Hans Gerwitz
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The "someone" mentioned in xkcd 386 Fully exnominated
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Hi! Welcome to my
#introduction
thread: In the 20th century I was a libertarian software engineer in Missouri, now I'm a socialist design executive living in Europe. ā¦
11 months ago
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And casually returned to his $1,000,000,000,000 "job" when people started calling him names.
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about 6 hours ago
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I guess this works, but if I was writing the Ironic Failure of the American Experiment, they'd be using abandoned shopping malls.
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about 6 hours ago
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The Line is unravelling, but not before it displaced thousands of villagers and killed tens-of-thousands of workers. (It makes sense for the FT to discuss only the financial cost of this stupid ego project, but still upsets me.)
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What a roller-coaster week for
#uspol
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#verkiezingen
week was still much more enjoyable.
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Lauren Miller
3 days ago
Let's not forget that the only reason we're not talking about Boston
@mayorwu.boston.gov
's victory tonight is because she won her preliminary election so decisively that her billionaire heir opponent dropped out. ā
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Boston mayor Michelle Wu officially claims second term, cementing dominance in city - The Boston Globe
Mayor Michelle Wu ran unopposed, presiding unchallenged over Boston politics after a year in which it seemed her true political opposition was President Trump.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/metro/michelle-wu-second-term-election-national-figure/
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I like what I know about Mamdani. But if I lived in NYC and you told me, "vote for this mayor and every last one of your MAGA neighbors will leave, even the closet Nazis," I would vote for that mayor almost regardless of who they were.
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Magnum, T.I.(M.)
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Radley Balko
8 days ago
Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
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āpeer review deez nutzā
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...
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Hi, Itās Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
āWikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology
8 days ago
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America's democracy is so clearly broken, but the status quo is enshrined by such a myriad of forces that I have no hope of seeing it improve.
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9 days ago
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I just ran across this AI-driven profile aggregation site searching for backgrounds.
clay.earth/profile/hans...
It's all public information and could be useful for research, but it filters through an LLM with the aggrandizing setting on High. I really don't feel good about this future signal.
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Thomas
10 days ago
We have the most powerful personal computers ever at home and in our pockets yet we use them mostly as gloried terminals to Big Tech mainframes
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Today is the last Dutch election I am unable to vote in, but my neighbors seem to have done well without me.
10 days ago
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I havenāt read this, but love the metaphor as an alternative to ābubble poppingā:
ceodinner.substack.com/p/the-ai-wil...
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The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It's Going to be Very Painful and Incredibly Healthy.
AI wonāt crashāit will burn. Like every tech cycle, the fire will clear the brush, redistribute talent, and leave infrastructure to power what comes next. The question is: what kind of plant are you?
https://ceodinner.substack.com/p/the-ai-wildfire-is-coming-its-going
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In case you were wondering what we still need to develop AI: (from
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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I know FOSS means having to let even pelle you donāt like use your code, but I do wish they could revoke the Trump administrationās right to use Python.
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I signed up to run an influence campaign implying Marc Andreessen is in the Epstein Files.
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14 days ago
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It is normal for the DOJ to monitor concern-worthy polling sites. On the whole, most Californians vote by mail. These locations target in-person voters who donāt vote MAGA and will be intimidated by the smell of ICE agents. š Expertly crafted normalization of the Knights of the White Camelia.
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@occlupanid.bsky.social
I have encountered my first cartoniform, attached to a suspiciously-large macaroon at an upscale Amsterdam bakery. I believe this is a Redivivus imitator? It lacks the marking seen in the reference specimen, but perhaps those are regional.
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I think I'm most offended by "incorporating gold filigree, historic portraits, and custom carvings inspired by his Mar-a-Lago estate"
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15 days ago
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This was an important piece of media in my childhood. Figuring out how that shaped me is left as an exercise for the reader.
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Rowenna. 2 ānās. Ro-WEN-na.
19 days ago
There should be an administrative equivalent to the death penalty for corporate personhood.
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Happy Diwali to those who celebrate, and learning-from-AWS-failures day to SREs.
19 days ago
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BeijingPalmer
20 days ago
so I gather this is a lot of people's first middle east cease fire.
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Is it still "vibe coding" when I ask an agent to create a non-critical Rust module and don't personally review the code after all the tests pass?
21 days ago
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TIL that Mac Tonight has become a Nazi meme and I am somehow even more disappointed in you, internet.
