Alex L
@bustedsneakers.bsky.social
still a professional internet person
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happy pancake day, shrove tuesday, happy lunar new year and ramadan mubarak
February 17, 2026 at 11:04 AM
happy pancake day, shrove tuesday, happy lunar new year and ramadan mubarak
days like today the cultural studies degree feels a little bit overkill
February 16, 2026 at 9:15 PM
days like today the cultural studies degree feels a little bit overkill
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What if instead it rescues consumer electronics?
To use my usual example, the Atari 2600—which has 128 bytes of RAM total—was sold commercially, somewhere in the world, from 1977 to 1992. Its programmers kept discovering new things they could make it do, because they had reason to plumb its depths.
To use my usual example, the Atari 2600—which has 128 bytes of RAM total—was sold commercially, somewhere in the world, from 1977 to 1992. Its programmers kept discovering new things they could make it do, because they had reason to plumb its depths.
this RAM crisis feels like it’s going to ruin consumer electronics over the next decade. Bloomberg reports that Sony is considering pushing the PS6 release to 2028 or even 2029 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
February 16, 2026 at 7:20 PM
What if instead it rescues consumer electronics?
To use my usual example, the Atari 2600—which has 128 bytes of RAM total—was sold commercially, somewhere in the world, from 1977 to 1992. Its programmers kept discovering new things they could make it do, because they had reason to plumb its depths.
To use my usual example, the Atari 2600—which has 128 bytes of RAM total—was sold commercially, somewhere in the world, from 1977 to 1992. Its programmers kept discovering new things they could make it do, because they had reason to plumb its depths.
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#JobAlert! Friends, my department, the School of Art at @cmu.edu in Pittsburgh, seeks a new Head — come be my boss! www.imsearch.com/open-searche...
February 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
#JobAlert! Friends, my department, the School of Art at @cmu.edu in Pittsburgh, seeks a new Head — come be my boss! www.imsearch.com/open-searche...
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the airports of the world should hold an annual competition to see who has the worst chicken caesar wrap
February 15, 2026 at 8:58 PM
the airports of the world should hold an annual competition to see who has the worst chicken caesar wrap
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i don’t use ai regularly, but i studied it a long time ago and i am a recovering workaholic. you’re probably addicted to feeling productive but that doesn’t mean you are actually productive. how many agentic fitness trackers and image export scripts does the world need.
February 15, 2026 at 5:37 PM
i don’t use ai regularly, but i studied it a long time ago and i am a recovering workaholic. you’re probably addicted to feeling productive but that doesn’t mean you are actually productive. how many agentic fitness trackers and image export scripts does the world need.
"Nobody wants students from less wealthy families to be blocked out of university"
lol the olympics are wall-to-wall "join the trades/join the Forces" ads, the above statement defies math if it's loans or a 25% grant limit for kids without family money
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
lol the olympics are wall-to-wall "join the trades/join the Forces" ads, the above statement defies math if it's loans or a 25% grant limit for kids without family money
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Students feel they're paying the bill for Ontario's new post-secondary funding | CBC News
After an eight-year tuition freeze across the province, Ontario post-secondary students have found out that fees will now go back to increasing year over year — and with less financial assistance, too...
www.cbc.ca
February 13, 2026 at 2:59 PM
"Nobody wants students from less wealthy families to be blocked out of university"
lol the olympics are wall-to-wall "join the trades/join the Forces" ads, the above statement defies math if it's loans or a 25% grant limit for kids without family money
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
lol the olympics are wall-to-wall "join the trades/join the Forces" ads, the above statement defies math if it's loans or a 25% grant limit for kids without family money
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
it's interesting that the training sets are weighted enough that this is a normal response/thing to have happen
I wonder if part of the problem is these particular groups just aren't used to managing classic crashouts or trolls in their spaces
I wonder if part of the problem is these particular groups just aren't used to managing classic crashouts or trolls in their spaces
A rogue AI enrolls in your online class, then publicly shames you when you remove it. This just happened in a dev forum. Are we ready if it happens to our courses? www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
A rogue AI agent infiltrates your online class. What do you do?
Inspired by Marc Watkins’ provocative AI scenarios for educators, I’ve imagined a troubling situation of my own drawn from a real… | Jo...
A rogue AI agent infiltrates your online class. What do you do?
Inspired by Marc Watkins’ provocative AI scenarios for educators, I’ve imagined a troubling situation of my own drawn from a real case....
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February 13, 2026 at 2:40 PM
it's interesting that the training sets are weighted enough that this is a normal response/thing to have happen
I wonder if part of the problem is these particular groups just aren't used to managing classic crashouts or trolls in their spaces
I wonder if part of the problem is these particular groups just aren't used to managing classic crashouts or trolls in their spaces
the fire has been safely captured and rehomed
an enjoyable? feature of quality toronto reporting is the tacit understanding that every property fire in the city feb 10-mar 31 is Maybe Arson
an enjoyable? feature of quality toronto reporting is the tacit understanding that every property fire in the city feb 10-mar 31 is Maybe Arson
Police investigating firet that damaged GFL Environmental trucks in Rexdale yard overnight. The waste hauling business has been targeted in the past with arson and gunfire. www.thestar.com/news/gta/gfl...
