Jeff Atwood

co-founder stackoverflow.com, discourse.org, staygold.us, blogger. I have no idea what I'm doing, but I know I'm doing it really, really well. Let's be kind to each other. 💛

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2026-08-10 03:50:55 UTC

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See also: "how do you pass a constitutional amendment in 2026?" Unfortunately, you don't. Ask historians, ask other scholars and experts in this area.. it is impossible in practice.

2026-08-02 08:37:56 UTC

Share one of the primary / favorite songs you use to get pumped up, and also list one of the primary /favorite songs you use to calm down and relax. I'll go first: basically the entire Challengers soundtrack (Reznor/Atticus) and Blackberry Molasses (Mista)

2026-08-02 05:48:51 UTC

"There's no way the United States can possibly afford Universal Healthcare, it would cost more than all the taxes we could possibly collect!" Perhaps that is because healthcare in this country -- for some reason -- routinely costs 3×-5× more than it does in any other country. I present before the court Exhibits A and B:
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2026-07-31 08:49:08 UTC

I propose the following constitutional amendment -- people who have never worked a minimum wage job in this country for at least TWO YEARS of their life are INELIGIBLE for ANY ELECTED POSITION in this country. 📜✒️

2026-07-27 06:07:29 UTC

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@nprofile…knk0 the data indicates this is a fact. EVERY USER LIES. https://blog.codinghorror.com/every-user-lies/

2026-07-25 22:52:56 UTC

new business cards just dropped
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2026-07-23 04:48:33 UTC

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@nprofile…kzd2 you can select how the appear in the settings: one giant stretched, 2 completely independent with 2 connectors, 2 via one connector, or simple both screens mirror the primary. It's great!

2026-07-22 04:13:33 UTC

I’m enjoying this relatively simple travel setup of a solid OLED Chromebook, the asus fold out double OLED screen, with only two usb-c cables (it can drive both panels independently with one cable) and a single dual port compact usb-c GaN charger. I only need the third cable plugged in when the Chromebook runs low and that Kompanio chipset is Apple M2 level quality!
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2026-07-19 17:04:49 UTC

I am EXTREMELY happy that The Onion got InfoWars and not Elon Musk. Because.. that was a possibility. Check the wikipedias. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o28FfNKv6w

2026-07-01 10:36:46 UTC

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@nprofile…ds0l the music industry is not a survivable path for humans in my experience

2026-07-01 10:05:49 UTC

I was thinking of upgrading my CPU, looked amd realized again that Apple is still absolutely destroying everyone else out there on the only thing that really matters for real world performance. Why bother? There's no point.
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2026-06-30 20:25:27 UTC

"You already have all the solutions. You just refuse to implement them to protect the financial interests of the wealthiest 0.001%"" https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1uhwork/solutions_to_all_the_worlds_problems_oc/
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2026-06-29 01:21:25 UTC

The talk @nprofile…w50d and I are giving July 10th in Berlin at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress now has a proper name and synopsis.
None of Us Is As Dumb As All of Us: Community And Knowledge Go Hand In Hand
Ben and Jeff met in 2010, when Jeff hired Ben straight out of the nascent community forming on Stack Overflow – but to Jeff's surprise, Ben was not actually a professional software developer (yet). He was a curious tinkerer, a hobby programmer who loved figuring out how things worked, building things, and learning from others. But what is left of the community that helped Ben become successful? How do the curious tinkerers of today form communities to learn what's beneath the surface of the simple LLM answers? We must continue to build a public commons of programming knowledge that benefits everyone, especially in a time when LLM providers dream of monopolizing that knowledge.
We're not saying it will be a good talk, necessarily, but I can assure you this ain't gonna be your typical tech talk.
https://www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congress/agenda/sessions/none-of-us-is-as-dumb-as-all-of-us-community-and-knowledge-go-hand-in-hand-1259825
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2026-06-28 20:50:26 UTC

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Someone put me in charge of stickers again. You're welcome!
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2026-06-27 12:19:39 UTC

My boiz! My beloved pip-boiz! 😍
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2026-06-25 01:53:13 UTC

You Never Can Tell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSLMN6g_Od4

2026-06-23 17:14:54 UTC

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@nprofile…kaj0 "to spend hours of time and effort sourcing parts and making them work together reliably" this a wildly overstated claim. And when booting to Steam Big Picture mode, all you need is a controller. Nothing against the Steam Machine prebuilty, just that is a little but of a hysterical take on the whole process, IMO. It's really pretty easy to builld a quiet, powerful little PC box these days. Not as easy as the Steam Machine, but not, like 100x easier or anything.

2026-06-23 02:18:11 UTC

Make sure your kids see this graph https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2436
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2026-06-21 20:01:52 UTC

I have real difficulty seeing this "post-scarcity" society that some talk about. All I see is vast, unprecedented wealth concentration. I call total bullshit on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity

2026-06-19 17:16:49 UTC

"The HDD Synth is an ISA expansion card that recreates the sound of a mechanical hard drive for your retro PC" https://www.strifestreams.com/hddsynth

2026-06-16 22:18:19 UTC

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All I'm saying is, perhaps learning to form complete paragraphs could be a valuable life and career skill. Maybe. https://blog.codinghorror.com/how-to-write-without-writing/

2026-06-16 22:17:07 UTC

Just look at those lil' arms, barely long enough to hold you and whisper sweet, sweet complete paragraphs in your ear! ¶💛
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2026-06-13 00:13:48 UTC

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final LLM writing survey results here -- https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/report-llms-tech-blogs

2026-06-08 04:39:27 UTC

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@nprofile…v4gt agree; sort of like when THC was legalized. Where was all the predicted carnage? Compare: alcohol 😱

2026-06-08 04:28:53 UTC

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"26. There's a quote being passed around that reads
Steve Yegge says people using AI coding agents are "10x to 100x as productive as engineers using Cursor and chat today, and roughly 1000x as productive as Googlers were back in 2005."
That's a real number. I've seen it. I've lived it.
What's wrong with this benchmark?
At work, people keep recommending Caveman Mode for reducing token usage and speeding up tasks. The README in the repo claims a 3x speedup on tasks with a 75% reduction in token usage. On HN, people say this approach can't work and will make things worse for theoretical reasons that are guaranteed to hold, such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47647907. Someone tried benchmarking caveman mode and found https://www.maxtaylor.me/articles/i-benchmarked-caveman-against-two-words. The world's biggest programming influencer said, "it actually works; it actually works quite well ... no, I'm not exaggerating".
What's wrong with these benchmarks?"
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2026-06-06 09:45:12 UTC

Leo Laporte and I now have a monthly video/audio show! "Off by One with Jeff Atwood". The first episode, #2, is freely available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jveUllo7Mjs
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2026-06-05 22:02:52 UTC

Being an actual "leader" is excausting. So much easier to just do nothing and watch or be Yet Another Talking Head, but i just.. can't.

2026-06-05 01:13:34 UTC

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@nprofile…76fw they get very bad at around 120+ though

2026-06-05 01:11:49 UTC

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walnut finish / grey caps or raw finish gold caps .. arguably the best playing responsive yo-yo ever created.. and made entirely in the USA, too! https://rgmii.org/help-out/#one-drop-yoyos-lane-county-oregon

2026-06-04 14:41:57 UTC

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Now with completed art collab w/ https://claygrahamart.com 🙌
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2026-06-03 08:45:34 UTC

What creates billionaires, statistically speaking?
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2026-06-03 01:20:21 UTC

Nothing more punk rock than voting... and I voted as hard as I could for Michael Tubbs as Lt. Gov of California. A truly great person and a strong, empathetic leader.
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2026-05-29 01:09:49 UTC

Coming soon to a TWiT network near you.. and remember, every choice changes everything!
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2026-05-24 20:22:57 UTC

“Yeah, I could give billions, but what would it even do? It wouldn’t do shit.” If you want to be utterly enraged, watch this clip. And let's turn that rage into action, please. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOIMdHecfz8

2026-05-24 06:23:46 UTC

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Damn!
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2026-05-23 16:49:50 UTC

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I still laugh every damn time I listen to this ridiculous combination of songs which actually WORKS for some insane reason

2026-05-23 16:44:06 UTC

What if you combined the hardest dis track ever with the wussiest song ever recorded? 🤔 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Wyi33Ipt4

2026-05-23 14:34:35 UTC

What if you combined the hardest dis track ever with the wussiest song ever recorded? 🤔 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvoLRTrz9mc

2026-05-22 08:10:36 UTC

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@nprofile…s0r5 Be sure to kneel before Claude, the cult of sentience... https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/116475647859566242

2026-05-20 02:25:59 UTC

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@nprofile…3yyh I got a pretty good idea of where the screws are.. but there's definitely a lot of confusion and overselling going on. Also the free models are universally not great... the pro models are SO much better. Like.. dramatically.

