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I talk about the Stuff that keeps Happening. he—but also—him 🔗 https://endeavorance.camp

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This kind of thing is on my mind not infrequently I left my career in the tech world right before the second GPT struck the data centers. I feel like the dude from Walking Dead waking up from a coma and everyone is hawking agents at me and my trembling vimrc

I’m confident in my abilities enough that Im not particularly intimated by the changes happening, but it’s very odd to see an industry I know so intimately go through such a metamorphosis so quickly at the exact time that I step away

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I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

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@avilewis.ca, head of the NDP (and husband of @naomiaklein.bsky.social) wants the Canadian government to rescue BioWare. Good for him. It's vital to do everything we can, however futile, to try to stop the Reapers, oops I mean investment funds from destroying everything.

"Ah, yes, we have a generational game studio whose history includes several near genre-defining titles. We should get overly involved in their plans and then close the entire studio when that doesn't help" (RIP BioWare)

Just begging for executives to once, ever, think. I get that a lot of decisions are made as sacrifices to the Line Which Must Go Up, but in my experience, tech execs are *genuinely clueless* and just rely on the giant piles of money to fix the problems they create

Listening to customers? Heeding advice from long-time employees who understand your products? Fuck it, AI CHATBOTS AND BETTING MARKET INTEGRATIONS LETS GOOOOO

I had to think about this one for a while but I think for me it’d probably be like a giant bagel shop and I’m throwing sliced bagel halves at you (and the schmear would probably apply a damage over time effect)

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if you've convinced yourself it's ok if you cross a picket line (I wish you wouldn't) at least keep that shit to yourself instead of broadcasting shit that will do nothing but weaken other people's resolve and increase pressure on people who are holding the line you couldn't.

Never once in my life have I seen someone respond to "There's riots in France" with "well that's suspicious!" until now Prevailing sentiment from the right appears to be that these riots are fake and/or paid and/or because muslims Dissonance so cognitive

Getting closer to launching some new merch stuff probably next month 👀 Just waiting on samples to be delivered to make sure the quality is where I want it, but I am Quite Excite to share the designs with y'all

Hey so if you want someone to engage with your shitty automated email campaigns, doing the "just following up to put this at the top of your inbox" thing is made far, far less effective when your reminder email *also insults me for not getting back to you immediately*

I was inspired when driving past my local Flock mass surveillance device, and I think we could really improve on things if we took it a step further and installed fecal and urine analysis devices in every home's pipes.

They could detect illicit substance use or pregnant women to ensure that the State can send an agent to monitor accordingly! Unless, of course, you've got something to hide 🤨

Well, sure, that may be the case, but have you considered that I heard a different thing many years ago and never actually checked if it was true but instead have sat with it for long enough that it has solidified in my worldview? No? Well, agree to disagree.

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Palestinian skateboarder in Gaza doing a kickflip over an unexploded US-made (in Garland, Texas) Mk. 84 2000lb aerial bomb, provided to Israel as one of many tens of thousands of aerial bombs in the 1,000 and 2,000lb class included in US military assistance.