Thomas Cannon
@thomascannon.me
Web developer, musician, semi-pro party mom. +3 to Persistence Rolls. Operations & systems nerd.
Building my own apps on the side @practical.computer
https://thomascannon.me
https://little-crm.com
https://practical.computer
Building my own apps on the side @practical.computer
https://thomascannon.me
https://little-crm.com
https://practical.computer
The bellwether that I’ve tuned my Trek algo correctly is the universal “fuck OFF Worf” Energy during rewatches of DS9
December 1, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The bellwether that I’ve tuned my Trek algo correctly is the universal “fuck OFF Worf” Energy during rewatches of DS9
I hear this in the cadence of Cake
I think of this image every thanksgiving
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I hear this in the cadence of Cake
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There are brilliant people who aren't curious and dull knives who thirst for knowledge about the world. I'd much rather talk with a dullard who genuinely wants to know stuff than a genius who can't accept that they might be wrong.
November 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
There are brilliant people who aren't curious and dull knives who thirst for knowledge about the world. I'd much rather talk with a dullard who genuinely wants to know stuff than a genius who can't accept that they might be wrong.
After finishing The Rose Field, I am even more convinced that lauded writers need editors trained on them like snipers at all times. 🙃
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
After finishing The Rose Field, I am even more convinced that lauded writers need editors trained on them like snipers at all times. 🙃
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1/2 I find myself having to make this point more often.
The muddying of distinction between the bullshit engine and genuinely life-saving applications of ML / AI is intentional. It allows the people trying to sell you genAI to claim noble intent and dismiss legitimate concerns.
The muddying of distinction between the bullshit engine and genuinely life-saving applications of ML / AI is intentional. It allows the people trying to sell you genAI to claim noble intent and dismiss legitimate concerns.
Having AI crammed down our throats is bullshit, but machine learning has some real uses in science. This awesome page shows experimental cyclone track forecasts from Google DeepMind and Google Research's AI weather models, along with forecasts from ECMWF. 😍
deepmind.google.com/science/weat...
deepmind.google.com/science/weat...
November 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM
1/2 I find myself having to make this point more often.
The muddying of distinction between the bullshit engine and genuinely life-saving applications of ML / AI is intentional. It allows the people trying to sell you genAI to claim noble intent and dismiss legitimate concerns.
The muddying of distinction between the bullshit engine and genuinely life-saving applications of ML / AI is intentional. It allows the people trying to sell you genAI to claim noble intent and dismiss legitimate concerns.
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i think sports and its need to produce actual results could provide a useful heuristic here. which teams do we think are most likely to heavily integrate AI into their front office right now between... let's say the dodgers, the brewers, the nationals, and the white sox?
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
i think sports and its need to produce actual results could provide a useful heuristic here. which teams do we think are most likely to heavily integrate AI into their front office right now between... let's say the dodgers, the brewers, the nationals, and the white sox?
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chat are we cooked
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
chat are we cooked
There was apparently an absolute dogshit adaptation; and this is one of the most jabbing Wikipedia sentences I’ve ever read.
November 30, 2025 at 12:23 AM
There was apparently an absolute dogshit adaptation; and this is one of the most jabbing Wikipedia sentences I’ve ever read.
Reading Simon Stålenhag’s “The Electric State” in 2025 is much more compelling on the narrative side than I anticipated, while also making my stomach slowly lurch.
www.simonstalenhag.se/es.html
www.simonstalenhag.se/es.html
www.simonstalenhag.se
www.simonstalenhag.se
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Reading Simon Stålenhag’s “The Electric State” in 2025 is much more compelling on the narrative side than I anticipated, while also making my stomach slowly lurch.
www.simonstalenhag.se/es.html
www.simonstalenhag.se/es.html
That's...a lot of dead code
November 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
That's...a lot of dead code
This always bodes well as a Linear ticket (doing major Little CRM refactoring to remove cruft from prototypes)
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This always bodes well as a Linear ticket (doing major Little CRM refactoring to remove cruft from prototypes)
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This is just gutter racism and it’s a standard that would never be applied to say, the descendants of Italian immigrants who fled the lawlessness of Southern italy post unification and now staff this fascist administration bsky.app/profile/publ...
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is just gutter racism and it’s a standard that would never be applied to say, the descendants of Italian immigrants who fled the lawlessness of Southern italy post unification and now staff this fascist administration bsky.app/profile/publ...
