Dave
dps952.bsky.social
Dave
@dps952.bsky.social
Seattle patent nerd hockey dad.
Amazing. It’s like #duvetknowitschristmas but for food!
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore

I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Happy 20th anniversary to our law review write-on project, which was this.
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
November 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Brandy you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I attended a demo of an AI patent drafting tool the other day. If anything, it showed me how incredibly AI-brained the AI people are.

I asked a question about some simple functionality: if I wanted to rename a drawing element, would the tool rename it throughout the spec and drawings?
November 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Breaking?
Breaking news: In the past 10 months, the Trump administration has pushed for lethal strikes on Western Hemisphere drug traffickers and repeatedly steamrolled or sidestepped government lawyers who questioned whether the provocative policy was legal.
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
wapo.st
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“It’s OK, you can say I’m a fascist,” said the American president to the press in the Oval Office.
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”

TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”

ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Somewhat annoyed that I had to learn about adversarial poetry in an academic paper instead of a work of speculative fiction.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Evergreen?
The Cardiac ‘CBears.
November 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?

It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Truth, but for many of the other names too. I got to meet Carol Marin once as a kid. And Bill Kurtis is a national (public radio) treasure!
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
More bad news for the New York Giants?
"Kafka" - Lawrence Krauss's one-word response in September 2018 to being told by Epstein of reporting on a Jed Rubenfeld investigation and Amy Chua complaints.

The Guardian story: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018...
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The best continuity in the Bond universe is in The Rock.
when I think “continuity” I think “James Bond” said literally nobody in the history of cinema
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Diplomatic waffling. You know the real list was The Blues Brothers, The Fugitive, Backdraft, and High Fidelity.
Pope Leo XIV may have spent most of his career between Peru and Italy, but he remains an American at heart.
Vatican Reveals Pope Leo’s Top Four Favorite Movies
The Chicago-born pontiff apparently has a love for American films.
trib.al
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
trib.al/ADixIUH
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
trib.al
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Well I knew these stands were too good to be true for too long. At least Tacos La Cuadra managed to open a brick and mortar!
SPD out here on Northgate shutting down the taco stand between 8th and Roosevelt due to "multiple licensing and health code violations" that they wouldn't provide anymore info about.
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Hopefully no one on the jury is a Christian.
“If someone assaulted you, if someone offended you, would you keep a momento of their assault? Would you stick it on your daily lunchbox and carry it with you day in and day out?"
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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This is a fun chart!

The green is the main bsky load balancer traffic throughput from Saturday night, and the purple is how much traffic there was 7 days before (the previous Saturday)

The spike is due to the world series - pretty incredible! ⚾
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Has *no one* here seen Mame??
What the fuck, man
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Unreal lmfao
November 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Hey, depending on how obnoxious I want to be, I could be watching Blackhawks practice at Climate Pledge from the plaza! I wonder how long it would take for security to come out if I went across the landscaping to get next to the window.
November 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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isn't this ultimately Drake's fault like
Nike's ad for the Dodgers win featuring Kendrick Lamar
November 2, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Approximately 27 minutes ago Fox dropped a Northwestern football promo in the middle of this historically epic World Series game. Nothing has been normal since
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM