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Another portrait I made in 2023 for Numenera, by Monte Cook games. Had a great time working on these series and I learned a lot when it comes to adding personality and characteristics to my portraits.
January 19, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Another portrait I made in 2023 for Numenera, by Monte Cook games. Had a great time working on these series and I learned a lot when it comes to adding personality and characteristics to my portraits.
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nothing says "a successful technology everyone wants to adopt" like a hundred popups with "ask me again later"
January 19, 2026 at 4:42 PM
nothing says "a successful technology everyone wants to adopt" like a hundred popups with "ask me again later"
Even people on the inside are starting to see it
Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?
lucumr.pocoo.org
January 19, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Even people on the inside are starting to see it
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Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?
lucumr.pocoo.org
January 18, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
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Hey if you’re looking to try/retry/find a home on the ActivityPub/mastodon shaped part of the fediverse, I will personally help you get set up, move followers, block assholes, etc
I have no interest in debating the merit of bsky-v-mastodon, purely offering help.
Reskeets welcome ✨
I have no interest in debating the merit of bsky-v-mastodon, purely offering help.
Reskeets welcome ✨
January 18, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Hey if you’re looking to try/retry/find a home on the ActivityPub/mastodon shaped part of the fediverse, I will personally help you get set up, move followers, block assholes, etc
I have no interest in debating the merit of bsky-v-mastodon, purely offering help.
Reskeets welcome ✨
I have no interest in debating the merit of bsky-v-mastodon, purely offering help.
Reskeets welcome ✨
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Yes, 30% of Republicans would approve illegally attacking a peaceful NATO ally to annex territory.
Source: www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...
Source: www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...
January 18, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Yes, 30% of Republicans would approve illegally attacking a peaceful NATO ally to annex territory.
Source: www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...
Source: www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...
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living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be
January 12, 2026 at 3:47 PM
living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be
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1/ It wouldn't be a real Christmas without a gloomy forecast from Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin, Russia's answer to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. He sees Trump turning against Russia in 2026, anticipates the loss of Transnistria, and predicts a naval blockade by the EU. ⬇️
January 4, 2026 at 5:12 PM
1/ It wouldn't be a real Christmas without a gloomy forecast from Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin, Russia's answer to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. He sees Trump turning against Russia in 2026, anticipates the loss of Transnistria, and predicts a naval blockade by the EU. ⬇️
Anthropic in one year: say “AI Bubble” one more time, and I’m taking your JS runtime with me.
Say it one more time mofo, I dare you!!!1!1!1
Say it one more time mofo, I dare you!!!1!1!1
December 3, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Anthropic in one year: say “AI Bubble” one more time, and I’m taking your JS runtime with me.
Say it one more time mofo, I dare you!!!1!1!1
Say it one more time mofo, I dare you!!!1!1!1
My new hobby: discovering how many mindblowing AI automation wonders are just invoking a command that already existed in that product, except less reliably
October 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
My new hobby: discovering how many mindblowing AI automation wonders are just invoking a command that already existed in that product, except less reliably
Java people really are ultimate pretrained vibecoders. Take away their IDE and they’re like vibecoders without LLM.
October 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Java people really are ultimate pretrained vibecoders. Take away their IDE and they’re like vibecoders without LLM.
Most probable prediction about OpenAI future I’ve read.
Spoiler: it will be successful and we will not like it.
open.substack.com/pub/defragzo...
Spoiler: it will be successful and we will not like it.
open.substack.com/pub/defragzo...
Welcome to Cognitive Capitalism
Or: How Open AI Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Your Data
open.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Most probable prediction about OpenAI future I’ve read.
Spoiler: it will be successful and we will not like it.
open.substack.com/pub/defragzo...
Spoiler: it will be successful and we will not like it.
open.substack.com/pub/defragzo...
Funny how half of companies gave up on any branding or differentiation, and round down to “Your AI agent for work”
July 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Funny how half of companies gave up on any branding or differentiation, and round down to “Your AI agent for work”
The key innovation of AI-assisted tooling is the keystroke-level surveillance that generates nice graphs for execs. It does suddenly make them pay big bucks for dev tooling
June 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The key innovation of AI-assisted tooling is the keystroke-level surveillance that generates nice graphs for execs. It does suddenly make them pay big bucks for dev tooling
Funny how even 5 years ago devs were looking down on QA and now the entire workforce is retraining to be a QA for AI output
June 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Funny how even 5 years ago devs were looking down on QA and now the entire workforce is retraining to be a QA for AI output
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IMO it's a free country and SpaceX should be allowed to blow up as many rockets as they want 🤷♀️
June 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
IMO it's a free country and SpaceX should be allowed to blow up as many rockets as they want 🤷♀️
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Salesforce and Figma blocking integrations is a good reminder that evem if you pay, your data is the product and it isn’t really yours.
June 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Salesforce and Figma blocking integrations is a good reminder that evem if you pay, your data is the product and it isn’t really yours.
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The "ai layoffs" at tech companies are because of tax policy not AI. But obviously no one will admit this
This article links tech layoffs that started in 2022 to a Section 174 change in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which ended immediate R&D write-offs.
The assumption was companies using savings from the tax cuts to cover the increased tax bill on R&D spending. Instead they’ve cut headcount.
The assumption was companies using savings from the tax cuts to cover the increased tax bill on R&D spending. Instead they’ve cut headcount.
The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
A decades-old tax rule helped build America's tech economy. A quiet change under Trump helped dismantle it
qz.com
June 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The "ai layoffs" at tech companies are because of tax policy not AI. But obviously no one will admit this
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FACEBOOK BLOCKING ENGAGEMENT ON ANTI-TRUMP POSTS
June 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
FACEBOOK BLOCKING ENGAGEMENT ON ANTI-TRUMP POSTS
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An all-time legend, Bill Atkinson. RIP to one of the original Mac giants.
Know your Silicon Valley history.
Know your Silicon Valley history.
June 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
An all-time legend, Bill Atkinson. RIP to one of the original Mac giants.
Know your Silicon Valley history.
Know your Silicon Valley history.
Based on media output, GPT is the world’s most successful business writing influencer
June 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Based on media output, GPT is the world’s most successful business writing influencer
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I think I may have accidentally spent the last 10 years competing with the version of myself I expected to be when I was 20 years younger
June 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I think I may have accidentally spent the last 10 years competing with the version of myself I expected to be when I was 20 years younger