Don Murray, P.Eng. (he/him)
@donaldm314.bsky.social
Agile coach, consultant, software engineer, partner, dad
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semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
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In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.
www.theverge.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:56 PM
In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
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I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
January 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
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Blogged: Code Cleanliness
"My first encounter with cleanliness in code: […] Kernighan and Plauger’s 1978 book, The Elements of Programming Style (2nd edition). […] The idea of clean code has been around in one form or another for at least half a century."
kevlinhenney.medium.com/code-cleanli...
"My first encounter with cleanliness in code: […] Kernighan and Plauger’s 1978 book, The Elements of Programming Style (2nd edition). […] The idea of clean code has been around in one form or another for at least half a century."
kevlinhenney.medium.com/code-cleanli...
Code Cleanliness
On the origins of ‘clean code’
kevlinhenney.medium.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Blogged: Code Cleanliness
"My first encounter with cleanliness in code: […] Kernighan and Plauger’s 1978 book, The Elements of Programming Style (2nd edition). […] The idea of clean code has been around in one form or another for at least half a century."
kevlinhenney.medium.com/code-cleanli...
"My first encounter with cleanliness in code: […] Kernighan and Plauger’s 1978 book, The Elements of Programming Style (2nd edition). […] The idea of clean code has been around in one form or another for at least half a century."
kevlinhenney.medium.com/code-cleanli...
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Canadian editorial cartoonist Michael de Adder takes a dim view of the Trump administration attacking Rene Nicole Good, the 37-year-old American citizen who was shot to death while driving away from federal officers.
January 9, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Canadian editorial cartoonist Michael de Adder takes a dim view of the Trump administration attacking Rene Nicole Good, the 37-year-old American citizen who was shot to death while driving away from federal officers.
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Your honour, my client has simply gotten so good at stabbing people that murder laws do not apply.
My word. (Again.)
Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
January 8, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Your honour, my client has simply gotten so good at stabbing people that murder laws do not apply.
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AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.
January 8, 2026 at 12:20 AM
AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.
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"Nuance" meaning "cops encountered a situation regular Americans deal with every single day and responded with murderous gunfire"
Three videos taken of the scene and reviewed by CNN, however, show nuance. What took place prior to the shooting remains unclear. | Analysis
DHS says woman attempted to run over ICE officers before being shot in Minneapolis. Here’s what the videos show. | CNN
Three videos taken of the scene and reviewed by CNN show nuance. What took place prior to the shooting remains unclear.
www.cnn.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:13 AM
"Nuance" meaning "cops encountered a situation regular Americans deal with every single day and responded with murderous gunfire"
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Most venture capital deals are now AI
Burn more dollars! More dollars! More!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of7m... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260106-mos... - podcast
time: 5 min 25 sec
Burn more dollars! More dollars! More!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of7m... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260106-mos... - podcast
time: 5 min 25 sec
January 6, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Most venture capital deals are now AI
Burn more dollars! More dollars! More!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of7m... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260106-mos... - podcast
time: 5 min 25 sec
Burn more dollars! More dollars! More!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of7m... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260106-mos... - podcast
time: 5 min 25 sec
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important message to all bluesky users
January 7, 2026 at 7:53 PM
important message to all bluesky users
Most venture capital deals are now AI pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/06/m...
Most venture capital deals are now AI
Pitchbook has a new report: “AI, Megadeals, and the Making of a Concentrated Venture Market.” It spins really quite concerning news as “this is fine.” [Pitchbook; report, PDF, archive] The US stock…
pivot-to-ai.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Most venture capital deals are now AI pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/06/m...
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The last year was very hard as my father was dying. It became that much harder when I discovered that AI played a role in amplifying his physical pain, and perhaps hastening the end of his life. It wasn’t easy to write about what happened, but I’ve tried.
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
The role of AI in the death of my father
A sad strange story
open.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:54 PM
The last year was very hard as my father was dying. It became that much harder when I discovered that AI played a role in amplifying his physical pain, and perhaps hastening the end of his life. It wasn’t easy to write about what happened, but I’ve tried.
