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the only thing worse than my code are my jokes governance @opentelemetry.io dir. open source @honeycomb.io av by @extinctinks.net

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austin @aparker.io · Aug 11

this is basically what technical product marketing is like

An illustration from Charlottes Web, of the word ‘terrific’ being spelled out in a spiders web over a smiling pig.

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austin @aparker.io · 43m

fuck yeah

Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 2h

Cursing is rarely a symbol of low class. It's often a mark of high authenticity.

Evidence: Swearing predicts higher rates of honesty and integrity. It signals a willingness to prize candor over courtesy.

A little profanity can show that you're being real and you do give a damn.

austin @aparker.io · 2h

reader, her birthday is in June

austin @aparker.io · 2h

i just walked in to my child being consoled because she had a meltdown that it wasn’t her birthday

austin @aparker.io · 3h

could be a sudden rush of people searching for her backed up the search index

austin @aparker.io · 3h

mlyp etc etc

austin @aparker.io · 3h

ridiculous that I have to build a house for my garbage

austin @aparker.io · 4h

erowid for the private jet set would go crazy

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 4h

A modest proposal

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austin @aparker.io · 5h

may bee

austin @aparker.io · 5h

There’s no separate button any more

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Jack Drago - Vast Country Hypnosis @vasthypno.bsky.social · 6h

Jungian @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social meme

We become what we behold.

We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

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austin @aparker.io · 5h

have you tried the for you feed? 3rd party but it’s a lot more recent than the discover feed and usually winds up showing me new/interesting people

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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drew dillon @drewdil.bsky.social · 6h

I learned all the wrong lessons from this experience.

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austin @aparker.io · 7h

dudes rock

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 9h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

austin @aparker.io · 7h

my biggest first world problem is that none of the FTTH ISPs here serve my address yet

austin @aparker.io · 7h

pretty!

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 12h

I don't think this is "the most solid indicator." We can do better than studies with 16 participants who were directly told the study was about AI speedup

I wrote about this study & why I don't think it's particularly strong evidence for this effect:

www.fightforthehuman.com/are-develope...

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austin @aparker.io · 7h

this was probably the first time whatever pr person got the email ever heard of this tbh

austin @aparker.io · 9h

this is also a lot of fun when places have overly byzantine OSS policies. “hi, I’m having x problem. no, I can’t tell you any details about what or why.”

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 11h

People need to learn what selection bias is

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austin @aparker.io · 23h

there’s some real normal people on this website.

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austin @aparker.io · 1d

_heh_

austin @aparker.io · 1d

ecc/anc

(I will not look to see if someone has made an effective anarchism joke anywhere ever)

austin @aparker.io · 1d

a very happy Saturday to everyone except whatever asshole invented sensory sand that gets everywhere and is impossible to clean up

austin @aparker.io · 1d

I said it in a quote of myself, but I think we should probably just, like… try and restore the civic value of “not lying about things constantly”