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nontech blog post topics list In Defense of Disco, goth rap post, spectacle DJs, leather daddy appreciation
April 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
alispit.tel
help i caught my husband (29m nontech) on stackoverflow, is he going to become one of us?
April 27, 2023 at 2:06 AM
rystorm.com
I am going to submit a Tool Design workshop to Godotfest 2025.

If you are using Godot, and want to know how to improve the design & UX of tools & workflows, what would you like to learn about the most? What are the biggest (nontech) questions you have when creating workflows?
June 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
grumpymonoceros.bsky.social
There's a tendency in tech (and among nontech people talking about tech) to assume that the tech is the only important skillset when often our work touches a huge number of other disciplines we're mostly not experts in. Academia figured this out but SV never did.
ens0.me Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 8d
Part of the problem with a lot of AI discourse is that a lot of it devolves into a philosophy argument, which neither side is well-equipped to argue.

A lot of people have rigid, narrow concepts of terms like "thinking" and "knowing" that would be dispelled by a 100-level class on epistemology.
September 17, 2026 at 6:17 PM
lutzfernandez.bsky.social
I keep hearing people defend teachers using AI because it will save them time on the unpaid work that we do. Are they in fewer meetings? Have fewer duties? Dealing with fewer new initiatives? Being asked to spend less time getting evaluated? Lots of nontech ways to reduce teacher burdens:
A Mild Case of Teacher Brain
Reducing educators' administrative load
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October 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
jhweissmann.bsky.social
What’s kind of ironic is that, other than the big unresolved Google and Amazon cases, most of the progress on antitrust and consumer protection ended up being on the boring nontech side.
January 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
rovergigs.bsky.social
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September 22, 2026 at 12:34 AM
blarghyblargh.bsky.social
That's the best you can do? Whataboutism for golf courses?

But don't you think that it's obvious to most folks that golf courses use a lot for water?

It's not (yet) obvious to the average, nontech person that AI is such a resource hog.

So why shame someone for educating people on the topic?
December 23, 2024 at 6:49 PM
rovergigs.bsky.social
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September 21, 2026 at 10:53 PM
ticketmasterceo.com
I’m really surprised how reactionary many tech people are being about the dataset. Even if you don’t think it was a big deal, I don’t find it hard to understand the pov of nontech people who watched Twitter implode + are dealing with AI being crammed into every single part of the digital ecosystem
squintingcat.bsky.social linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · Nov 28
if you were learning Python in early 2010, the classic "day 2" exercise was using twitter api to ""scrape"" a bunch of tweets.

I don't understand what world all the "oh noes there's a bsky tweet dataset on huggingface" people are living in
November 29, 2024 at 2:24 AM
lepetitereboot.bsky.social
on a world tour! this is the dumbest nontech they've amplified in a while, and with so many contenders it's a real fight tbh
March 4, 2026 at 11:57 AM
aldasoro.bsky.social
We do briefly discuss the changing profile of tech and nontech borrowers from private credit in a box; but this is not your typical “risks in private credit” piece (though we have some of those as well!!
September 14, 2026 at 1:09 PM
rovergigs.bsky.social
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September 19, 2026 at 12:27 AM
pjnef.bsky.social
I started a new nontech project. Want to build this 1:100 wooden model of a chinese pirate junk. Getting closer to planking the hull..
March 27, 2024 at 6:41 PM
bgpelaire.bsky.social
My “taking it seriously” is that most nontech pundits who have never used it for business, science research or serious creation have no idea what they are talking about.
February 24, 2026 at 10:48 AM
edzitron.com
just an obscene lie, but because it's "will be" nothing happens. Oracle is posting razor-thin gross profit margins (which do not mean they're actually making a profit, by the way!). Oracle lost $100m in three months on renting out Blackwell GPUs.

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In the three months that ended in August, Oracle generated around $900 million from rentals of servers powered by Nvidia chips and recorded a gross profit of $125 million—equal to 14 cents for every $1 of sales, the documents show. That’s lower than the gross margins of many nontech retail businesses. As sales from the business nearly tripled in the past year, the gross profit margin from those sales ranged between less than 10% and slightly over 20%, averaging around 16%, the documents show. In some cases, Oracle is losing considerable sums on rentals of small quantities of both newer and older versions of Nvidia’s chips, the data show. A spokesperson for Oracle, which doesn’t publicly disclose the AI cloud server unit’s financials, did not have a comment on those figures. The 14% gross margin figure appears to take into account the labor, power and other direct costs of running Oracle data centers, including depreciation expenses for some of the equipment. Other unspecified depreciation expenses would eat up another 7 percentage points of margin, the documents show. Equity analysts such as Gil Luria from D.A. Davidson say they tend to account for depreciation of chips and other data center equipment when calculating a cloud provider’s gross margin, as the equipment is a key cost of selling cloud services. That dynamic seems to contradict Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s recent comment that the release of newer chips essentially wipes out demand for older ones. Oracle’s margins are also affected by how many of its servers customers are actually using—and paying for. Utilization of Oracle’s GPU cloud servers ranges between 60% and 90%, depending on the type of Nvidia chip that powers them, according to internal documents. In the three months that ended in August, Oracle lost nearly $100 million from rentals of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips, which arrived this year. That’s partly because there is a period between when Oracle gets its data centers ready for customers and when customers start using and paying for them, the documents show. It’s not clear what causes the gap or how Oracle plans to shorten it.
October 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
leviathan3k.bsky.social
All I know is it'll be the year of the Linux Desktop when my old, nontech mother is using it.

..shit, she has a chromebook...
November 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
gwensnyder.bsky.social
And just to put a point on this, this is a HIGHLY gendered/racialized dynamic I've seen play out even in nontech political space.

For example, white policy bros love to look down on political agendas rooted in grassroots community-led work, which is very often nonwhite/women -organized.
May 28, 2023 at 4:29 PM
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September 19, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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It’s really hard to think about what it would be like to *not* know or be aware of the education or understanding.

Lot of tech people struggle with that when communicating with nontech people.
November 11, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
leah.myatproto.social
The problem is everyone going for "trade it" but wants to panic. The Market is doing the wile coyote maneuver off the cliff but can't look down. Trying to make $ from nontech stock is not viable because this is a market where all the oxygen is locked in that standoff with gravity.
February 19, 2026 at 1:27 PM
coffeeknife.wrenspace.dev
the public comms are definitely an issue. migration tools to move your account without losing anything are getting a lot easier to use though, even for the nontech folks out there. people just don't know about it and us nerds are very bad at presenting it in a way that looks easy
December 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM