Jeff Eaton
@eaton.fyi
Conceptual corvid currently fixated on organizational topology, design systems as languages, structured content as embodied doctrine, antifascism, and shitposting as a service.
My views do not represent those of my employer, no matter what they claim
My views do not represent those of my employer, no matter what they claim
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I named my fists P and NP because together they’re a major unsolved problem
I named my fists John and Cage because you're not going to be doing anything for the next four minutes and thirty three seconds
I named my fists Chekhov and Gun because you know they're coming but you don't know when
December 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I named my fists P and NP because together they’re a major unsolved problem
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A useful tool. A labeller for the signers of the Harper's Letter. 🙂
November 30, 2025 at 4:16 AM
A useful tool. A labeller for the signers of the Harper's Letter. 🙂
I’m at a loss for words.
Marlow Moss, Composition in Black and White Number 4, 1949
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135948
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135948
November 30, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I’m at a loss for words.
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For a wider overview of what’s been happening in the realm of personal data collection and state surveillance this year, you can view our whole Data Security timeline here (and now you can filter it by legal case!):
unbreaking.org/issues/data-...
unbreaking.org/issues/data-...
Data Security — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
For a wider overview of what’s been happening in the realm of personal data collection and state surveillance this year, you can view our whole Data Security timeline here (and now you can filter it by legal case!):
unbreaking.org/issues/data-...
unbreaking.org/issues/data-...
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Hey kids you should try that Ninja Gaiden II game on the Switch NES app. Super easy fun game.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Hey kids you should try that Ninja Gaiden II game on the Switch NES app. Super easy fun game.
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Every American should have this in their wallet:
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Every American should have this in their wallet:
There are three kinds of people:
People who learned what felching is from the Nuzzi story
People who learned what felching is because they had to enforce AOL chat TOS rules in the 90s and received the infamous “words no one is allowed to say here, ever, srsly” training doc
Happy people
People who learned what felching is from the Nuzzi story
People who learned what felching is because they had to enforce AOL chat TOS rules in the 90s and received the infamous “words no one is allowed to say here, ever, srsly” training doc
Happy people
November 26, 2025 at 3:36 AM
There are three kinds of people:
People who learned what felching is from the Nuzzi story
People who learned what felching is because they had to enforce AOL chat TOS rules in the 90s and received the infamous “words no one is allowed to say here, ever, srsly” training doc
Happy people
People who learned what felching is from the Nuzzi story
People who learned what felching is because they had to enforce AOL chat TOS rules in the 90s and received the infamous “words no one is allowed to say here, ever, srsly” training doc
Happy people
All the talk about Nuzzi made me wonder what ol’ Hugo S has been up to lately, and *of course* he started writing pieces for The Federalist.
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
All the talk about Nuzzi made me wonder what ol’ Hugo S has been up to lately, and *of course* he started writing pieces for The Federalist.
What’s interesting is that this idea — “Each nation has Its People and Its Faith and if you don’t Belong you shouldn’t expect to be treated as human” — is the thread running through modern neo-nazi and white supremacist admiration for Israel despite their hatred and suspicion of Jews in America.
This is the Turning Point USA spokesperson responding to a recent Islamophobic assault against students at the University of South Florida’s Muslim Student Association where several men associated with Warriors for Christ spit on students praying and waved bacon in their face.
November 23, 2025 at 2:57 AM
What’s interesting is that this idea — “Each nation has Its People and Its Faith and if you don’t Belong you shouldn’t expect to be treated as human” — is the thread running through modern neo-nazi and white supremacist admiration for Israel despite their hatred and suspicion of Jews in America.
This is what I mean when I say that AI (generative AI, at least, the dominant branch rolling around today) creates *artifacts* but does not *do the underlying work* in the way that a human does. Sometimes that is okay, but misunderstanding what’s happening is a trap.
The value of knowledge is in having done the work. The value of research is in having done the research. The value of a summary is in having summarized the information. The value of writing is in having done the writing.
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search theconversation.com/learning-wit...
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is what I mean when I say that AI (generative AI, at least, the dominant branch rolling around today) creates *artifacts* but does not *do the underlying work* in the way that a human does. Sometimes that is okay, but misunderstanding what’s happening is a trap.
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Wordpress and Adobe
Insects and Whales
The main question is what’s the total addressable market (TAM)
(I am in a hotel bar with @eaton.fyi, a happy place)
Insects and Whales
The main question is what’s the total addressable market (TAM)
(I am in a hotel bar with @eaton.fyi, a happy place)
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Wordpress and Adobe
Insects and Whales
The main question is what’s the total addressable market (TAM)
(I am in a hotel bar with @eaton.fyi, a happy place)
Insects and Whales
The main question is what’s the total addressable market (TAM)
(I am in a hotel bar with @eaton.fyi, a happy place)
tired adhd hack: hipster analog to-do-list templates
wired adhd hack: inkjet printable temporary tattoo to-do-list templates
wired adhd hack: inkjet printable temporary tattoo to-do-list templates
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
tired adhd hack: hipster analog to-do-list templates
wired adhd hack: inkjet printable temporary tattoo to-do-list templates
wired adhd hack: inkjet printable temporary tattoo to-do-list templates
a good question to ask when someone says that ai can do some particular task is, "are the artifacts produced by that task what I desire, or are they just the evidence that the task has been performed?"
today, most genai solutions faithfully generate plausible artifacts without the invisible work.
today, most genai solutions faithfully generate plausible artifacts without the invisible work.
