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Asher Langton
@asherlangton.bsky.social
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Malicious software researcher. Technical debt collector. Aspiring woodturner. Former bus driver. He/him. Durham, NH.
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Asher Langton @asherlangton.bsky.social · Nov 21
Lots of fresh, artisanal blocks added.
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scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
It's wild to me that this guy has reinvented himself as a resist grifter on this website
Senate candidate has history of sending racist, misogynist messages | Arizona Mirror
Arizona U.S. Senate hopeful Craig Brittain made headlines yesterday after he sent racist text messages to a potential campaign vendor.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
asherlangton.bsky.social
I think the people who set up these LLM bots should be [redacted] with [redacted] until [redacted].
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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sven.blacksky.app
I am a 30+ years software engineer, on a daily basis it makes my job more shitty thanks to the amount of nonsensical slop I have to deal with from people like YOU.
It's not because you created a _web_ framework ages ago that you are entitled to speak for all of us.
Fuck off.
simonwillison.net Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 2d
I think that may be the core division here: if you are an author or an artist the cons of generative AI very likely outweigh the pros for you

If you are a software developer the opposite is true
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
asherlangton.bsky.social
Go ahead, try to name a better pie than pumpkin.
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
asherlangton.bsky.social
Chris Loesch's biggest claim to fame is performing the most cringe rap-metal in history for a bunch of CPAC racists in a Best Western conference room. (The entire performance was just an excuse to shout "my knickers" with a see-what-I-did-there shit-eating grin.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c0P...
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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ianboudreau.com
Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
asherlangton.bsky.social
I just discovered the ManSon micro lathe and I don't think I've ever wanted anything more. www.lathes.co.uk/manson/
A tiny metal lathe sitting on a fireplace mantel.
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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malwaretech.com
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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dc0d3r.name
He also got roasted for posting AI slopped videos recently.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnDm...
Tupelo - 40th Birthday
YouTube video by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
asherlangton.bsky.social
fuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
annamerlan.bsky.social Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 1d
Highly specific siren: Nick Cave and Rod Dreher hung out
Screenshot of a tweet from Rod Dreher. He and Nick Cave are standing next to each other beaming, and the text of the tweet reads: "I don't know what you did tonight, but it wasn't as cool as my dinner with the great Nick Cave. What a lovely man."
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
asherlangton.bsky.social
lol, this is absolutely LLM-generated slop:
Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth The despicable video urging @DeptofWar troops to “refuse illegal orders” may seem harmless to civilians — but it carries a different weight inside the military. This was a politically-motivated influence operation: ☑️ It never named a specific “illegal order.” ☑️ It created ambiguity rather than clarity. ☑️ It used carefully scripted, legal-sounding language. ☑️ It subtly reframed military obedience around partisan distrust instead of established legal processes. In the military, vague rhetoric and ambiguity undermines trust, creates hesitation in the chain of command, and erodes cohesion.
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
asherlangton.bsky.social
I'm sorry I slept on a 14 hour flight to Japan. Next time I'll take the train.
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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swearyanthony.bsky.social
Oooo yeah. See also joel.id/artisanal-co...
Artisanal Coding Is Dead, Long Live Artisanal Coding!
Discuss on Hacker News or Twitter. I recently discovered that I possess certain AI-assisted superpowers: I can now implement working features — the ones I actually need and want — far faster than if ...
joel.id
November 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
asherlangton.bsky.social
These people are a fucking plague.
joelreymont commented 4 days ago It’s not where I obtained this PR but how. Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Claude Code) wrote most of it with ChatGPT 5 (Codex) reviewing and Claude addressing issues in each review. Codex wrote the last 10% or so when Claude kept getting stuck. I did not write a single line of code but carefully shepherded AI over the course of several days and kept it on the straight and narrow. AI: I need to keep track of variables moving across registers. This is too hard, let’s go shopping… Me: Hey, don’t any no shortcuts! My work was just directing, shaping, cajoling and reviewing.
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
asherlangton.bsky.social
"bronze face all chiseled angles"
RFK testifying in front of Congress, looking like a dry-rotted catcher's mitt while he tries to cancel the nicotine pouch he just popped into his filthy gums.
