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Rachel Appel
@rachelappel.bsky.social
.NET & Rider developer 🥑 at @JetBrains • shenanigans🍀• shitposts 💩 • MSc Software Engineering 🖥️ • 🧙‍♀️
33 million views.
910 thousand likes.
4,300 comments.
All on an outrage bait video created by Sora.
As @hankgreen.bsky.social says in his video, whenever you see something that makes a lot of people angry, stop and consider that it's been manufactured for that reason.

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We’re getting duped by AI outrage bait
YouTube video by Hank Green
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November 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
It's impossible not enjoy this 😂😂😂
just....enjoy this
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Get over to Reddit and post the issues you need fixed! Upvote the other comments. While we’ve had some great responses, I was expecting more feedback. You’ve got until the end of Wednesday!
What should Rider 2026.1 fix? I'm asking for a bit of community upvoting to know what issues you're most eager to get in to Rider 2026.1, which we're in the process of planning. How else were you planning on spending a wet Friday afternoon?
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October 28, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I just heard a new term I'm going to be using in the future: Slopsplaining:

When someone who doesn't know anything about a topic offers up unsolicited AI generated slop 'advice' to others.
October 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
October 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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So true! Software release on Friday 😁😂🤣
www.youtube.com/shorts/Iojxt...
Software Release on Friday // click5
YouTube video by click5 Interactive
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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What should Rider 2026.1 fix? I'm asking for a bit of community upvoting to know what issues you're most eager to get in to Rider 2026.1, which we're in the process of planning. How else were you planning on spending a wet Friday afternoon?
www.reddit.com/r/Jetbrains/...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Next time you see something on social media that makes you angry, listen to what Hank says in this video.

youtube.com/shorts/eUpy3...
We’re getting duped by AI outrage bait
YouTube video by Hank Green
youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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October 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I immediately updated my talk on Dark Patterns with this. I have a section about lawsuits & governments making laws about deceptive UX. And just in time, because I'm giving this talk at @azuredevsummit.bsky.social.
September 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
September 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Since there is an entire discourse going on about #GenAI.🧵

I feel compelled to share sone of the Black Women Data Scientists/Engineers that are in AI and fighting tooth & nail for #EthicalAI even at the cost of their jobs & livelihood.

Nothing is ever just one sided.
1st up: Dr. Joy Buolamwini
September 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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🤖 Decouple your app from LLM vendors with Dapr Conversation — swap Ollama, Azure OpenAI, Mistral, etc. without changing app code. Plug-and-play AI! 🔌 #Dapr #LLM #AI #DotNet #DevTips

laurentkempe.com/2025/09/24/d...
Laurent Kempé - Decouple yourself from your LLM commodities using Dapr Conversation
laurentkempe.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Schrödingers documentation:
If there are docs, noone will read them.
If there are no docs, everyone will complain.
March 16, 2024 at 7:19 AM
"In this book I will not attempt to answer the question of whether or not computers can be programmed to think. I sometimes ask people if people can think. Human intelligence may also be an illusion.”

-Timothy J. O'Malley
September 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Come see my talk about this at @azuredevsummit.bsky.social next month.
Computer scientists believe that soon every home will be able to have their own artificial intelligence machine on their own desktops (Source.)
September 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Is the Singularity near? What do you think?
September 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Ever wonder what happens when you send the wrong file to that AI recruiter at Meta? 😂
September 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
10 REM WORKING ON MY TALK
20 FINISH SLIDES
50 FINISH DEMOS
100 GIVE TALK
September 2, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Level up your Rider setup!🚀🔝
The latest plugin guide for JetBrainsRider from @jguadagno.com covers AI tooling, Azure integration, structured logging, #OpenTelemetry, .NET Aspire, and presentation tools.
Thanks, Joseph, for the detailed breakdown!🔗 jb.gg/rd-plugin-br...
#dotnetaspire #azure #dotnet
August 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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August 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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It's funny because it's true.
August 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The CFP is open for the JetBrains .NET Days Online! 🎉
Folks, send in those talks!

sessionize.com/jetbrains-ne...
JetBrains .NET Days Online 2025: Call for Speakers
JetBrains .NET Day(s) Online is a free, live, virtual event where community speakers cover topics they are passionate about, ranging from deep technic...
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August 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM
My new hobby: listening to the Very Important People(tm) who are soooo important they just have to loudly have meetings in public places such as airports. Taking notes so I can let their bosses know. Or competitors. Clearly they want this info to be public or they wouldn’t shout it.
July 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM