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Jonathan E Cowperthwait
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as formerly on the bird site (@cowperthwait) and the elephant site (@cowperthwait@sfba.social). Slow runner, fast talker, good writer.
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Props to @duckbillgroup.com on your pivot and rebrand!
Photo of a printed piece of collateral for “duckbill: AI + Human Assistant, The missing piece between cutting edge AI and actually getting stuff done in the real world.” Reverse of printed Duckbill collateral, depicting a young man resting a book atop his face
July 31, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Help me, people of #fursky; you’re my only hope to tackle a thorny #networking question…
Screenshot of a Slack direct message. A redacted user advises, “If you haven't solved the networking thing, retweet it using the hashtag #fursky so it reaches someone with a networking background”
July 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Alright. If everything is sent through MonkeyBrains, it works. If everything is sent through Xfinity…
Screenshot of a bandwidth test. Under "Video Bitrate Stability" a line ascends from zero to approx 1300kbit/s, then immediately, within one second, crashes back down to sub-300kbit/s
July 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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I’m throwing darts in random directions. We’ve learned that wired is still funky when we run it thru Apple Private Relay (first screenshot), and WiFi is fantastic even on an iPad (second screenshot).
Screenshot of the same diagnostics as before, but now in a Safari window. Video Bitrate: 311 kbps, Video Packet loss: 0.15% Screenshot of the same diagnostics as before, but now in an iPadOS Chrome window. Video Bitrate: 2496 kbps, Video Packet loss: 0%
July 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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More context:

On Tokbox/Vonage’s WebRTC diagnostics site— tokbox.com/developer/to... —I score abysmally when wired (first screenshot) and… mediocre, but better!, when wireless (second screenshot).
Screenshot of a Chrome window: “Test Results”, “Expected Call Quality”, showing a video bitrate of 363kbps with 0.16% packet loss. Screenshot of a Chrome window: “Test Results”, “Expected Call Quality”, showing a video bitrate of 649kbps with 0.13% packet loss.
July 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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My bosses are crazy people.
Screenshot: blog post, “Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders—annotated”
April 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Hey, go get fucked.
Screenshot: a browser window with the Washington Post’s Jeff Bezos op-ed, “The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media,” overlaid by a pop-up requesting that I reactivate my canceled subscription. Screenshot: the Washington Post’s iPhone application, confirming “We’ve canceled your subscription”
October 29, 2024 at 12:51 AM