Thomas G Dennehy
@thomasgdennehy.bsky.social
Data science guy. Wine afficionado. English Premier League enthusiast.
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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)
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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.
Should we be taking secondhand design advice from someone who chose that background for white text?
to commemorate alan dye moving from apple to meta, here's one of his best quotes
December 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Should we be taking secondhand design advice from someone who chose that background for white text?
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What is the quintessential Onion headline? The strong contender that just randomly popped in my mind is "Hank Williams Jr. Honored by Institute For Football Preparedness"
May 19, 2024 at 12:26 PM
What is the quintessential Onion headline? The strong contender that just randomly popped in my mind is "Hank Williams Jr. Honored by Institute For Football Preparedness"
He makes good points, if you can fight your way through the relentless onslaught of website pop-ups to find them.
Hey yo here’s some blue meat from me on yesterday’s election results.
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
I have terrible, terrible news for red America
SFGATE columnist Drew Magary unpacks the 2025 elections.
www.sfgate.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
He makes good points, if you can fight your way through the relentless onslaught of website pop-ups to find them.
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Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
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i really loathe the term "roadmap" for product development because i dunno if anybody has noticed but a real road map entails ALREADY HAVING BUILT THE ROADS, which entails all manner of construction and grading and demolition and SURVEYING, which is painstaking and exhaustive
October 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
i really loathe the term "roadmap" for product development because i dunno if anybody has noticed but a real road map entails ALREADY HAVING BUILT THE ROADS, which entails all manner of construction and grading and demolition and SURVEYING, which is painstaking and exhaustive
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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
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If you want to irritate your readers, do it on purpose, do it for a reason, and do it knowledgeably.
October 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
If you want to irritate your readers, do it on purpose, do it for a reason, and do it knowledgeably.
Yay, math. Have a toast with Triple Sec.
Pythagorean Triple Square Day.
This occurs once per century on 9/16/25.
The square roots of those numbers make up the Pythagorean triple of 3^2+4^2=5^2.
This occurs once per century on 9/16/25.
The square roots of those numbers make up the Pythagorean triple of 3^2+4^2=5^2.
September 17, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Yay, math. Have a toast with Triple Sec.
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One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.
September 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.
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“The engineer’s first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is.”
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September 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“The engineer’s first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is.”
- Unknown
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Susan Collins is the Teddy Ruxpin of senators — she doesn’t actually *do* anything but you’re supposed to be impressed because she has three sentences she plays on repeat.
Sen. Susan Collins is concerned about several provisions in the White House’s $9.4 billion rescission package. “The PEPFAR cuts make no sense to me whatsoever, given the extraordinary record of PEPFAR in saving lives,” Collins tells @frankthorp.bsky.social. “So I have a lot of concerns.”
June 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Susan Collins is the Teddy Ruxpin of senators — she doesn’t actually *do* anything but you’re supposed to be impressed because she has three sentences she plays on repeat.
I hate to break the bad news to Highland Park MI and Highland Park IL but ...
Tomorrow at 9 am in highland park! With vince caldera! outsideintheatre.vbotickets.com/event/Mornin...
Outside In Theatre - Morning Poop w/ Maria Bamford
Morning Poop w/ Maria BamfordWake up early and have a laugh with Maria Bamford. New Material!No one will be turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds go to support Outside In Theatre.About the Artis...
outsideintheatre.vbotickets.com
June 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I hate to break the bad news to Highland Park MI and Highland Park IL but ...
Popeless romantics?
BREAKING: We remain popeless.
May 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Popeless romantics?
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Proposal: When discussing automation, replace the notional always-on, maintenance-free robot helper you're imagining with the average real-world printer you've encountered.
The more expensive and complex the printer, the more potential issues and "having a printer guy".
A much better baseline.
The more expensive and complex the printer, the more potential issues and "having a printer guy".
A much better baseline.
April 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Proposal: When discussing automation, replace the notional always-on, maintenance-free robot helper you're imagining with the average real-world printer you've encountered.
The more expensive and complex the printer, the more potential issues and "having a printer guy".
A much better baseline.
The more expensive and complex the printer, the more potential issues and "having a printer guy".
A much better baseline.
My takeaway: three paragraphs and a paywall.
April 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My takeaway: three paragraphs and a paywall.
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Um ... is there reporting on any mob violence against actual protesters?
A Brooklyn woman said she feared for her life as she was chased, kicked, spit at and pelted with objects by a mob of Orthodox Jewish men who mistook her as a participant in a protest against Israel’s far-right security minister, AP reports.
Mob chased Brooklyn woman after mistaking her for protester at speech by Israeli security minister
The woman, a neighborhood resident in her 30s, told The Associated Press she learned of the protest after hearing police helicopters over her apartment.
nbcnews.to
April 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Um ... is there reporting on any mob violence against actual protesters?
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“U-M alumni should stop donating until DEI programs are reinstated as a core mission of the University.”
Alumni, stop ‘looking to Michigan’
To reinstate DEI at the University, alumni need to stop “looking to Michigan.” Alumni should instead give directly to causes that uphold agreed upon ideas of diversity and inclusion. Continued support...
www.michigandaily.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“U-M alumni should stop donating until DEI programs are reinstated as a core mission of the University.”
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I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
April 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
.@nbcnews.com copy editors: when exactly did the molesting occur?
Former UFC champ Cain Velasquez was sentenced to five years in prison for the attempted murder of a man accused of molesting his relative during an emotionally fraught Monday hearing.
Former UFC champ sentenced to 5 years after shooting man who allegedly molested his relative
Cain Velasquez shot at a truck during a high-speed chase in 2022, targeting a man who is now facing trial on felony child molestation charges.
nbcnews.to
March 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
.@nbcnews.com copy editors: when exactly did the molesting occur?
@bcdreyer.social Notice anything wrong with this headline?
Former UFC champ Cain Velasquez was sentenced to five years in prison for the attempted murder of a man accused of molesting his relative during an emotionally fraught Monday hearing.
Former UFC champ sentenced to 5 years after shooting man who allegedly molested his relative
Cain Velasquez shot at a truck during a high-speed chase in 2022, targeting a man who is now facing trial on felony child molestation charges.
nbcnews.to
March 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
@bcdreyer.social Notice anything wrong with this headline?
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The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.
February 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.