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jwfbean.bsky.social
Flink at Confluent but this is a random personal feed. Husband and Dad. Into stuff like tech, theater, dogs, politics, sci fi, neurodivergence. Mediocre lukewarm takes.
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submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer

submitted 16 days ago • 171 comments

Blaming diversity for a plane crash is just depraved as hell but it’s obvious to me that this was an intentional distraction from the massive unlawful screw up with the federal funds freeze.

submitted 23 days ago • 105 comments

To prove my point that gen AI is equivalent to bullshit, I submit: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bull... I ask the reader to ponder the difference.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Why have I not heard generated AI described as bullshit? I don't mean to bash the technology. It's just that we're literally generating bullshit better than ever before.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Hey @chrislhayes.bsky.social I'm almost done listening to your podcast episode about Musk. You just missed the Nazi salute huh?

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Remember the dismissive criticism over the extreme Nazi comparisons? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

2016: Democracy dies in darkness. 2025: We tell stories. We tell the best stories. Nobody tells better stories. Everybody loves our stories. The best stories. People were just telling me, sir. These stories. They're incredible.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I would love to see a bunch of musical artists and celebrities put on a nationally televised tribute concert for Pres. Jimmy Carter on inauguration day with all proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.

submitted 55 days ago • 2055 comments

I just had a horrible nightmare. I was product manager for an admin tool and I suggested to engineering that they provide an interface similar to tail -f for realtime log analysis.

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Not everyone realises how easy it is to run a local LLM these days. If you’re on MacOS with Homebrew: > brew install --cask ollama > ollama run llama3.2 That’s it.

submitted 81 days ago • 26 comments

BlueSky is filling a void that 35+ up been looking for. Social media should be a cool distraction. Not stressful and annoying. Folks wanna laugh and have healthy banter and wit and sarcasm. A feeling of community. Not all these bots and ads and weird ass algorithms and engagement farming

submitted 99 days ago • 573 comments

Let me say something that is controversial because our brains are broken: Vaccines are a miracle and amazing

submitted 100 days ago • 1956 comments

A repeat thought, Bluesky, & a Librarian told you this so it must be true 🤣 Audiobooks definitely count as reading (as well as listening). If you've played through an audioook, its perfectly fine to describe that as "I have read [x]" All other forms of assistive software count as reading too 💙📚 👍

submitted 100 days ago • 614 comments

Need a brief distraction from the world today? Time for a good stupid joke thread. Please feel free to jump on board. The stupider the better.

submitted 104 days ago • 532 comments