jimray

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2026-08-23 21:52:16 GMT

Not trying to tell anyone how to do their job but if *I* were the one designing the colonoscopy prep medication, I would typeset the instructions large enough for the target demo to peruse without needing to seek out a pair of reading glasses.

2026-07-22 22:11:59 GMT

I got to chat it up with the inimitable @nprofile…pncn about the history and current state of the social web, and how we make sure we make better mistakes on our new decentralized networks. My job is to talk up atproto but we didn’t get into protocol specifics, I’m certain my Mastodon pals will enjoy it as well.
https://atproto.com/off-protocol/2026-07-22-erin-kissane

2026-07-20 14:35:51 GMT

ActivityPub friends, Bailey is that rare combination of deeply knowledgeable protocol nerd and incredible generous human. I know him from our work together on AT Protocol, he's exploring this side of decentralized protocol land, give him a warm welcome.
#nevent1q…zrr6

2026-06-15 23:39:36 GMT

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@nprofile…lel8 the delicate balance of being a homeowner!

2026-06-15 11:26:56 GMT

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@nprofile…lel8 my rule is I get to buy a new tool when I’ve “paid off” the last one by not hiring someone. If I pull of this next project I can buy ten saw stops.

2026-06-14 22:58:40 GMT

Exceedingly, perhaps a bit *too*, proud of this plywood sheet-cutting benchtop I put together to fit on my Bora Centipede workbench. Broke down TWENTY SIX full sheets of plywood by myself his weekend thanks to this bad boy
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2026-06-04 00:43:15 GMT

At dinner tonight, hijo número uno casually suggests I drive him to school tomorrow so we can pick up a pastry for a final week breakfast thing. I don’t throw the word “hero” around casually, but I *am* currently mixing a yudane for a double batch of cinnamon rolls.

2026-06-04 00:22:53 GMT

Australia has the third most installed battery capacity in the world, behind only China and the U.S. Not per capita, *total*
Which is all the more impressive considering the electrons flow in the opposite direction down there.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/may/31/cheaper-energy-bills-battery-revolution-climate-crisis

2026-05-28 13:34:55 GMT

> Support for vi keyboard emulation, for basic navigation and editing
@nprofile…fzsz, the only app I'm certain has been installed on every Mac I've owned since the late 90s, did it. You crazy bastards you finally did it!

2026-05-20 10:25:57 GMT

It would be a massive failure of democracy if we let AI companies get away with paying residents to just build data centers. The “obvious solution” is strong environmental regulation and if they want to build new capacity make them pay for green infrastructure upgrades.
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2026-01-22 00:57:38 GMT

Hey hey, I wrote a bit about the *other* decentralized social protocol, why I think it’s cool, and how it unlocks some of that excitement of the early web. Still love you Mastodon.
https://jimray-bsky.leaflet.pub/3mcxq7tyx522r

2025-12-24 16:36:44 GMT

My ongoing frustration with smart people who work in media is a kind of steadfast refusal to understand how platforms work. The idea that Instagram’s algorithm has a functionally different effect on our culture than Spotify’s is not exactly borne out.
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2025-12-22 00:12:10 GMT

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@nprofile…plsf likewise pal! Rad dads compound?

2025-12-21 23:50:42 GMT

Good boys and girls (who happen to be our neighbors) got a little something extra this year
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2025-12-19 14:44:01 GMT

The six year old is apparently determined to see if it’s possible to construct a puffy coat entirely out of repair patches.

2025-11-27 15:51:18 GMT

Go time.
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2025-11-27 15:00:19 GMT

If you listen to this playlist while prepping the big meal and thinking about the people in your life you love, dinner will turn out 12% better. That’s a jimray guarantee.
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/thankful-25/pl.u-AkAmVkyfX7W4k

2025-10-29 02:21:51 GMT

Ok, as part of the movement to take back “Luddites” as not being anti-tech but anti-exploitation we start pronouncing it like crudités

2025-10-19 01:25:27 GMT

Six year old went from being scared of going to a protest to exclaiming “THIS IS SO FUN” about fifteen minutes in. Solidarity defeats fear!

