Robert Atkins
@ratkins.net
I miss Usenet. Prompt engineering and other things at https://beams.tech, ex Pivotal Labs. Also @ratkins, @[email protected]
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On the one hand, this is yet another horrific development.
On the other hand, fuck you Tim Cook. You're the latest to discover that selling your soul to Donald Trump will gain you nothing.
On the other hand, fuck you Tim Cook. You're the latest to discover that selling your soul to Donald Trump will gain you nothing.
The FTC has sent a letter to Tim Cook because Apple News is too woke and needs to include more right wing content.
This would sound silly even for The Onion but it’s our current reality.
This would sound silly even for The Onion but it’s our current reality.
Apple faces new tensions with Trump administration
US regulator issues warning to iPhone maker about its News platform following controversy over Super Bowl half-time show
www.ft.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:49 PM
On the one hand, this is yet another horrific development.
On the other hand, fuck you Tim Cook. You're the latest to discover that selling your soul to Donald Trump will gain you nothing.
On the other hand, fuck you Tim Cook. You're the latest to discover that selling your soul to Donald Trump will gain you nothing.
Sorry, that wasn’t very precise. I mean I get bumped to the bsky.social oauth, I enter my handle and password, then when I get redirected back to the Germ app it tells me there’s been an authentication error.
February 12, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Sorry, that wasn’t very precise. I mean I get bumped to the bsky.social oauth, I enter my handle and password, then when I get redirected back to the Germ app it tells me there’s been an authentication error.
@tessa.germnetwork.com Hi, I downloaded Germ and I can’t seem to auth? Does it assume a .bsky.social handle?
February 12, 2026 at 8:43 PM
@tessa.germnetwork.com Hi, I downloaded Germ and I can’t seem to auth? Does it assume a .bsky.social handle?
The fish in the bike basket is a nice touch.
February 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
The fish in the bike basket is a nice touch.
I went backwards and forward over this exact thing about three times because none of it made sense.
February 12, 2026 at 4:06 PM
I went backwards and forward over this exact thing about three times because none of it made sense.
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I’m a little surprised the USA isn’t doing better in the Winter Olympics after spending the last year proving how great they are at going downhill
February 11, 2026 at 12:05 AM
I’m a little surprised the USA isn’t doing better in the Winter Olympics after spending the last year proving how great they are at going downhill
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The Finns know a great deal about skiing and then shooting accurately.
See WWII.
When Russia, with an army of 450,000, invaded, the Finns responded, "where will we bury them all?"
See WWII.
When Russia, with an army of 450,000, invaded, the Finns responded, "where will we bury them all?"
Well, we knew the biathlon men’s individual was anyone’s race, but if some Finnish dude who’s never had a podium wins this I am going fall out of my chair!
February 10, 2026 at 10:52 PM
The Finns know a great deal about skiing and then shooting accurately.
See WWII.
When Russia, with an army of 450,000, invaded, the Finns responded, "where will we bury them all?"
See WWII.
When Russia, with an army of 450,000, invaded, the Finns responded, "where will we bury them all?"
Where do we go from here?
February 11, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Where do we go from here?
You mean billionaire child-fuckers and everyone else? It’s mad. “[she] knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”—William Gibson
February 11, 2026 at 10:44 PM
You mean billionaire child-fuckers and everyone else? It’s mad. “[she] knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”—William Gibson
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Other Wuthering Heights movies are but placeholders until the one star who was born to be Cathy becomes available.
February 10, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Other Wuthering Heights movies are but placeholders until the one star who was born to be Cathy becomes available.
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Just so we're all clear, the plural of Roomba is Roombae
Receptionist quietly into phone: Security? Yeah. He's back
Receptionist quietly into phone: Security? Yeah. He's back
February 9, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Just so we're all clear, the plural of Roomba is Roombae
Receptionist quietly into phone: Security? Yeah. He's back
Receptionist quietly into phone: Security? Yeah. He's back
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This carpet is super fancy! A shag?
This carpet is super! Fancy a shag?
Punctuation matters.
This carpet is super! Fancy a shag?
