Thomas Cannon
@thomascannon.me
Web developer, musician, semi-pro party mom. +3 to Persistence Rolls. Operations & systems nerd.
Building my own apps on the side @practical.computer
https://thomascannon.me
https://little-crm.com
https://practical.computer
Building my own apps on the side @practical.computer
https://thomascannon.me
https://little-crm.com
https://practical.computer
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before you decide you don't want to vaccinate your children you should have to take a 4 hour cemetery tour with me where i point out every tiny little headstone of a child that died from a preventable disease and is buried with their parents who would have done anything to save them
May 6, 2024 at 4:54 PM
before you decide you don't want to vaccinate your children you should have to take a 4 hour cemetery tour with me where i point out every tiny little headstone of a child that died from a preventable disease and is buried with their parents who would have done anything to save them
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Who up checking their agents?
a man and a woman are sitting in a car with the words `` but they are my losers '' .
Alt: a man and a woman are sitting on a bench with the words `` they are absolute losers but they are my losers '' .
media.tenor.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Who up checking their agents?
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wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM
wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that
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Also, here’s a photo of people dying to defend a “multicultural economic zone”
February 15, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Also, here’s a photo of people dying to defend a “multicultural economic zone”
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a thing about me is: I will grade any bezier on a curve
February 15, 2026 at 4:19 PM
a thing about me is: I will grade any bezier on a curve
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lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 14, 2026 at 11:47 PM
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
The women's Super-G has been *intense*. The combination of fog + snow has me gritting my teeth watching
February 13, 2026 at 3:11 AM
The women's Super-G has been *intense*. The combination of fog + snow has me gritting my teeth watching
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The AI hype train is on the fast track towards technofeudalism. This is why I keep asking people to look out the window and show me something different.
Unfortunately enough people are along for the ride and don't care where we end up.
Unfortunately enough people are along for the ride and don't care where we end up.
February 12, 2026 at 11:40 PM
The AI hype train is on the fast track towards technofeudalism. This is why I keep asking people to look out the window and show me something different.
Unfortunately enough people are along for the ride and don't care where we end up.
Unfortunately enough people are along for the ride and don't care where we end up.
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Pretty much every non-hype defense of LLM products begins with "first you must already understand your work extremely well, have ironclad ethics, and also verify all of its outputs in their entirety" and these are simply not realistic conditions for a product to *require* before it can be useful.
January 18, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Pretty much every non-hype defense of LLM products begins with "first you must already understand your work extremely well, have ironclad ethics, and also verify all of its outputs in their entirety" and these are simply not realistic conditions for a product to *require* before it can be useful.
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Part of the struggle with the LLM discourse is that genuine (i.e. non-grifter) proponents talk exclusively about the possibilities of the transformer architecture in an ideal future with a rational business model.
Whereas opponents largely talk about the world we live in today, and its constraints.
Whereas opponents largely talk about the world we live in today, and its constraints.
What many of us have been saying for a while: AI*-related technologies are tools like any other technology, useful in some places, not in others. If it had been presented (and funded) as such, we'd be in a better place.
Instead, tech ideologues pushed AI* as the Second Coming, went all-in on it. /1
Instead, tech ideologues pushed AI* as the Second Coming, went all-in on it. /1
Insights from Ben Affleck on AI:
• AI can help write scenes but can't create full movies.
• Job loss fears are overblown because adoption of new tech is slow; it's hype for startup valuations.
• ChatGPT v5 is ~25% better but costs 4x.
• Users actually preferred v4's sycophancy for companionship.
• AI can help write scenes but can't create full movies.
• Job loss fears are overblown because adoption of new tech is slow; it's hype for startup valuations.
• ChatGPT v5 is ~25% better but costs 4x.
• Users actually preferred v4's sycophancy for companionship.
January 18, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Part of the struggle with the LLM discourse is that genuine (i.e. non-grifter) proponents talk exclusively about the possibilities of the transformer architecture in an ideal future with a rational business model.
Whereas opponents largely talk about the world we live in today, and its constraints.
