Hans Gerwitz

Hi! Welcome to my #introduction thread: In the 20th century I was a libertarian software engineer in Missouri, now I'm a socialist design executive living in Europe. …

@atproto.nl can I get one of your lovely little checkmarks? (Credentials: mu.social/profile/gerw...)

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and post one that you like

Brace yourself for even more attacks on US higher education. www.wsj.com/opinion/radi...

If you are still on Musk's X, you are enabling his treachery.

This headline is a bit too much doom. It’s only a midterm election cycle! www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

Occasionally I would like to remind people that I wrote a whole book about this. Intelligence is multiple, embodied, and relational, and what matters is different intelligences working together for mutual flourishing.

I've been working on a AI tool focused on aviation investigation and analysis. I think it's incredibly sick, the coolest thing I've done since GPSJAM, and I use it every day. I'm going to post some examples of how I've used it lately in this thread. This is the collision at LAX yesterday.

Why not?

The cheese has slid off his cracker.

Well, I’ve certainly been put in my place by Mr. Testosterone.

Sad to see Margaret Hamilton go, but she had a long and productive life. My deep disappointment is that she had to watch our idea of “leader in computing” shift to people like Andreessen, Musk, and Altman.

First the LLMs claimed my use of em-dashes, and then Claude took “load-bearing” from me. Go emulate someone else, FFS.

@kotukohumibana.bsky.social why do you seek reciprocal links in Gemini? gemini://kotukoroom.net/banner/index.gmi

BLUESKY HELP Every few days I call my 83 year old grandma with a joke. I am low on jokes. Can you give me a joke to call her with? I will thread some jokes she liked to give you an idea of what lands. If I tell your joke to her I will give you a score out of 10 on how much she laughed.

It's silly how many people are bothering to dunk on this one tweet's misuse of "Olde English". Especially when the source article by a senior writer is so ripe for ridicule. "As befitting a filmmaker who is known for his meticulous attention to detail…actors speaking in Olde English." 😆

As someone who once enjoyed driving 125mph on US interstates, I feel qualified to +1 this. Extra oomph to escape accidents in progress can be good, but there is no reason to enable dangerous sustained speeds.

My plan to move public opinion on matters important to me is to spend a portion of my day reposting every article and zinger I see go by that agrees with me to an audience of people who follow me because they find this behavior tolerable. I’m pretty sure this will work eventually.

Confused, mostly.

Found in fifteen seconds… It's impossible to capture it all, but hopefully this little compilation of gameplay moments gives an idea of the game. For even more of an idea, there's a demo: store.steampowered.com/app/5120760/... #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

USA, do you know how petulent it makes you look to be the sole objector to a more accurate map? news.un.org/en/story/202...

Taking a moment to sketch some new collectible story pages in between all the game demo prep for Next Fest. store.steampowered.com/app/5120760/... #illustration #procreate #indiegamedev

@boat.horse either you or the Bluesky recommendation algorithm are confused.

🇺🇸 Happy birthday, USA! hans.gerwitz.com/2026/09/03/a...

it's a very old rule of moderated digital spaces that you need an "i know it when i see it" clause for harassment or else bad actors will aggressively toe the line without ever technically going over. that's why i don't think the "why cant you give me an exact definition" replies will go anywhere

This is the news I need today: www.dutchnews.nl/2026/09/drum...

@rmendes.net I'm curius about your indiekit bluesky syndicator, and why you chose not to use the built-in one? (I've just deployed the first-party plugin, but am itchy for more features.)

WTF Overasselt?

This is the most important new website of recent memory: https://industrystandard.tools/ seeks to share what products professionals prefer, without fluff or advertising.

Wake up, Em! There are people to meet, places to see, and oh so many things to do. Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5120760/... #TrailerTuesday #indiegame #indiedev #gametrailer

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

@strange.website just happened upon your site(s) and I love it all.

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Let’s rename pi to “American pi” and set it to 3.0. More patriotic and easier to remember!

This is the most important new website of recent memory: https://industrystandard.tools/ seeks to share what products professionals prefer, without fluff or advertising.