picklefactory
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Luddite (complimentary). I have no respect for posting as an activity or microblogging as a medium, and no attention to spare for damnfoolishness or bigotry.
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picklefactory
@picklefactory.org
· Oct 16
if a few more don't make it onto the mute list every time, can I even say I actually looked at this site?
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Wow, its so professional that the head of trust and safety is running away from the people trying to tell you they dont trust this site because it isnt safe. Youre a joke. Go get a different job so someone can actually do yours. I can get you in at a housekeeping job. Might be more your style
October 1, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Wow, its so professional that the head of trust and safety is running away from the people trying to tell you they dont trust this site because it isnt safe. Youre a joke. Go get a different job so someone can actually do yours. I can get you in at a housekeeping job. Might be more your style
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calling this "misalignment" instead of "negligence" is an accountability dodge. we already have laws about cyber crimes and there's no scale of ML model you can incorporate into your code that makes you not responsible for running it
September 24, 2026 at 1:21 AM
calling this "misalignment" instead of "negligence" is an accountability dodge. we already have laws about cyber crimes and there's no scale of ML model you can incorporate into your code that makes you not responsible for running it
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the people crave bluesky social credit scores
September 16, 2026 at 10:26 PM
the people crave bluesky social credit scores
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alas, we only measure velocity in terms of fast we fuck around and not how slowly we find out as a result
and getting programmers to think about the consequences of their actions is as hard as ever, now we've found new ways of "it works on my machine"
and getting programmers to think about the consequences of their actions is as hard as ever, now we've found new ways of "it works on my machine"
September 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
alas, we only measure velocity in terms of fast we fuck around and not how slowly we find out as a result
and getting programmers to think about the consequences of their actions is as hard as ever, now we've found new ways of "it works on my machine"
and getting programmers to think about the consequences of their actions is as hard as ever, now we've found new ways of "it works on my machine"
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The stability of many things, I believe, rest on the limited capabilities of idiots. But what if we made idiots much more capable.
September 16, 2026 at 4:27 PM
The stability of many things, I believe, rest on the limited capabilities of idiots. But what if we made idiots much more capable.
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P(annoying) through the roof
September 11, 2026 at 12:17 AM
P(annoying) through the roof
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A fundamental problem with "oh it's useful for coding" is that "generating more software faster" has, if anything, negative marginal utility in itself. The world is not suffering from a software shortage. The world is suffering from a software quality crisis, which LLMs seem more likely to worsen.
September 1, 2026 at 3:01 PM
A fundamental problem with "oh it's useful for coding" is that "generating more software faster" has, if anything, negative marginal utility in itself. The world is not suffering from a software shortage. The world is suffering from a software quality crisis, which LLMs seem more likely to worsen.
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stop showing me the horrid burrito, you demons
August 21, 2026 at 2:47 PM
stop showing me the horrid burrito, you demons
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there's a whole lot going on in "AI discourse" but a lot of it arises from people who work in tech still not getting it that the baseline perception of their work has been shifting hard for at least a decade, from "one of the more positive aspects of society" toward a much more ambivalent view
August 21, 2026 at 2:51 PM
there's a whole lot going on in "AI discourse" but a lot of it arises from people who work in tech still not getting it that the baseline perception of their work has been shifting hard for at least a decade, from "one of the more positive aspects of society" toward a much more ambivalent view
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CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines
PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do
CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps!
PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again
PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do
CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps!
PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again
August 20, 2026 at 10:16 PM
CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines
PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do
CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps!
PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again
PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do
CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps!
PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again
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"Productivity," like "the economy," are totally disconnected from the lived reality of billions of people, and this is precisely the frame AI adopts to force itself into improving-society arguments: nobody liked losing their job to globalization, losing them to lobotomization is no more appealing.
August 21, 2026 at 2:35 PM
"Productivity," like "the economy," are totally disconnected from the lived reality of billions of people, and this is precisely the frame AI adopts to force itself into improving-society arguments: nobody liked losing their job to globalization, losing them to lobotomization is no more appealing.
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Chats aren't encrypted, Bluesky will turn them over if subpoenaed.
Use @signal.org or @germnetwork.com instead
Use @signal.org or @germnetwork.com instead
June 12, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Chats aren't encrypted, Bluesky will turn them over if subpoenaed.
Use @signal.org or @germnetwork.com instead
Use @signal.org or @germnetwork.com instead
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Nancy 2/22/26… 🪱WOIMS🪱
February 23, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Nancy 2/22/26… 🪱WOIMS🪱
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1. ICE will kill you.
2. Trumpists will lie to justify it.
3. Because they are all thug trash.
2. Trumpists will lie to justify it.
3. Because they are all thug trash.
January 8, 2026 at 1:10 AM
1. ICE will kill you.
2. Trumpists will lie to justify it.
3. Because they are all thug trash.
2. Trumpists will lie to justify it.
3. Because they are all thug trash.
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Here’s to 2026
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Here’s to 2026
This is better than the thread, but the thread will still get posts first, I suspect.
I'm Here to Stay Tuned
atpub.picklefactory.net
December 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This is better than the thread, but the thread will still get posts first, I suspect.
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Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci
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from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"
October 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"
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lisa kudrow from friends.
("it's stylized and a bit abstract, like a posterized outline — evoking her kind and expressive Phoebe Buffay energy!")
("it's stylized and a bit abstract, like a posterized outline — evoking her kind and expressive Phoebe Buffay energy!")
October 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
lisa kudrow from friends.
("it's stylized and a bit abstract, like a posterized outline — evoking her kind and expressive Phoebe Buffay energy!")
("it's stylized and a bit abstract, like a posterized outline — evoking her kind and expressive Phoebe Buffay energy!")