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> All that remains today is an unsettling creature better known to us as David Hamburger Helper.
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okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
In Praise of dhh
A reflection on Ruby's past, present, and future.
okayfail.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
> All that remains today is an unsettling creature better known to us as David Hamburger Helper.
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
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This is it.
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is it.
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
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me: language is a fluid and ever-changing thing, prescriptivism is for suckers
also me: stop saying “ai” platforms can “hallucinate”
ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/halluc...
me: language is a fluid and ever-changing thing, prescriptivism is for suckers
also me: stop saying “ai” platforms can “hallucinate”
ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/halluc...
Hallucinating. — ethanmarcotte.com
A minor semantic quibble.
ethanmarcotte.com
May 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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me: language is a fluid and ever-changing thing, prescriptivism is for suckers
also me: stop saying “ai” platforms can “hallucinate”
ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/halluc...
me: language is a fluid and ever-changing thing, prescriptivism is for suckers
also me: stop saying “ai” platforms can “hallucinate”
ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/halluc...
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i dont want to be a killjoy but we desperately need to make it socially unacceptable to talk about asking chatgpt things in regular conversation
May 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
i dont want to be a killjoy but we desperately need to make it socially unacceptable to talk about asking chatgpt things in regular conversation
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
Pleased to announce that Python is my new favorite language. I will not be taking any questions at this time.
March 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Pleased to announce that Python is my new favorite language. I will not be taking any questions at this time.
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Donald Trump’s envoy to Russia took part in an insecure group chat about American war plans on an unauthorized platform using his personal phone inside the Kremlin while to see Vladimir Putin whom he calls Trump’s friend and whose propaganda he repeats. Here’s why that’s bad news for Democrats.
March 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Donald Trump’s envoy to Russia took part in an insecure group chat about American war plans on an unauthorized platform using his personal phone inside the Kremlin while to see Vladimir Putin whom he calls Trump’s friend and whose propaganda he repeats. Here’s why that’s bad news for Democrats.
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I can’t tell you the amount of contempt real coders have for Musk’s stolen valor at pretending to be technical. His years (decades?) of pseudo-code revealing that he doesn’t actually know how software works are so offensive to genuinely talented developers that they’ve always hated him.
elon could fake being a business and technology genius forever and everyone would have thrown cash at him endlessly, but no, he had to pretend to be a poster and gamer tok and America was like hold up
Has to be rough for Elon to know that his popularity is inversely correlated with his public exposure. People thought this guy was a genius before he started posting in earnest
March 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I can’t tell you the amount of contempt real coders have for Musk’s stolen valor at pretending to be technical. His years (decades?) of pseudo-code revealing that he doesn’t actually know how software works are so offensive to genuinely talented developers that they’ve always hated him.
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But should
March 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
But should
100% true. I want to be part of a tech culture that supports ethical business communities instead of disrupting them.
The Great Tech Heist - How "Disruption" Became a Euphemism for Theft
I've lost count of how many times I've been cornered at conferences by men in meticulously over-casual $300 t-shirts, evangelizing their startups with religious fervor. "We're DISRUPTING the entire in...
www.joanwestenberg.com
March 18, 2025 at 6:47 AM
100% true. I want to be part of a tech culture that supports ethical business communities instead of disrupting them.
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Feds Uncover Terabytes Of Free Speech During Raid Of Protestor’s Residence
Feds Uncover Terabytes Of Free Speech During Raid Of Protestor’s Residence
WASHINGTON—Following a daring operation that saw authorities seize the man’s property and detain him in an undisclosed location, FBI director Kash Patel announced Thursday that federal agents had unco...
theonion.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Feds Uncover Terabytes Of Free Speech During Raid Of Protestor’s Residence
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i see tom holland with an umbrella and i watch the whole thing. it’s the rules
We can upload 3 minute videos now.
YOU KNOW THE RULE
YOU KNOW THE RULE
March 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
i see tom holland with an umbrella and i watch the whole thing. it’s the rules
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The WSJ did a ~2,000 word piece on how Trump came to love crypto and somehow the word "corruption" doesn't appear in it once ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Forces That Flipped Trump From Crypto Critic to ‘Crypto President’
The president had called cryptocurrency a ‘scam’ but during his campaign last year he was persuaded of its value, especially as an investment for the Trump family.
www.wsj.com
March 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The WSJ did a ~2,000 word piece on how Trump came to love crypto and somehow the word "corruption" doesn't appear in it once ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.
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Sent a newsletter. Might regret it later buttondown.com/justenoughin...
A Union for Hopeful Technologists
What if progressive people who work in technology had an advocacy body?
buttondown.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Sent a newsletter. Might regret it later buttondown.com/justenoughin...
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What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.
January 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.
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Highly recommend following this YouTuber @ydubs.bsky.social who made a really excellent video on why there’s no alt-left pipeline youtu.be/y8wD2d9uKg4?...
why is there no alt-left pipeline?
YouTube video by Ryan White
youtu.be
February 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Highly recommend following this YouTuber @ydubs.bsky.social who made a really excellent video on why there’s no alt-left pipeline youtu.be/y8wD2d9uKg4?...
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MACKLEMORE - fucked up (official video)
YouTube video by Macklemore
m.youtube.com
February 14, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Finally got around to deleting my Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts. I'm all in on BlueSky, with a reluctant foot in LinkedIn and Reddit. :)
January 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Finally got around to deleting my Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts. I'm all in on BlueSky, with a reluctant foot in LinkedIn and Reddit. :)
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I don't think I have ever seem a norm go from widely accepted to completely irrelevant as quickly as the importance of minimizing conflicts of interests
January 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I don't think I have ever seem a norm go from widely accepted to completely irrelevant as quickly as the importance of minimizing conflicts of interests