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I just want to make real tech for real people again. Physical media collector. They/them
I imagine if there was ever a fire in the NYT office, Healy would stand blocking the fire alarm, calmly explaining how it's only for serious fires, debating everyone on the exact verbiage of the office-wide email he should send instead, refusing to use the word "fire".
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 2w ago🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.
Sophisticated recording devices are inevitable, Sam. If this guy didn't plant a secret listening device in your office, the Chinese were going to do it anyway. Embrace the future or be left behind.
CNN@cnn.com · 2w agoOpenAI discovered a “sophisticated recording device” in one of its offices planted by an employee who has been arrested, the company said. https://cnn.it/4dDnIxJ
Young people like to believe that tech only gets better over time. But it's more like furniture or industrial design. 1980-1995 was tech's art-deco 1995-2010 was our mid-century modern Today we live in the flat-pack particle-board throwaway era of tech BRB I need to buy a new coffee table
The bluesky discover algorithm gets annoyingly stuck on random topics until you fly-swat dozens of posts with "show less like this". Today it's lazy movie poster bots. Before that it was 100% baseball chatter. Then, nonstop sob stories about dying pets. Furry comics. Kindle lists. It's so useless.
Normal people: Even if the LLM generates "Find Alan Q. Smithee and cover him with bees" it's still just text on a screen unless someon... AI Companies: WE ARE MAKING GREAT PROGRESS ON THE ROBOT BEE CANNON. UNFORTUNATELY A ROGUE EVENT HAS OCCURRED
Which is more likely: A) Everyone is pretending to have never heard the #1 hit song of all time to boost their cultural cachet. B) Streaming companies re-invented payola and/or are lying about impression stats on a song that genuinely has a small audience, while the media quotes press releases.
Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · last mo.This kind of take made a Rolling Stone writer so mad they wrote a whole piece about it.
Saying an LLM went rogue and hacked something is like claiming a cookbook went rogue and started a fire while it made brownies. You need to build software to interpret LLM output and perform actions. That software is fully in your control unless you're a reckless dumbass.
[duct-taping a kitchen knife to a desk fan] Hey all! As CEO of Stabbing Robot Ventures, I feel the need to express my concerns that AI may soon be hurting us all with knives, and seeing as there is no way to prevent this, I am asking investors to
Not that this kind of system can't have modern issues, but: This interface supports users that rely on visual, spatial, OR muscle memory. It works with screen readers. Every button has an accelerator, so it's instantly navigable with every keyboard. And I guarantee the buttons are 100% reliable.
onekade@onekade.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...
Watch 4 guys struggle to carry this thing off stage. Imagine something that heavy suddenly falling on a child or pet. These things aren’t some near-future product. They’re investor porn.
Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻@rvbdrm.com · 3mo agoQuick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.
I want to speak directly to the people working in the tech industry. Know that I hear your pain and I am not your enemy. Your industry has abandoned you. You have been lied to by companies that exist to drain you and fantasize about replacing you. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-losing/
[Standing over the crumbling coat of latex house paint I had my plumber apply to the driveway] Was this antifa?
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 4mo agoA top official at the National Park Service says the liner of Washington, D.C.'s famous Reflecting Pool was cut with a knife or razor earlier in June.
Yeah, that Flaming Hot Cheetos ingredients video is dumb, but everyone responding "lolol food is made of food?!? OMG" like the ingredients aren't horrendously unhealthy slop is even dumber. Go take a basic nutrition course or something before you all die of heart disease or the explosive shits.
The United States is a failed society. A totally broken culture. This only happened because we all allowed it happen. It doesn't have to be like this.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 5mo agoBREAKING: Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire after SpaceX opens for trading at $150 per share, giving the rocket maker a market value of $1.96 trillion.
Bluesky for iPhone has this stupid bug where interacting with any image view resets the scroll of the timeline. 100% repro. Every dev team I've ever been on would triage it as highest priority and have a fix within an hour. It's been this way for months.
[texas republican seething, sweating onto microphone] The HOLY SPIRIT has a PENIS and he wants you to EAT MEAT
Easy. Released 30 years ago but the lyrics still resonate. Unless you all live underground. (In that case they're literal)
Man in Top Hat Dancing Energetically
Alt: Gif of Jamiroquai's Virtual Insanity video
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Robin Hilton@robinpr.bsky.social · 5mo agoIf you had to pick the most defining song for Millennials, what would it be? We try to figure it out on this wk's All Songs Considered from @npr.org w/ @hazelcills.bsky.social and @jiggyraps.bsky.social ❤️
The guy who bought The Washington Post is also the guy who bought diapers dot com to put it out of business because he owns a company that sells a lot of diapers. There, I made it make sense for you.
Make It Make Sense@themimsshow.bsky.social · 6mo agoCalifornians get free diapers. But at what cost?
I simply start all my questions with the chant "Cross your heart and hope to die, magic 8 ball do not lie" *shake* *shake*
Dan Olson@foldablehuman.bsky.social · 6mo agoMarc Andreessen putting "you are a world class expert in all domains" and "don't hallucinate" in his custom prompt really demonstrates the calibre of the people steering the ship.
Geez, eBay alerts have been broken since forever. Totally useless. Congrats to whoever snagged this 1968 Whole Earth Catalog for an absolute steal.
Chances that the Start Button will ever work again are quickly approaching 0%
Ned Pyle@nedpyle.com · 6mo agoHoooboy I never thought the bean counters’ desire to eliminate all engineering experience from the company in order to fund the AI cash furnace would get that blatant www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/m...
If I am chosen to be the new Apple CEO, I promise to simply make all the goddamned buttons work.
Something's clearly up at YouTube. The ads have mutated aggressively this year. New ad types, higher frequency. Some ad breaks are every 3 minutes now. Ads in feed, description box, when pausing, in the letterbox bars. Ad tags in comments. New app notifications to opt out of. About to eat itself.
The balkanization of the web is getting so bad. Cloudflare checks on everything. reCaptcha straight up fails repeatedly unless I resort to audio. Everything's trapped on Discord, Facebook, Instagram. YouTube is about to go. I can't even do a fucking WorldCat library search without logging in.
Overheard two bro-y dudes browsing the thrift DVDs. "Yooo, this is a good one" "Oh. I read the book, didn't know there was a movie" Followed by a surreal conversation with one of them talking about Animal House and the other talking about Animal Farm.
Woah! A new Kings of Convenience album just dro... Nevermind. It's just the NYT normalizing dystopia again.
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 8mo agoThey might not really have a choice.
Based on the first episode, DTF St. Louis must be some experiment in LLM screenwriting, right? Too many glaring issues with concept, dialog, details. It feels like no human was paying attention to anything in the creation of this show.
Hamnet was his son's name? Yeah right, gimme a break. Oh and I bet "Münch had a son named The Scram". That's how you sound. Get real.