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   brennen (brennen@federation.p1k3.com)'s status on Friday, 09-Oct-2026 06:06:57 JST brennen

   you know that feeling when you're driving or biking in heavy rain, or in icy conditions, or in strong wind, and you can tell the wheels are no longer in contact with the ground in a way that completes the usual tight feedback loop between how you operate the controls and how the motion of the vehicle responds? that sense you have of floating or drifting, and your model of the system you were controlling your place in until a moment ago is at least temporarily void?

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 09-Oct-2026 06:06:55 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @brennen it's okay. it's cool. this is sustainable

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     brennen (brennen@federation.p1k3.com)'s status on Friday, 09-Oct-2026 06:06:56 JST brennen

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     anyway i think i crossed the "the majority of code i review will be slop from here on out" threshold today.

     i work with conscientious people, so "slop" is an imprecise description. a good portion of this stuff will have been evaluated by people equipped to understand it. but there's no longer any real way to know what's been written directly by a human, and it's clearly less and less as time passes.

     it's windy. the wheels are floating on black ice.

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     brennen (brennen@federation.p1k3.com)'s status on Friday, 09-Oct-2026 06:12:02 JST brennen

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     • Christine Lemmer-Webber

     @cwebber i'm sure the paychecks will keep cashing while we white-knuckle the infrastructure of civilization around this infinite series of switchbacks nobody look over that edge turn up the music let's fucking go