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Software • Speculative Fiction • Football Analytics • Electronica • Percussion
https://michaelevy.com
Software • Speculative Fiction • Football Analytics • Electronica • Percussion
https://michaelevy.com
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In samsara, wheel reinvents you
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
In samsara, wheel reinvents you
I tried to search this website for ocarina content but it is all Zelda. So weird that a whole instrument got overshadowed by a video game
November 2, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I tried to search this website for ocarina content but it is all Zelda. So weird that a whole instrument got overshadowed by a video game
There are two wolves inside me. One is a developer and one is a tester. There's a heated debate about whether writing automated tests is more important than it is mind-numbing
October 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
There are two wolves inside me. One is a developer and one is a tester. There's a heated debate about whether writing automated tests is more important than it is mind-numbing
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i write to you with solemn news. i am in paris, writing my life’s only masterwork. i spend my days drinking good espresso and smoking inexpensive cigarettes, writing clear and hard about what hurts. as such, i cannot ‘Log On’ - and friend - i will not attend your ‘laser-focused mesh network webinar’
October 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
i write to you with solemn news. i am in paris, writing my life’s only masterwork. i spend my days drinking good espresso and smoking inexpensive cigarettes, writing clear and hard about what hurts. as such, i cannot ‘Log On’ - and friend - i will not attend your ‘laser-focused mesh network webinar’
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code review. brother these functions are mad insalubrious, i must say. brother you’ve written some frankly unsalutary code here. frankly mephitical stuff. mephitical stuff indeed
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
code review. brother these functions are mad insalubrious, i must say. brother you’ve written some frankly unsalutary code here. frankly mephitical stuff. mephitical stuff indeed
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"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
October 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
I need to make some more circles...
(WIP) thing intended to show "yo atproto gives you a global identity and here are apps that use it"
want to make the logged-out experience informative too so i can share w uninitiated. i know @pdsls.dev exists (and rocks!), my end goal here is maximally accessible "look ma no silos!"
at-me.fly.dev
want to make the logged-out experience informative too so i can share w uninitiated. i know @pdsls.dev exists (and rocks!), my end goal here is maximally accessible "look ma no silos!"
at-me.fly.dev
@me - explore your atproto identity
visualize your decentralized identity and see what apps have stored data in your personal data server
at-me.fly.dev
October 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
I need to make some more circles...
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people saying ai is a fad don't know what they're talking about. i'm definitely not giving up my claude now; the ability to do structural refactors "change this thing to be layered like this thing in this other project" is fantastic. i *do* want the model to be local and hope we'll get there in time
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 AM
people saying ai is a fad don't know what they're talking about. i'm definitely not giving up my claude now; the ability to do structural refactors "change this thing to be layered like this thing in this other project" is fantastic. i *do* want the model to be local and hope we'll get there in time
Possible multiple innumeration of innumerable
October 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Possible multiple innumeration of innumerable
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not to be confused with old deuteronomy, who is an ancient and wise cat who has lived many lives in succession
October 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
not to be confused with old deuteronomy, who is an ancient and wise cat who has lived many lives in succession
I'm halfway through converting my personal site from pure HTML to @11ty.dev, and I have been quite surprised by how easy it has been! A really great piece of tech.
October 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I'm halfway through converting my personal site from pure HTML to @11ty.dev, and I have been quite surprised by how easy it has been! A really great piece of tech.
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Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will
October 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will
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Interchangeability is what new social platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon are doing, though with different technologies and different ideas on how to do it.
When you hear talk about decentralization, it's about making the social platforms interchangeable to solve the neutrality problem.
When you hear talk about decentralization, it's about making the social platforms interchangeable to solve the neutrality problem.
Social platforms are not neutral
So they need to be interchangeable
pfrazee.leaflet.pub
October 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Interchangeability is what new social platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon are doing, though with different technologies and different ideas on how to do it.
When you hear talk about decentralization, it's about making the social platforms interchangeable to solve the neutrality problem.
When you hear talk about decentralization, it's about making the social platforms interchangeable to solve the neutrality problem.
