Benjamin Schwerdtner
@ftl-mentality.bsky.social
software artist and developer.
Interests: cybernetics, biology, behaviour, computational neuroscience, hyperdimensional computing, philosophy of prgramming, Clojure, emacs, Lisp
https://benjamin-schwerdtner.de/
Interests: cybernetics, biology, behaviour, computational neuroscience, hyperdimensional computing, philosophy of prgramming, Clojure, emacs, Lisp
https://benjamin-schwerdtner.de/
All happy families are alike. But not many happy families use scrum.
December 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
All happy families are alike. But not many happy families use scrum.
The opposite of play is not work. The oppositte of play is depression.
October 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The opposite of play is not work. The oppositte of play is depression.
youtu.be/NQEOMgdzBI4?...
Some of the most insightful tech critical content. I applaud.
#tech #critic #techcritical #ai #genai
Some of the most insightful tech critical content. I applaud.
#tech #critic #techcritical #ai #genai
AI Was Supposed to Cure Cancer - We Got This Instead
YouTube video by Vanessa Wingårdh
youtu.be
October 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
youtu.be/NQEOMgdzBI4?...
Some of the most insightful tech critical content. I applaud.
#tech #critic #techcritical #ai #genai
Some of the most insightful tech critical content. I applaud.
#tech #critic #techcritical #ai #genai
"How do you get out of maze?".
Senior programmer: "Ah, I never go into a maze without a spool of yarn.".
#programming #wisdom #expert
Senior programmer: "Ah, I never go into a maze without a spool of yarn.".
#programming #wisdom #expert
October 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
"How do you get out of maze?".
Senior programmer: "Ah, I never go into a maze without a spool of yarn.".
#programming #wisdom #expert
Senior programmer: "Ah, I never go into a maze without a spool of yarn.".
#programming #wisdom #expert
Reposted by Benjamin Schwerdtner
series of computer graphics fantasy artwork i made in the past few years
these are all rendered with a simple custom GPU path tracer that fits in a 4 kilobyte executable, along with scene being traced
these are all rendered with a simple custom GPU path tracer that fits in a 4 kilobyte executable, along with scene being traced
October 22, 2024 at 2:21 PM
series of computer graphics fantasy artwork i made in the past few years
these are all rendered with a simple custom GPU path tracer that fits in a 4 kilobyte executable, along with scene being traced
these are all rendered with a simple custom GPU path tracer that fits in a 4 kilobyte executable, along with scene being traced
Reposted by Benjamin Schwerdtner
“.. Fears of a bubble are mounting, as tech stocks follow a pattern that is ‘surprisingly similar’ to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s ..”
@bloomberg.com $QQQ
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com $QQQ
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
August 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
“.. Fears of a bubble are mounting, as tech stocks follow a pattern that is ‘surprisingly similar’ to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s ..”
@bloomberg.com $QQQ
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com $QQQ
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Benjamin Schwerdtner
I don’t need a self driving car. I need a vehicle that runs between major areas and can transport large numbers of people at once to reduce environmental impact…wait it’s a train. I’m describing trains.
Build more goddamned TRAINS, America.
Build more goddamned TRAINS, America.
August 27, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I don’t need a self driving car. I need a vehicle that runs between major areas and can transport large numbers of people at once to reduce environmental impact…wait it’s a train. I’m describing trains.
Build more goddamned TRAINS, America.
Build more goddamned TRAINS, America.
@edzitron.com is up my alley.
Computer Technology is awesome, it is the current tech mainstream + hypsters that are gargabe.
Dito @garymarcus.bsky.social - AI is fucking awesome, but the current Gen AI hype is useless.
Add to this that programming is supposed to be #creative. #Clojure, #Lisp
Computer Technology is awesome, it is the current tech mainstream + hypsters that are gargabe.
Dito @garymarcus.bsky.social - AI is fucking awesome, but the current Gen AI hype is useless.
Add to this that programming is supposed to be #creative. #Clojure, #Lisp
August 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
@edzitron.com is up my alley.
Computer Technology is awesome, it is the current tech mainstream + hypsters that are gargabe.
Dito @garymarcus.bsky.social - AI is fucking awesome, but the current Gen AI hype is useless.
Add to this that programming is supposed to be #creative. #Clojure, #Lisp
Computer Technology is awesome, it is the current tech mainstream + hypsters that are gargabe.
Dito @garymarcus.bsky.social - AI is fucking awesome, but the current Gen AI hype is useless.
Add to this that programming is supposed to be #creative. #Clojure, #Lisp
Rational #meme: Wants to be criticised. Is better than it's alternatives because it is actually closer to the truth. Obvious in #science and #enlightment.
Anti-rational meme: A meme of static societies, suppresses critizism through coercion.
Hence Socrates' #dankestmeme: "I know nothing"
Anti-rational meme: A meme of static societies, suppresses critizism through coercion.
Hence Socrates' #dankestmeme: "I know nothing"
August 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Rational #meme: Wants to be criticised. Is better than it's alternatives because it is actually closer to the truth. Obvious in #science and #enlightment.
