Luke
@nightcruller.bsky.social
Grumpy civic technologist. We'll get through this, but we don't have to be stoic about it.
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"average person eats 2TB of RAM a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 RAMs per year. RAMs Altman, who lives in data centre & eats over 10,000TB each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
October 31, 2026 at 9:17 AM
"average person eats 2TB of RAM a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 RAMs per year. RAMs Altman, who lives in data centre & eats over 10,000TB each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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this remains the greatest reddit post of all time
October 31, 2026 at 12:55 PM
this remains the greatest reddit post of all time
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your periodic reminder that there was a sperm whale called Porphyrios who took offense at the Romans and singlehandedly decided to stop all Byzantian trade and sank so many ships over the next 50 years that Justinian declared him an official enemy of the empire and put a reward on his head
I know I ask for this at least once a year, but can some nice historian reassure me that the world has ALWAYS been this stupid?
October 30, 2026 at 6:29 AM
your periodic reminder that there was a sperm whale called Porphyrios who took offense at the Romans and singlehandedly decided to stop all Byzantian trade and sank so many ships over the next 50 years that Justinian declared him an official enemy of the empire and put a reward on his head
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thinking about the chicken gyro
October 28, 2026 at 10:01 PM
thinking about the chicken gyro
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inside your fave security company is a man calling his workers “losers” and who set up a narc email for workers to snitch on other workers who resist using AI
SCOOP: Proton CEO Andy Yen to his staff: “Stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.”
404 Media saw these internal messages, in which he also said it was "loser thinking" to an employee who urged the company to at least take a few days to test newly written code before going live.
404 Media saw these internal messages, in which he also said it was "loser thinking" to an employee who urged the company to at least take a few days to test newly written code before going live.
Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning
Proton CEO Andy Yen projects a calm persona and rails against Big Tech and critiques AI. Internally, he is pushing engineers to build Proton with AI, even when they have security concerns.
www.404media.co
October 29, 2026 at 2:34 PM
inside your fave security company is a man calling his workers “losers” and who set up a narc email for workers to snitch on other workers who resist using AI
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Following an October 20 accident on the Ohlone Greenway, write-in #ElCerrito city council candidate Slade McCutcheon was forced to suspend his campaign.
youtu.be/DfCeZkbyPYk
youtu.be/DfCeZkbyPYk
McCutcheon suspends campaign
YouTube video by Laughable El Cerrito
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October 28, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Following an October 20 accident on the Ohlone Greenway, write-in #ElCerrito city council candidate Slade McCutcheon was forced to suspend his campaign.
youtu.be/DfCeZkbyPYk
youtu.be/DfCeZkbyPYk
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*to the tune of Nessun dorma*
Grocery outlet,
Bargain market
Grocery outlet,
Bargain market
October 25, 2026 at 9:50 PM
*to the tune of Nessun dorma*
Grocery outlet,
Bargain market
Grocery outlet,
Bargain market
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It’s incredible the things you don’t realize are sacred until you can no longer rely on them
October 25, 2026 at 2:25 PM
It’s incredible the things you don’t realize are sacred until you can no longer rely on them
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Something I wish more people would realize.
October 24, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Something I wish more people would realize.
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Get to know me and my love for helping others! After my last video about my vision for El Cerrito, I wanted to introduce myself and provide information on my community service. #touchgrassandvote #votemjforec
October 21, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Get to know me and my love for helping others! After my last video about my vision for El Cerrito, I wanted to introduce myself and provide information on my community service. #touchgrassandvote #votemjforec
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We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
news.berkeley.edu
October 10, 2026 at 12:50 PM
We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
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Margaret Hamilton, the MIT computer scientist who led the development of the flight software that piloted NASA's Apollo program, has died. She was 90.
October 9, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Margaret Hamilton, the MIT computer scientist who led the development of the flight software that piloted NASA's Apollo program, has died. She was 90.
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Laughable spoke to write-in city council candidate Slade McCutcheon about his frustration with #ElCerrito's maintenance of the Ohlone Greenway.
youtube.com/shorts/Hqp4n...
youtube.com/shorts/Hqp4n...
McCutcheon on Greenway Maintenance
YouTube video by Laughable El Cerrito
youtube.com
October 7, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Laughable spoke to write-in city council candidate Slade McCutcheon about his frustration with #ElCerrito's maintenance of the Ohlone Greenway.
youtube.com/shorts/Hqp4n...
youtube.com/shorts/Hqp4n...
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I feel like we don’t talk about millennials in particular, hitting our 40s - in earlier generations many of us would be reaching the peak of our careers, but because of disaster after disaster, locust after locust eating our industries, many of us are on our 3rd or 4th fresh start.
October 7, 2026 at 3:25 AM
I feel like we don’t talk about millennials in particular, hitting our 40s - in earlier generations many of us would be reaching the peak of our careers, but because of disaster after disaster, locust after locust eating our industries, many of us are on our 3rd or 4th fresh start.
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In a conversation with Laughable, Slade McCutcheon, the historically-minded write-in candidate, called for an unorthodox return of historical #ElCerrito relics to their original resting place.
youtube.com/shorts/LyU5I...
youtube.com/shorts/LyU5I...
McCutcheon calls for return of El Cerrito relics
YouTube video by Laughable El Cerrito
youtube.com
October 5, 2026 at 3:08 PM
In a conversation with Laughable, Slade McCutcheon, the historically-minded write-in candidate, called for an unorthodox return of historical #ElCerrito relics to their original resting place.
youtube.com/shorts/LyU5I...
youtube.com/shorts/LyU5I...
aaaand purchased
JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum?
Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked.
JRRT: What.
Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked.
JRRT: What.
The Taming of Sméagol
Donato Giancola
Donato Giancola
October 3, 2026 at 4:47 PM
aaaand purchased
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Not for nothing but usually the "coverage" of the "caravan" has already started by this point in the cycle.
I see massive caravans of illegals in our near future...
"Texas is real."
Top Dem pollster John Anzalone just did a striking survey with Trump's pollster that finds Talarico +4. On the pod, he explains why he thinks Texas really is gettable this time for Dems. He says the likely path to majority is TX AK ME NC.
Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/2156...
Top Dem pollster John Anzalone just did a striking survey with Trump's pollster that finds Talarico +4. On the pod, he explains why he thinks Texas really is gettable this time for Dems. He says the likely path to majority is TX AK ME NC.
Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/2156...
September 21, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Not for nothing but usually the "coverage" of the "caravan" has already started by this point in the cycle.
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Babe wake up, new German existentialist rap just dropped.
September 27, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Babe wake up, new German existentialist rap just dropped.
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Be serious. Bert and Ernie are not “in love.” Maybe they used to be, once
September 25, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Be serious. Bert and Ernie are not “in love.” Maybe they used to be, once
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In a recorded phone call obtained by Laughable, write-in city council candidate Slade McCutcheon declined an invitation to a neighborhood candidate forum.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ww8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ww8...
McCutcheon declines invitation to candidate forum
YouTube video by Laughable El Cerrito
www.youtube.com
September 24, 2026 at 5:18 AM
In a recorded phone call obtained by Laughable, write-in city council candidate Slade McCutcheon declined an invitation to a neighborhood candidate forum.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ww8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ww8...
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My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.
September 21, 2026 at 11:25 PM
My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.
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Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again
September 19, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again