Simon Batistoni
@simon.batistoni.net
Professional nerd for nearly a quarter-century. Dad, complete with dad jokes.
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
January 26, 2026 at 8:41 AM
As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
“Until recently, I was incredibly dimwitted and obnoxious about it to those with more foresight. But now, things are screamingly obvious, and I’m so high on my own farts that I still believe my dull, insight-free opinions belong in a national publication. By Jonathan Rauch”
The Atlantic finally catching up with what some of us have been saying for *years*
January 26, 2026 at 11:51 AM
“Until recently, I was incredibly dimwitted and obnoxious about it to those with more foresight. But now, things are screamingly obvious, and I’m so high on my own farts that I still believe my dull, insight-free opinions belong in a national publication. By Jonathan Rauch”
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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I like that the same day a guy was like “this place will never be Twitter” this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 4:38 AM
I like that the same day a guy was like “this place will never be Twitter” this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.
Coding with AI is like skiing along a very sketchy ledge -- you can see all the points where other less-experienced adventurers have eaten shit or fallen off entirely, and you know that somewhere up ahead you're probably going to fail spectacularly.
But it's also exhilarating how fast you can go.
But it's also exhilarating how fast you can go.
January 19, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Coding with AI is like skiing along a very sketchy ledge -- you can see all the points where other less-experienced adventurers have eaten shit or fallen off entirely, and you know that somewhere up ahead you're probably going to fail spectacularly.
But it's also exhilarating how fast you can go.
But it's also exhilarating how fast you can go.
Kinda hate that The Onion can now charge this hard just by mashing up current news headlines
DOJ Releases Jerome Powell Deepfake Nudes https://theonion.com/doj-releases-jerome-powell-deepfake-nudes/
January 12, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Kinda hate that The Onion can now charge this hard just by mashing up current news headlines
If the website you used to love hanging out on suddenly, PROUDLY develops & monetizes a CSAM generator, you LEAVE.
If you remain there, then for safety’s sake the rest of us *MUST* assume you’re still there for the CSAM.
As of now, every active X user is outing themselves as a willing pedophile.
If you remain there, then for safety’s sake the rest of us *MUST* assume you’re still there for the CSAM.
As of now, every active X user is outing themselves as a willing pedophile.
January 12, 2026 at 11:48 AM
If the website you used to love hanging out on suddenly, PROUDLY develops & monetizes a CSAM generator, you LEAVE.
If you remain there, then for safety’s sake the rest of us *MUST* assume you’re still there for the CSAM.
As of now, every active X user is outing themselves as a willing pedophile.
If you remain there, then for safety’s sake the rest of us *MUST* assume you’re still there for the CSAM.
As of now, every active X user is outing themselves as a willing pedophile.
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Friendly reminder that we call eggplant eggplant because the "normal" eggplant used to look like this
January 12, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Friendly reminder that we call eggplant eggplant because the "normal" eggplant used to look like this
It's taken me about 8 hours with Claude Code to build a fully-homelab-local Reachy Mini brain that's better than the default conversation app and includes multiple tools (like reliable news readouts) the default doesn't have.
Writing code by hand is now essentially an obsolete practice.
Writing code by hand is now essentially an obsolete practice.
January 10, 2026 at 6:06 PM
It's taken me about 8 hours with Claude Code to build a fully-homelab-local Reachy Mini brain that's better than the default conversation app and includes multiple tools (like reliable news readouts) the default doesn't have.
Writing code by hand is now essentially an obsolete practice.
Writing code by hand is now essentially an obsolete practice.
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this is like the golden age of bozos
January 10, 2026 at 5:54 AM
this is like the golden age of bozos
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I'm not sure the things happening right now are ones where Dems can just combine them with the messages consultants gave them last month
The White House is laser focused on threatening a military takeover of Greenland.
Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?
Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?
January 7, 2026 at 11:21 PM
I'm not sure the things happening right now are ones where Dems can just combine them with the messages consultants gave them last month
Conduct your career in such a way that the *Financial Times* never sees fit to literally beclown you using your own LLM.
There we go. That there’s a headline.
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Conduct your career in such a way that the *Financial Times* never sees fit to literally beclown you using your own LLM.
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There we go. That there’s a headline.
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:08 PM
There we go. That there’s a headline.
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I do not believe in the death penalty for humans.
I do support the death penalty for corporations.
When they murder people, let's dissolve them. Break them up, destroy their technology, nationalize their assets.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
I do support the death penalty for corporations.
When they murder people, let's dissolve them. Break them up, destroy their technology, nationalize their assets.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die
OpenAI accused of hiding full ChatGPT logs in murder-suicide case.
arstechnica.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:22 AM
I do not believe in the death penalty for humans.
I do support the death penalty for corporations.
When they murder people, let's dissolve them. Break them up, destroy their technology, nationalize their assets.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
I do support the death penalty for corporations.
When they murder people, let's dissolve them. Break them up, destroy their technology, nationalize their assets.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Brexit is “unsettled” in the same way an accidentally-chainsawed leg is “unsettled”, at the point the ambulance pulls up to the A&E entrance.
It has been inflicted and must now be healed. That won’t meaningfully be possible until a solid majority of Brits understand this and demand repair, though.
It has been inflicted and must now be healed. That won’t meaningfully be possible until a solid majority of Brits understand this and demand repair, though.
Keir Starmer says it is in Britain’s interests to “align more closely with the EU single market” and “we should”.
Interestingly this is one of his most passionate answers in a long interview.
I think we can expect movement on this issue in 2026. Brexit still remains an unsettled matter.
Interestingly this is one of his most passionate answers in a long interview.
I think we can expect movement on this issue in 2026. Brexit still remains an unsettled matter.
January 4, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Brexit is “unsettled” in the same way an accidentally-chainsawed leg is “unsettled”, at the point the ambulance pulls up to the A&E entrance.
It has been inflicted and must now be healed. That won’t meaningfully be possible until a solid majority of Brits understand this and demand repair, though.
It has been inflicted and must now be healed. That won’t meaningfully be possible until a solid majority of Brits understand this and demand repair, though.
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
I know that correlation is very much not causation, but we should at least inspect the Chronicle's canteen to rule out anything untoward.
January 4, 2026 at 12:55 AM
I know that correlation is very much not causation, but we should at least inspect the Chronicle's canteen to rule out anything untoward.
Yikes
King tide flooding on 101 in Larkspur, Greenbrae, Corte madera
January 3, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Yikes
Steve Jobs never had to spend 3 years begging everyone to stop calling it The Shittyphone
as if the onus for improving quality and usefulness is somehow on the critics or the consumer
Microsoft's Satya Nadella wants you to stop saying AI "slop" in 2026
In closing comments of 2025, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared an update on the company's mindset for 2026 — shocker, it's all about AI.
www.windowscentral.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Steve Jobs never had to spend 3 years begging everyone to stop calling it The Shittyphone
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lol I just came across this post by Zoharn’s wife Rama Duwaji’s stylist and the boots were…. on loan
open.substack.com/pub/brainmat...
open.substack.com/pub/brainmat...
January 2, 2026 at 3:17 AM
lol I just came across this post by Zoharn’s wife Rama Duwaji’s stylist and the boots were…. on loan
open.substack.com/pub/brainmat...
open.substack.com/pub/brainmat...
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Having Grok issue an “apology” is not just insulting and stupid (obviously Grok cannot actually “regret” anything, deeply or otherwise) but cowardly: It asks us to assign responsibility to an unconscious piece of software rather than the humans and institutions who should actually be blamed.
January 2, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Having Grok issue an “apology” is not just insulting and stupid (obviously Grok cannot actually “regret” anything, deeply or otherwise) but cowardly: It asks us to assign responsibility to an unconscious piece of software rather than the humans and institutions who should actually be blamed.
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Open up this picture fully.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
December 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Open up this picture fully.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
Oh my god @mike-eagle.bsky.social is *insanely* good at this. Read the whole thread
the pixie chicks
ruin two bands by combining them:
the aerosmiths
the aerosmiths
December 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Oh my god @mike-eagle.bsky.social is *insanely* good at this. Read the whole thread
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One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
December 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.