J. Mackenzie Graham
@yesternaut.bsky.social
World famous bounty hunter. Corgi assistant. Writer and Illustrator. Longboarder. Award-winning sandwich maker.
Webcomic THE NEW YESTERDAY will return.
https://linktr.ee/yesternaut
👆 All my bullshit.
🇨🇦 Toronto
Webcomic THE NEW YESTERDAY will return.
https://linktr.ee/yesternaut
👆 All my bullshit.
🇨🇦 Toronto
This is why I always get so mad about movies that portray characters getting instantly frozen when they are exposed to outer space.
It leads to fundamental misunderstandings of how reality works that are so pervasive, nobody even checks at any level.
It leads to fundamental misunderstandings of how reality works that are so pervasive, nobody even checks at any level.
This would have been a good point for someone to have asked, is that really how things work? Or is vacuum in fact an excellent insulator? www.ft.com/content/a5cf...
February 10, 2026 at 10:13 PM
This is why I always get so mad about movies that portray characters getting instantly frozen when they are exposed to outer space.
It leads to fundamental misunderstandings of how reality works that are so pervasive, nobody even checks at any level.
It leads to fundamental misunderstandings of how reality works that are so pervasive, nobody even checks at any level.
There are, it’s just that like mastodon, no one has heard of them or understands how they work.
One to check out is matrix.org
It’s a protocol you can host on your own site. Users make accounts somewhere that is compatible and can join yr chat server.
One to check out is matrix.org
It’s a protocol you can host on your own site. Users make accounts somewhere that is compatible and can join yr chat server.
February 10, 2026 at 7:48 PM
There are, it’s just that like mastodon, no one has heard of them or understands how they work.
One to check out is matrix.org
It’s a protocol you can host on your own site. Users make accounts somewhere that is compatible and can join yr chat server.
One to check out is matrix.org
It’s a protocol you can host on your own site. Users make accounts somewhere that is compatible and can join yr chat server.
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This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
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"Don't worry about the Discord thing, it's only NSFW servers and channels that will require age verification! :)"
I could remove every speck of risque imagery/topics from my community and there's still a 50% chance we'd get flagged just because we're openly queer.
It's not actually about the kids.
I could remove every speck of risque imagery/topics from my community and there's still a 50% chance we'd get flagged just because we're openly queer.
It's not actually about the kids.
February 9, 2026 at 6:37 PM
"Don't worry about the Discord thing, it's only NSFW servers and channels that will require age verification! :)"
I could remove every speck of risque imagery/topics from my community and there's still a 50% chance we'd get flagged just because we're openly queer.
It's not actually about the kids.
I could remove every speck of risque imagery/topics from my community and there's still a 50% chance we'd get flagged just because we're openly queer.
It's not actually about the kids.
Finally, something I have in common with AI 😂
February 10, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Finally, something I have in common with AI 😂
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This is a hypothetical. My dog is not traumatized or terribly reactive, but people just fucking skate through life, man.
If our species didn’t have folks with anxiety, I swear we’d still be living in caves, man.
If our species didn’t have folks with anxiety, I swear we’d still be living in caves, man.
February 10, 2026 at 4:56 AM
This is a hypothetical. My dog is not traumatized or terribly reactive, but people just fucking skate through life, man.
If our species didn’t have folks with anxiety, I swear we’d still be living in caves, man.
If our species didn’t have folks with anxiety, I swear we’d still be living in caves, man.
Something that people don’t understand about dogs is that just because yours has excellent recall and is super friendly, that doesn’t mean they can just be off-leash wherever.
Sometimes your bouncy off-leash dog gets up in my traumatized, reactive dog’s face and what then, huh?
Sometimes your bouncy off-leash dog gets up in my traumatized, reactive dog’s face and what then, huh?
February 10, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Something that people don’t understand about dogs is that just because yours has excellent recall and is super friendly, that doesn’t mean they can just be off-leash wherever.
Sometimes your bouncy off-leash dog gets up in my traumatized, reactive dog’s face and what then, huh?
