Joe Thompson
@kensey.bsky.social
That guy in that place who does that thing.
This was literally my first thought (well, I guess I should now say "my forebrain's first thought"...) when I saw this article.
Stanford better be crediting Carl Reiner and Steve Martin for their groundbreaking "new" findings
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
The Man with Two Brains - Wikipedia
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September 22, 2026 at 12:27 AM
This was literally my first thought (well, I guess I should now say "my forebrain's first thought"...) when I saw this article.
Boy, for a publication that traditionally considers itself the media avatar of the Internet age, Wired's own website sucks absolute ass at really basic stuff like "I want to change my subscription address so the print magazine still gets to me after I just moved".
September 21, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Boy, for a publication that traditionally considers itself the media avatar of the Internet age, Wired's own website sucks absolute ass at really basic stuff like "I want to change my subscription address so the print magazine still gets to me after I just moved".
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It's always fun to run software you created until the API changes and the CVEs hit
August 30, 2026 at 4:28 PM
It's always fun to run software you created until the API changes and the CVEs hit
Just read about a proposed Soviet "nuclear train" design that, instead of the usual "put a steam turbine and a reactor on a locomotive" plans, went for a more direct use of nuclear forces: opposed pistons in cylinders filled with just-subcritical UF6 gas.
August 29, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Just read about a proposed Soviet "nuclear train" design that, instead of the usual "put a steam turbine and a reactor on a locomotive" plans, went for a more direct use of nuclear forces: opposed pistons in cylinders filled with just-subcritical UF6 gas.
"We're in engineering, and something's fucked up because Wesley was too horny..." -- @andrewti.bsky.social describing a scene in ST:TNG "The Dauphin", and really, weren't the "because Wesley was too horny" episodes (there were more than one!), retrospectively, some of the best in TNG?
August 28, 2026 at 3:54 PM
"We're in engineering, and something's fucked up because Wesley was too horny..." -- @andrewti.bsky.social describing a scene in ST:TNG "The Dauphin", and really, weren't the "because Wesley was too horny" episodes (there were more than one!), retrospectively, some of the best in TNG?
We're moving the same week our oldest started college. How it's going so far:
August 21, 2026 at 11:42 PM
We're moving the same week our oldest started college. How it's going so far:
Oh for fuck's sake.
August 10, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Oh for fuck's sake.
"I have no notes or record of what you're referring to."
People sometimes forget damnatio memoriae wasn't only done to the record of a malfeasant sovereign, but a punishment given even to lesser people who went above and beyond the call of ordinary asshattery. It's richly deserved in this case.
People sometimes forget damnatio memoriae wasn't only done to the record of a malfeasant sovereign, but a punishment given even to lesser people who went above and beyond the call of ordinary asshattery. It's richly deserved in this case.
NEW: Regarding the claims that Rep. Max Miller withheld his toddler's "blue bunny," I have some new screenshots suggesting there was a pattern of Miller not giving the bunny back. There were pleas from multiple people on multiple dates. (Thread: 1/8)
August 6, 2026 at 12:44 PM
"I have no notes or record of what you're referring to."
People sometimes forget damnatio memoriae wasn't only done to the record of a malfeasant sovereign, but a punishment given even to lesser people who went above and beyond the call of ordinary asshattery. It's richly deserved in this case.
People sometimes forget damnatio memoriae wasn't only done to the record of a malfeasant sovereign, but a punishment given even to lesser people who went above and beyond the call of ordinary asshattery. It's richly deserved in this case.
I mean this is less funny and more "hmmmm...." when you wonder just how many Silicon Valley VC-backed-startup leaders are regularly using mind-altering substances and basically in a cult already.
August 4, 2026 at 2:56 AM
I mean this is less funny and more "hmmmm...." when you wonder just how many Silicon Valley VC-backed-startup leaders are regularly using mind-altering substances and basically in a cult already.
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I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”.
People.
PEOPLE.
Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”
People.
PEOPLE.
Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”
July 21, 2026 at 11:03 PM
I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”.
People.
PEOPLE.
Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”
People.
PEOPLE.
Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”
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look if you’re in the target demo for an apple tv show, it will come to you in an impossible dream
Apple TV doesn’t do marketing? Do the whispers of a blind prophet in the Kabul market not count? The petroglyphs depicting the Morning Show found in the Forbidden Tomb in Giza? I personally learnt about See from a statue in Rome that spoke in the voice of a long-dead child.
Oh hey there's a crime thriller upcoming on AppleTV starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Timothy Olyphant I literally wouldn't have heard about if I wasn't randomly catching up on Slow Horses. Which I also didn't know had a s5 last year. Bless Apple's ideological opposition to advertising.
June 28, 2026 at 3:25 PM
look if you’re in the target demo for an apple tv show, it will come to you in an impossible dream
"...there were like some Star Trek episodes where [...] it's like 'hey, I made this weird little alien freak' and then Gene Coon would take a bunch of cocaine, go into a room and not come out for four days, and then come out with an episode. That's how you do sci-fi back in the day."
July 25, 2026 at 6:33 PM
"...there were like some Star Trek episodes where [...] it's like 'hey, I made this weird little alien freak' and then Gene Coon would take a bunch of cocaine, go into a room and not come out for four days, and then come out with an episode. That's how you do sci-fi back in the day."
