Chris Heisel
@cmheisel.bsky.social
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I think a new season of star trek lower decks would in fact heal me, with gorns and kromsapiods, you know, as a treat
May 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I think a new season of star trek lower decks would in fact heal me, with gorns and kromsapiods, you know, as a treat
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Elon Musk is calling for the CFPB's remaining account balance of $711,586,678 to be returned to the American taxpayers.
That you give everyone $2-$3.
But returning Elon Musk’s money to taxpayers would give everyone about $1,300 each.
That you give everyone $2-$3.
But returning Elon Musk’s money to taxpayers would give everyone about $1,300 each.
February 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Elon Musk is calling for the CFPB's remaining account balance of $711,586,678 to be returned to the American taxpayers.
That you give everyone $2-$3.
But returning Elon Musk’s money to taxpayers would give everyone about $1,300 each.
That you give everyone $2-$3.
But returning Elon Musk’s money to taxpayers would give everyone about $1,300 each.
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Many in tech value brutal honesty, but people often focus more on the brutality than the honesty, making them defensive. Instead, aim to be “direct yet kind.” Start with curiosity and a desire to help before offering criticism.
When others see empathy in your words, your feedback is more effective.
When others see empathy in your words, your feedback is more effective.
February 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Many in tech value brutal honesty, but people often focus more on the brutality than the honesty, making them defensive. Instead, aim to be “direct yet kind.” Start with curiosity and a desire to help before offering criticism.
When others see empathy in your words, your feedback is more effective.
When others see empathy in your words, your feedback is more effective.
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So tired of this idea that billionaires are our "betters" whose opinion is super important because they have a lot of money. It's bullshit. They're mostly greedy sociopaths who have no problem destroying people who get in their way. That doesn't make your opinion one to be valued, in my opinion.
February 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
So tired of this idea that billionaires are our "betters" whose opinion is super important because they have a lot of money. It's bullshit. They're mostly greedy sociopaths who have no problem destroying people who get in their way. That doesn't make your opinion one to be valued, in my opinion.
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Since the sourcing of this fantastic 1979 IBM training slide is buried in various Twitter threads (and linking to Twitter sucks now because logged out users can't navigate conversations) I put together some notes on its origin: simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a...
February 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Since the sourcing of this fantastic 1979 IBM training slide is buried in various Twitter threads (and linking to Twitter sucks now because logged out users can't navigate conversations) I put together some notes on its origin: simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a...
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Jan 6 must be fully & conclusively adjudicated in a court of law if this country is to ever move forward.
They can't just wish it away unless we let them.
They can't just wish it away unless we let them.
Though the Justice Dept has deleted information about its Jan 6 prosecutions from its website, a federal judge has issued an order listing and chronicling all of the cases and prison terms
Here:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Here:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Jan 6 must be fully & conclusively adjudicated in a court of law if this country is to ever move forward.
They can't just wish it away unless we let them.
They can't just wish it away unless we let them.
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A moment of zen- Soarin’s updated ending
January 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
A moment of zen- Soarin’s updated ending
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WIC. They are pausing WIC.
That's the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Last time I checked (a while ago), every dollar spent on WIC produced over a dollar in savings *in the same fiscal year.* For most people, though, feeding infants and mothers is enough.
That's the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Last time I checked (a while ago), every dollar spent on WIC produced over a dollar in savings *in the same fiscal year.* For most people, though, feeding infants and mothers is enough.
Broader agreement that it to applies to discretionary spending payments (Head Start, WIC, etc).
January 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
WIC. They are pausing WIC.
That's the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Last time I checked (a while ago), every dollar spent on WIC produced over a dollar in savings *in the same fiscal year.* For most people, though, feeding infants and mothers is enough.
That's the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Last time I checked (a while ago), every dollar spent on WIC produced over a dollar in savings *in the same fiscal year.* For most people, though, feeding infants and mothers is enough.
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I will be continuing to call it the Gulf of Mexico because I don't cater to the whims of a ridiculous felon
www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...
www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...
Google Maps to rename 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America' for US users
Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, it said in an X post on Monday.
www.reuters.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I will be continuing to call it the Gulf of Mexico because I don't cater to the whims of a ridiculous felon
www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...
www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...
Been battling sever daily pain for almost two years now and this really resonates
January 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Been battling sever daily pain for almost two years now and this really resonates
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Help support science education and have a great time listening to some old and mew favorite Star Trek podcasts! Today is the Star Trek Pod Crawl!
Star Trek Pod Crawl is here and all episodes are out, including ours covering Star Trek: The Motion Picture!
Link in bio to listen to all eps and to make a donation to @ncse.bsky.social in support of science education!
More info at: startrekpodcrawl.com
#startrekpodcrawl #startrek
Link in bio to listen to all eps and to make a donation to @ncse.bsky.social in support of science education!
More info at: startrekpodcrawl.com
#startrekpodcrawl #startrek
January 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Help support science education and have a great time listening to some old and mew favorite Star Trek podcasts! Today is the Star Trek Pod Crawl!
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This is my periodic rant that Apple Intelligence is so bad that today it got every fact wrong its AI a summary of @washingtonpost.com news alerts.
It's wildly irresponsible that Apple doesn't turn off summaries for news apps until it gets a bit better at this AI thing.
It's wildly irresponsible that Apple doesn't turn off summaries for news apps until it gets a bit better at this AI thing.
January 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This is my periodic rant that Apple Intelligence is so bad that today it got every fact wrong its AI a summary of @washingtonpost.com news alerts.
It's wildly irresponsible that Apple doesn't turn off summaries for news apps until it gets a bit better at this AI thing.
It's wildly irresponsible that Apple doesn't turn off summaries for news apps until it gets a bit better at this AI thing.
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Still completely surreal to me that Google chose to light its search engine on fire
January 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Still completely surreal to me that Google chose to light its search engine on fire
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Nostalgia is unfairly maligned. Until there's a future we should be able to listen to nineties rock guilt free
January 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Nostalgia is unfairly maligned. Until there's a future we should be able to listen to nineties rock guilt free
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OpenAI promised to create a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in or excluded from its AI training data in May.
According to insiders this project isn’t a priority at the company and it’s unclear anyone is working on it.
Least surprising news of the year.
According to insiders this project isn’t a priority at the company and it’s unclear anyone is working on it.
Least surprising news of the year.
Exclusive: OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025
Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training
techcrunch.com
January 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
OpenAI promised to create a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in or excluded from its AI training data in May.
According to insiders this project isn’t a priority at the company and it’s unclear anyone is working on it.
Least surprising news of the year.
According to insiders this project isn’t a priority at the company and it’s unclear anyone is working on it.
Least surprising news of the year.
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“You mean that garish gold bauble that used to belong to that horrible little man? Now, darling, don’t be angry with me but I went ahead and just took it straight to Mount Doom. It was telepathically hissing at me in the most IRRITATING way and I didn’t want that kind of energy in the house.”
December 24, 2024 at 10:16 AM
“You mean that garish gold bauble that used to belong to that horrible little man? Now, darling, don’t be angry with me but I went ahead and just took it straight to Mount Doom. It was telepathically hissing at me in the most IRRITATING way and I didn’t want that kind of energy in the house.”
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Hey corporate media,
Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
December 16, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Hey corporate media,
Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
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it has always been a long reaction to the New Deal. from then to now, capital had seen the New Deal as the sin that must be purged so that the rest of us understand our place as grist for their mills
“We are living under FDR’s personal monarchy.”
-Marc Andreessen, quoting Curtis Yarvin, yesterday
-Marc Andreessen, quoting Curtis Yarvin, yesterday
December 15, 2024 at 10:09 PM
it has always been a long reaction to the New Deal. from then to now, capital had seen the New Deal as the sin that must be purged so that the rest of us understand our place as grist for their mills
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I see Capitalism as a phenomenally efficient engine for maximizing efficiency over a function space determined by regulation
The idea that unregulated capitalism would somehow align the arbitrary function space it’s optimizing with human good is one of the dumbest ideas our planet has ever suffered
The idea that unregulated capitalism would somehow align the arbitrary function space it’s optimizing with human good is one of the dumbest ideas our planet has ever suffered
December 13, 2024 at 9:58 PM
I see Capitalism as a phenomenally efficient engine for maximizing efficiency over a function space determined by regulation
The idea that unregulated capitalism would somehow align the arbitrary function space it’s optimizing with human good is one of the dumbest ideas our planet has ever suffered
The idea that unregulated capitalism would somehow align the arbitrary function space it’s optimizing with human good is one of the dumbest ideas our planet has ever suffered
As someone suffering from chronic pain with light sensitivity, I pretty much can’t drive (at least for long) at night anymore. These newer brighter lights (and taller and taller cars) aren’t helping
The average brightness of car headlights on US roads has doubled since 2015. “As headlights get brighter, it’s actually becoming harder to see.” I hate the brighter headlights, both on on-coming traffic and on my car (can’t dim them). [theringer.com]
Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars
The crusade against bright headlights has picked up speed in recent years, in large part due to a couple of Reddit nerds. Could they know what’s best for the auto industry better than the auto industry itself?
www.theringer.com
December 5, 2024 at 7:34 PM
As someone suffering from chronic pain with light sensitivity, I pretty much can’t drive (at least for long) at night anymore. These newer brighter lights (and taller and taller cars) aren’t helping