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Tom Kramer

@bastable

Still trying to learn this tech stuff after all these years. I make drinks, play games, practice Bass guitar and try to be a decent hooman daily.

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There are more instances of United States Citizens being detained by ICE than there are of illegal immigrants voting in elections.

11.03.2026 11:44 πŸ‘ 5000 πŸ” 1628 πŸ’¬ 79 πŸ“Œ 54

Done, thank you

04.03.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

As much as ppl got smoke for past generations, at least they kept UTD with current events. I understand the way media and technology have made it impossible to focus for more than 2 minutes, but ppl need to break out of that cycle. Everything is too easy, and it's purposeful.

04.03.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

theyre just all so fucking stupid and we were told we had to be respectful and treat their stupid fucking opinions seriously even though we knew its all bull shit and now here we are

03.03.2026 15:41 πŸ‘ 4984 πŸ” 1036 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 37

This is the timeline where nerd tech company founders got weird ideas from The Lord of the Rings, but I want to live in the timeline where the nerds all read the Discworld series & launched a green energy company called The Fifth Elephant.

02.03.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Peace, or whatever version of that is for you ... Lifting? Hitting a bag?

02.03.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Such a good album, brought a smile

28.02.2026 21:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Driving in the SUV

β€œDad can we listen to Violent Femmes, first album?”

Why yes baby. Yes we can.

28.02.2026 20:12 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

My other take is that any Justice who writes for anything other than full birthright citizenship should be impeached for that ALONE because that's such a flagrant violation of their oath of office that they cannot be trusted with anything ever again.

27.02.2026 14:52 πŸ‘ 300 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

….. you just described what I wanted to write my PHD in in a tweet ….

I don’t know if I find this awesome because yeah I’m not crazy other people see it!!

Or

β€œ does this mean it’s not enough for one”

26.02.2026 18:35 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Boy they are butter when you do hit that sweet spot tho :)

25.02.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The greatest trick AI ever played was shifting the conversation to β€œ AI Governance” from human rights.

They have used β€œcommunities” to shift all responsibility to the targets of malfeasance

25.02.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have a Mizuno MP-33 2 iron that I should send a pic...frighteningly sharp profile

25.02.2026 21:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

For some reason this flashed me back to STIG GPO settings back in the day that had double and triple negatives describing desired state and doing the logic on what they wanted...

24.02.2026 14:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Another big problem with dealing in the System, the System doesn't respond fast to prevent damage from being done and it doesn't make folks whole again after the damage is done.

20.02.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

I'll take Dinky street alone vs most states

17.02.2026 05:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Every time I see someone talk about how AI products are achieved at "no cost," I feel a flinch echo through my body felt by generations of my ancestors. I know where the road goes when a consuming body is given the privilege of ignoring the true cost of labor.

15.02.2026 10:54 πŸ‘ 142 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Hey...if you are ever up in CoS around noon Th-Sun, check out Chuckwagon BBQ, off Omaha near Powers. Yeah it's worth it.

14.02.2026 23:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

11.02.2026 20:20 πŸ‘ 4060 πŸ” 807 πŸ’¬ 113 πŸ“Œ 62
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Kid was talking a big game about his 30 character iPhone passcode that ChatGPT said would take a supercomputer longer than the age of the universe to crack.

10.02.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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10.02.2026 15:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It cannot be estimated. It's the topic of conversation that we have with our users/customers to understand their problems and collaboratively develop the smallest, best solution. The story is not the solutionβ€”it's the beginning of the conversation you have to arrive at the solution.
3/5

09.02.2026 21:04 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the systems thinking angle: even when you fully understand β€œthe system” as you’ve defined it, you can always zoom out to a bigger system you do not understand, which affects and is affected by your more narrowly defined system. a fixed β€œthe system” is a convenient fiction

09.02.2026 15:22 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 4

Forever relevant

08.02.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 103 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Be gentle with each other so we can be dangerous together πŸ’›

08.02.2026 19:25 πŸ‘ 253 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face while watching a wrestling match on usa ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face while watching a wrestling match on usa

Just saw a reel on IG that said "the folks who need their own halftime show are the same folks who needed their own drinking fountains"

07.02.2026 12:13 πŸ‘ 116 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 5

But now you can just use AI to write the docs.

(Now you have two problems.)

08.02.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0