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
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So, the president who falls asleep in cabinet meetings has now invaded a sovereign nation and abducted its leader and his wife to face “justice” in the U.S.
It’s official, writes Michael Harris. America has its first rogue president. #uspoli
It’s official, writes Michael Harris. America has its first rogue president. #uspoli
Venezuela Grab: Who’ll Stand Up for International Law? | The Tyee
Carney muffs a chance while Poilievre celebrates Trump’s dangerous new rules.
thetyee.ca
January 5, 2026 at 2:39 PM
So, the president who falls asleep in cabinet meetings has now invaded a sovereign nation and abducted its leader and his wife to face “justice” in the U.S.
It’s official, writes Michael Harris. America has its first rogue president. #uspoli
It’s official, writes Michael Harris. America has its first rogue president. #uspoli
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You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.
January 4, 2026 at 7:01 PM
You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.
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I get my eyes scanned once a year to check for retinopathy. If the doctors detected a deterioration, those checks would be done more often to monitor its progress.
The President has said he's had 3 dementia tests in the recent past.
The President has said he's had 3 dementia tests in the recent past.
January 4, 2026 at 9:00 AM
I get my eyes scanned once a year to check for retinopathy. If the doctors detected a deterioration, those checks would be done more often to monitor its progress.
The President has said he's had 3 dementia tests in the recent past.
The President has said he's had 3 dementia tests in the recent past.
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New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped
January 4, 2026 at 11:35 AM
New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped
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Script for when someone asks you a loaded hypothetical question dripping in 'whataboutism' regarding politics or human rights:
"I don't engage in bad-faith thought exercises."
"I don't engage in bad-faith thought exercises."
January 4, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Script for when someone asks you a loaded hypothetical question dripping in 'whataboutism' regarding politics or human rights:
"I don't engage in bad-faith thought exercises."
"I don't engage in bad-faith thought exercises."
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People being like, "But Venezuelans are happy about Maduro being gone!" have the memories of goldfish. IN 2003, the narrative was that Iraqis celebrated the U.S. invasion and capture of Saddam.
Whether they were happy or not, invading Iraq was still the wrong thing to do.
Whether they were happy or not, invading Iraq was still the wrong thing to do.
January 4, 2026 at 2:39 PM
People being like, "But Venezuelans are happy about Maduro being gone!" have the memories of goldfish. IN 2003, the narrative was that Iraqis celebrated the U.S. invasion and capture of Saddam.
Whether they were happy or not, invading Iraq was still the wrong thing to do.
Whether they were happy or not, invading Iraq was still the wrong thing to do.
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After 33 years in software development, it's sad to report that the people I've found to be least interested in aligning software development with business objectives, and the most "Ooh, shiny!" of all, are the people in charge.
January 2, 2026 at 2:49 PM
After 33 years in software development, it's sad to report that the people I've found to be least interested in aligning software development with business objectives, and the most "Ooh, shiny!" of all, are the people in charge.
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Daycare centers were also the primary target of the Satanic panic, because fundamentally American religious conservatism is opposed to women having jobs outside the home.
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
December 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Daycare centers were also the primary target of the Satanic panic, because fundamentally American religious conservatism is opposed to women having jobs outside the home.
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Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
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A big reason we don’t have UBI is because it would be good for everybody. Most in charge are willing to waste a lot of money and resources specifically to immiserate people and perpetuate an underclass.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
December 28, 2025 at 5:24 AM
A big reason we don’t have UBI is because it would be good for everybody. Most in charge are willing to waste a lot of money and resources specifically to immiserate people and perpetuate an underclass.
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There will be a signing event today, December 28, for #RecallMickey at Village Square Community Hub. 4:30 PM-6 PM. #OperationTotalRecall #RecallThemAll #yyc #ableg #abpoli
recallmickey.ca/events/sign-...
recallmickey.ca/events/sign-...
December 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
There will be a signing event today, December 28, for #RecallMickey at Village Square Community Hub. 4:30 PM-6 PM. #OperationTotalRecall #RecallThemAll #yyc #ableg #abpoli
recallmickey.ca/events/sign-...
recallmickey.ca/events/sign-...
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December 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM