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@amb-markab.bsky.social
A genx white man, traitor to his class. A cosmopolitan dumbass, well intentioned rusty chainsaw.
WTF are my people doing to this place?
WTF are my people doing to this place?
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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Happy Fairytale of New York season to all those who celebrate, and now we have this iconic performance at Shane Macgowan’s funeral to watch, too. 🥹 youtu.be/6s8lvnSmISc?...
'Fairytale of New York' played at Shane MacGowan's funeral
YouTube video by RTÉ News
youtu.be
December 13, 2024 at 1:47 AM
Happy Fairytale of New York season to all those who celebrate, and now we have this iconic performance at Shane Macgowan’s funeral to watch, too. 🥹 youtu.be/6s8lvnSmISc?...
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No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
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george costanza-ass punditry
December 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
george costanza-ass punditry
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I would struggle to trust academics who unselfconsciously employ a corporate branding label used for everything from linear regression to Gaussian process models to domain-appropriate deep learning models to synthetic media generation machines
I would struggle to trust an academic who doesn‘t know how to
use AI tools.
Which is not the same as not being critical.
use AI tools.
Which is not the same as not being critical.
December 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I would struggle to trust academics who unselfconsciously employ a corporate branding label used for everything from linear regression to Gaussian process models to domain-appropriate deep learning models to synthetic media generation machines
Here is a company that knows what they are doing.
December 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Here is a company that knows what they are doing.
The silver lining is that there will be a lot of work for WPA 2.0 to do.
Brought to you by DOGE and two billionaires who don't care about the consequences of their actions.
Internal Forest Service report finds ‘unpassable trails, unsafe bridges’
A report obtained by The Post says the U.S. Forest Service’s trails are deteriorating rapidly due to staff cuts under the Trump administration, posing risks to visitors.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The silver lining is that there will be a lot of work for WPA 2.0 to do.
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No, Jews around the world don't suffer because of the actions of the government of Israel. Jews around the world suffer because antisemites use the actions of the government of Israel to justify attacks on Jews. And if you make the same association, you're also an antisemite.
December 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
No, Jews around the world don't suffer because of the actions of the government of Israel. Jews around the world suffer because antisemites use the actions of the government of Israel to justify attacks on Jews. And if you make the same association, you're also an antisemite.
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Motherfucker wrote one sloppy paper in April 2020 and instead of being like oops, shit, my bad, he has kept doubling down until now he's killing most promising medical technology of the past quarter century rather than going to therapy.
August 14, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Motherfucker wrote one sloppy paper in April 2020 and instead of being like oops, shit, my bad, he has kept doubling down until now he's killing most promising medical technology of the past quarter century rather than going to therapy.
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The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.
December 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.
“Social science is not science” is the weirdest flex.
December 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“Social science is not science” is the weirdest flex.
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I ended up drafting an email that didn't really lean on research specific to grade school education, but expressed my concerns in the most basic terms.
I removed the personal details and have shared it as a template here for folks who might find it useful:
bit.ly/TeacherEmail...
I removed the personal details and have shared it as a template here for folks who might find it useful:
bit.ly/TeacherEmail...
![Dear [TEACHER],
I want to make sure we're on the same page for the rest of the year, because I was surprised and disappointed to hear that you uploaded student projects to ChatGPT.
We have always found [SCHOOL] to be a place that encourages students to express themselves creatively, to be responsible and aware of how their actions affect others, and to be intellectually honest – doing their own work, rather than copying from others.
I know ChatGPT has been heavily marketed as an educational tool, but everything about it is the opposite of those values. AI tools are built by training models on stolen work. They have huge and terrible environmental costs, because their data centers generate enormous amounts of pollution and are cooled with drinking water. They're also incredibly dangerous: tools like ChatGPT have taught children how to start fires and even encouraged them to commit suicide.
And in a classroom setting, it teaches students that a machine can express their ideas better than they can. I told [ CHILD ] I was interested in seeing what they had to draw, and my heart sank when they told me "but I can't draw that pretty." Children deserve to draw what they imagine.
These environmental, ethical, and pedagogical concerns are why I don't want [ CHILD ] to use AI tools (or for you to use them on their behalf). For the same reasons, I respectfully ask that you stop using them in your classroom.
If you do plan to use AI this year, please send home a permission slip requesting consent. There are important privacy concerns when you upload student work into a for-profit service like ChatGPT.
