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James Brown
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POSIXly-correct software developer (Rust, Python, Ruby, C) and sysadmin (Linux); resident of Oakland, CA. Has worked at a number of startups, some of which you've even heard of. Primarily found on Mastodon at https://hachyderm.io/@roguelazer
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robpike.io
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.
[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me 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.
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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philmcandrew.bsky.social
Here it is: my annual re-posting of the only Christmas comic I will probably ever draw. Happy holidays to you and yours. I hope Santa brings us something really great this year, you know, maybe that thing we've all been hoping for.
A six panel comic about what happens to Santa (and the rest of us) when the polar ice caps melt.
December 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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jpbrammer.bsky.social
sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response
Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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drewmagary.bsky.social
"In a very short timeframe, AI has become the high-fructose corn syrup of the digital realm: It’s now in everything, even if you don’t want it there." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
The time has come to declare war on AI
"It's now in everything, even if you don't want it there."
www.sfgate.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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patrickjohanneson.com
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
colindickey.com Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · Nov 21
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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ayshaufarah.bsky.social
“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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tznkai.bsky.social
Man I remember when I felt like a crank for being against gambling instead of terribly behind the curve for not also wanting capital punishment.
cascoinfoundation.org Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · Oct 23
Holy fucking shit
a16z-backed Coverd lets users get up to 100% cash back on co purchases by offering fun and interactive games of chance paired with a new type of credit card - spin to win!
October 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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thwarted.bsky.social
Darmok and Jalad at the Tanagra Ultimate Frisbee Championship
Wittgenstein's Lion
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
existentialcomics.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
October 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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geoffreycubbage.bsky.social
A thing I think it’s important for USians not in currently-occupied cities to grasp is that the normal and everyday goes on alongside the violent and unprecedented.

In Chicago right now you can be forced off teargas-soaked streets in the morning and have a peaceful evening picnic on the lake.
October 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
roguelazer.com
How far are we from the DoD announcing that they're officially renaming the Civil War to the War of Northern Aggression?
September 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
roguelazer.com
So, Selzer was right about Iowa but just had the wrong election? Hm
August 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social
Yeah it’s time to bring back my all time favorite tweet, by @donaldhughes.ca
July 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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jenchristiansen.com
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
www.scientificamerican.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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gamesmasterg9.bsky.social
Oakland turning up.
June 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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joles.bsky.social
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
May 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Doctors at the CDC say children should receive Covid vaccines. A disgraced ex-environmental lawyer who spent 20 years abusing heroin says they shouldn't. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
May 31, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
For all the talk about “hard truths” etc that propagate our discourse we really don’t discuss how coddling conspiracy theorists has made things worse for everyone.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · May 20
40% of Republicans say the COVID-19 vaccine has probably or definitely killed more people than the COVID-19 virus.
Few adults (8%) say the false claim that “more people have died from COVID-19 vaccines than have died from the COVID-19 virus” is “definitely true,” but levels of certainty vary widely by partisanship, and an increasing share of Republicans is open to endorsing this false claim. About four in ten adults (43%) recognize this claim as “definitely false,” including one in five Republicans (20%) and more than three times as many Democrats (65%). While most Republicans lean toward this claim being false, four in ten say it is “definitely true” (13%) or “probably true” (27%), an increase from one in four in June 2023, when 7% of Republicans said this was “definitely true” and 18% said it was “probably true.”
May 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
roguelazer.com
Does anyone actually have experience with medical tourism? I assume I can't just take my children to the closest urgent care in Canada/Mexico and ask for a COVID vaccine to go, but I also don't really want them to die just because the plurality of this country is pro-eugenics...
May 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
This is extraordinary. The Secretary of Homeland Security doesn’t know what the right of habeas corpus is (the ancient right to go to court to challenge government detention) and offers an incoherent definition which suggests she thinks it’s a presidential power to deport people?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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mosheroperandi.bsky.social
Congrats, caving law firms. You just got press-ganged to handle the next Derek Chauvin, of which this EO hopes there will be many.
Sec. 2. Legal Defense of Law Enforcement Officers. The Attorney General shall take all appropriate action to create a mechanism to provide legal resources and indemnification to law enforcement officers who unjustly incur expenses and liabilities for actions taken during the performance of their official duties to enforce the law. This mechanism shall include the use of private-sector pro bono assistance for such law enforcement officers.
April 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Guys, guys, guys, you see, it wasn't war *plans* that they texted. It was war *crimes*. Important distinction.
samklug.bsky.social Sam Klug @samklug.bsky.social · Mar 26
It is obviously bad that they were texting this on Signal and bad that they let a journalist into their group chat.

But the actual act they’re talking about—intentionally bombing civilians, a war crime—is the far more fundamental wrong.
craigcalcaterra.bsky.social Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · Mar 26
The Vice President and the National Security Advisor discussing how they pre-targeted a building housing civilians.
March 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM