When Leggett
@whenthetimeca.me
Reposted by When Leggett
If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
August 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
Reposted by When Leggett
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating https://theonion.com/archaeologists-d-c-capitol-may-have-once-been-used-for-legislating/
January 12, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating https://theonion.com/archaeologists-d-c-capitol-may-have-once-been-used-for-legislating/
Reposted by When Leggett
Starfleet engineers were smart to give the Enterprise computer voice a completely flat affect so the crew wouldn’t lose their minds. I’m creating new head-cannon about an “incident” that informed that interface design decision
January 2, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Starfleet engineers were smart to give the Enterprise computer voice a completely flat affect so the crew wouldn’t lose their minds. I’m creating new head-cannon about an “incident” that informed that interface design decision
Reposted by When Leggett
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
External
Inbox
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)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
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.
Reposted by When Leggett
Reposted by When Leggett
Here's an early preview of what I'm working on for my @spacecadets.love blog.
Bridging Social Movements and the New Social Web (working draft)
On connecting movements, media, and new protocol ecosystems to rebuild the civic, cultural, and technical foundations of a freer, more self-determining society.
captaincalliope.leaflet.pub
December 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Here's an early preview of what I'm working on for my @spacecadets.love blog.
Reposted by When Leggett
Earth Rumbles, Dishes Crash To Floor As Gerrymandering Rips Through House https://theonion.com/earth-rumbles-dishes-crash-to-floor-as-gerrymandering-rips-through-house/
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Earth Rumbles, Dishes Crash To Floor As Gerrymandering Rips Through House https://theonion.com/earth-rumbles-dishes-crash-to-floor-as-gerrymandering-rips-through-house/
Reposted by When Leggett
Fascism doesn’t just come out and announce itself by killing people…
It starts with subtle dehumanising, subtle rhetoric, bits of propaganda…
Then it latches on to a crisis moment to double down on the rhetoric to get people on-side.
The killing is the last part.
It starts with subtle dehumanising, subtle rhetoric, bits of propaganda…
Then it latches on to a crisis moment to double down on the rhetoric to get people on-side.
The killing is the last part.
October 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Fascism doesn’t just come out and announce itself by killing people…
It starts with subtle dehumanising, subtle rhetoric, bits of propaganda…
Then it latches on to a crisis moment to double down on the rhetoric to get people on-side.
The killing is the last part.
It starts with subtle dehumanising, subtle rhetoric, bits of propaganda…
Then it latches on to a crisis moment to double down on the rhetoric to get people on-side.
The killing is the last part.
Reposted by When Leggett
No guardsmembers should comply- you have rights. Contact the GI hotline girightshotline.org/en/military-...
October 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
No guardsmembers should comply- you have rights. Contact the GI hotline girightshotline.org/en/military-...
Reposted by When Leggett
Gaza has had twice as many bombs dropped on it since 2023 as Hamburg, Dresden and London combined during WWII.
September 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Gaza has had twice as many bombs dropped on it since 2023 as Hamburg, Dresden and London combined during WWII.
Reposted by When Leggett
Here is my main opinion on AI, in every capacity: What is the point of technology? Is it to make our lives better and easier, or is it to make a very small percentage of people richer? The latter is what AI is doing. The people actually doing the coding are making themselves redundant.
August 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Here is my main opinion on AI, in every capacity: What is the point of technology? Is it to make our lives better and easier, or is it to make a very small percentage of people richer? The latter is what AI is doing. The people actually doing the coding are making themselves redundant.
Reposted by When Leggett
Oh good. We've reached the "I don't have to be faster than the bear, I only have to be less woke than you" stage of faculty solidarity. archive.is/wGNDr
August 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Oh good. We've reached the "I don't have to be faster than the bear, I only have to be less woke than you" stage of faculty solidarity. archive.is/wGNDr
Reposted by When Leggett
I've been tracking the quid pro quo between Trump and the cryptocurrency industry at www.followthecrypto.org/quidproquo
August 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I've been tracking the quid pro quo between Trump and the cryptocurrency industry at www.followthecrypto.org/quidproquo
Reposted by When Leggett
The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the @nytimes.com is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.
August 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the @nytimes.com is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.
Reposted by When Leggett
Engineering is the intersection of Curiosity and Capability
When your curiosity outstrips your capability, you expand your capability and grow
When your capability expands, it allows you to see farther and grows your curiosity
Don't allow your tools take away both your Curiosity and Capability
When your curiosity outstrips your capability, you expand your capability and grow
When your capability expands, it allows you to see farther and grows your curiosity
Don't allow your tools take away both your Curiosity and Capability
August 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Engineering is the intersection of Curiosity and Capability
When your curiosity outstrips your capability, you expand your capability and grow
When your capability expands, it allows you to see farther and grows your curiosity
Don't allow your tools take away both your Curiosity and Capability
When your curiosity outstrips your capability, you expand your capability and grow
When your capability expands, it allows you to see farther and grows your curiosity
Don't allow your tools take away both your Curiosity and Capability
Reposted by When Leggett
i actually think a major problem across much of society is lack of understanding that deserving something is not the same thing as being owed something.
everyone is deserving of love, but (aside from one’s parents) no one *owes* us love.
everyone is deserving of intimacy, but no one owes it to us.
everyone is deserving of love, but (aside from one’s parents) no one *owes* us love.
everyone is deserving of intimacy, but no one owes it to us.
August 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
i actually think a major problem across much of society is lack of understanding that deserving something is not the same thing as being owed something.
everyone is deserving of love, but (aside from one’s parents) no one *owes* us love.
everyone is deserving of intimacy, but no one owes it to us.
everyone is deserving of love, but (aside from one’s parents) no one *owes* us love.
everyone is deserving of intimacy, but no one owes it to us.
Reposted by When Leggett
During the Dot Com bubble, for a while Cisco was the most valuable company in the world.
Today, the most valuable company in the world is Nvidia.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Today, the most valuable company in the world is Nvidia.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
August 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
During the Dot Com bubble, for a while Cisco was the most valuable company in the world.
Today, the most valuable company in the world is Nvidia.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Today, the most valuable company in the world is Nvidia.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Reposted by When Leggett
I can’t stop laughing. 😂
July 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I can’t stop laughing. 😂
Reposted by When Leggett
ok everyone's seen the trump with epstein photos by now, after years of the media pretending they didn't exist. good progress. next step is making sure everyone who is like "uh this all is sketchy but surely the president isn't literally a pedophile" sees this gross photo
July 18, 2025 at 3:20 AM
ok everyone's seen the trump with epstein photos by now, after years of the media pretending they didn't exist. good progress. next step is making sure everyone who is like "uh this all is sketchy but surely the president isn't literally a pedophile" sees this gross photo
Reposted by When Leggett
Remember to go to work so you can pay your federal taxes so Israel can drop 500lb American provided bombs from American provided planes on to Palestinian cafes and Palestinian schools. Those women and children aren’t going to incinerate themselves.
Israel Drops 500lb Bomb on Gaza Cafe
YouTube video by Noah Samsen
youtu.be
July 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Remember to go to work so you can pay your federal taxes so Israel can drop 500lb American provided bombs from American provided planes on to Palestinian cafes and Palestinian schools. Those women and children aren’t going to incinerate themselves.
Reposted by When Leggett
The obliteration of natural, species-rich grasslands via agri-intensification is the main cause in a crash of insects like butterflies, some species >80% in just 15 years.
The maddening thing is we KNOW the solutions.
Powerful writing by @miseanja.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
The maddening thing is we KNOW the solutions.
Powerful writing by @miseanja.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Butterfly numbers in freefall as biodiversity decline unfolds at pace
The absence of butterflies in 2024 has been devastatingly obvious, even in the most important, flower-rich areas in Ireland. And despite knowing that conservation works, the outlook for our butterflie...
www.irishexaminer.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The obliteration of natural, species-rich grasslands via agri-intensification is the main cause in a crash of insects like butterflies, some species >80% in just 15 years.
The maddening thing is we KNOW the solutions.
Powerful writing by @miseanja.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
The maddening thing is we KNOW the solutions.
Powerful writing by @miseanja.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Reposted by When Leggett
Until we, ie society, start offering farmers and other landowners the possibility of decent livelihoods through rewilding + High Nature Value farming, the haemorrhage of nature
WILL NOT STOP
WILL NOT STOP
The obliteration of natural, species-rich grasslands via agri-intensification is the main cause in a crash of insects like butterflies, some species >80% in just 15 years.
The maddening thing is we KNOW the solutions.
Powerful writing by @miseanja.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
The maddening thing is we KNOW the solutions.
Powerful writing by @miseanja.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Butterfly numbers in freefall as biodiversity decline unfolds at pace
The absence of butterflies in 2024 has been devastatingly obvious, even in the most important, flower-rich areas in Ireland. And despite knowing that conservation works, the outlook for our butterflie...
www.irishexaminer.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Until we, ie society, start offering farmers and other landowners the possibility of decent livelihoods through rewilding + High Nature Value farming, the haemorrhage of nature
WILL NOT STOP
WILL NOT STOP
Reposted by When Leggett
If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you.
If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you.
If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you.
We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.
If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you.
If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you.
We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.
March 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you.
If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you.
If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you.
We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.
If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you.
If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you.
We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.