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Tilmon Edwards

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Tilmon Edwards @tilmonedwards.com · Nov 4

Hi I’m Sean! 👋 I’m a remote-worker tech generalist with a focus on cybersecurity and ops of web SaaS companies. I’ve been in this industry in some form for 20 years. I also post about politics and DIY engineering projects. My dream encore career is developing a mentor/apprentice model for tech.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 13h

Imagine, if you will, fifty protesters in inflatable animal costumes converging on ICE agents while blowing Aztec Death Whistles

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Aztec Death Whistle: The Sound That Terrifies

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Tilmon Edwards @tilmonedwards.com · 13h

Oh my god this is so good

Tilmon Edwards @tilmonedwards.com · 22h

The book club came back after the first time, so that’s something

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Tilmon Edwards @tilmonedwards.com · 2d

Like I was saying about the hog discourse bsky.app/profile/shar...

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

Fingers crossed we never have to deal with the US hog/Canadian hog mix:

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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 3d

America is getting so great

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Tilmon Edwards @tilmonedwards.com · 3d

Has Tim Robinson done a Stephen Miller bit yet?

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phylan @phylan.website · 3d

I don't think they should be allowed to do that

Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 3d

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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Tilmon Edwards @tilmonedwards.com · 3d

The thing is, in both cases, you’ll probably find that the real answer is more complicated than the internet rhetoric you’ve been repeating. It always is. The 30-50 feral hogs are real. We just had hog discourse so you should understand how that could be a legitimate problem.

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Tilmon Edwards @tilmonedwards.com · 3d

But I see this a lot among people who are opposed to doing harm to others. They don’t like to look at the harm. They don’t use the tools they oppose. They don’t know their enemy.

Same with guns. If you think they’re so bad, then go to a range and actually learn about why.

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Tilmon Edwards @tilmonedwards.com · 3d

There are SO MANY valid criticisms of AI, how people use it, and the companies who make it, and when you wring your hands about water usage you make it seem like the AI critics are clueless luddites (derogatory)

Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 3d

Every day I find a new way of trying to get across just how ridiculously fake the problem of AI water use is

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 3d

Every day I find a new way of trying to get across just how ridiculously fake the problem of AI water use is

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Tilmon Edwards @tilmonedwards.com · 4d

“No fucking way” he’ll yeah Chuck get em

Tilmon Edwards @tilmonedwards.com · 4d

Hello weather being, what sort of weather is all the sparkles on massachusetts and rhode island before the blobs get there?

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Tilmon Edwards @tilmonedwards.com · 4d

In my head it’s “we are how we act in private”

if you’re is a cruel piece of shit when no one is watching, then you’re a cruel piece of shit, and your behavior in public is just masking.

And age will turn that sort of person into a miserable husk

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Tilmon Edwards @tilmonedwards.com · 5d

Also, hitting up a drive through and then eating in the car.

Tilmon Edwards @tilmonedwards.com · 5d

Chefs and foodies, I’m sorry, but I really do love just horfing down some delivery while playing video games on the computer.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 5d

"the AI bubble will collapse because the technology has plateaued and cannot improve"

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"we are on the verge of superintelligence"

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 5d

both the mainstream pro- and anti-AI arguments are entirely various types of cope

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 5d

I think this is a really salient point that’s a key thing that gets overlooked as an element of what might be necessary to embrace if we’re going to be able to get out of this.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5d

One reason former Republicans have been better at opposing Trump than many progressives is because they correctly understand that the GOP’s descent into fascism represents a dramatic shift, and is therefore scarier, where the latter groups feel the need to argue it’s just a continuation of trend

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Tilmon Edwards @tilmonedwards.com · 5d

I have bad news about the entire internet.

Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 6d

This is an actual visual map of the Circular Vendor Ponzi laid out by @anthonycr.bsky.social

We're in the phase where they are making sure that none of the nodes die, but it is becoming increasingly thinly stretched

It's likely in the terminal phase. If one of these faulters, the whole thing pops

Circular Vendor Ponzi map

Dell, Nvidia, Supermicro, Lambda, Coreweave, Crusce, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Oracle all buyuing from and selling to each other with no arrows leaving the map.

Tilmon Edwards @tilmonedwards.com · 6d

“Artifice” - ok, honestly, fair play to autocomplete on that one.

Tilmon Edwards @tilmonedwards.com · 6d

“The yadda yadda yadda test” of online journalism - if you replace the entire body of the article with “yadda yadda yadda” and the position of the artifice substantially changes, you’ve failed the test.

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Tilmon Edwards @tilmonedwards.com · 10d

The internet that was has been dead for a while, this is for the best.