Max Leibman
@maxleibman.bsky.social
You can find me on Mastodon as @maxleibman@beige.party.
https://beige.party/@maxleibman
My newsletter is Overmorrow.
https://overmorrow.tech/
https://beige.party/@maxleibman
My newsletter is Overmorrow.
https://overmorrow.tech/
'I don't want AI to sit on my face.'
Remember, when you make a double entendre in the virtual world, you make a double entendre in real life.
Read my latest Overmorrow essay here (and subscribe for free):
overmorrow.tech/i-dont-want-a...
Remember, when you make a double entendre in the virtual world, you make a double entendre in real life.
Read my latest Overmorrow essay here (and subscribe for free):
overmorrow.tech/i-dont-want-a...
I don't want AI to sit on my face.
“Nobody wants to strap a computer to their face.”
That’s what I remember from when the Apple Vision Pro was announced. I heard it on podcasts, in conversation with my gadget-obsessed but practical colleagues in IT, in Mastodon posts. There were other gripes, of course. It started at $3,
overmorrow.tech
November 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
'I don't want AI to sit on my face.'
Remember, when you make a double entendre in the virtual world, you make a double entendre in real life.
Read my latest Overmorrow essay here (and subscribe for free):
overmorrow.tech/i-dont-want-a...
Remember, when you make a double entendre in the virtual world, you make a double entendre in real life.
Read my latest Overmorrow essay here (and subscribe for free):
overmorrow.tech/i-dont-want-a...
MAGA screens are all HD because 4K is one too many.
November 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
MAGA screens are all HD because 4K is one too many.
This would probably get more attention if I had an English accent and told everybody my name was Zed Itron.
‘I Hope This Email Finds You Parched,’ by me.
I ordered you a water, but Sam Altman drank it.
overmorrow.tech/i-hope-this-...
I ordered you a water, but Sam Altman drank it.
overmorrow.tech/i-hope-this-...
I hope this email finds you parched.
You HAVE TO send that email today. Yeah, that one. The one you put off. The one you don’t want to think about.
But you know, nobody is looking.
You could just use ChatGPT.
Or—hear me out—you could ...
overmorrow.tech
November 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This would probably get more attention if I had an English accent and told everybody my name was Zed Itron.
‘I Hope This Email Finds You Parched,’ by me.
I ordered you a water, but Sam Altman drank it.
overmorrow.tech/i-hope-this-...
I ordered you a water, but Sam Altman drank it.
overmorrow.tech/i-hope-this-...
I hope this email finds you parched.
You HAVE TO send that email today. Yeah, that one. The one you put off. The one you don’t want to think about.
But you know, nobody is looking.
You could just use ChatGPT.
Or—hear me out—you could ...
overmorrow.tech
November 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
‘I Hope This Email Finds You Parched,’ by me.
I ordered you a water, but Sam Altman drank it.
overmorrow.tech/i-hope-this-...
I ordered you a water, but Sam Altman drank it.
overmorrow.tech/i-hope-this-...
Technically, Frankenstein’s monster comes from the Ingolstadt region of Germany. Everything else is just sparkling revivified corpses.
October 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Technically, Frankenstein’s monster comes from the Ingolstadt region of Germany. Everything else is just sparkling revivified corpses.
Feel the meh and do it anyway.
October 31, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Feel the meh and do it anyway.
I have many soup bases in my pantry.
I'm a bouillonaire.
I'm a bouillonaire.
October 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I have many soup bases in my pantry.
I'm a bouillonaire.
I'm a bouillonaire.
I'm not working so much as cosplaying as professionally competent.
October 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I'm not working so much as cosplaying as professionally competent.
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Let’s talk about the mastodon in the room.
October 6, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Let’s talk about the mastodon in the room.
I've had a rule of thumb with every remote job I've had that I DO NOT add the IT support number to my phone.