Anti-rational meme: A meme of static societies, suppresses critizism through coercion.
Hence Socrates' #dankestmeme: "I know nothing"
Anti-rational meme: A meme of static societies, suppresses critizism through coercion.
Hence Socrates' #dankestmeme: "I know nothing"
God (#religion) and the aliens running our simulated world (#simulationHypothesis) are in the exact same boat as us.
What is reality, what is suffering, how to have the most fun?
If religion was true, it would be a boring fact about the world.
Religion is even more boring than we can suppose.
What is reality, what is suffering, how to have the most fun?
If religion was true, it would be a boring fact about the world.
Religion is even more boring than we can suppose.
July 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
God (#religion) and the aliens running our simulated world (#simulationHypothesis) are in the exact same boat as us.
What is reality, what is suffering, how to have the most fun?
If religion was true, it would be a boring fact about the world.
Religion is even more boring than we can suppose.
What is reality, what is suffering, how to have the most fun?
If religion was true, it would be a boring fact about the world.
Religion is even more boring than we can suppose.
Viecher in Ruhe lassen == Integritaet und Rueckrad haben. Ihr wisst, dass es so ist. #Veganismus #vegan
youtu.be/yV-X1pFdaqM?...
youtu.be/yV-X1pFdaqM?...
Markus Rühl vs. Militante Veganerin (Analyse 2)
YouTube video by Peter Frahm Coaching
youtu.be
July 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Viecher in Ruhe lassen == Integritaet und Rueckrad haben. Ihr wisst, dass es so ist. #Veganismus #vegan
youtu.be/yV-X1pFdaqM?...
youtu.be/yV-X1pFdaqM?...
#FuckUpdates #Livesucking
Count the hours of livesucking (both as engineer and normal world person) that #softwareUpdates have caused you recently: 20+.
Count the hours of livesucking (both as engineer and normal world person) that #softwareUpdates have caused you recently: 20+.
July 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
#FuckUpdates #Livesucking
Count the hours of livesucking (both as engineer and normal world person) that #softwareUpdates have caused you recently: 20+.
Count the hours of livesucking (both as engineer and normal world person) that #softwareUpdates have caused you recently: 20+.
You have a function. Your lib is used by somebody. You think "I don't want this function anymore, I want it out of my life".
Make a new namespace call it `lib-2`. Leave the behaviour and the code alone. Just leave stuff, jez
It's called being adult and getting stuff done.
#fuckUpdates #Software
Make a new namespace call it `lib-2`. Leave the behaviour and the code alone. Just leave stuff, jez
It's called being adult and getting stuff done.
#fuckUpdates #Software
July 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
You have a function. Your lib is used by somebody. You think "I don't want this function anymore, I want it out of my life".
Make a new namespace call it `lib-2`. Leave the behaviour and the code alone. Just leave stuff, jez
It's called being adult and getting stuff done.
#fuckUpdates #Software
Make a new namespace call it `lib-2`. Leave the behaviour and the code alone. Just leave stuff, jez
It's called being adult and getting stuff done.
#fuckUpdates #Software
There are 2 things that I don't like in life:
1. abstractions in config code (sorry #doomEmacs)
2. abstractions in test code
When I start thinking myself into the test setup to make the damn thing green, my fingernails are crawling upwards.
#software #softwareEngineeringLife
1. abstractions in config code (sorry #doomEmacs)
2. abstractions in test code
When I start thinking myself into the test setup to make the damn thing green, my fingernails are crawling upwards.
#software #softwareEngineeringLife
July 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
There are 2 things that I don't like in life:
1. abstractions in config code (sorry #doomEmacs)
2. abstractions in test code
When I start thinking myself into the test setup to make the damn thing green, my fingernails are crawling upwards.
#software #softwareEngineeringLife
1. abstractions in config code (sorry #doomEmacs)
2. abstractions in test code
When I start thinking myself into the test setup to make the damn thing green, my fingernails are crawling upwards.
#software #softwareEngineeringLife
If you put `$` in front of shell command lines in your Readme, I cannot copy the line to execute in my shell.
Am I the only one for whom this is a problem?
A
``` sh
.. .
```
markdown comment block is sufficient!
#shell #programming #readme
Am I the only one for whom this is a problem?
A
``` sh
.. .
```
markdown comment block is sufficient!
#shell #programming #readme
July 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
If you put `$` in front of shell command lines in your Readme, I cannot copy the line to execute in my shell.
Am I the only one for whom this is a problem?
A
``` sh
.. .
```
markdown comment block is sufficient!
#shell #programming #readme
Am I the only one for whom this is a problem?
A
``` sh
.. .
```
markdown comment block is sufficient!
#shell #programming #readme
The `j` in `conj` is the same `j` as in `Clojure`!
It is the modern Lisp, hosted on the jvm.
Abstractions at the bottom.
One of the fundamental functions in Lisp, `cons` works on lists.
