Christopher Kirk

Scruffy mutt.

[Christopher Kirk @goosekirk]

@zillowgonewild That is an absolute groverhaus.

[Christopher Kirk @goosekirk]

@jzellis This looks even better than I hoped. Outstanding.

Any plan to Dockerize it? I'd like to see this in the unRaid app store.

[Christopher Kirk @goosekirk]

@jzellis This laptop is my daily driver! I do like it, but I always thought the touchpad screen was stupid and could never think of a possible use for it.

I'm big enough to admit how terribly wrong I've been all this time.

[Christopher Kirk @goosekirk]

@InternetH0F That's Henry Phillips doing his Henry's Kitchen bit. https://t.co/r7Yzwv5BWT

[Christopher Kirk @goosekirk]

@davidsirota Yeah, I read that like he's gloating, not warning.

[Christopher Kirk @goosekirk]

@doctorow 100%, once again. I'm still waiting for someone to outline how the whole rightwing griftosphere gets its funding, and how "influencers" tap into the bottomless money well. Like how does the Tripp-Lite guy's fortune get distributed?

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

it’s wild that for all the money Democratic politicians and consultants and pundits have to study communications strategies and messaging, they still can’t figure out how to sound like normal people like this

[Christopher Kirk @goosekirk]

@ronaldmannak @LushVoid @jzellis @the_good_matty Legit do not understand. Why in the sweet everlasting holy fuck would I ever want a hallucination engine to be in any way involved with a simple format conversion. Do you also make a calculator app that uses an LLM? Cool.

[Christopher Kirk @goosekirk]

@brian_callaci He applies tariff. Other country applies tariff. Crisis starts to build.

He removes tariff, other country removes tariff, crisis averted.

He claims victory, announces other country "backed down" because he's such a tough strong man.

His fans believe him.

End of strategy.

[Christopher Kirk @goosekirk]

@jzellis I've always assumed we'd eventually get a fully distributed torrent-like model for this stuff. Like maybe each instance has a bandwidth ratio limit of 2:1 up/down, so content can get distributed without saturating any single node. Might be slower to propagate, but robust.

[Christopher Kirk @goosekirk]

@jzellis Also occurs to me this could be used to create essentially private message boards, and even if the Internet goes down, users on the same network could still use it seamlessly. I expect this oughta be handy in a future where the climate keeps smashing our infrastructure.

[Christopher Kirk @goosekirk]

@jzellis But at what point does your device or Internet connection get saturated, and you need to move to an actual data center server? If my post suddenly goes viral, can the distribution system keep up on its own, or is my server melting down?

[Emo Philips @EmoPhilips]

I kick off ‘25, as I do every year, with my apology to this chimp

[Christopher Kirk @goosekirk]

@jzellis Guy rented a Cybertruck, packed it full of adult-sized fireworks and assorted other fuels, parked it directly in front of a Trump building front door, and sat in the truck while he detonated it.

Sounds like a guy who wanted to go out with a little flair.

[Christopher Kirk @goosekirk]

@DougStanhope Next time you go somewhere you probably shouldn't oughta go, just keep in mind my passport still mostly works and I'm a pretty decent cellmate to have around.

[Christopher Kirk @goosekirk]

@angryseattle The biggest problem there is taxis and ride shares jockeying for position in the parking garage and blocking up the whole expressway. Airport management refuses to do anything about it. Too busy on their terminal "renovations" that take years, I suppose.

[Christopher Kirk @goosekirk]

@spunk72 @angryseattle This is the most correct answer. Can't believe more people don't think about this.

[Christopher Kirk @goosekirk]

@jzellis I think you'd dig Sebastian Junger's book Tribe. Even setting aside spirituality, we done fucked ourselves up good. I just hope, maybe the survivors of what's coming will figure it out. Some element of what we call spirituality now will factor into it, I bet.

[Christopher Kirk @goosekirk]

@jzellis I started writing a history of climate change once that spun way out of control. Turns out the story is always the same: unintended consequences and perverse incentives.