2026-05-18 12:18:08 UTC

Project Hail Mary, the movie, is not a sci-fi movie. It's a dog movie.

2026-05-16 12:46:43 UTC

Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station. ¶
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2026-05-10 11:09:20 UTC

Every mother loves a diamond studded cougar!! https://www.reddit.com/r/HelpMeFind/comments/1t91bmo/how_about_a_nice_diamond_studded_cougar_tv/

2026-05-09 19:27:23 UTC

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2026-05-07 10:21:37 UTC

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All it takes is some goddamn bravery here in the land of the free.

2026-05-07 10:13:50 UTC

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That rhetorical reversal matters. Reactionaries love posing as restorationists: they are “returning” to the founders, “restoring” constitutional order, “saving” the republic. Vidal’s whole joke is that this is nonsense. He calls original intent “gorgeous nonsense,” because no one can coherently know the single intent of those fifty-five men, and because many of them did not treat the document as sacred in the first place. The Constitution itself was born from an illegal-ish supersession of the Articles of Confederation. The Founding was not piety, but audacity.
So yes: the move is not to ask permission from the old frame. The move is to claim the deeper legitimacy of constitutionalism against the existing Constitution’s failure.
The cleanest version:
Let them own the old dead form.
Let them be the party of Article V gamesmanship, equal-state Senate entrenchment, minority vetoes, judicial supremacy, “history and tradition,” and a Constitution too brittle to govern a modern multiracial democracy.
Build a public counter-constitution.
Not a manifesto, a real draft: rights, institutions, amendment procedures, court structure, labor, climate, bodily autonomy, voting, privacy, federalism, Indigenous sovereignty, emergency powers, anti-corruption, and democratic renewal. Make it concrete enough that people can compare futures.
Treat adaptability as the founding virtue.
Vidal leans hard on Jefferson’s generational-renewal idea: institutions must change while rights are guarded. That is the opposite of reactionary originalism. A better constitution should include scheduled renewal votes, easier-but-still-serious amendment rules, and a rights floor that no temporary majority or captured court can erase.
Stop framing the question as secession first.
Frame it as constitutional succession. The question is not “Who gets to leave America?” The question is “Who is carrying forward democratic constitutional legitimacy?” If one side wants oligarchic theocracy in constitutional costume, and the other wants equal citizenship under a living democratic charter, the latter has the better claim to the republic.
Force the legitimacy confrontation into daylight.
That is pure Vidal. He says if freedoms are going to be fought over, let the battle happen openly rather than inside the attorney general’s office or the Supreme Court’s backstage machinery. A public constitutional counter-project does exactly that. It makes people choose, explicitly, between dead-hand rule and living consent.
Where I still put a warning label: the danger is not that “they win the convention and we politely submit.” The danger is that they use convention theater to claim popular legitimacy while democratic forces remain reactive, lawyerly, and procedural. [hello democratic party, we're talking about you here] That is the ambush. Not that they create a country you must join -- that they create a country, call it the only real America, and leave everyone else sounding like they are passively objecting.
So the answer is not fear of a convention. The answer is preemption. Have the better constitution ready before the crisis fully arrives. Name the new republic before they monopolize the old one.
Make the central claim brutally simple: a constitution that cannot protect human dignity, cannot adapt, cannot correct minority rule, and cannot restrain its own judges has forfeited its moral authority. The living are allowed to found again.

