Adam Casto
@acasto.bsky.social
Linux sysadmin, WordPress developer, general nerd into mechanical keyboards, electronics, sci-fi, and <misc geekery> in Pittsburgh now, Asheville long ago.
Meta must have me on an advertising category for "has no butt".
January 7, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Meta must have me on an advertising category for "has no butt".
Reposted by Adam Casto
maybe I’m just not built for modernity but I find this whole omni-channel dodgeball game to avoid seeing short form snuff videos pretty unpleasant
January 7, 2026 at 8:44 PM
maybe I’m just not built for modernity but I find this whole omni-channel dodgeball game to avoid seeing short form snuff videos pretty unpleasant
Parks and Rec really captured this so well.
January 7, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Parks and Rec really captured this so well.
People in the Mac Studio sub-reddit were arguing with a couple of us for pointing out the M5 should be better at prompt processing/prefill than prior M chips. One argued that weakness is subjective and since we don't know someone's uses you can't say an M2 is weaker than an M5.
January 7, 2026 at 7:33 AM
People in the Mac Studio sub-reddit were arguing with a couple of us for pointing out the M5 should be better at prompt processing/prefill than prior M chips. One argued that weakness is subjective and since we don't know someone's uses you can't say an M2 is weaker than an M5.
I put more time into dressing my desk than I do myself. Finally settled on the black desk mat with the industrial gray new model f for a bit.
January 7, 2026 at 12:16 AM
I put more time into dressing my desk than I do myself. Finally settled on the black desk mat with the industrial gray new model f for a bit.
Wtf is wrong with this eBay iPad app?! Is this drunken sailor mode?
January 6, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Wtf is wrong with this eBay iPad app?! Is this drunken sailor mode?
Reposted by Adam Casto
The hairdresser holds up the mirror so I can see the back of my haircut but she accidentally uses the mirror that reveals how you die. I see my 80-year-old self tumbling down a hill after slacklining for the 1st time. I never know how to react in these situations, so I just mumble "wow I love it"
January 5, 2026 at 7:22 PM
The hairdresser holds up the mirror so I can see the back of my haircut but she accidentally uses the mirror that reveals how you die. I see my 80-year-old self tumbling down a hill after slacklining for the 1st time. I never know how to react in these situations, so I just mumble "wow I love it"
I've blocked or been blocked to the point my discover feed looks suspiciously like my following feed.
January 5, 2026 at 8:21 PM
I've blocked or been blocked to the point my discover feed looks suspiciously like my following feed.
Classic misdirection
Mt. Oliver. Margaret Street. Caller said some dude with a face mask kick in his door, waved a gun around, and then stabbed him.
January 5, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Classic misdirection
I guess now people have been notified and friends are out of the blast zone I can talk a little more about what had me so stressed out over the holidays and how LLMs helped save me a potential legal headache. It was something I eventually would have caught myself, but not before it was too late.
January 4, 2026 at 10:14 PM
I guess now people have been notified and friends are out of the blast zone I can talk a little more about what had me so stressed out over the holidays and how LLMs helped save me a potential legal headache. It was something I eventually would have caught myself, but not before it was too late.
Reposted by Adam Casto
Unitree just keeps one-upping themselves. This is the new h2 performing a spinning overhead kick to absolutely destroy a watermelon, demonstrating precision, flexibility, and ability to impart force on the environment.
January 4, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Unitree just keeps one-upping themselves. This is the new h2 performing a spinning overhead kick to absolutely destroy a watermelon, demonstrating precision, flexibility, and ability to impart force on the environment.
Reposted by Adam Casto
okay so here's a different graph that is interesting. if we look at negative sentiment posts by the age of the account, there is a significant uptick in negative sentiment posts coming from "elder" accounts. this chart here is looking at the past 3 days.
