Dad 4 Ever
@dad4ever.bsky.social
Formerly Dad 4 Ever, or D4E, no longer on Twixter. Spoutible,
Autistic, cold war Navy veteran, dad, Mensan, amateur photographer, and data geek. Went from homeless to data scientist in 'just' 2 decades.
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Autistic, cold war Navy veteran, dad, Mensan, amateur photographer, and data geek. Went from homeless to data scientist in 'just' 2 decades.
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Google decided to load their Gemini AI onto my old Nest Hub, which I use primarily to control light fixtures.
It cannot be removed.
All clearance of data is manual, and only after the AI has built a profile of everything it hears. It listens, always.
I unplugged it. Forever.
It cannot be removed.
All clearance of data is manual, and only after the AI has built a profile of everything it hears. It listens, always.
I unplugged it. Forever.
Subway changed their loyalty and privacy rules.
"We may share information with third parties to provide marketing and advertisement purposes, including to provide cross-contextual behavioral advertising on our websites."
Cross-contextual behavioral advertising is legal jargon for a psych profile.
"We may share information with third parties to provide marketing and advertisement purposes, including to provide cross-contextual behavioral advertising on our websites."
Cross-contextual behavioral advertising is legal jargon for a psych profile.
January 3, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Subway changed their loyalty and privacy rules.
"We may share information with third parties to provide marketing and advertisement purposes, including to provide cross-contextual behavioral advertising on our websites."
Cross-contextual behavioral advertising is legal jargon for a psych profile.
"We may share information with third parties to provide marketing and advertisement purposes, including to provide cross-contextual behavioral advertising on our websites."
Cross-contextual behavioral advertising is legal jargon for a psych profile.
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January 3, 2026 at 3:48 PM
If there is not an impeachment call in the next week, then we have surrendered to the fascists.
Until Congress reins him in, he will continue to become more and more like his role model, Putin.
This is his Ukraine, with Greenland and Nigeria next in line.
Until Congress reins him in, he will continue to become more and more like his role model, Putin.
This is his Ukraine, with Greenland and Nigeria next in line.
Hey Congress, u up?
January 3, 2026 at 2:18 PM
If there is not an impeachment call in the next week, then we have surrendered to the fascists.
Until Congress reins him in, he will continue to become more and more like his role model, Putin.
This is his Ukraine, with Greenland and Nigeria next in line.
Until Congress reins him in, he will continue to become more and more like his role model, Putin.
This is his Ukraine, with Greenland and Nigeria next in line.
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Little Ukrainian watching Zelenskyy New Year address
January 2, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Little Ukrainian watching Zelenskyy New Year address
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By the way, this is purchasing power parity (PPP). It would look worse at market exchange rates.
The github link for these calculations along with downloaded data is available here. Little effort was made to make it very usable by other people.
github.com/Sustainable-...
The github link for these calculations along with downloaded data is available here. Little effort was made to make it very usable by other people.
github.com/Sustainable-...
GitHub - Sustainable-Solutions-Lab/global-lorenz: Fit global Lorenz curves to World Bank Data
Fit global Lorenz curves to World Bank Data. Contribute to Sustainable-Solutions-Lab/global-lorenz development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:43 PM
By the way, this is purchasing power parity (PPP). It would look worse at market exchange rates.
The github link for these calculations along with downloaded data is available here. Little effort was made to make it very usable by other people.
github.com/Sustainable-...
The github link for these calculations along with downloaded data is available here. Little effort was made to make it very usable by other people.
github.com/Sustainable-...
So, can we start calling it "The Center Formerly Known as Kennedy" or no?
December 31, 2025 at 11:23 PM
So, can we start calling it "The Center Formerly Known as Kennedy" or no?
What they do is not new, only how they do it has changed.
December 31, 2025 at 1:12 AM
What they do is not new, only how they do it has changed.
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Here a novel idea, let’s let the survivors redact the Epstein files.
December 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Here a novel idea, let’s let the survivors redact the Epstein files.
Sometimes, when you stare too long into the abyss, you realize you just forgot to mute a Trump speech, or change the channel...
December 30, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Sometimes, when you stare too long into the abyss, you realize you just forgot to mute a Trump speech, or change the channel...
Hi, data scientist here.
Citation of source can easily be automated.
It is actually MUCH easier to note the name of the artist than it is to compile an assessment of their image as a data model, and you MUST ID the artist to emulate their style.
It isn't hard, he's just a greedy douchebag.
Citation of source can easily be automated.
It is actually MUCH easier to note the name of the artist than it is to compile an assessment of their image as a data model, and you MUST ID the artist to emulate their style.
It isn't hard, he's just a greedy douchebag.
“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work.”
From May 2025: www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
From May 2025: www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
December 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Hi, data scientist here.
Citation of source can easily be automated.
It is actually MUCH easier to note the name of the artist than it is to compile an assessment of their image as a data model, and you MUST ID the artist to emulate their style.
It isn't hard, he's just a greedy douchebag.
Citation of source can easily be automated.
It is actually MUCH easier to note the name of the artist than it is to compile an assessment of their image as a data model, and you MUST ID the artist to emulate their style.
It isn't hard, he's just a greedy douchebag.
In New York, we have some traditions when high winds hit on garbage day. The terms vary, but here are my favorites, in order of occurrence:
Banging of the Lids (Signals start of festivities)
Downwind Can Races (highlight)
Competitive Garbage Scatter
The Traditional Feeding of the Strays (End)
Banging of the Lids (Signals start of festivities)
Downwind Can Races (highlight)
Competitive Garbage Scatter
The Traditional Feeding of the Strays (End)
December 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
In New York, we have some traditions when high winds hit on garbage day. The terms vary, but here are my favorites, in order of occurrence:
Banging of the Lids (Signals start of festivities)
Downwind Can Races (highlight)
Competitive Garbage Scatter
The Traditional Feeding of the Strays (End)
Banging of the Lids (Signals start of festivities)
Downwind Can Races (highlight)
Competitive Garbage Scatter
The Traditional Feeding of the Strays (End)
December 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It's just that simple.
December 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It's just that simple.
I miss the chintzy Xmas lights from my old home town.
I miss Sears Xmas catalog, even if we couldn't afford any of it.
I miss the glow of slow falling snow near the lit tree in the park, and the quiet.
And I miss not living in fear of my own government.
Merry Christmas.
Stay safe.
Be well.
I miss Sears Xmas catalog, even if we couldn't afford any of it.
I miss the glow of slow falling snow near the lit tree in the park, and the quiet.
And I miss not living in fear of my own government.
Merry Christmas.
Stay safe.
Be well.
December 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I miss the chintzy Xmas lights from my old home town.
I miss Sears Xmas catalog, even if we couldn't afford any of it.
I miss the glow of slow falling snow near the lit tree in the park, and the quiet.
And I miss not living in fear of my own government.
Merry Christmas.
Stay safe.
Be well.
I miss Sears Xmas catalog, even if we couldn't afford any of it.
I miss the glow of slow falling snow near the lit tree in the park, and the quiet.
And I miss not living in fear of my own government.
Merry Christmas.
Stay safe.
Be well.
Left wing in-fighting is going to continue dragging them into a death spiral.
It is painfully obvious to those whose priority is to displace the fascists in power, that all this pretense of attacking allies is just kissing Trump's ass and calling it the moral high ground.
It is painfully obvious to those whose priority is to displace the fascists in power, that all this pretense of attacking allies is just kissing Trump's ass and calling it the moral high ground.
December 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Left wing in-fighting is going to continue dragging them into a death spiral.
It is painfully obvious to those whose priority is to displace the fascists in power, that all this pretense of attacking allies is just kissing Trump's ass and calling it the moral high ground.
It is painfully obvious to those whose priority is to displace the fascists in power, that all this pretense of attacking allies is just kissing Trump's ass and calling it the moral high ground.
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Gotta say, as a survivor, I’m not super loving this thing where the Department of Justice is running a cover-up of evidence the President sexually abused minors.
December 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Gotta say, as a survivor, I’m not super loving this thing where the Department of Justice is running a cover-up of evidence the President sexually abused minors.
Definitely miss that level of practical governance.
Remember when we had four years of boring infrastructure improvements, healthcare access, and no n*zis?
Yeah, I miss that.
Yeah, I miss that.
December 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Definitely miss that level of practical governance.
Reminisciing about when good triumphs, wondering why it was not enough...
December 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Reminisciing about when good triumphs, wondering why it was not enough...
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I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
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PenguinRandomHouse are running a good COUNT ZERO deal with BookBub, US ebook price reduced to $1.99 from December 15 to December 20!
December 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
PenguinRandomHouse are running a good COUNT ZERO deal with BookBub, US ebook price reduced to $1.99 from December 15 to December 20!
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Google decided to load their Gemini AI onto my old Nest Hub, which I use primarily to control light fixtures.
It cannot be removed.
All clearance of data is manual, and only after the AI has built a profile of everything it hears. It listens, always.
I unplugged it. Forever.
It cannot be removed.
All clearance of data is manual, and only after the AI has built a profile of everything it hears. It listens, always.
I unplugged it. Forever.
December 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Google decided to load their Gemini AI onto my old Nest Hub, which I use primarily to control light fixtures.
It cannot be removed.
All clearance of data is manual, and only after the AI has built a profile of everything it hears. It listens, always.
I unplugged it. Forever.
It cannot be removed.
All clearance of data is manual, and only after the AI has built a profile of everything it hears. It listens, always.
I unplugged it. Forever.
The rapid response whataboutism memes to indirectly promote MAGA seem to point to a fundamental inability to defend a point, or even to be able to stay on point of a discussion...
All while pushing the MAGA narratives.
MAGA's best political tactic is promoting infighting on the Left.
All while pushing the MAGA narratives.
MAGA's best political tactic is promoting infighting on the Left.
December 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The rapid response whataboutism memes to indirectly promote MAGA seem to point to a fundamental inability to defend a point, or even to be able to stay on point of a discussion...
All while pushing the MAGA narratives.
MAGA's best political tactic is promoting infighting on the Left.
All while pushing the MAGA narratives.
MAGA's best political tactic is promoting infighting on the Left.
Tell us you support MAGA without actually saying you support MAGA...
If Kamala Harris runs again, I will personally doorknock against her campaign.
December 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Tell us you support MAGA without actually saying you support MAGA...
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Oh Sweetie
Welcome to Dynamic Pricing
Tracking customers purchasing habits and adjusting pricing to maximize profit
Identifying what you buy...and what you are prepared to pay on an individual basis
youtu.be/osxr7xSxsGo?...
Welcome to Dynamic Pricing
Tracking customers purchasing habits and adjusting pricing to maximize profit
Identifying what you buy...and what you are prepared to pay on an individual basis
youtu.be/osxr7xSxsGo?...
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Oh Sweetie
Welcome to Dynamic Pricing
Tracking customers purchasing habits and adjusting pricing to maximize profit
Identifying what you buy...and what you are prepared to pay on an individual basis
youtu.be/osxr7xSxsGo?...
Welcome to Dynamic Pricing
Tracking customers purchasing habits and adjusting pricing to maximize profit
Identifying what you buy...and what you are prepared to pay on an individual basis
youtu.be/osxr7xSxsGo?...