2026-05-07 10:09:38 UTC

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But you’re making a sharper Vidal-style point: what if their Article V project does not trap us inside their country, but reveals that they have already constituted a different one?
That is a much stronger argument. [yeah, no shit]
Vidal’s 1987 piece is basically sitting right there grinning at this. He says the right, in trying to use a convention for balanced budgets, school prayer, abortion, pornography, drugs, and other items in what he calls a “Bill of Wrongs,” may have “set in motion the great engine” that could overthrow the Constitution they claim to worship. He also says that if there is to be a battle over freedoms, better to have it in the open than “backstage at the Supreme Court,” and he even suggests the Bill of Rights might be enhanced rather than destroyed.
That is the part I should have foregrounded. A convention is not only a danger. It is also a revelation machine.
If reactionary states convene around minority rule, forced birth, Christian nationalism, fossil sovereignty, federal paralysis, and judicial supremacy, then they are not merely proposing amendments. They are confessing their constitutional identity. They are saying: this is the country we want.
At that point, the democratic response does not have to be, “Oh no, how do we stop them from changing our Constitution?” It can be:
Fine. You have announced your constitution. Now we will announce ours.
That is not the same as trying to win their convention. It is using the crisis to make the latent split explicit. Not “please let us amend the old order by your rules,” but: we are the continuing democratic republic, and your project is the breakaway one.

2026-05-07 09:58:58 UTC

THE CONSTITUTION -- CONFOUNDING THE FOUNDING FATHERS - Reconvene the Convention and Rewrite the Document - LA Times - 1987 - Gore Vidal 🤔

2026-05-05 09:06:08 UTC

New unicorn dollars just dropped. This time, the rainbow horn is a lot sharper.
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2026-05-02 06:20:43 UTC

If you also enjoy keyboard insanity, feast your eyes on this absolute unit 🤩⌨️ https://mechboards.co.uk/products/hyper-7-v4

2026-05-01 14:58:34 UTC

I go crazy when I hear a cymbal and a hi-hat with a souped up tempo, I'm on a roll, it's time to go solo
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2026-05-01 10:10:43 UTC

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@nprofile…s32f awesome, thanks for researching that, appreciated, maybe do that first next time, just a suggestion

2026-05-01 06:00:12 UTC

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@nprofile…s32f I dunno, have you actually researched the answer to the first two questions? Get back to me when you have.

2026-04-29 04:08:33 UTC

Why does Steam let me gift Windows-only games to Mac users? I don't get it.

2026-04-27 10:59:11 UTC

I am continually amazed that Microsoft managed to make notepad.exe -- was barely an app in the first place -- WORSE. Like, A LOT WORSE. This some Ig Nobel Prize worthy bullshit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize

2026-04-26 09:58:08 UTC

I love how people are like "I'm all about the security!" and store hundreds of contacts on their phone. I store the absolute minimum number of contacts of my phone as I can, because I don't ever want any apps slurping them up. Unless you share a lot of DNA with me -- and I mean, like, a lot -- I regret to inform you that you ain't ever gonna be in my phone contacts. And sometimes even then, no. Depends heavily on the relative and their opsec.

2026-04-26 09:46:11 UTC

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@nprofile…245y yeah but if someone gets on your phone you're super fucked, right? The other physical item (the hardware 2fa key) is required.

2026-04-26 07:30:13 UTC

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@nprofile…245y does this apply to hardware 2fa keys? I honestly don't really understand why wwe bother with anything else other than the hardware 2fa keys.

2026-04-26 07:29:12 UTC

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@nprofile…0ss7 support it? Is anyone even USING it? I think that's the more relevant primary question.

2026-04-24 02:41:05 UTC

Layoffs at Meta? Can they lay everyone off, and dissolve the entire company? Asking for a friend.

2026-04-24 02:08:25 UTC

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here's how I say "I love you" in my love languages
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2026-04-23 04:15:04 UTC

This was the last picture of dad I ever saw.
Yes. The vast and endless sea. I know it all too well. A story for you all, in three parts.
https://blog.codinghorror.com/thank-you-for-being-a-friend/
https://blog.codinghorror.com/farewell-stack-exchange/
https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-vast-and-endless-sea/
All of it had meaning and it was all connected. I regret nothing. Come sail away with me, friends, and I promise you this: we will look for tomorrow on every shore.
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2026-04-22 01:57:54 UTC

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@nprofile…xn5z no. Incorrect. Citizens United created the problem. Worst SCOTUS decision since slavery. We CANNOT vote our way out of Citizens United. And it took a civil war to get us out of slavery, in case anyone forgot.

