Charlie Francoise
@loderunner.bsky.social
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If there’s a better obituary for an evil cartoonist than an A.I. generated version of his character that fucks up the defining detail of its design, I can’t think of it. No notes. 👨🏻🍳 💋
January 13, 2026 at 6:47 PM
If there’s a better obituary for an evil cartoonist than an A.I. generated version of his character that fucks up the defining detail of its design, I can’t think of it. No notes. 👨🏻🍳 💋
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My feeling is that LLMs have given people without skills in a particular domain the ability to be immediately ~average in that domain. Being suddenly average is a huge leap from incompetent, so it feels otherworldly.
Meanwhile:
bsky.app/profile/anil...
Meanwhile:
bsky.app/profile/anil...
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:07 PM
My feeling is that LLMs have given people without skills in a particular domain the ability to be immediately ~average in that domain. Being suddenly average is a huge leap from incompetent, so it feels otherworldly.
Meanwhile:
bsky.app/profile/anil...
Meanwhile:
bsky.app/profile/anil...
Pet peeve: when a service returns `400 Bad Request` when it fails to parse the URI.
If the the requested URI doesn't point to anything, that's a `404 Not Found`. The request itself is fine. Or it might not be, but that's not what your code just checked.
If the the requested URI doesn't point to anything, that's a `404 Not Found`. The request itself is fine. Or it might not be, but that's not what your code just checked.
January 13, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Pet peeve: when a service returns `400 Bad Request` when it fails to parse the URI.
If the the requested URI doesn't point to anything, that's a `404 Not Found`. The request itself is fine. Or it might not be, but that's not what your code just checked.
If the the requested URI doesn't point to anything, that's a `404 Not Found`. The request itself is fine. Or it might not be, but that's not what your code just checked.
"I love writing software. [...] I also hope for a society where the last are not forgotten. Moreover, I don't want AI to economically succeed. [But] facts are facts, and AI is going to change programming forever."
Don't fall into the anti-AI hype - <antirez>
antirez.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:25 AM
"I love writing software. [...] I also hope for a society where the last are not forgotten. Moreover, I don't want AI to economically succeed. [But] facts are facts, and AI is going to change programming forever."
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Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
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I dunno if X generating sexual abuse images is really going to be the final straw for anybody who was fine with nazis.
January 12, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I dunno if X generating sexual abuse images is really going to be the final straw for anybody who was fine with nazis.
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Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:
If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
religiondispatches.org
January 9, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
“Wanna fly tonight? Go to the moon? See many stars?”
is how some random guy tried to sell me shrooms on the beach one time
is how some random guy tried to sell me shrooms on the beach one time
January 6, 2026 at 11:23 AM
“Wanna fly tonight? Go to the moon? See many stars?”
is how some random guy tried to sell me shrooms on the beach one time
is how some random guy tried to sell me shrooms on the beach one time
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The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
January 4, 2026 at 11:57 AM
The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
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Look, Bluesky is a Twitter byproduct that exists as a community because Musk bought Twitter and killed it and now has X wear it as a skinsuit. No one is here really because they believe in the fediverse, we're here because of what happened to Twitter. This is twitter for opting out of Musk-Twitter.
January 4, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Look, Bluesky is a Twitter byproduct that exists as a community because Musk bought Twitter and killed it and now has X wear it as a skinsuit. No one is here really because they believe in the fediverse, we're here because of what happened to Twitter. This is twitter for opting out of Musk-Twitter.
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
5:43 AM (4 hours ago)
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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It is legitimately shocking that a company's $1.6 trillion valuation is based on 5 cars in Austin, Texas and an unlawful marketing scheme.
Tesla can be summarized as illegal marketing and illegal market manipulation to meet milestones for an illegal executive compensation plan. That's it.
Tesla can be summarized as illegal marketing and illegal market manipulation to meet milestones for an illegal executive compensation plan. That's it.
December 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
It is legitimately shocking that a company's $1.6 trillion valuation is based on 5 cars in Austin, Texas and an unlawful marketing scheme.
Tesla can be summarized as illegal marketing and illegal market manipulation to meet milestones for an illegal executive compensation plan. That's it.
Tesla can be summarized as illegal marketing and illegal market manipulation to meet milestones for an illegal executive compensation plan. That's it.
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Peter Thiel's cronies are freaking out about my book.
Here's Garry Tan—an early Palantir employee who designed its logo—launching yet another attack.
Make a tech lord cry! Pre-Order "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War On Democracy"
👉 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Here's Garry Tan—an early Palantir employee who designed its logo—launching yet another attack.
Make a tech lord cry! Pre-Order "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War On Democracy"
👉 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
December 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Peter Thiel's cronies are freaking out about my book.
Here's Garry Tan—an early Palantir employee who designed its logo—launching yet another attack.
Make a tech lord cry! Pre-Order "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War On Democracy"
👉 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Here's Garry Tan—an early Palantir employee who designed its logo—launching yet another attack.
Make a tech lord cry! Pre-Order "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War On Democracy"
👉 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Sums up my entire work ethic
December 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Sums up my entire work ethic
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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my last (probably final) copywriting client hired me because they weren’t happy with ChatGPT because “it didn’t sound human enough.” then they stopped using me because I “sounded too human”
When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
my last (probably final) copywriting client hired me because they weren’t happy with ChatGPT because “it didn’t sound human enough.” then they stopped using me because I “sounded too human”
i really just don’t like Next.js
December 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
i really just don’t like Next.js
Remember back in the days before AI when Windows was flawless and never crashed?
December 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Remember back in the days before AI when Windows was flawless and never crashed?
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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 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
The govt is not expected to make a profit. Who would the customers even be? The shareholders? What exchange it the stock traded on?
None of this makes sense if you so much as scratch the surface.
None of this makes sense if you so much as scratch the surface.
The old catchphrase "run the government like a business" has never made sense, definitionally. Most government services are things no business would ever do, because not all human needs can be contorted into a profit-generating activity.
December 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The govt is not expected to make a profit. Who would the customers even be? The shareholders? What exchange it the stock traded on?
None of this makes sense if you so much as scratch the surface.
None of this makes sense if you so much as scratch the surface.
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I went too far
December 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I went too far
The 60s were another time.
“Come see our movie! It’s great! Dean Martin slaps a girl half his age in it! It’s the best part!”
“Come see our movie! It’s great! Dean Martin slaps a girl half his age in it! It’s the best part!”
December 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The 60s were another time.
“Come see our movie! It’s great! Dean Martin slaps a girl half his age in it! It’s the best part!”
“Come see our movie! It’s great! Dean Martin slaps a girl half his age in it! It’s the best part!”