hoptimusprime.bsky.social
Software engineer. Freedom and lasers are the right of all sentient beings. Takes on politics, tech, culture. Quality is job 9.
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yep, real potential for a no ragrets situation there
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@annenotation.bsky.social, you would appreciate this
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Yep.
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There were a lot of folks in the media who clearly wanted to flat out call her lazy and stupid, and man, that was a real ugly look.
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less potential issues with the local government would be my guess
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you’ll see journos occasionally griping about their treatment in places like Bluesky, and man, cry me a fucking river
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agreed - the problem for them and for legacy journalism is that the refs have gone from tolerating their behavior to objectively favoring it, and as a result, no one trusts the refs anymore
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i've gone from thinking that the WH press writ large is fundamentally lazy to thinking that they are just fundamentally bad people in a very short amount of time
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probably an unusual answer here, but: astro bot had me sitting back and just marveling at level design on several occasions
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Can you imagine what Tapper and crew would have said if Biden did the same? It would be a story for months.
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This sort of thing is not new for NBC News.
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yeah, they've lost LAPD:
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“Prowl, Ratchet, and Ironhide deserved their fates, and none of them would defend the abundance agenda.”
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in addition to being accessible and fun, it is a masterclass in level design
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Grandpa Wilberforce and Grandma Gertrude
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so, suggestion: i too am terrible at platforming, usually don't find it fun, but found astro bot to be an absolute blast, *and* it's a game that your kids can play too
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Glad to see @waldo.net making the observation that should be beat-you-over-the-head obvious to any CS major who's taken a software engineering course, which is that problem assessment and refinement and tool selection are at the threshold of any major software project.
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you love to see it!
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I think that Matt’s embrace of substack over employment at organizations with editorial oversight and HR departments comes with some behavioral hazards, and you’re seeing those play out.
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Neither of these people have anyone in their lives who respects them enough to mitigate their behavior. The decline will get worse. The drug use will get worse.
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I think that assumes two facts that aren’t in evidence: a) that both of these people are reliable rational actors, and b) that’s the conditions that prevent them from being reliable rational actors aren’t going to be worse in 2026
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when asked to comment, God responded:
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the thing about matt is that he has always been this way, but he was previously constrained by editorial oversight and HR departments; now, thanks to substack, he has no constraints, and so everyone gets to deal with his broken personality
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men will spend billions creating an absolutely powerless 3rd partyinstead of going to therapy
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it's like this, Tesla owners: imagine if you will that your Tesla represents your dignity, and Elon represents its shitty self-driving software