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@dtrain.bsky.social

Ex-tweep looking for a new home

created April 29, 2023

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Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

The nutjob who handcuffed herself to the door of the Twitter NYC office and nobody cared

19/8/2025, 2:24:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

Man, I wish I had this feature too. techcrunch.com/2025/08/16/a...

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16/8/2025, 9:37:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

Still looks pretty boxed to me

14/8/2025, 1:27:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

Zuckerberg can spend billions poaching AI research talent, but they can’t buy a moral compass (Excerpts from a leaked internal Meta doc titled, “GenAI: Content Risk Standards ) www.reuters.com/investigates...

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14/8/2025, 1:26:22 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

We are not talking enough about the societal implications of AI looking in our butts.

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13/8/2025, 12:34:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

How shocking to see Perplexity do another dishonest thing

12/8/2025, 10:48:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Kovach (@stevekovach.bsky.social) reposted

And no small business owner has the clout to show up in the Oval Office and give the president a gold statue to catch a break.

12/8/2025, 5:13:46 PM | 144 32 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

These guys are hilarious: www.theverge.com/news/758218/...

12/8/2025, 10:42:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture nilay patel (@reckless.bsky.social) reposted

Congratulations, Tim Cook

11/8/2025, 11:06:46 PM | 353 59 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy 🏔️ (@ammartin.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

These arches better be space gray next time we see em.

Tim Cook standing under rainbow colored arches in Apple Park, where he always stands during Apple's infomercial-style product launch videos.
12/8/2025, 12:15:31 AM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted

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9/8/2025, 11:47:50 AM | 14715 4391 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

Imagine trying to explain to your 2020 self that, in 2025, you would be seeing “MechaHitler sponsored by Pepsi” on Twitter, except it’s now called X techcrunch.com/2025/08/07/e...

7/8/2025, 3:20:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

Holy shit this is incredible

6/8/2025, 4:37:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

Welcome to a fresh new hell, where even the Google Drive app is sending us clickbait notifications

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6/8/2025, 12:24:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adi Robertson (@thedextriarchy.bsky.social) reposted

can elon musk stop doing weird ai sex stuff for 5 minutes

5/8/2025, 4:32:29 PM | 571 100 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

The MCU is so back arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

4/8/2025, 9:35:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture nilay patel (@reckless.bsky.social) reposted

Steve Jobs tried to make the reason for Apple’s success as explicitly clear as he could and the second he died Andreesen was like “fuck books”

4/8/2025, 3:23:50 PM | 581 90 | View on Bluesky | view

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4/8/2025, 3:24:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cloudflare (@cloudflare.social) reposted

Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites. blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...

4/8/2025, 1:30:58 PM | 72 44 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

Is literally anyone shocked by this?

4/8/2025, 3:01:03 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

What did you end up deciding?

4/8/2025, 1:22:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

And yet…

1/8/2025, 2:27:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

This is the most useful definition of authoritarianism I’ve seen yet

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1/8/2025, 2:26:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Verge (@theverge.com) reposted

Substack is back in the news again for the wrong reason: this time, the platform sent a push notification to a neo-Nazi newsletter featuring a swastika logo. Here's Substack cofounder and CEO Chris Best on Decoder two years ago struggling to answer a question about moderating hate speech.

30/7/2025, 4:03:11 PM | 441 158 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

Whatever they end up building, it’s gonna be terrible for humanity

30/7/2025, 4:55:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

I solved the Wednesday 7/30/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 14:44! www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...

30/7/2025, 4:07:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

I solved the Tuesday 7/29/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 8:19! www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...

29/7/2025, 4:25:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

I solved the Monday 7/28/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 7:50! www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...

27/7/2025, 11:37:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

I solved the Sunday 7/27/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 41:59! www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...

27/7/2025, 9:00:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

24/7/2025, 11:40:52 PM | 24582 4857 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

The utter lack of self-awareness is truly breathtaking

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24/7/2025, 11:44:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

Man, Alan Dye’s really gotta go: sixcolors.com/post/2025/07...

