vriesk (Jan Srz..)
@vriesk.bsky.social
Backend engineer for life, ex-SRE, software oxidization catalyst. Astro aficionado, desert plant herder, owner of too many bicycles. Autistic, enby, and left-handed.
they/them
they/them
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every big AI pitch is like “what if we took away your means of survival and devalued all your skills to make stonks go up temporarily? You’d like that wouldn’t you?”
October 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
every big AI pitch is like “what if we took away your means of survival and devalued all your skills to make stonks go up temporarily? You’d like that wouldn’t you?”
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Your schizo conspiracy of the day: King Charles knew details of the Epstein files from Andrew and is blackmailing trump
September 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Your schizo conspiracy of the day: King Charles knew details of the Epstein files from Andrew and is blackmailing trump
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For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them.
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 7:17 AM
For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them.
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
www.youtube.com
July 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
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First pierogi in space 🥟
🍴 Eating in microgravity is... different 😉 Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski takes a bite above planet Earth from @esa.int's Cupola on the International Space Station.
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
🍴 Eating in microgravity is... different 😉 Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski takes a bite above planet Earth from @esa.int's Cupola on the International Space Station.
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
Space pierogi bite
Space pierogi bite
www.esa.int
July 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
First pierogi in space 🥟
🍴 Eating in microgravity is... different 😉 Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski takes a bite above planet Earth from @esa.int's Cupola on the International Space Station.
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
🍴 Eating in microgravity is... different 😉 Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski takes a bite above planet Earth from @esa.int's Cupola on the International Space Station.
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
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A great essay about this was written in *1995.*
"...they believe that human social and emotional ties obstruct the efficient evolution of the machine. Abandoning democracy and social solidarity ... [for] a digital nirvana inhabited solely by liberal psychopaths."
www.metamute.org/editorial/ar...
"...they believe that human social and emotional ties obstruct the efficient evolution of the machine. Abandoning democracy and social solidarity ... [for] a digital nirvana inhabited solely by liberal psychopaths."
www.metamute.org/editorial/ar...
July 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
A great essay about this was written in *1995.*
"...they believe that human social and emotional ties obstruct the efficient evolution of the machine. Abandoning democracy and social solidarity ... [for] a digital nirvana inhabited solely by liberal psychopaths."
www.metamute.org/editorial/ar...
"...they believe that human social and emotional ties obstruct the efficient evolution of the machine. Abandoning democracy and social solidarity ... [for] a digital nirvana inhabited solely by liberal psychopaths."
www.metamute.org/editorial/ar...
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The entire far right propaganda machine is spinning into action to spin this violence as being perpetrated by the left. It will be successful and by week's end a solid portion of the country will believe it was committed by someone on the left, facts be damned.
Don Jr blatantly lies about Vance Boelter: "I have a feeling that leftist Tim Walz isn't exactly appointing conservatives. Apparently he had the No Kings flyer in his thing. But he went after someone that didn't just blindly follow Democrat, radical leftist dogma."
June 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The entire far right propaganda machine is spinning into action to spin this violence as being perpetrated by the left. It will be successful and by week's end a solid portion of the country will believe it was committed by someone on the left, facts be damned.
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The Universe is incomprehensible.
Handful of whitish objects with spikes: stars from our Galaxy.
Every other point of light: a galaxy hosting billions of stars.
Area of sky this occupies is approx. like you holding a single grain of rice out at arm's length.
📸 COSMOS-Web/JWST/J. Kartaltepe
🔭
Handful of whitish objects with spikes: stars from our Galaxy.
Every other point of light: a galaxy hosting billions of stars.
Area of sky this occupies is approx. like you holding a single grain of rice out at arm's length.
📸 COSMOS-Web/JWST/J. Kartaltepe
🔭
June 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The Universe is incomprehensible.
Handful of whitish objects with spikes: stars from our Galaxy.
Every other point of light: a galaxy hosting billions of stars.
Area of sky this occupies is approx. like you holding a single grain of rice out at arm's length.
📸 COSMOS-Web/JWST/J. Kartaltepe
🔭
Handful of whitish objects with spikes: stars from our Galaxy.
Every other point of light: a galaxy hosting billions of stars.
Area of sky this occupies is approx. like you holding a single grain of rice out at arm's length.
📸 COSMOS-Web/JWST/J. Kartaltepe
🔭
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As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.
June 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.