Sometimes your bouncy off-leash dog gets up in my traumatized, reactive dog’s face and what then, huh?
I get the impression that’s what mastodon is, sort of, but they’ve done such a godawful job marketing it.
A protocol for discord would work where you host your server on one of many providers, but anyone with a username from any provider could join it (either with invite-only or public servers)
A protocol for discord would work where you host your server on one of many providers, but anyone with a username from any provider could join it (either with invite-only or public servers)
February 9, 2026 at 8:35 PM
I get the impression that’s what mastodon is, sort of, but they’ve done such a godawful job marketing it.
A protocol for discord would work where you host your server on one of many providers, but anyone with a username from any provider could join it (either with invite-only or public servers)
A protocol for discord would work where you host your server on one of many providers, but anyone with a username from any provider could join it (either with invite-only or public servers)
Email is a protocol. You have email providers, but no one cares about that. You have your friend’s address, you send them an email.
Why isn’t there a protocol for discord? Instagram? Twitter?
No platform, just different providers. You can move providers without being beholden to one company?
Why isn’t there a protocol for discord? Instagram? Twitter?
No platform, just different providers. You can move providers without being beholden to one company?
February 9, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Email is a protocol. You have email providers, but no one cares about that. You have your friend’s address, you send them an email.
Why isn’t there a protocol for discord? Instagram? Twitter?
No platform, just different providers. You can move providers without being beholden to one company?
Why isn’t there a protocol for discord? Instagram? Twitter?
No platform, just different providers. You can move providers without being beholden to one company?
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Oh, it's far worse than that. Society as a whole realized the harm - potential and direct - almost immediately.
It's just that the people that run the world decided, even as the corpses piled up, that they just didn't care and were going to bet the entire global economy on radium toothpaste.
It's just that the people that run the world decided, even as the corpses piled up, that they just didn't care and were going to bet the entire global economy on radium toothpaste.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 9, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Oh, it's far worse than that. Society as a whole realized the harm - potential and direct - almost immediately.
It's just that the people that run the world decided, even as the corpses piled up, that they just didn't care and were going to bet the entire global economy on radium toothpaste.
It's just that the people that run the world decided, even as the corpses piled up, that they just didn't care and were going to bet the entire global economy on radium toothpaste.
Lmao *sun. Not sub. Goddammit Kenz, read yr tweets.
February 8, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Lmao *sun. Not sub. Goddammit Kenz, read yr tweets.
Also don’t have the sun be in two shots in a row that are looking in different directions.
Jeeeeeeez.
Jeeeeeeez.
February 8, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Also don’t have the sun be in two shots in a row that are looking in different directions.
Jeeeeeeez.
Jeeeeeeez.
If you are working on the VFX for a fantasy movie — never, ever add god rays from the sub to your shots. It *always* looks terrible.
Anyway, I’m watching Wicked 2.
Anyway, I’m watching Wicked 2.
February 8, 2026 at 3:07 AM
If you are working on the VFX for a fantasy movie — never, ever add god rays from the sub to your shots. It *always* looks terrible.
Anyway, I’m watching Wicked 2.
Anyway, I’m watching Wicked 2.
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My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
February 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
I do everything on a Mac Studio. It’s a beefy boy and I got it like two years ago and since Tahoe there’s all these little problems. Drives me insane.
February 7, 2026 at 6:55 PM
I do everything on a Mac Studio. It’s a beefy boy and I got it like two years ago and since Tahoe there’s all these little problems. Drives me insane.
Maybe even 26.4. From what I’m reading some of the performance stuff is being improved and it should be out soon, but there are still visual glitches.
February 7, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Maybe even 26.4. From what I’m reading some of the performance stuff is being improved and it should be out soon, but there are still visual glitches.
I honestly wouldn’t bother. I don’t even really like the new look that much.
There’s some quality of life junk I enjoy but not enough that I can even remember it right now, lmao.
Wait till 26.3 whenever that is.
There’s some quality of life junk I enjoy but not enough that I can even remember it right now, lmao.
Wait till 26.3 whenever that is.
February 7, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I honestly wouldn’t bother. I don’t even really like the new look that much.
