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Richard Gaywood
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Just some guy, I think.

Snark, tech, cooking, greyhounds, TTRPGs. Usually some politics too. I’m a privacy engineer at a big tech firm but I’m not here for work so these hot takes are nothing to do with my employer and are all my own. He/him.
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here is probably the most whimsical and gormless creature ive made so far. just utterly permeable. under investigation for an allergy to tap water
December 4, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
February 2, 2026 at 7:06 AM
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read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
February 1, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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February 2, 2026 at 5:26 AM
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DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.

CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?

DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.

C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?

DR: Now look
February 2, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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Every American should have this in their wallet:
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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it's probably Natalie Portman, who has a 5-2-2 via a neuroscience paper authored with Abigail Baird, appearing in A Powerful Noise Live with Sarah Michelle Geller (who appeared with Bacon in The Air I Breathe), and who appeared in New York, I Love You, which had a segment co-directed by Ratner.
Has someone figured out who has the lowest Erdos-Bacon-Epstein number and what it means to be that person?
February 1, 2026 at 10:42 PM
same energy
February 1, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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Don’t worry, he eventually figured out how to make it cost much less each time his computer asked the remote AI model what time it was
February 1, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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I’m starting to think the people who are excited about “AI agents” have literally never used a computer in their lives
February 1, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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seems we’re dangerously close to a point where someone will tweet you can slurp three gas town juices in a moltbot - and kill a few ai bubbles.
February 1, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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Alexander Skarsgård is big guy hardware running freaky little guy software
February 1, 2026 at 4:47 AM
who says smarthome tech doesn't solve real problems (cc @adorablecyb.org)
January 30, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Finally we’ll see the story of how the nation of Aamerleda was founded
January 29, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Calling the Gestapo “the Gestapo” is causing the Gestapo to act like the Gestapo.
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 2:27 PM
this is indistinguishable from an 18th century puritan village where people wore hairshirts and flogged themselves if they got an erection before marriage
January 29, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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WebUSB
webGPU
WebPCIE
WebNVME
WebSATA
WebATX12V
January 28, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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January 27, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
January 28, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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January 26, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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new york magazine has a very nasty article out about my beautiful golden throne, which they say is the only thing keeping me alive. when I'm sitting on my big beautiful throne I am NOT ASLEEP!! I am directing the beacon of the astronomican, something sleepy joe did very badly may I add
January 26, 2026 at 4:11 PM
wow she's opening the first envelope already, she's ahead of schedule

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NEWS: Bari Weiss will hold an all-hands meeting to discuss the future of CBS News tomorrow, per note that just went out to employees.
January 26, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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January 26, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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We assume that someone will infiltrate the whistle chat and I truly hope they enjoy waking up to 1500-3000 messages from nerds discussing bridging, fine-tuning flow rate to print whistles faster, and posting pictures of their filament storage and/or cats every 7-12 hours.
January 26, 2026 at 5:29 AM