Tim Maughan
@timmaughan.bsky.social
should be writing a second novel
timmaughanbooks.com
altho I smoke a pound of herb/im still nice with the verb/so fuck what you heard
timmaughanbooks.com
altho I smoke a pound of herb/im still nice with the verb/so fuck what you heard
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Our thread of ICE and Border Patrol sex offenders is up to 53 agents, with many more to go.
Patrick Andrew Hamburg, 46, a Customs and Border Protection officer from International Falls, MN, was sentenced on Aug 16, 2011 to 7 and a half years in prison for sexually assaulting a preteen girl over a period of several years. Hamburg moved to Montana after his release from prison.
February 1, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Our thread of ICE and Border Patrol sex offenders is up to 53 agents, with many more to go.
i literally had to use cron for the first time in at least 20 years 3 days ago and spent a good hour staring at numbers and *s saying out loud "why, why the fuck would you do it like this"
(pls fucking trust me that i am not looking for an answer)
(pls fucking trust me that i am not looking for an answer)
wait is there an actual cron job involved here or has the AI invented an infinitely dumber and more expensive version of a cron job
February 1, 2026 at 3:34 AM
i literally had to use cron for the first time in at least 20 years 3 days ago and spent a good hour staring at numbers and *s saying out loud "why, why the fuck would you do it like this"
(pls fucking trust me that i am not looking for an answer)
(pls fucking trust me that i am not looking for an answer)
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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
I’m starting to think the people who are excited about “AI agents” have literally never used a computer in their lives
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
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"It’s really a shame that I learned all of this too late."
Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him
CHICAGO—Saying he had been absolutely blindsided by the sudden change in his fortunes, local 33-year-old Tyler Branton, a man who lost everything in cryptocurrencies, told reporters Thursday that he j...
theonion.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:38 PM
"It’s really a shame that I learned all of this too late."
honestly looks better than the animation in that trailer that dropped yesterday:/
Real-life Tachikoma ♡
January 31, 2026 at 11:28 PM
honestly looks better than the animation in that trailer that dropped yesterday:/
uggghh why does the animation look so cheap :( youtu.be/7yE9MHlifmw?...
TVアニメーション『攻殻機動隊 THE GHOST IN THE SHELL』プロモーションビデオ第1弾｜2026年7月放送
YouTube video by Ghost in the Shell Official Channel
youtu.be
January 31, 2026 at 11:23 PM
uggghh why does the animation look so cheap :( youtu.be/7yE9MHlifmw?...
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"The Melania movie was doing documentaries the right way"
-- Ezra Klein, Monday, probably
-- Ezra Klein, Monday, probably
January 31, 2026 at 10:01 PM
"The Melania movie was doing documentaries the right way"
-- Ezra Klein, Monday, probably
-- Ezra Klein, Monday, probably
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If I have the right Nellie Bowles, the partner in question is Bari Weiss
January 31, 2026 at 3:27 PM
If I have the right Nellie Bowles, the partner in question is Bari Weiss
exciting job opportunity for any Hugo nominated quislings out there
(we’re watching you)
job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/501...
(we’re watching you)
job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/501...
Writing Specialist
Remote
job-boards.greenhouse.io
January 31, 2026 at 3:17 PM
exciting job opportunity for any Hugo nominated quislings out there
(we’re watching you)
job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/501...
(we’re watching you)
job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/501...
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
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Some ideas (not mine) on setting up a permacomputing collective:
brewing.permacomputing.net/index.html
brewing.permacomputing.net/index.html
Brewing Collectives
This text can support you when starting a permacomputing
collective. It isn’t a strict recipe but more of a loose framework that can be
freely modified to suit local tastes and conditions. Many actio...
brewing.permacomputing.net
January 29, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Some ideas (not mine) on setting up a permacomputing collective:
brewing.permacomputing.net/index.html
brewing.permacomputing.net/index.html
“But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance”
🔥
🔥
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
January 29, 2026 at 6:09 AM
“But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance”
🔥
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these are the sorts of spaces - especially in times like this, especially in the face of so AI slop - I want to support
(more positive: I’ll talk about the incredible art piece I saw next week!)
(more positive: I’ll talk about the incredible art piece I saw next week!)
January 29, 2026 at 4:55 AM
these are the sorts of spaces - especially in times like this, especially in the face of so AI slop - I want to support
(more positive: I’ll talk about the incredible art piece I saw next week!)
(more positive: I’ll talk about the incredible art piece I saw next week!)
earlier this week I went to a performance (which was incredible btw) at a small community theatre/art space that was using AI generated posters for upcoming shows, and today I went to a small non-profit gallery that was just straight up showing a gen AI piece
it all feels so fucking defeating
it all feels so fucking defeating
January 29, 2026 at 4:52 AM
earlier this week I went to a performance (which was incredible btw) at a small community theatre/art space that was using AI generated posters for upcoming shows, and today I went to a small non-profit gallery that was just straight up showing a gen AI piece
it all feels so fucking defeating
it all feels so fucking defeating
what I can appreciate about the latest version of the fundamentally unnecessary water and oil consuming technology that helps automate fascism is that it makes me feel like a very special little boy
what i can appreciate about claude code in the terminal versus the chatbot stuff is that i feel i am talking to computer to make it do computer. whereas the chatbot stuff feels much more like a thing pretending to be human. feels more like using a power tool than going to therapy if that makes sense
Spending more time with Claude Code tonight and I do think one basic reality is that AI skeptics need to update their priors: Plenty of cause for concern, plenty of room to hit these companies for unethical behavior, resource demands, etc, but we are so, so far past the era of "stochastic parrots"
January 29, 2026 at 4:46 AM
what I can appreciate about the latest version of the fundamentally unnecessary water and oil consuming technology that helps automate fascism is that it makes me feel like a very special little boy
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Lads. You've invented Rumbelows.
January 27, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Lads. You've invented Rumbelows.
“The company also beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly results in the all-important holiday period and forecast a surprise rise in annual revenue”
stock markets are an anti-human plague that must be destroyed
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
stock markets are an anti-human plague that must be destroyed
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UPS says it would cut up to 30,000 jobs this year as it aims to boost turnaround
United Parcel Service adds to 2025 job reductions as delivery giant slashes low-profit Amazon deliveries
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:45 PM
“The company also beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly results in the all-important holiday period and forecast a surprise rise in annual revenue”
stock markets are an anti-human plague that must be destroyed
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
stock markets are an anti-human plague that must be destroyed
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
*points gun at your face, checks to see if shareholders are watching*
“you should really take gun control seriously”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“you should really take gun control seriously”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘Wake up to the risks of AI, they are almost here,’ Anthropic boss warns
Dario Amodei questions if human systems are ready to handle the ‘almost unimaginable power’ that is ‘potentially imminent’
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
*points gun at your face, checks to see if shareholders are watching*
“you should really take gun control seriously”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“you should really take gun control seriously”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Soft times cause weak men
January 26, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Soft times cause weak men
one of the reasons I don’t use AI to help me write is that I don’t need to
I’ve decided to take this as objective proof that I’m a much better writer than anybody that does
I’ve decided to take this as objective proof that I’m a much better writer than anybody that does
January 26, 2026 at 4:07 PM
one of the reasons I don’t use AI to help me write is that I don’t need to
I’ve decided to take this as objective proof that I’m a much better writer than anybody that does
I’ve decided to take this as objective proof that I’m a much better writer than anybody that does
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Don't stop, friends! Attack!
January 26, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Don't stop, friends! Attack!
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this is what happens when your whole career writing about “tech” was 2 decades of regurgitating laptop maker’s press releases so you think you’re qualified to be a thought leader on the same companies’ new circle jerk ponzi scheme that also automates fascism while destroying the climate
A sentence from hell:
“people in SF are putting multi-agent claudeswarms in charge of their lives, consulting chatbots before every decision, wireheading to a degree only sci-fi writers dared to imagine.”
“people in SF are putting multi-agent claudeswarms in charge of their lives, consulting chatbots before every decision, wireheading to a degree only sci-fi writers dared to imagine.”
January 26, 2026 at 5:37 AM
this is what happens when your whole career writing about “tech” was 2 decades of regurgitating laptop maker’s press releases so you think you’re qualified to be a thought leader on the same companies’ new circle jerk ponzi scheme that also automates fascism while destroying the climate
this is what happens when your whole career writing about “tech” was 2 decades of regurgitating laptop maker’s press releases so you think you’re qualified to be a thought leader on the same companies’ new circle jerk ponzi scheme that also automates fascism while destroying the climate
A sentence from hell:
“people in SF are putting multi-agent claudeswarms in charge of their lives, consulting chatbots before every decision, wireheading to a degree only sci-fi writers dared to imagine.”
“people in SF are putting multi-agent claudeswarms in charge of their lives, consulting chatbots before every decision, wireheading to a degree only sci-fi writers dared to imagine.”
January 26, 2026 at 5:37 AM
this is what happens when your whole career writing about “tech” was 2 decades of regurgitating laptop maker’s press releases so you think you’re qualified to be a thought leader on the same companies’ new circle jerk ponzi scheme that also automates fascism while destroying the climate