Jack Rusher
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Ex-Bell Labs/AT&T Research'er making art & technology in Berlin. 🐘@
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Intro. I’m a multifaceted weirdo, so in three parts: ① Homeschooled child prodigy, early/pre-web Internet’er, contributed to software used by ~2/3 of the world. Worked at multiple labs, including Bell/AT&T. Many successful startups. Currently building tools to move forward science and computation.
over 2 years ago
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Pierre Briançon
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This in FT this morning 👇
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Anil Dash
4 days ago
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense.
anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...
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The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
https://anildash.com/2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/
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④ Everywhere else is too hot/cold, too much/too little of the right/wrong kinds of radiation, no free water, no breathable atmosphere, too weak/strong gravitational field, &c. The rest of the universe wants you dead, the sooner the better. ☠️
12 months ago
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dave
5 days ago
Any sufficiently useful Todo system contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of org-mode.
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Automerge
7 days ago
🎮 Like CRDTs and videogames?
@inkandswitch.com
is ✨hiring✨ for a project that combines
@automerge.org
with
@godotengine.org
to make the next generation of collaboration tools for game development! More detail here:
inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-i...
(Fully remote 🌍🌎🌏 contract, late Nov to April)
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Godot IDE Engineer
Help build native, visual version control for collaborative game development in Godot
https://inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-ide-engineer
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ncnvrgnt
9 days ago
time for some coffee
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dan
9 days ago
i think the only way for atproto to succeed is for us to show what apps can do when every app sees every other app's public data, and they share an identity system. no technical or sociological argument is as convincing as seeing seamless interop and the lighthearted competitive landscape it unlocks
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andrew blinn
9 days ago
replmode: live inline eval of selected intermediate expressions, where selection can be steered via user-entered linebreaks). the trace cursor can be used to navigate between evals inside function definitions
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Some of La Mexicaine De Perforation were friends when I lived in Paris in the years just before this happened. You can read more here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_UX
add a skeleton here at some point
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Jasmine Otto
11 days ago
Bay Area UX/PL folks - I'm organizing a get-together the morning of Sat, Oct 25th. Come chat about the joy and despair of making software tools for humans!
partiful.com/e/Fs3AD41RUM...
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RSVP to Feeling of Computing // Downtown SF | Partiful
Get coffee, chat convivial tools, and hang out with folks in human-centered computing. This month, special guest Ivan Reese is joining us! (Location is outdoors, near transit and multiple coffee shop...
https://partiful.com/e/Fs3AD41RUMjGxcfiZ85Y
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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty
11 days ago
Meet me in Berlin on Tue, Oct 21: I'll speak at the "Öffentliches Gestalten" meetup on my data design projects for the German government. Hope to see some of you there 🤗
www.meetup.com/offentliches...
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Meetup #11 — Visualising data, Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
The public sector has vast data. Data helps government and the administration drive decisions in policy-making, service development and procedural improvements. Making sens
https://www.meetup.com/offentliches-gestalten-shaping-public-sectors-future/events/311472163/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rsvp-confirmation-social
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One of the tragedies of the Aralqum is how cool it looks in photos…
12 days ago
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I wonder how Richard Serra would feel if he knew that his sculptures would eventually exist solely as selfie backdrops 🤔
14 days ago
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a ton of crates
17 days ago
i regret to inform you that the next 700 programming languages are going to be "types with baggage"
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Ken Tindell
17 days ago
Today in Totally Foreseen Unforeseeable Consequences.
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Discord says users' government IDs used for age checks stolen by hackers
Thanks to age verification laws, expect more data breaches of users' government-issued passports and driver's licenses.
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/discord-says-users-government-ids-used-for-age-checks-stolen-by-hackers/
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Signal
18 days ago
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe.
signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
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https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/germany-chat-control.pdf
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
18 days ago
Extant decentralized solutions (Mastodon, etc.) demonstrate that the kinds of social problems that decentralized networks are supposed to resolve simply emerge in different forms due to the properties of the networks in question. Decentralization isn't a bad thing, it's just not the silver bullet.
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Ink & Switch
18 days ago
It's that time again: ✨we’re hiring✨ We're looking for a
@godotengine.org
IDE Engineer to help us build the next generation of collaboration tools inside the engine itself! More detail here:
inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-ide-engineer
(Remote role 🌍🌎🌏)
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Godot IDE Engineer
Help build native, visual version control for collaborative game development in Godot
https://inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-ide-engineer
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John Wiseman
18 days ago
I'm not a global, or even local politics expert. But when I figured out how to map GPS jamming a few years ago my eyes were opened to the scale of Russian hybrid warfare against the west. Usually with limited awareness or response by western governments. And it's only gotten worse since then. 1/
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Kat Tenbarge
22 days ago
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
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Samuel
23 days ago
ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 extremely gullible
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Stereogum
24 days ago
from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’
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ncnvrgnt
25 days ago
the intern swears everything was normal at the Office of Geometry when they left last night. and now this
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brennan
24 days ago
the curse of decentralization nerds is they keep trying to build tools to do more decentralization instead of more tools to keep normal people interested in being on, engaging with, contributing to a platform that happens to be decentralizable
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daniel 🫠
25 days ago
okay and as promised, the bluesky PDS is officially open for returning users to migrate their accounts back! hoping this lowers the stakes & gives folks the confidence to explore some other PDSs in the network!
docs.bsky.app/blog/incomin...
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Enabling Account Migration Back to Bluesky’s PDS | Bluesky
One of the core promises of AT is the seamless account migration between PDS hosts. Since federation opened up in the AT network, it has been possible to migrate away from the Bluesky PDS and between ...
https://docs.bsky.app/blog/incoming-migration
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Tom MacWright
27 days ago
a directory called 'docs/' filled with markdown files is 1000% better for internal documentation than notion
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“[T]he true Tools for Thought we still wish existed will never come from Apple, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, or any other large player in the software or hardware space. They can’t.”
systemstack.dev/2025/09/huma...
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Apples, Trees, and Quasimodes - System Stack
a website about computers, mostly
https://systemstack.dev/2025/09/humane-computing/
27 days ago
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MIT Press
28 days ago
In his playful collection "Forty-Four Esolangs," Daniel Temkin (
@dtemkin.bsky.social
) challenges conventional definitions of language, code, and computer, showing the potential of esolangs—or esoteric programming languages—as pure idea art:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255308...
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Tiles and antiquity in Samarkand yesterday…
29 days ago
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Rodney Brooks
about 1 month ago
In 2011 I wrote a review of Alan Turing's 1948 paper Intelligent Machinery where he considered the case for embodied intelligence. My review was intended for a 2012 centenary celebration of Turing's birth, but no proceedings were published. So here it is.
rodneybrooks.com/alan-turing-...
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Alan Turing on Embodied Intelligence – Rodney Brooks
https://rodneybrooks.com/alan-turing-on-embodied-intelligence/
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Frederik Vanhoutte - Winterbloed
about 1 month ago
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Josh Horowitz
about 1 month ago
12 exciting live-programming projects will be presented at LIVE this year. It's free, online, and coming up soon! Sat 9/27: Videos premiere Sat 10/4: Q & A and discussion over Zoom Details on projects are up already at
liveprog.org
; more schedule & links coming soon. Hope to see ya there!
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I wonder from time to time whether the popularity of Bratz dolls in the early 2000s led directly to the highly synthetic aesthetic preferred by many young women today 🤔
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratz
about 1 month ago
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bryan newbold
about 1 month ago
excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service
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Creating an Independent Public Ledger of Credentials (PLC) Directory Organization | Bluesky
The Bluesky Social app is built on an open network protocol that refers to each user by a unique Decentralized Identifier, or DID (a W3C standard). The most popular supported DID method was developed ...
https://docs.bsky.app/blog/plc-directory-org
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schmudde
about 1 month ago
To help people manage their online footprint at Yorba, we first need to wrangle the web presence of countless businesses and organizations. This is a technical piece on how we use
#Clojure
to query and classify the world's knowledge.
schmud.de/programs/202...
#wikidata
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Wikidata and Mundaneum - The Triumph of the Commons
Using Clojure to query and classify the world's knowledge.
https://schmud.de/programs/2025-09-02-wikidata-mundaneum.html
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Frank Conniff
about 1 month ago
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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Ben Fry
about 1 month ago
Our Rowboat tool is about instantly seeing what's in a dataset, so we added a Chrome Extension that lets you open random datasets from all over the internet. Right click, poof! 0.2 seconds later we see what this dataset actually looks like. No workspace to set up, no waiting for the app, no db.
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Obsidian
about 1 month ago
A new bounty is open for Importer: $2,000 to convert Notion Databases to Obsidian Bases and plain text files
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Bozhidar Batsov (a.k.a. Bug)
about 1 month ago
When I saw
#Python
code like: processed = map(normalize, map(clean, filter(is_valid, items))) I immediately realized why Pythonistas believe that list comprehensions read better. I'm really surprised they didn't add some form of pipeline chaining to make such transformations more natural.
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Mariano Guerra
about 1 month ago
Post-collapse computing will be reborn out of the ashes of disposable vapes
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adam-james
about 1 month ago
Using
#clojure
and membrane, I made a little tool that makes interactive notes/calc tools for my design and engineering needs. Should be useful to build up a small library of simple calculators :)
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Like fixing a concurrency bug by adding sleep calls…
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about 1 month ago
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Deb Raji
about 1 month ago
More of this kind of reporting, please!
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rob pike
about 1 month ago
I had the privilege to work with Joseph H Condon at Bell Labs. (To us he was just "Joe"). His father was Edward U Condon, an important physicist who in time was head of the US's National Bureau of Standards, back when the US government cared about such things....
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schleiermocker
about 1 month ago
if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
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buy my book
about 1 month ago
Always write and workshop some puns before entering the dreams of my teenage victims.
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noby
12 months ago
series of computer graphics fantasy artwork i made in the past few years these are all rendered with a simple custom GPU path tracer that fits in a 4 kilobyte executable, along with scene being traced
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Eto Buziashvili
about 1 month ago
It is with heavy heart (and, unfortunately, deep affection) that I must reshare a snippet from the 1980s masterpiece “Yes, Prime Minister”, in relation to Russia’s drone attack on a NATO ally.
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MachinePix
about 1 month ago
The Dusty Robotics FieldPrinter autonomously draws construction plans onto concrete.
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Patrick Dubroy
about 1 month ago
A few quotes about Steve Jobs from "Valley of Genius" by Adam Fisher.
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