November 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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organizingpower.bsky.social
Hey @michaelscherer.bsky.social i think the word you’re looking for is “steroids.”
Kennedy is 71, but with the help of weight lifting, artificial tanning, a careful diet, and testosterone-replacement therapy, he looks more like a comic-book character than a senior citizen, his bronzed face all chiseled angles, his eyes sky blue. He adheres to a strict uniform at work—dark, embroidered skinny ties like his father sometimes wore, with suit jackets that bulge over his bodybuilder's chest and biceps.
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
asherlangton.bsky.social
Just calmly, casually planning to murder an innocent man for contempt of cop.
davidjbier.bsky.social David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4d
A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
November 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
asherlangton.bsky.social
Proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, except the bottom of the pit is the headline from Part 2 (She Did It Again) of That Story from Ryan Lizza's substack.
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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today-maybe.bsky.social
A digitally drawn recreation of a chalkboard gag from The Simpsons opening credits. Bart is being held after school and forced to repeatedly write ‘Maybe it will happen today’ on the chalkboard.
June 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
asherlangton.bsky.social
Stacked photos, the one on top showing Stalin and others with Nikolai Yezhov, the lower without Yezhov. Two photos from Trump's Truth Social post. The top shows Trump and Mamdani in front of a photo of FDR, the lower shows only Mamdani.
November 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
Truth Social users are not happy with Trump on this one.

“A Great Fuck'n Honor??? Have you lost your fucking mind?????”
Making America Great Again!!! @fastcarz3 • 11m You Should have deported him right from the White House keep that terrorist in line 1 2 6 •.. 凸 HolyGrayl @HolyGrayl • 9m A Great Fuck'n Honor??? Have you lost your fucking mind????? ... 6 贝 凸 Bcdeaton7 @Bcdeaton7 • 9m Don't forget President Trump. He is a communist and when his mouth is moving he is lying. •.. 1 • 6 Constance Dawn Olson @dawno63 • 12m Be careful, sir. I wouldn't trust him as far as l could throw him once a commie always a commie!!!! 4 27 2 13 贝 ... 凸 Patriot Mike W @MikeWinters2052 • 9m HONOR ?? How ??? ... 8 凸 Jiignesh Panchal @jignesh • 11m Mr President, don't forget he took 35 mil from the Soros who has weaponized the justice system against you and still trying best to fool you.. don't be fooled by looking into it.. they have double faces... Remember how he is changing his colors? L 1 oopsaDaisysmom @TracyPowel|Properties • 11m ... You have betrayed your base by honoring jihadis I'm sick over you lately 6 13 凸 Indignant1 @indignant1 • 12m Very disappointed. You have let us down. 5 1 17 ... 凸 Rum-Becca @bthibeault • 11m i'm so sad my President bowed down to that kind of evil. Elishouse @Elishouse • 11m Not happy with this at all. 1 ... 18 て 凸 Jziegler @ziegler • 10m Mr President I hope you educated this 34-year-old who's never held a job he's not your friend 2 亡く 11 山 Erica Corrieri @ericacorrieri84 • 12m How was it an "honor?" He's a dangerous manipulative actor. 1 2 29
November 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
asherlangton.bsky.social
Gonna be a rough night for Laura Loomer.
November 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
screenshot of the opening paragraphs of the quote-skeeted article, with the final sentence highlighted. text reads: When news broke last September about Olivia Nuzzi’s alleged relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., my first instinct—within minutes, actually—was sympathy. I sent her a DM: “You’ll get through this.” She responded with a heart. (The fact that I’m opening a column about media narcissism with my own DM slide should tell you everything about how far gone we all are. But I promise this is going somewhere.) I meant it. I’d known Nuzzi professionally for years—never close friends, but friendly enough through the White House Correspondents’ Dinner circuit and occasional professional courtesies. She’d always been generous with contacts and advice. More importantly, she was, without question, one of the best political writers of her generation. meme of Thor squinting and squinching up his face, from the scene in Ragnarok where he asks "Is he though?"
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM