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I just want to make real tech for real people again. Physical media collector. They/them
Pluribus is an allegory about not having an Instagram account.
December 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Wait.. so it doesn't fail safe? Why does it fall? Removing the operator's headset turns off balance control? What about network hiccups?

Is there ANY real engineering happening or is this all just junior dev hackathon junk?

(Are these all just rhetorical questions?)
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
From a 2004 interview with RFK Jr., all the telltale signs of a budding insane right wing boomer.

Obsessed with the Roman Empire, IQ, free market capitalism, Christianity, and a straight up admission that he's full of mercury.

grist.org/article/gris...
December 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It's insane that IMDB has been around for 35 years and can't handle basic searches.
December 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Bluesky,

There is at least one
Barry Ancona for every
hobby and they are all
online taking the fun
out of it for everyone.
I just want to enjoy
the crossword puzzles
and other things
with like minded people.
Why does the internet
make everything worse.

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November 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
An economist, finally satisfied with his work, smiles and looks up from his spreadsheet.

Smoke alarm is blaring. The house is on fire.

He turns back to the computer.

File > New Spreadsheet

"Probability_of_Future_ House_Fire.xls"
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
It feels like the real future of computing is an offline VM running Windows 7 with a terabyte disk image of the best pirated software prior to 2010.

Not talking nostalgia here, just being able to actually accomplish something on the computer.
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Google Translate is straight up inventing English words when it doesn't know the answer now.
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Now that's some real cyberpunk dystopia. But where's the big crucifix made out of CRTs?
He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
They don't realize pennies are reusable?

It's not weird to see a penny minted in the 60s still around. That 4 cents easily led to 10s or 100s of dollars in commerce.

Slowly eliminating cash and letting Visa middle-man every transaction in the country is a travesty for everyone but the oligarchs.
It costs about 4 cents to create a single penny, and the Treasury Department says ending penny production will save American taxpayers approximately $56 million a year.
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Fixed it for you Chuck
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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You look at the dice. Rolled a 3. This game of Monopoly has been going for 250 years. Trump is brandishing a knife while his buddies piss in the houseplants. Elon is refusing Monopoly money, rooting through people's purses. Chuck Schumer is re-reading the rules pamphlet "Ok, a three! It says here.."
March 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
They're gonna have to bury him in a man-sized safe lest his soul be delivered directly to the deepest level of hell.
November 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Having the sun set before 5:00 pm benefits only wealthy capitalists and psychopaths.
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Even with remote human control, these things are obvious going to topple over and seriously hurt children and pets.
The loading-the-dishwasher struggle is real. Even—or especially—for the $20,000 1X Neo humanoid home robot.

🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
November 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
You can bet at some point someone referred to the east wing as Melania's Office and it was immediately doomed to be demolished for a bunga bunga ballroom.
October 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I want to understand why every single YouTube video is now 23 minutes long, but I refuse to watch a 23 minute long YouTube video explaining why.
October 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Platner and Hegseth are both about my age. Every single male college student in the 2000s saw American History X. We all know the tattoo on Ed Norton. None of us can see an all-black pec tattoo without thinking of that movie. We all know what it means.
October 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Unsurprisingly this is why AI is going to fail and why tech in general is getting worse. It takes talent, craft, and skill to make software that solves real problems and that real people want to use.

But that's antithetical to Andreessen and the other finance bros steering the industry.
It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...
October 18, 2025 at 4:54 AM
As a millennial I know there's a movie called The Cider House Rules but I've never seen it. Can't be bothered.

Is it a sorority pledge comedy? French aristocratic period piece? Amish architecture doc? Adaptation of 12 Angry Men with kids in a treehouse?

I'll simply never know.
October 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
On Twitter you could instantly block any profile with a driver's seat sunglasses selfie. On bsky for some reason it's dog photos.

See a dog pfp? Block indiscriminately. Can't go wrong. Feed gets better every day.
October 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I don't get all the nuances of this whole waffles thing, but this is the Zuckerberg cop out. He insisted he was just building a platform. Just building tools. Just increasing communication.

Your tone feels flippant, this stance is naive, and we're decades past typical tech handwashing being ok.
We’re system architects at core. We built a decentralized network so you could run your own moderation, but beyond that our upcoming healthy discourse project is taking some swings at the interaction model that drives these dynamics on Bluesky. Excited to start seeing it in action.
October 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It just feels like we sent the high school debate club to take down the Mob.
The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful.

Here’s a thought.

Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.
September 28, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Zuckerberg could post this screenshot tomorrow and his stock would go up.
Coca-Cola's social network: Coke Music (2002)
September 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Someone needs to sit down with Sam Altman and calmly explain that the real world isn't like Factorio.
Sam Altman says OpenAI wants to create "a factory that can produce a gigawatt of new AI infrastructure every week" and plans to reveal more details this year (Sam Altman)

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September 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM