Thomas Dickerson
@elfprince13.mumak.app
Director of Geospatial AI @nbcuniversal.com, Brown CS PhD & SMCVT Math/Physics/CS alum, admin @cemetech.net, AFOL, SFF nerd & open-theist
Bluesky open-source contributor
Decentralizing systems (human & digital)
Opinions are my own
📍Vermont
Bluesky open-source contributor
Decentralizing systems (human & digital)
Opinions are my own
📍Vermont
It’s always Sasquatch, but never Sasquronometer
It's always Sasquatch, but never Sask Listen
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It’s always Sasquatch, but never Sasquronometer
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It's live! My LOTR 1st edition set (1960-1962 printings) is up on eBay. Just gorgeous books, the only detractor being two underlined bits of text in "Return" where the original reader was too moved by the words to help it. No blame there.
Pardon Our Interruption...
www.ebay.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It's live! My LOTR 1st edition set (1960-1962 printings) is up on eBay. Just gorgeous books, the only detractor being two underlined bits of text in "Return" where the original reader was too moved by the words to help it. No blame there.
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It's always Sasquatch, but never Sask Listen
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It's always Sasquatch, but never Sask Listen
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Ironically as someone who loathes the rhetorical uses of “brain development” to set social policy, I am delighted by this
On account of
Of course adolescence does not last into your thirties
On account of
Of course adolescence does not last into your thirties
Adolescence lasts into 30s - new study shows four pivotal ages for your brain
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgl6klez226o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgl6klez226o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Ironically as someone who loathes the rhetorical uses of “brain development” to set social policy, I am delighted by this
On account of
Of course adolescence does not last into your thirties
On account of
Of course adolescence does not last into your thirties
Who wore it best?
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Who wore it best?
Introduce yourself with four spaceships
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Introduce yourself with four spaceships
There’s a good SF short waiting to be written here
I swear if our species ever invents a means of faster-than-light communication it will take us less than a generation to ignore it entirely what for all offers of a timeshares off Alpha Centauri and urgent messages from a boss stuck in the Kuiper Belt and in need of an urgent favor.
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
There’s a good SF short waiting to be written here
It is now time to play Pitbull’s well-known hit single “Butterball (Vermont accent edition)”
it is now time to choose the right bath bombs for the butterball
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It is now time to play Pitbull’s well-known hit single “Butterball (Vermont accent edition)”
Physically fine, probably psychologically scarred
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Physically fine, probably psychologically scarred
counterpoint: what thanksgiving dish would your parents have cancelled that you now make yourself and insist is mandatory to keep up tradition
Soo…
What Thanksgiving dish or side dish did* your parents make that you have since cancelled or do not make now that it’s your turn?
*Assumption is some grandparents/parents have since passed away so no one is asking for it or objecting to its absence
What Thanksgiving dish or side dish did* your parents make that you have since cancelled or do not make now that it’s your turn?
*Assumption is some grandparents/parents have since passed away so no one is asking for it or objecting to its absence
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
counterpoint: what thanksgiving dish would your parents have cancelled that you now make yourself and insist is mandatory to keep up tradition
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Solo’s biggest problem was its release date, and its second biggest problem was its first 15 minutes. As soon as he’s off Corellia it gets good
May 27, 2024 at 2:05 AM
Solo’s biggest problem was its release date, and its second biggest problem was its first 15 minutes. As soon as he’s off Corellia it gets good
The bad news is I’m on day 3 of my elbow not opening past about 150°, good news is I’ve got the latest Star Wars discourse exhaustively covered already
Objectively correct ranking:
1. ANH
2. TLJ
3. R1
4. ESB
5. ROTJ
6. Solo
7. ROTS
8. TPM
… a long gap…
9. AOTC
10. TFA
…another long gap…
11. COCAEA
12. ETBE
…the longest gap…
13. Holiday Special
14. TROS
1. ANH
2. TLJ
3. R1
4. ESB
5. ROTJ
6. Solo
7. ROTS
8. TPM
… a long gap…
9. AOTC
10. TFA
…another long gap…
11. COCAEA
12. ETBE
…the longest gap…
13. Holiday Special
14. TROS
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The bad news is I’m on day 3 of my elbow not opening past about 150°, good news is I’ve got the latest Star Wars discourse exhaustively covered already
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As president, a "tough on crime" Democrat, was *more dangerous* to Black men, than a pro-fascist, authoritarian, GOP president. Because the harm was concentrated on us.
The bar is on the floor, and somehow centrist Dems still manage to get under it.
Impressively bad performance.
The bar is on the floor, and somehow centrist Dems still manage to get under it.
Impressively bad performance.
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
As president, a "tough on crime" Democrat, was *more dangerous* to Black men, than a pro-fascist, authoritarian, GOP president. Because the harm was concentrated on us.
The bar is on the floor, and somehow centrist Dems still manage to get under it.
Impressively bad performance.
The bar is on the floor, and somehow centrist Dems still manage to get under it.
Impressively bad performance.
Leftist antinomianism
It’s really disheartening that whenever I talk to someone I’ve met in Berlin about how I’d like to get a heat pump they leftistly tell me how we don’t need to take accountability for our emissions because it’s all corporations’ faults. Instagram communism is functionally right wing.
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Leftist antinomianism
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This is a nightmare of a PR, and I'm surprised the maintainers didn't just perma-ban the author after his repeat unwillingness to incorporate any feedback whatsoever about his fully AI-generated code, complete with false attribution in the files themselves
like w-h-a-t sir please be serious
like w-h-a-t sir please be serious
One of the many joys of using AI for programming is the creation of huge PRs on complex topics that the authors barely understand, but still suggest "because they work". Here's a great example from #OCaml github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...
Kudos to OCaml's maintainers for handling this so gracefully.
Kudos to OCaml's maintainers for handling this so gracefully.
DWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocaml
DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler
This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB.
What's Impleme...
github.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
This is a nightmare of a PR, and I'm surprised the maintainers didn't just perma-ban the author after his repeat unwillingness to incorporate any feedback whatsoever about his fully AI-generated code, complete with false attribution in the files themselves
like w-h-a-t sir please be serious
like w-h-a-t sir please be serious
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No
they don't say that
tell me who said that :<
they don't say that
tell me who said that :<
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
No
they don't say that
tell me who said that :<
they don't say that
tell me who said that :<
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does anyone have a link to the “thread unwrapped” version of underrated poems I did over on Twitter? I am being asked for it and wish I had archived better
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
does anyone have a link to the “thread unwrapped” version of underrated poems I did over on Twitter? I am being asked for it and wish I had archived better
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The most 38-year-old post
they're adding a fifth loko
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The most 38-year-old post
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Some of y'all:
Stop comparing ICE treatment of immigrants to police treatment of Black people!
Me:
No.
People immediately understand how ICE deportation quotas cause immediate and systemic harm to immigrant populations, and shred families apart.
But pretend not to understand police arrest quotas?
Stop comparing ICE treatment of immigrants to police treatment of Black people!
Me:
No.
People immediately understand how ICE deportation quotas cause immediate and systemic harm to immigrant populations, and shred families apart.
But pretend not to understand police arrest quotas?
Classic video. I will never stop sharing this.
Do you think Black people want this cop running around their city with a ticket quota and an arrest quota, ruining the lives of Black people for no reason?
Or trained and working as a detective, solving homicides, SAs, and returning stolen property?
Do you think Black people want this cop running around their city with a ticket quota and an arrest quota, ruining the lives of Black people for no reason?
Or trained and working as a detective, solving homicides, SAs, and returning stolen property?
Cop Fired for Speaking Out Against Ticket and Arrest Quotas
YouTube video by ReasonTV
m.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Some of y'all:
Stop comparing ICE treatment of immigrants to police treatment of Black people!
Me:
No.
People immediately understand how ICE deportation quotas cause immediate and systemic harm to immigrant populations, and shred families apart.
But pretend not to understand police arrest quotas?
Stop comparing ICE treatment of immigrants to police treatment of Black people!
Me:
No.
People immediately understand how ICE deportation quotas cause immediate and systemic harm to immigrant populations, and shred families apart.
But pretend not to understand police arrest quotas?
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I guess it's also a week until the #AoCO2025 Advent of Compiler Optimisation! xania.org/202511/adven...
youtu.be/j-BwR-Cw0Gk
youtu.be/j-BwR-Cw0Gk
[AoCO 0/25] The Advent of Compiler Optimisations
YouTube video by Matt Godbolt
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I guess it's also a week until the #AoCO2025 Advent of Compiler Optimisation! xania.org/202511/adven...
youtu.be/j-BwR-Cw0Gk
youtu.be/j-BwR-Cw0Gk
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And also you could plausibly retcon it as “they’re not Americans, they didn’t know the real history and just saw the propagandized version in a movie somewhere” but Sisko absolutely would have known and called them on it if the writers had been thinking even slightly about the choice of battle
November 11, 2024 at 3:46 PM
And also you could plausibly retcon it as “they’re not Americans, they didn’t know the real history and just saw the propagandized version in a movie somewhere” but Sisko absolutely would have known and called them on it if the writers had been thinking even slightly about the choice of battle
November 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
*extremely Boston accent*
“Come on Bobby, let’s go potty!”
“Come on Bobby, let’s go potty!”
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
*extremely Boston accent*
“Come on Bobby, let’s go potty!”
“Come on Bobby, let’s go potty!”
A Charlie Brown Gilthoniel o menel palan-diriel,
le nallon sí di-nguruthos!
A tiro nin, Fanuilos!
le nallon sí di-nguruthos!
A tiro nin, Fanuilos!
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain, Charlie Brown.
You're too short for that gesture, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
A Charlie Brown Gilthoniel o menel palan-diriel,
le nallon sí di-nguruthos!
A tiro nin, Fanuilos!
le nallon sí di-nguruthos!
A tiro nin, Fanuilos!
@itschristi.bsky.social just cyber bullied the crap out of me with this
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
@itschristi.bsky.social just cyber bullied the crap out of me with this