Madopal
@madopal.bsky.social
Chicagoan (Portage Park), bungalow owner, recovering gamedev (Jaleco, Mindscape, Midway), data engineer, bike/transit advocate(ish) (former NW MBAC), aspiring historian/baker/woodworker, White Sox fan (heavy sigh), music nerd, just zis guy, you know? ✶✶✶✶
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And by the way, training your monster on data produced in part by my own hands, without attribution or compensation.
To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.
To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.
December 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
And by the way, training your monster on data produced in part by my own hands, without attribution or compensation.
To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.
To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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given how common the "you're the sole survivor of a spaceship crash on a hostile planet" story is in factory games, someone should make a reverse-factory game where you play as an alien tracking down and destroying colonizers who fall out of the sky and try to turn your planet into green tech cards
December 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
given how common the "you're the sole survivor of a spaceship crash on a hostile planet" story is in factory games, someone should make a reverse-factory game where you play as an alien tracking down and destroying colonizers who fall out of the sky and try to turn your planet into green tech cards
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1753. WRITING GAME HISTORIES
👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/writing...
"An accessible guide to Historical Game Studies, exploring how games represent, shape, and create history across digital and analogue forms"
#Books #Booksky #Gaming #VideoGames #GameStudies #GamingThePast
👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/writing...
"An accessible guide to Historical Game Studies, exploring how games represent, shape, and create history across digital and analogue forms"
#Books #Booksky #Gaming #VideoGames #GameStudies #GamingThePast
December 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
1753. WRITING GAME HISTORIES
👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/writing...
"An accessible guide to Historical Game Studies, exploring how games represent, shape, and create history across digital and analogue forms"
#Books #Booksky #Gaming #VideoGames #GameStudies #GamingThePast
👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/writing...
"An accessible guide to Historical Game Studies, exploring how games represent, shape, and create history across digital and analogue forms"
#Books #Booksky #Gaming #VideoGames #GameStudies #GamingThePast
This almost makes up for the rest of 2025
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:34 AM
This almost makes up for the rest of 2025
CONFIRMED WE WERE RICKROLLED.
I REPEAT, IT IS CONFIRMED WE WERE RICKROLLED!
I REPEAT, IT IS CONFIRMED WE WERE RICKROLLED!
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:32 AM
CONFIRMED WE WERE RICKROLLED.
I REPEAT, IT IS CONFIRMED WE WERE RICKROLLED!
I REPEAT, IT IS CONFIRMED WE WERE RICKROLLED!
After #plur1bus, can we get Gilligan to do a spinoff with the three college film makers that kept helping Saul do commercials?
I want to see their video hi-jinks.
I want to see their video hi-jinks.
December 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
After #plur1bus, can we get Gilligan to do a spinoff with the three college film makers that kept helping Saul do commercials?
I want to see their video hi-jinks.
I want to see their video hi-jinks.
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This Kind Of Smart, Walkable, Mixed-use Urbanism Is Illegal To Build In Most American Cities
December 30, 2025 at 12:20 AM
This Kind Of Smart, Walkable, Mixed-use Urbanism Is Illegal To Build In Most American Cities
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suncom’s aerobics joystick (1984) "$39.95" archive.org/details/vide...
July 19, 2025 at 3:05 AM
suncom’s aerobics joystick (1984) "$39.95" archive.org/details/vide...
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Ernie is cinnamon because he is just a lil sweetie, Kirk got Mexican Oregano because *obviously*, Gaus got garlic because it's my fave to cook with...to name a few
December 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Ernie is cinnamon because he is just a lil sweetie, Kirk got Mexican Oregano because *obviously*, Gaus got garlic because it's my fave to cook with...to name a few
Scissor Sisters of Mercy?
De La Soul Coughing
No, that one doesn't really suck, either
No, that one doesn't really suck, either
ruin two bands by combining them:
Rocky Erickson Volt
... no wait, that isn't "ruined". Nor is the one I'm quoting
Rocky Erickson Volt
... no wait, that isn't "ruined". Nor is the one I'm quoting
December 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Scissor Sisters of Mercy?
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Saw this news on Cicero Independiente IG story. They also have a video on their story showing large clouds of smoke blowing over Cicero. Good to know especially for residents with health concerns that may want to stay indoors, wear a mask.
Scrap yard catches fire on West Side of Chicago
A fire was burning in a scrap yard on Monday afternoon on the West Side of Chicago.
www.cbsnews.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Saw this news on Cicero Independiente IG story. They also have a video on their story showing large clouds of smoke blowing over Cicero. Good to know especially for residents with health concerns that may want to stay indoors, wear a mask.
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The Gay Bar, Gay, Michigan
December 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The Gay Bar, Gay, Michigan
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Okay let’s talk about Richard Norman Shaw, who gave us this delightful mess and spearheaded an entire revolution in English domestic architecture
December 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Okay let’s talk about Richard Norman Shaw, who gave us this delightful mess and spearheaded an entire revolution in English domestic architecture
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my city’s bike-lane snowplow is parked in the bike lane 👍🏻
December 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
my city’s bike-lane snowplow is parked in the bike lane 👍🏻
May not be the exact location, but we need confirmation from @rianjohnson.bsky.social on the visual Rick Roll
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
May not be the exact location, but we need confirmation from @rianjohnson.bsky.social on the visual Rick Roll
So, the Bears Mario invincibility star finally wore off I see
December 29, 2025 at 6:17 AM
So, the Bears Mario invincibility star finally wore off I see
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“frodo doesn’t know legolas’s name” is maybe the funniest fan theory
December 29, 2025 at 5:42 AM
“frodo doesn’t know legolas’s name” is maybe the funniest fan theory
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The upside to all these companies replacing junior engineers with AI is that cybersecurity will remain a growth industry for at least another decade.
December 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The upside to all these companies replacing junior engineers with AI is that cybersecurity will remain a growth industry for at least another decade.
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Replacing junior coders with AI is a deliberate decision to rack up technical debt: bug-ridden, sprawling code bases that are impossible to understand or maintain.
It'a a decision that ensures you won't have any senior coders in 6 years when you need people to fix it. It's eating your seed corn.
It'a a decision that ensures you won't have any senior coders in 6 years when you need people to fix it. It's eating your seed corn.
December 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Replacing junior coders with AI is a deliberate decision to rack up technical debt: bug-ridden, sprawling code bases that are impossible to understand or maintain.
It'a a decision that ensures you won't have any senior coders in 6 years when you need people to fix it. It's eating your seed corn.
It'a a decision that ensures you won't have any senior coders in 6 years when you need people to fix it. It's eating your seed corn.
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Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope
December 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope
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Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’
December 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’
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Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
wrd.cm
December 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
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Definitely DO NOT outsource the reading/summarization of the legal contract to which you will be bound to a pattern matching program that can AND DOES willfully create misinformation when its algorithm tells it the misinformation is the statistically mostly likely next set of words.
a man with long hair and a beard is saying i 'm trying to help you
Alt: Gandalf saying "I'm trying to help you"
media.tenor.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Definitely DO NOT outsource the reading/summarization of the legal contract to which you will be bound to a pattern matching program that can AND DOES willfully create misinformation when its algorithm tells it the misinformation is the statistically mostly likely next set of words.
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jon’s sandwich shop
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek Themed Restaurant.
What are you calling it?
What are you calling it?
ncc-1701-g is written on the side of a spaceship
ALT: ncc-1701-g is written on the side of a spaceship
media.tenor.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
jon’s sandwich shop