In clojure, the equavlent is `conj` (clojurified) and works on the seq abstraction.
It is the modern Lisp, hosted on the jvm.
Abstractions at the bottom.
One of the fundamental functions in Lisp, `cons` works on lists.
In clojure, the equavlent is `conj` (clojurified) and works on the seq abstraction.
July 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The `j` in `conj` is the same `j` as in `Clojure`!
It is the modern Lisp, hosted on the jvm.
Abstractions at the bottom.
One of the fundamental functions in Lisp, `cons` works on lists.
In clojure, the equavlent is `conj` (clojurified) and works on the seq abstraction.
It is the modern Lisp, hosted on the jvm.
Abstractions at the bottom.
One of the fundamental functions in Lisp, `cons` works on lists.
In clojure, the equavlent is `conj` (clojurified) and works on the seq abstraction.
#TechnoSpiritualism The #spritis of old are described via #software.
#topDownCausation is enabled by #informationProcessing
#ricing in this view is a kind of #meditation on the mental. The act of building ones own operating system shows one truths about what a good software interface is.
#topDownCausation is enabled by #informationProcessing
#ricing in this view is a kind of #meditation on the mental. The act of building ones own operating system shows one truths about what a good software interface is.
June 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
#TechnoSpiritualism The #spritis of old are described via #software.
#topDownCausation is enabled by #informationProcessing
#ricing in this view is a kind of #meditation on the mental. The act of building ones own operating system shows one truths about what a good software interface is.
#topDownCausation is enabled by #informationProcessing
#ricing in this view is a kind of #meditation on the mental. The act of building ones own operating system shows one truths about what a good software interface is.
`git add -- . && git commit -m 'various fixes'`
June 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
`git add -- . && git commit -m 'various fixes'`
Current #genart #art #creativity This is #clojurescript . The gallery is here: vehicles.faster-than-light-memes.xyz/art/p/not-fi... . The core algorithm is a brownian motion algorithm.
June 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Current #genart #art #creativity This is #clojurescript . The gallery is here: vehicles.faster-than-light-memes.xyz/art/p/not-fi... . The core algorithm is a brownian motion algorithm.
A theory of #AGI is saying how software programs itself to be a person. AGI is #philosophy of #programming.
A mind incoorporates #design - saying where this #knowledge comes from is the job of a brain theory, similar to the problem of life - it is a #epistemology. David Deutsch is cool.
A mind incoorporates #design - saying where this #knowledge comes from is the job of a brain theory, similar to the problem of life - it is a #epistemology. David Deutsch is cool.
April 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
A theory of #AGI is saying how software programs itself to be a person. AGI is #philosophy of #programming.
A mind incoorporates #design - saying where this #knowledge comes from is the job of a brain theory, similar to the problem of life - it is a #epistemology. David Deutsch is cool.
A mind incoorporates #design - saying where this #knowledge comes from is the job of a brain theory, similar to the problem of life - it is a #epistemology. David Deutsch is cool.
youtu.be/DICKwl4-DF0?...
very high quality linguistic analysis of speech. I love the channel. This video was making me aware of english language nuances, making me a better english speaker, and how AI generated speech get's it wrong.
Accenting and Deaccenting - is fascinating.
very high quality linguistic analysis of speech. I love the channel. This video was making me aware of english language nuances, making me a better english speaker, and how AI generated speech get's it wrong.
Accenting and Deaccenting - is fascinating.
Why YouTubers (and AI) get these English features wrong
YouTube video by Dr Geoff Lindsey
youtu.be
April 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
youtu.be/DICKwl4-DF0?...
very high quality linguistic analysis of speech. I love the channel. This video was making me aware of english language nuances, making me a better english speaker, and how AI generated speech get's it wrong.
Accenting and Deaccenting - is fascinating.
very high quality linguistic analysis of speech. I love the channel. This video was making me aware of english language nuances, making me a better english speaker, and how AI generated speech get's it wrong.
Accenting and Deaccenting - is fascinating.
I follow @garymarcus.bsky.social on AI and culture.
I am happy to connect to like minded people. Potentially IRL in Berlin.
#gen-ai #enshittification
Some ongoing blog post on enshittification and gen AI: benjamin-schwerdtner.de/gen-ai-criti...
I am happy to connect to like minded people. Potentially IRL in Berlin.
#gen-ai #enshittification
Some ongoing blog post on enshittification and gen AI: benjamin-schwerdtner.de/gen-ai-criti...
critic-of-pure-bogus
benjamin-schwerdtner.de
March 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I follow @garymarcus.bsky.social on AI and culture.
I am happy to connect to like minded people. Potentially IRL in Berlin.
#gen-ai #enshittification
Some ongoing blog post on enshittification and gen AI: benjamin-schwerdtner.de/gen-ai-criti...
I am happy to connect to like minded people. Potentially IRL in Berlin.
#gen-ai #enshittification
Some ongoing blog post on enshittification and gen AI: benjamin-schwerdtner.de/gen-ai-criti...