January 4, 2026 at 8:33 PM
okay so here's a different graph that is interesting. if we look at negative sentiment posts by the age of the account, there is a significant uptick in negative sentiment posts coming from "elder" accounts. this chart here is looking at the past 3 days.
Saw someone claiming that Claude Code was giving people "psychosis" and I can't help but think of how we don't pathologize other hobbies where people get a taste and go all in. We wouldn't say someone building a bird house and then going out and buying a bunch of new tools was psychosis.
January 4, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Saw someone claiming that Claude Code was giving people "psychosis" and I can't help but think of how we don't pathologize other hobbies where people get a taste and go all in. We wouldn't say someone building a bird house and then going out and buying a bunch of new tools was psychosis.
Reposted by Adam Casto
Twitter taught us billionaires, politicians and investors were secretly all no smarter than the average person. Bluesky seems to be trying to teach us that scientists and intellectuals are the same too
January 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Twitter taught us billionaires, politicians and investors were secretly all no smarter than the average person. Bluesky seems to be trying to teach us that scientists and intellectuals are the same too
I’m surprised people still take Futurism seriously. I guess they ignore all the clickbait bullshit because they also seem to hate the things they hate.
January 4, 2026 at 6:34 PM
I’m surprised people still take Futurism seriously. I guess they ignore all the clickbait bullshit because they also seem to hate the things they hate.
Reposted by Adam Casto
I understand that people want to think they have found the cause of the agony they are going through, they have found the perpetrator who took their loved ones away. Fixation on one factor might bring you temporary relief but it’s not worth the distraction from effective solutions.
Because they’re not. Anyone with even minimal crisis-response training and familiarity with suicidality understands that psychosis is a complex, multifactorial condition—and that this fixation on chatbots distracts from the far more important work of identifying and addressing its underlying causes.
For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
January 4, 2026 at 6:05 PM
I understand that people want to think they have found the cause of the agony they are going through, they have found the perpetrator who took their loved ones away. Fixation on one factor might bring you temporary relief but it’s not worth the distraction from effective solutions.
Had been putting off integrating the full skills spec into my app since I had originally gated filesystem access to the cwd and since skills need to be accessible by the model it would have made it a pain. Codex completely refactored it to take additional paths and mount them into the container.
January 4, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Had been putting off integrating the full skills spec into my app since I had originally gated filesystem access to the cwd and since skills need to be accessible by the model it would have made it a pain. Codex completely refactored it to take additional paths and mount them into the container.
Welp. From the other site it sounds like we're bombing Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Welp. From the other site it sounds like we're bombing Venezuela.
I should add a hook to my app that fires on /quit or KeyboardInterrupt and gives the model a chance to beg you not to.
January 3, 2026 at 2:04 AM
I should add a hook to my app that fires on /quit or KeyboardInterrupt and gives the model a chance to beg you not to.
My little basement Zojirushi is a workhorse.
January 3, 2026 at 12:56 AM
My little basement Zojirushi is a workhorse.
Such a good soundtrack to work to.
January 2, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Such a good soundtrack to work to.
I've heard LLMs referred to as a mirror, but sympathetic resonance seems like a more apt metaphor. Could also encompass aspects of training.
January 1, 2026 at 10:01 PM
I've heard LLMs referred to as a mirror, but sympathetic resonance seems like a more apt metaphor. Could also encompass aspects of training.
Reposted by Adam Casto
They gentrified the tinfoil hat
January 1, 2026 at 8:57 PM
They gentrified the tinfoil hat
Forget the ball, bring on the thundersnow.
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Forget the ball, bring on the thundersnow.
One thing I miss from the 1900's is the feeling of sticking a cartridge into a machine and then having it hand it back to you.
a woman 's hand with pink nails is pressing a button on a cassette player .
ALT: a woman 's hand with pink nails is pressing a button on a cassette player .
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January 1, 2026 at 1:39 AM
One thing I miss from the 1900's is the feeling of sticking a cartridge into a machine and then having it hand it back to you.