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John Karabaic's account. he/him. BLM.

NYC MIT WPAFB CIN PDX, kinda in that order

Virtual plumber to @pluralistic

Breakfast on the Bridges volunteer @bonbpdx

Working for tech companies since they made hardware.

The gurney is the reward, as my NeXT colleagues put it.

Expect book and media reviews, comments on science and technology policy, frequent #NoirAlley #TCMParty posts.

Banner from a 1970's Soviet Edition of Anna Karenina

BlueSky@karabaic.org

HBO Documentaries will just show B-roll of a street filmed 2 weeks ago and overlay "Tuesday, February 17, 1959" on it.

You can see a 2026 VW id buzz pass by, they're not fooling anyone.

saturday night be like

welcome nice

enjoy the good times

pls take the meal
when flash/vibrate

@davew Hey Dave, I've tried to unsub from scripting news for over three weeks now.

Why do you continue to send me email?

group chats in bsky

unmoderated "discussions" on plex

snap's bighornrims

all product managers everywhere have gone fucking insane

"you want to stop and frisk *me*?"

HT https://bsky.app/profile/dutchpendergrass.bsky.social

no no no no no plex

not discussions

we don't need discussions

you don't need to moderate them

please no

i know it's fruitless to keep applying the bechdel test to les miserables but damn it keeps failing in the most funny ways

in chapters near the end, male protagonists have chapters where they ask deep questions in solitary agony: 25, 44, 64 questions apiece

Cosette asks 10 questions about the men.

Google the "Search Company" has the absolutely worst-performing "find" feature I have ever used, in Google docs. On a moderately-sized document that MS Word and even  Pages can gobble as a snack (100K words), Google Docs absolutely chokes the moment you decide to use regex find. Toy product.
What story will 33rd century archeologists tell about this cup?