Whereas opponents largely talk about the world we live in today, and its constraints.
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how many times are they going to ask this thing if it's alive and get scared when it says yes
Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg
February 11, 2026 at 3:05 PM
how many times are they going to ask this thing if it's alive and get scared when it says yes
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A truly amazing gift that my dad made; a 3D woodcut of the Practical Computer logo. And the color matching is perfect too!
It deserves to be right under @jennyrjohnsonart.bsky.social’s amazing work.
It deserves to be right under @jennyrjohnsonart.bsky.social’s amazing work.
February 11, 2026 at 12:21 AM
A truly amazing gift that my dad made; a 3D woodcut of the Practical Computer logo. And the color matching is perfect too!
It deserves to be right under @jennyrjohnsonart.bsky.social’s amazing work.
It deserves to be right under @jennyrjohnsonart.bsky.social’s amazing work.
A truly amazing gift that my dad made; a 3D woodcut of the Practical Computer logo. And the color matching is perfect too!
It deserves to be right under @jennyrjohnsonart.bsky.social’s amazing work.
It deserves to be right under @jennyrjohnsonart.bsky.social’s amazing work.
February 11, 2026 at 12:21 AM
A truly amazing gift that my dad made; a 3D woodcut of the Practical Computer logo. And the color matching is perfect too!
It deserves to be right under @jennyrjohnsonart.bsky.social’s amazing work.
It deserves to be right under @jennyrjohnsonart.bsky.social’s amazing work.
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This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
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These lil AI commercials reek of desperation.
February 9, 2026 at 2:39 AM
These lil AI commercials reek of desperation.
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What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss? Anton Chigurh here for FanDuel,
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss? Anton Chigurh here for FanDuel,
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No Kings includes Draft Kings
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
No Kings includes Draft Kings
Chat are we cooked if Deloitte is having to run ads to remind corporations how to burn money on them instead of AI?
February 8, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Chat are we cooked if Deloitte is having to run ads to remind corporations how to burn money on them instead of AI?
Not only do I need to see Mr. Beast, but I *also* have to hear the Slack notification? On this, the weekend after Salesforce killed Heroku?
February 8, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Not only do I need to see Mr. Beast, but I *also* have to hear the Slack notification? On this, the weekend after Salesforce killed Heroku?
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this is why you should *never* hit someone with an rpg. it’s dangerous, it’s shitty, and it’s wrong
Physics of a direct hit from an RPG type projectile
February 7, 2026 at 1:53 AM
this is why you should *never* hit someone with an rpg. it’s dangerous, it’s shitty, and it’s wrong
What a week it’s been; nonstop, culminating in a tree falling and clipping a neighbor’s fence. 🫠
February 7, 2026 at 1:01 AM
What a week it’s been; nonstop, culminating in a tree falling and clipping a neighbor’s fence. 🫠
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AI is essentially an extinction level event for the world wide web. Over time you will see everything either be closed off from the public to conserve resources or be conglomerated into the major corporations that own everything and supply these AI models. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Vibe coding is working as expected: it'll kill the open-source, secure, and ideologically maintained alternatives to make sure you have to pay the oligarchs to do anything at all, and they can control what you're allowed to make.
www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...
www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...
Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
www.404media.co
February 6, 2026 at 10:20 PM
AI is essentially an extinction level event for the world wide web. Over time you will see everything either be closed off from the public to conserve resources or be conglomerated into the major corporations that own everything and supply these AI models. Enjoy it while it lasts.
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Let’s see some mucking fuppets
Strong linear opening for Disney's THE MUPPET SHOW. It was Wednesday's No. 1 show among A18-49 (0.52)/A25-54 (0.69) across broadcast and cable, tripling the final installment of THE GOLDEN BACHELOR in the slot last fall.
It averaged 3.1M same-day viewers, improving on ABBOTT (2.8M) lead-in
It averaged 3.1M same-day viewers, improving on ABBOTT (2.8M) lead-in
February 6, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Let’s see some mucking fuppets
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Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams