com
No account:
Cubs
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
MLB teams on Bsky, by activity
NL:
@pirates.com 1.4K posts
@mets.com 457
@sfgiants.com 434
@nationals.com 1
@brewers.com 1 reply
Logos, 0 posts
@phillies.com
@braves.com
@marlins.com
@cardinals.com
@reds.com
@padres.com
@rockies.com
@dbacks.com
No logo, no posts
@dodgers.com
No account:
Cubs
NL:
@pirates.com 1.4K posts
@mets.com 457
@sfgiants.com 434
@nationals.com 1
@brewers.com 1 reply
Logos, 0 posts
@phillies.com
@braves.com
@marlins.com
@cardinals.com
@reds.com
@padres.com
@rockies.com
@dbacks.com
No logo, no posts
@dodgers.com
No account:
Cubs
great great ep, this podcast is legit
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
great great ep, this podcast is legit
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Never spoken before? No worries. We’ll help you get started. Submit a session for SCaLE 23x!
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#SCaLE23x #firsttimeCFP
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#SCaLE23x #firsttimeCFP
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Never spoken before? No worries. We’ll help you get started. Submit a session for SCaLE 23x!
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#SCaLE23x #firsttimeCFP
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#SCaLE23x #firsttimeCFP