James Brown
@roguelazer.com
POSIXly-correct software developer (Rust, Python, Ruby, C) and sysadmin (Linux); resident of Oakland, CA. Has worked at a number of startups, some of which you've even heard of. Primarily found on Mastodon at https://hachyderm.io/@roguelazer
The @rideact.bsky.social E bus is late and over-crowded (standing room only) every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at rush hour. When are transit agencies going to adapt to the traffic patterns caused by hybrid work and have more busses on those days (as opposed to just weekday/weekend)?
February 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
The @rideact.bsky.social E bus is late and over-crowded (standing room only) every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at rush hour. When are transit agencies going to adapt to the traffic patterns caused by hybrid work and have more busses on those days (as opposed to just weekday/weekend)?
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On Friday and Saturday, the Twin Cities were the center of global news. A day of solidarity. A horrific murder of a good man by masked federal agents. A city that rallied with peaceful fury. And then, as of Monday, a scapegoat sent packing. A neat story all wrapped up. Reporters all fly home.
January 28, 2026 at 12:57 PM
On Friday and Saturday, the Twin Cities were the center of global news. A day of solidarity. A horrific murder of a good man by masked federal agents. A city that rallied with peaceful fury. And then, as of Monday, a scapegoat sent packing. A neat story all wrapped up. Reporters all fly home.
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the nyt style section vs. der spiegel
January 24, 2026 at 11:20 PM
the nyt style section vs. der spiegel
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Try to underwrite this headline more. Is it even possible?
A combat-wounded veteran's eight-hour detention by federal agents in Minneapolis raises concerns about due process in ICE facilities.
Army veteran says ICE agents detained him for hours without access to phone or his attorney
A combat-wounded veteran's eight-hour detention by federal agents in Minneapolis raises concerns about due process in ICE facilities.
www.kare11.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:07 AM
Try to underwrite this headline more. Is it even possible?
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America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.
President Trump will issue a plan next week for letting Americans tap their 401(k)s for a down payment on a home, a senior White House official said Friday.
Trump Plan Would Let Americans Use 401(k)s for Down Payments on Homes, Official Says
President Trump will issue a plan next week for letting Americans tap their 401(k)s for a down payment on a home, a senior White House official said Friday.
on.wsj.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:11 PM
America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.
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my two primary issues with LLMs are:
1. they are currently one of the most aggressively deployed anti-labor tools, up there with "misclassifying employees as contractors" that uber and co do.
2. using LLMs appears to give craftspeople a kind of brainrot similar to what lootboxes do in games
1. they are currently one of the most aggressively deployed anti-labor tools, up there with "misclassifying employees as contractors" that uber and co do.
2. using LLMs appears to give craftspeople a kind of brainrot similar to what lootboxes do in games
January 11, 2026 at 10:02 PM
my two primary issues with LLMs are:
1. they are currently one of the most aggressively deployed anti-labor tools, up there with "misclassifying employees as contractors" that uber and co do.
2. using LLMs appears to give craftspeople a kind of brainrot similar to what lootboxes do in games
1. they are currently one of the most aggressively deployed anti-labor tools, up there with "misclassifying employees as contractors" that uber and co do.
2. using LLMs appears to give craftspeople a kind of brainrot similar to what lootboxes do in games
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So this is a tack that phishing scams are taking now.
This is an actual email that my husband received from a scammer posing as the email management company his employer uses. The opt-out link went to the company's name dot net; its legitimate website is dot com.
This is an actual email that my husband received from a scammer posing as the email management company his employer uses. The opt-out link went to the company's name dot net; its legitimate website is dot com.
January 9, 2026 at 5:22 PM
So this is a tack that phishing scams are taking now.
This is an actual email that my husband received from a scammer posing as the email management company his employer uses. The opt-out link went to the company's name dot net; its legitimate website is dot com.
This is an actual email that my husband received from a scammer posing as the email management company his employer uses. The opt-out link went to the company's name dot net; its legitimate website is dot com.
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look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
December 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
5:43 AM (4 hours ago)
to me
Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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Here it is: my annual re-posting of the only Christmas comic I will probably ever draw. Happy holidays to you and yours. I hope Santa brings us something really great this year, you know, maybe that thing we've all been hoping for.
December 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Here it is: my annual re-posting of the only Christmas comic I will probably ever draw. Happy holidays to you and yours. I hope Santa brings us something really great this year, you know, maybe that thing we've all been hoping for.
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sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response
Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
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"In a very short timeframe, AI has become the high-fructose corn syrup of the digital realm: It’s now in everything, even if you don’t want it there." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
The time has come to declare war on AI
"It's now in everything, even if you don't want it there."
www.sfgate.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"In a very short timeframe, AI has become the high-fructose corn syrup of the digital realm: It’s now in everything, even if you don’t want it there." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
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8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
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“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN
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Man I remember when I felt like a crank for being against gambling instead of terribly behind the curve for not also wanting capital punishment.
October 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Man I remember when I felt like a crank for being against gambling instead of terribly behind the curve for not also wanting capital punishment.
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Darmok and Jalad at the Tanagra Ultimate Frisbee Championship
Wittgenstein's Lion
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
existentialcomics.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Darmok and Jalad at the Tanagra Ultimate Frisbee Championship
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I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
October 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
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A thing I think it’s important for USians not in currently-occupied cities to grasp is that the normal and everyday goes on alongside the violent and unprecedented.
In Chicago right now you can be forced off teargas-soaked streets in the morning and have a peaceful evening picnic on the lake.
In Chicago right now you can be forced off teargas-soaked streets in the morning and have a peaceful evening picnic on the lake.
October 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A thing I think it’s important for USians not in currently-occupied cities to grasp is that the normal and everyday goes on alongside the violent and unprecedented.
In Chicago right now you can be forced off teargas-soaked streets in the morning and have a peaceful evening picnic on the lake.
In Chicago right now you can be forced off teargas-soaked streets in the morning and have a peaceful evening picnic on the lake.
How far are we from the DoD announcing that they're officially renaming the Civil War to the War of Northern Aggression?
September 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
How far are we from the DoD announcing that they're officially renaming the Civil War to the War of Northern Aggression?
So, Selzer was right about Iowa but just had the wrong election? Hm
August 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
So, Selzer was right about Iowa but just had the wrong election? Hm
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Yeah it’s time to bring back my all time favorite tweet, by @donaldhughes.ca
July 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Yeah it’s time to bring back my all time favorite tweet, by @donaldhughes.ca
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Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
www.scientificamerican.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
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Oakland turning up.
June 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Oakland turning up.