Jon Kunkee
@jkunkee.daskunkee.net
Software engineer - Windows kernel, emulation, build systems - dad - hobby hardware/embedded tinkerer - sometime ham KC0NID - left-leaned LDS, LGBTQ+ ally - he/him
My views aren't my employer's, ofc
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My views aren't my employer's, ofc
daskunkee.net (sorry my CSS sucks on mobile)
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Software cultures are absolutely deprived of compassionate moments where we get to be human together and experience being on the same side together. I really believe that humanness changes people's lives and I'm not giving up on its power. I have seen it measurably work, again and again.
December 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Software cultures are absolutely deprived of compassionate moments where we get to be human together and experience being on the same side together. I really believe that humanness changes people's lives and I'm not giving up on its power. I have seen it measurably work, again and again.
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An Apparition. Slide from my collection, 1975.
December 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
An Apparition. Slide from my collection, 1975.
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Here is an example of what I mean in a simple illustration, from our New Developer project.
AI Skill Threat is how acutely developers anticipated identity-based and skill-based loss and Contest Culture is how much they rated software as demanding punitive, ruthless competition norms.
AI Skill Threat is how acutely developers anticipated identity-based and skill-based loss and Contest Culture is how much they rated software as demanding punitive, ruthless competition norms.
December 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Here is an example of what I mean in a simple illustration, from our New Developer project.
AI Skill Threat is how acutely developers anticipated identity-based and skill-based loss and Contest Culture is how much they rated software as demanding punitive, ruthless competition norms.
AI Skill Threat is how acutely developers anticipated identity-based and skill-based loss and Contest Culture is how much they rated software as demanding punitive, ruthless competition norms.
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Looking for tips and comments!
Some time ago, DRASTIC lab leak activists wrote that Shi Zhengli edited an article on 30 Dec 2019, that they have her IP and MAC addresses, and they could even tell the edits were from a train.
How would this even be possible? ▫️1/4
#covidorigin
archive.md/sKCPq
Some time ago, DRASTIC lab leak activists wrote that Shi Zhengli edited an article on 30 Dec 2019, that they have her IP and MAC addresses, and they could even tell the edits were from a train.
How would this even be possible? ▫️1/4
#covidorigin
archive.md/sKCPq
December 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Looking for tips and comments!
Some time ago, DRASTIC lab leak activists wrote that Shi Zhengli edited an article on 30 Dec 2019, that they have her IP and MAC addresses, and they could even tell the edits were from a train.
How would this even be possible? ▫️1/4
#covidorigin
archive.md/sKCPq
Some time ago, DRASTIC lab leak activists wrote that Shi Zhengli edited an article on 30 Dec 2019, that they have her IP and MAC addresses, and they could even tell the edits were from a train.
How would this even be possible? ▫️1/4
#covidorigin
archive.md/sKCPq
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This is our 3D platformer BIG HOPS!
- use your tongue to grab stuff, swing around, solve puzzles
- master froggy parkour with wall running and free climbing
- use veggies to build your own paths through levels
#screenshotsaturday #indiegames #bighops
- use your tongue to grab stuff, swing around, solve puzzles
- master froggy parkour with wall running and free climbing
- use veggies to build your own paths through levels
#screenshotsaturday #indiegames #bighops
December 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is our 3D platformer BIG HOPS!
- use your tongue to grab stuff, swing around, solve puzzles
- master froggy parkour with wall running and free climbing
- use veggies to build your own paths through levels
#screenshotsaturday #indiegames #bighops
- use your tongue to grab stuff, swing around, solve puzzles
- master froggy parkour with wall running and free climbing
- use veggies to build your own paths through levels
#screenshotsaturday #indiegames #bighops
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Never work for exposure. People die of exposure. Nobody ever died of money.
December 28, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Never work for exposure. People die of exposure. Nobody ever died of money.
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As we're about to start 2026, can I ask you to share your strategies for reducing friction? I'm using the holiday interregnum to take some time to re-strategize, trying to brute force this version of the world just isn't feasible...
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What are your strategies for reducing friction? For saving 🔋 / 🥄 | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
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December 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
As we're about to start 2026, can I ask you to share your strategies for reducing friction? I'm using the holiday interregnum to take some time to re-strategize, trying to brute force this version of the world just isn't feasible...
www.patreon.com/posts/146810...
www.patreon.com/posts/146810...
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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
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Just follow @gailsimone.bsky.social first and you've got smooth sailing from there.
how to use this site for new ppl
1. you're going to be on here less. use that extra time on the computer to draw or write or make music or program or play games etc!
2. don't look at the discover tab
3. follow ur faves
4. follow the people your faves repost + reply to
5. build a feed like that
1. you're going to be on here less. use that extra time on the computer to draw or write or make music or program or play games etc!
2. don't look at the discover tab
3. follow ur faves
4. follow the people your faves repost + reply to
5. build a feed like that
December 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Just follow @gailsimone.bsky.social first and you've got smooth sailing from there.
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Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.
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I worked on my comic for four years before showing it to anyone except a single friend, who I know I tortured by finishing pages months and months apart.
I was slow, the art was janky, and I didn't want to subject anyone to it until there was enough story to chew on.
Give yourself time. It's okay.
I was slow, the art was janky, and I didn't want to subject anyone to it until there was enough story to chew on.
Give yourself time. It's okay.
I wish there was a way to tell young beginner cartoonists looking for promotional advice that they need to stop putting all their energy into marketing & work on their comic instead without sounding like a total bitch. my love, there is nothing to market
December 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I worked on my comic for four years before showing it to anyone except a single friend, who I know I tortured by finishing pages months and months apart.
I was slow, the art was janky, and I didn't want to subject anyone to it until there was enough story to chew on.