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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thinking of her today
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
thinking of her today
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having exactly (1) day out of the year where every amateur chef in America attempts to cook a giant bird and not fuck it up is, honestly, a wonderful and hilarious tradition
November 27, 2024 at 3:01 PM
having exactly (1) day out of the year where every amateur chef in America attempts to cook a giant bird and not fuck it up is, honestly, a wonderful and hilarious tradition
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Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
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Like, YES, an incredibly fortunate position to be in. BUT, the truth is that nobody fucking wants AI shit in creative works for a variety of reasons! Look at what happened with Clair Obscur, WotC, and like, everyone else who tried! It's hurting Arc Raiders' bottom line right now!!!
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Like, YES, an incredibly fortunate position to be in. BUT, the truth is that nobody fucking wants AI shit in creative works for a variety of reasons! Look at what happened with Clair Obscur, WotC, and like, everyone else who tried! It's hurting Arc Raiders' bottom line right now!!!
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I'm not even talking about the ethics here! From a free market perspective, it's clear that people just fuckin don't want this!
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I'm not even talking about the ethics here! From a free market perspective, it's clear that people just fuckin don't want this!
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I cannot stop laughing. This is so indicative of what's wrong with these AI people and how they view art
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I cannot stop laughing. This is so indicative of what's wrong with these AI people and how they view art
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
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Bluesky not addictive to teens but definitely a crutch for elder millennials who know too much about the Bajoran war.
Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat know how addictive their platforms can be to teens.
Those are allegations a group of school districts is making against the social media giants, according to a newly unsealed legal filing that quotes the companies’ own internal documents. https://cnn.it/3Xjq5x5
Those are allegations a group of school districts is making against the social media giants, according to a newly unsealed legal filing that quotes the companies’ own internal documents. https://cnn.it/3Xjq5x5
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Bluesky not addictive to teens but definitely a crutch for elder millennials who know too much about the Bajoran war.
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Great news, everyone!
In Bari Weiss’ CBS, we’ve simply run out of news! Time to check in on *checks notes*
Turkey vs. Ham
In Bari Weiss’ CBS, we’ve simply run out of news! Time to check in on *checks notes*
Turkey vs. Ham
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Great news, everyone!
In Bari Weiss’ CBS, we’ve simply run out of news! Time to check in on *checks notes*
Turkey vs. Ham
In Bari Weiss’ CBS, we’ve simply run out of news! Time to check in on *checks notes*
Turkey vs. Ham
Just watched for the first time and can confirm
Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Just watched for the first time and can confirm
Great news, everyone!
In Bari Weiss’ CBS, we’ve simply run out of news! Time to check in on *checks notes*
Turkey vs. Ham
In Bari Weiss’ CBS, we’ve simply run out of news! Time to check in on *checks notes*
Turkey vs. Ham
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Great news, everyone!
In Bari Weiss’ CBS, we’ve simply run out of news! Time to check in on *checks notes*
Turkey vs. Ham
In Bari Weiss’ CBS, we’ve simply run out of news! Time to check in on *checks notes*
Turkey vs. Ham
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demonschool credits all 145 people who touched the game over the course of its multi-year dev cycle AND explains what exactly they contributed. the rest of the games industry, which commonly omits people from credits entirely, should be taking notes
![“We worked [on Hyper Gunsport] with a localization company that refused to give the names of the people that actually did the work; they just wanted to have their company name in there,” Sheffield said. “They say they do that because ‘It's the standard’ and ‘to avoid poaching’ or whatever, but I hate that and think it's total BS. … I've also seen a lot of folks complain about how they weren't credited on a game because they'd left the studio before the game they worked on was finished. And indeed, our lead 3D artist left two years ago. But he's still the first artist credited because he set the style and visual tone for a lot of the game. Not working on the game to the very end doesn't negate the work he did.”
The more Sheffield thought about how to meet the needs of so many different types of contributors – and discussed the matter on social media – the more a comprehensive, detail-oriented approach to crediting started to make sense.
“That had all been percolating in the back of my mind as we got close to finishing, and then it just sort of hit me as it came time for me to write the credits,” he said. “I discussed this approach with the team and everyone was fine with it, so we just went for it. We always want to credit everyone that touched the game, so even though the core team was 7 or 8 people at any given time, we credited around 145 people in Demonschool. Who cares if it's a lot of people? Who cares if it's long? They all did something and they deserve credit. And you basically can tell who the core team was by reading the descriptions. None of us are precious about that anyway.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreibksibak2xsgvbrid7evym3utz6yzfccilowfs7apv7b2sddssd3q@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
demonschool credits all 145 people who touched the game over the course of its multi-year dev cycle AND explains what exactly they contributed. the rest of the games industry, which commonly omits people from credits entirely, should be taking notes