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21 days ago
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There's a lot of "they must be desperate" takes on OpenAI talking about romantic chatbots, but zoom out and look at the rest of the world for a bit. They need to capitalize on a global trend before a competitor disrupts them, as with Apple and the iPhone Air with a sling.
21 days ago
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Lee Foltin
22 days ago
These accounts need us WAY more than we need them.
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Oh no.
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22 days ago
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Well, I guess that explains the manosphere.
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24 days ago
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@spun.earth
_please_ let me support the work by buying one of your t-shirts
25 days ago
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@genmon.fyi
+100 for room-scale computing with an eye towards shared experiences. (MultiUX?) We bought a *pair* of Vision Pros out of excitement for these possibilities and gotā¦almost nothing.
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Adam Klasfeld
about 1 month ago
No self-respecting reporter or news organization should misinform the public by referring to government agencies and officials by their pretend names and titles to humor, placate or curry favor with those in power.
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I love the frogs of Portland, butā¦
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27 days ago
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I so tired of exaggerated ink traps.
29 days ago
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sonder
about 1 month ago
The function of the hallway is to prepare us. "It is where you build the strength and gather the wisdom needed to enter the next room not as a guest, but as its rightful inhabitant." This becoming takes time, and that is not only acceptable, it is necessary.
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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty
about 1 month ago
A vast majority of people globally is in favor of climate action: "Our findings reveal widespread support for climate action. [...] 69% [...] expresses a willingness to contribute 1% of their personal income [...] and 89% demand intensified political action."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Globally representative evidence on the actual and perceived support for climate action - Nature Climate Change
Global support and cooperation are necessary for successful climate action. Large-scale representative survey results show that most of the population around the world is willing to support climate action, while a perception gap exists regarding other citizensā intention to act.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-01925-3
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@paulrobertlloyd.com
I've finally updated IndieKit and can now post from Drafts and POSSE to bsky. Thanks so much! š«”
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There is a growing body of research into LLM self-awareness but I am particularly fascinated by the āevaluation awarenessā research by Anthropic into the Hawthorne effect in LLMs. (h/t to
@futureshape.bsky.social
for the connection)
nitter.net/Jack_W_Linds...
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https://nitter.net/Jack_W_Lindsey/status/1972732219795153126
about 1 month ago
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Damn I wish I could do this with human agents.
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Tom Coates
about 1 month ago
If this is true, itās not because we couldnāt have made social software that was socially supportive, friendly, collaborative, creative and well moderated. Itāll be because some fucking assholes saw all this potential brilliance and decided to screw it for every penny they could get from it
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I listened to this because I am curious about Hasan Piker as a media phenomenon. I came away knowing a bit more about him, and with a deep conviction that Ross Douthat is a danger to America.
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I know I should learn more about what this "protestor" was saying before passing judgement, but I'm inclined to trust the judgement of UW students and simply enjoy watching him Find Out.
partyon.xyz/@nullagent/1...
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nullagent (@
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Attached: 1 video Yesterday a Nazi who is not a student barged into a class at the University of Washington and reportedly began doing Nazi salutes and spewing hate. The students were NOT having it,...
https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/115305574971404590
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I am often moved by
@natedimeo.bsky.social
ās storytelling, sometimes to anger. The latest, though, brought an unexpected sense of despair:
play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
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the memory palace
Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.The Memory Palace ...
https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_3_fbc3af19-9f8d-436b-8bcb-67fa9dbe1416&uf=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.thememorypalace.us%2Fthememorypalace
about 1 month ago
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY
about 1 month ago
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Aaron Rupar
about 2 months ago
Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"
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Great artists steal
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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A curious incident ⦠dog in Night Watch was a copy by Rembrandt, expert claims
Rijksmuseum says that just like Shakespeare, Rembrandt drew widely and shamelessly from earlier sources
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/sep/23/dog-rembrandt-the-night-watch-copied-from-lesser-known-artist?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
about 2 months ago
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Pavel
about 2 months ago
When I say "design is the rendering of care" this is what I mean. Anyone can butt heads over competing intentions. To design the user experience is to seek out *gaps* in intention.
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY
about 2 months ago
Cow poetry
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NY Times Pitchbot
about 2 months ago
Opinion | Iāve dedicated my career to promoting free speech on college campuses. Hereās why the murder of a red state college dropout by another red state college dropout means itās time to fire liberal professors in blue states.
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