2025-08-24 13:28:40 GMT

The literal first word of the America by Design uh… manifesto? is a failure of the most basic principle of text design.
As in, I would literally fail my undergrad page layout course if I turned this in.
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2025-08-23 14:54:03 GMT

My favorite thing I’ve learned this week is America’s most reliable source of road trip diarrhea was founded by an oil exec to get Americans to buy more gasoline.
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2025-08-22 22:47:52 GMT

“Design is meaningless without trust. Trust isn’t something the government is entitled to; it has to be earned over and over and across millions of small but important moments.”
https://fedscoop.com/america-by-design-trump-executive-order/

2025-08-15 00:45:20 GMT

This flip in emissions feels emblematic of something much larger: China has made a massive investment in the technology that will power the future and the U.S. has bet it all on AI privately owned by the very same people who ruined the internet.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/in-sudden-shift-american-emissions-rise-as-chinas-falls/

2025-07-25 15:47:34 GMT

“I’m still waiting to see what comes out about Epstein. I’m not going to decide before having definite information.” — man who has made every single other decision in his life without a shred of definite information.

2025-07-25 15:38:22 GMT

The way this hit me right in the center of my heart.
Students had admin access to the WindowsNT boxes in our compsci lab and I definitely installed this client on every machine one late night to goose my numbers. https://wandering.shop/@valkyrie/114896613421804762

2025-07-16 01:23:10 GMT

Whenever there’s a power outage my smart herb garden forgets what time it is!
Sure thing Grandpa Jim let’s get your medicine.

2025-07-14 01:39:23 GMT

If you haven’t yet read Bill McKibbon on the revolution in solar and wind power, it is easily the most hopeful thing I’ve read in a long long time
https://apple.news/Az7nU1cqeSpibruPw5qmiQg

2025-07-03 22:34:53 GMT

This already unpopular bill narrowly passed in a legislature where the slim majority only exists due to gerrymandering that had been sanctioned by an overtly partisan Supreme Court. This is loser behavior by a bunch of losers in support of a loser ideology.

2025-06-14 23:18:32 GMT

Any law enforcement org that does not publicly demand every state sanctioned officer must identify themselves with their name, badge, and face after this is complicit.

2025-04-08 21:57:20 GMT

Anyone who treats Trump this seriously should be shamed into never publishing another word again.
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2025-01-11 00:28:09 GMT

As always, @nprofile…aev3 cuts right to the heart of the matter
https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/

2025-01-10 16:22:09 GMT

It’s distressing and a little maddening that in all of the sturm about Facebook this week I haven’t seen anyone arguing a straightforward, if not exactly simple, fact: the only way to avoid this is to take their power away.

2024-11-27 09:06:43 GMT

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@nprofile…gftj @nprofile…rw0n I put 60% of the blame on Tyler’s vowel confoundments, 30% on my own shoddy memory and laziness, and 10% on DF’a search bar being too hard to get to.

2024-11-25 23:18:11 GMT

I had missed that @nprofile…rw0n is building Nuzzl for Bluesky/Mastodon and it’s already (predictably) great.
https://sill.social/

2024-11-18 00:45:33 GMT

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@nprofile…f456 it’s actually a prequel. Why do you think they unleashed the snakes!

2024-09-06 20:42:33 GMT

My thoughts on Dick Cheney voting for Kamala Harris are that Dick Cheney should be rotting in a cell at The Hague.

2024-08-27 13:30:48 GMT

This article about Tesla slow rolling opening up the Supercharger network fails to even mention Tesla took hundreds of millions of dollars of federal money. Instead it’s just about how Musk is a wild and crazy guy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/27/business/energy-environment/tesla-electric-vehicle-charging.html

2024-07-28 23:07:51 GMT

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I don’t know why I’m surprised
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2024-07-26 03:04:21 GMT

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@npub1mdk…aptk If I’d had that in my 20s I might not have ever left the house

2024-07-20 02:16:52 GMT

I know humans are, as a rule, not great with counterfactuals. But the inability of our industry’s supposedly best and brightest to even consider better futures remains utterly galling.
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2024-07-15 20:44:53 GMT

I stand by my seven-and-a-half year old review of Hillbilly Elegy.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1715224657

2024-05-30 21:37:58 GMT

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@npub1xed…yg9w Kinda wild to think you could run for president having been convicted of between 1 and 33 felonies and that would still be the second most number of felonies for a presidential candidate

2024-05-14 18:56:08 GMT

A few years ago, a music video director named Spike Jones (sp?) made a scifi romcom about a sad fella who falls in love with his phone. Can’t remember the name of it, I think I remember enjoying it, should probably give it a rewatch as I bet it might be relevant to everything going on right now.