Oh, you guys want to be responsible for administering my machine? Then you are responsible for keeping it working. If you brick it, I have no way to call you. YOU figure it out, hotshot.
Oh, you guys want to be responsible for administering my machine? Then you are responsible for keeping it working. If you brick it, I have no way to call you. YOU figure it out, hotshot.
October 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I've had a rule of thumb with every remote job I've had that I DO NOT add the IT support number to my phone.
Oh, you guys want to be responsible for administering my machine? Then you are responsible for keeping it working. If you brick it, I have no way to call you. YOU figure it out, hotshot.
Oh, you guys want to be responsible for administering my machine? Then you are responsible for keeping it working. If you brick it, I have no way to call you. YOU figure it out, hotshot.
If you work in corporate IT and you've locked down Device Manager in Windows, if someone's wi-fi stops working at a moment when it would be inconvenient for them to reboot, it's on you if they never do any work for the rest of their career.
October 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
If you work in corporate IT and you've locked down Device Manager in Windows, if someone's wi-fi stops working at a moment when it would be inconvenient for them to reboot, it's on you if they never do any work for the rest of their career.
In the 1990s, my Nebraska high school's version of supporting girls in STEM was renaming Home Economics to Family & Consumer Science.
October 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
In the 1990s, my Nebraska high school's version of supporting girls in STEM was renaming Home Economics to Family & Consumer Science.
Google, always watching me online with their googly eyes.
October 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Google, always watching me online with their googly eyes.
Thank you for applying. At this time, we will be moving forward with other candidates, but we will definitely keep your resume on file. You know, as a sort of cautionary tale.
October 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Thank you for applying. At this time, we will be moving forward with other candidates, but we will definitely keep your resume on file. You know, as a sort of cautionary tale.
"Clean as a whistle?" Do you know how may germs there are in whistles?!
October 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"Clean as a whistle?" Do you know how may germs there are in whistles?!
October 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Oh, shit—I forgot to be successful!
October 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Oh, shit—I forgot to be successful!
October 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Prime Day returns on October 7th, and this is the hottest deal yet: save 100% of the price of any item on Amazon BY NOT BUYING IT.
Follow me for more money-saving shopping tips!
Follow me for more money-saving shopping tips!
October 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Prime Day returns on October 7th, and this is the hottest deal yet: save 100% of the price of any item on Amazon BY NOT BUYING IT.
Follow me for more money-saving shopping tips!
Follow me for more money-saving shopping tips!
Celebrated the (almost) four-year-old's birthday yesterday, and my father-in-law's today.
October 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Celebrated the (almost) four-year-old's birthday yesterday, and my father-in-law's today.
Three days of colonoscopy prep is a lot like a near-death experience—your entire life* flashes before your eyes†.
* ~ everything you ate recently
† ~ butt
* ~ everything you ate recently
† ~ butt
October 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Three days of colonoscopy prep is a lot like a near-death experience—your entire life* flashes before your eyes†.
* ~ everything you ate recently
† ~ butt
* ~ everything you ate recently
† ~ butt
Pumpkin spies lot, eh?
🎃🕵️♀️
🎃🕵️♀️
October 5, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Pumpkin spies lot, eh?
🎃🕵️♀️
🎃🕵️♀️
Bluesky has a built-in spelling and grammar check feature. As soon as you push the button, you'll be able to see all of the things that are wrong with what you wrote.
The button is marked "Post."
The button is marked "Post."
October 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Bluesky has a built-in spelling and grammar check feature. As soon as you push the button, you'll be able to see all of the things that are wrong with what you wrote.
The button is marked "Post."
The button is marked "Post."
The CIA recently resumed waterboarding, because an internal review found that their other enhanced interrogation technique, playing iHeart Radio podcast ads, was too inhumane.
October 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
The CIA recently resumed waterboarding, because an internal review found that their other enhanced interrogation technique, playing iHeart Radio podcast ads, was too inhumane.