Tom Cook
@tom.horse
generative AI blockchain-powered autonomous smoothie robot
- tom.horse
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- aka 谷泰德
- tom.horse
- https://github.com/tomcook
- aka 谷泰德
@davidpierce.xyz @vicmsong.bsky.social small detail to add to the great AIM episode: Facebook corporate literally ran on AIM for a good long while. We also had IRC for engineers but the default 1:1 internal messenger was originally AIM and then eventually we switched to Chat/Messenger.
December 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
@davidpierce.xyz @vicmsong.bsky.social small detail to add to the great AIM episode: Facebook corporate literally ran on AIM for a good long while. We also had IRC for engineers but the default 1:1 internal messenger was originally AIM and then eventually we switched to Chat/Messenger.
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political media on all sides is defined by disdain for its audience. “liberal” media believes that its audience is too insular and must be confronted with opposing views. conservative media just feeds its audience propaganda slop.
December 22, 2025 at 5:52 AM
political media on all sides is defined by disdain for its audience. “liberal” media believes that its audience is too insular and must be confronted with opposing views. conservative media just feeds its audience propaganda slop.
We have firmly reached the “everybody in the house is sick and unwilling to do anything” phase
December 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
We have firmly reached the “everybody in the house is sick and unwilling to do anything” phase
Very sad news. I have a RadRunner and RadWagon and they’re great bikes.
Rad Power Bikes files for bankruptcy protection
Rad Power Bikes is still hoping to sell its company.
www.theverge.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Very sad news. I have a RadRunner and RadWagon and they’re great bikes.
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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Christmas Music when I was a kid: Mom put the best xmas album ever made on the record player and let it play to the end.
For my kid: She puts her NFC-enabled Santa Tonie on her Internet music box. It starts playing cloud-downloaded MP3s that Dad made by using yt-dlp on Christmas YouTube songs.
For my kid: She puts her NFC-enabled Santa Tonie on her Internet music box. It starts playing cloud-downloaded MP3s that Dad made by using yt-dlp on Christmas YouTube songs.
December 1, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Christmas Music when I was a kid: Mom put the best xmas album ever made on the record player and let it play to the end.
For my kid: She puts her NFC-enabled Santa Tonie on her Internet music box. It starts playing cloud-downloaded MP3s that Dad made by using yt-dlp on Christmas YouTube songs.
For my kid: She puts her NFC-enabled Santa Tonie on her Internet music box. It starts playing cloud-downloaded MP3s that Dad made by using yt-dlp on Christmas YouTube songs.
For me this will always be Borat opening weekend in a packed theater.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
For me this will always be Borat opening weekend in a packed theater.
The feature I still miss the most from driving a Tesla is pre-warming/cooling the car from my phone before a drive. It works perfectly and is such a quality of life boost. Toyota remote control is a joke compared to this single piece of functionality.
December 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The feature I still miss the most from driving a Tesla is pre-warming/cooling the car from my phone before a drive. It works perfectly and is such a quality of life boost. Toyota remote control is a joke compared to this single piece of functionality.
It’s easy to say oh what a dumb move but since the META rebrand the stock price is up 97% so tbh I doubt they give a shit about $77B of investments that haven’t directly panned out (yet).
December 7, 2025 at 4:44 AM
It’s easy to say oh what a dumb move but since the META rebrand the stock price is up 97% so tbh I doubt they give a shit about $77B of investments that haven’t directly panned out (yet).
Every parent-whos-young-kid-doesnt-have-their-own-Spotify’s wrapped
December 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Every parent-whos-young-kid-doesnt-have-their-own-Spotify’s wrapped
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Ranking star wars movies is complicated because there are certain themes that resonate with-- no I'm kidding, in one of them an ewok hugs Han Solo's leg and says "Ay Chihuahua." So that's number one with a bullet
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Ranking star wars movies is complicated because there are certain themes that resonate with-- no I'm kidding, in one of them an ewok hugs Han Solo's leg and says "Ay Chihuahua." So that's number one with a bullet
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
“Arc Raiders” more like “fuck! Raiders!”
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 AM
“Arc Raiders” more like “fuck! Raiders!”
This is kind of a wild photo. It’s only from 2009! The iPhone had been out for two years already!
President Obama watches Press Secretary Robert Gibbs' first Press Briefing on television, in his private study off the Oval Office, Jan. 22, 2009. Source: Flickr
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This is kind of a wild photo. It’s only from 2009! The iPhone had been out for two years already!
If you elect me President I commit to outlawing that thing where you copy a share link and the service tacks on extra marketing text that you now have to delete instead of just giving you the damn url.
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
If you elect me President I commit to outlawing that thing where you copy a share link and the service tacks on extra marketing text that you now have to delete instead of just giving you the damn url.
Incredible that the top/last email in Epstein’s inbox was the Quora weekly digest
November 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Incredible that the top/last email in Epstein’s inbox was the Quora weekly digest
As an iPhone / Pixel family this is awesome
Google cracked Apple’s AirDrop and is adding it to Pixel phones
First iMessage reactions, now AirDrop.
www.theverge.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
As an iPhone / Pixel family this is awesome
If a company I worked for was talking with another company’s CEO and they openly called one of our employees “piggy” it would be the end of that relationship forever + we’d spread the word far and wide. So many things bad about him and those he enables but basic human decency can’t be tossed away.
November 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
If a company I worked for was talking with another company’s CEO and they openly called one of our employees “piggy” it would be the end of that relationship forever + we’d spread the word far and wide. So many things bad about him and those he enables but basic human decency can’t be tossed away.
I hope one day we invent the technology to line up all the chase logos on cards in Apple Wallet
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I hope one day we invent the technology to line up all the chase logos on cards in Apple Wallet
The Steam Machine throws such a wrench into my long-term plans with the PlayStation platform. We’re going to pick one up immediately and bring in our whole Steam libraries, so I feel like I should stop buying games/long term subs on PS5 soon.
November 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Steam Machine throws such a wrench into my long-term plans with the PlayStation platform. We’re going to pick one up immediately and bring in our whole Steam libraries, so I feel like I should stop buying games/long term subs on PS5 soon.
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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
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November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
The difference between packing for a trip with two adults and two kids vs a trip for a single adult is just so comical. Feels like I’m wearing nothin at all!
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The difference between packing for a trip with two adults and two kids vs a trip for a single adult is just so comical. Feels like I’m wearing nothin at all!
I love the idea that Optimus is gonna sit next to the next SBF all day preventing him from doing a crypto ponzi scheme. “Excuse me sir you are about to violate securities law and must stop”
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I love the idea that Optimus is gonna sit next to the next SBF all day preventing him from doing a crypto ponzi scheme. “Excuse me sir you are about to violate securities law and must stop”
My neighbors hired a tree service to cut down two massive eucalyptus trees that were right on our property line and boy let me tell you this has been entertaining to watch all day. The guy who climbs up into a huge tree and by hand cuts it down piece by piece is such a badass
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
My neighbors hired a tree service to cut down two massive eucalyptus trees that were right on our property line and boy let me tell you this has been entertaining to watch all day. The guy who climbs up into a huge tree and by hand cuts it down piece by piece is such a badass