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Same data but just for September months. Completely unnecessary self flagellation. It's like all the lessons learned on the need for fiscal kick-starts are being roundly ignored. Small island, housing ponzi, rogergnomics, 8-wire, whip the poor exceptionalism. (2/2)
October 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Same data but just for September months. Completely unnecessary self flagellation. It's like all the lessons learned on the need for fiscal kick-starts are being roundly ignored. Small island, housing ponzi, rogergnomics, 8-wire, whip the poor exceptionalism. (2/2)
Reposting both anti and pro AI sentiments to keep people on their toes
October 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Reposting both anti and pro AI sentiments to keep people on their toes
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this is going to get me yelled at so I will preemptively say "this is not the thread to reply with 'but I just don't like AI and think it's bad'"
but I do think that "LLMs are glorified autocorrect" as a meme is actively hindering people's understanding of how this tech works at this point
but I do think that "LLMs are glorified autocorrect" as a meme is actively hindering people's understanding of how this tech works at this point
October 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
this is going to get me yelled at so I will preemptively say "this is not the thread to reply with 'but I just don't like AI and think it's bad'"
but I do think that "LLMs are glorified autocorrect" as a meme is actively hindering people's understanding of how this tech works at this point
but I do think that "LLMs are glorified autocorrect" as a meme is actively hindering people's understanding of how this tech works at this point
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A part of the reason the "AI discourse" is perpetually cursed is because it implicitly elides over differences in religious belief about the ontological reality of the Infinite Money God and one's moral and spiritual obligations towards it
October 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A part of the reason the "AI discourse" is perpetually cursed is because it implicitly elides over differences in religious belief about the ontological reality of the Infinite Money God and one's moral and spiritual obligations towards it
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theyre doing this to me
September 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
theyre doing this to me
It's simply impossible to do tasks on the bus. The nature of the bus is antithetical to emails, messages, and other such things
October 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
It's simply impossible to do tasks on the bus. The nature of the bus is antithetical to emails, messages, and other such things
You should all listen to the new dodie album instead of the Taylor Swift one
October 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
You should all listen to the new dodie album instead of the Taylor Swift one
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this! so much of this.
if you’re comparing the AI to a theoretical perfect mind that never invents weird folk theories, never gets things subtly wrong, can apply every extant piece of knowledge in every context error-free, then yes, LLMs *are* garbage. we should use perfect minds instead. got one?
if you’re comparing the AI to a theoretical perfect mind that never invents weird folk theories, never gets things subtly wrong, can apply every extant piece of knowledge in every context error-free, then yes, LLMs *are* garbage. we should use perfect minds instead. got one?
I left a conversation where I argued something maybe counter-intuitive: Often times AI systems offer up somewhat banal and dowdy statistical advice, and often it's subtly wrong.
I think that's fine.
It's almost always more sane, standard, and repeatable than the wild things that people reinvent.
I think that's fine.
It's almost always more sane, standard, and repeatable than the wild things that people reinvent.
September 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
this! so much of this.
if you’re comparing the AI to a theoretical perfect mind that never invents weird folk theories, never gets things subtly wrong, can apply every extant piece of knowledge in every context error-free, then yes, LLMs *are* garbage. we should use perfect minds instead. got one?
if you’re comparing the AI to a theoretical perfect mind that never invents weird folk theories, never gets things subtly wrong, can apply every extant piece of knowledge in every context error-free, then yes, LLMs *are* garbage. we should use perfect minds instead. got one?
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Any reading recommendations for a small collective looking to move from google dependency to self-hosting?
We're collecting some resources here:
https://doc.patternclub.org/s/QCwRlvO1A#
We're collecting some resources here:
https://doc.patternclub.org/s/QCwRlvO1A#
Sysadmin notes - HedgeDoc
# Sysadmin notes # Resources * [A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers ](https://txt.lurk.org/ATN
doc.patternclub.org
September 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Any reading recommendations for a small collective looking to move from google dependency to self-hosting?
We're collecting some resources here:
https://doc.patternclub.org/s/QCwRlvO1A#
We're collecting some resources here:
https://doc.patternclub.org/s/QCwRlvO1A#
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On May 8, 2027 this will happen to all cubes
September 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
On May 8, 2027 this will happen to all cubes