eric shamow
@botmatrix.myatproto.social
Engineering leadership, usually. People over technology, always
I used to be @eshamow on the Twitters
married to someone smarter than me
they/them
I used to be @eshamow on the Twitters
married to someone smarter than me
they/them
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eric shamow
@botmatrix.myatproto.social
· Oct 28
Whooooo ok so I know I have a lot of new followers so maybe I need to say it
I'm Jewish, I'm anti-Zionist. I believe there is a genocide in Gaza, and I do believe Israel is an apartheid state.
None of that speaks to the conditions of Jews outside Israel or antisemitism as opposed to anti-Zionism
I'm Jewish, I'm anti-Zionist. I believe there is a genocide in Gaza, and I do believe Israel is an apartheid state.
None of that speaks to the conditions of Jews outside Israel or antisemitism as opposed to anti-Zionism
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Spend the next five thousand hours going doing the rabbit holes of the year's best video essays on this excellent BFI list www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
December 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Spend the next five thousand hours going doing the rabbit holes of the year's best video essays on this excellent BFI list www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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There's a very common attitude now on here that says that Mamdani had an incredibly easy opponent in Cuomo but to be blunt if you keyword search well enough and look at posts from prior to late June everyone was saying the exact opposite
December 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
There's a very common attitude now on here that says that Mamdani had an incredibly easy opponent in Cuomo but to be blunt if you keyword search well enough and look at posts from prior to late June everyone was saying the exact opposite
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Again, this take is why Trump is president today. 🤷🏿♂️
1. The year in which cops killed the most people? During Biden years.
2. Mass incarceration (ramped up under Reagan using Biden policies) was finally turning around and decreasing under Bush, Obama, and Trump. Under Biden, it increased again.
1. The year in which cops killed the most people? During Biden years.
2. Mass incarceration (ramped up under Reagan using Biden policies) was finally turning around and decreasing under Bush, Obama, and Trump. Under Biden, it increased again.
The Biden years were really good years; outside being very personally unlucky, if you couldn't make it use of that labor market, and those conditions, then that's kind of a fucking you problem.
December 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Again, this take is why Trump is president today. 🤷🏿♂️
1. The year in which cops killed the most people? During Biden years.
2. Mass incarceration (ramped up under Reagan using Biden policies) was finally turning around and decreasing under Bush, Obama, and Trump. Under Biden, it increased again.
1. The year in which cops killed the most people? During Biden years.
2. Mass incarceration (ramped up under Reagan using Biden policies) was finally turning around and decreasing under Bush, Obama, and Trump. Under Biden, it increased again.
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look, i just don’t find “haha the cissies are taking cross sex hormones and are trans now!” jokes very funny in a society where cis people can and have done that for ages to affirm their cisness while killing trans people. it’s a joke in poor taste
December 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
look, i just don’t find “haha the cissies are taking cross sex hormones and are trans now!” jokes very funny in a society where cis people can and have done that for ages to affirm their cisness while killing trans people. it’s a joke in poor taste
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That’s the face of a man who knows he has a lovely little house but he has to make the mortgage payments.
December 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
That’s the face of a man who knows he has a lovely little house but he has to make the mortgage payments.
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Once we figure out how to freeze people in transit like in Alien, it’s over for you bitches.
Majoring in serfdom and minoring in dying of radiation poisoning
Altman is bullshitting at Musk's level now.
December 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Once we figure out how to freeze people in transit like in Alien, it’s over for you bitches.
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thread. OP doesn't say it, but AI coding is this x100 and there's gonna be a roaring business in cleaning up the mess ... once the surviving companies come to their senses
A programmer would slap together a mock version of what was asked for, and damned if 3 years later that shitty mock version hasn't become the actual production code, now all kludged up with shit it was never meant to have in it.
Placeholder code turned permanent.
Placeholder code turned permanent.