Thank you,
[ PARENT ]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c2xl6zaxo623jzbjb43urymd/bafkreiesldew7oebm4hg2gymd4cftvwmrpbdw6m7eil2buiphw7db4ror4@jpeg)
December 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I ended up drafting an email that didn't really lean on research specific to grade school education, but expressed my concerns in the most basic terms.
I removed the personal details and have shared it as a template here for folks who might find it useful:
bit.ly/TeacherEmail...
I removed the personal details and have shared it as a template here for folks who might find it useful:
bit.ly/TeacherEmail...
look if the president was just wetting his beak where’s the harm in that kind of thing
Reporter: You have made so clear how you want to keep drugs out of the US—
Trump: Right
Reporter: Can you explain why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?
Trump: If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president
Trump: Right
Reporter: Can you explain why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?
Trump: If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president
December 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
look if the president was just wetting his beak where’s the harm in that kind of thing
Never give up control of your phone to your employer. This means installing their management app, or e.g. VPN app provided by them.
If all they need is call or text you, they don’t need to manage the phone. PagerDuty etc apps same.
Carry two phones.
If all they need is call or text you, they don’t need to manage the phone. PagerDuty etc apps same.
Carry two phones.
If they have management software installed on your phone, they own it completely, meaning they have access to everything. The only difference is who paid for the phone (you just donated hundreds of dollars to your employer in effect).
Make them give you a work phone.
Make them give you a work phone.
December 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Never give up control of your phone to your employer. This means installing their management app, or e.g. VPN app provided by them.
If all they need is call or text you, they don’t need to manage the phone. PagerDuty etc apps same.
Carry two phones.
If all they need is call or text you, they don’t need to manage the phone. PagerDuty etc apps same.
Carry two phones.
This little piggy is still extremely impressed by the professionalism and accessibility of this current administration’s comms team.
The reason many in the press were happy to see Biden’s comms team go is because it routinely ghosted us, dropped us from email chains, ignored requests, acted elitist, spoke down to some and indifferent to others. I have covered every POTUS since Reagan. No admin had a more incompetent comms staff
November 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This little piggy is still extremely impressed by the professionalism and accessibility of this current administration’s comms team.
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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Old Polish joke; two old friends meet for the first time in a while and stop to chat. "How's your year been?" asks the first. The second one shrugs. "Oh, you know" he says, "about average. Worse than last year, better than the next."
2025 actually did suck. i know we've all said this about a lot of previous years but this one was quite bad actually
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Old Polish joke; two old friends meet for the first time in a while and stop to chat. "How's your year been?" asks the first. The second one shrugs. "Oh, you know" he says, "about average. Worse than last year, better than the next."
This reminds of the thing where the first modern stock markets in the 15th century also invented all the stock scams and manipulations within a couple decades if not years of their existence. They just keep coming back in new clothes.
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
This reminds of the thing where the first modern stock markets in the 15th century also invented all the stock scams and manipulations within a couple decades if not years of their existence. They just keep coming back in new clothes.
love that “don’t you think he looks tired“ is bubbling in the public consciousness
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
love that “don’t you think he looks tired“ is bubbling in the public consciousness
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
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NVidia is aware of the fact that they are the largest company in the world and that their stock value is based on them not being able to manufacture GPUs fast enough creating a time limited scarcity and to hedge for when the bubble bursts they’ve invested in 124 major companies this year
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
NVidia is aware of the fact that they are the largest company in the world and that their stock value is based on them not being able to manufacture GPUs fast enough creating a time limited scarcity and to hedge for when the bubble bursts they’ve invested in 124 major companies this year
I don’t care how Amazon solves their supposed James Bond resurrection problem. Whatever.
I just want them to cast John De Lancie as, you know.
I just want them to cast John De Lancie as, you know.
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I don’t care how Amazon solves their supposed James Bond resurrection problem. Whatever.
I just want them to cast John De Lancie as, you know.
I just want them to cast John De Lancie as, you know.
Kind of puzzling that no one in the Democratic party is making big noise about corruption as the unifying theme to fight. Would be easy tie-in for many kitchen table issues.
Why is this dog not barking?
Why is this dog not barking?
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Kind of puzzling that no one in the Democratic party is making big noise about corruption as the unifying theme to fight. Would be easy tie-in for many kitchen table issues.
Why is this dog not barking?
Why is this dog not barking?
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You guys wanna see a dead body?
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
You guys wanna see a dead body?