GFL trucks damaged following overnight fire at yard in Etobicoke
Toronto fire said up to three trucks were found on fire around 2:30 a.m. Thursday at a truck yard in Etobicoke. The cause of the fire is not yet clear.
www.thestar.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:40 PM
the fire has been safely captured and rehomed
an enjoyable? feature of quality toronto reporting is the tacit understanding that every property fire in the city feb 10-mar 31 is Maybe Arson
an enjoyable? feature of quality toronto reporting is the tacit understanding that every property fire in the city feb 10-mar 31 is Maybe Arson
this article is pretty illuminating about the recency and extremity of DC's gentrification
NEW: Contributor India Kea asked D.C. natives from across the city to reflect on what it was like growing up here — and the pivotal moments when they realized their hometown was no longer the same.
From changing faces and street signs to rows of newly planted trees, here's what they said:
From changing faces and street signs to rows of newly planted trees, here's what they said:
PHOTOS: When did you first realize the District had changed?
Eleven D.C natives on how they remember their city.
51st.news
February 13, 2026 at 3:55 AM
this article is pretty illuminating about the recency and extremity of DC's gentrification
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over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.)
finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk.
enjoy. cabel.com/wes-cook-and...
finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk.
enjoy. cabel.com/wes-cook-and...
Wes Cook and the Centralia McDonald's Mural
A personal story about discovering a mural in a McDonald's, an unknown artist named Wes Cook, saving the mural, and a conference talk about the whole thing.
cabel.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:04 PM
over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.)
finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk.
enjoy. cabel.com/wes-cook-and...
finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk.
enjoy. cabel.com/wes-cook-and...
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Last year's shutdown of @glitch.com was a huge blow to my pedagogy. Glitch was ideal for creative coding classes and workshops. I looked around for alternatives. But there was nothing that was open, decentralized, and not at the mercy of VCs or Big Tech.
So I built my own. Here's Glitchlet.
So I built my own. Here's Glitchlet.
February 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Last year's shutdown of @glitch.com was a huge blow to my pedagogy. Glitch was ideal for creative coding classes and workshops. I looked around for alternatives. But there was nothing that was open, decentralized, and not at the mercy of VCs or Big Tech.
So I built my own. Here's Glitchlet.
So I built my own. Here's Glitchlet.
every day down here i run into some incredibly joyful thing that's just categorically Not FOR Me and it's one of the great pleasures of being here
February 11, 2026 at 5:10 PM
every day down here i run into some incredibly joyful thing that's just categorically Not FOR Me and it's one of the great pleasures of being here
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To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.
February 11, 2026 at 3:42 PM
To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.
Post a tree you photographed
February 11, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Post a tree you photographed
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As a child this use of arithmetic as a gate keeping function also made me incredibly angry - because I recognized how stupid, cruel, and irrational it was even then.
the degree to which we let early facility in one thing, arithmetic, be the gating function for exposure to a whole vast array of other things with essentially nothing whatsoever to do with early facility in arithmetic is wild to me, like this 19th century throwback idea hiding in plain sight
Funny story: my career in drones exists because I have a arithmetic learning disability, tested awfully in math and couldn’t study STEM in college, and became so angered by how normal it was to look down upon non-tech people in the 2010s that I decided to master a hard tech field out of pure spite.
February 11, 2026 at 2:20 AM
As a child this use of arithmetic as a gate keeping function also made me incredibly angry - because I recognized how stupid, cruel, and irrational it was even then.
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It's time to start socially shaming everyone who places bets on Kalshi and Polymarket.
Gambling should be like cigarettes: legal, but unadvertised and inaccessible.
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Gambling should be like cigarettes: legal, but unadvertised and inaccessible.
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
We are all going to regret Kalshi and Polymarket.
Gambling should be like cigarettes: Legal but inaccessible.
open.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:15 PM
It's time to start socially shaming everyone who places bets on Kalshi and Polymarket.
Gambling should be like cigarettes: legal, but unadvertised and inaccessible.
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Gambling should be like cigarettes: legal, but unadvertised and inaccessible.
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
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I woke up at 4:18 am and said, “we took all the friction out of the systems that poor people use to survive and gave rich people all the luxury of their frictionlessness.”
I will make it make sense later.
I will make it make sense later.
February 10, 2026 at 12:58 PM
I woke up at 4:18 am and said, “we took all the friction out of the systems that poor people use to survive and gave rich people all the luxury of their frictionlessness.”
I will make it make sense later.
I will make it make sense later.
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The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
two years of good halftime shows in a row!
February 9, 2026 at 2:20 AM
two years of good halftime shows in a row!
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Sports people: it’s ok to text your gay friend when it’s almost half time so they don’t miss Bad Bunny
February 8, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Sports people: it’s ok to text your gay friend when it’s almost half time so they don’t miss Bad Bunny
I just think a contemporary WPA could go a long way to fixing this by making Techno Elites sort of irrelevant to a lot of everyday life
too much money makes you insane, AI also makes you insane, so it's no surprise that our current crop of techbro elite have the most cooked brains in human history
February 8, 2026 at 2:51 PM
I just think a contemporary WPA could go a long way to fixing this by making Techno Elites sort of irrelevant to a lot of everyday life
at the
"reloaded hollow knight to understand that practice WILL improve"
stage of trying to write
"reloaded hollow knight to understand that practice WILL improve"
stage of trying to write
February 7, 2026 at 5:45 PM
at the
"reloaded hollow knight to understand that practice WILL improve"
stage of trying to write
"reloaded hollow knight to understand that practice WILL improve"
stage of trying to write
the olympics opener is giving INTENSE Eurovision
February 7, 2026 at 12:47 AM
the olympics opener is giving INTENSE Eurovision