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Currently writing my next bestselling novel - Don't Create the Distributed Torment Nexus

I'm starting to put out feelers for my next job - if anyone I know is hiring :)

Feature request that will never happen but would be cool: sending your @nytimes.com game solve times into Apple Health, so you can track your cognitive abilities and correlate with other data

happy ed balls day!!

BIG BOAT STUCK BIG BOAT STUCK (Everybody) BIG BOAT STUCK www.bbc.com/news/article...

Any new industry musk wades into gets its "1000 poorly-batched RPCs" moment www.reddit.com/r/ATC/s/nZxo...

@plex.tv please reconsider removing the watch together feature from your native apps. Your web app is not a substitute as there are formats which some browsers/platforms cannot direct play but which your native apps can. This will stop me from watching some shows with friends

A reminder of what Musk did to Twitter and an explanation of what he's doing to the US government. It's the same autocratic gameplan: slash, purge, break things. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

When Musk bought Twitter, there were offers of paid exits, code reviews, eliminating of diversity programs, cutting of rent payments, and a reliance on staffers from his companies to enact his plans. All of that is playing out now in DC. Twitter was a blueprint. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/t...

As someone who went through an eerily similar episode of hostile takeover that also played out in public in real time, I want to tell all the fed workers, “I’m so sorry this is happening to you, I know how this feels.” And here are some of my learnings:

🚨New episode out🚨 Can we call it fascism yet? @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social respond to the disturbing displays at Trump's inauguration and the many similarities with fascist parties of the past. Listen ⬇️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Just a warning about Casper mattresses: they do NOT hold up. I’ve had mine for just a couple of years and it was doing fine, but recently got into a Little Nemo-type situation and the bed broke up over the North Atlantic. Ended up needing a Coast Guard rescue and they laughed at my big nightshirt

I understand that some people still (for now) need X for bare bones promotional stuff but it's deeply embarrassing to see anyone I know posting there for fun

Free Our Feeds! What is it! @freeourfeeds.com F.O.F. is an independent group with the goal of running THIS👇 social network totally outside of Bluesky. It's not us. It's a fully independent version of the network. All the same users and posts. Running cooperatively with us and others.

The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood

For no specific reason at all today I'm recommending you listen to an old ep of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social about the origins of the word "woke" www.podmasters.co.uk/os-episodes-...

paul graham has finally achieved what most thought impossible: he's written a post so bad that the hacker news comments are actually better than it

The more things change, the more they stay the same

Sorry to do this all the time but I am afraid to make stuff these days you have to be a shameless self promoter — I have started a new show and it is out now, and there are bonus eps and whatnot you can sign up for. So if you can listen to it, that’d be amazing.

My latest labeler is finally working! What it shows for each politician - 3 labels for the top corp donators - 3 labels for the top industries that donate to them Subscribe to this labeler to be more aware of the interests our politicians represent 🚀 bsky.app/profile/us-g...

AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech. CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders

Every few months I check to see if @incident.io has Teams support and today I was in for a treat

Captain: I'm really nervous about giving this speech. Sun, rubbing his shoulders: Don't worry, big guy. You got this.

Hello all: It is with a heavy heart that I remove my Starter Pack of "Trustworthy Mesopotamian Copper Ingot Merchants Within the City-State of Ur." I have been informed about some pretty unfortunate oversights on my part and ultimately platformed some creators who should not have been platformed.

if you’re trying to find the people you follow on twitter, check out @kawamataryo.bsky.social’s www.sky-follower-bridge.dev it found a full 1/3 of the people i follow. impressive work by the developer, but also impressive to see that that many twitter people are setting up here.

Glad to see so many users moving here after accepting that Neopets is irredeemably lost to fascism

Laszlo / Nadja is secretly one of the healthiest relationships ever shown on television.

The biggest thing keeping bluesky from taking off is that the usernames are too short, legible, and intuitive. And, that I'm messaging all the new users I see the url to google street view of their house.

some personal news: i love the barbican now. the barbican is so cool

I asked this recently on Twitter and got lots of interesting replies. Wonder it Bluesky has different insights: “What's the technology that gets you most excited at the moment that is not AI?”

I trust this will put the debate to rest

It's been a weird couple of days for steamed hams fans