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Drew Kirkman

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Professional nerd and unapologetic elder millennial. he/him. Any opinion posted here is mine alone. πŸ“Cincitucky Personal blog: https://kirkmanskorner.com PGP: F54E 7193 DC1F F127 2E64 DB1F E386 451C 0846 6D5C | https://kn9.foo/pgp

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Been a long time since I’ve seen the 1987 DOS version of Jeopardy that I played way too much as a kid, in addition to Commander Keen and Supaplex.

I always won because I would hit the pause button on the keyboard to stop execution so one of the CPU players couldn’t ring in πŸ˜‚

12.03.2026 02:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

James Talarico and Andy Beshear are the closest things America has to Jimmy Carter in 2026. Can’t wait to see what both of them do.

12.03.2026 00:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Knox, Indiana may have just dodged the biggest bullet. Several chasers in the area had live images of a giant tornado with near-continuous power flashes over the past ten minutes

11.03.2026 01:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I just can’t with all the doomposting.

For some reason I also just can’t look away.

10.03.2026 12:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The ironic part is our government has officially used only metric since the 1970s. The population at large, however… outside of scientific and military fields… are indeed clinging to customary units.

10.03.2026 11:58 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

RSS is also the underlying mechanism for distributing podcast content!

08.03.2026 01:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

move slow and repair things

06.03.2026 12:06 πŸ‘ 3752 πŸ” 1215 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

"Jo, its happened. The LRC is predicting a CIG5". - Twistersss.

07.03.2026 03:50 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Katrina redux was running a little behind schedule but here she is

07.03.2026 03:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

PRAISE BE TO LEAFLET πŸ™πŸ»

07.03.2026 00:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

AI agents are like letting a literal five-year-old download RoBloX_PrO.exe via Limewire and attempt to play it on your production infrastructure.

06.03.2026 18:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The thing about me being a GenAI skeptic is that I am a third gen early adopter. My machine worker grandpa thought computers were the future and had an Apple IIE. I had two Geocities sites. Was on Facebook when it was still Harvard only. You know how hard you have to try to make me hate new tech???

06.03.2026 04:32 πŸ‘ 1150 πŸ” 149 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 20

Thrilled to see @doctorow.pluralistic.net make his way to the atmosphere, and with his trademark maximalism toward interoperability, no less!

If Cory Doctorow can find a way to use atproto, it definitely has the juice.

06.03.2026 04:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A principled and nuanced thread about how a paid Proton user played themselves? Where’s my fainting chair?

06.03.2026 02:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Energel RTX crew represent

05.03.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Northern Kentucky, aka β€œSouth Cincinnati”

05.03.2026 19:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Great information! The ActivityPub absolutists are not going to like this one… hopefully they focus energy on fixing the problem you highlighted instead of the fact you highlighted it.

05.03.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It sure looks like they really did think there was a β€œGAS PRICE” knob somewhere in the Oval Office that could be turned down if they could ever find it.

Guess they just realized it doesn’t actually exist.

05.03.2026 17:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When I was in K-12 education, this is why I advocated teaching kids how to use an operating system and productivity suite, not Windows and Office specifically.

01.03.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Vibe coding produces code with a bus factor of 0 from the moment it's checked in

28.02.2026 23:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

The last time we did this, I was three years away from registering in the Selective Service System. Which I did, as required by law. It caused me a lot of anxiety.

I’ve now aged out of eligibility, and a lot of people who thought it was β€œbased” to vote for this wrecking ball are still in. Have fun!

28.02.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Trump ran on Epstein to capture the votes and then not do anything about it. Khanna was a big part in calling the bluff

28.02.2026 16:28 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This. Live your life and save your energy; you might need it.

28.02.2026 16:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Can't get health care to our old people, can't educate our young people, but we can bomb the shit out of your country, all right!"

34 fucking years ago.

28.02.2026 13:41 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

This is oddly familiar territory. A new generation is going to learn what it was like to live during Bush 43, but this time it’s even stupider.

Green Day’s next album is going to be an absolute banger, though

28.02.2026 13:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
CNBC headline: β€œOpenAI closes $110 billion funding round with backing from Amazon, Nvidia, Softbank” published 27 February 2026

CNBC headline: β€œOpenAI closes $110 billion funding round with backing from Amazon, Nvidia, Softbank” published 27 February 2026

Oh hey look, right on schedule

27.02.2026 14:21 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

…does Canada have 988 because these dudes look like they really need it right now

22.02.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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22.02.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 2208 πŸ” 548 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 85

This is the latest stage in an epic battle for the neighbor country to make better players of a sport invented in the other.

22.02.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is brutal precisely because it’s true

22.02.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0