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I'm here for the docs, the death metal and the donuts. Actually, I'm not here for the donuts, but the alliteration was hard to pass up.
Geographically confused.
Current: Athens, Write the Docs.
Ex: Berlin, Portugal, UK, Travis CI, Buildkite, etc
Geographically confused.
Current: Athens, Write the Docs.
Ex: Berlin, Portugal, UK, Travis CI, Buildkite, etc
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OOOOF, that's creepy great.
Ooh, this is the creepiest take on a time-travel story that I've read in a long time, dark and excellent:
NEW STORY DAY!
“I Met You on the Train” is now out at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/i-me...
“I Met You on the Train” is now out at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/i-me...
January 6, 2026 at 3:30 PM
OOOOF, that's creepy great.
Don't mind me, I've just generated 40000 lines of RST from an excel file. Godspeed folks reviewing this PR.
January 6, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Don't mind me, I've just generated 40000 lines of RST from an excel file. Godspeed folks reviewing this PR.
OK, whatever this work thing is, let's do it.
January 5, 2026 at 8:30 AM
OK, whatever this work thing is, let's do it.
Did a bunch of celebrating and met this fine unit of a cat!
December 31, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Did a bunch of celebrating and met this fine unit of a cat!
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Right in the Asimovs
December 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Right in the Asimovs
Probably the best video I've seen all year.
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Probably the best video I've seen all year.
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I am extremely late to getting around to this, but are any of my Melbourne contacts driving to and from Everything Open in 2026?
December 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I am extremely late to getting around to this, but are any of my Melbourne contacts driving to and from Everything Open in 2026?
Shout out to the storage unit rental place that decided Christmas day was the correct day to announce a 20% rent increase.
December 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Shout out to the storage unit rental place that decided Christmas day was the correct day to announce a 20% rent increase.
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"Coding is no longer the bottleneck".
So what you're saying is that NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
So what you're saying is that NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
December 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"Coding is no longer the bottleneck".
So what you're saying is that NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
So what you're saying is that NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
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This is just to say
I have read
the book
that was in
your training data
And which
you had absorbed
as mere
statistics
Forgive me
your summary
misses the point
of reading at all.
I have read
the book
that was in
your training data
And which
you had absorbed
as mere
statistics
Forgive me
your summary
misses the point
of reading at all.
The “AI” has not read the book.
Even if the book
was in its training data,
it has just absorbed it
as a set
of statistics.
It will juggle you a “summary”
that might
or might not
relate to the conclusions
of the actual text.
The only way
you’ll know
is to read it
yourself.
Even if the book
was in its training data,
it has just absorbed it
as a set
of statistics.
It will juggle you a “summary”
that might
or might not
relate to the conclusions
of the actual text.
The only way
you’ll know
is to read it
yourself.
The “AI” has not read the book. Even if the book was in its training data, it has just absorbed it as a set of statistics. It will juggle you a “summary” that might or might not relate to the conclusions of the actual text. The only way you’ll know is to read it yourself.
December 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This is just to say
I have read
the book
that was in
your training data
And which
you had absorbed
as mere
statistics
Forgive me
your summary
misses the point
of reading at all.
I have read
the book
that was in
your training data
And which
you had absorbed
as mere
statistics
Forgive me
your summary
misses the point
of reading at all.
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There are still a lot of smart people who seem to be surprised and upset that they can't make AI stop making shit up. Like that's literally what it does. "I told it not to do that!" Cool. But you it can't understand right? You're not giving it "instructions". It's just words.
December 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
There are still a lot of smart people who seem to be surprised and upset that they can't make AI stop making shit up. Like that's literally what it does. "I told it not to do that!" Cool. But you it can't understand right? You're not giving it "instructions". It's just words.
I worked in an IKEA restaurant where customers struggled to find the trays.
We made a sign using a tray, suspended vertically from the ceiling on a pair of hooks, which only read:
⬇️ TRAYS ⬇️
Every day, someone would stare at this sign for a moment, then they'd unhook it and walk off with it.
We made a sign using a tray, suspended vertically from the ceiling on a pair of hooks, which only read:
⬇️ TRAYS ⬇️
Every day, someone would stare at this sign for a moment, then they'd unhook it and walk off with it.
December 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
40 Watt Sun acoustic performance was shit hot, as expected.
December 15, 2025 at 6:52 AM
40 Watt Sun acoustic performance was shit hot, as expected.
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Related: my novella GREYHOWLER is a weird Western dark fantasy book about elemental magic and scary monsters! Buy that shit today! If you like it, leave a heckin' review!
bit.ly/greyhowler
bit.ly/greyhowler
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Related: my novella GREYHOWLER is a weird Western dark fantasy book about elemental magic and scary monsters! Buy that shit today! If you like it, leave a heckin' review!
bit.ly/greyhowler
bit.ly/greyhowler
OK, intensive language course. It's been a *while*.
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
OK, intensive language course. It's been a *while*.
I spotted a greater blue rubbish bin with its super rare white larval offspring today! #facesinplaces
December 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I spotted a greater blue rubbish bin with its super rare white larval offspring today! #facesinplaces
Dead eyes see no future. To unsubtly jam together my love of an Arch Enemy album and my distaste of AI slop.
This. 😄
If the writer’s eyes light up when asked, “why did the character do that?” then it’s real.
December 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Dead eyes see no future. To unsubtly jam together my love of an Arch Enemy album and my distaste of AI slop.
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If the writer’s eyes light up when asked, “why did the character do that?” then it’s real.
December 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If the writer’s eyes light up when asked, “why did the character do that?” then it’s real.
In sentences i never expected to write i present
> So Spotify hasn't been paying artists so it can sink all of its profits into reanimation research, got it
> So Spotify hasn't been paying artists so it can sink all of its profits into reanimation research, got it
December 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
In sentences i never expected to write i present
> So Spotify hasn't been paying artists so it can sink all of its profits into reanimation research, got it
> So Spotify hasn't been paying artists so it can sink all of its profits into reanimation research, got it
The Madras at this lounge in Leeds is hotter than any curry I ever ordered from a restaurant in over 12 years in Berlin.
December 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The Madras at this lounge in Leeds is hotter than any curry I ever ordered from a restaurant in over 12 years in Berlin.