Dirk
@dirkmyers.bsky.social
Technology, cats, books, Seattle Kraken, Seattle PWHL, food, music, miscellaneous nonsense.
Commit the sin of empathy. Read all the books. Due process absolutist.
Commit the sin of empathy. Read all the books. Due process absolutist.
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"Like everyone who loves books, Carson felt at once awed and aggrieved that there was more to read than could ever be read, and that to choose to read one book was to forsake the chance to read a different one."
Lovely sentiment about Rachel Carson from Souder's biography—she's clearly my kindred
Lovely sentiment about Rachel Carson from Souder's biography—she's clearly my kindred
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"Like everyone who loves books, Carson felt at once awed and aggrieved that there was more to read than could ever be read, and that to choose to read one book was to forsake the chance to read a different one."
Lovely sentiment about Rachel Carson from Souder's biography—she's clearly my kindred
Lovely sentiment about Rachel Carson from Souder's biography—she's clearly my kindred
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This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
The key thing to watch here: they fired a Wired political reporter. That’s the title doing the most effective, pointed work. Teen Vogue’s stuff was culturally impactful, but less focused on investigating the administration. Within the Condé portfolio, Wired and the New Yorker are the canaries.
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
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Flying our colors proudly at 605 ft for all of Seattle to see 🩵
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Flying our colors proudly at 605 ft for all of Seattle to see 🩵
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"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
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Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
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Berkly Catton is making his NHL debut tonight 🙌 Caught up with him after @seattlekraken.com morning skate!
October 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Berkly Catton is making his NHL debut tonight 🙌 Caught up with him after @seattlekraken.com morning skate!
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I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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An update on #SeaKraken defenseman Brandon Montour:
October 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
An update on #SeaKraken defenseman Brandon Montour:
This is the mug that stays near the computer, freeing other mugs to travel about the house.
If you're like me and can't remember if it's RCX or R8 for the fourth parameter... Get the Compiler Explorer ABI Mug: actual calling conventions for x86-64 System V, Windows, and ARM64. Support @godbolt.org: grab yours here -> shop.compiler-explorer.com/collections/...
October 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is the mug that stays near the computer, freeing other mugs to travel about the house.
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The only transformation I have seen is otherwise competent developers losing skills and absolutely embarrassing themselves with their newfound lack of critical thinking
October 17, 2025 at 3:48 AM
The only transformation I have seen is otherwise competent developers losing skills and absolutely embarrassing themselves with their newfound lack of critical thinking
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He stopped at my door and looked me in the eye, and I’ll never, ever forget this. I repeated it recently. He said, “Jim, our job is to protect empathy at all costs, and to live groovy lives.”
September 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
He stopped at my door and looked me in the eye, and I’ll never, ever forget this. I repeated it recently. He said, “Jim, our job is to protect empathy at all costs, and to live groovy lives.”
Gotta respect this, while also pointing out that this did not help the Jays.
(And I'm ok with that. )
(And I'm ok with that. )
Here's a recording of the pilot of C-GZPT, a Cirrus SR22, tracing the Jays logo over Nova Scotia
October 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Gotta respect this, while also pointing out that this did not help the Jays.
(And I'm ok with that. )
(And I'm ok with that. )
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical
October 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical
Decades old perl script.
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Decades old perl script.
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as enjoyable as it is to dunk on vibe coders, this is just the nature of cloud services. they’re really expensive and they can easily cost you shocking amounts of money really fast even if you know what you’re doing! if you don’t know what you’re doing, messing with them is just asking for trouble!
guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use
October 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
as enjoyable as it is to dunk on vibe coders, this is just the nature of cloud services. they’re really expensive and they can easily cost you shocking amounts of money really fast even if you know what you’re doing! if you don’t know what you’re doing, messing with them is just asking for trouble!
This is why Jukebox Musicals are among the most realistic forms of art.
Saw a man trying to fix a flat bicycle tire in the street today, a teenage boy stopped in front of him and sang a note perfect rendition of Elvis Costello’s “Pump It Up” and this is probably the best thing I’ll witness this week.
October 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This is why Jukebox Musicals are among the most realistic forms of art.
Pretty sure the King in Yellow is actually just a description of how computers handle floating point math.
October 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Pretty sure the King in Yellow is actually just a description of how computers handle floating point math.
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Mary Shelley: sup fuckers
Poe: joanne is talking about how she owns the harry potter actors
Shelley: again?
Poe: yeah, again
Shelley: has she called them house elves yet
Poe: not this time
Poe: but it's probably coming
Poe: joanne is talking about how she owns the harry potter actors
Shelley: again?
Poe: yeah, again
Shelley: has she called them house elves yet
Poe: not this time
Poe: but it's probably coming
October 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Mary Shelley: sup fuckers
Poe: joanne is talking about how she owns the harry potter actors
Shelley: again?
Poe: yeah, again
Shelley: has she called them house elves yet
Poe: not this time
Poe: but it's probably coming
Poe: joanne is talking about how she owns the harry potter actors
Shelley: again?
Poe: yeah, again
Shelley: has she called them house elves yet
Poe: not this time
Poe: but it's probably coming
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42 years ago
Metal Circus is an EP by the American punk rock band Hüsker Dü, which was released in October 1983 and is characterized by the band's own hardcore punk style.
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcore #hardcorepunk #hüskerdü #history #punkrockhistory
Metal Circus is an EP by the American punk rock band Hüsker Dü, which was released in October 1983 and is characterized by the band's own hardcore punk style.
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcore #hardcorepunk #hüskerdü #history #punkrockhistory
October 4, 2025 at 4:51 AM
42 years ago
Metal Circus is an EP by the American punk rock band Hüsker Dü, which was released in October 1983 and is characterized by the band's own hardcore punk style.
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcore #hardcorepunk #hüskerdü #history #punkrockhistory
Metal Circus is an EP by the American punk rock band Hüsker Dü, which was released in October 1983 and is characterized by the band's own hardcore punk style.
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcore #hardcorepunk #hüskerdü #history #punkrockhistory
Sisqo Thong Song
October 4, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Sisqo Thong Song
"Hook" by Blues Traveler
October 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
"Hook" by Blues Traveler
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@evanbernick.bsky.social @anthonymkreis.bsky.social this is such an amazing paragraph from the First Circuit.
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
October 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
@evanbernick.bsky.social @anthonymkreis.bsky.social this is such an amazing paragraph from the First Circuit.
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
A person's a person no matter how small.
October 3, 2025 at 4:08 AM
A person's a person no matter how small.