I swear I saw a post just in the past couple of weeks about why abstracting your architecture behind an "environment" variable in Terraform is a bad idea.
July 24, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I swear I saw a post just in the past couple of weeks about why abstracting your architecture behind an "environment" variable in Terraform is a bad idea.
I got the ick when I read Linus' statement late last night, but couldn't fully articulate why.
"In a burning world we need to hold ourselves and each other to a higher standard. “Useful” is far, far from being good enough."
https://tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/
https://tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/
"Useful" is not sufficient
So Linus Torvalds, head of the Linux kernel development, put his foot down on the Linux Kernel development mailing list when someone was bringing up criticism of LLMs: “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issueswith that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away. […]
tante.cc
July 16, 2026 at 1:52 PM
I got the ick when I read Linus' statement late last night, but couldn't fully articulate why.
Listening to the bit in the latest @wtyppod.bsky.social about Justin's emotional support quart container, made me imagine Obi Wan Kenobi saying "He's more plastic now, than man... twisted and evil."
July 13, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Listening to the bit in the latest @wtyppod.bsky.social about Justin's emotional support quart container, made me imagine Obi Wan Kenobi saying "He's more plastic now, than man... twisted and evil."
Apparently the incredibly overreaching Flock C&D is in fact fake.
It should go without saying, but... do not do this kind of thing.
It should go without saying, but... do not do this kind of thing.
FYI: this is a fake viral marketing bit by this "Saturday Salon" group. Flock's Chief Strategy Officer says they never sent it; the branding is off and the purported author's title is wrong, among many other things.
July 10, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Apparently the incredibly overreaching Flock C&D is in fact fake.
It should go without saying, but... do not do this kind of thing.
It should go without saying, but... do not do this kind of thing.
Hey @wmata.com -- Metro cars 6028 and 6029 have A/C issues, and your online chat isn't picking up.
July 1, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Hey @wmata.com -- Metro cars 6028 and 6029 have A/C issues, and your online chat isn't picking up.
Submitting to your local KCD is a great way to get started with conference presentations.
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DMV — we need your stories, experiences, and wisdom. 🙌
Kubernetes, AI, Open Source, or anything in between — your talk belongs at KCD Washington DC's 6th annual conference.
CFP closes June 26 👉 sessionize.com/kcd-washingt...
June 24, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Submitting to your local KCD is a great way to get started with conference presentations.
Not constantly using chatbots for everything all the time these days is starting to feel a little like being on the second away team in "Return of the Archons".
May 30, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Not constantly using chatbots for everything all the time these days is starting to feel a little like being on the second away team in "Return of the Archons".
TIL Canadian military officer Arthur Peuchen, first-class passenger on Titanic, lost his wallet overboard while climbing down the ropes to take the second rower position on a lifeboat that was already being lowered but was short a rower.
May 9, 2026 at 3:54 PM
TIL Canadian military officer Arthur Peuchen, first-class passenger on Titanic, lost his wallet overboard while climbing down the ropes to take the second rower position on a lifeboat that was already being lowered but was short a rower.
OMG I NEED IT
52 oracle cards with newly-drawn art based on classic woodcuts, plus a 60+ page guide to interpreting them, some of the most fun I've ever had writing.
April 22, 2026 at 1:36 AM
OMG I NEED IT
Did Hammacher Schlemmer (indirectly) cause the breakup of the Beatles?
Follow the chain of falling dominoes from a silly, deliberately-useless catalog item to "Magic Alex" and the financial disaster of Apple Corps' ersatz recording studio:
shoddygoods.meh.com/p/the-beatle...
Follow the chain of falling dominoes from a silly, deliberately-useless catalog item to "Magic Alex" and the financial disaster of Apple Corps' ersatz recording studio:
shoddygoods.meh.com/p/the-beatle...
The Beatles and the Nothing Box: Shoddy Goods 093
Did Hammacher Schlemmer help break up the greatest band of all time?
shoddygoods.meh.com
April 22, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Did Hammacher Schlemmer (indirectly) cause the breakup of the Beatles?
Follow the chain of falling dominoes from a silly, deliberately-useless catalog item to "Magic Alex" and the financial disaster of Apple Corps' ersatz recording studio:
shoddygoods.meh.com/p/the-beatle...
Follow the chain of falling dominoes from a silly, deliberately-useless catalog item to "Magic Alex" and the financial disaster of Apple Corps' ersatz recording studio:
shoddygoods.meh.com/p/the-beatle...
It's that time of year in the mid-Atlantic when the trees and flowers are blooming, and the days are sunny, low-humidity and in the low 60s, so sitting outside in the sun over lunch is absolutely wonderful.
April 3, 2026 at 5:26 PM
It's that time of year in the mid-Atlantic when the trees and flowers are blooming, and the days are sunny, low-humidity and in the low 60s, so sitting outside in the sun over lunch is absolutely wonderful.
In other news I just learned New Zealand used to have an eagle that weighed up to 40 pounds and had up to a 10-foot wingspan. Basically, imagine an eagle the size of a goddamn basset hound, with wings as wide as an economy sedan's wheelbase is long.
March 26, 2026 at 12:28 AM
In other news I just learned New Zealand used to have an eagle that weighed up to 40 pounds and had up to a 10-foot wingspan. Basically, imagine an eagle the size of a goddamn basset hound, with wings as wide as an economy sedan's wheelbase is long.