Kevin O'Connor
@rulethepla.net
Engineering @ Internet Archive, made silly things @ Recurse Center
It's hard to overstate the level of psychic damage AI is inflicting on boomers, their minds truly have been turned to goop
September 16, 2026 at 1:40 PM
It's hard to overstate the level of psychic damage AI is inflicting on boomers, their minds truly have been turned to goop
Today is the day he became Macklemost
September 15, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Today is the day he became Macklemost
As a software engineer, I think I now know how doctors felt when people first started Googling symptoms before they showed up to an appointment
September 13, 2026 at 5:10 PM
As a software engineer, I think I now know how doctors felt when people first started Googling symptoms before they showed up to an appointment
Just incredible business sense to wade into this bullshit, why can you not just be happy to collect $60 a year for doing what Apple Passwords does for free and shut the fuck up
ah yes once again the racists are the real victims
September 3, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Just incredible business sense to wade into this bullshit, why can you not just be happy to collect $60 a year for doing what Apple Passwords does for free and shut the fuck up
Just read a line from a letterboxd review that is not great:
> I consume a lot of true crime, and I’ll freely admit that I’m a fan of the genre.
Disgusting that "true crime" is a genre! Why is it that people feel it's OK to make the worst day of someone's life their entertainment, get a hobby
> I consume a lot of true crime, and I’ll freely admit that I’m a fan of the genre.
Disgusting that "true crime" is a genre! Why is it that people feel it's OK to make the worst day of someone's life their entertainment, get a hobby
August 14, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Just read a line from a letterboxd review that is not great:
> I consume a lot of true crime, and I’ll freely admit that I’m a fan of the genre.
Disgusting that "true crime" is a genre! Why is it that people feel it's OK to make the worst day of someone's life their entertainment, get a hobby
> I consume a lot of true crime, and I’ll freely admit that I’m a fan of the genre.
Disgusting that "true crime" is a genre! Why is it that people feel it's OK to make the worst day of someone's life their entertainment, get a hobby
Resilience improvements on the way!
Critical Internet Archive network upgrade happening. Might flit in and out but it will not be out of pocket for long.
August 8, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Resilience improvements on the way!
Getting older is realizing nearly ever person in a position of prestige is actually just a tremendous dumb ass like the rest of us
July 28, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Getting older is realizing nearly ever person in a position of prestige is actually just a tremendous dumb ass like the rest of us
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Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
July 22, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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There is no shame in a love this pure.
July 21, 2026 at 6:44 PM
There is no shame in a love this pure.
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July 21, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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Mark Zuckerberg's assistant at Meta, Josh Felker, who was responsible for Meta's "digital experiences for kids," was arrested after admitting he tried to sext a 13-year-old during an undercover sting. nypost.com/2026/07/20/u...
Exclusive | Meta worker who developed ‘digital experiences for kids’ admits to trying to sext child in undercover NYC sting
He admitted he had been grooming and sexting someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl during a sting by vigilante group Predator Poachers Long Island.
nypost.com
July 21, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Mark Zuckerberg's assistant at Meta, Josh Felker, who was responsible for Meta's "digital experiences for kids," was arrested after admitting he tried to sext a 13-year-old during an undercover sting. nypost.com/2026/07/20/u...
everything in my house is heat pumps. My dog is a heat pump now
July 14, 2026 at 8:57 PM
everything in my house is heat pumps. My dog is a heat pump now
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I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them:
✂️ clipart.studio
✂️ clipart.studio
July 9, 2026 at 9:31 PM
I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them:
✂️ clipart.studio
✂️ clipart.studio
This is not at all a novel tactic (this was happening at Reddit at least as early as 2015-2016) and it's ridiculous for anyone involved in this article to be saying that www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...
May 21, 2026 at 1:41 PM
This is not at all a novel tactic (this was happening at Reddit at least as early as 2015-2016) and it's ridiculous for anyone involved in this article to be saying that www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...
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Google, Microsoft, and Meta brag about how most of their code is AI-generated now. The developers generating that code say it sucks and that it's making the stupid www.404media.co/software-dev...
Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
“It's making me dumber for sure.”
www.404media.co
May 13, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Google, Microsoft, and Meta brag about how most of their code is AI-generated now. The developers generating that code say it sucks and that it's making the stupid www.404media.co/software-dev...
It's time to build.
announcing Marc Andreessen Egg Game - a game where you draw on eggs to make them look like Marc
marc-egg.eieio.games
marc-egg.eieio.games
May 8, 2026 at 5:36 PM
It's time to build.
Please send us hard drives
New from 404 Media: Skyrocketing hard drive and storage costs caused by the AI data center boom are making it more expensive and more difficult for digital archivists, academics, Wikipedia, and hobby data hoarders to save data and archive the internet www.404media.co/the-ai-hard-...
The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet
The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.
www.404media.co
May 5, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Please send us hard drives
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Love the Wayback Machine? ❤️
Here’s your chance to stand up for it 📣
When news can't be archived, we all lose part of the public record 🕳️
Tell major publishers: keep journalism in the #WaybackMachine.
✍️ Sign here: www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders
Campaign is a project of @fightforthefuture.org
Here’s your chance to stand up for it 📣
When news can't be archived, we all lose part of the public record 🕳️
Tell major publishers: keep journalism in the #WaybackMachine.
✍️ Sign here: www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders
Campaign is a project of @fightforthefuture.org
May 4, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Love the Wayback Machine? ❤️
Here’s your chance to stand up for it 📣
When news can't be archived, we all lose part of the public record 🕳️
Tell major publishers: keep journalism in the #WaybackMachine.
✍️ Sign here: www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders
Campaign is a project of @fightforthefuture.org
Here’s your chance to stand up for it 📣
When news can't be archived, we all lose part of the public record 🕳️
Tell major publishers: keep journalism in the #WaybackMachine.
✍️ Sign here: www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders
Campaign is a project of @fightforthefuture.org
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News shouldn’t disappear. 🕳️
Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine, putting the public record at risk. Journalists are speaking out.
Add your name. Stand for preserving the news.
✍️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders
Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine, putting the public record at risk. Journalists are speaking out.
Add your name. Stand for preserving the news.
✍️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders
Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!
www.savethearchive.com
May 3, 2026 at 4:40 PM
News shouldn’t disappear. 🕳️
Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine, putting the public record at risk. Journalists are speaking out.
Add your name. Stand for preserving the news.
✍️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders
Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine, putting the public record at risk. Journalists are speaking out.
Add your name. Stand for preserving the news.
✍️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders
I see why they had to add gambling, basketball is very boring to watch now
April 25, 2026 at 9:31 PM
I see why they had to add gambling, basketball is very boring to watch now
People who are presenting a ChatGPT interaction as their own original thought when trying to collaborate or troubleshoot something is truly offensive
April 25, 2026 at 1:04 AM
People who are presenting a ChatGPT interaction as their own original thought when trying to collaborate or troubleshoot something is truly offensive
Purposefully writing absolute dogshit code so people know it was not LLM generated
April 24, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Purposefully writing absolute dogshit code so people know it was not LLM generated
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Staten Island traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022.
The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...
The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...
To Protect And Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets Yet Remains On The Force - Streetsblog New York City
One of the city’s most-dangerous drivers is an officer with the NYPD, which does nothing to stop his reign of terror on Staten Island.
nyc.streetsblog.org
April 23, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Staten Island traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022.
The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...
The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...