David Adams
@daveadams.bsky.social
infrastructure engineer; deuteranomalous; primarily inattentive; 4ᵉ cor en Fa; stand or fall; he/him; school lunches should be free
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David Adams
@daveadams.bsky.social
· Jun 10
The important thing is that I got my username.
Let’s hope they do! All school lunches should be free!
“What if rich kids take advantage of free school lunches?” is like asking “What if rich executives take advantage of public transportation?”
What if they do?
They probably won’t. But what if they do?
Well, nothing.
What if they do?
They probably won’t. But what if they do?
Well, nothing.
December 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Let’s hope they do! All school lunches should be free!
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An entire room full of powerful old white people smiling and laughing as the president dehumanizes black immigrants and the first black president.
Just fucking pathetic.
Just fucking pathetic.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
An entire room full of powerful old white people smiling and laughing as the president dehumanizes black immigrants and the first black president.
Just fucking pathetic.
Just fucking pathetic.
No, you *don’t* gotta hand it to him, actually.
Jeffries: "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it, of course he'll get credit for that. In terms of making sure that we actually deal with the issues that matter, including on immigration, there's a lot that's left to be desired."
December 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
No, you *don’t* gotta hand it to him, actually.
Also, the Interstate Highway System as it was implemented in US cities is not what I’d consider a great model for how to get urban development projects done in a fair and effective manner.
Lesson one: Yes, you can do a lot of things if you break the law.
Lesson two: Doing something is not the same as doing a good thing - it is harder to build than it is to destroy.
Trump has built nothing like the TVA. His lawbreaking is not "freeing the stuck wheels of bureaucracy."
Lesson two: Doing something is not the same as doing a good thing - it is harder to build than it is to destroy.
Trump has built nothing like the TVA. His lawbreaking is not "freeing the stuck wheels of bureaucracy."
December 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Also, the Interstate Highway System as it was implemented in US cities is not what I’d consider a great model for how to get urban development projects done in a fair and effective manner.
Drives me nuts to hear centrists praise Trump‘s “effectiveness”. Destruction of USAID and university research is not effectiveness. Arresting and deporting legal immigrants and deploying armed thugs to harass people based on their race is not an “effective” immigration policy.
Lesson one: Yes, you can do a lot of things if you break the law.
Lesson two: Doing something is not the same as doing a good thing - it is harder to build than it is to destroy.
Trump has built nothing like the TVA. His lawbreaking is not "freeing the stuck wheels of bureaucracy."
Lesson two: Doing something is not the same as doing a good thing - it is harder to build than it is to destroy.
Trump has built nothing like the TVA. His lawbreaking is not "freeing the stuck wheels of bureaucracy."
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Drives me nuts to hear centrists praise Trump‘s “effectiveness”. Destruction of USAID and university research is not effectiveness. Arresting and deporting legal immigrants and deploying armed thugs to harass people based on their race is not an “effective” immigration policy.
As someone with ADHD, I’m uncomfortable with some of these accommodations. Not everyone knows they have ADHD (I didn’t). Extended/quiet time would help *everyone*. But also, the workplace won’t be giving us any such.
But it’s no “crisis” compared to what else is going on in higher ed these days.
But it’s no “crisis” compared to what else is going on in higher ed these days.
So a real dirty (non)secret about the adhd accommodations panic is that it is an issue almost entirely due to shitty teachers being shitty. I never got mad about the "help" my students needed because I *WANTED* them to succeed! Also, we should make most accommodations just accepted best practices!
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
As someone with ADHD, I’m uncomfortable with some of these accommodations. Not everyone knows they have ADHD (I didn’t). Extended/quiet time would help *everyone*. But also, the workplace won’t be giving us any such.
But it’s no “crisis” compared to what else is going on in higher ed these days.
But it’s no “crisis” compared to what else is going on in higher ed these days.
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In Woke 2 we're making this happen. We're bringing back civic patriot education.
December 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
In Woke 2 we're making this happen. We're bringing back civic patriot education.
This is truly the best of what America can be and often is. I can’t fathom not feeling proud of what we’ve built here, and I’m endlessly gutted by the hateful bigots who are trying to tear it all down.
Anyway the best I've ever felt about America was me (Jewish) standing in line with my friend and her daughter (Irish and Latina) to pet a baby lamb at the Minnesota State Fair alongside a hijabi Black woman and her daughter, an East Asian family, an African-American family, and some white people.
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This is truly the best of what America can be and often is. I can’t fathom not feeling proud of what we’ve built here, and I’m endlessly gutted by the hateful bigots who are trying to tear it all down.
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
“We sort all opinions into two buckets and assign them equal value without examining their content, motivation, or resemblance to reality. What more could we possibly do??”
