@justinisamaker.bsky.social
Reposted
a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
Reposted
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
October 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Reposted
Won't someone please think of the poor surveillance cameras?
August 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Won't someone please think of the poor surveillance cameras?
Requested my Amazon data just for shits and giggles, just to see what they keep. A lot of it is jumbled marketing identifiers, but they do have the actual audio recordings of when I tested an Alexa device for work 10 years ago. Just a reminder if you're on the fence about using those things.
June 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Requested my Amazon data just for shits and giggles, just to see what they keep. A lot of it is jumbled marketing identifiers, but they do have the actual audio recordings of when I tested an Alexa device for work 10 years ago. Just a reminder if you're on the fence about using those things.
Reposted
“It should be illegal for you to be mean to me and legal for me to kill you” is basically the Republican platform.
All the Republican examples of "violent" rhetoric from Democrats is someone like Tim Walz saying "these people are assholes, you should be rude to them" and all the Republican equivalents are a guy with a top-secret security clearance tweeting "I will personally kill Ilhan Omar with a gun"
June 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
“It should be illegal for you to be mean to me and legal for me to kill you” is basically the Republican platform.
Reposted
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
June 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
Ah, I see AI is going well and definitely not setting up the next round of things that will permanently break the brains of users.
Newsletter: An OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries on men it describes as “subhuman”, and promoting misogynist ideas sourced from online incel forums.
“Without surgery, you won’t mog genetically superior guys head-on,” it tells one man.
www.citationneeded.news/openai-incel...
“Without surgery, you won’t mog genetically superior guys head-on,” it tells one man.
www.citationneeded.news/openai-incel...
OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men
OpenAI's featured chatbot recommends $200,000 in surgeries while promoting incel ideology
www.citationneeded.news
June 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Ah, I see AI is going well and definitely not setting up the next round of things that will permanently break the brains of users.
Reposted
@whysophiewhy.bsky.social I think we might need a “I’m channeling darkness into my soul and lovin’ it!” shirt.
May 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
@whysophiewhy.bsky.social I think we might need a “I’m channeling darkness into my soul and lovin’ it!” shirt.
Reposted
The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.
May 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.
Reposted
So, how long should I wait to see Wicked so that I miss the initial round of audience members singing along, but not wait so long that everyone knows the songs and is singing along?
November 22, 2024 at 10:18 AM
So, how long should I wait to see Wicked so that I miss the initial round of audience members singing along, but not wait so long that everyone knows the songs and is singing along?
Reposted
the horrors are, unfortunately, structural
October 21, 2024 at 12:09 PM
the horrors are, unfortunately, structural
Huh, so that’s what DSA stands for.
October 20, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Huh, so that’s what DSA stands for.
I haven't had to touch any dev-ops-y stuff in a while, but we've got a project that could benefit from containerization. What are the cool kids using nowadays? Last time I had to be in that part of the stack it was Docker and Ansible.
September 30, 2024 at 3:53 PM
I haven't had to touch any dev-ops-y stuff in a while, but we've got a project that could benefit from containerization. What are the cool kids using nowadays? Last time I had to be in that part of the stack it was Docker and Ansible.
Y'all. @archive.org has an emulated version of KidPix, the drawing software from the 90s. I'm team implementing the dynamite eraser tool for any and all programs from here on out. archive.org/details/kid-...
March 7, 2024 at 11:06 PM
Y'all. @archive.org has an emulated version of KidPix, the drawing software from the 90s. I'm team implementing the dynamite eraser tool for any and all programs from here on out. archive.org/details/kid-...
Software work would be so much better if we could build a keyboard that delivers a shock to a dev when they try to write clever shit rather than just using code that exists and works in prod.
February 19, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Software work would be so much better if we could build a keyboard that delivers a shock to a dev when they try to write clever shit rather than just using code that exists and works in prod.
Reposted
20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital.
The law only ever serves capital.
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2024 at 4:34 PM
20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital.
The law only ever serves capital.
Got all excited to use the new flyover that finally opened at MSY, then remembered that I’m parking in the plebe garage. Now I’m just sitting on a bus with someone taking an extremely out of season king cake to someone.
October 5, 2023 at 5:17 PM
Got all excited to use the new flyover that finally opened at MSY, then remembered that I’m parking in the plebe garage. Now I’m just sitting on a bus with someone taking an extremely out of season king cake to someone.
I can't remember who was posting about using `cd -` to get to a previous directory yesterday, but I just learned that also works for checking out git branches (`git checkout -`). Super useful for switching between branches if you're issue hopping.
September 29, 2023 at 3:37 PM
I can't remember who was posting about using `cd -` to get to a previous directory yesterday, but I just learned that also works for checking out git branches (`git checkout -`). Super useful for switching between branches if you're issue hopping.
New dev rule: if you use the phrase "syntactic sugar" in any communication, you get punched.
September 28, 2023 at 10:26 PM
New dev rule: if you use the phrase "syntactic sugar" in any communication, you get punched.
Reposted
hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave
September 27, 2023 at 2:56 AM
hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave
Just saw someone describe themselves as a "creative capitalist." I'll give you three tries to guess what tech-related industry they're in.
September 28, 2023 at 8:06 PM
Just saw someone describe themselves as a "creative capitalist." I'll give you three tries to guess what tech-related industry they're in.
Reposted
yak shaver yak shaver shave me a yak
September 26, 2023 at 1:19 PM
yak shaver yak shaver shave me a yak