the machine!
technical-transect.bsky.social
the machine!
@technical-transect.bsky.social
one of those girls from 🏳️‍⚧️
the "sufficiently" in the first sentence there is also doing a *lot* of work lol
January 26, 2026 at 6:19 PM
kind of related but I saw one of those "$person must have been a miserable friendless person in college" posts and it's like, no, I literally knew $person, we hung out! he was cool! idk if he was just good at hiding the fascism or something happened afterwards
January 26, 2026 at 6:18 PM
obviously they need to hire the real ethical experts: people who run PR firms
January 26, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Runaway hard drive platter
YouTube video by compwiz00
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January 26, 2026 at 2:15 AM
I think there is something to the idea (i've seen people say e.g. that Palestine is a climate justice issue) but like with any snappy term of analysis it rapidly becomes useless
January 26, 2026 at 1:37 AM
writing `select * from tbl` on my local postgres database with like a million rows and I am incinerated by the heat of the sun
January 26, 2026 at 1:20 AM
either the worst machine known to man or an absolute bonkers lie and I can't tell which is funnier
January 26, 2026 at 1:17 AM
oh my fucking god what
January 26, 2026 at 1:13 AM
well now I have to hear this story
January 26, 2026 at 12:55 AM
that being said: antibiotics in particular are obviously very new and so law easily wins here. it's law vs medicine that gets fuzzier
January 23, 2026 at 10:44 PM
i think this is only true if you use "medicine" to mean "modern medicine", which is incorrect in the same way that using "technology" to mean "computers" is
January 23, 2026 at 10:44 PM
I think part of why I have a hard time here is that for several years I would see people argue that interpreting "abolish the police" literally was bad-faith liberal centrism

& like I'm fully on team "slogans should be true" but it feels like there's always an "except for the ones I like"
January 22, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Nate Tin
January 22, 2026 at 4:40 PM
mathematician who gets mad about people using "group", "set", and "category" as synonyms
January 20, 2026 at 6:30 PM
god it really is weird watching the "waifu"-as-character phenomenon mainstream so hard now that realistic dynamic image/video gen is accessible
January 20, 2026 at 6:27 PM
live your truth king ✊😔
January 20, 2026 at 4:08 AM
the other day I saw someone making fun of the thing I work on at work for not doing X, and it took all of my soul to refrain from saying "hi I work on this, we have observable metrics showing that doing X results in worse performance :)"
January 17, 2026 at 11:30 PM