Skand Hurkat
@skandhurkat.bsky.social
I talk about tech, politics, and whatever else catches my fancy. Do I really need a disclaimer that I work for Nvidia and that I don't speak for the company?
Tech bros (my kind) don't understand what cautionary tales cautioned against. Introducing the new Acme combination space heater and convection oven. Leave the door open if you want a space heater, close it if you want an oven. Also. The oven runs on coal gas and has a dodgy pilot light.
"What if we create the space heater-oven from the famous science fiction cautionary tale, 'Don't splice together space heaters and ovens'".
November 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Tech bros (my kind) don't understand what cautionary tales cautioned against. Introducing the new Acme combination space heater and convection oven. Leave the door open if you want a space heater, close it if you want an oven. Also. The oven runs on coal gas and has a dodgy pilot light.
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also this equation LOL
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
also this equation LOL
I teared up
![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I teared up
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Bluesky not addictive to teens but definitely a crutch for elder millennials who know too much about the Bajoran war.
Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat know how addictive their platforms can be to teens.
Those are allegations a group of school districts is making against the social media giants, according to a newly unsealed legal filing that quotes the companies’ own internal documents. https://cnn.it/3Xjq5x5
Those are allegations a group of school districts is making against the social media giants, according to a newly unsealed legal filing that quotes the companies’ own internal documents. https://cnn.it/3Xjq5x5
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Bluesky not addictive to teens but definitely a crutch for elder millennials who know too much about the Bajoran war.
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I feel like I'm just @hankgreen.bsky.social's hype person, but here's another Hank video that is really good and expresses something important that explains a lot of stuff going on today in a nice succinct way: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J5d...
The Thing About Power that the Powerful Can't Understand
YouTube video by Hank Green
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I feel like I'm just @hankgreen.bsky.social's hype person, but here's another Hank video that is really good and expresses something important that explains a lot of stuff going on today in a nice succinct way: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J5d...
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It’s a good article that explains the real dangers to students of generative AI and also
November 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
It’s a good article that explains the real dangers to students of generative AI and also
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Not sure who made this, but probably the most accurate representation of the current state of tech to date
November 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Not sure who made this, but probably the most accurate representation of the current state of tech to date
I'm convinced that the fine billionaire class has read satire and cautionary tales, and missed that these were satire or cautionary tales. Encyclopedia Galactica is from Foundation and HHGTG, Metaverse from Snow Crash, Neuralink and Cybertruck from Cyberpunk...
Good news everybody: Grokipedia will contain all knowledge about the universe and will be distributed periodically throughout the solar system
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I'm convinced that the fine billionaire class has read satire and cautionary tales, and missed that these were satire or cautionary tales. Encyclopedia Galactica is from Foundation and HHGTG, Metaverse from Snow Crash, Neuralink and Cybertruck from Cyberpunk...
An LLM can never make poor life choices, therefore an LLM can never get a PhD.
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
An LLM can never make poor life choices, therefore an LLM can never get a PhD.
I mean, it is democratic socialism. But it is crazy that we don't expect free childcare or health care, but we expect free fire services, police services, and free roads. Imagine if there was a piece about Kemper Freeman forcing residents to pay for free roads.
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I mean, it is democratic socialism. But it is crazy that we don't expect free childcare or health care, but we expect free fire services, police services, and free roads. Imagine if there was a piece about Kemper Freeman forcing residents to pay for free roads.
Science, as practised in its best form, is that you ought to present your evidence or shut the fuck up.
November 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Science, as practised in its best form, is that you ought to present your evidence or shut the fuck up.
Speak, friend, and enter
November 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Speak, friend, and enter
Everyone knows you need to put bananas in the tailpipe, not potatoes.
November 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Everyone knows you need to put bananas in the tailpipe, not potatoes.
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"A barely articulated sense of dread follows you wherever you go. Others cannot see it, and it may exist only as a curse, but it often manifests as the presence of an old white person."
Critically Acclaimed Horror Film of the 2010s or Your PhD Program?
1. You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledg...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"A barely articulated sense of dread follows you wherever you go. Others cannot see it, and it may exist only as a curse, but it often manifests as the presence of an old white person."
Related, I am looking for alternatives to Adobe Lightroom if anyone has good recommendations. I want something that can process colour well while keeping the vibrance, which open source software like Darktable and RawTherapee fail at.
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
October 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Related, I am looking for alternatives to Adobe Lightroom if anyone has good recommendations. I want something that can process colour well while keeping the vibrance, which open source software like Darktable and RawTherapee fail at.
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Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
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Spotify killed the video star.
A little shook MTV is ending as a broadcast network, and even more shook it was announced a few weeks ago and I had no idea!
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Spotify killed the video star.
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Every scene is better than the previous one 💀
MOM: You can’t spend all day moping. Not on Lottery’s Eve!
TESSIE: I have to find a way to get my life back. I don’t have time for the Lottery.
MOM: There's always time for family. Help your sister roll her wheelchair down to the creekbed to collect some stones for tomorrow.
TESSIE: I have to find a way to get my life back. I don’t have time for the Lottery.
MOM: There's always time for family. Help your sister roll her wheelchair down to the creekbed to collect some stones for tomorrow.
The Hallmark Channel Presents: Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”
INT. BIG CITY HEDGE FUND Tessie Jacobs (30-something, blonde) stares at a bar graph with two columns: “money” and “not money.” Her boss (you know h...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Every scene is better than the previous one 💀
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"I wasn’t sold on reading, but I did like feeling smart, and 'Don Quixote' is like the Louis Vuitton bag of people with depth."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-s...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-s...
I Started Reading Performatively, and Turns Out Books Are Pretty Good
It all started when Instagram introduced the twenty-slide photo dumps. Trying to post the correct ratio of photos to memes to appear both off-the-g...
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October 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"I wasn’t sold on reading, but I did like feeling smart, and 'Don Quixote' is like the Louis Vuitton bag of people with depth."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-s...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-s...
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Of all the stupid reasons to get fired, “expense fraud” is arguably the dumbest.
Employees are increasingly using AI to create ultra-realistic fake expense receipts; AppZen and others attribute the rise to advances in image generation models (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
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October 27, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Of all the stupid reasons to get fired, “expense fraud” is arguably the dumbest.
I couldn't watch Overtime with Bill Maher because of how much they get wrong about LLMs and conflating LLMs with intelligence. AI Snake Oil exists as a book, but what would be a good list of things people should know about LLMs?
October 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I couldn't watch Overtime with Bill Maher because of how much they get wrong about LLMs and conflating LLMs with intelligence. AI Snake Oil exists as a book, but what would be a good list of things people should know about LLMs?
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The New York Times is now truly suffering from brain rot.
Strip malls are perhaps hard to love, but they are quirky, outcast spaces that can define a community's unique character, Ismail Muhammad writes. nyti.ms/48DfBzy
October 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The New York Times is now truly suffering from brain rot.
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The bleakest thing about this video is that all the things this guy loves about the UK are relatively cheap and easy to build. Alabama could have a better train system than England inside of 10 years if we decided that was a priority. We are a rich country that chooses to live like a poor one.
October 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The bleakest thing about this video is that all the things this guy loves about the UK are relatively cheap and easy to build. Alabama could have a better train system than England inside of 10 years if we decided that was a priority. We are a rich country that chooses to live like a poor one.