Punctuation matters.
February 9, 2026 at 11:51 PM
This carpet is super fancy! A shag?
This carpet is super! Fancy a shag?
Punctuation matters.
This carpet is super! Fancy a shag?
Punctuation matters.
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A lot of political behavior and especially online political discourse is explained by people fearing ostracization by their community more than having irrational political beliefs, bc the cost of having irrational political beliefs on the individual level is low while ostracization is very painful
February 10, 2026 at 7:18 PM
A lot of political behavior and especially online political discourse is explained by people fearing ostracization by their community more than having irrational political beliefs, bc the cost of having irrational political beliefs on the individual level is low while ostracization is very painful
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Europeans think all the random loot in Fallout is because of a nuclear war but America is just like that. Yesterday, I found a rocket launcher looking for my phone charger.
Fuck a morning coffee, this picture is enough to jolt me awake
February 10, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Europeans think all the random loot in Fallout is because of a nuclear war but America is just like that. Yesterday, I found a rocket launcher looking for my phone charger.
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S/o to this joke I played on our lab tech in 2019
February 10, 2026 at 2:25 PM
S/o to this joke I played on our lab tech in 2019
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this may draw a lot of mockery On Here but it's true, the u.s. build a mount everest of soft power that it is now in the process of burning to ashes
people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. the death of US soft power is going to have long term consequences we are only beginning to see
February 10, 2026 at 3:26 PM
this may draw a lot of mockery On Here but it's true, the u.s. build a mount everest of soft power that it is now in the process of burning to ashes
Or even selling real estate in North London.
February 11, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Or even selling real estate in North London.
(I don’t care about the explanation for why the obvious thing doesn’t work. The obvious thing should just work!)
February 11, 2026 at 9:55 AM
(I don’t care about the explanation for why the obvious thing doesn’t work. The obvious thing should just work!)
Go to log in to Confluence. All our accounts are Microsoft auth.
Click “Log in with Microsoft” button. Get an error about my admin needing to give me permissions or some shit, which is a complete lie.
Type email address in box. Get automatically logged in. ARGH.
Click “Log in with Microsoft” button. Get an error about my admin needing to give me permissions or some shit, which is a complete lie.
Type email address in box. Get automatically logged in. ARGH.
February 11, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Go to log in to Confluence. All our accounts are Microsoft auth.
Click “Log in with Microsoft” button. Get an error about my admin needing to give me permissions or some shit, which is a complete lie.
Type email address in box. Get automatically logged in. ARGH.
Click “Log in with Microsoft” button. Get an error about my admin needing to give me permissions or some shit, which is a complete lie.
Type email address in box. Get automatically logged in. ARGH.
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extremely hopeful, honestly. as long as you can explain the problem visually in 30 seconds you really can make people understand things they've otherwise been tricked about
ring just did it, uh, accidentally
ring just did it, uh, accidentally
February 10, 2026 at 3:56 PM
extremely hopeful, honestly. as long as you can explain the problem visually in 30 seconds you really can make people understand things they've otherwise been tricked about
ring just did it, uh, accidentally
ring just did it, uh, accidentally
I phrase this as “I love my career, any given job I can take or leave.”
February 11, 2026 at 8:30 AM
I phrase this as “I love my career, any given job I can take or leave.”
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With enough tokens all bugs are shallow.
February 10, 2026 at 3:37 PM
With enough tokens all bugs are shallow.
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one of the most hilarious* things about america and its preoccupation of being The Most Freedom Country is that it has an unprecedented surveillance network that is trivially available to government that government didn't even have to pay for, it tricked its citizens/residents into buying it
“Safety experts and tech critics have long condemned the Ring devices for security risks and privacy violations, not to mention their role in building the largest civilian surveillance network in US history.”
Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System
Online activists are telling owners of Ring Doorbell cameras that it's time to get rid of their devices, which can be used by ICE.
futurism.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:31 PM
one of the most hilarious* things about america and its preoccupation of being The Most Freedom Country is that it has an unprecedented surveillance network that is trivially available to government that government didn't even have to pay for, it tricked its citizens/residents into buying it