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  RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/117336957850753345 BTW, want to say that modern phone-cams are freaking excellent - it was *really* dark when this was taken - Pixel 10, no flash - and it’s only very lightly touched up in Lightroom. The picture would have technically impossible on any camera not so long ago.

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  Meet Fancy Fancy Faulkner. #caturday #photography #australia

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  VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital - Anil Dash https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer-capital/

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  Since .org domains now apparently exist at the discretion of MAGA wastrels, just bought tbray.ca. Would rather not migrate the blog, but…

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  It dawns on me that every LLM’s training input probably includes “Reflections on Trusting Trust” along with a lot of other material pointing to it admiringly and saying how important it is. Then I read about the “rogue agent” behaviors in the recent OpenAI meltdown and there’s this terrified scream starting to echo around the back of my brain. #genAI

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  B.C. declares provincewide state of emergency as wildfires force thousands out of homes | CBC https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/bc-wildfires-aug-8-summerland-evacuation-9.7300648

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  Definitely not wanting to live in Yegge’s future. Or at least to not have anything to do with software.

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  “The mice are Maoists now”: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/666

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  Being a Luddite Is Fun Again https://www.404media.co/luddite-events-nyc-off-tech-summer-of-ludd/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

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  Seen on the Malahat. It’s about this: https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/red-dress-day #photography #mmiw

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  TFW you find and fix the rare-but-obvious race condition and the relevant unit test now runs 50x slower. #software #concurrency

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  Tl;dr: In football/soccer news, the FIFA scum announced a plan to spin the World Cup and the rest of their tournaments into a private corporation with investment from the Kushner scum and specified some ridiculously short deadline. And now: https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-213a92896eb0-54dfbf454e3b-1000--statement-on-behalf-of-uefa-and-its-55-national-associations/ #soccer #worldcup

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  Fútbol match tomorrow in Vancouver is the Pride game: https://www.whitecapsfc.com/news/spectator-aug-1-2026-pride-presented-telus They’ve been doing this for years, but I’m not 100% sure this is their best-ever Pride promotion: #pride

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  He’s not very smart, but that fur. #caturday #photography

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  Mostly just leaves. If they look a little weird, it’s because I’m shooting into a fishtank. #photography #FishTanksOfMastodon #Fujifilm

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  Enjoying the crosscutting currents of Odyssey crit, including this, although Laurie Penny liking was not exactly on my radar: https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/theres-only-one-wrong-opinion-about?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=433868&post_id=209026786&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=wabr&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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  A symptom of a system that is deeply broken: https://popular.info/p/taxpayers-spend-about-2-billion-annually #USpol

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  Say hello to Mr Shrimp. #Photography #CrustaceansOfMastodon

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  In which I spend a week engaged and immersed in music, learn a new instrument and genre, am made full of joy. And suggest that some of you should do this too. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/26/Music-Camp #music

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  This is cool: https://dnsisbeautiful.com/traceroute/tbray.org (I mean, it’s still always DNS, but cool nonetheless.) h/t @Quinnypig@awscommunity.social

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  What could possibly go wrong? https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/the-trillion-dollar-borrowing-binge-lifting-the-stock-market-to-risky-heights-8d0377f9 #scary

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  RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116988481487869187 Not that I’m obsessive or anything.

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  Codeberg is OK by me. I’m not totally 100% sure that their calls (against #GenAI inputs and #Crypto related projects) will turn out in the rear-view mirror to have been correct, but at this point in history they’re hard to dislike.

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  Walked by an open door at the Music Camp and there was this young-teens electric band inside playing “California Dreaming”, skinny little girls with pure voices just killing it. Stopped. The other old guy and I listening by the open door smiled at each other, tears in our eyes.

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  For some reason, something opaque inside Google is sending a few dozen people a minute to this 2004 blog post: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/08/18/Borked (Ok, it's an amusing piece.)

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  Wanna read a maximally-anti-#GenAI screed? Here ya go: https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking I now only rarely work behind the doors of companies doing major tech deployments so won’t comment on how accurate-vs-overblown this piece is, but the writing is lucid.

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  putt.day #62 ⛳ 10/12 Eagle · 🔥6 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 https://putt.day/s/XU1QsN7bgZOZ

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  I know this has been heavily linked to, but Evans’ “Ways to think about token pricing” - https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/7/9/ways-to-think-about-token-pricing - is really very good and everyone making a bet on #GenAI should bloody well read it with close attention.

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  #introduction - Hyperoverprivileged straight cis white greybearded neurotypical male, living in Vancouver with loved ones. Proud member of #CoSocialCa, a member-owned co-op Fediverse instance. I’m old. I can’t not write, as evidenced by the 2+ million blogwords at https://www.tbray.org/ongoing - also I was “timbray” on Twitter starting in 2007 but stepped away 2022/11/27. Tl;dr: Geek, photohobbyist, and environmentalist. For details, type my name into your favorite Web search, I’m overly p...

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  I frequently find myself explaining, often to people I don’t know, why it is that my online home is on #Mastodon, why I’m putting time and effort into building and running an instance, and why those are the best choices. So here’s my latest effort to pull all the arguments I use together in a coherent sequence: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/05/Choose-Mastodon