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nikmclaughlin.com | “I want to be part of the people who make the meaning. I want to do the imagining, not be the idea” - Barbie

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Can’t have awkward silence if you don’t have silence 🧠

29.11.2025 06:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yesss! Long live Web Lunch! 👏

19.11.2025 15:28 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Day One

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the first 13 seconds of Day One need to be studied as a masterpiece in modern musical composition: open.spotify.com/track/6QJVQS...

14.10.2025 17:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Jaron Lanier Quote When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also b...

Ah here’s the quote: libquotes.com/jaron-lanier...

08.10.2025 14:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reminds me of when Jeron Lanier said something like “anyone who makes you interact with a computer like it’s a human wants you to imagine yourself as a computer”

08.10.2025 14:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An educational image showcasing many major geographic features in one contrived landscape. Labeled features include desert, mesa, rainforest, beach, lagoon, isthmus, strait, fjord, sound, canyon, mountain, volcano, archipelago, prairie, tundra, peninsula, etc.

An educational image showcasing many major geographic features in one contrived landscape. Labeled features include desert, mesa, rainforest, beach, lagoon, isthmus, strait, fjord, sound, canyon, mountain, volcano, archipelago, prairie, tundra, peninsula, etc.

Y’all this is just a map of Washington state

08.10.2025 14:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Headache, confusion, sensitivity to light and sound, memory loss, sleep changes, fatigue…

07.09.2025 19:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hit my head on a cabinet pretty hard so I’m reading concussion symptoms and why are they just describing parenting?

07.09.2025 19:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

lol hashtags don’t work like that - #wcus

04.09.2025 17:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A kids coloring page pictures Mario coming out of a pipe. The page has been watercolored to an unreasonable level of detail.

A kids coloring page pictures Mario coming out of a pipe. The page has been watercolored to an unreasonable level of detail.

Coming home from a week away at a conference (#WCUS) and apparently I’ve decided “taking art time with the kiddo way too seriously” is the way to re-ground myself 😅

04.09.2025 17:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Fairly well known correction to the entire "delay of gratification" model you may think of as an individual trait is that it is moderated by things like our beliefs in environmental stability

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

04.09.2025 15:50 👍 40 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0

Any plans on where to go? Thinking I’ll wait out a bit more to see what their “long-term vision” for Arc is, but it’s probably time to start prepping for the move.

04.09.2025 15:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Google's AI summary of the events of Judgment Day.

Google's AI summary of the events of Judgment Day.

I find this very funny.

29.08.2025 06:00 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Did you see their full-size pip boy though?

28.08.2025 08:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hell, WordPress fixes this. 😬

28.08.2025 01:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Twitter asked me to review tire brands tonight 💀

27.08.2025 05:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

atproto is like if you could post tweets to your own website and then twitter would be able to draw in all the tweets from across the web into a normal-looking social app

26.08.2025 17:47 👍 219 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 4

Lessons from Contributor Day at #WCUS so far:
1) Cloning the repo is a successful contributor day activity
2) Telling someone about the project is a successful contributor day activity
3) Learning about the project is a successful contributor day activity
#OpenSourceContribution

26.08.2025 20:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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bart simpson is giving a speech at a podium while homer simpson is standing in the doorway Alt: Grandpa Simpson walks in and immediately leaves.
26.08.2025 19:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a man in a suit is giving a presentation in front of a white board that says inc Alt: a man in a suit is giving a presentation in front of a white board that says “in conclusion, the lines all go up so I’m happy”
17.08.2025 05:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

See you there!

12.08.2025 21:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A wooden sign with text (possibly engraved?) quoting: “Pete Hegseth: We are currently clean on OPSEC.”

A wooden sign with text (possibly engraved?) quoting: “Pete Hegseth: We are currently clean on OPSEC.”

Reminded me of this sign I spotted at @pdxhackerspace.org during Teardown this year.

I didn’t realize it at the time but it’s like a Live Laugh Love for the rest of us.

12.08.2025 19:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"We are currently clean on OPSEC": The Signalgate Saga (DEFCON 33)
"We are currently clean on OPSEC": The Signalgate Saga (DEFCON 33) YouTube video by Micah Lee

So much to unpack here from @micahflee.com but for now I’m just taking it as a permanent cure to any imposter syndrome I ever feel ever. youtu.be/KFYyfrTIPQY?...

12.08.2025 19:28 👍 32 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

Currently running 'npm install' from a mobile hotspot 🤘

08.08.2025 22:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Curate your own newspaper with RSS Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

31.07.2025 16:33 👍 2578 🔁 985 💬 114 📌 159

Ooh I’ve had a project like this on my list since blueprints started taking off - good stuff here!

07.08.2025 03:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
07.08.2025 03:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

happy html day ❇️

02.08.2025 09:16 👍 54 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 3

Dammit Jacob, now when they do and everybody's yelling "WHO ASKED FOR THIS?!" I'm gonna have to tell them it was you 😅

31.07.2025 22:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump’s newest grift: Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it

@molly.wiki has great coverage on this including some more recent pieces but this one’s still a good start: www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...

31.07.2025 16:16 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0