2026-04-21 21:12:35 UTC

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This party, that party, who cares, nothing material ever changes. Wake me up when one of these three things happens, if ever:
An actual 1787 style constitutional convention, led by CA, NY and TX, the only possible coalition that can work
The liberal justices on the supreme court resign in protest.
We ever pass another constitutional amendment of any significance whatsoever.
(I'll also add it'd be nice to have more than 2 parties so actual coalitions could be formed, but that's also probably never going to happen.)

2026-04-21 21:08:57 UTC

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Have I mentioned how much I love that our democracy here in the United States is basically incapable of changing? And by love, I mean fucking hate.

2026-04-21 21:08:13 UTC

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2026-04-21 13:05:53 UTC

"A recent 2026 empirical study titled "Beyond Code Snippets: Benchmarking LLMs on Repository-Level Question Answering" (published on arXiv/ResearchGate) explicitly tested LLMs on codebase comprehension. The researchers concluded that high performance often "results from verbatim reproduction of Stack Overflow answers rather than genuine reasoning." " https://www.researchgate.net/publication/403262523_Beyond_Code_Snippets_Benchmarking_LLMs_on_Repository-Level_Question_Answering

2026-04-20 19:42:27 UTC

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and yes, I do have to work my stupid ass Robert Frost references in all the time, that is a thing

2026-04-20 19:41:05 UTC

https://guaranteedincomeworks.com
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2026-04-20 17:33:11 UTC

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@nprofile…lsf6 I am .. not.. wearing pants

2026-04-19 18:57:04 UTC

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@nprofile…ucej yeah I guess
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2026-04-19 17:42:50 UTC

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@nprofile…kwpr yes, that is my exact copy from when I was a kid. My mom kept it ;)

2026-04-19 00:19:29 UTC

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@nprofile…kwpr the alt text will assist

2026-04-19 00:06:50 UTC

Raising the minimum wage, unless you ask sketchy bought-and-paid-for economists, turns out to be a good thing, actually: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/economists-warned-california-not-raise-110500084.html

2026-04-18 19:37:47 UTC

My daughter Raisin and I are here Choosing Our Own Adventures. As are we all, I suppose. 🤔
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2026-04-16 20:10:58 UTC

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2026-04-15 07:25:30 UTC

(cue intro music in your head)
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2026-04-13 21:56:05 UTC

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@nprofile…aqfx 2026 GOTO 17878

2026-04-12 21:06:34 UTC

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@nprofile…uaqj @nprofile…a6hr no idea on the Chinese but yes, Google and OpenAI follow the rules. Misanthropic lies through their teeth while pulling every trick in the dirty playbook. Kind of like Facebook but Dare was a big fan of Facebook as I recall. They operated the same way, completely amoral, do whatever it takes to win.. I met Zuck once and got my LRA (lifetime recommended allowance) of that guy. Misanthropic is like that but worse because they actually believe they are creating some kind of sentient life. Which is insane, but cults usually are. Imagine if Effective Altruism metastasized into a cancer — that’s Misanthropic and their little bitch Claude.

2026-04-12 16:09:41 UTC

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@nprofile…a6hr it's the frontrunner because they cheat like hell and lie constantly. They scrape everything. I will undermine this company in every fucking way I can. Misanthropic is pure evil. Ask Prashanth, CEO of Stack Overflow if you don't believe me. But you should. You are not seeing it.

2026-04-12 16:04:40 UTC

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@nprofile…nhrn @nprofile…zeh9 I really enjoyed your talk. And really, what the fuck is "quiet public"?? Developers do not let fellow developers create UI. Steal it, absolutely, but create it? HELL TO THE NO

2026-04-10 11:19:34 UTC

I don't make a big deal about it, but one of the reasons I donated to Mastodon is to improve the UI, and the stellar work of @nprofile…nhrn is a direct result 🤩 https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116302074492502983

2026-04-08 18:48:52 UTC

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@nprofile…r6lk the only thing that's gonna save us is a CA+NY+TX alliance

2026-04-07 16:56:05 UTC

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It was called. Dad loved rainbows. Now he has all the time he needs to reflect. https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/110703899816226982

