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Mark Lynch @mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie · Jul 29, 2026

Replying to @davidgerard@circumstances.run

@davidgerard@circumstances.run every time I read a Sam Altman quote I i) lose a fraction of in IQ point and ii) am struck by how much he clearly values the quantity of words emanating from his mouth over the quality of any meaning they might represent

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Mark Lynch @mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie · May 16, 2026

Replying to @davidgerard@circumstances.run

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @benno@eigenmagic.net @brib@bribstodon.xyz the level of entitled indignation at the prospect of being charged the actual cost of their usage is a sight to behold

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Mark Lynch @mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @woe2you@beige.party

@thomholwerda @woe2you true, I’d have been more likely to end with “go fuck yourself” than “get help” tbh

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Mark Lynch @mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @davidgerard@circumstances.run

@davidgerard platform designed to promote the proliferation of slop DDOSes itself with slop And yet no doubt this will *not* result in a lightbulb moment

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Mark Lynch @mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie · Apr 27, 2026

Replying to @davey_cakes@mastodon.ie

@davey_cakes@mastodon.ie I cannot fathom how ostensibly intelligent people can’t grasp the simple fact that AI moves you from a model of “issue precise instructions to a computer which will execute them deterministically” to “write down what you want the computer to do in an imprecise language and hope to fuck that the layer you’ve put between you and your computer interprets that the way you meant it”. You are literally reduced to pleading with it to not fuck things up, with no guarantees

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Mark Lynch @mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie · Apr 04, 2026

Replying to @silvermoon82@wandering.shop

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @silvermoon82@wandering.shop “Those are rookie numbers”

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Mark Lynch @mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie · Apr 02, 2026

Replying to @jacqui76@mastodon.ie

@ciaranmak@mastodon.ie @jacqui76@mastodon.ie just right. An island of culture and civilisation surrounded by jackeens, displaced jackeens (Louth), might as well be jackeens (Kildare), Biffos, wannabe Meath men (takes more than adding West, lads), the aforementioned mucksavages, and the less said about Monaghan the better…

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Mark Lynch @mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie · Apr 02, 2026

Replying to @jacqui76@mastodon.ie

@jacqui76@mastodon.ie as a Meathman I must object in the strongest terms to your inclusion of a Cavan-related hashtag in a toot about a purely Meath venue. Whilst my ancestors were civilised and capable of such feats of engineering, those Cavan mucksavages likely couldn’t see past the end of whatever sheep they were bothering (and probably trying to charge it for the privilege, given how tight they are)

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Mark Lynch @mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie · Mar 06, 2026

Replying to @hanscees@ieji.de

@hanscees @Daojoan as the owner of a black Labrador who religiously chases *every* squirrel in the local park on every visit, I find this relatable 😀

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Mark Lynch @mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie · Mar 02, 2026

Replying to @icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz

@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz @Rairii@labyrinth.zone to be fair, if Iran did manage to hit us-east-1, would anyone believe the ensuing outage was actually war-related, as opposed to business as usual for AWS? 😜

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Mark Lynch @mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie · Feb 22, 2026

Replying to @Daojoan__dup_15824@mastodon.social

@Daojoan all compounded by the fact that the vast majority of people uploading instructional videos are *monumentally fucking shit* at instructing. Teaching is a skill, and most people who try to do it just leave you wanting to punch them repeatedly for being so obliviously bad at it

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Mark Lynch @mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie · Feb 15, 2026

Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop and where one of the fourth raccoon’s personalities *really* likes brown bears and is convinced that it is in fact one itself

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Mark Lynch @mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie · Dec 02, 2025

Replying to @davey_cakes@mastodon.ie

@aj @davey_cakes @nske is it too much to ask for OpenAI to fail to IPO because they’re buried in lawsuits over the massive liability exposure their bullshit generator has created for their customers? And for Altman’s reputation to be irreparably damaged in the process? A guy can dream 😜

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Mark Lynch @mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie · Dec 02, 2025

Replying to @davey_cakes@mastodon.ie

@nske @davey_cakes there’s hope yet 😀

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Mark Lynch @mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie · Nov 27, 2025

Replying to @LillyHerself@mastodon.social

@LillyHerself@mastodon.social upgrade to FlushMe pro including unlimited flushes for only £19.99 a month!

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Mark Lynch @mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie · Nov 14, 2025

Replying to @davey_cakes@mastodon.ie

@davey_cakes crack on ahead there lads, and give me a shout after the bubble bursts and you can’t do fuck all for yourselves because the companies running the chatbots to which you outsourced your cognitive abilities have literally ceased to exist. That is, assuming you’re still even capable of working a computer in any way, shape or form by then

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Mark Lynch @mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie · Jun 08, 2025

Replying to @catsalad__dup_5@infosec.exchange

@catsalad@infosec.exchange I’d put “not having to use salesforce” in the basic needs category tbh. Easily the worst excuse for a web-based case management system it has ever been my misfortune to have to use in 25+ years in the industry

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