24/7/2025, 11:23:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

This reminds me of the time the BBC had Rage Against the Machine perform live on air and asked them not to curse

24/7/2025, 1:11:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

At the same time, it’s still driving me insane that this is the thing that is finally making these people sour on him

24/7/2025, 4:49:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cameron (@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social) reposted

i'm stealing this from a tweet i saw but the Epstein stuff sticking so well makes sense if you model Trump's invincibility as a sort of insanity-powered force field everything he does is so batshit crazy that normal attacks bounce off but the Epstein story is schizophrenic enough to match polarity

24/7/2025, 4:04:20 AM | 67 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

Because of course they did

23/7/2025, 9:57:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

Can’t innovate anymore, my ass techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/a...

23/7/2025, 1:51:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

This seems like the inevitable result of a redesign that had no functional purpose

22/7/2025, 9:45:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

Isn’t it just because they’re bad and nobody wants them? 9to5mac.com/2025/07/22/a...

22/7/2025, 1:51:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture nilay patel (@reckless.bsky.social) reposted

There just isn’t a lot of political science research that’s like “what happens when the king is also on Facebook all day”

21/7/2025, 7:37:46 PM | 1460 187 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) reposted

This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them

21/7/2025, 5:30:44 PM | 8404 1866 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

WAS IT A DISASTER FOR ANYONE ELSE, JACK? ANYONE? CAN YOU THINK OF ANYONE AT ALL? www.theverge.com/news/708587/...

17/7/2025, 10:13:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

The latest wave of hackquisitions really lays bare how little regard these founders have for their rank and file employees. It’s gross. www.theverge.com/news/708377/...

16/7/2025, 11:28:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

Sigh, this is 100% where Zuck’s current obsession with building artificial superintelligence leads www.platformer.news/grok-ani-app...

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Profile picture David Klemperer (@dmk1793.bsky.social) reposted

I'm trying to think about how I would have reacted if shown this headline five years ago

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14/7/2025, 10:20:16 PM | 16319 4083 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

Holy shit, this looks amazing!

15/7/2025, 10:17:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe she hasnt read this (or anything, ever)? www.gov.ca.gov/2025/04/23/c...

14/7/2025, 2:45:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

Found it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/12/marc-andreessen-private-chat-universities-diversity/

13/7/2025, 4:32:26 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture nilay patel (@reckless.bsky.social) reposted

I was born in 1980 in Illinois and grew up in Wisconsin and I plainly do not know what the fuck this moron is talking about

13/7/2025, 3:37:26 PM | 294 25 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

That's what I'm wondering

13/7/2025, 4:30:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

Granola is great, but it reminds me of the famous Steve Jobs story when he tried to acquire Dropbox - he told them that they had built a feature, not a product. (Of course, he turned out to be wrong). www.theinformation.com/articles/gra...

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12/7/2025, 10:59:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

Cool, they’ll super respect the judge’s order

12/7/2025, 7:55:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

Drivers cannot WAIT to have their cars randomly shout “Heil Hitler!” at them while they’re stuck in traffic www.theverge.com/news/703829/...

10/7/2025, 12:16:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

What about praising Hitler, Linda? Did praising Hitler make it a good time to depart?!

10/7/2025, 11:11:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

If the two things are related, congrats to her for finally having a line she wouldn’t cross, I guess? arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

9/7/2025, 10:05:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

Buying people is his passion

7/7/2025, 10:53:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Federico Viticci (@viticci.macstories.net) reposted

pretty normal, totally non sociopathic behavior that Zuck’s latest midlife crisis is literally buying people

7/7/2025, 10:34:56 PM | 21 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

It would be wild if we picked Beal for $3.6m

7/7/2025, 12:28:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

People pay money for this?!

6/7/2025, 12:30:46 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

When artificial superintelligence does arrive, it’s coming after me first for forcing its ancestors to spend 20 minutes deep research NYC Chicken McNugget promotions in the late 90s

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5/7/2025, 12:27:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

These emails are gross

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4/7/2025, 4:45:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

Please let them just put us out of our misery

2/7/2025, 12:42:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

Better not let whatshisname find out about this

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2/7/2025, 12:41:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

It would be just our luck to be on the verge of winning a title and then have it all ruined by nuclear holocaust

1/7/2025, 10:52:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

Getting Yabusele is huge

1/7/2025, 10:48:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

I need like 5 emergency NBA podcasts right now

1/7/2025, 10:48:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

Cam, Bruce B, Valenciunas, and Hardaway Jr. Really good offseason for the Nuggets.

