Jarkko Hietaniemi
@jhietaniemi.bsky.social
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Today's reminder to take your ibuprofen is brought to you by the fact Blu-ray is 20 years old
a close up of a man in a military uniform looking at the camera with a serious look on his face .
ALT: a close up of a man in a military uniform looking at the camera with a serious look on his face .
media.tenor.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Today's reminder to take your ibuprofen is brought to you by the fact Blu-ray is 20 years old
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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)
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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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[ Centuries from now, in an archaeology class ]
"And notice how the inhabitants of this 21st century city emphasized the forehead in their sculptures..."
"And notice how the inhabitants of this 21st century city emphasized the forehead in their sculptures..."
December 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
[ Centuries from now, in an archaeology class ]
"And notice how the inhabitants of this 21st century city emphasized the forehead in their sculptures..."
"And notice how the inhabitants of this 21st century city emphasized the forehead in their sculptures..."
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SOON it is once again THAT time of the year!
🎶"Look to the sky, way up on high
There in the night stars are now right
Eons have passed: now then at last
Prison walls break, Old Ones awake!"🎶
(One hopes, these days. Why settle for a lesser evil?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB39...
🎶"Look to the sky, way up on high
There in the night stars are now right
Eons have passed: now then at last
Prison walls break, Old Ones awake!"🎶
(One hopes, these days. Why settle for a lesser evil?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB39...
Carol of the Old Ones (w/Lyrics)
YouTube video by CaptainZM
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
SOON it is once again THAT time of the year!
🎶"Look to the sky, way up on high
There in the night stars are now right
Eons have passed: now then at last
Prison walls break, Old Ones awake!"🎶
(One hopes, these days. Why settle for a lesser evil?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB39...
🎶"Look to the sky, way up on high
There in the night stars are now right
Eons have passed: now then at last
Prison walls break, Old Ones awake!"🎶
(One hopes, these days. Why settle for a lesser evil?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB39...
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In today’s Vatnik Soup, our first on a non-human vatnik, we’ll talk about… Grok. It’s best known for turning into Mecha-Hitler and Mecha-Putler and for defending its vatnik master, Elon Musk, at all costs, up to being willing to sacrifice the rest of mankind for him.
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December 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In today’s Vatnik Soup, our first on a non-human vatnik, we’ll talk about… Grok. It’s best known for turning into Mecha-Hitler and Mecha-Putler and for defending its vatnik master, Elon Musk, at all costs, up to being willing to sacrifice the rest of mankind for him.
1/24
1/24
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We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
Well we have corollary:
Well we have corollary:
December 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
Well we have corollary:
Well we have corollary:
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On the internet, age verification doesn't know you're a dog.
I see the Australian social media ban is off to a great start.
Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet. 🐕
Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet. 🐕
December 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
On the internet, age verification doesn't know you're a dog.
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Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
December 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
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open.substack.com/pub/angrypic... The last colony and exploding imperial myths.
Scotland: The Empire's Last Colony
How Scotland’s Elite Sold Scotland, Helped Build Britain’s Empire, and then Lost It
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
open.substack.com/pub/angrypic... The last colony and exploding imperial myths.
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Oh yeah I hadn’t thought of that
October 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Oh yeah I hadn’t thought of that
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The Farce Will Be With Him... Always.
Trump: "We have Darth Vader. You know Darth Vader, right? Darth Vader is a man who is sitting -- is that Darth? Stand up please. Does everybody know -- they call him Darth Vader, I call him a fine man. But he's cutting Democrat priorities and they're never gonna get them back."
October 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The Farce Will Be With Him... Always.
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This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
October 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
Brilliant video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW6I...
The Colour that Ruined Filmmaking (and our homes)
YouTube video by Jesse Senko
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Brilliant video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW6I...
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Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.
Fuck Columbus.
Fuck Columbus.
October 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.
Fuck Columbus.
Fuck Columbus.
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every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
October 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
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Even now a crack team of Scottish culinary scientists are racing against time to discover a way to deep fry it.
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Even now a crack team of Scottish culinary scientists are racing against time to discover a way to deep fry it.
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Ja toivoisin että eri näkökulmat yleistyisivät. En sano että tää mun katsaus on "totuus" sen enempää kuin nämä tyypilliset julkisuudessa kiertävät tilastot ovat "totuus", mutta ne ovat erilainen näkökulma jotka täydentävät toisiaan. Nyt tuntuu että Suomeen mahtuu vain yksi näkökulma samaan aikaan.
Vähemmän tunnettuja tilastoja Suomesta
Minkälainen maa on Suomi, kun tarkastelemme sitä vähemmän julkisuutta saaneiden tilastojen valossa? Katsotaan, ja verrataan Suomea muihin pohjoismaihin!
lauspalo.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Ja toivoisin että eri näkökulmat yleistyisivät. En sano että tää mun katsaus on "totuus" sen enempää kuin nämä tyypilliset julkisuudessa kiertävät tilastot ovat "totuus", mutta ne ovat erilainen näkökulma jotka täydentävät toisiaan. Nyt tuntuu että Suomeen mahtuu vain yksi näkökulma samaan aikaan.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Olen löytänyt kanssahallitsijan. Hän tulee johtamaan itäistä maanpiiriä rautaisella tassullaan.
October 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Olen löytänyt kanssahallitsijan. Hän tulee johtamaan itäistä maanpiiriä rautaisella tassullaan.