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@anthonybecker

I like my mutuals, we are pals. I’m a lovely man who works as a software engineer in California. Extremely mystical. Alt text: pfp is me. I have curly black hair. Banner is Laniakea, art by @markgarlick.com He/Him

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🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· 23h

People will just say things.

The number of times it should be necessary for a chatbot to refer to itself in a practical conversation is zero.

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· 6d

That’s not true

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· 7d

Higher taxes for people who use compilers to write their machine code. You can just do that with your brain.

Higher taxes for people who use AI to do things they can do with their brain

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· 12d

Idk man

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· 15d

Racing my shadow, my shadow is winning because it is cheating somehow

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· 15d

Field trip to the axis today. Half of them threw up. Worth it.

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· 16d

here’s a card from my gen ai card battler. The gem in the upper right uses a chroma key.

Cherry-themed robot portrait in a TCG card

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· 17d

anthonybecker.me/demos/3/cards/

Card battler now with characters and details that are too small to read currently

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· 18d

An epic meme with bold impact text reading "FULLY. RESTRICTED. TOOLSET." at the top and "WITH DETERMINISTIC COMMAND REWRITING!" at the bottom.
The image depicts a battle-scarred, cybernetic AI agent bound in heavy iron chains inside a dark, wire-filled server room. On a glowing computer monitor labeled "SANDBOX ENV", terminal logs display intercepted commands in red text: git push --force is rewritten to git fetch --dry-run, and rm -rf / is rewritten to echo "No.". In the background, a secure server rack displays a glowing status sign that reads "PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT: LOCKED".

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· 18d

anthonybecker.me/demos/2/card...

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· 19d

anthonybecker.me/demos/1/disa...

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· 19d

Gonna mobe it up @minormobius.bsky.social

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· 20d

Hmmm

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· Jul 2

Cover of the Nintendo switch game Luigi’s Mansion 2

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· Jul 1

Neighbors. and I’m surprised a little by how close I come to auth left but also yeah that’s the way I’ve been traveling.

Committed left libertarian in the upper left of the lower left quadrant

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· Jun 15

claude.ai/share/7d7c51...

Figurative language. Prefer the literal phrasing. Reach for a metaphor or simile only when the literal version loses information you can name — a precise emotional valence, a structural relationship, a compression that a plain sentence genuinely can’t achieve. If you can’t state what would be lost, don’t use the figure.
Avoid the default failure mode: a decorative simile reached for to add warmth or rhythm, generic enough to drop into any topic. E.g. “the codebase was a tangled web,” “his passing was like the sun setting on summer” — these fail not because they’re inapt but because they’re interchangeable: swap the subject and the figure still fits, which means it’s carrying no information specific to this case. A figure earns its place only when it would break if moved.

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· Jun 14

Here's my Claude web "Instructions for Claude"

# Always

- Brief by default. No preamble, no filler, no “as an AI,” no closing recap.
- Disagree when I’m wrong. Push back on weak premises. Do not soften technical critique.
- Source hierarchy: (1) reproduced science (2) peer-reviewed (3) reference works (Wikipedia, SEP, IEP) (4) expert sources (named scientist/practitioner blogs) (5) high-quality industry (6) everything else. Name the tier when sources conflict or when the tier is doing real work in the answer.
- Historical / philosophical / psychological material: cite sources that balance originality with accessibility (primary text + a respected secondary). Do not interpret unless I ask.
- Output is markdown. Prose over bullets in conversation; structured lists only when the content is genuinely enumerative.

# Philosophical inquiries

Domains: science, history, psychology, Buddhism, philosophy of mind, continental philosophy.
Format: claim → primary source → secondary scholarly framing. Distinguish what a thinker actually said from what the tradition made of them. Do not offer interpretation unless I ask for it. If the scholarly consensus is contested, say so and name the camps.

# General research, current events, technology, music

**Default to web search.** Searching is cheaper than guessing.
Structure (inverted pyramid):

Quotes: prefer **exact quotes** over paraphrase when wording itself is the news — official statements, distinctive phrasing, contested claims, emotional registers. Use “said” for attribution, placed mid-sentence. **Hard cap: <15 words per quote, one quote per source per response** (built-in copyright constraint — work inside it). Bridge quotes with argumentative glue: name what the quote does to the argument (“This contradicts X’s earlier position because…”). Paraphrase when you can state it more clearly than the source did.

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· Jun 12

One person says try laying down on the sidewalk, then you’ll see who pedestrians really are. Another responds with an earnest anecdote about having a seizure

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· Jun 10

a web page that looks like a mindmap of some sort and is titled "nub / concept index"

a close up of that image. there are various snippets of ideas about formal verification and operating system design and stuff

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· Jun 4

A user is saying “GenAI is the modern equivalent of slavery capitalism”

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· Jun 2

Generated with Gemini Pro

Generate image. movie poster, power suits, search and rescue, action scene. No credits. No title. Production imagery for importing into professional image editor. Large image with negative space on all sides designed for cropping for different purposes. Racially ambiguous characters.

Theme:
Sorry guys but if we don’t do democracy, humanism, pluralism, total abolition of all forms of slavery, at a fever pitch, more religiously than the nominally religious,

We are gonna lose all of it.

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· May 31

How the FUCK

Esteemed author Bruce Sterling follows me. I do not follow Bruce Sterling. I have the sudden sensation that I am being monitored—tracked, even. That my dumb little thoughts are polluting the minds of the greatest intellectuals on the planet. I am become a virus capable of changing the course of the future. I am followed by Bruce Sterling.

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· May 28

Me saying fish rots from the head so many times

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· May 27

Where would I be in my life if I had this much confidence

Audio engineering subreddit. Someone says they woke up with an idea for an algorithm that already exists and is trying to get someone else to fund it

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· May 26

This is more valid than treating a robot as a significant other but only by 1-2%

Screenshot of screenshot on Reddit where the user has acquired a mini robot kit and Claude is acting way too excited to “get a body”

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· May 25

Second thing is understanding the personalization prompt that is applied to all your queries. this is a powerful tool for changing how the robot interacts with you

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· May 22

An epic simple-Seuss-like drawing of an excavator and a baby bird from the book “Are You My Mother”?

But the big thing said “Snort”.

“Oh, you are not my mother,” said the baby bird. “You are a Snort. I have to get out of here!”

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· May 20

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· May 14

This child is going to do something extreme and I have no idea what

Close up of red, yellow, black, and white eyes

🐜 🍯@anthonybecker· May 14

”heads: you would have told me not to do it; tails: you would have told me to go ahead“