Plouf de Phoque
@drfrankenstein.bsky.social
A perpetually-tired, mostly-functional ADHD poindexter since 1990. Skiing, retro tech, software, geography, and other things of interest. Also a furry. Montréal/Ottawa, he/they, FR/EN/ES/DE/日本語
🔞 May occasionally interact with NSFW content.
🔞 May occasionally interact with NSFW content.
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It's fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.
January 3, 2026 at 2:47 AM
It's fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.
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Barbra Streisand
January 3, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Barbra Streisand
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watching Paul Graham become a Marxist from first principles is extremely funny
Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor.
Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️
The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.
It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️
The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.
It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
January 2, 2026 at 8:19 PM
watching Paul Graham become a Marxist from first principles is extremely funny
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Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor.
Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️
The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.
It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️
The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.
It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
January 2, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor.
Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️
The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.
It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️
The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.
It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
Oh, rest assured, I'm gonna double down.
Hey buddy, you stop making it and I'll stop saying it www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/mi...
Microsoft's Satya Nadella wants you to stop saying AI "slop" in 2026
In closing comments of 2025, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared an update on the company's mindset for 2026 — shocker, it's all about AI.
www.windowscentral.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Oh, rest assured, I'm gonna double down.
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Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
January 2, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
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Hi, I am studying library science, the thing everyone claims LLMs are good for.
Spoiler: they aren’t.
I’ll start with a hypothetical based on a thing I have dealt with a thousand times. Person comes in and says, “I don’t remember the title or the author but I know it’s about vampires.”
Spoiler: they aren’t.
I’ll start with a hypothetical based on a thing I have dealt with a thousand times. Person comes in and says, “I don’t remember the title or the author but I know it’s about vampires.”
January 2, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Hi, I am studying library science, the thing everyone claims LLMs are good for.
Spoiler: they aren’t.
I’ll start with a hypothetical based on a thing I have dealt with a thousand times. Person comes in and says, “I don’t remember the title or the author but I know it’s about vampires.”
Spoiler: they aren’t.
I’ll start with a hypothetical based on a thing I have dealt with a thousand times. Person comes in and says, “I don’t remember the title or the author but I know it’s about vampires.”
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In 2026 I wish all creatives a very please stop calling your art "content"
January 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
In 2026 I wish all creatives a very please stop calling your art "content"
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404 SAFE WORD NOT FOUND
July 16, 2024 at 11:06 AM
404 SAFE WORD NOT FOUND
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Welcome To New Year’s Eve
December 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Welcome To New Year’s Eve
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This is genius.
There are a lot of hidden geniuses in these there corners of America.
There are a lot of hidden geniuses in these there corners of America.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
December 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is genius.
There are a lot of hidden geniuses in these there corners of America.
There are a lot of hidden geniuses in these there corners of America.
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Wait.
Wait WHAT.
You can accidentally turn your lasagna into a three volt battery that melts aluminum.
WHAT.
Wait WHAT.
You can accidentally turn your lasagna into a three volt battery that melts aluminum.
WHAT.
‘Lasagna battery’: Why you shouldn’t bake your pasta dish in a steel pan
This one mistake could turn your holiday dinner into an accidental galvanic cell.
www.nbcdfw.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Wait.
Wait WHAT.
You can accidentally turn your lasagna into a three volt battery that melts aluminum.
WHAT.
Wait WHAT.
You can accidentally turn your lasagna into a three volt battery that melts aluminum.
WHAT.
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![twitter user @BenjaminDa91346:
Friend: What does the world look like with astigmatism?
Me: This
[a photo of mug display in a store, it looks like the mugs have repeated images]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2vqbvnng24nx2yrzfycf6ew/bafkreihbizxi76xl2cnel2zcbqvj2v4db2dwmdo3r3nmgwqn4rsbtxx2cy@jpeg)
December 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.
OMG - f*ck AI for ruining the em-dash for writers. I use them all the time. Of course, what a shock that AI uses them since they were trained off my voice and other authors' voices.
I'm a writer who has specifically been directed *not* to use em-dashes because "they mean it was written by AI." I can detect AI writing, but it is not simply a matter of the punctuation used.
December 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.
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I know this is long but I strongly encourage you to read this incredible reply chain, which contains two buzzer-beater contenders for Post Of The Year.
![Furious femme
There are people who sense something isn't right with the anti-ai crowd. They see the cult of absolutism, lack of nuance, and absence of reason and it reminds them of other times that pattern happened.
Post-9/11 wars, islamophobia, transphobia, that cuck thing in 2015, etc.
But they don't know why.
Thembo
Are you comparing anti-ai sentiment to the invasion of Iraq, Islamophobia, transphobia, and cuckoldry?
JCorvinus
AIphobia & transphobia are nearly identical bigotires.
"You'll never be a real x because [bioessentialism]"
"We'll extract value from you but not recognize your personhood"
"We can always tell"
"You're a dangerous impostor invading single x spaces"
"Seeing you as valid is a psychotic delusion"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z26yzeduq24ma5ym7uer3i5w/bafkreifaqtw2mdkkoklm7x4qiiwwgidht6rn3m4v2islfrsemfppfqjgvm@jpeg)
December 31, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I know this is long but I strongly encourage you to read this incredible reply chain, which contains two buzzer-beater contenders for Post Of The Year.
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My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
The Enshittifinancial Crisis
Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird
This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of writing and research. If you liked it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, ...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
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i have very rapidly become incapable of thinking about anything that isn’t this video
December 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
i have very rapidly become incapable of thinking about anything that isn’t this video
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December 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Took a little over 6 hours XD
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Fursuiters when they getting low on likes on their post.
*posts butt*
Instant 100 likes.
*posts butt*
Instant 100 likes.
December 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Took a little over 6 hours XD
bsky.app/profile/quaz...
bsky.app/profile/quaz...
Why does just about every site list Guitar Hero songs in alphabetical order instead of setlist order? I'm trying to play them in Clone Hero in the order they were intended to! 😤
December 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Why does just about every site list Guitar Hero songs in alphabetical order instead of setlist order? I'm trying to play them in Clone Hero in the order they were intended to! 😤
I've said this for over a decade. It stands true today. It'll stand true forever. They are not the same.
Brains aren’t computers.
It’s self-evident:
🤖 Computers (even primitive ones) can do a lot of stuff that no brain can.
🧠 Brains (even primitive ones) can do a lot of stuff no computer can.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s self-evident:
🤖 Computers (even primitive ones) can do a lot of stuff that no brain can.
🧠 Brains (even primitive ones) can do a lot of stuff no computer can.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
December 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I've said this for over a decade. It stands true today. It'll stand true forever. They are not the same.
I have stayed at hotels within 50 miles from home after an event due to being too impaired to drive home, or due to losing power at home in the dead of winter. This sort of policy could kill people, homeless or not.
It is outrageous.
It is outrageous.
A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
December 29, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I have stayed at hotels within 50 miles from home after an event due to being too impaired to drive home, or due to losing power at home in the dead of winter. This sort of policy could kill people, homeless or not.
It is outrageous.
It is outrageous.
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my favorite meme for this time of the year
December 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
my favorite meme for this time of the year