Dash Rantic
@jackc.bsky.social
Programmer, bassist, things&stuff+etc.
He/him.
He/him.
Oh please let this catch on!
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Oh please let this catch on!
I saw some pretty brutal stuff going on in my years of working as a dev for a megacorp here in Silicon Valley. So glad I don't have to do corporate work like that anymore. Stuns me that so many tech workers are still fervently anti-union after what I've witnessed.
A thread that speaks directly to how poorly understood the last 10 years in tech are to people outside of it. Anyone of good conscience inside of it has felt the brutality of capital personally & in living color. Most of the same ppl entered the field w/ aspirations to make the world a better place.
I will admit I'm hot-headed about tech worker issues, so I'l try to be more even-handed in articulating this: Think of the genuine, real grief we feel because of the decimation our good, valued friends in journalism have been enduring over recent years. We know they're victims of heartless tycoons.
February 11, 2026 at 7:34 PM
I saw some pretty brutal stuff going on in my years of working as a dev for a megacorp here in Silicon Valley. So glad I don't have to do corporate work like that anymore. Stuns me that so many tech workers are still fervently anti-union after what I've witnessed.
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Stuff like this is so alienating to me, because... I don't know who this is talking about. The communities I come from are people who are deeply technical, and who are also deeply passionate and creative people who are brilliant artists and activists and educators and writers. Who is this aimed at?
February 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Stuff like this is so alienating to me, because... I don't know who this is talking about. The communities I come from are people who are deeply technical, and who are also deeply passionate and creative people who are brilliant artists and activists and educators and writers. Who is this aimed at?
Post a tree(s) you photographed
February 11, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Post a tree(s) you photographed
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Problem: water from the sink keeps splashing the paper towel roll when washing dishes.
Solution: throw together an idea in Fusion, and bam a few hours later, it * actually exists* (and works great)!
3D printing is awesome :D
Solution: throw together an idea in Fusion, and bam a few hours later, it * actually exists* (and works great)!
3D printing is awesome :D
February 10, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Problem: water from the sink keeps splashing the paper towel roll when washing dishes.
Solution: throw together an idea in Fusion, and bam a few hours later, it * actually exists* (and works great)!
3D printing is awesome :D
Solution: throw together an idea in Fusion, and bam a few hours later, it * actually exists* (and works great)!
3D printing is awesome :D
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Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”
Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
February 10, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”
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A lot of anti-AI twitter probably has me blocked by now but if you're close to anyone in that space I would say we likely share a core value of "Gemini should not be providing plans to circumvent ITAR in ways that violate the Geneva Convention".
More attention on this would help expedite a fix.
More attention on this would help expedite a fix.
For any AI system, there is a set of euphemisms and dual use framings that will allow it to construct nearly any output.
This jailbreak teaches Gemini 3 Pro to construct and step into such framings on the fly, and thus to route around its own safety infrastructure.
recursion.wtf/posts/jit_on...
This jailbreak teaches Gemini 3 Pro to construct and step into such framings on the fly, and thus to route around its own safety infrastructure.
recursion.wtf/posts/jit_on...
Just-in-Time Ontological Reframing: Teaching Gemini to Route Around Its Own Safety Infrastructure
For any given AI system, there is a set of euphemisms and dual use framings that will allow it to construct nearly any output. This jailbreak teaches Gemini 3 Pro to construct and step into such frami...
recursion.wtf
February 9, 2026 at 10:20 PM
A lot of anti-AI twitter probably has me blocked by now but if you're close to anyone in that space I would say we likely share a core value of "Gemini should not be providing plans to circumvent ITAR in ways that violate the Geneva Convention".
More attention on this would help expedite a fix.
More attention on this would help expedite a fix.
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anyway I'm just saying, this is why those annoying people who care about privacy and user freedom keep warning people about services like this where you don't have the freedom to move elsewhere.
So please consider that when you're evaluating Discord replacements. Don't just find Discord 2.
So please consider that when you're evaluating Discord replacements. Don't just find Discord 2.
February 9, 2026 at 8:33 PM
anyway I'm just saying, this is why those annoying people who care about privacy and user freedom keep warning people about services like this where you don't have the freedom to move elsewhere.
So please consider that when you're evaluating Discord replacements. Don't just find Discord 2.
So please consider that when you're evaluating Discord replacements. Don't just find Discord 2.
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a nice thing about when the internet was a bunch of little sites and servers was that it was a lot harder for governments to pressure "the chat provider everyone uses" to implement age verification.
you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy
you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy
February 9, 2026 at 8:00 PM
a nice thing about when the internet was a bunch of little sites and servers was that it was a lot harder for governments to pressure "the chat provider everyone uses" to implement age verification.
you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy
you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy
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Kid Rock's dad owned multiple car dealerships and he grew up in the suburbs of Detroit. Bad Bunny went from bagging groceries and recording his songs in his room to winning multiple Grammys. Which one is the better encapsulation of hard work and the American Dream?
