Remy Porter
@remyporter.bsky.social
Nothing you haven't seen before. Editor @ TheDailyWtf.com. Currently trying to shoot more computers into space, where they won't hurt us any more.
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Remy Porter
@remyporter.bsky.social
· Nov 18
The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology
TheDailyWtf.com
Who am I? Well, I'm best known for curating horrible code and awful IT workplace stories at TheDailyWtf.com. By day, I write software for moon landers, and worked on the (sadly, failed) Peregrine mission, and work on the Griffin mission. My interests are endless. Think of me as your weird uncle.
There are two ways to get people to trust you. The first is by being predictable and consistent and building a track record out of that. The second is relying on people’s ignorance. If they don’t understand you or what you’re doing or the system you’re engaging with, you can gain trust by force.
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
There are two ways to get people to trust you. The first is by being predictable and consistent and building a track record out of that. The second is relying on people’s ignorance. If they don’t understand you or what you’re doing or the system you’re engaging with, you can gain trust by force.
This article about General Sherman goes hard. Not as hard as Sherman’s March to the Sea, but still.
web.archive.org/web/20141125...
web.archive.org/web/20141125...
The War Nerd: Why Sherman was right to burn Atlanta
KUWAIT CITY — There are times when the sheer ignorance and ingratitude of the American public makes you sick. This week marks the 150th anniversary of Sherman’s March from Atlanta to the Sea, which...
web.archive.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This article about General Sherman goes hard. Not as hard as Sherman’s March to the Sea, but still.
web.archive.org/web/20141125...
web.archive.org/web/20141125...
I would give anything for one journalist to press: “Mr President, are you saying you rigged the census?”
"This all began with the Rigged Census" claims the guy who was president during the 2020 census
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I would give anything for one journalist to press: “Mr President, are you saying you rigged the census?”
Intruder in the Dust is one hell of a southern noir flick from 1949. Just uh… it’s a movie about race in Mississippi in the 1940s- you’re gonna hear the n-word a LOT. But one of the heroes of the film is an old lady who keeps a lynch mob at bay by doing her mending and refusing to budge.
November 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Intruder in the Dust is one hell of a southern noir flick from 1949. Just uh… it’s a movie about race in Mississippi in the 1940s- you’re gonna hear the n-word a LOT. But one of the heroes of the film is an old lady who keeps a lynch mob at bay by doing her mending and refusing to budge.
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This is a Black Mirror episode, lmao
November 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This is a Black Mirror episode, lmao
Today’s #songoftheday is a cover of a classic (quoted below), and it’s still holding on.
dualtone.bandcamp.com/track/hold-o...
dualtone.bandcamp.com/track/hold-o...
November 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Today’s #songoftheday is a cover of a classic (quoted below), and it’s still holding on.
dualtone.bandcamp.com/track/hold-o...
dualtone.bandcamp.com/track/hold-o...
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Absolutely. The reason this is bad is because you cannot guarantee that all the drivers in adjacent lanes are going to honor your granting of the ROW. Someone could safely pass in front of you only to be struck by the driver next to you.
Drivers: I know you think you’re doing cyclists a favour by stopping & waving us through an intersection while you’ve got right of way, but you really aren’t. You’re being unpredictable and screwing up the flow of traffic for everyone and just causing further delays for us to safely cross. Stop it.
November 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Absolutely. The reason this is bad is because you cannot guarantee that all the drivers in adjacent lanes are going to honor your granting of the ROW. Someone could safely pass in front of you only to be struck by the driver next to you.
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"Other people have no interiority, and are just services I can access to make myself feel better" is a pretty keen insight into how these people think
November 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"Other people have no interiority, and are just services I can access to make myself feel better" is a pretty keen insight into how these people think
I gave one of my cats a year off from vaccines, but that was only because he'd just recovered from FIP and his immune system needed a break after the hundreds of milliliters of grey-market antivirals we needed to treat it.
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I gave one of my cats a year off from vaccines, but that was only because he'd just recovered from FIP and his immune system needed a break after the hundreds of milliliters of grey-market antivirals we needed to treat it.
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Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
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There are definitely several playlists for when It Happens, right?
"Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
When It Happens
It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN. It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
There are definitely several playlists for when It Happens, right?
Monika Roscher Bigband - Future 3 (Live)
YouTube video by Monika Roscher Bigband
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
ThE mAsTeR wOuLd nOt aPpRovE
Edgy Torgo can still happen if people want it bad enough
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
ThE mAsTeR wOuLd nOt aPpRovE
Carrion Crawler, by Thee Oh Sees
from the album Carrion Crawler/The Dream
ohsees.bandcamp.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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BLANCHE: Apparently wealthy men wrote to complain about how hard it is to seduce teenage girls. I also had good taste at a tender age.
DOROTHY: Men are lizards.
ROSE: We had a teacher like that in St Olaf. Mister Lindberg. He had to leave after he fell down the same flight of stairs six times.
DOROTHY: Men are lizards.
ROSE: We had a teacher like that in St Olaf. Mister Lindberg. He had to leave after he fell down the same flight of stairs six times.
November 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
BLANCHE: Apparently wealthy men wrote to complain about how hard it is to seduce teenage girls. I also had good taste at a tender age.
DOROTHY: Men are lizards.
ROSE: We had a teacher like that in St Olaf. Mister Lindberg. He had to leave after he fell down the same flight of stairs six times.
DOROTHY: Men are lizards.
ROSE: We had a teacher like that in St Olaf. Mister Lindberg. He had to leave after he fell down the same flight of stairs six times.
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I'm doing research for a play I'm writing, and found this promo from Sizzler and it's *amazing*. Sizzler: it's about freedom.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3YG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3YG...
Sizzler Promotional Commercial 1991
YouTube video by Rachel Redhouse
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I'm doing research for a play I'm writing, and found this promo from Sizzler and it's *amazing*. Sizzler: it's about freedom.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3YG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3YG...
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This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
Today's #songoftheday is, for lack of a better word, extremely Wednesday feeling. It feels incredibly Wednesday.
disquesdelaspirale.bandcamp.com/track/le-pet...
disquesdelaspirale.bandcamp.com/track/le-pet...
Le petit bandonéoniste, by Che Vuoi
from the album Cinecittàx
disquesdelaspirale.bandcamp.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Today's #songoftheday is, for lack of a better word, extremely Wednesday feeling. It feels incredibly Wednesday.
disquesdelaspirale.bandcamp.com/track/le-pet...
disquesdelaspirale.bandcamp.com/track/le-pet...
Today's #songoftheday brings back some classic Acid beats to get you moving.
cargotech.bandcamp.com/track/acid-b...
cargotech.bandcamp.com/track/acid-b...
ACID BOUYON #1, by Hey Bony
from the album ACID BOUYON #1
cargotech.bandcamp.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Today's #songoftheday brings back some classic Acid beats to get you moving.
cargotech.bandcamp.com/track/acid-b...
cargotech.bandcamp.com/track/acid-b...
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
Generalized contempt? I have highly specific contempt for this asshole.
"[B]rooding but not particularly thoughtful. Fetterman offers generalized contempt instead of pointed arguments ... A preoccupation with tough-guy masculinity ... Not especially long, but it starts to feel interminable."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/books/review/unfettered-john-fetterman.html
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/books/review/unfettered-john-fetterman.html
John Fetterman’s Memoir Is Unlike Any Politician’s Book You’ve Read
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Generalized contempt? I have highly specific contempt for this asshole.
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