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Tobin Baker

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<p>database, concurrency nerd</p><p>I barely speak for myself, let alone my employer</p><p>that said, fuck authoritarians</p>

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    Poe&amp;#39;s Law for Claude https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w3rxkj/average_opus_5_response/

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    RIP Wendell Berry, sharing this again https://classes.matthewjbrown.net/teaching-files/philtech/berry-computer.pdf

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    looks like PayPal caps passwords at 20 chars, hmmm

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    yikes, glad I never went for a .name domain, burn in hell Verisign https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/

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    don&amp;#39;t feel bad programmers, mathematicians are losing hope too https://www.math.brown.edu/reschwar/Stories/AI.pdf

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    lmao OpenAI trying to bribe a pure mathematician with “lead author” as if that’s a thing

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    This Trumpapalooza thing reminds me of Jonestown, except there are no sympathetic victims

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    We were at Swifts Night Out (awesome family event) and there was a group of teenagers next to us arguing whether the raptor that just charged into the flock and grabbed a swift was a merlin or a kestrel, and I thought, the kids are alright https://www.pilchuckaudubon.org/swifts-night-out

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    Mr Meeseeks was just a parable about AI alignment

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    @joe@f.duriansoftware.com or &quot;the 11th province&quot;

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    Wife is trying to use ChatGPT for a painting project and it turns out to be very good at hallucinating paint colors.

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    Having read this guy&amp;#39;s blog (on systems programming in C) for years, I literally cannot believe it is the same person. The proximity of the post date to April 1 gave me a little hope, but the post does seem serious. https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/03/29/

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    Best advice I got in therapy: “It’s not your fault, but you still own it.”

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    Sergey Brin is a case study in why billionaires should not exist. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/politics/sergey-brin-gg-soto-trump-california-billionaire-tax.html?unlocked_article_code=1.e1A.XBQK.cK_uqxxUcSTy&amp;amp;smid=url-share

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    Tired: TACO Wired: NACHO https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/the-logic-of-nacho?r=4tjsy&amp;amp;utm_medium=ios

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    And the Nazis unfortunately had to dynamite Warsaw because it was infrastructure used by resistance fighters. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/03/world/middleeast/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-gaza-destruction.html?unlocked_article_code=1.flA.l7Zj.9SdzM-ShJzOU&amp;amp;smid=url-share

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    seems too good to be true https://www.capyhourcafe.com/

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    I really love designing tabulation machines here at IBM. Such cool technology. I&#39;m not really exposed to the sales side but hear there&#39;s a lot of demand from Europe, Germany maybe? Anyway, super-fun technology to work on.