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Uncle Duke

@uncleduke1969.bsky.social

until printer learned to love printer

PC notification reads “printer could not be printer”

July 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM

Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller)

@armchairclassicist.bsky.social

Drawing of a book with a desk printer on the cover with the title "The printer that simply worked and other fairy tales"

April 22, 2026 at 4:24 PM

Uncle Duke

@uncleduke1969.bsky.social

until printer learned to love printer

December 29, 2024 at 2:29 PM

Stella Sacco

@antlervel.vet

Text messages on iOS

ME: I should get a printer
CHRIS: That one brother printer is pretty good
ME: Brother printer? Uhhh, you mean mom?

April 5, 2026 at 1:54 AM

Football is here Dan

@jacketdan.bsky.social

So about that 3D printer @hollyanderson.bsky.social

July 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Solomon

@solomonrmissouri.com

Mans is blank as new printer paper

September 15, 2026 at 10:52 AM

bacon popsicle 🧴

@gupton68.bsky.social

*buys a 3D printer*

*prints a 3D printer*

*returns 3D printer for a refund*

May 3, 2024 at 11:56 AM

nixCraft

@cyberciti.biz

Printer: I need Cyan cartridge

Me: But I only need to print Black

Printer: Noop

Me: Please print it

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Me: 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

December 7, 2024 at 10:37 AM

Uncle Duke

@uncleduke1969.bsky.social

until printer learned to love printer

October 10, 2023 at 3:26 PM

The puppies Penn & Teller, and Richard

@rdaily.medsky.social

Printer

December 6, 2024 at 10:13 AM

Kumail Nanjiani

@kumail.bsky.social

Showing Big Printer who’s boss

April 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM

Marilyn Munster

@heyfren.bsky.social

This is so true.

Cartoon of a printer. Caption says don't let your printer know you're in a hurry. They smell fear.

May 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM

Frovo

@frovo.bsky.social

me: print this document
printer: okay
me:
printer:
me:
printer:
me:
printer:
me:
printer:
me:
printer:
me:
printer:
me:
printer:
me:
printer: oh you mean NOW??

July 31, 2024 at 6:09 PM

Quinta Jurecic

@qjurecic.bsky.social

a society of senior law firm partners who never learned how to use the printer

Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 1d

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?”

Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

September 24, 2026 at 4:10 PM

mallow -> blfc

@mallow.gay

testing my new printer

March 19, 2026 at 11:18 PM

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@selphie.etheirys.social

people really need to remember the printer gun post in times like this.

December 28, 2024 at 12:13 AM

Jimothy the Raccoon

@jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social

jimothy 3D printer!

#jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon

August 23, 2026 at 1:06 PM

Sam

@samuelhlowe.bsky.social

*Tries to print a page*
PRINTER: doesn’t print

*Tries again*
PRINTER: doesn’t print

*Cancels job*
PRINTER: prints the whole internet

June 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM

Hot Mulled Karen

@sinisternails1.bsky.social

It sounds like my printer is printing out a long document in the dining room. Unfortunately my printer is dead, so I guess I need to see what the cats got into.

June 14, 2026 at 6:08 AM