Chris Hanson
@eschaton.bsky.social
I used to get paid work on software for people to write software. Since retiring I still kind of do, as open source. I’m also setting up a Museum of Technical and Advanced Computing http://motaac.org/ in downtown San José, CA.
Proudly antifa.
Proudly antifa.
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Chris Hanson
@eschaton.bsky.social
· Nov 21
All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.
Bluesky VC so far:
• $8M via a seed round on July 5, 2023
• $13M via a Series A round led by "Blockchain Capital" on October 24, 2024
If you think you're not the product here, you're wrong.
#enshittification #roteconomy
Bluesky VC so far:
• $8M via a seed round on July 5, 2023
• $13M via a Series A round led by "Blockchain Capital" on October 24, 2024
If you think you're not the product here, you're wrong.
#enshittification #roteconomy
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there are many horrible brainworms you can catch online but none of them are as all-encompassing in their destruction of you as a human being as transphobia
start down that road and you become incapable of normal human interaction
start down that road and you become incapable of normal human interaction
classic story of some lady hitting the transphobia pipe harder and harder and becoming an intolerable shithead who alienates all her friends www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
How Sandie Peggie 'Benidorm Posse' friend group was torn apart by NHS Fife trans tribunal
The personal cost of the changing room row was exposed in expletive-ridden private messages as tensions boiled over in group chats.
www.thecourier.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
there are many horrible brainworms you can catch online but none of them are as all-encompassing in their destruction of you as a human being as transphobia
start down that road and you become incapable of normal human interaction
start down that road and you become incapable of normal human interaction
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And by the way, training your monster on data produced in part by my own hands, without attribution or compensation.
To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.
To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.
December 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
And by the way, training your monster on data produced in part by my own hands, without attribution or compensation.
To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.
To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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I think it’s pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there’s anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it’s that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I think it’s pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there’s anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it’s that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today
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to commemorate alan dye moving from apple to meta, here's one of his best quotes
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
to commemorate alan dye moving from apple to meta, here's one of his best quotes
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Even starting from a baseline of understanding that we are cooked, at least once a day I see something on here that blows my hair back at how cooked we are.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Even starting from a baseline of understanding that we are cooked, at least once a day I see something on here that blows my hair back at how cooked we are.
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
www.cnn.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
California should seize the in-state assets of all health insurers, HMOs, hospital groups, etc. operating in the state and use them to fund the establishment of a comprehensive state health care system. Pursuit of profit over health outcomes is a crime against humanity and this is the only remedy.
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
California should seize the in-state assets of all health insurers, HMOs, hospital groups, etc. operating in the state and use them to fund the establishment of a comprehensive state health care system. Pursuit of profit over health outcomes is a crime against humanity and this is the only remedy.
I kind of want Trump to call Mamdani every evening just to chat, as a kind of Anti-Miller.
November 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I kind of want Trump to call Mamdani every evening just to chat, as a kind of Anti-Miller.
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something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
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My husband pointed out that that’s not even Black Mirror, it was a Max Headroom episode.
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 AM
My husband pointed out that that’s not even Black Mirror, it was a Max Headroom episode.
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Not very often you see a new product that feels like major religions should issue edicts specifically forbidding it
November 14, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Not very often you see a new product that feels like major religions should issue edicts specifically forbidding it
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stack overflow considered harmful.
caravelle here makes an excellent point: stack overflow’s rules halted the spread of craft.
if you can’t write 2 paragraphs of background before your answer, you can’t spread actual knowledge, understanding, or cultural history.
caravelle here makes an excellent point: stack overflow’s rules halted the spread of craft.
if you can’t write 2 paragraphs of background before your answer, you can’t spread actual knowledge, understanding, or cultural history.
