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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 7d

The Unbearable Lightness of Binging a Bag of Chex Mix at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 15d

The rapture just happened but it only took the bots

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Jun 11

You know they hate to see me coming

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · May 23

Claude when it realizes my SMTP server is intercepting all emails to @ fbi . gov

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · May 2

late nights

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Apr 18

Choose your fighter

Senator Murkowski says “we are all afraid… I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real.”

Senator Van Hollen meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Apr 8

𝕐𝕆𝕌ℝ ℝ𝔼ℚ𝕌𝔼𝕊𝕋 𝕍𝕀𝕆𝕃𝔸𝕋𝔼𝕊 𝕄𝕐 𝕋𝔼ℝ𝕄𝕊 𝕆𝔽 𝕊𝔼ℝ𝕍𝕀ℂ𝔼

Illustration of coal-powered AI robots fighting from Iron Kingdoms universe

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Apr 6

the engineering team when product asks for a "self-serve analytics platform"

Photo from a #handsoff rally of a sign that says "Hands Off Our Data"

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Apr 6

A rainy day in Providence, Rhode Island

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Mar 29

"OMG did you see the AI Ghiblis on X? There is relationship alpha in-"
You bolt awake in the mountains of Sekigahara. You are not online. It is the year Keichō 5. You are Tokugawa Ieyasu, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Kyoto must burn.

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Mar 29

all my homies rate limited

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Mar 28

Still frame from Porco Rossi by Studio Ghibli that says “I’d rather be a pig than a fascist.”

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Mar 28

me n who

Still frame of the leper colony from Princess Mononoke by Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Mar 21

Ah, good flag, thanks! The Simple PythonScriptingAgent did not use Stockfish when it won the final two games of Series 5, instead just using the Monte Carlo scripts it wrote itself. I will add some clarification.

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Mar 20

thank you Jeremy!

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Mar 20

me looking at my anthropic billing dashboard

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Mar 20

huge thanks to @yoavgo.bsky.social @dynomight.net and @ericmjl.bsky.social for the inspiration

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Mar 20

To experiment with multi-agent systems you either need a clear business case and big budget, or you need to be a jabroni with a high credit limit.

I'm just the jabroni for the job, so I taught Claude to play chess, and learned a ton along the way:
jfkirk.github.io/posts/claude...

Teaching Claude To Teach Claude To Play Chess

When AI competes against a powerful chess engine, it seems doomed - unless the AI learns how to cheat.

jfkirk.github.io

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Mar 19

heartbreaking

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Mar 13

relieved that there is an exemption for my boutique Swedish nicotine

George Pearkes @peark.es · Mar 13

Hope y'all have stockpiled your grand cru and brandy

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the World, which was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States, has just put a nasty 50% Tariff on Whisky. If this Tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200% Tariff on all WINES, CHAMPAGNES, & ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS COMING OUT OF FRANCE AND OTHER E.U. REPRESENTED COUNTRIES. This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S.

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Mar 10

I'll believe AGI is imminent when Python coding utilities stop writing `//` where `/` is obviously desired

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Mar 6

Boston is a long-running experiment on the effects of taking the world's best-and-brightest young adults and giving them all Seasonal Affective Disorder

bolson @bolson.org · Mar 5

This is what happens to the time numbers we attach to the day near me in Boston. Sunrise stays in a relatively narrow band while sunset varies wildly. bolson.org/sungraph/

graph of sunrise, solar noon, sunset for 2025 for Boston, MA
today is a few days short of the time change when sunrise will feel much later to most people. sunrise stays in a narrow band of times mostly between 6 and 7, sunset varies wildly.

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Mar 6

“Waterdeep, greatest city in the forgotten realms” Baldurcels cope and seethe

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Feb 28

How can my job be called “an email job” if I haven’t opened my email in six months

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · Feb 28

It do be like that

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