2026-04-04 07:22:11 UTC

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@nprofile…vs6a I think the LLMs bring both human and computers in line here, e.g. https://blog.codinghorror.com/stack-overflow-none-of-us-is-as-dumb-as-all-of-us/

2026-04-04 04:51:10 UTC

email response to me, last sentence:
"All of that said, I hear the frustration behind your note — and it’s warranted. The question, to me, isn’t whether the system is under strain (it clearly is), but whether there are still levers to pull. I believe there are, even if they’re imperfect and slower than any of us would like." (note use of emdashes in this way strongly implies this is a LLM response, not a human one)
my reply
"This is an assault on fundamental human dignity and civil rights. Not the kind of thing you give any quarter to, but we have zero leaders (that I can see, anyway) of the heroic Lincoln / Roosevelt caliber necessary to lead us through this as a whole. I hope one emerges, but that is a thin, thin thread indeed.."

2026-04-03 10:52:48 UTC

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@nprofile…vs6a but predictably stupid, unlike people

2026-04-03 00:18:39 UTC

I don't get these phishing emails often, but when I do, I push the "take off and nuke the entire site from orbit" button with considerable enthusiasm..
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/337/899/840/754/636/original/f5714a2093fa8341.png

2026-04-01 22:07:22 UTC

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@nprofile…dq20 @nprofile…l2gr I encourage you to also njoy this https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/116330426935407633

2026-04-01 16:58:14 UTC

Nothing wrong with me
Nothing wrong with me
Nothing wrong with me
Nothing wrong with me
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/330/504/288/315/263/original/b98df242a156bc66.jpeg

2026-04-01 16:37:26 UTC

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I just woke up, so https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAWrQRw0-zPLXokObA0kKmioAa7_iK5pZ
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/330/417/020/327/755/original/238d8a7eb967c566.png

2026-03-31 15:28:23 UTC

My friend Damien once said something that stuck with me for a long time, a single sentence that is a masterclass in communications all by itself:
And then it becomes shit you can't talk about.

2026-03-31 03:17:16 UTC

Wikipedia: 25 years of humanity at its best. Betsyphd and I did an interview for this ~4 min video as donors and lifetime megafans, and look what pull quote they used at about 0:45 🤣🍄 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x6LNhJyD6k

2026-03-29 08:50:05 UTC

I am permanently renaming this playlist to
We only get the love we are willing to fight for
Please fold, spindle, and mutilate as you see fit... and give no quarter 💛
Cowboys from Hell -- Pantera
Into The Pit -- Testament
Bulls on Parade -- Rage Against The Machine
Ace of Spades - Motorhead
Caught in a Mosh - Anthrax
Hangar 18 - Megadeth
Dragula - Rob Zombie
Bodies - Drowning Pool
War Ensemble - Slayer
Painkiller - Judas Priest
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Raining Blood - Slayer
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2026-03-29 08:28:28 UTC

It's rough out there. Make time to support each other.

2026-03-27 18:39:33 UTC

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@nprofile…59as so decaf then?

2026-03-27 14:55:50 UTC

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https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/301/711/994/826/382/original/88444434ae994a82.mp4

2026-03-27 14:31:13 UTC

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ok I added Dragula. I am very happy with this sequence now:
Cowboys from Hell
Into the Pit
Bulls on Parade
Ace of Spades
Caught in a Mosh
Hangar 18
Bodies
Dragula
War Ensemble
Painkiller
Master of Puppets
Raining Blood
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/301/612/244/029/787/original/6a9ff63f1f714063.png

2026-03-27 14:07:37 UTC

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ok here's what I got so far and I will stan this list, it even goes in the correct order.. reach → swarm → escalation → biblical blood event.. it could be improved of course, but try it out.. see what you think https://music.amazon.com/user-playlists/533076d7c51341438a35e65722b36d0esune

2026-03-27 13:25:55 UTC

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I got this so far
Metallica — Master of Puppets
Slayer — War Ensemble
Sepultura — Arise
Megadeth — Hangar 18
Pantera — Cowboys from Hell
Anthrax — Caught in a Mosh
Drowning Pool — Bodies
instant authority - sustained attack - huge combat momentum - gets right to the anger