Now this is a very interesting observation I think on what Stackoverflow wants to be vs what it could have been. The "we're only a knowledge repository, social interactions must be minimized" approach actively prevents such intellectual traditions from forming!
yeahhh
and stack overflow is like… service. you ask a question and you get given answers. you are being served. there’s no intellectual tradition in a service model
and stack overflow is like… service. you ask a question and you get given answers. you are being served. there’s no intellectual tradition in a service model
July 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
stack overflow considered harmful.
caravelle here makes an excellent point: stack overflow’s rules halted the spread of craft.
if you can’t write 2 paragraphs of background before your answer, you can’t spread actual knowledge, understanding, or cultural history.
caravelle here makes an excellent point: stack overflow’s rules halted the spread of craft.
if you can’t write 2 paragraphs of background before your answer, you can’t spread actual knowledge, understanding, or cultural history.
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learning to program in the late 90s and early 00s, you’d inevitably run across classic works like Goto Considered Harmful and No Silver Bullet, even if you weren’t particularly bookish, and there was tons of discourse about HCI as well, all grounded in decades of research
i’m afraid that’s all gone
i’m afraid that’s all gone
July 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
learning to program in the late 90s and early 00s, you’d inevitably run across classic works like Goto Considered Harmful and No Silver Bullet, even if you weren’t particularly bookish, and there was tons of discourse about HCI as well, all grounded in decades of research
i’m afraid that’s all gone
i’m afraid that’s all gone
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“I get emails from the New York State Democrats, and you look at the list of meetings, and all it is is fundraisers. There are no meetings. And who holds meetings? The Democratic Socialists of America holds meetings. The Working Families Party holds meetings. ”
The Dawn of a Better Day
Working-class New Yorkers topple a political dynasty and elect Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani.
inthesetimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“I get emails from the New York State Democrats, and you look at the list of meetings, and all it is is fundraisers. There are no meetings. And who holds meetings? The Democratic Socialists of America holds meetings. The Working Families Party holds meetings. ”
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This is how it looked on the ballot.
Clear and easy to understand.
Clear and easy to understand.
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
This is how it looked on the ballot.
Clear and easy to understand.
Clear and easy to understand.
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Turns out when you baste your brain in Nazi juices all the wrinkles smooth out and you get a job working for Bari Weiss
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Turns out when you baste your brain in Nazi juices all the wrinkles smooth out and you get a job working for Bari Weiss
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Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.
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I’ve joked before that Rationalism is to Silicon Valley as Scientology is to Hollywood.
And that’s… not a joke, actually.
The rationalist community is very influential and more than a little cult like.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is the L. Ron Hubbard of rationalism.
This book is his Battlefield Earth
And that’s… not a joke, actually.
The rationalist community is very influential and more than a little cult like.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is the L. Ron Hubbard of rationalism.
This book is his Battlefield Earth
October 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I’ve joked before that Rationalism is to Silicon Valley as Scientology is to Hollywood.
And that’s… not a joke, actually.
The rationalist community is very influential and more than a little cult like.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is the L. Ron Hubbard of rationalism.
This book is his Battlefield Earth
And that’s… not a joke, actually.
The rationalist community is very influential and more than a little cult like.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is the L. Ron Hubbard of rationalism.
This book is his Battlefield Earth
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None of the rest of us should ever suffer a moment of imposter's syndrome ever again
October 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
None of the rest of us should ever suffer a moment of imposter's syndrome ever again
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they show only contempt toward the creative process, the creators, and even the product itself
October 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
they show only contempt toward the creative process, the creators, and even the product itself
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It's literally just jangling keys, cat tv, oh god the word salad text. This is exactly how these guys perceive video games and all other media
October 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It's literally just jangling keys, cat tv, oh god the word salad text. This is exactly how these guys perceive video games and all other media
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Worse, they think they're smarter than everyone else, and this is the crap they think we will fall for.
October 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Worse, they think they're smarter than everyone else, and this is the crap they think we will fall for.
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the elite class becomes easier to understand when you realize they think everybody is as dumb as they are
October 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
the elite class becomes easier to understand when you realize they think everybody is as dumb as they are