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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

mharrigan @mharrigan.bsky.social · 22d

I am reminded of an IT manager who put a list together in Excel, printed it out and then added it up using a calculator on their desk...

The Register @theregister.com · 22d

Word to the wise: Don't tell your IT manager they're not in Excel

Contractor sneakily fired after pointing out odious ignorance On Call Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's Friday frolic through your tales of delightful tech support encounters.…

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Hampus 🎃 @hampus.bsky.social · Sep 5

Tech startup idea: instead of starting your car with your key, you get in, turn on the display panel, enter your password, get your phone out, open the authenticator app, enter your pin, enter the timed passcode, then open the start menu, then helpdesk, then "request engine start", then submit a tic

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Aug 28

Wavefunction Collapse

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4-panel Comic. (1) STUDENT: If the wavefunction only collapses when I observe it, does that mean my consciousness affects the universe? (2) [Bad:] PROFESSOR: Yes, quantum entanglement proves that we all have souls. (3) [Good:] PROFESSOR: No, consciousness plays no role here. It’s just physical measurement. (4) [Chaotic:] PROFESSOR: No. The wavefunction collapses when *I* look at it because I’m a full professor. It won’t collapse for an undergraduate.

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mharrigan @mharrigan.bsky.social · Aug 29

As said by most of Northern Ireland since forever

Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · Aug 29

I'll be so glad when the weather turns cold and shitty and those wankers demonstrating with their naff flags fuck off back indoors to their sofas

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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · Aug 20

PSA: go apply the urgent security update to your Apple devices. Don’t wait. Do it right now

Update Now: iOS 18.6.2 and macOS Sequoia 15.6.1 Fix Actively Exploited Vulnerability

Apple today released new iOS 18.6.2, iPadOS 18.6.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.6.1 updates, and the software addresses a security vulnerability that is...

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · Aug 12

The evolution of "vibe coding production software as a non-dev" the last few months

Success stories do exist... ones I see all come from people who are/were software engineers

Learning to code / build software not a waste after all?

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · Aug 4

Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too

malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...

Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too

maybe it's anti-innovation, maybe it's just avoiding hype. But one thing is clear, I'm completely done with hearing about AI.

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mharrigan @mharrigan.bsky.social · Jul 22

I'm laughing, I'm crying... I'm mostly crying www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXPp...

Interview with Senior DevOps engineer 2025

YouTube video by Programmers are also human

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mharrigan @mharrigan.bsky.social · Jul 22

Ahhhhhh, very nice. Very nice indeed. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US

UK officials fear their insistence on backdoor endangers tech deals with US.

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mharrigan @mharrigan.bsky.social · Jul 19

Oh my god... it knows all the tricks (Claude's response to failing to make a test pass for the third time)

Let's simplify our approach by skipping the failing tests for now

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mharrigan @mharrigan.bsky.social · Jul 15

Syndrome from the incredibles saying "You dense motherfucker"

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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · Jun 16

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mharrigan @mharrigan.bsky.social · Jun 8

I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets into secret Strava wars with people.

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · Jun 8

My nemesis on Strava is an old colleague I haven't spoken to in 5 years. He doesn't know it, but we are in a war to see who is quicker and covers more mileage. I have all our stats logged on a spreadsheet.

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mharrigan @mharrigan.bsky.social · Jun 6

"Pedro"

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The Register @theregister.com · Jun 4

Fake IT support calls hit 20 orgs, end in stolen Salesforce data and extortion, Google warns

Victims include hospitality, retail and education sectors A group of financially motivated cyberscammers who specialize in Scattered-Spider-like fake IT support phone calls managed to trick employees at about 20 organizations into installing a modified version of Salesforce's Data Loader that allows the crims to steal sensitive data.…

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Sylvain Wallez @swallez.com · May 25

"When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning. You don’t know your code. You’re babysitting it". Indeed, a very good read, harsh but realistic.

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · May 25

This blog is SO good at pointing out what should have been obvious about AI for coding (Copilot and others)

These tools are good for re-creating whatever they’ve been trained on.

They are not what will create the next, better generation of frameworks, libraries, technologies.

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mharrigan @mharrigan.bsky.social · May 19

The “spirit” of gravel. youtube.com/watch?v=cZk2...

1976: BIG JIM's Big BOOZY Bike Trip to Braemar | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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mharrigan @mharrigan.bsky.social · May 19

The state of that...

mharrigan @mharrigan.bsky.social · May 5

Welcome to the hobby, friend. You're going to fit right in.

mharrigan @mharrigan.bsky.social · Apr 7

You don't even need the graphs, the first image says it all www.ft.com/content/b418...

So much winning — in 15 charts

The fallout from ‘Liquidation Day’

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · Apr 3

For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

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Bell @pocono.bsky.social · Apr 3

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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · Mar 30

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base!

and they want to do it ...

... in *a few months*

I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ...

... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here

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