By situating the Times as nobly filling the space between the diametrically opposed wants of the “left” and the “right” and suggesting that all of these critiques are ideologically motivated and are equally valid (or invalid), this misses the point of much of the criticism of the paper’s coverage.
December 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“We sort all opinions into two buckets and assign them equal value without examining their content, motivation, or resemblance to reality. What more could we possibly do??”
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No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
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And driverless cars will be everywhere by 2026. And Mars will be colonized next week by people who can't make a non-exploding rocket. Fairies will scatter pixie dust that gives all humans an endless supply of lollipops. It's like living in the most stupid, dangerous production of "The Music Man."
December 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
And driverless cars will be everywhere by 2026. And Mars will be colonized next week by people who can't make a non-exploding rocket. Fairies will scatter pixie dust that gives all humans an endless supply of lollipops. It's like living in the most stupid, dangerous production of "The Music Man."
This is so, so, very stupid. There’s literally no way in which datacenters in space would or could be more efficient, more environmentally friendly, or more economical.
(Best case, he’s trying to bait the competition into wasting money on this.)
(Best case, he’s trying to bait the competition into wasting money on this.)
“In a decade, Pichai said that it'll be normal to build extraterrestrial data centers”.
And he’s definitely not the only one speaking about the *necessity* of data centers in space. Apparently the planet is not big enough for their scaling “laws”.
www.businessinsider.com/google-proje...
And he’s definitely not the only one speaking about the *necessity* of data centers in space. Apparently the planet is not big enough for their scaling “laws”.
www.businessinsider.com/google-proje...
Sundar Pichai says Google will start building data centers in space, powered by the sun, in 2027
Google announced Project Suncatcher earlier this month. CEO Sundar Pichai now says it could begin building data centers in space as soon as 2027.
www.businessinsider.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This is so, so, very stupid. There’s literally no way in which datacenters in space would or could be more efficient, more environmentally friendly, or more economical.
(Best case, he’s trying to bait the competition into wasting money on this.)
(Best case, he’s trying to bait the competition into wasting money on this.)
Apparently AI isn’t yet smart enough to know how to design a colorblind-friendly chart. This may be one of the worst I’ve ever seen for someone with deuteranomolous color vision. Only if I zoom all the way in can I tell the red bars from the green. And the yellow labels blend into that background.
Make your product so compelling that it can have terrible reliability and users will still keep coming back.
(but then fix your reliability problems eventually, pleeaase)
(but then fix your reliability problems eventually, pleeaase)
December 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Apparently AI isn’t yet smart enough to know how to design a colorblind-friendly chart. This may be one of the worst I’ve ever seen for someone with deuteranomolous color vision. Only if I zoom all the way in can I tell the red bars from the green. And the yellow labels blend into that background.
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The worst thing to happen to academia was the emergence of a nomadic administrative class like the one in corporations who just move from institution to institution setting fires and walking away.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.
December 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The worst thing to happen to academia was the emergence of a nomadic administrative class like the one in corporations who just move from institution to institution setting fires and walking away.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
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From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
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Neither Montana nor California have legalized in-app gambling and the fact that those two very different states agree on this should be a signal to everywhere else.
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Neither Montana nor California have legalized in-app gambling and the fact that those two very different states agree on this should be a signal to everywhere else.
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
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Every immigrant to the United States has done more to assimilate to the actual culture of the nation than Stephen Miller, who despite the privileges of birth purposefully rejected it as a teenager and has spent his adult life at war with it.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Every immigrant to the United States has done more to assimilate to the actual culture of the nation than Stephen Miller, who despite the privileges of birth purposefully rejected it as a teenager and has spent his adult life at war with it.
Again, this sort of gun can serve absolutely no practical purpose in the mission these agents are undertaking. It’s all cosplay but with delusional, racist wannabe soldiers and live ammo.
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Again, this sort of gun can serve absolutely no practical purpose in the mission these agents are undertaking. It’s all cosplay but with delusional, racist wannabe soldiers and live ammo.
No, “scientists” who understand LLMs do not say any such thing. Just because you found two PhDs to say something stupid doesn’t mean you can or should assert in your subhead that “scientists” say that stupid thing.
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
No, “scientists” who understand LLMs do not say any such thing. Just because you found two PhDs to say something stupid doesn’t mean you can or should assert in your subhead that “scientists” say that stupid thing.
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Like, the very first rule of doing anything at all creative is *you have to give a fuck about it*
Using genAI is proof you don't.
Using genAI is proof you don't.
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Like, the very first rule of doing anything at all creative is *you have to give a fuck about it*
Using genAI is proof you don't.
Using genAI is proof you don't.
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No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never:
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never:
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!