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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Aug 28

I concur 👍

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Aug 16

Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.

Walking through a second hand book store and books are stacked all around creating a grebled pathway, such that it feels like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Aug 13

Ha ha — this got a like from @redblobgames.com … yeh they’ve done a lot more with grids than I ever have!

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Aug 8

Gregor Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreams to find the tech world is abuzz with a prediction that, 3 years from now, OpenStink will achieve AGI and perform bullshit work at *TWICE* the speed of a modern bureaucrat!

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Jul 6

I contain multitudes. Or, as we say in science, a microbiome.

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Jul 4

I must acknowledge that I am uncharacteristically and perhaps unreasonably riled up by this paper, but to double down on my "dying on this hill" -- here's a word cloud of all the times "cognitive {x}" is used in the paper, for different values of x.

It's such an utter load of "cognitive slop"!

Word cloud showing some of the 40+ terms like "cognitive load", "cognitive debt" "cognitive process" etc that are used almost entirely without definition, and entirely without an accurate, valid, relevant definition. When in doubt... just say cognitive a bit more!

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Jul 4

Agree to disagree on this paper. How does their novel test have any validity, to be able to make such strong and sweeping claims?

Its claims may be true… but the “science” they’ve used to get there is not able to support any such claims.

This is preprint un-reviewed stuff.

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Jul 3

As an underling, I always found the threat “be quiet or I’ll replace you with a very simple cron job” to be effective at keeping middle-managers in line.

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•Anti-capitalist meme pebbler• @seizethememez.bsky.social · Jul 1

Pic of Bezos and wife.

Overlaid on the image is a tweet from a user named "Dr. G" with the handle "@GinnyMcDonald8." The tweet reads:

"Jeff Bezos paid 50m for his wedding and gave his new wife over 50m in jewelry while people here are losing their Medicaid and SNAP benefits just so he can get a huge tax cut. It’s disgusting and just wrong.”

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Jul 3

The discussion in this podcast is very illuminating regarding this “study”

open.spotify.com/episode/0XLG...

You deserve better brain research

Change, Technically · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Jul 3

The alleged neuroscience behind this preprint is really very spectacularly shitty.

The article is getting so much attention but they didn’t do the science properly.

I’ll follow up with a podcast link in a moment.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Jun 30

"There’s just too much wealth concentration. And what do you even do? What’s the purpose of that much wealth? What do you do with it?" — Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood on how we can use guaranteed minimum income to lift Americans out of poverty

denver-frederick.com/2025/06/24/t...

The American Dream Is Broken. This $50 Million Bet Could Help Rebuild It. - Denver Frederick

There are few issues more urgent—or more misunderstood—than poverty in America. And even fewer solutions as bold as simply giving people cash. Jeff Atwood, the tech entrepreneur behind Stack Overflow,...

denver-frederick.com

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · Jun 27

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Jun 28

This is awesome and if anything does not go far enough. Don’t be afraid of your awesomeness. Shine David, shine like a star!

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Jun 23

Ah but have you tried yoga?

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Jun 22

Donald Duck enthusiastically cleaning up while saying “cleaning is just putting stuff in less obvious places and then wondering where you put them”

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Jun 17

Ordinarily I think Labor can rest on being just 1 half step to the left of the major RWNJ parties. Suddenly, with no strong opposition on the right, they have to stand on their own feet and get into actual policy debates with other parties.

At least: that’s what I hope will happen. Please 🙏

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Jun 10

I used to believe, there’s no “i” in Teamwork. Google set me straight.

Google’s AI overview states ‘The letter “i” appears twice in the word “teamwork”.’

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Jun 9

My eyes be leaking. Stop it Mann.

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Jun 7

Curse typos.

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Jun 7

While writing this I overheard someone say to someone else — regarding their computer — ‘all my letters are in capitals except the “i”’s.’

This alone unleashes chains of thought, uncovers other curses. I wonder if it relates to the Turkish alphabet. I wonder why we even have “capital letters”.

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Jun 7

I sent this skoot prematurely as I was late for a thing. I wanted to hone in on the topic of typography in particular. Knowledge of typography leads to opinions on typography which leads to misery.

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Jun 7

I was going to say “except curses” but you’ve proven me wrong there. Cues you!

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Jun 7

Everything is a curse

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · May 31

As Shakespeare says “There are sermons in books, stones in the running brooks,” or rather, the other way about, and there you have it, in a nutshell.
— Gussie Finknottle