Patrick 📉
@thebestpatrick.bsky.social
Chemical engineering, database programming, communism arguing, Holy Roman Empire enthusiast and investiture accelerationist. He/Him
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this was an adult swim comedy infomercial
NEW: Your "end-to-end encrypted" poop pictures taken by this $599 (+ subscription) smart toilet camera are actually not end-to-end encrypted.
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techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
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techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted | TechCrunch
Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers' data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.
techcrunch.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
this was an adult swim comedy infomercial
One of my favorite genres of art is "a huge asshole making fun of a way bigger asshole" so I'm immediately enjoying the Netflix series about Diddy funded by 50 cent
December 3, 2025 at 4:10 AM
One of my favorite genres of art is "a huge asshole making fun of a way bigger asshole" so I'm immediately enjoying the Netflix series about Diddy funded by 50 cent
My house isn't "tornado damaged", it's a strong floor with no ceiling
December 1, 2025 at 3:04 AM
My house isn't "tornado damaged", it's a strong floor with no ceiling
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Essentially all of capital and world governments are lined up eagerly to push every possible version of this technology at us but you're mad at people on social media who have no impact on this whatsoever because you've bought industry advertising.
November 30, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Essentially all of capital and world governments are lined up eagerly to push every possible version of this technology at us but you're mad at people on social media who have no impact on this whatsoever because you've bought industry advertising.
Show business is so cooked
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Show business is so cooked
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God help me, I'm gonna actually defend "AI" a bit here: this stuff is like tracer dye revealing how corrupt and decrepit so many of our institutional processes already were long before this garbage came along.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
God help me, I'm gonna actually defend "AI" a bit here: this stuff is like tracer dye revealing how corrupt and decrepit so many of our institutional processes already were long before this garbage came along.
People negatively polarizing themselves into thinking ai slop is good
November 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
People negatively polarizing themselves into thinking ai slop is good
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yeah man a bunch of socially awkward numbers dudes who are constantly in conflict isn’t left coded
November 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
yeah man a bunch of socially awkward numbers dudes who are constantly in conflict isn’t left coded
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extremely Medieval King coded in a way i cannot help but respect
he believes what now
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 AM
extremely Medieval King coded in a way i cannot help but respect
This website gets dumber every day
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This website gets dumber every day
Had a 2 hour meeting live coding an nginx config 💪
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Had a 2 hour meeting live coding an nginx config 💪
It's a shame that the sex crimes will overshadow Larry Summers' true legacy of being consistently wrong about the economy.
Not sure if it's journalistic best practice to frame "proof of involvement in a decades-long ring of powerful child rapists" as "the greatest challenge to his legacy."
Unless you're trying to actively help him overcome it, I think it should rightly be framed as the final word on his legacy.
Unless you're trying to actively help him overcome it, I think it should rightly be framed as the final word on his legacy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It's a shame that the sex crimes will overshadow Larry Summers' true legacy of being consistently wrong about the economy.
I've started the laborious process of migrating off the Google ecosystem. Search is easier to replace than ever with AI slop clogging up results, email is interestingly the more difficult lift atm, trying out Tuta. Keeping up a bsky, probably adding a Mastodon account at some point...
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I've started the laborious process of migrating off the Google ecosystem. Search is easier to replace than ever with AI slop clogging up results, email is interestingly the more difficult lift atm, trying out Tuta. Keeping up a bsky, probably adding a Mastodon account at some point...
also "modernism",
"yes, I like things how they are now"
"yes, I like things how they are now"
“realism” is such a funny descriptor for a worldview/art movement/etc. “what’s up, i believe in things that i think are true”
November 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
also "modernism",
"yes, I like things how they are now"
"yes, I like things how they are now"
They're treating the US government like a throwaway run in a Paradox game, down to declaring a no-CB war
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
They're treating the US government like a throwaway run in a Paradox game, down to declaring a no-CB war
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"Never trust woo woos" has been my guiding principle in life and has literally never once let me down lol
“‘We are in this magical, unique time,’ Sinema said of Trump’s health department, led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”
Kyrsten Sinema Is Ready for Her MAHA Turn
In a new interview, the one-time Democrat says the movement for psychedelic medicine should capitalize on the Trump administration.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"Never trust woo woos" has been my guiding principle in life and has literally never once let me down lol
Corporate execs love AI because it produces emails nobody will read even faster than they do
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Corporate execs love AI because it produces emails nobody will read even faster than they do
Movie about the PR people who work for the jurassic park company after they hear the dinosaurs got out
November 20, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Movie about the PR people who work for the jurassic park company after they hear the dinosaurs got out
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"maybe government should work better" is not an original, interesting, or particularly useful argument, much less any serious ideology
Abundance and the Left
Ezra Klein talks with Bhaskar Sunkara about Abundance, Zohran Mamdani’s victory, and why progressives need a state that works at the speed of their ambitions.
jacobin.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
"maybe government should work better" is not an original, interesting, or particularly useful argument, much less any serious ideology
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one of the many reasons i will forever declare:
software developing is not engineering
it's just not. sorry not sorry.
(you CAN approach it with an engineering mindset (and you should) but it can never BE engineering because it's too squishy.)
software developing is not engineering
it's just not. sorry not sorry.
(you CAN approach it with an engineering mindset (and you should) but it can never BE engineering because it's too squishy.)
Oath of the Engineer: "In my profession I take deep pride. To it I owe solemn obligations. ... I shall participate in none but honest enterprises. ... In the performance of duty, and in fidelity to my profession, I shall give the utmost."
Oath of the Software Engineer: Fuck it we ball
Oath of the Software Engineer: Fuck it we ball
Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: "Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications"
Microsoft is pushing ahead with its plan to add agentic capabilities to Windows 11 but has issued an important security warning for anyone who is interested in trying it out.
www.windowscentral.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
one of the many reasons i will forever declare:
software developing is not engineering
it's just not. sorry not sorry.
(you CAN approach it with an engineering mindset (and you should) but it can never BE engineering because it's too squishy.)
software developing is not engineering
it's just not. sorry not sorry.
(you CAN approach it with an engineering mindset (and you should) but it can never BE engineering because it's too squishy.)
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sad news for posting connoisseurs
November 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
sad news for posting connoisseurs