I like to type things into bluesky sometimes. My employer wants you to know that my opinions do not represent theirs, which is understandable.

Incredible
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right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
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This is good, and I'm reminded of the early misguided robodebt reporting www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying
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the purpose of a rube goldberg machine is what it does eventually
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They should sell laptops for mangers with a 👍 key right on the keyboard
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I’m going to kill grug
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Do we have any evidence that prehistorical humans weren’t beatboxing? The great acoustics in a cave and those long winter nights suggests strongly that they were
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Health Speculations Swirl As Trump Seen With Damage Numbers Above Head theonion.com/health-speculations-swirl-as-trump-seen-with-damage-numbers-above-head/
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I kind of wish I could spend my day wandering about the office telling people that dilbert died. It’s not against any official company policy but I can sorta read between the lines on that one
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We’re so close to me being able to check my superannuation balance using a CLI I can smell it
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What if forcing major corporations to re-express every interaction a human can have with a computer as just simple text instead of incredibly clungy web interfaces was one of the best things to ever happen in computing
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The Age has a hammerlock on the zeitgeist eh?
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A touching tribute to Mike F
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Rest in peace to Mike F, one of the all-time greats
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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I’m at an aviation museum, watching a guy sneak under the ropes around a 1920s plane engine with vernier calipers, calling out measurements to his friend, who has SolidWorks open on a laptop.
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From what I understand of animal psychology, I reckon 10% of those oil-covered penguins in the dish soap commercials really loved it and went out and covered themselves in oil again.
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World’s richest man was posting this as he was approaching xmas eve.
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My favourite part of the job is chasing the sun across the sky in a chariot, my least favourite part is keeping my Jira board up to date
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my friend's uncle works at samsung and he told my friend that they tried to make a tv with no bezel at all but when they turned it on the shows all spilled out the sides and they had to put a big cement sarcophagus on the building like chernobyl to stop tv shows from getting everywhere
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I am capable of thinking about computer programming in almost any conceivable situation
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