November 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
a good question to ask when someone says that ai can do some particular task is, "are the artifacts produced by that task what I desire, or are they just the evidence that the task has been performed?"
today, most genai solutions faithfully generate plausible artifacts without the invisible work.
today, most genai solutions faithfully generate plausible artifacts without the invisible work.
the embarrassment of realizing that the rest of the folks in r/datahoarding us “Linux ISOs” as a euphemism
But then… what happens when you want to set up a historical VM? To simulate 1998 era PHP shared hosting? Then you DO need Linux ISOs!
But then… what happens when you want to set up a historical VM? To simulate 1998 era PHP shared hosting? Then you DO need Linux ISOs!
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
the embarrassment of realizing that the rest of the folks in r/datahoarding us “Linux ISOs” as a euphemism
But then… what happens when you want to set up a historical VM? To simulate 1998 era PHP shared hosting? Then you DO need Linux ISOs!
But then… what happens when you want to set up a historical VM? To simulate 1998 era PHP shared hosting? Then you DO need Linux ISOs!
You know you radiate Tech Guy when somebody at the airport strikes up a conversation about homelabs with you
November 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
You know you radiate Tech Guy when somebody at the airport strikes up a conversation about homelabs with you
*kool-aid-mans through the wall*
OOOOOH YEAH
OOOOOH YEAH
Tomorrow morning on Eruditorum Press, ON INCOMPUTABLE LANGUAGE: AN ESSAY ON AI. Ten thousand words exploring the case that computers cannot and never will be able to pass the Turing Test. Don't miss it.
November 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
*kool-aid-mans through the wall*
OOOOOH YEAH
OOOOOH YEAH
find you an ideological framework that doesn‘t collapse fascism and socialism into a single category called “extremism” or “populism” just because they both ruffle the feathers of an entrenched oligarchy
November 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
find you an ideological framework that doesn‘t collapse fascism and socialism into a single category called “extremism” or “populism” just because they both ruffle the feathers of an entrenched oligarchy
average cms demo: "Our customizable workflow engine moves your content from idea to launch!"
average enterprise process: "okay, for two months all content lives in a set of dropbox folders, then moves to Teams Chat; 45 minutes before launch, someone sends a fax to Dave…"
average enterprise process: "okay, for two months all content lives in a set of dropbox folders, then moves to Teams Chat; 45 minutes before launch, someone sends a fax to Dave…"
November 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
average cms demo: "Our customizable workflow engine moves your content from idea to launch!"
average enterprise process: "okay, for two months all content lives in a set of dropbox folders, then moves to Teams Chat; 45 minutes before launch, someone sends a fax to Dave…"
average enterprise process: "okay, for two months all content lives in a set of dropbox folders, then moves to Teams Chat; 45 minutes before launch, someone sends a fax to Dave…"
IM AT THE COMBINATION JIRA TICKET MIRO BOARD
it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
IM AT THE COMBINATION JIRA TICKET MIRO BOARD
When I was a lot younger, I got “Doogie Howser, MD” a lot…
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
When I was a lot younger, I got “Doogie Howser, MD” a lot…
One of the challenges when talking about LLM based AI tech is that subtle nuances — like the difference between “shortening” a document and “summarizing” it — are actually very important to unpack and understand, but sound like fussy nitpicking.
#LegalEthics Tidbit: OK, #AI is not reliable for legal research. But it’s really good at accurately summarizing documents, right? RIGHT!?
In response to a summary judgement motion, a TX plaintiff’s lawyer wanted to submit a witness affidavit that compared ... (cont.)
lnkd.in/ePra8vFB
#lawsky #law
In response to a summary judgement motion, a TX plaintiff’s lawyer wanted to submit a witness affidavit that compared ... (cont.)
lnkd.in/ePra8vFB
#lawsky #law
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
One of the challenges when talking about LLM based AI tech is that subtle nuances — like the difference between “shortening” a document and “summarizing” it — are actually very important to unpack and understand, but sound like fussy nitpicking.
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This image is an archive
One of the hard but gratifying moments this month: clearing out detritus of old hobbies I wish I had time/community for. Pushing a decade ago I 3D printed and painted a TON (like, a closet full) of terrain for tabletop RPGs. Castles, scifi spaceports, warehouses, sewers, villages…
November 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
One of the hard but gratifying moments this month: clearing out detritus of old hobbies I wish I had time/community for. Pushing a decade ago I 3D printed and painted a TON (like, a closet full) of terrain for tabletop RPGs. Castles, scifi spaceports, warehouses, sewers, villages…
So, like, a world where food safety laws stop applying when us-east-1 goes down? I’m trying to figure this out
Waiting for a train and there are ads up everywhere saying “What if government worked like your favorite app?” And I can’t express how revolting that is to anyone who’s actually Online
October 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
So, like, a world where food safety laws stop applying when us-east-1 goes down? I’m trying to figure this out
I remember when this discourse hit the Evangelical church — the idea that church was “effeminate” and had to appeal to MANLINESS launched a wave of ridiculously, embarrassingly juvenile shit like braveheart viewings and boxing pastors. still visible today in the “christian masculinity” griftoverse
i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this
October 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I remember when this discourse hit the Evangelical church — the idea that church was “effeminate” and had to appeal to MANLINESS launched a wave of ridiculously, embarrassingly juvenile shit like braveheart viewings and boxing pastors. still visible today in the “christian masculinity” griftoverse