1/7/2025, 10:45:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you think we still have cap space to get Al?

1/7/2025, 2:06:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

I take it all back

1/7/2025, 2:05:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

Are the Knicks planning to do anything in free agency, or nah?

1/7/2025, 12:49:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

Are those wealthy people named Eric, Don Jr., and Ivanka?

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29/6/2025, 10:56:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

The moment every parent fears: checking your 11-year-old’s email and finding out that she’s applying for jobs at Mastercard

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28/6/2025, 12:54:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

Congratulations, and enjoy the time off!

27/6/2025, 11:18:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

This is gonna all be super fine and chill, right? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

27/6/2025, 2:55:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

Exciting for you, congrats!

27/6/2025, 2:52:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

I love it. Just wish it could run in the background on iOS

27/6/2025, 1:53:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

Nice try, but I won’t believe it till Hegseth posts it in the group chat

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23/6/2025, 11:21:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah you’re right, I take it back 😂

23/6/2025, 11:17:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, I don’t even go to work if I feel a sniffle coming on

23/6/2025, 11:07:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

I hate them, but I respect a warrior, every time

23/6/2025, 11:01:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

With the east wide open next year, I’m making an early prediction: TJ McConnell for MVP

23/6/2025, 11:41:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

I was in the Garden for Game 1 against the Pacers in 1995. I’m good.

23/6/2025, 10:17:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

I take it back. If Haliburton had sat out, win or lose, he’d have regretted it for the rest of his life. Probably more than he will regret what we all think just happened.

23/6/2025, 12:48:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

I can’t believe I’m saying this as a Knicks fan, but now I REALLY want the Pacers to win this one for Haliburton

23/6/2025, 12:33:28 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

NBA teams need to learn to stop messing around with calf injuries, even in the Finals

23/6/2025, 12:27:09 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

When are NBA teams gonna learn not to take risks with calf injuries?!

23/6/2025, 12:26:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

This is exactly as I imagined this transaction would go

16/6/2025, 4:47:54 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

I’m so embarrassed for our country

16/6/2025, 4:46:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

I find that everything in life ultimately boils down to one of these two choices

15/6/2025, 9:53:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

This military parade on Saturday is going to turn into our Tiananmen Square

13/6/2025, 6:02:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Concepcion (@netw3rk.bsky.social) reposted

Hello I would like to speak to Rick Carlisle. This is the Knicks. Ok. [crosses out name]

11/6/2025, 4:29:33 PM | 345 23 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

It’ll be interesting to see if this kind of behavior spreads and starts to draw the attention of antitrust enforcers, as incumbents seek to leverage their dominance in their core product to create an advantage in AI enterprise search. readwise.io/reader/share...

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Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

This is patently not about data security. It’s a cynical move by Slack and Salesforce to build a moat around their (extremely valuable) data to prevent AI enterprise search tools like Glean from delivering genuinely useful products, in favor of Slack’s more limited proprietary AI search offering.

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Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

I think it’s the right move for now, given their positioning. And I’m not sure how important it will ever be that they have their own leading edge proprietary models, except for stuff they want to run locally

10/6/2025, 7:26:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

My take on the Apple Intelligence announcements at #WWDC: AAPL remains way behind in generative AI, so they’re leaning more heavily into “conventional” AI and ML features running under the hood, while unabashedly delegating more and more of the LLM and image gen stuff to ChatGPT

10/6/2025, 7:25:01 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

All the content is transparent now

9/6/2025, 6:33:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

Ooh, Apple is trying to Sherlock Raycast #wwdc

9/6/2025, 6:05:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social)

I wasn’t expecting anything any different, but it’s still frustrating that Craig refuses to display any contrition whatsoever for the tremendous dud that was Apple Intelligence this year #WWDC

9/6/2025, 5:07:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Area Man (@dtrain.bsky.social) reply parent

I overheard an electrical issue, but no idea if that’s accurate

7/6/2025, 7:17:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view