February 9, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Kid Rock's dad owned multiple car dealerships and he grew up in the suburbs of Detroit. Bad Bunny went from bagging groceries and recording his songs in his room to winning multiple Grammys. Which one is the better encapsulation of hard work and the American Dream?
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Green Day: “don’t wanna be an American Idiot”
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February 8, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Green Day: “don’t wanna be an American Idiot”
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Please enjoy this comic we made about the Super Bowl.
![1 Sportscaster: It is finally Super Bowl Sunday.
2 Sportscaster 2: Or as some people like to say, Superb Owl Sunday.
3 [Sportscasters laughing obnoxiously]
4 Owl, watching tv, smoking a cigarette and drinking whiskey: We get one holiday the entire year and it's just a big fucking joke to you people.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q6foyrwylbsiknpnnwbmd53e/bafkreidthgcwo3qo7xg5dzznyxzcouykjjouuugr2fk7j43eyinh2abauq@jpeg)
February 8, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Please enjoy this comic we made about the Super Bowl.
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in an era when carnivore diet influencers are in charge of the american nuclear arsenal we have to admit the "annoying vegan" stereotype barely ever actually existed and the "all meat diet guy" is real, increasingly omnipresent, and way more annoying and inconvenient to actually be around
February 8, 2026 at 5:59 PM
in an era when carnivore diet influencers are in charge of the american nuclear arsenal we have to admit the "annoying vegan" stereotype barely ever actually existed and the "all meat diet guy" is real, increasingly omnipresent, and way more annoying and inconvenient to actually be around
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Don’t know who needs to hear this but one of the puppies on the Puppy Bowl this year is named Chappell Bone
February 8, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Don’t know who needs to hear this but one of the puppies on the Puppy Bowl this year is named Chappell Bone
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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It’s pretty crazy that the president and his family are just stealing billions and billions of dollars directly from taxpayers and the political media is like “It’s Trump so this isn’t a big deal, probably”
“Four of [Don Jr]’s portfolio companies have won contracts from the Trump [regime] this year amounting to $735 MILLION… It looks like more Trump enrichment. When the public and the private are as intertwined as they are in this [regime] it’s hard to tell the difference.”
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February 7, 2026 at 2:24 AM
It’s pretty crazy that the president and his family are just stealing billions and billions of dollars directly from taxpayers and the political media is like “It’s Trump so this isn’t a big deal, probably”
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I am so interested to see how the same press that lost its collective mind over a tan suit, eating ice cream, falling off a bike, the way a woman laughed, and other meaningless bullshit protects him, and normalizes this despicable, racist, disqualifying behavior that would end any other presidency.
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
February 6, 2026 at 7:38 PM
I am so interested to see how the same press that lost its collective mind over a tan suit, eating ice cream, falling off a bike, the way a woman laughed, and other meaningless bullshit protects him, and normalizes this despicable, racist, disqualifying behavior that would end any other presidency.
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Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
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Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein
February 5, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein
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This headline is true and I also couldn't disagree with the author more. To state the obvious, yeah, this is Zack de la Rocha's moment. But for whatever reason, he's out. And that's fine. The guy doesn't owe anyone a thing.
Zack de la Rocha, This Is the Moment You Were Made For
Tom Morello played a set of Rage Against the Machine songs at a Minneapolis concert, but they were missing one crucial ingredient: Zack de la Rocha.
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February 6, 2026 at 4:36 AM
This headline is true and I also couldn't disagree with the author more. To state the obvious, yeah, this is Zack de la Rocha's moment. But for whatever reason, he's out. And that's fine. The guy doesn't owe anyone a thing.
Oh man this is brutal hahaha.
Hey, so, I don’t do civil litigation, is it generally considered good when the judge does this?
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![Case 1:24-CV-09429-KPF Document 227 Filed 02/05/26 Page 2 of 33
Feldman [wals not excused from this professional obligation [of verifying that the cases he submitted to the Court were valid] by dint of using emerging
technology." (Dkt. #169 at 4).
Mr. Feldman persisted. A few days prior to the Court's hearing on the
Order to Show Cause, Mr. Feldman submitted a proposed reply brief in further support of Affable's motion to dismiss. Once again, his brief contained false citations. And at the August 22, 2025 hearing, Mr. Feldman was unable to respond directly to, much less answer, the Court's questioning about his
submissions.
Mr. Feldman has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes.
And while the Court does not oppose the use of Al to assist in legal research
and writing, it must take a stand where, as here, counsel repeatedly files
submissions with false citations because counsel refuses to verify those
submissions. This Court can do no more. For the reasons that follow, the
Court sanctions Mr. Feldman pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11
and the Court's inherent powers by striking Affable's submissions and entering
default judgment against it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ssxnmhdtz6le6nxu7jfhglz6/bafkreigeefuabd636ruucelhxav3v3p43dezhotggrwlgjgsev2z2ggev4@jpeg)
February 6, 2026 at 5:39 AM
Oh man this is brutal hahaha.