Nik McLaughlin

Nik McLaughlin

@nikmclaughlin.bsky.social

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

72 Followers 114 Following 119 Posts Joined Nov 2024
3 months ago

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

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3 months ago

Yesss! Long live Web Lunch! 👏

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5 months ago
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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...

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5 months ago
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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...

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5 months ago

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”

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5 months ago
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

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6 months ago

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

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6 months ago

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

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6 months ago

lol hashtags don’t work like that - #wcus

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6 months ago
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 😅

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6 months ago

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...

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6 months ago

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.

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6 months ago
Google's AI summary of the events of Judgment Day.

I find this very funny.

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6 months ago

Did you see their full-size pip boy though?

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6 months ago

Hell, WordPress fixes this. 😬

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6 months ago

Twitter asked me to review tire brands tonight 💀

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6 months ago

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

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6 months ago

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

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6 months ago
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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.
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6 months ago
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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”
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7 months ago

See you there!

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7 months ago
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.

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7 months ago
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"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?...

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7 months ago

Currently running 'npm install' from a mobile hotspot 🤘

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7 months ago
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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-...

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7 months ago

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

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7 months ago
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7 months ago

happy html day ❇️

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7 months ago

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

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7 months ago
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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...

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