Tobjorn
torbjornr.bsky.social
Tobjorn
@torbjornr.bsky.social
Software Developer by day, anxiety developer by night. He/Him.
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"Men are in trouble, is the solution making them a problem for women and children too"
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Instead of retiring, 3-5 GOP Congresspeople could stop this Administration cold. The culture in Congress that sees itself as the President’s handmaiden as opposed to the Article I branch has rotted every inch of it. Not just cowardice, a learned helplessness.
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:

@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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My “We’re not ENRON” press releases are raising a lot of questions already answered by the press releases.
In the memo, “Nvidia also responds to claims that the ‘current situation is analogous to historical accounting frauds (Enron, WorldCom, Lucent) that featured vendor financing and SPVs [special purpose vehicles.)’”

@barrons.com $NVDA
@firstadopter.bsky.social
www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence

programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Why the USA is stressed: in 1963, poverty was defined as family income < 3x food budget. But costs have exploded since 1963, and food is now 5-7% of a budget including health, college, childcare, housing, etc—a realistic food budget multiplier for poverty is 16x, so families under $130K are poor.
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.

Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Cue every "we can't have nice things" talking head explaining how unique the situation in Australia is and how we couldn't possibly adapt to take advantage of similar structuring in the US and MUST rely on unhealthy climate-damaging sources of fuel that will inevitably run out.
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one, and one is all,
To be a rock and not to roll...
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
November 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM
"It's OK, Zohran, say yes and move on, I'm not really hiding it anymore and we're having too much fun here..."
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?

Mamdani: I've spoken about --

Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
It's cool that the President of the United States is as trivially easy to drive to fawning sycophancy as to murderous anger, right? That emotional seesaw is... good for the nation, overall, correct?
Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao
November 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Listen, these user-friendly sycophantic multipurpose LLM-company chatbots may be unreliable, have no concept of true or false nor right and wrong, be subject to gross manipulation, cause suicides, and have terrible economic and environmental impact, but at least they're also endangering non-users!
Finally, I know of at least one case where the letter writer, deep into an episode of AI-induced psychosis, asked the LLM why scientists were not responding. The machine suggested that perhaps the scientists were trying to steal his discovery.

This will get someone killed sooner or later.
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
One thing I think none of us were properly prepared for about late stage capitalism was how the most "powerful" people in the world would somehow also be the most shit-kickingly stupid insecure losers in the world at the same time.
November 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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> “The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was,” he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. “They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”

who is this legend
November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.

Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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I think part of the reason non-monogamy is so prevalent in TTRPG spaces is once you have to regularly schedule five adults to be in the same room at the same time, the idea of working around multiple people's schedules where they don't all have to intersect is way less intimidating.
November 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Happy International Men's Day to all the guys who'll think they're oh-so-clever and edgy for performatively asking about it in March!
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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I do think we’ll look back on this period of American history as producing - if not being exemplified by - several discrete, yet related (and maybe even mutually compounding) mass hysteriae.
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Knowing the key to understanding right-wing politics in the US is understanding wrestling, they see government as kayfabe, I will ask my more wrestling-adjacent friends if this MTG/Trump break is a face turn by MTG (still a racist anti-semite, don't get me wrong) or a false break like Musk/Trump.
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc…

1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work

2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM