Sawyer
@sawyer2.bsky.social
Family man, data-focused software engineer, variety musician, gamer, learner, amateur audio producer, Ohioan
Lover of compassion, empathy, understanding, democracy.
Lover of compassion, empathy, understanding, democracy.
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For the past six weeks, an AI Facebook account has been pulling my history posts on Instagram and slopping out new captions, so I’ve been feeding it poison pills and its followers are having meltdowns in the comments. It’s been pretty spectacular.
November 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
For the past six weeks, an AI Facebook account has been pulling my history posts on Instagram and slopping out new captions, so I’ve been feeding it poison pills and its followers are having meltdowns in the comments. It’s been pretty spectacular.
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No. Your friends don't secretly hate you. You're just dehydrated.
September 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
No. Your friends don't secretly hate you. You're just dehydrated.
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my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”
September 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”
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It's time to do that thing you've been wanting to do
September 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
It's time to do that thing you've been wanting to do
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
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I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning
April 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning
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On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
August 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
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🪬🧿 There is no amount of money, oil, or gold in the world that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.
August 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
🪬🧿 There is no amount of money, oil, or gold in the world that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.
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Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:
August 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:
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job control
wizardzines.com/comics/job-c...
(from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, which is out now!)
wizardzines.com/comics/job-c...
(from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, which is out now!)
![your shell lets you run many programs (“jobs”) in the same terminal tab
programs can either be:
foreground
background
stopped (which is more like “paused”)
& runs a program in the background
for example I like to convert 100 files in parallel like this:
for i in `seq 1 100`
do
convert $i.png $i.jpg &
done
jobs lists backgrounded & stopped jobs
$ jobs
[1] Running python blah.py &
[2] Stopped vim
use the numbers to bring them to the foreground or background (like fg %2), kill them (kill %2), or disown them
when you close a terminal tab all jobs are killed with a SIGHUP signal
you can stop this with disown or by starting the program with nohup: disown %1 (job number goes here) nohup my_program &
a trick to kill programs if Ctrl+C doesn’t work
press Ctrl+Z to stop the program
run kill %1 to kill it (or kill -9 %1 if you’re feeling extra murderous)
a little flowchart
Three boxes, labelled “running in foreground”, “stopped”, and “running in background”
Ctrl+Z goes from “running in foreground” to “stopped” fg goes from “stopped” to “running in foreground” fg goes from “running in background” to “running in foreground” bg goes from “stopped” to “running in background”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nzrozayxq764zbgl4qtp5ald/bafkreigxoajfoayzbyucv22q6daqvpvcjlftkkhbeaajib5mbri3cwj5fq@jpeg)
August 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
job control
wizardzines.com/comics/job-c...
(from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, which is out now!)
wizardzines.com/comics/job-c...
(from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, which is out now!)
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age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers!
age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends
age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends
August 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers!
age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends
age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends
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The perfect placement of The Ask sticker - directly on top of crossing flag instructions🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
📸 Rich Jones
📸 Rich Jones
August 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The perfect placement of The Ask sticker - directly on top of crossing flag instructions🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
📸 Rich Jones
📸 Rich Jones
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This wasn’t a joke btw. It works. You’d be surprised how much uwu breaks guardrail implementations.
July 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This wasn’t a joke btw. It works. You’d be surprised how much uwu breaks guardrail implementations.
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Report: Texting While Driving Okay If You Look Up Every Couple Seconds
theonion.com/report-...
theonion.com/report-...
May 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Report: Texting While Driving Okay If You Look Up Every Couple Seconds
theonion.com/report-...
theonion.com/report-...
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The murder of George Floyd still weighs on this city and it should. Nothing has been done to stop this from happening again. In fact it often feels like it's just a matter of time. Everyone I've talked with recently feels somewhat similar, especially the heaviness.
May 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The murder of George Floyd still weighs on this city and it should. Nothing has been done to stop this from happening again. In fact it often feels like it's just a matter of time. Everyone I've talked with recently feels somewhat similar, especially the heaviness.
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I went to Never Melee this last weekend and experienced time travel.
Please read and long live Melee
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Please read and long live Melee
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Never Meant, for Esports
This weekend I hopped in my tiny little 2014 Mazda 2 and set out for my 4th event in 5 weeks. I’m exhausted but the weather is a perfect melancholic sprinkling of rain and the smell gets me goin. Pick...
docs.google.com
May 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I went to Never Melee this last weekend and experienced time travel.
Please read and long live Melee
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Please read and long live Melee
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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I wrote up a detailed analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app that senior Trump fascists use to organize their war crimes micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-...
TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with Trump officials
Yesterday, a Reuters photographer captured a photo of the freshly-ousted former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz checking his Signal messages during a Trump cabinet meeting. If you're not familiar...
micahflee.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I wrote up a detailed analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app that senior Trump fascists use to organize their war crimes micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-...
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In conclusion, the main problem with AI isn't AI, it's rampant, unrestrained late stage capitalism and the capture of democratic institutuons by unaccountabke oligarchs.
Might be better to make THAT shit the site of our resistance because tech hype cycles come and go.
Might be better to make THAT shit the site of our resistance because tech hype cycles come and go.
April 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
In conclusion, the main problem with AI isn't AI, it's rampant, unrestrained late stage capitalism and the capture of democratic institutuons by unaccountabke oligarchs.
Might be better to make THAT shit the site of our resistance because tech hype cycles come and go.
Might be better to make THAT shit the site of our resistance because tech hype cycles come and go.