Give yourself time. It's okay.
I was slow, the art was janky, and I didn't want to subject anyone to it until there was enough story to chew on.
Give yourself time. It's okay.
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This here, a proud and upsetting member of His Majesty's Royal Navy, is Pollyanna the reindeer.
And for the avoidance of doubt, she's the one on the right of the photograph.
And for the avoidance of doubt, she's the one on the right of the photograph.
December 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This here, a proud and upsetting member of His Majesty's Royal Navy, is Pollyanna the reindeer.
And for the avoidance of doubt, she's the one on the right of the photograph.
And for the avoidance of doubt, she's the one on the right of the photograph.
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I can't have been the only person to think "congratulations - you've just lasered your own bridge off"
December 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I can't have been the only person to think "congratulations - you've just lasered your own bridge off"
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In a former life I was a micro professor. I always told students that vaccines were like fire extinguishers: having one doesn’t mean you won't ever have a fire (infection), but it will decrease the damage caused by the fire (disease). Plus, it can keep the fire from spreading to the neighbor's house
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
In a former life I was a micro professor. I always told students that vaccines were like fire extinguishers: having one doesn’t mean you won't ever have a fire (infection), but it will decrease the damage caused by the fire (disease). Plus, it can keep the fire from spreading to the neighbor's house
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Just for the record, they’re performing a Klingon Christmas Carol here in Seattle.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Just for the record, they’re performing a Klingon Christmas Carol here in Seattle.
latitudetheatre.org/a-klingon-ch...
latitudetheatre.org/a-klingon-ch...
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If you need a good laugh read this thread.😂
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 23, 2025 at 4:29 AM
If you need a good laugh read this thread.😂
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When I notice the fan on my new laptop running I often bring up Task Manager to find out why. It often shows no obvious culprit so I grab an ETW trace.
In four out of four cases so far the culprit has been the System process
In four out of four cases so far the culprit has been the System process
December 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
When I notice the fan on my new laptop running I often bring up Task Manager to find out why. It often shows no obvious culprit so I grab an ETW trace.
In four out of four cases so far the culprit has been the System process
In four out of four cases so far the culprit has been the System process
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I mean, the thing is, and I keep telling people this, I am SUPER lazy, so why would I learn how to prompt "AI" to write in a non-"AI" way when I can just naturally write in an engaging, human style? I doubt there is ever going to be a point where adding "AI" to the mix isn't just extra work for me.
I just saw a great take on writers using "AI" - people don't like to read something that's clearly written by "AI", so we need to respect that and make sure it seems natural.
So...put as much effort into tricking people into thinking we made an effort as we would into actually writing. Outstanding.
So...put as much effort into tricking people into thinking we made an effort as we would into actually writing. Outstanding.
December 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I mean, the thing is, and I keep telling people this, I am SUPER lazy, so why would I learn how to prompt "AI" to write in a non-"AI" way when I can just naturally write in an engaging, human style? I doubt there is ever going to be a point where adding "AI" to the mix isn't just extra work for me.
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In the new year I want to do a series on HanksChannel called “find the papers” where I take a fun science fact and then actually find the papers that established that knowledge.
Anything you want me to dig up? I’ve already done “Male anglerfish are sexual parasites.”
Anything you want me to dig up? I’ve already done “Male anglerfish are sexual parasites.”
December 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
In the new year I want to do a series on HanksChannel called “find the papers” where I take a fun science fact and then actually find the papers that established that knowledge.
Anything you want me to dig up? I’ve already done “Male anglerfish are sexual parasites.”
Anything you want me to dig up? I’ve already done “Male anglerfish are sexual parasites.”
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Front row seat to the stars ✨
December 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Front row seat to the stars ✨
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Toilet detective. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
December 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Toilet detective. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
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Oh, and SCROOGED was one of the many things I discussed with director Richard Donner in the massive interview I shared from my vault (It'd be swell if you all became Patrons so I can continue to post both vintage pieces and do brand new ones):
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FROM THE VAULT: Richard Donner Interviews (Part 1) | Ken Plume
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December 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Oh, and SCROOGED was one of the many things I discussed with director Richard Donner in the massive interview I shared from my vault (It'd be swell if you all became Patrons so I can continue to post both vintage pieces and do brand new ones):
patreon.com/posts/from-vault-part-145504806
patreon.com/posts/from-vault-part-145504806
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Tonight in The December Comfort Watches: Starship Troopers. Did you know that, in a wild coincidence, there is also a novel of the same name? I talk about both in the piece! Would you like to know more?
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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Eighteen: Starship Troopers
If you should ever want to wind up an old-school Robert Heinlein fan — which, by the way, you shouldn’t do, they’re all clocking seventy-plus years now, and you should respect you…
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December 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Tonight in The December Comfort Watches: Starship Troopers. Did you know that, in a wild coincidence, there is also a novel of the same name? I talk about both in the piece! Would you like to know more?
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/18/t...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/18/t...
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Rights, human rights, are inalienable.
I feel like I read that someplace.
Anyone who would give away rights for one group (say my trans sisters and brothers) for the ‘good of all’ would also give away rights for others if they thought if got them something.
Not one inch.
I feel like I read that someplace.
Anyone who would give away rights for one group (say my trans sisters and brothers) for the ‘good of all’ would also give away rights for others if they thought if got them something.
Not one inch.
December 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Rights, human rights, are inalienable.
I feel like I read that someplace.
Anyone who would give away rights for one group (say my trans sisters and brothers) for the ‘good of all’ would also give away rights for others if they thought if got them something.
Not one inch.
I feel like I read that someplace.
Anyone who would give away rights for one group (say my trans sisters and brothers) for the ‘good of all’ would also give away rights for others if they thought if got them something.
Not one inch.