There’s some quality of life junk I enjoy but not enough that I can even remember it right now, lmao.
Wait till 26.3 whenever that is.
There’s some quality of life junk I enjoy but not enough that I can even remember it right now, lmao.
Wait till 26.3 whenever that is.
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I wish the effects on your use of energy, AI, water, etc had a direct impact on your household. If so everyone would be MUCH more conservative
I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.
February 7, 2026 at 4:13 PM
I wish the effects on your use of energy, AI, water, etc had a direct impact on your household. If so everyone would be MUCH more conservative
MacOS Tahoe has severe memory leaks, causing even new, strong machines to suffer debilitating performance issues.
What's the over/under on this new OS having been "vibe coded" by some jockey with chatgpt?
What's the over/under on this new OS having been "vibe coded" by some jockey with chatgpt?
February 7, 2026 at 3:19 PM
MacOS Tahoe has severe memory leaks, causing even new, strong machines to suffer debilitating performance issues.
What's the over/under on this new OS having been "vibe coded" by some jockey with chatgpt?
What's the over/under on this new OS having been "vibe coded" by some jockey with chatgpt?
Someone should write an article about the 2000s indie rock scene — that cringe inducing era of heartfelt and deeply sincere guitar stuff — and how it represents the self-immolation of millennial idealism. An entire genre of “oh yeah, it’s just not gonna work out for us, huh?”
February 6, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Someone should write an article about the 2000s indie rock scene — that cringe inducing era of heartfelt and deeply sincere guitar stuff — and how it represents the self-immolation of millennial idealism. An entire genre of “oh yeah, it’s just not gonna work out for us, huh?”
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The purpose of Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act is to destroy public health care as we know it.
Not just in Alberta, but throughout Canada, by legislating two-tier health care. @djclimenhaga.bsky.social writes. #abpoli
Not just in Alberta, but throughout Canada, by legislating two-tier health care. @djclimenhaga.bsky.social writes. #abpoli
How Alberta Plans to Kill Public Health Care Across Canada | The Tyee
A new law opens the door for two-tier care that would destroy medicare.
thetyee.ca
February 3, 2026 at 10:47 PM
The purpose of Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act is to destroy public health care as we know it.
Not just in Alberta, but throughout Canada, by legislating two-tier health care. @djclimenhaga.bsky.social writes. #abpoli
Not just in Alberta, but throughout Canada, by legislating two-tier health care. @djclimenhaga.bsky.social writes. #abpoli
The culture around book making and what is and isn’t “legitimate” is interesting.
If you self-publish a novel you’re looked at with pity, but copypastas get optioned into Hollywood films.
Webcomics aren’t “real” comics, but there are webtoons with more readers than a Spider-Man issue.
If you self-publish a novel you’re looked at with pity, but copypastas get optioned into Hollywood films.
Webcomics aren’t “real” comics, but there are webtoons with more readers than a Spider-Man issue.
February 3, 2026 at 11:54 PM
The culture around book making and what is and isn’t “legitimate” is interesting.
If you self-publish a novel you’re looked at with pity, but copypastas get optioned into Hollywood films.
Webcomics aren’t “real” comics, but there are webtoons with more readers than a Spider-Man issue.
If you self-publish a novel you’re looked at with pity, but copypastas get optioned into Hollywood films.
Webcomics aren’t “real” comics, but there are webtoons with more readers than a Spider-Man issue.
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RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/calgary-s2m5l3ffz/-/a-wR2MunihSniY5Ug4LXqFZg%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0
Moisture in air key factor in rain drops falling
Moisture in air key factor in rain drops falling
flipboard.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:39 PM
RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/calgary-s2m5l3ffz/-/a-wR2MunihSniY5Ug4LXqFZg%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0
Moisture in air key factor in rain drops falling
Moisture in air key factor in rain drops falling
"Normally I hate plagiarism, but *this* plagiarism is really good and I didn't notice so whatever."
February 3, 2026 at 10:58 PM
"Normally I hate plagiarism, but *this* plagiarism is really good and I didn't notice so whatever."