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So basically there's a cabal of billionaire broligarchs, far right propagandists, and reactionary centrist journalists all on group chats radicalizing together and exerting coordinated narratives and influence on media and politics
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
The group chats that changed America
A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.
www.semafor.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
So basically there's a cabal of billionaire broligarchs, far right propagandists, and reactionary centrist journalists all on group chats radicalizing together and exerting coordinated narratives and influence on media and politics
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
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there's so many layers of fraud and abuse in this story that "someone might have been trying to log into the NLRB's systems with a valid Doge username and password from russia" doesn't even make it into the first 5,000 words
April 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
there's so many layers of fraud and abuse in this story that "someone might have been trying to log into the NLRB's systems with a valid Doge username and password from russia" doesn't even make it into the first 5,000 words
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Elon has graduated to posting on 4chan as Adrian Dittman and inadvertently gave away who he is by showing he has admin console access.
January 3, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Elon has graduated to posting on 4chan as Adrian Dittman and inadvertently gave away who he is by showing he has admin console access.
Mild shock.
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
April 13, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Mild shock.
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Fu*ck the morons from USA. 👊 Here the legit plan since 2023. 👊
April 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Fu*ck the morons from USA. 👊 Here the legit plan since 2023. 👊
There once was this fool who spammed many LinkedIn threads with comments on how Biden violated the 1st amendment by ordering social media platforms to limit the reach of fake news about COVID etc.
The idiot argued that Trump would never do such a thing.
Right.
The idiot argued that Trump would never do such a thing.
Right.
NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover.
Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment."
WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.
Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment."
WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.
Social Security Workers Aren’t Allowed to Read This Story
New internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times.
www.wired.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
There once was this fool who spammed many LinkedIn threads with comments on how Biden violated the 1st amendment by ordering social media platforms to limit the reach of fake news about COVID etc.
The idiot argued that Trump would never do such a thing.
Right.
The idiot argued that Trump would never do such a thing.
Right.
26 years ago and still gives me shivers.
February 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
26 years ago and still gives me shivers.
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The advances in astronomy during my lifetime have been spectacular.
Left: Image of galaxy pair Arp 107 taken the year I was born, using the Palomar 200" (the world's most powerful telescope at the time).
Right: Image of Arp 107 taken last year by JWST. 🧪🔭
ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Arp/A...
Left: Image of galaxy pair Arp 107 taken the year I was born, using the Palomar 200" (the world's most powerful telescope at the time).
Right: Image of Arp 107 taken last year by JWST. 🧪🔭
ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Arp/A...
February 20, 2025 at 4:08 AM
The advances in astronomy during my lifetime have been spectacular.
Left: Image of galaxy pair Arp 107 taken the year I was born, using the Palomar 200" (the world's most powerful telescope at the time).
Right: Image of Arp 107 taken last year by JWST. 🧪🔭
ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Arp/A...
Left: Image of galaxy pair Arp 107 taken the year I was born, using the Palomar 200" (the world's most powerful telescope at the time).
Right: Image of Arp 107 taken last year by JWST. 🧪🔭
ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Arp/A...
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But I just couldn’t stay out, given the stakes.
And I greatly prefer doing environmental work to spending my time learning and practicing war, which is what I’ve had to do a lot for the last few years.
But thanks to oligarchies, that too is now more urgent than history, or environmental policy.
And I greatly prefer doing environmental work to spending my time learning and practicing war, which is what I’ve had to do a lot for the last few years.
But thanks to oligarchies, that too is now more urgent than history, or environmental policy.
February 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
But I just couldn’t stay out, given the stakes.
And I greatly prefer doing environmental work to spending my time learning and practicing war, which is what I’ve had to do a lot for the last few years.
But thanks to oligarchies, that too is now more urgent than history, or environmental policy.
And I greatly prefer doing environmental work to spending my time learning and practicing war, which is what I’ve had to do a lot for the last few years.
But thanks to oligarchies, that too is now more urgent than history, or environmental policy.
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LGBTQIA+ As we resist those who claim diversity distorts scholarship, let’s run through the acronym & show how easy it is to find the rainbow in every era. We don’t even need to look beyond the Renaissance celebrities that are household names! 1/?
(Countdown to Inventing the Renaissance)
(Countdown to Inventing the Renaissance)
February 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
LGBTQIA+ As we resist those who claim diversity distorts scholarship, let’s run through the acronym & show how easy it is to find the rainbow in every era. We don’t even need to look beyond the Renaissance celebrities that are household names! 1/?
(Countdown to Inventing the Renaissance)
(Countdown to Inventing the Renaissance)
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Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/?
January 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/?
Not everybody knows that, but many streets in Polish cities have depleted uranium dispensers, which understandably come very handy in these times.
January 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Not everybody knows that, but many streets in Polish cities have depleted uranium dispensers, which understandably come very handy in these times.
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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.