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Jack

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Jack

@newmachines

Aspiring tech bro/writer. Professional interlocutor. Always posting through it. Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.

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Joined September 2022

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Jack
@newmachines
Jul 21, 2025
"As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer." — Hunter S. Thompson
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Jack
@newmachines
Aug 4, 2025
Replying to @capybaroness
Worst songs of all time based on the comments: - Dance Monkey (Tones & I) - Hey Soul Sister (Train) - Cheerleader (Omi) - Happy (Pharell) - Shape of You (Ed Sheeran) - We Are Young (Fun) - Heat Waves (Glass Animals) These are pop hits. People are just hating on popular things.
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Jack
@newmachines
Aug 3, 2025
Replying to @hopes_revenge
The elites won't let you know this, but if you delete the string after the query string operator (the "?") and leave just the preceding string (sans the query string operator), you can play TikTok videos in your web browser. Here's an example (using the TPOT video from this
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@feliformer
Aug 2, 2025
uh oh etymology nerd talking about tpot. tiktok gonna be in here soon
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Jack
@newmachines
Jul 27, 2025
Replying to @AlecStapp
I guess the tech hadn't sufficiently developed back then. That chart seems to show the rate of serial killings dropping from the 90s onwards. I think it coincides with the introduction of DNA profiling, national crime databases, and so on.
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Jack
@newmachines
Aug 4, 2025
Replying to @capybaroness
This is a bad take. Rude is a great song.
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Jack
@newmachines
Aug 3, 2025
Replying to @DylanoA4
Miles Davis had some bangers. This one is good, too: "Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself." I keep it mind as a creative because it truly takes time to find your style and hone your voice.
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Jack
@newmachines
Aug 4, 2025
Replying to @DylanoA4
There's another quote this reminds me of from John Ruskin: "Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." Very important lesson in there.
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Jack
@newmachines
Aug 1, 2025
Replying to @ByrneHobart
This is part of why birth rates are going down.
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Jack
@newmachines
Sep 5, 2025
Replying to @n0w00j
We're calling it DeepMeek.
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Jack
@newmachines
Aug 10, 2025
Replying to @justalexoki
No words but this:
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Jack
@newmachines
Aug 1, 2025
Replying to @DylanoA4
I love a similar version of this quote from M. Scott Peck: "Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you won’t do anything with it."
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Jack
@newmachines
Aug 9, 2025
Replying to @laserboat999
You're no longer part of the permanent underclass now.
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Jack
@newmachines
Aug 4, 2025
Replying to @RayneDropVT and @capybaroness
How are you all mentioning great songs in the comments? Just because a song is overplayed doesn't mean it's bad. Heat Waves is a great song (speaking as someone who was into it before it went viral).
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Jack
@newmachines
Jul 19, 2025
Replying to @PaulSkallas
This is partly why cancel culture became a thing. There were certain errors you couldn't punish via the courts (like saying a slur), so people invented extrajudicial means of imposing punishment (e.g., job loss).
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