2024-04-24 15:16:34 GMT

“Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life.” — Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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2024-04-22 19:31:33 GMT

NASA successfully debugged a 46-year-old computer that has a latency of nearly two full days. That is truly awesome.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

2024-04-07 14:45:28 GMT

Hijo Número Uno has been working towards a NASA bomber jacket and the final task was listening to three podcasts worth of his Papá go on about how the invention of jet engines, the rise of the military industrial complex, and mid-century counter culture created contemporary men’s fashion.

2024-03-21 13:30:45 GMT

Me, an idiot: “So, kids, by setting the thermostat a little lower and eating less meat, we’re doing our part to make the world more sustainable”
VCs, very smart: “We just raised $100 billion dollars from the sovereign wealth funds of three petrostates to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer. It uses as much power and water as Guatemala and the primary use case is for management consultants to autogenerate powerpoints for justifying mass layoffs.”

2024-01-09 23:48:56 GMT

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@npub1xsy…cevg I looked there first! But the iPhone scanner app hasn’t been updated in 3 yrs…

2024-01-09 23:14:52 GMT

Physical media nerds: what are we using to catalog our books, etc.? Ideally I could scan the cover (or bar code) and it would fill in the details for me.

2023-12-21 23:59:56 GMT

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@npub10jk…dpae I’ve used Buttondown and it’s very good but also a rather different beast from Substack (missing a lot of the social components).
I’ve heard beehiiv is much closer analog https://www.beehiiv.com

2023-11-22 21:35:12 GMT

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@npub1j4v…p4ys I’m not actually worried about T-800s roaming the streets but the more boring and likely apocalypse where we cede more and more authority to automation with no oversight and everything just kind of sucks for everyone but the super rich.

2023-11-22 12:26:58 GMT

OpenAI replacing the only two women on the board, and the only researchers actually interested in preventing skynet, with the guy who invented the like button and the king of neoliberalism is almost too on the nose.

2023-11-08 02:47:01 GMT

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@npub1mdk…aptk Here’s Why That’s Bad News for Joe Biden

2023-08-31 12:46:41 GMT

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@npub1sdu…w074 love it, instant download and subscribe.

2023-08-15 18:34:14 GMT

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@npub1lrv…tth9 I wonder if this holds any lessons for the billionaires rotting the world in between cage match taunts

2023-08-15 12:46:37 GMT

I slept through the RICO indictment???

2023-08-14 08:58:55 GMT

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@npub1mdk…aptk I use AdGuard on my Mac with Safari, works like a charm. It’s slightly more involved than a browser extension and requires a bit of setup. I just went with the defaults and it’s been a peach.
https://adguard.com/

2023-08-04 17:54:02 GMT

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@npub1u6c…uwj7 are they finally listening??
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/climate/republicans-climate-project2025.html

2023-08-03 23:42:00 GMT

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@npub1ept…jcl3 drained pool politics is all they know

2023-08-03 13:22:13 GMT

Now that every debate over the philosophical, political, and moral value of tech has essentially devolved into an MBA-style quadrant analysis of clashing business models, I miss Aaron Swartz’s voice more than ever.

2023-07-30 13:41:42 GMT

The Times is right — e-bikes are a scourge and we must do everything we can to protect our fragile SUV-driving elites from these teen terrors. I propose we construct a nationwide network of separated e-bike enclosures to segregate these monsters from god-fearing motorists.
I’ve attached one such example from a European petrostate that has spent years valiantly protecting cars from the ravages of cycling. With work, we may be able to reduce the number of cyclist-on-motorist deaths to zero.
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2023-07-16 17:18:14 GMT

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@npub1mdk…aptk I think Joe Biden will help you out here!