Joel Dinolt
@jdinolt.bsky.social
Husband, dog dad, technical director at Bethesda Game Studios/Microsoft, he/him Opinions expressed are my own.
Also “Vampire Squid” was a terrible turn of phrase.
December 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Also “Vampire Squid” was a terrible turn of phrase.
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
Joe Rogan is bad for the economy.
My Austin house has apparently last almost half its value since 2022. lol good times.
December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Joe Rogan is bad for the economy.
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Ask your friendly academic librarian about all the times we tried to tell you that what we do is important and you should fund it. You get the services you pay for, friends.
Lolololol at every academic who has paid zero attention to their library or constantly-decreasing library funding suddenly being like LIBRARIES SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING EVERYTHING THEMSELVES AND OUTSOURCING NOTHING like we all have teams of programmers and software engineers.
December 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Ask your friendly academic librarian about all the times we tried to tell you that what we do is important and you should fund it. You get the services you pay for, friends.
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If I ever lost that mental model I would not have been able to quickly answer client questions or explain our choices on calls with clients
December 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
If I ever lost that mental model I would not have been able to quickly answer client questions or explain our choices on calls with clients
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Extremist movements are often most dangerous when they're negotiating group boundaries, whether it's the in-group or the out-group
Even Ramaswamy getting queasy with the right-wing obsession with “heritage.”
“.. ‘There is no American who is more American than somebody else. … It is binary. Either you're an American or you're not.’”
www.foxnews.com/media/vivek-...
“.. ‘There is no American who is more American than somebody else. … It is binary. Either you're an American or you're not.’”
www.foxnews.com/media/vivek-...
December 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Extremist movements are often most dangerous when they're negotiating group boundaries, whether it's the in-group or the out-group
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They made one rap song based on the music of Michael McDonald and it was an all-time classic and then they were just like we can’t do it again, he’s too powerful, hip hop cannot handle Takin’ It To The Streets
December 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
They made one rap song based on the music of Michael McDonald and it was an all-time classic and then they were just like we can’t do it again, he’s too powerful, hip hop cannot handle Takin’ It To The Streets
This is going to date me quite a bit but I think one could be forgiven for thinking this is what happens if you feed the collected works of Martin Amis to an LLM and then ask it to read you bed time story in a sultry woman’s voice.
Okay, I think I figured out how to turn the audio sample into a video that can be uploaded to Bluesky. Here are the first 3 minutes.
December 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This is going to date me quite a bit but I think one could be forgiven for thinking this is what happens if you feed the collected works of Martin Amis to an LLM and then ask it to read you bed time story in a sultry woman’s voice.
I really hate it when people use the phrase “democratized knowledge“ as a point In favor of AI. We’ve had democratized knowledge for a couple centuries. It’s called public libraries.
December 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I really hate it when people use the phrase “democratized knowledge“ as a point In favor of AI. We’ve had democratized knowledge for a couple centuries. It’s called public libraries.
Because the victims are brave and the perpetrators are cowards.
I'm searching Getty Images and found some photos credited to the Boston Herald that redact the faces of ICE/federal agents. They don't redact the face of the guy they're arresting.
I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.
I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.
December 13, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Because the victims are brave and the perpetrators are cowards.
Certain leftists hate liberalism more than they hate fascism. It’s an easy thing to do and Chomsky has always been on the edge of it.
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Certain leftists hate liberalism more than they hate fascism. It’s an easy thing to do and Chomsky has always been on the edge of it.
Came real close to quote tweeting a Virginia pol talking trash on Maryland with “Shots fired” but then realized that history makes that an absolutely terrible idea.
December 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Came real close to quote tweeting a Virginia pol talking trash on Maryland with “Shots fired” but then realized that history makes that an absolutely terrible idea.
What a wonderful day to be an Emacs user.
December 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
What a wonderful day to be an Emacs user.
I dunno, might be my age, but those Angry Birds are pretty memorable.
If Nintendo is so great, why don't they have any memorable mascots?
November 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I dunno, might be my age, but those Angry Birds are pretty memorable.
My favorite thing about blursky is discovering folks who’s blogs I loved in the 2003-2008 timeframe are still out here posting.
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 AM
My favorite thing about blursky is discovering folks who’s blogs I loved in the 2003-2008 timeframe are still out here posting.
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Amazing that the solution society landed on for the malinformation crisis is apparently to industrialize its production
November 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Amazing that the solution society landed on for the malinformation crisis is apparently to industrialize its production
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I think about Worldcom often and all of the lessons no one learned from it.
November 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I think about Worldcom often and all of the lessons no one learned from it.
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Keep seeing people upset about the “Mansion Tax” potentially ruining their retirement, there’s actually a very simple solution for you: you need to stop getting lattes from Starbucks, cancel your Netflix subscription and gym membership, oh and stop having avocados.
Hope this helps x
Hope this helps x
November 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Keep seeing people upset about the “Mansion Tax” potentially ruining their retirement, there’s actually a very simple solution for you: you need to stop getting lattes from Starbucks, cancel your Netflix subscription and gym membership, oh and stop having avocados.
Hope this helps x
Hope this helps x
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calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
Old enough to remember “They hate us for our freedom”.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Old enough to remember “They hate us for our freedom”.
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we have to go back. to warn them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
we have to go back. to warn them.
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That cat’s something I can’t explain
Lucifer Sam - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Lucifer Sam - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
That cat’s something I can’t explain
Lucifer Sam - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Lucifer Sam - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
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I still maintain that gambling executives are taking big risks; most other companies which bankrupt and humiliate young American men take the precaution of also destroying their health or killing them. There's an obvious tragedy in the making
The boom in sports gambling and prediction markets is creating “emerging credit risks,” per Bank of America sherwood.news/markets/the-...
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I still maintain that gambling executives are taking big risks; most other companies which bankrupt and humiliate young American men take the precaution of also destroying their health or killing them. There's an obvious tragedy in the making
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The 1980s ended in mid-1988, and the 1990s didn’t start until 1992. The time in between is a magical liminal space. I’m actually very serious about this.
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The 1980s ended in mid-1988, and the 1990s didn’t start until 1992. The time in between is a magical liminal space. I’m actually very serious about this.