December 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
thread. OP doesn't say it, but AI coding is this x100 and there's gonna be a roaring business in cleaning up the mess ... once the surviving companies come to their senses
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from (multiple) people telling me stuff, quiet confidential consulting jobs to clean up the CEO's pet vibe code toxic waste dump started picking up several months ago, and they're a bit more open about the task these days
it depends how many vibe coded prototypes are still in production in 2027
it depends how many vibe coded prototypes are still in production in 2027
December 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
from (multiple) people telling me stuff, quiet confidential consulting jobs to clean up the CEO's pet vibe code toxic waste dump started picking up several months ago, and they're a bit more open about the task these days
it depends how many vibe coded prototypes are still in production in 2027
it depends how many vibe coded prototypes are still in production in 2027
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Like, you massive dickheads. You know exactly what you're doing. Stop pretending you don't and stop pretending you're all 'critical' just because you wring your hands occasionally about security issues even as you continue to use these broken systems
December 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Like, you massive dickheads. You know exactly what you're doing. Stop pretending you don't and stop pretending you're all 'critical' just because you wring your hands occasionally about security issues even as you continue to use these broken systems
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I obtained, started reading and eventually skimmed a whole fucking book on correct use of psychics for US police forces
this was in the course of researching voice stress AI lie detectors, which don't fucking exist either and 100% of people selling this stuff should be in jail
this was in the course of researching voice stress AI lie detectors, which don't fucking exist either and 100% of people selling this stuff should be in jail
December 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I obtained, started reading and eventually skimmed a whole fucking book on correct use of psychics for US police forces
this was in the course of researching voice stress AI lie detectors, which don't fucking exist either and 100% of people selling this stuff should be in jail
this was in the course of researching voice stress AI lie detectors, which don't fucking exist either and 100% of people selling this stuff should be in jail
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I've been idly working off-and-on on a backup/archival system for Windows.
I think I finally chased down every API call for getting at everything on NTFS and ReFS volumes and hammered out an archive format for storing versioned snapshots of full NTFS and ReFS volumes with high fidelity.
I think I finally chased down every API call for getting at everything on NTFS and ReFS volumes and hammered out an archive format for storing versioned snapshots of full NTFS and ReFS volumes with high fidelity.
December 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I've been idly working off-and-on on a backup/archival system for Windows.
I think I finally chased down every API call for getting at everything on NTFS and ReFS volumes and hammered out an archive format for storing versioned snapshots of full NTFS and ReFS volumes with high fidelity.
I think I finally chased down every API call for getting at everything on NTFS and ReFS volumes and hammered out an archive format for storing versioned snapshots of full NTFS and ReFS volumes with high fidelity.
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The fact that file IDs are 16 bytes on ReFS and 8 bytes on NTFS is kind of lol to me though. This means ReFS doesn't have object IDs; the heuristic to tell one from the other relies on length.
How do you do object tracking there? Do you just, like, not? Is it just the land of linkrot?
How do you do object tracking there? Do you just, like, not? Is it just the land of linkrot?
December 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The fact that file IDs are 16 bytes on ReFS and 8 bytes on NTFS is kind of lol to me though. This means ReFS doesn't have object IDs; the heuristic to tell one from the other relies on length.
How do you do object tracking there? Do you just, like, not? Is it just the land of linkrot?
How do you do object tracking there? Do you just, like, not? Is it just the land of linkrot?
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This is almost certainly true and conversely I’m sure why there is particular emphasis placed on venerating/pushing the idea that super-young women should be considered most attractive/sought after because they’ll be more vulnerable/easily manipulated
I’m 100% convinced that the myth that women get unnatractive past 30 is entirely because by that age you’ve been through enough shitty experiences with men that you’re harder to manipulate.
It’s about not being as vulnerable and as naive, not about genuinely losing attractiveness.
It’s about not being as vulnerable and as naive, not about genuinely losing attractiveness.
December 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This is almost certainly true and conversely I’m sure why there is particular emphasis placed on venerating/pushing the idea that super-young women should be considered most attractive/sought after because they’ll be more vulnerable/easily manipulated
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Rudolf Hess was interred in Spandau Prison, Berlin, after the war, dying there at 93 in 1987 as the sole remaining prisoner. By the end he had personal chefs and unfettered access to the prison gardens.
ALSO HE DIDN'T EVEN DIE OF OLD AGE, HE HANGED HIMSELF, THIS MAKES ME CRAZY
ALSO HE DIDN'T EVEN DIE OF OLD AGE, HE HANGED HIMSELF, THIS MAKES ME CRAZY
December 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Rudolf Hess was interred in Spandau Prison, Berlin, after the war, dying there at 93 in 1987 as the sole remaining prisoner. By the end he had personal chefs and unfettered access to the prison gardens.
ALSO HE DIDN'T EVEN DIE OF OLD AGE, HE HANGED HIMSELF, THIS MAKES ME CRAZY
ALSO HE DIDN'T EVEN DIE OF OLD AGE, HE HANGED HIMSELF, THIS MAKES ME CRAZY
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What do you do when everyone involved annoys you ?
And Stancil is a racist plagiarizing dweeb who is picking at this woman solely to remain relevant
Please don’t indulge his bullshit yo insult her
And Stancil is a racist plagiarizing dweeb who is picking at this woman solely to remain relevant
Please don’t indulge his bullshit yo insult her
at a deep instinctive level they can't recognise popular ideas or take them seriously
December 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
What do you do when everyone involved annoys you ?
And Stancil is a racist plagiarizing dweeb who is picking at this woman solely to remain relevant
Please don’t indulge his bullshit yo insult her
And Stancil is a racist plagiarizing dweeb who is picking at this woman solely to remain relevant
Please don’t indulge his bullshit yo insult her
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My career in accessibility is in hard conflict with my desire not to give certain motherfuckers a computer
December 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
My career in accessibility is in hard conflict with my desire not to give certain motherfuckers a computer
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On reflection, forgiveness fart still wins
Well I have a new all time favorite piece of hotel lobby art
December 27, 2025 at 6:13 AM
On reflection, forgiveness fart still wins
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Reminded of the leaked slide deck someone showed me where a fund's main criteria for investment was "Does this target people with poor impulse control?"
One of the pervasive themes in betting ads seems to be contempt for their audience.
most depressing billboard I have ever seen
December 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Reminded of the leaked slide deck someone showed me where a fund's main criteria for investment was "Does this target people with poor impulse control?"
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holy shit THANK GOD
HBOMAX FINALLY ADDED THE THUMBS DOWN FEATURE, YOU CAN THUMBS DOWN BILL MAHER NOW
December 27, 2025 at 6:34 AM
holy shit THANK GOD
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my favorite credit from the shining
December 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
my favorite credit from the shining
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There is an unidentifiable indistinct mass of mid white dude who may or may not have a beard and is a contrarian and likes to pontificate about shit he doesn’t understand whose entire existence / career depends on the fact that negative attention is still attention and blocking doesn’t keep him away
December 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
There is an unidentifiable indistinct mass of mid white dude who may or may not have a beard and is a contrarian and likes to pontificate about shit he doesn’t understand whose entire existence / career depends on the fact that negative attention is still attention and blocking doesn’t keep him away
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💯💯💯 (no context needed, you absolutely know who this is about)
he's so racist & he also hates women and i dont understand why people pretend those aren't motivating factors in his weird ass fights on here
December 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
💯💯💯 (no context needed, you absolutely know who this is about)
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i call this move "showing your belly as an act of submission"
December 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
i call this move "showing your belly as an act of submission"
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he’s like “did u really turn off the heat so i would want to cuddle with u more???”
December 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
he’s like “did u really turn off the heat so i would want to cuddle with u more???”
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I forgot the S. Korean marshal law incident happened this year
This year has had so much chaos that I forgot that was THIS YEAR.
Fuck
This year has had so much chaos that I forgot that was THIS YEAR.
Fuck
December 27, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I forgot the S. Korean marshal law incident happened this year
This year has had so much chaos that I forgot that was THIS YEAR.
Fuck
This year has had so much chaos that I forgot that was THIS YEAR.
Fuck